Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian
PM urged to try harder on engaging with Indigenous Australians
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NAOMI WOODLEY: There's also growing concern about the number of Indigenous Australians who are ending up in jail. The latest statistics from the Productivity Commission show one in four deaths in custody is an Indigenous person, compared to the one in ...
The untold story of Indigenous Australians and disability: five questions to ...The Guardian
Funding cuts to indigenous legal aid will be 'devastating'The Australian
Federal Government urged to act on 'national emergency' of Indigenous ...Yahoo!7 News

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ABC Online
PM urged to try harder on engaging with Indigenous Australians
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NAOMI WOODLEY: There's also growing concern about the number of Indigenous Australians who are ending up in jail. The latest statistics from the Productivity Commission show one in four deaths in custody is an Indigenous person, compared to the one in ...
Funding cuts to indigenous legal aid will be 'devastating'The Australian
Federal Government urged to act on 'national emergency' of Indigenous ...Yahoo!7 News

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ABC Online
Indigenous activists demand better representation at Alice Springs conference
ABC Online
The Northern Territory's Australian of the Year, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, told the conference it would help unite Indigenous people from the Top End to Tasmania. "This is the beginning of black Australia," she said. "This might be a small gathering today ...
Indigenous leaders to meet at First Nations Summit for FreedomThe Guardian
Aboriginal leaders gather in Alice Springs for 'freedom summit'The Australian

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The Guardian
Indigenous leaders to meet at First Nations Summit for Freedom
The Guardian
“The heritage act is having a big impact on Western Australia,” Sansbury, who is a long time Aboriginal advocate and was heavily involved in the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, told Guardian Australia. “The closures of the ...
'Freedom Summit' urges youth to take up Indigenous rights fightABC Message Stick

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The Guardian
Abbott's homogeneous approach to Indigenous affairs will not erase the stain ...
The Guardian
So glacially has the gap been closing between Indigenous and other Australians on the important indicators – life expectancy, health outcomes, income, employment, imprisonment rates, child mortality, education – that even the sceptics of the left were ...

Sacked indigenous lands boss wants review
The Australian
South Australian Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ian Hunter has said he was “extremely concerned” by the actions of the APY executive and was considering advice from the Crown Solicitor. In a 13-page affidavit lodged with the court, Mr Deans said that Mr ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Australia knows the cynicism exposed by Michael Brown's killing in ...
The Guardian
Other than the unsuccessful prosecution of Chris Hurley, not a single charge has been laid, not a single person held to account. To return to McCulloch, is the long-term failure of African Americans and Indigenous Australians by their legal systems not ...

ESPNScrum.com
Beale fine to fund indigenous women's program
ESPNScrum.com
Kurtley Beale's $A45,000 fine after he breached the Australian Rugby Union Code of Conduct will be directed to the Lloyd McDermott Rugby Development Team to fund a program for young indigenous women. The money will be used specifically to promote ...
Kurtley Beale's fine to fund program for indigenous womenThe Canberra Times
Wallaby Kurtley Beale's fine goes to 'Stronga Sistas'Eurosport.com AU
Wallaby Beale's fine goes to 'Stronga Sistas'Yahoo! Maktoob News

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SBS
Indigenous artists in the spotlight for ARIA awards
SBS
“It's something really nice that we have something like the ARIAs that recognises Australian creativity and Australian artists,” Sultan said. This year, there are more indigenous artists nominated than ever before. Jessica Mauboy and Geoffrey Gurrumul ...

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ABC Online
Antarctica expedition for Indigenous scholarship recipient
ABC Online
20-year old Canberra resident Allira Searle is preparing to explore Antarctica as part of a unique two-week expedition. Only eight indigenous Australians have been given the opportunity to be part of the experience funded by Indigenous organisation Yalari.

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Peak Indigenous body appeals to Tony Abbott for funding certainty
The Australian
The Prime Minister's chief indigenous adviser Warren Mundine told The Australian he was deeply concerned about delays and a lack of clarity on the direction of reforms, adding that an audit of programs to determine which should be funded was urgently ...

Warren Mundine angry as funding reform for indigenous groups delayed
The Australian
Aboriginal organisations have been saved from closure after the Prime Minister's Department extended the period for funding applications under its controversial grants system. On Sunday night, the applicants for indigenous projects across Australia ...
Pacific Islanders accused of Australian black market kava tradeRadio Australia

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Indigenous grants extension a debacle, Greens say
The Australian
The Australian has revealed that Aboriginal organisations have been saved from impending closure after the Prime Minister's department extended the period for funding applications under its controversial new grants system. The Australian can reveal ...

Australian Mining
Fortescue offers mining jobs to indigenous prisoners
Australian Mining
Aboriginal prisoners will soon have the opportunity to take on mining employment after their release, thanks to a new agreement between Fortescue Metals Group and WA Department of Corrective Services. FMG chairman Andrew Forrest has signed a ...

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Australia's indigenous population take up cricket
Cricket Country
Australia's indigenous population, known as the aboriginals, are gradually taking up cricket. In this video by Cricket Australia, one can see how measures are being taken to help the indigenous population take up cricket. Australia has a National ...

Indigenous groups win extension
The Australian
The Australian has spoken to indigenous groups who would not speak on the record because they feared their funding would be compromised, but said the new criteria in the first round of the $4.8 billion Indigenous Advancement Strategy was not clear.

Daily Life
Why is Australian TV still so white?
Daily Life
That stunt was still making international headlines when Karl's interview with Natalie Ahmat for the Indigenous TV network, NITV News, was released last Friday. In the wake of the screening of First Contact, the SBS show in which six white Australians ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Poetic injustice as bid for Indigenous Recognition stalls
The Saturday Paper
Offer Indigenous Australians only the bare minimum – a little poetry and scouring the constitution of racist language – and their leaders will walk. “You would have people like me campaign against it,” says Dodson. “Quite seriously. In my view it would ...
Challenging ideas about indigenous AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
Abbott, Hollande reach agreement over Indigenous remainsSBS
Nigel Scullion criticised for not setting goal to cut Indigenous incarcerationThe Guardian

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Indigenous heritage to be embraced in AOC constitution
The Australian
Australia's indigenous athletes have a rich history of competing and winning at the Olympic Games. From our first indigenous Olympians, Frank Roberts, Michael Ah Matt and Adrian Blair, to Cathy Freeman's legendary sprint at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Australia's HIV crisis never happened: five questions to James Ward
The Guardian
My focus while hosting IndigenousX will be on raising HIV and related conditions awareness in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. In the early days of HIV when it first hit Australia 30 years ago, we were told a catastrophe would occur ...