Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
AOC changes constitution to recognise Australia's Indigenous heritage
ABC Online
Olympian Cathy Freeman has welcomed a decision by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) to recognise Australia's Indigenous heritage in its constitution. The AOC constitution and Olympic team values will now recognise the contribution of Australia's ...

Australian Olympic Committee
AOC to recognise indigenous heritage
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, ...
Indigenous heritage recognised in AOC ConstitutionAustralian Olympic Committee
AOC changes constitution to recognise Australia's Indigenous heritageABC Online

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Sydney Morning Herald
Black Comedy and First Contact confront indigenous stereotypes
Sydney Morning Herald
As Hugo Weaving's narration pointed out at the beginning of First Contact, six out of 10Australians have had little or no contact with an indigenous Australian, and for many years the number has probably been far worse when it's come to the subject ...
I'm 31 and only had my 'first contact' with Indigenous Australia this yearThe Guardian
First Contact's casting reveals Australia's 'festering sore'The Age
SBS premieres First ContactSBS
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Australian Olympic Committee
Indigenous heritage recognised in AOC Constitution
Australian Olympic Committee
This year as we prepare for the centenary of ANZAC we read about the contribution of the Indigenous Australians in both world wars. We marvel at their prowess on the sporting field yet many live in poverty, struggle with poor health, discrimination ...

The Australian
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi's demise echoes the fate of Aboriginal art
The Australian
The vast private collections and public gallery displays amassed over recent years remain, the archipelago of art centres and little studios set up across the desert and the remote corners of Aboriginal Australia are still operating, but the heart of ...

SBS
Elders hope France repatriation deal can be precedent
SBS
Indigenous elders have welcomed a new agreement between France and Australia on the repatriation of Indigenous remains. They say they hope it sets a precedent for similar agreements with other countries. Prime Minister Tony Abbott and France's ...

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SBS
Abbott, Hollande reach agreement over Indigenous remains
SBS
Mr Abbott and Mr Hollande have agreed to establish a joint expert committee to help identify the origin of Indigenous Australian remains held in France. Australia and Italy signed a similar agreement in 2009, and remains have also been returned from ...
France agrees to work with Australia to bring home Aboriginal remainsABC Online
French president signs agreement on return of Indigenous remainsThe Guardian
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The Age
First Contact's casting reveals Australia's 'festering sore'
The Age
The producers of SBS series First Contact did not have to look very far to find enough voices to reflect Australia's widespread discrimination towards Indigenous Australians. "The big stereotypes are that they are all drunks, they don't want to work ...
I'm 31 and only had my 'first contact' with Indigenous Australia this yearThe Guardian
SBS premieres First ContactSBS
“If you think that's racist, I don't f***ing care,” she said.Perth Now
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The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians offer a broader concept of wellbeing
The Conversation AU
These results indicate the real cultural faultlines in Australia. The Redfern Indigenous knowledge focus group results point to another way of thinking about ways of living well. The importance of “spirituality” for Aboriginal people in a settler ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Challenging ideas about indigenous Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
This week, though, two important opportunities have arisen for every non-indigenous Australian to confront his or her own preconceptions: that Aborigines are in for a free ride; they get more than everyone else; they keep using the past as an excuse.
Australian indigenous disadvantage reportThe Age
Indigenous Australia's diverse memorialisation of the deadThe Conversation AU
Interactive: Indigenous Australians living in remote areasSBS
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ABC Online
France agrees to work with Australia to bring home Aboriginal remains
ABC Online
Australia and France have agreed to work together to help return the remains of Aboriginal people held in French public collections. On the first official visit by a French head of state to Australia, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and French ...
French president signs agreement on return of Indigenous remainsThe Guardian
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France, Australia agree to bring home Aboriginal remainsABC Message Stick
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“The governments of the two countries will establish a joint expert committee to co-ordinate and determine the processes needed to identify the origin of the indigenous Australian human remains conserved in French public collections,'' a joint ...
Trade, climate on Hollande visit agendaWA today

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Plenty of will with indigenous employment, but firms not cutting it
The Australian
The white paper from one of Australia's biggest recruitment agencies reveals a minority of organisations surveyed have processes in place where they consult indigenous Australian staff or experts on policies and procedures, and implement strategies to ...

The Age
Australian indigenous disadvantage report
The Age
The Productivity Commission's biennial report card on the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples posted on Wednesday has revealed some promising trends. The gap in life expectancy between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians ...
More indigenous Australians at workNEWS.com.au
Indigenous disadvantage report is a wake-up call for AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
Nigel Scullion criticised for not setting goal to cut Indigenous incarcerationThe Guardian

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Indigenous affairs minister taking little comfort in report card on disadvantage
The Guardian
“It's extremely disappointing that the incarceration rate continues to go through the roof because the states and the territories aren't focusing on reducing it,” Priscilla Collins, the chief executive of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency ...

Australia going backwards on Indigenous mental health
ABC Online (blog)
Even before he was elected, Tony Abbott coined himself the Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, but has that talk translated into action? Today the Productivity Commission report on Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage was released. And while its true ...

ABC Online
Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report: NT Aboriginal leaders call for ...
ABC Online
Aboriginal leaders in the Northern Territory have called for more say in how federal programs designed to help their communities are run, after a report showed the gap between Indigenous people and other Australians has increased in many areas.

The Guardian
French president signs agreement on return of Indigenous remains
The Guardian
A joint statement between Hollande and Abbott said: “The governments of the two countries will establish a joint expert committee to coordinate and determine the processes needed to identify and also to ascertain the origin of the Indigenous Australian ...
Trade, climate on Hollande visit agendaThe Australian

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What's the proportion of Indigenous people where you live? | Interactive
SBS
A program on SBS tonight and tomorrow, First Contact, has taken six people with strong opinions and immersed them in Aboriginal cultures for the first time. The map below explores the distribution of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

The Guardian
Interactive: Indigenous Australians, what's the proportion where you live?
SBS
That would mean three per cent of Australians would identify as Indigenous. However, few Australian local government areas had a proportion of Indigenous people around three per cent. In parts of Western Australia, some council areas had no people who ...
I'm 31 and only had my 'first contact' with Indigenous Australia this yearThe Guardian
“If you think that's racist, I don't f***ing care,” she said.NEWS.com.au
First Contact creates social media stormThe Australian
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