Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Kicking some Port Adelaide Power goals for indigenous youth
The Australian
As director of Adelaide Football Club's indigenous program, Andrew McLeod's good works extend as far as South Australia's furthest corner, the APY Lands in the shadow of Uluru. Hawthorn has forged a strong link with Aboriginal communities in the ...

Ancient wisdom tapped for trees
The Australian
Discovering what indigenous Australians want included in those standards has fallen to a group headed by Rowan Foley, a former Uluru park ranger of the Wondunna clan of the Badtjala people from Fraser Island. “As the original owners and managers of our ...

Brisbane Times
Australia's last indigenous police tracker, Barry Port, has been described as ...
Courier Mail
BARRY Port, Australia's last indigenous police tracker, has been described as a living legend. The 71-year-old's retirement yesterday brings to a close a remarkable era for the Aboriginal craftsmen who have helped police hunt down criminals and find ...
Cape York Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port retiringABC Local
Australia's last 'tracker' Barry Port retiresBrisbane Times
Indigenous police tracker 'living legend'Yahoo!7 News

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Indigenous senator angry at Australian PM's comment on settlement
GlobalPost
CANBERRA, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Australia's indigenous senator Nova Peris on Friday condemned the comments by Prime Minister Tony Abbott on British settlement, saying they were "highly offensive, dismissive of indigenous peoples." Delivering the keynote ...

SBS
Australia's last Indigenous police tracker a 'living legend'
SBS
Barry Port, Australia's last indigenous police tracker, has been described as a living legend. The 71-year-old's retirement on Friday brings to a close a remarkable era for the Aboriginal craftsmen who have helped police hunt down criminals and find ...
Australia's last police tracker retiresNinemsn
Cape York Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port retiringABC Local
Australia's last 'tracker' Barry Port retiresBrisbane Times
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Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's comments on Australia being 'unsettled' before the British ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's chief indigenous adviser has described as ''silly'' the Prime Minister's comment that Australia was ''unsettled'' before British colonisation. The chairman of the Prime Minister's indigenous advisory council, Warren Mundine, was in the ...
Australia 'unsettled' before British arrived: Tony AbbottThe Australian
Australia 'unsettled' before the British came? Tony Abbott knows betterThe Guardian
Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisationSBS
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Indigenous artists tap soul of their homelands
Sydney Morning Herald
Thompson is one of a number of indigenous artists – including filmmaker Warwick Thornton and visual artists such as Vernon Ah Kee, Daniel Boyd, Esme Timbery and Julie Gough – from around Australia who take Perkins into their communities and inside ...

The Guardian
Australia 'unsettled' before the British came? Tony Abbott knows better
The Guardian
And he knows, too well, that British troops – and later, locally raised military units, paramilitaries and raiding parties – carried on a war with the first inhabitants that claimed, by conservative estimate, 20,000 Indigenous Australians and 2,000 ...

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SBS
Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisation
SBS
Previous Next. Images. 02. 1/. 02. Video. 1/. Audio. The chairman of the prime minister's Indigenous Advisory Council has labelled Tony Abbott's remarks that Australia as 'unsettled' prior to the British colonisation as 'stupid'.

Training centre to guarantee up to 200 indigenous jobs in CQ
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
"It's vital that employment programmes are aligned to real jobs because getting indigenous Australians into ongoing employment is critical to reducing indigenous disadvantage," Senator Scullion said. The Australian Government has committed up to $45 ...

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CCI to deliver 300 indigenous jobs
Business News (subscription)
“CCI is proud to have been selected as the largest VTEC provider in Australia creating pathways into real jobs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians,” CCI chief executive officer Deidre Willmott said. “This program is about working with ...
Canberra Close Up: John Paul JankeABC Local

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Australia: Sydney Opera House hosts festival celebrating queer Indigenous culture
PinkNews.co.uk
Sydney Opera House is to hold a three day festival this week to celebrate queer identities in Australia's Aboriginal community. Events ranging from talks to films and cabaret performances will take place from 4-6 July, as part of the country's annual ...

Yahoo!7 News
Jandamarra, story of Indigenous freedom fighter, set for Sydney Opera House ...
Yahoo!7 News
Now the story of Jandamarra, an Aboriginal freedom fighter from Western Australia's Kimberley region, will be told in a major choral work at the Sydney Opera House. Playwright Steve Hawke has joined forces with leading composer Paul Stanhope to tell ...

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Green groups 'block indigenous progress'
Yahoo!7 News
"Green groups should hang their heads in shame for wanting to keep indigenous Australians in poverty," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review. Those groups, including the Wilderness Society, were responsible for the abandonment ...

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The West Australian
Green groups 'block indigenous progress'
The West Australian
"Green groups should hang their heads in shame for wanting to keep indigenous Australians in poverty," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review. Those groups, including the Wilderness Society, were responsible for the abandonment ...

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jobs push aims to end disparity
The Australian
“The Australian government has committed up to $45 million for VTECs and the initiative is well on the way to meeting the target of placing 5000 indigenous Australians into guaranteed jobs across Australia before July 2015,” Senator Scullion said. “It ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Green groups keep Aboriginal people in poverty
The Australian Financial Review
Aboriginal people in Cape York had their land but, unlike every other landowner in Australia, weren't allowed to prosper from it. The Wilderness Society was the main agitator for the 2009 declaration. In a statement after the decision, it said ...

Green groups 'block indigenous progress'
Courier Mail
"Green groups should hang their heads in shame for wanting to keep indigenous Australians in poverty," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review. Those groups, including the Wilderness Society, were responsible for the abandonment ...

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Green groups 'block indigenous progress'
The Australian
"Green groups should hang their heads in shame for wanting to keep indigenous Australians in poverty," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review. Those groups, including the Wilderness Society, were responsible for the abandonment ...

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What drove SA Indigenous men to fight for a country that did not recognise them?
ABC Local
Over 100 South Australian Aboriginal men volunteered to fight for Australia in World War 1. Escaping the grips of an approaching recession, the men joined the 'bob-a-day' brigade for a country that only 15 years earlier abandoned its Indigenous ...