Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Budget cuts will lead to early Indigenous smoking deaths, ex-race ...
ABC Online
In 2010, Mr Calma became the national coordinator of the Tackling Indigenous Smoking program, with teams of six around the country running anti-smoking programs targeting Indigenous Australians. "In Darwin, we've got a situation where one of our major ...

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Five Indigenous female writers who should be on school reading lists
The Guardian (blog)
Janke's work is pretty much my idea of the 'great Australian novel'. It covers the geography from Sydney to Cairns and the Torres Strait, and manages to be a love story, crime novel, legal lesson, and a comment on contemporary Indigenous Australians ...

Cuts to Indigenous anti-smoking programs will contribute to early deaths of ...
ABC Online
Anti-smoking programs for non-Indigenous Australians have achieved great success in the last 70 years, with rates dropping to one in five for men and less for women. By contrast, around half all Aboriginal adults smoke. Tom Calma is warning that cuts ...

Native Australian bush tucker creates 'Outback Pride'
ABC Local
The aim was two-fold: to find and save some of Australia's nutritious native plants and to empower Aboriginal communities by giving them ownership of cultivation sites. "We're giving them the joy of tired muscles after a hard day of working in the sun".

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PNG's ambitious plan for indigenous business
Radio Australia
GARRETT: Mr Maru says he plans to do that by reserving all businesses with an initial investment of less than 10 million kina around 4 million Australian dollars for indigenous business people. Mr Abe says while that looks like a great idea on the ...

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Must see Indigenous drama returns to Melbourne
ArtsHub (subscription)
The play (an earlier development of which was staged at La Mama in 2011) is inspired by a defining story drawn from Indigenous Australian history: a Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry in 1881 which detailed the conflict between Indigenous landowners and ...

Reconciliation means recognising the Frontier Wars
ABC Message Stick
The Australian War Memorial's refusal to acknowledge the Frontier Wars between Indigenous Australians and white settlers is historically dishonest and is holding back reconciliation, writes Alan Stephens. The Australian War Memorial is one of Australia ...

Reconciliation means recognising the Frontier Wars
ABC Message Stick
The Australian War Memorial's refusal to acknowledge the Frontier Wars between Indigenous Australians and white settlers is historically dishonest and is holding back reconciliation, writes Alan Stephens. The Australian War Memorial is one of Australia ...

The Australian War Memorial distorts our history
ABC Message Stick
The Australian War Memorial's refusal to acknowledge the Frontier Wars between Indigenous Australians and white settlers is historically dishonest and is holding back reconciliation, writes Alan Stephens. The Australian War Memorial is one of Australia ...

The Australian War Memorial distorts our history
ABC Message Stick
The Australian War Memorial's refusal to acknowledge the Frontier Wars between Indigenous Australians and white settlers is historically dishonest and is holding back reconciliation, writes Alan Stephens. The Australian War Memorial is one of Australia ...

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Regional doctors gather for Indigenous health forum
ABC Local
The program included practical workshops, clinical updates and briefings on programs that exist to close the life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Childhood obesity, kidney disease and hearing programs were just some ...

Regional doctors gather for Indigenous health forum
ABC Online
The program included practical workshops, clinical updates and briefings on programs that exist to close the life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Childhood obesity, kidney disease and hearing programs were just some ...

The 5 Most Promising Indigenous Hip Hop Acts Of 2014
Tone Deaf
Our contemporary popular culture has a paternalistic and offensive relationship with Indigenous Australia. Not so long ago, through consecutive government policy we attempted a cultural genocide. Indigenous people all over the country were not allowed ...

Tone Deaf
The 5 Most Promising Indigenous Hip Hop Acts Of 2014
Tone Deaf
Our contemporary popular culture has a paternalistic and offensive relationship with Indigenous Australia. Not so long ago, through consecutive government policy we attempted a cultural genocide. Indigenous people all over the country were not allowed ...

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Aboriginal student aims for Australia's top job
ABC Local
"I just want to learn about how to become a great leader so that I can help both the Aboriginal people, my people, and non-Indigenous people in Australia so that we can work together to close the gap and move forward as one," he said. Elijah recently ...

Aboriginal student aims for Australia's top job
ABC Local
Aboriginal student aims for Australia's top job. By Blythe Moore. Australia has never had an Aboriginal Prime Minister, but a teenager from the remote community of Doomadgee in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria is hoping to one day change that. Print ...

Indigenous Australians in wartime: it's time to tell the whole story
The Guardian
Australia is finally telling the stories of the Indigenous soldiers who have served in our wars and conflicts. This year's Naidoc (National Aboriginal and Islanders Observance Day Committee) week, which began yesterday, is fittingly celebrating the ...
Prince of footy talks NAIDOC WeekABC Online (blog)

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Brisbane Times
Cricket Australia recognises indigenous Australians
Brisbane Times
Former Australian Test cricketer and the first indigenous Australian to represent Australia, Jason Gillespie, said via a statement Cricket Australia's support for the movement filled him with pride. Gillespie is currently coaching in the United Kingdom ...

Aboriginal Australian Art Exhibit Comes to South Jakarta
Jakarta Globe
Jakarta. An exhibition of indigenous Australian visual art opened at D'Gallerie in South Jakarta on Thursday night. “Message Stick: Indigenous Identity in Urban Australia,” tells the stories of some of the complex perspectives of contemporary ...

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Indigenous advisor calls Tony Abbott's comments about settlement of Australia ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's chief indigenous adviser has described as ''silly'' the Prime Minister's comment that Australia was ''scarcely settled'' before British colonisation. The chairman of the Prime Minister's indigenous advisory council, Warren Mundine, was in ...
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's comments on British settlement 'highly offensive ...ABC Online
Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisationSBS
Indigenous senator angry at Australian PM's comment on settlementGlobalPost
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