Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

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The Australian
Only 16 per cent of 17 to 24-year-olds in remote indigenous Australia are in full-time work or study. More adults are dependent on welfare than work. Yet as recently as 1971, the indigenous male employment rate was 66.2 per cent — almost as high as ...

SBS
Abbott must do more in Indigenous Affairs: Mundine
SBS
Tony Abbott and the French President announced they would form a "joint expert committee to coordinate and determine the processes needed to identify and also to ascertain the origin of the Indigenous Australian human remains conserved in French public ...

Bridging the digital divide in Indigenous communities
The Age
Yet a significant digital divide exists between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Indigenous people are 69 per cent less likely than non-Indigenous people to have any internet connection and are half as likely to have broadband access, largely ...

The Guardian (blog)
Book ahead, Australia: Melbourne fashion, Revealed art, babies proms
The Guardian (blog)
Perth's Revealed art exhibition showcases emerging West Australian Indigenous artists. The sheer breadth of emerging Indigenous art talent will be on show at Perth's Revealed exhibition in April. More than 25 art centres will showcase and sell the work ...

Architecture and Design
Australian architects pledge to Aboriginal internship program
Architecture and Design
GHD, Cox Architecture and SJB Architecture will provide at least 10 internships each year for the next 10 years to Indigenous Australian university students as part of their commitment to the CareerTrackers program. CareerTrackers is a national non ...

SBS
How much does it cost to keep people in Australian jails?
SBS
Rates of education and training are highest in the ACT and South Australia, and rates of prisoners in work are highest in NSW and Victoria. Across Australia, the incarceration rate for Indigenous Australians was significantly higher than non-Indigenous ...

Lighting the way for Indigenous students
Lawyers Weekly
Other signatories to the CareerTrackers initiative include: Commonwealth Bank of Australia; GHD; Insurance Australia Group; Indigenous Business Australia; Lend Lease; Leighton Contractors; Qantas; SJB Architecture & Cox Architecture; and Westpac.

yourMortgage.com.au (blog)
NT homes not within 'acceptable standard' for Indigenous Australians
yourMortgage.com.au (blog)
A report this week has found poor housing conditions for Indigenous Australians, where 34% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families fail to receive “dwellings of acceptable standard” in public housing areas. Some of the houses lack electricity ...
Chance for indigenous constitutional recognition 'may be squandered'The Australian

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The Guardian
Leeanne Enoch's election in Queensland a huge milestone for Indigenous people
The Guardian
Enoch, who won Algester in Brisbane, and Gordon, who took the far northern seat of Cook 2,000km away, were part of a Labor surge on Saturday that has the party poised to take government just three years after suffering the worst defeat in Australian ...
The QLD election result is a win for Australian womenDaily Life

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Chance for indigenous constitutional recognition 'may be squandered'
The Australian
CRUCIAL bipartisanship on a move to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution risks being “squandered” and the momentum exhausted if a form of words and a voting date are not released this year, the Business Council of Australia says.

The Australian
Pathways to indigenous empowerment
The Australian
DESPITE a decade of ever more concerted interventions across remote Aboriginal Australia, there has been little change in the landscape of the bush communities. Indigenous men and women know the truth; outsiders with clear eyes can see it as well.
Recognition for Indigenous Australians is not like the republic. We need a ...The Guardian

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The Australian
Arthur Boyd's Bride series explores issues beyond indigenous affairs
The Australian
After all, the series is the one with which Boyd established himself as one of the handful of defining Australian painters of the postwar years, and it is one whose originality and evocative power was never surpassed and perhaps not equalled in his ...

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The Guardian
Recognition for Indigenous Australians is not like the republic. We need a ...
The Guardian
High profile Australians supportive of positive change have put their hand up to support the concept. Organisations such as Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (Antar), Reconciliation Australia and the National Congress of Australia's First ...

NEWS.com.au
Why we're among worst of the worst
NEWS.com.au
The government's decision to establish an indigenous advisory council while defending the Congress of Australia's First Peoples was also criticised as was the high numbers of indigenous people in jail. “While some health and socio-economic indicators ...
The reasons Australia is sharing a Human Rights Watch list with Syria, China ...9news.com.au

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Australia Slammed for Human Rights Failings
Pro Bono Australia
“While Indigenous Australians account for only three per cent of Australia's population, they account for 27 per cent of Australia's prison population. In part because they are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system, Indigenous ...
Our human rights rating undermined by refugee treatmentRockhampton Morning Bulletin

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9news.com.au
The reasons Australia is sharing a Human Rights Watch list with Syria, China ...
9news.com.au
Along with the country's treatment of asylum seekers, Indigenous Australians and same-sex citizens, the strict new anti-terror laws were enough to land Australia on the list from Human Rights Watch alongside nations such as Syria, China and Cuba. The ...
Australia Slammed for Human Rights FailingsPro Bono Australia
Our shame: Why we're among worst of the worstNEWS.com.au

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The Guardian
Australia's treatment of asylum seekers 'diminishes human rights record'
The Guardian
Australia's global reputation as a defender of human rights is being undermined by its continued “harsh” treatment of asylum seekers, persistently high Indigenous incarceration rates, and “draconian” new anti-terrorism laws that restrict citizens ...

teleSUR English
Indigenous Australians Face Poor Housing Conditions
teleSUR English
Indigenous Australians continue to face poor housing conditions and overcrowding, according to a report released Tuesday. The latest report on housing conditions from Australia's Productivity Commission found over 34 percent of Aboriginal and Torres ...

The Guardian
Indigenous use of aged care services far less than that of wider population
The Guardian
Indigenous Australians typically require aged care facilities earlier due to higher rates of disability and chronic disease. Because of this, the commission collects data for Indigenous people in aged care from the age of 50, which is 15 years lower ...

Auction house owns studio and runs indigenous 'alliance'
The Australian
The company, Arthouse Auctions, has collected millions of dollars from at least 80 sales around Australia since 2011, including over $90,000 from canvases that experts allege are fakes, online records show. At least 10 Aboriginal artists are embroiled ...

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