Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian
Neighbours Finally Casts An Indigenous Australian Actor
Pedestrian TV
A quick history lesson: the first indigenous Australian actor to appear on Neighbours was actually Tony Briggs, who went on to pen award winning play The Sapphires, adapted into a film which serendipitously starred Wyatt, whose other film and TV ...
Neighbours adds first Indigenous actor, Meyne Wyatt, to main castThe Guardian
Indigenous actor gets stint on Ramsay StSydney Morning Herald
Neighbours: Indigenous actor joins castBBC News
Daily Mail -The Star Online
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Sydney Morning Herald
Imams warn against radicalism to Aboriginal inmates converting to Islam
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's spy agency has been enlisted to help crack down on radicalisation in jails after revelations Aboriginal prisoners are converting to Islam and risk becoming extremists. Sheikhs and imams are being brought into prisons to deliver de ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Are Aboriginal inmates the next Muslim extremists?
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's spy agency has been enlisted to help crack down on radicalisation in jails after revelations Aboriginal prisoners are converting to Islam and risk becoming extremists. Sheikhs and imams are being brought into prisons to deliver de ...

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The Australian Bankers Association says lending decisions in indigenous ...
Courier Mail
“We believe low levels of home ownership remain a key driver for indigenous disadvantage,'' a NAB spokeswoman said yesterday. “We are working with Indigenous Business Australia to offer indigenous clients split home loans and are exploring other ways ...

Big Goals for Indigenous Leadership
Pro Bono Australia
Since winning a Westpac Community Leaders Award, Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre Chief Executive Officer Rachelle Towart has firmly fixed her sights on the organisation reaching its goal of enrolling 1000 Indigenous leadership students by 2020.

Voice judge will.i.am calls for an indigenous voice in Aussie music
The Daily Telegraph
The Voice Australia judge traded the luxury of the big red spinning chair for a pint-sized orange plastic chair at this southeast school where more than two-thirds of the students are from an indigenous background. will.i.am looked at home chatting ...

Fairfax's Mundine attack 'racist'
The Australian
He is an Aboriginal man who is not afraid to mix it with politicians and business leaders. He often challenges the status quo and many who sympathise with the underdog don't like his message that indigenous Australians can empower themselves without ...

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Indigenous group delays Buru
The Australian
Last month, Buru won the support of the Yungngora native title holders at Noonkanbah, 320km east of Broome. The group said an independent expert's report had found Buru's fracking plan had found the project would be a “very low risk” to their country.

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Islam and Indigenous Australia
ABC Online
From at least as early as 1650, Muslim fishermen from Makassar in Indonesia made annual trips to Australia's far north coast in search of sea cucumbers—or trepang—which are highly valued in Chinese medicine and cooking. Indigenous Australians also ...

Star turn from David Gulpilil in Charlie's Country
The Australian
IT is more than 40 years since we first saw David Gulpilil in Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout, and since then he has become a symbol, for many a defining face, of indigenous Australia — at least for cinema audiences. In C harlie's Country, a magnificent new ...

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Warning against poll now on indigenous recognition
The Australian
AUSTRALIA is not ready to vote in favour of recognising Aborigines in the Constitution because of low awareness of the need to change, says former deputy prime minister John Anderson, who soon will deliver a report on preparations for the referendum to ...

Warning against poll now on indigenous recognition
The Australian
AUSTRALIA is not ready to vote in favour of recognising Aborigines in the Constitution because of low awareness of the need to change, says former deputy prime minister John Anderson, who soon will deliver a report on preparations for the referendum to ...

Indigenous remains returned to Torres Strait and WA
ABC Message Stick
MARK COLVIN: The remains of 14 Indigenous people are on their way home to Western Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. Berlin's Charite University Hospital gave them back to their descendants in a ceremony in Germany. It's the second time the ...

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Indigenous groups at risk of HIV epidemic
Echonetdaily
STIs affect indigenous Australians at higher rates than non-indigenous Australians, with a recent study showing rates of gonorrhoea are 21 times higher, chlamydia four times and syphilis five times. The presence of other STIs increases the chance of ...
Study reveals Aboriginal communities at higher risk of STIs and HIVGay News Network

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Study reveals Aboriginal communities at higher risk of STIs and HIV
Gay News Network
As such, the Baker Institute has developed the Eora Action plan to escalate the Indigenous community response to HIV. The Eora Action Plan sets targets that go above and beyond Australia's newly released National Strategies for blood-borne viruses and ...

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SBS (blog)
Interim Report on Indigenous Recognition Released
Pro Bono Australia
Australian Greens spokesperson on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues, Rachel Siewert, said the interim report provided a foundation for upcoming public consultation, beginning in northern Western Australia next week. "I'm looking forward to ...
A call for action on reducing the risk of HIV to Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...Crikey (blog)
Comment: Healthy start: closing the gap on Indigenous childhood obesitySBS (blog)
Indigenous children at greater risk of abuseDaily Liberal
The Guardian -Coastal Leader
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SBS
Indigenous Aussies most at risk of HIV as rates remain at 20-year high
SBS
Health experts say Indigenous Australians are the most at risk of contracting HIV, with some warning of an "unmanageable" HIV epidemic in Indigenous communities if more isn't done to prevent the disease's spread. The risk factors are four fold: high ...
Indigenous groups at risk of HIV epidemicYahoo!7 News

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Indigenous groups at risk of HIV epidemic
The West Australian
"It's going to happen," deputy head of Aboriginal health at Baker IDI, Associate Professor James Ward told AAP. "The ground is set for escalation to occur." STIs affect indigenous Australians at higher rates than non-indigenous Australians, with a ...

Indigenous groups at risk of HIV epidemic
Daily Mail
"It's going to happen," deputy head of Aboriginal health at Baker IDI, Associate Professor James Ward told AAP. "The ground is set for escalation to occur." STIs affect indigenous Australians at higher rates than non-indigenous Australians, with a ...

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Australian War Memorial should recognise revised Aboriginal death toll ...
Brisbane Times
New research that has calculated an Aboriginal death toll of more than 65,000 in Queensland alone during the so-called frontier wars has renewed calls for formal recognition at the Australian War Memorial. But the AWM in Canberra has dismissed the idea ...

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