Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Local indigenous youth representative returns home
The Transcontinental
The 17-year old was selected as one of 50 young indigenous Australians for the prestigious program this year, which saw hundreds of young hopefuls submit applications in the hope of becoming one of Australia's future leaders. Upon her return, Ms ...

Indigenous nod for Buru fracking
The West Australian
The Aboriginal community that staged Australia's most famous protest against oil drilling on a sacred site has thrown its support behind a plan to frack for gas in the area. The Yungngora Community at Noonkanbah Station has announced its in-principle ...

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Downer supports constitutional recognition
Yahoo!7 News
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 the UK, ...

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Mixed report card after Australia's biennial health check-up
ABC Online
RACHAEL BROWN: As for Australia's Indigenous communities, there's been health improvements in recent years, including falling infant and child mortality rates. Circulatory and respiratory diseases are also declining. FADWA AL-YAMAN: And that's possibly ...
Australians living longer but suffering more chronic diseases: Australian ...Radio Australia

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The West Australian
Indigenous community at Noonkanbah supports Buru Energy fracking trial in ...
Courier Mail
The Yungngora Community at Noonkanbah Station has announced its in-principle support for Buru Energy's proposal to test tight gas flows using hydraulic fracturing stimulation on a well along its Laurel Formation prospect in Western Australia's ...
WA Noonkanbah commuity backs fracking planThe Australian

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WA Noonkanbah commuity backs fracking plan
The Australian
THE Aboriginal community that staged Australia's most famous protest against oil drilling on a sacred site has thrown its support behind a plan to frack for gas in the area. THE Yungngora Community at Noonkanbah Station has announced its in-principle ...

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Top Australian diplomat backs Recognise campaign
New Zealand Herald
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 the UK, ...

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Downer supports constitutional recognition
Courier Mail
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 the ...

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Downer supports constitutional recognition
The Australian
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 the ...

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Downer supports constitutional recognition
MSN NZ News
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 the UK, ...

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Roundup: Remote Indigenous Australia struggles for economic equality
GlobalPost
SYDNEY, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Indigenous Australia has remained a blind spot for successive governments and the drive for economic and social equality has come under renewed scrutiny in 2014, with a review into Indigenous jobs and training programs ...
​The tyranny of distance: Building better broadband for the bushCNET

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Remote Indigenous Australia struggles for economic equality
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
SYDNEY, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Indigenous Australia has remained a blind spot for successive governments and the drive for economic and social equality has come under renewed scrutiny in 2014, with a review into Indigenous jobs and training programs ...
​The tyranny of distance: Building better broadband for the bushCNET

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Indigenous legal minds meet in Brisbane
ABC Local
Mr Creamer says the World Indigenous Legal Conference, which is held every two years, gives legal minds the chance to look at issues unique to Indigenous communities. He says Australia will be looking to the United States for their experience in ...

The Guardian (blog)
Pecan Summer: an opera for Indigenous Australia
The Guardian (blog)
Photograph: Jorge de Araujo and Richard Jefferson. As Australia's first Indigenous opera, Pecan Summer, prepares to open at the Adelaide Festival Centre for its fourth season, creator and composer Deborah Cheetham well remembers the opera's premiere.

Failing Aboriginal Australians
CounterPunch
Several recent events in Australia have served to again highlight how little the peoples and cultures of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island nations feature on the national radar. Lack of formal education about Aborigines and a failure on the media ...

Call for action on indigenous suicide
The Australian
Professor Chandler has been invited to address a roundtable of indigenous elders, youth leaders, health professionals, academics, social justice campaigners and government figures hosted by the University of Western Australia. One of the convenors, ...

Opinion: Teaching in mother tongue key to engaging indigenous students
Courier Mail
IT WAS reported last week that Australian jail populations have “risen sharply” in the past year. In among the statistical data was the fact indigenous prisoners now represent 28 per cent of the total jail population. What wasn't reported was this is ...

Sydney Morning Herald
NBA star Patty Mills wants to revive his family club
Sydney Morning Herald
He is now an NBA championship-winning star with the San Antonio Spurs, but Patty Mills began basketball in Canberra as a four-year-old with the Shadows. Mills wants to help resurrect the multicultural and Australian indigenous basketball club founded ...
Australian basketball needs to take advantage of Patty Mills-maniaWarrnambool Standard

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No new term for Indigenous Business Australia chair Dawn Casey
The Australian
Dr Casey's five-year term at the head of the IBA, which promotes self-sufficiency and economic independence among indigenous Australians, ends on June 28. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion today paid tribute to Dr Casey, who The Australian ...

Blue & Green Tomorrow
Australian indigenous groups win legal battle to develop ecotourism hotspots
Blue & Green Tomorrow
Indigenous people in Australia have won a battle in the federal court to overturn legislation made in 2009 that restricted development around three rivers in Cape York, Queensland. A four-year legal battle to undo development restrictions, originally ...

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