Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Sydney Morning Herald
Why South Sydney Rabbitohs will be forever linked with Aboriginal Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
Peachey, who played most of his career at Cronulla, said the ties that bind indigenous Australia to the Rabbitohs meant he felt he "belonged" at Souths because Redfern was a spiritual home built by Eric Simms and an army of indigenous warriors he ...
Greg Inglis once vowed to retire if Souths won the NRL premiership but the ...Perth Now

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SBS
Australia welcomes first magazine for Indigenous and multicultural women
SBS
"When you look at the Australian fashion industry, there's a breakdown of 1100 models. With that breakdown, there's 16 Chinese models and 7 Indigenous (models)," she told SBS. "Now that's very minimal to say the least." Ms Sarago has now gone on to ...

Indigenous Australians are pushing for change under the NDIS
ABC Online
MARK COLVIN: As the Government continues to expand trials of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, one community is determined not to be left behind. Indigenous Australians have held their first conference on Aboriginal people with disabilities in ...

Independent Australia
Who gets to play on Team Australia?
Independent Australia
What positions and parts do Indigenous Australians ‒ and their unceasingly resilient culture ‒ get to play on Tony Abbott's Team Australia, asks Aneeta Menon. TEAM AUSTRALIA is as problematic a concept as ever did exist and the fact that it's being ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Australia and social justice: live Q&A with Tim Costello – post ...
The Guardian
World Vision CEO Tim Costello will be joining Guardian Australia for a live question and answer session today, from 11am, on Indigenous Australia and World Vision's Australia Program. Tim is one of Australia's most recognisable voices on welfare ...

ABC Online
Stafford collection tells untold story of Aboriginal man's role in Australian ...
ABC Online
A collection of letters and photographs that tell the story of a Gamilaroi and Darug man, who was the personal driver for 11 prime ministers, has been donated to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). The ...

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Alzheimer's Australia calls for focus on Indigenous dementia rates
ABC Online
LEON FLICKER: The prevalence of dementia amongst Aboriginal Australians was unknowns until about eight years ago. And then we performed the study in the Kimberley which found that the rates of dementia were five times the non-Aboriginal rates in ...

Court deliberates on Indigenous disadvantage in sentencing offenders
The Guardian
Indigenous people are vastly over-represented in the prison system and 15 times more likely to be jailed than non-Indigenous Australians. The legal team for Bugmy is arguing that this, as well as the general history of social deprivation of Indigenous ...
The High Court of Australia court is considering social disadvantage in its ...ABC Message Stick

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SBS
UN conference calls for return of Indigenous remains
SBS
Since the early days of British colonial settlement, the skeletal remains of Indigenous Australians captured the interest of those seeking to understand the origins of the human race. Secret-sacred objects were also avidly collected -- all in the name ...
Health cuts and education deregulation: critical issues for Indigenous doctorsCrikey (blog)

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Here's the reality of Australia's Apartheid
National Indigenous Times
You won't see photos like this published in mainstream media and you won't hear the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott or Indigenous Affairs Minister, Senator Nigel Scullion even acknowledge they exist. But they should. You won't see or hear Warren Mundine or ...

The Guardian
Indigenous dementia rates three times higher than general population
The Guardian
Indigenous people experience dementia at a rate at least three times higher than the non-Indigenous population in Australia, but a lack of awareness of the seriousness of the issue means not enough is being done to combat a “looming epidemic”, the peak ...
Mental Health Campaign for Indigenous YouthPro Bono Australia

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ABC Message Stick
Traditional owners, scientists and cat gizzards key to Kiwirrkurra Indigenous ...
ABC Message Stick
IPAs recognise that the best people to manage country in Australia are the people that have been managing it for thousands of years." Indigenous Protected Areas are an Aboriginal-led agreement on how country should be managed and by whom. They need ...

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Australian Mining
BHP funds Indigenous scholarship
Australian Mining
"Our partnership with BHP Billiton will enhance and expand our education programs to reach Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from across Australia. We are really excited about this opportunity to reach so many new students, and get them ...

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Ferret
BHP funds Indigenous scholarship
Ferret
"Our partnership with BHP Billiton will enhance and expand our education programs to reach Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from across Australia. We are really excited about this opportunity to reach so many new students, and get them ...

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Mental Health Campaign for Indigenous Youth
Pro Bono Australia
'Yarn safe' was developed with a group of 12 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people from across Australia, including Elcho Island, Brisbane, Darwin, Broome, Melbourne and Perth. headspace said the campaign was created to improve mental ...

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Mental illness campaign reaches out to indigenous Australians
Radio Australia
But Australian mental health foundation Headspace hopes to improve the situation with Yarn Safe, a campaign which aims to reduce stigma and meet specific challenges found within indigenous communities. Headspace has been working with a team of ...

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champion of indigenous poor
The Australian
He was 66 and retired when he learned that the Aboriginal Legal Service could not find a court officer for remote Laverton, 955km northeast of Perth. Although he was once the boss of the ALS in Western Australia, Mr Wyatt moved to the town and did the ...
WA Labor MP Ben Wyatt pays tribute to dadABC Message Stick

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The Australian
Astronomy project unites indigenous artists from WA and South Africa
The Australian
The fact the SKA will straddle two continents means it will impact on the lands of two indigenous peoples — the Yamaji of Western Australia, and the San people of South Africa's Karoo region in Eastern Cape Province. It has led to the Shared Sky ...

Welfare flaws clear in Arnhem Land
The Australian (blog)
Our commitment to indigenous Australians is we will engage, just as eight ministers and departmental secretaries did in East Arnhem Land. We will work with you to change the culture of hand-outs. We will work with you to get kids in school, adults into ...

The Guardian
Child abuse commission broadens scope to focus on indigenous kids
The Australian
Across Australia, research shows “many indigenous children who had been removed from their families were cruelly treated — many suffered physical and sexual abuse,” commission chair Peter McClellan said this week. More than 800 Aboriginal people had ...
Indigenous recognition: the concerns of those opposed must be taken seriouslyThe Guardian

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