Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Fulbright scholar plans to shine a light on indigenous entrepreneurship
StartupSmart
A PhD student at the University of Technology, Sydney has been awarded the 2015 Fulbright Indigenous Postgraduate Scholarship to advance his research into the socio-economic and cultural impacts of indigenous entrepreneurship and social enterprise.

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Crikey (blog)
Gulag Territory – how the NT leads the world in indigenous incarceration
Crikey (blog)
One week later, the Australian Productivity Commission released its report, “Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage.” The findings described Australia's ongoing failings in dealing with the problems which continue to afflict Australia's Aboriginal population.

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ABC Online
Indigenous ranger training program kicks off for Ngadju nation in Western ...
ABC Online
After four years of planning, 19 indigenous rangers from the Ngadju nation in Western Australia have begun their first ever training program to help conserve country. The course is part of a Gondwana link, Rangeland NRM and Ngadju conservation land ...

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Opportunity to Grow Indigenous Employment in Australia
Rigzone (registration)
Indigenous employment programs in Australia's oil and gas industry have an opportunity to develop significantly in the coming years as growth continues around the country, according to Derek Flucker, chairman of the Aboriginal Enterprises in Mining, ...

The Australian
Property red tape 'stifles Aborigines': Tim Wilson
The Australian
“We can't complain about the cost of welfare programs for Australia's first citizens when we concurrently deny them the freedom to use the primary asset they own to escape dependency. It is not our place to tell Aboriginal Australia how to use their ...
Indigenous Australians should get more from native title: Human Rights ...The Conversation AU
Native title reforms to escape dependency9news.com.au

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The Guardian
LGBTI Indigenous people offered a rainbow to follow
The Guardian
Nearly 30 years later, much of the health information aimed at gay Indigenous Australians is still centred around HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, Bonson, a suicide prevention worker in the Kimberley, says. It is what prompted him to found Black ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians should get more from native title: Human Rights ...
The Conversation AU
Aboriginal Australians are being denied the freedom to exercise their property rights under native title, Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson has said. Wilson said that, in meeting Indigenous leaders from Broome to Cairns, he had found “an appetite ...
Native title reforms to escape dependency9news.com.au

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ABC Online
Fiftieth anniversary re-enactment of freedom ride goes north to fight ...
Sydney Morning Herald
What the students uncovered across rural NSW was a shock to them and to many Australians. "We did not know before we got there that a number of local government councils had formal resolutions on the books prohibiting Indigenous Australians from ...
University students recreate 1965 Freedom Ride across NSWABC Online
Freedom Ride sets off 50 years after original civil rights protestThe Australian
Freedom Ride's 50th anniversary marked at Sydney UniversitySBS
The Guardian -ABC Message Stick
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Royalists recognise need for indigenous constitution change
The Australian
ACM, which worked with Tony Abbott to defeat the republic referendum in 1999 and has opposed changes to the Constitution, has now submitted a constructive proposal to the parliamentary committee looking at the recognition of indigenous Australians, ...

Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer, Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art
The Conversation AU
The College seeks an Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer to develop, enhance and provide leadership in research, learning and teaching in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art (CAIA). The CAIA program is designed to prepare students, as indigenous ...

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Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer, Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art
The Conversation AU
The College seeks an Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer to develop, enhance and provide leadership in research, learning and teaching in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art (CAIA). The CAIA program is designed to prepare students, as indigenous ...

Indigenous housing and financial advice
ABC Online (blog)
For sale We hear more and more often about difficulties in achieving that 'great Australian dream' of owning your own home. Even in regional Australia where prices tend to stay lower, people are struggling to break into the market. This week, help and ...

The Mandarin (press release) (subscription)
Local government workforce: older, more indigenous workers
The Mandarin (press release) (subscription)
Among the key findings, more than 4.5% of the local government workforce across Australia are of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background — well ahead of state and territory governments (2%), the Commonwealth (1.5%) and the private sector ...

ABC Online
Indigenous health organisations unite to improve remote dialysis treatment
ABC Online
Western Desert Dialysis, formally known as Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation, was born from a community fundraising effort. The organisation has been providing remote dialysis services in the Central Australia ...

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Echonetdaily
Indigenous Employment Going Backwards
Pro Bono Australia
“In addition to the fall in Indigenous employment, the proportion of non-Indigenous Australians who are employed rose from 75.0 per cent to 75.6 per cent. Consequently, between 2008 and 2012-13 there has been an increase of 6.9 percentage points in the ...
Tweed-born indigenous advocate Faith Bandler diesEchonetdaily
Kirstie Parker, Mick Gooda say enough of 'fine words' – Close the Gap, a big ...The Stringer
The Health Wrap: On Closing the Gap; persistent policy pickles; lessons for Oz ...Crikey (blog)

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The Guardian
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler dies aged 96
The Guardian
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler has died. She was 96. Bandler was instrumental in campaigning for the 1967 referendum to give Indigenous Australians rights under the constitution. A state funeral has been offered to her family. “Our country ...
Aboriginal rights activist, Faith Bandler, dies at 96Daily Life
Bandler's faith in people drove changeThe Australian
Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96ABC Online
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The Guardian (blog)
'It taunts us spiritually': the fight for Indigenous relics spirited off to the UK
The Guardian (blog)
Bark art is usually synonymous with Indigenous people from northern Australia and the three Dja Dja Wurrung pieces from the comparative far south are believed to be the only ones of their period in existence. They may be precious to the British Museum ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal rights activist, Faith Bandler, dies at 96
Sydney Morning Herald
"Ms Bandler was a tireless social activist, best known for leading the political campaign which resulted in the landmark 1967 referendum that ensured Indigenous Australians were counted as full citizens and gave the Federal Government responsibility ...
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler dies aged 96The Guardian
Bandler's faith in people drove changeThe Australian
Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96ABC Online
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Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal rights activist, Faith Bandler, dies at 96
Sydney Morning Herald
Former Fairfax Media journalist, Tony Stephens who interviewed Ms Bandler, called her a "great Australian" for promoting the rights and interests of Indigenous Australians. Ms Bandler was offered a MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for ...
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler dies aged 96The Guardian
Bandler's faith in people drove changeThe Australian
Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96ABC Online
The West Australian -SBS
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The Australian
Bandler's faith in people drove change
The Australian
THE 1967 referendum, the representation of “blackbirded” South Sea Islanders and the differentiation of indigenous Australians from flora and fauna in the Constitution are all fights in which Faith Bandler threw many punches, if not some of the first.

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