Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

WA today
VCE's Australian History Study Design snubs indigenous perspectives
WA today
Thus, the content of the proposed VCE Australian History Study Design is extremely important to those who recognise that widespread ignorance of indigenous matters in mainstream Australia is an underlying cause of the acute disadvantage indigenous ...

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Barnett to axe 150 bush towns
The Australian
INDIGENOUS Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has acknowledged there may be no future for some remote indigenous communities in Western Australia as Premier Colin Barnett yesterday revealed he plans to close up to 150 of the state's 274 tiny settlements.

The Age
VCE's Australian History Study Design snubs indigenous perspectives
The Age
Thus, the content of the proposed VCE Australian History Study Design is extremely important to those who recognise that widespread ignorance of indigenous matters in mainstream Australia is an underlying cause of the acute disadvantage indigenous ...

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The Guardian (Australia)
A call for funding certainty for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
Crikey (blog)
While there has progress in closing the gap between the health status of Indigenous Australians and that of non-Indigenous Australians, there is still much to be done. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report Australia's Health 2014 ...
Poverty on rise: reportThe Guardian (Australia)

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ABC Online
G20: Indigenous protesters rally in Brisbane CBD ahead of leaders' summit
ABC Online
About 100 people have gathered in Brisbane ahead of the G20 leaders' summit to protest against the treatment of Indigenous Australians. The group converged on Roma Street in the CBD this morning, with many draped in Aboriginal flags and holding ...
First G20 protesters take to Brisbane streetsBrisbane Times
G20: Brisbane protesters have plenty of targets, but police are not among themThe Guardian

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Architecture and Design
How architecture can give voice to narratives of Indigenous culture: Jefa ...
Architecture and Design
Jefa Greenaway is director of Greenaway Architects and one of Victoria's few Indigenous Australian architects. Architecture & Design spoke with Greenaway to better understand why there are so few registered Indigenous architects in Australia and why he ...

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Labor calls for clarification on indigenous funding
The Australian
The Australian has spoken to many indigenous groups who will not speak on the record because they fear their funding will be compromised, but say that the tough new criteria in the first round of the $4.8 billion indigenous Advancement Strategy is not ...

CBC.ca
Australians share indigenous protected area strategies with NWT
CBC.ca
Dhimurru is one of 60 Indigenous Protected Areas established in partnership with the Australian government that cover more than 48 million hectares across Australia. Patrick O'Leary, who works with Pew Charitable Trust, an organization that helps ...

Call to drop GP fee for Aboriginal patients
The Australian
Indigenous health bodies want the government to exempt Australians living on welfare payments from the $7 payment for bulk-billed visits to a GP. The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation has told the Senate inquiry into ...

Gay News Network
Call to drop GP fee for Aboriginal patients
The Australian
Indigenous health bodies want the government to exempt Australians living on welfare payments from the $7 payment for bulk-billed visits to a GP. The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation has told the Senate inquiry into ...
Deconstructing schizophrenia in Australian AboriginesThe Stringer
Calls to boost numbers of Aboriginal teachers to be role models in SA schoolsHerald Sun
Indigenous queer history – call for submissionsGay News Network

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Gay News Network
Suicide-prevention groups accused of not doing enough for indigenous
The Australian
The Weekend Australian revealed on Saturday that the indigenous suicide rate in the Kimberley is the highest in the world, when referenced against World Health Organisation figures, at 70 deaths per 100,000. The latest analysis by researchers indicates ...
Deconstructing schizophrenia among Australia's First PeopleThe Stringer
Calls to boost numbers of Aboriginal teachers to be role models in SA schoolsHerald Sun
Indigenous queer history – call for submissionsGay News Network

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous World War I digger's grandson to be guest of honour in France town
The Canberra Times
The grandson of an indigenous Australian who fought in France during the First World War will be the guest of Villers Bretonneux's mayor at Remembrance Day proceedings. Joe Flick, from the small town of Collarenebri in western NSW, became emotional ...

The West Australian
New window on Aboriginal culture
The West Australian
Paulus has led a big creative team from New York to join James and Aboriginal cultural leaders in the Kimberley this week as preparations gather pace for the show, touted as a global entertainment showcase for indigenous Australia. "We wanted to get ...

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The West Australian
New window on Aboriginal culture
The West Australian
Paulus has led a big creative team from New York to join James and Aboriginal cultural leaders in the Kimberley this week as preparations gather pace for the show, touted as a global entertainment showcase for indigenous Australia. "We wanted to get ...

Brisbane Times
Poche gives $10m to Qld uni for indigenous health
Brisbane Times
Flinders University and the universities of Sydney, Melbourne and Western Australia have already received $10 million for indigenous health centres from Mr Poche and his wife Kay van Norton Poche, whose philanthropic giving now totals more than $100 ...

ABC Message Stick
A nation shamed when child sees suicide as the solution
The Australian
The West Australian government has been accused of gross complacency on indigenous suicide despite the rising number of deaths and the heavy focus on the issue that sprang from the inquiries of coroner Alistair Hope, who delivered a major report in ...
Mental health services for Aboriginal Australians 'inadequate, inappropriate'ABC Message Stick
Neglect in early years may have led to foster teen taking own life: coronerABC Online
“What do these Blacks want?”The Stringer
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Promise check: Spend a week every year in an Indigenous community
ABC Online
And this: "Why shouldn't the prime minister of our country, and why shouldn't the senior officials of our country, be prepared to devote a week a year - just one week - to an overwhelming focus on the issues of Indigenous Australia? Surely that is not ...

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Leading philanthropist gives $10m for Indigenous health centre at UQ
UQ News
Professor Shannon said South East Queensland had Australia's largest Indigenous population, currently at 65,000 and expected to reach 130,000 by 2030, and the Centre's focus on the health of urban Indigenous populations was a strong fit with the region.

Australian Geographic (blog)
Aboriginal art aims for sky
Australian Geographic (blog)
The John Curtin Gallery in Perth, WA, recently hosted Shared Sky, an exhibition of indigenous art inspired by the stars and other celestial bodies. The project brought both Western Australian and South African artists together with scientists working ...

The Canberra Times
Gough Whitlam memorial: The great man would have loved it
The Canberra Times
A strong theme throughout was what Gough did for indigenous Australians, with Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody singing From Little Things Big Things Grow, as the crowd sang along, and Noel Pearson himself paying brilliant tribute. Pearson did not ignore the ...
'Best political speech of our time'NEWS.com.au
We are forever indebted to the vision of Gough WhitlamHerald Sun
Tributes flow for Gough Whitlam in SydneyThe New Daily
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