Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

New SBS documentary Prison Songs confronts issue of indigenous incarceration
Sydney Morning Herald
When it comes the vexed topic of incarceration rates for indigenous Australians, the statistics are blunt and often overwhelming. In the new SBS documentary Prison Songs, the numbers are no less confronting: 80 per cent of the inmates in Darwin's ...

Australia Eyes Indigenous Recognition Vote
Fiji Sun Online
Unlike other settler nations such as Canada and New Zealand, Australia's constitution makes no mention of its indigenous people and still has two so-called “race provisions”, including one that allows the states to ban people from voting based on their ...

World War I: Relatives of Indigenous soldiers fight for them to be recognised ...
ABC Online
There is a growing push for better recognition of Indigenous soldiers, many of whom had to lie about their identity to serve their country. Some of those soldiers' names are still not honoured in the Australian War Memorial, despite their active service.

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World War I: Relatives of Indigenous soldiers fight for them to be recognised ...
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"There's sometimes a forgetting, a very convenient forgetting of what Indigenous Australians have done and I think World War I is one of those things when we have this commemoration to say, in fact this nation has been a very diverse nation for a very ...

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Financial Times
Aboriginal villages in Australia under threat
Financial Times
Dickie Bedford was born in the 1960s at a time when thousands of aboriginal people were being evicted from pastoral cattle stations. Half a century later a new generation of indigenous Australians faces a similar fate as budget cuts threaten to close ...

Pigments and palettes from the past – science of Indigenous art
The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australian practices, honed over thousands of years, weave science with storytelling. In this Indigenous science series, we look at different aspects of First Australians' traditional life and uncover the knowledge behind them. Here we ...

Families urged to look after each other as Kimberley region records seven ...
ABC Online
Professor Dudgeon is head of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide prevention project, which is trying to identify the most effective ways to bring down the extraordinarily high suicide rates in Indigenous Australia. Indigenous Australians ...

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The long struggle to improve Indigenous health in Australia just got a bit easier
ABC Online
Six Indigenous medical students have graduated as doctors from the University of NSW adding to the barely 200 Aboriginal doctors across Australia, and we joined one of those graduating to see what her aims are.

Sussan Ley vows to focus on indigenous health and GP co-payment
Sydney Morning Herald
Incoming Health Minister Sussan Ley has vowed to put more focus on the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, while also listening to crossbench senators to ensure the country gets a "sustainable health policy". Ms Ley will take over ...

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NSW bail laws and indigenous Australians
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Recent changes to the State's bail laws have drawn criticism for the implications for Indigenous Australians. However, historically NSW bail laws have always had a "disproportionate impact" on the State's Indigenous population. As the Director of the ...

Yahoo!7 News
Mother arrested for murder after children found dead in Australian home
Yahoo!7 News
UK-AUSTRALIA-CRIME-MURDER:Eight children killed in Australia in reported mass A view of a window of the house where a mass stabbing took place, in the suburb of Manoora in Cairns in this December 19, 2014 still image taken from video provided by ...
Manoora community supports each other9news.com.au
In Australia, 8 Youths Die in Mass StabbingVoice of America
8 children stabbed to death IN Cairns tragedy: Mother in hospital with serious ...The Daily Telegraph
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Eight children killed in Australia in reported mass stabbing
Yahoo!7 News
UK-AUSTRALIA-CRIME-MURDER:Eight children killed in Australia in reported mass A view of a window of the house where a mass stabbing took place, in the suburb of Manoora in Cairns in this December 19, 2014 still image taken from video provided by ...
Cairns: Eight children found dead at propertyThe Australian (blog)
In Australia, 8 Youths Die in Mass StabbingVoice of America
8 children stabbed to death IN Cairns tragedy: Mother in hospital with serious ...The Daily Telegraph
Toronto Sun -Gulf Times
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Inhabitat (blog)
Australia is destroying indigenous land with fracking
Inhabitat (blog)
The Mithaka people of Channel Country, Queensland, Australia have a serious problem: Australia wants to frack their traditional homeland, targeting hundreds of wells beneath their rivers and floodplains for extracting shale oil and gas. Despite staunch ...

Toronto Sun
8 children stabbed to death in Australia
Toronto Sun
Specialist officers were being sent from Brisbane, the state capital, to assist with the investigation, Asnicar said. Media outlets reported that the neighbourhood was predominantly inhabited by indigenous Aboriginal Australians, and was known by ...
In Australia, 8 Youths Die in Mass StabbingVoice of America
Mother arrested over deaths of eight childrenSky News Australia
Mother arrested for murder after eight children stabbed to death in CairnsThe Guardian
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Reuters
Breaking News: FBI says it's 'deeply concerned' about the 'destructive nature ...
Reuters
Specialist officers were being sent from Brisbane, the state capital, to assist with the investigation, Asnicar said. Media outlets reported that the neighborhood was predominantly inhabited by indigenous Aboriginal Australians, and was known by ...
Mother arrested for murder after children found dead in Australian homeYahoo!7 News
Cairns: Eight children found dead at propertyThe Australian (blog)
8 children stabbed to death IN Cairns tragedy: Mother in hospital with serious ...The Daily Telegraph
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The Australian (blog)
Cairns: Eight children found dead at property
The Australian (blog)
7pm: Cairns police say they have no formal suspects as they begin what will be an extensive investigation into the deaths of eight children in one of the worst single-family killings in Australia. The eight children range in age from 18 months to 15 ...
8 children stabbed to death in AustraliaToronto Sun
Eight children killed in 'mass stabbing' in Australian cityGulf Times
Eight children stabbed to death in Cairns, Australiaeuronews
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The Guardian
Abolition of Indigenous drug and alcohol panel came without warning, members ...
The Guardian
Without committees like this, the government is silencing the voice of Indigenous Australians caught up in these issues. “I understand governments change the make-up of things, but this is not an easy area to work in.” Wilson said the first he heard of ...

ABC Online
CSIRO Indigenous summer school program mixes science with culture
ABC Online
A group of year 10 students from across the country travelled to South Australia to take part in an annual residential program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students held at Flinders University. One of the 28 students to spend the week in ...
Indigenous students encouraged to look at science careersABC Message Stick

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ABC Online
British Council exchange boosts exposure for Australian Indigenous arts workers
ABC Online
An Indigenous arts leadership program has enabled four Australians to travel to the UK to develop new skills, specialist knowledge and overseas connections. Joel Carnegie examines how this cultural exchanges can impact the arts practices of the ...

Day News
Firms told to act as indigenous numbers fall
The Australian
Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott is to release the latest indigenous engagement survey of responses from 89 of the biggest companies in Australia, which shows a drop in employee numbers and in the spend on contracting or ...
Academic chides government's 'failure' in tackling Indigenous policiesCT Australia
Aboriginal Leaders in Victoria Promote Culture and History of Indigenous ...Day News
Aboriginal Knowledge Could Unlock Climate SolutionsIndependent European Daily Express

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