Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Lambie calls for indigenous seats
The Australian
THE rookie senator, who spoke of her Aboriginal heritage in her maiden speech to parliament, is calling for indigenous political representation to reflect the population. Indigenous Australians make up about four per cent of the population, with 226 ...

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Aboriginal Australians Are Still Dying in Police Custody
VICE News
In 1983, a 16-year-old Aboriginal man called John Pat died of massive head injuries after being taken into police custody in Western Australia. His death, along with several others, sparked the historic Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

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The Guardian
Abbott's Top End trip: Indigenous leaders in Arnhem Land to push for ...
ABC Online
Senior member of the Gumatj clan in north-east Arnhem Land Djawa Yunupingu will address Mr Abbott about the need to include recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the document that underpins Australia's legal system. He will ask ...
Indigenous recognition: five things standing in the wayThe Guardian
'Time to bring us into the nation'The Australian
Galarrwuy Yunupingu will listen to Tony Abbott but true recognition needs more ...Sydney Morning Herald

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We need to work out how indigenous voices can be heard
The Australian
At its simplest and most luminous, it posits that Australia is not a snakepit of competing cultures, each writhing in deadly competition with one another. Rather, it is a symphony, in which different instruments and notes — indigenous, British-settler ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous recognition: five things standing in the way
The Guardian
Indigenous Australians had no say in the drafting of the constitution at the time of federation. The only references in the document are discriminatory. Both sides of politics believe this an injustice in need of correction – Australia should recognise ...

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Mass study finds one in 10 Indigenous Australians has diabetes
ninemsn
Biomedical results National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Health Measures Survey, published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), also shows Indigenous Australians are three times more likely to be diagnosed with the condition than ...

Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's plea for indigenous Australia: Early childhood the ...
The Daily Telegraph
“As soon as an aboriginal person gets an education, the disparity ends. “Indigenous women with a degree are in fact more successful than their Australian sisters. “ If you're an indigenous woman you're 30 times more likely to be hospitalised than your ...

Andrew Forrest plea for indigenous Australia08:00
Courier Mail
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The Guardian
Backlash over non-awarding of Indigenous art prize
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Broome locals and the Indigenous community are incensed by Judge Perpetua Durack Clancy's decision to not award the 2014 Shinju Matsuri Art Award. The announcement came as a surprise to the organising committee and art community attending the 8 ...
Art judge declines to award Indigenous prize because quality 'not good enough'The Guardian

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SBS
Indigenous Australians experience diabetes 20 years earlier: ABS
ABC Online
PAUL JELFS: Generally, most surveys are based on self-reported information about diabetes or heart disease, or kidney disease, but this survey was able to take blood and urine on a voluntary basis from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
Suicide prevention: Demolishing the 'appalling' rate of Indigenous suicideSBS
Indigenous Suicide Prevention: Culture is KeyThe Epoch Times (blog)

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Abolition of Indigenous tutoring scheme will impact on the Government's ...
Crikey (blog)
The Abbott Government's decision to abolish the Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme (ITAS) has been described by Australia's peak Indigenous doctors' representative body as undermining the Government's support for Indigenous education, particularly ...

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Bill Shorten 'open' to Pearson compromise call on Constitution
The Australian
BILL Shorten has signalled he is open to Noel Pearson's call for compromise on proposed Constitutional changes to recognise indigenous Australians, despite a fierce warning from Labor senator Nova Peris against adopting a more conservative approach.

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Bill Shorten 'open' to Pearson compromise call on Constitution
The Australian
BILL Shorten has signalled he is open to Noel Pearson's call for compromise on proposed Constitutional changes to recognise indigenous Australians, despite a fierce warning from Labor senator Nova Peris against adopting a more conservative approach.

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Shinju Matsuri art award: Judge Perpetua Durack Clancy refuses to award ...
Yahoo!7 News
There has been an angry backlash after the judge of an Indigenous art prize in Broome decided none of the entries were worthy of winning the prize. Local Aboriginal artists are particularly offended because the judge - Perpetua Durack Clancy - is the ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
To succeed, indigenous recognition referendum must be handled deftly
The Australian
If the Australian public sees a significant group of indigenous leaders opposing the referendum model then they will think why, in these circumstances, should we support the referendum? As Pearson says in his forthcoming Quarterly Essay, the referendum ...
Why the problem of indigenous recognition can only be addressed by a ...Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott government pushes back Indigenous recognition timetableThe Guardian
Shorten warns referendum 'must be worth vote'Sky News Australia

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Noel Pearson finds way to salvage referendum, advance his people
The Australian
CAPE YORK leader Noel Pearson has offered a compromise position on recognition of indigenous Australians in the Constitution, conceding for the first time that “conservatives” will not accept making racial discrimination illegal and laying out a bold ...

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The Guardian
Abbott government pushes back Indigenous recognition timetable
The Guardian
We need a set of changes that Australia accepts,” he said. Scullion also said it was unlikely the referendum would be put to voters in this term of parliament. He said it would be a “very brave” government who injected this issue into its first bid for ...
Bill Shorten: I don't support a charter of rightsThe Australian

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SBS
Aboriginal elder Uncle Roy Maynard defends Jacqui Lambie over indigenous ...
The Australian
Senator Lambie, who has revealed she wants to be the “face” of Andrew Forrest's sweeping indigenous reforms, has provided ABC TV's Australian Story with her family tree, which shows a link to one of Mannalargenna's granddaughters. Lambie wants to live ...
Lambie threatens legal action in Aboriginal ancestry rowSBS
Violent row over Jacqui Lambie's family tree: Threats of violence after she ...The Daily Telegraph

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Good Food
Australia's first cookbook: Native fauna fair game on the table
Good Food
She says that while Abbott's may not have been the first properly Australian cookbook, it was still important for drawing attention to indigenous ingredients, particularly game, meat and seafood. "They experimented with these because their rations were ...

The Canberra Times
Why the problem of indigenous recognition can only be addressed by a ...
The Canberra Times
In one example, with help from Peter Shergold, The Australian Financial Review put a small story in its paper saying the government was looking to establish a jobs creation program for indigenous people that needed volunteers. The reaction was ...

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