Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Veteran fights over matters of the heart
Sydney Morning Herald
The Thai fiancee of an indigenous Australian war veteran has had her visa request rejected despite the backing of former senator Fred Chaney. John Schnaars, 67, from Western Australia, has been championing the cause of recognising war graves for ...

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Unweaving the web of Aboriginal welfare dependency won't be easy
The Australian
But that in no way diminishes or excuses the enduring disparity between the life chances of indigenous Australians and those of Australia's non-indigenous population. The Northern Territory intervention focused attention on the unfolding disaster in ...

Unweaving the web of Aboriginal welfare dependency won't be easy
The Australian (blog)
But that in no way diminishes or excuses the enduring disparity between the life chances of indigenous Australians and those of Australia's non-indigenous population. The Northern Territory intervention focused attention on the unfolding disaster in ...

Labor MPs demand Tony Abbott act on indigenous recognition
The Australian
It comes after The Weekend Australian revealed that a panel headed by former deputy prime minister John Anderson has warned Mr Abbott that awareness and understanding of the push to acknowledge indigenous Australians in the Constitution have not ...

Abbott criticised for view that First Fleet was Australia's defining moment
The Australian
Launching the Defining Moments Project yesterday Mr Abbott said although the First Fleet's arrival “dispossessed, and for a long time marginalised indigenous people”, modern Australia was “profoundly shaped” by the British settlement. “The First Fleet ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott names white settlement as Australia's 'defining moment', remark ...
Yahoo!7 News
Indigenous figures including the chair of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council are furious that Tony Abbott has highlighted white settlement as the defining moment in Australian history. The Prime Minister made the comment while he was ...
"Defining moment": Tony Abbott embraces Warren Mundine during the ...Sydney Morning Herald
First Fleet: Australia's 'defining moment', says Tony AbbottThe Australian
Abbott under fire over gaffeNEWS.com.au
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Tony Abbott names white settlement as Australia's 'defining moment', remark ...
ABC Online
Audio: Disastrously defining: Indigenous Australians criticise Abbott's comments on white settlement (AM). "Well it was a defining moment, there's no argument about that. It was also a disastrous defining moment for Indigenous people," Mr Mundine said.

Sydney Morning Herald
"Defining moment": Tony Abbott embraces Warren Mundine during the ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's comment that the arrival of the First Fleet was the defining moment in Australian history has earned a rebuke from indigenous leaders. The chairman of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, has ...
First Fleet: Australia's 'defining moment', says Tony AbbottThe Australian
Tony Abbott says first fleet arrival is the defining moment in Australian historyThe Guardian

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Indigenous deal angers Maritime Union of Australia
The Australian
A COMPANY owned by some of the nation's leading Aboriginal business and sporting identities has angered the powerful Maritime Union of Australia by reaching a non-union labour deal that allows it to compete for lucrative work on multi-billion-dollar ...

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Indigenous deal angers Maritime Union of Australia
The Australian
A COMPANY owned by some of the nation's leading Aboriginal business and sporting identities has angered the powerful Maritime Union of Australia by reaching a non-union labour deal that allows it to compete for lucrative work on multi-billion-dollar ...

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Case not made for indigenous reform, Tony Abbott told
The Australian
AWARENESS and understanding of the push to acknowledge indigenous Australians in the Constitution have not reached a point where the nation can proceed directly to a referendum, a panel headed by former deputy prime minister John Anderson has ...

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Mining a Healthier Indigenous Australia
Pro Bono Australia
As the Community Liaison and Engagement Contractor at Golden West Resources Limited, a mining company based in the midwest region of Western Australia, since 2011 Patten made close connections with the local Indigenous Wiluna youth and their ...

Indigenous Australians take to Facebook
Warc
"Indigenous Australians living in remote areas are having a completely different experience of social networks and the internet than mainstream Australia," said lead researcher Matt Balogh. "Apart from at school or work, nearly all their internet ...

Wall Street Journal
An Aboriginal Dance Company Explores Australia's Cultural History
Wall Street Journal
This true story of first contact has become the inspiration for a show touring Australia, put on by the country's leading indigenous dance company, Bangarra. "Patyegarang" is a portrayal of love and illumination in an era marked by bloodshed and pain.

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The Guardian (blog)
Italian artist Giorgia Severi to bring Indigenous voices to Venice biennale
The Guardian (blog)
“The core of the project, which is called Land, is to bring a message to western countries by working with Indigenous people in Australia in their different lands,” she explains. Severi has been with the Wirrimanu community in Balgo on the edge of the ...

The Guardian
John Pilger: Australia is a land of excuses, not the land of the fair go
The Guardian
In his 2013 film Utopia, Pilger brought attention back to the Indigenous disadvantage in remote Australian communities, dismantling the Howard government's basis for its Northern Territory intervention (the claim of widespread child abuse by Aboriginal ...
From two Aboriginal employees to 241 in just four years: How Ayers Rock Resort ...BRW

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SBS
Remote Indigenous Australians rely on Facebook to stay in touch
SBS
“Typically in the population, around 42 per cent of people are members of Facebook in Australia - it's really quite a big number - and amongst people in remote communities it's up to 62 per cent which is majority of people,” said Lead Survey Researcher ...

Ex-minister Gary Johns threatens Constitution challenge
The Australian
Its name is in direct response to Recognise, the federally funded campaign to build awareness and support for changing the nation's Constitution to acknowledge indigenous Australians. A joint select committee on constitutional recognition, made up of ...

Indigenous learners renovate a reputation
The Australian
For the past 30 years Fairbridge has worked with young people at risk, including young people with a disability, those with drug problems, those with mental health issues, refugee children, Aboriginal young people, children with cancer, those ...

ATCO Australia Continues Support of Indigenous Culture Through New Nomad ...
NewsMaker (press release)
PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA -- (Marketwired) -- ATCO Australia's partnership with Nomad Two Worlds and renowned Nyoongar artist Tjyllyungoo (Lance Chadd) will continue with a new world-first art project capturing the cultural significance of the ...