Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

SBS (blog)
Comment: Healthy start: closing the gap on Indigenous childhood obesity
SBS (blog)
Around 70% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults are now overweight or obese compared with 63% of non-Indigenous Australians. While the data is patchy, 30% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children appear to be overweight or obese ...
Indigenous children at greater risk of abuseDaily Liberal
Why this year's Naidoc week will be my last | Nakkiah LuiThe Guardian
Celebrations for NAIDOC weekCoastal Leader
The Transcontinental -Echonetdaily
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Indigenous homelessness rate falls in WA
ABC Local
The percentage of homeless Indigenous people in Western Australia has declined significantly but the state still has one of the nation's highest rates. A report released this morning by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare compares census ...

Aboriginal home ownership lifts
ABC Message Stick
SARAH DINGLE: The stats tell us that home ownership is on the rise for Indigenous Australians and that overcrowding has fallen in the last decade for which we have statistics, so does that make the situation slightly less urgent to your mind? Why do we ...
The long battle for Indigenous equalityThe Guardian (Australia)

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Aboriginal home ownership lifts
ABC Online
New data from the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare shows Indigenous Australians are increasing their share of the property market, and overcrowding is down. The Federal Government is currently considering the findings of a review by mining ...

Aboriginal home ownership lifts
ABC Online
New data from the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare shows Indigenous Australians are increasing their share of the property market, and overcrowding is down. The Federal Government is currently considering the findings of a review by mining ...
The long battle for Indigenous equalityThe Guardian (Australia)

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Putting Indigenous peoples on the HIV & AIDS global agenda: #IPCHIV14
Crikey (blog)
First Peoples of Australia have a slightly higher rate of HIV compared to non-Indigenous Australians and the potential for HIV to increase due to a number of risk factors such as increasing injecting drug use, risk practices among gay and other men who ...

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The long battle for Indigenous equality
The Guardian (Australia)
Seven years ago the late Peter Symon, general secretary of the Communist Party of Australia, wrote: “People and organisations from all over the world wonder how so many Indigenous people in Australia continue to live in appalling Third World conditions ...

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The Guardian
Archie Roach says loss of Gavin Jones and Deadly Awards a double tragedy for ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The veteran Aboriginal performer Archie Roach says indigenous Australia is grappling with two tragedies: the sudden death of the pioneering producer Gavin Jones and the cancellation – caused by a cut in federal funding – of the Deadly Awards, the ...
Indigenous Australia Has Lost One Of Its Champions, Deadlys Founder Gavin ...Business Insider Australia
Indigenous cultural ambassador's death puts a hold on 'Deadly' awardsABC Local
Vibe Australia cuts: Anger over Government's decision to slash funding for ...ABC Online

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Archie Roach says loss of Gavin Jones and Deadly Awards a double tragedy for ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The veteran Aboriginal performer Archie Roach says indigenous Australia is grappling with two tragedies: the sudden death of the pioneering producer Gavin Jones and the cancellation – caused by a cut in federal funding – of the Deadly Awards, the ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Archie Roach says loss of Gavin Jones and Deadly Awards a double tragedy for ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The veteran Aboriginal performer Archie Roach says indigenous Australia is grappling with two tragedies: the sudden death of the pioneering producer Gavin Jones and the cancellation – caused by a cut in federal funding – of the Deadly Awards, the ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous recognition may not succeed before next election
Sydney Morning Herald
Liberal MP Ken Wyatt, the first indigenous member of the House of Representatives, said: ''My personal view is that there has not been enough discussion, nor enough work done in the broader Australian community. If I was a punter, I would say that it ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous Australia Has Lost One Of Its Champions, Deadlys Founder Gavin ...
Business Insider Australia
Vibe Australia, which products a range of media products for Aboriginal people, including the Deadly Vibe and InVibe magazines, Deadly Sounds radio, and TV shows, is now searching for a way forward following the double blow of its loss of funding and ...
Deadly Awards founder Gavin Jones dies after funding cutSydney Morning Herald
Community Mourns Passing Of Deadly Awards FoundertheMusic
Indigenous cultural ambassador's death puts a hold on 'Deadly' awardsABC Message Stick
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The Guardian
Why the number of Indigenous deaths in the frontier wars matters
The Guardian
When writing about the issue, I have consistently used the figure of 20,000 Indigenous Australians and about 2,000 colonial soldiers, police and settlers. I've said this a conservative estimate, based largely on the academic research of Henry Reynolds ...

Link indigenous housing to jobs, says Andrew Forrest
The Australian
As well, it says Indigenous Business Australia's existing home-lending operation could be improved to give more indigenous Australians access to discount mortgages. Financial support from the Australian Treasury could be used to help IBA get cheaper ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Deadly Awards founder Gavin Jones dies after funding cut
Sydney Morning Herald
That spawned the Deadly Awards – the 20th celebration of which, at the Opera House, was to be screened on SBS and watched by as many as seven in 10 indigenous Australians. The awards celebrate music, sport, entertainment and community ...

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The nuclear war against Australia's Aboriginal people
The Ecologist
Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s, writes Jim Green. The same attitudes have been evident in recent debates over uranium mines and nuclear waste, but ...

Indigenous community mourns death of Gavin Jones
ABC Message Stick
WILL OCKENDEN: Gavin Jones has previously spoken about his motivations in starting Vibe Australia was, in part, after the 1990s Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, which partly found that negative stereotypes of Indigenous people was ...

The Age
Investing in Indigenous health leadership
The Age
Despite advances in healthcare in recent years, Indigenous Australians have a shorter life expectancy, higher mortality rates and higher rates of preventable illness such as heart disease, kidney disease and diabetes than other Australians. For ...

Is Australian theatre racist?
Sydney Morning Herald
If a director isn't personally mindful of cultural diversity in casting, there is no opportunity for actors from indigenous, Asian-Australian and other non-European backgrounds to audition for a specific role. In the United States, Actors' Equity ...

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Fears NDIS blind to remote reality
The Australian
A post on the NDIS website, which appeared to go live on Friday, was taken by disability groups as confirmation the agency had finished its negotiations with the First Peoples Disability Network and announced a multi-million package for indigenous ...

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