Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

SBS
Facebook usage among Indigenous Australians at a national high
SBS
The McNair Ingenuity Research Institute has surveyed four-hundred Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders on their media habits. Results from the national study revealed that Facebook usage among First Nations people is twenty per cent higher than the ...

Indigenous arts given funding boost
ArtsHub (subscription)
The ILS program, a community-based program for the maintenance, revival, transmission and promotion of Australia's Indigenous languages, will receive $8.8 million. This news comes after it was announced earlier in the year that funding of almost $9.5 ...

Life expectancy a barrier to Indigenous superanuation
ABC Message Stick
They're just some of the hurdles facing many Australians in Indigenous communities as Khama Reid reports. KHAMA REID: Staff at Moneymob Talkabout guide people on the APY Lands in South Australia through a variety of financial matters. But financial ...
People living on APY Lands struggling to access superannuation: SA financial ...Yahoo!7 News

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More Hurdles for Indigenous Schooling: Report
Pro Bono Australia
... Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, examined the impact of Australia's Improving School Enrolment and Attendance through Welfare Reform Measure (SEAM) on the NT Indigenous participation in NAPLAN tests and test scores.

Bill Shorten calls for constitutional change on indigenous to be substantive
The Australian
Coalition indigenous MP, Ken Wyatt, who is leading the process, has been more cautious, saying any vote should only be held when “Australia is ready.” Mr Wyatt, the chair of the cross party constitution committee, said: “We shouldn't go too early but ...

Call for contributions: Indigenous and Queer in Australia
Star Observer
INDIGENOUS people are invited to contribute an essay on their life experiences as Indigenous LGBTI people and/or the contributions that LGBTI Indigenous people make to Australian social, cultural and economic life. This edited collection of essays aims ...

Indigenous smoking program cuts risk widening the gap
Crikey (blog)
Kristin Carson writes: Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease and early death among Indigenous Australians, with smoking responsible for about one in every five deaths. Among Indigenous Australians, tobacco use contributes to 80% of ...

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500 New Jobs for Indigenous Australians
Pro Bono Australia
“We have learnt from experience that creating strong partnerships and taking an integrated approach to working with customers, employees and communities is essential to opening up new opportunities for effective progress for Indigenous Australians.”.

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Working For a Healthier Indigenous Australia
Pro Bono Australia
Years of experience in the Indigenous health field will guide Romlie Mokak as he establishes himself in his new role leading the Lowitja Institute, Australia's national institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research. Mokak is this ...

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The Vine
10 Things: Hey, indigenous Australians: Bolt was here first
The Vine
No one of any “race” - Aboriginal or other - who is younger than 54 was here before me. They have no greater right to this country. It is racist to say a group of Australians living today were here “first” on the basis of who some of their ancestors were.

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Pedestrian TV
Andrew Bolt Insists Indigenous Australians Weren't 'Here First'
Pedestrian TV
You can watch the episode here, but if you're not quite up to it, the relevant discussion began at around the 33-minute mark, when Bolt and Johns started hashing out whether recognising indigenous Australians in the document would divide the nation by ...

Pedestrian TV
Andrew Bolt Insists Indigenous Australians Weren't 'Here First'
Pedestrian TV
You can watch the episode here, but if you're not quite up to it, the relevant discussion began at around the 33-minute mark, when Bolt and Johns started hashing out whether recognising indigenous Australians in the document would divide the nation by ...

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Linguists record endangered Indigenous Goldfields language Tjupan in bid to ...
ABC Online
A linguist from Yale University is recording an endangered Indigenous language in Western Australia's Goldfields region in attempt to stop it from dying out. There are only six fluent speakers of Tjupan, a complex language which originated in the ...

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Throw off the right number of sandbags
The Australian
Constitutional recognition of Australia's indigenous people is one of those deeply challenging, profoundly real issues. If we get this right, we can make a textually modest amendment to the most effective governing document in the world, with no ...

The Guardian
Gooda urges fast-tracking of constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians
ABC Message Stick
If we got the model out, had the discussions within the Aboriginal community about whether we supported the model that the Government and the Opposition would come up with, that would give us enough time to then have a fairly lengthy campaign in most ...
Mick Gooda pushes referendum on Indigenous recognition for 2015The Guardian
Mick Gooda calls for 'recognise' vote next yearThe Australian
Aboriginal justice commissioner pushes for 2015 referendum on Indigenous ...SBS

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The Guardian
Mick Gooda pushes referendum on Indigenous recognition for 2015
The Guardian
NSW, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia have already recognised Indigenous Australians in state constitutions but there is nothing in the federal document. “This quest goes to the heart of the nation,” Gooda said in the Nulungu Reconciliation ...
Aboriginal justice commissioner pushes for 2015 referendum on Indigenous ...SBS
Mick Gooda calls for 'recognise' vote next yearThe Australian

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The Guardian
Mick Gooda pushes referendum on Indigenous recognition for 2015
The Guardian
NSW, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia have already recognised Indigenous Australians in state constitutions but there is nothing in the federal document. “This quest goes to the heart of the nation,” Gooda said in the Nulungu Reconciliation ...
Aboriginal justice commissioner pushes for 2015 referendum on Indigenous ...SBS

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Indigenous smoking program cuts risk widening the gap
The Conversation AU
Among Indigenous Australians, tobacco use contributes to 80% of all lung cancer deaths, 37% of heart disease, 9% of all strokes and 5% of low birth-weight babies. And in central Australia, rates of pneumonia among children are reported to be the ...

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Asia-born residents out-live native Australians, data shows
Sydney Morning Herald
Death rates for indigenous Australians were higher than those for non-indigenous Australians across all age groups, but the difference was most pronounced in the 35-to-44 age group, in which indigenous people died at five times the rate of their ...

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SBS (blog)
Pearson's grip on Indigenous policy is not backed by evidence
SBS (blog)
Noel Pearson is seen by many as Australia's most influential Indigenous leader. As well as being chairman of the Cape York Group, he is an outspoken commentator who shapes policy as part of the Abbott government's inner sanctum advising on Indigenous ...