Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian (blog)
Artists investigate their Chinese-Indigenous Australian mixed heritage
The Guardian (blog)
Yiban Yiban – Yellah Fellah opened on a sweltering summer afternoon at Redtory Art & Design Factory in Guangzhou, the sprawling capital of Guangdong province in southern China. While the contemporary art scene in Guangzhou is less pronounced than ...

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Researchers set to tackle Indigenous education gap
UQ News
Two new University of Queensland projects will address the under-representation of Indigenous academics in the higher education field, working to close the education gap at universities across Australia. UQ's Dr Katelyn Barney and Dr Chelsea Bond have ...

Larissa Chambers is continuing the proud tradition of indigenous runners in ...
Courier Mail
A distant relative of Freeman, who was the golden girl of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Chambers is continuing the proud tradition of indigenous runners in Australian athletics. The 18 year old leaves on Thursday for the IAAF World Junior Championships in ...

Noel Pearson teaching model to get $22m
The Australian
BACK-to-basics schooling will be rolled out across indigenous Australia to lift literacy, as the federal government provides $22 million to fund a dramatic expansion of Direct Instruction from a pilot teaching program on Queensland's Cape York ...

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Indigenous dance performance marks Australian Navy Chief handover
Yahoo!7 News
The outgoing Chief of Navy, Vice-Admiral Ray Griggs, named the troupe Bungaree, after a 19th century Aboriginal performer who circumnavigated Australia with explorer Mathew Flinders. The dancers performed at his handover ceremony today, as he ...

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Indigenous authors explore Twitter fiction and new literary genres
ABC Online
When you think of Indigenous Australian literature, you might not immediately think of horror, fantasy or even Twitter fiction. Indigenous authors are exploring new genres and many of their works are slowly finding mainstream readership, writes Rhianna ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Gordon Bennett explored indigenous past through his conceptual art
Sydney Morning Herald
GORDON BENNETT, 1955-2014. "I am an indigenous Australian. My mother is an indigenous Australian and her mother before that and so on for countless generations. My father was English. My work comes out of small town and suburban Australia.

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Aboriginal Art Directory News
'Abstraction (Citizen)' 2010, A late Gordon Bennett work on canvas ...
Aboriginal Art Directory News
“I am an Indigenous Australian. My mother is an Indigenous Australian and her mother before that and so on for countless generations. My father was English. My work comes out of small town and suburban Australia. I was socialised into an essentially ...

New focus for Indigenous suicide prevention
ABC Online
ANNA VIDOT: The disturbingly high rate of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is bad enough, but according to psychologist and professor, Pat Dudgeon, from the University of Western Australia's School of Indigenous Studies, the ...

Employing Indigenous Australians
WA today
You can enhance your business with the different perspectives, experience and knowledge of Indigenous employees. They can contribute to the development of cross-cultural awareness in your workplace, which is vital in communicating with suppliers and ...

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Employing Indigenous Australians
Brisbane Times
... workplace open to diversity when you consider that: 56% of Indigenous Australians are under 25 years old, compared with about 33% in the rest of the population. the Indigenous population in Australia is growing faster than the non-Indigenous ...

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Radio Australia
Aboriginal remains returned from Chicago museum to Launceston
Radio Australia
The remains of three Tasmanian Indigenous Australians have been returned to the state after almost 200 years. In the 1830s, three skulls were donated to a museum in England and then transferred to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1958.

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Aboriginal remains returned from Chicago museum to Launceston
ABC Online
The remains of three Tasmanian Indigenous Australians have been returned to the state after almost 200 years. In the 1830s, three skulls were donated to a museum in England and then transferred to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1958.

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Concern over suicide rates in indigenous Australians
Radio Australia
Mental health researchers say the rate of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is twice what it is for the rest of the Australian population. And they say culturally appropriate programs that connect people to land and culture, must be ...

Artistic fusion of mining, pastoralism and Indigenous culture
ABC Online
Open pit mines aren't exactly known for getting the creative juices flowing, but it's where a bunch of Australian artists chose to work on a collaborative project. Back in 2007, six very different artists from across Australia trekked out to the Tanami ...

Westerner
Indigenous in defence of Australia
Westerner
The courage of indigenous Australians who have served in the military will be honoured at Mt Samson next weekend. “Serving Country: Centenary and Beyond” is the theme of a NAIDOC Week event being hosted by the Kupidabin Cultural Association on 6 ...

The Guardian
COAG reform council chair also warns proposed GP co-payment could lead to ...
The Guardian
The outgoing chair of the Council of Australian Governments reform council has warned of the loss of an independent voice on Indigenous health and education when the prime minister's office takes on the task of reporting outcomes from the Closing the ...
Cost already a barrier for one in eight indigenous seeing a GP, COAG Reform ...Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous groups wary of health data after COAG council cutSBS

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Sydney Morning Herald
Closing the gap in Indigenous health: how will we know?
Crikey (blog)
Two important reports on Indigenous health were released today amid continuing fears about the future of independent reporting and accountability on health and welfare in Australia in the wake of the axing and merger of key Federal Government agencies.
Cost already a barrier for one in eight indigenous seeing a GP, COAG Reform ...Sydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
Cost already a barrier for one in eight indigenous seeing a GP, COAG Reform ...
Sydney Morning Herald
“We report independently on the progress of all nine of Australia's governments — the Commonwealth, the States and the Territories — in closing the gap,” he says in a speech to be delivered to an indigenous health summit on Thursday. “Who will do ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Alexander Downer backs indigenous constitutional recognition
Sydney Morning Herald
London: Australia's new high commissioner in London has used one of his first public speeches to back recognition of indigenous people in the constitution. Former foreign minister Alexander Downer, who recently replaced Mike Rann as Canberra's man in ...

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