Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Tying Indigenous affairs spending to real outcomes
ABC Message Stick
Much of the assistance to Indigenous Australia is either inefficient or not achieving sustained improvements. Without jobs, opportunity can never follow - that's why the Coalition is committed to smarter, targeted Indigenous affairs spending that will ...

New head of Indigenous at Screen Australia
MuMbrella
Screen Australia today announced Penny Smallacombe as its new Head of Indigenous, succeeding Erica Glynn, who, after 11 years with Screen Australia and predecessor agency the AFC, announced her departure earlier this year. Graeme Mason, CEO of ...

Defence contract for indigenous business
The Australian
"Our goal is to train and employ indigenous Australian and Torres Strait Islander men and women in order to provide lasting careers in the various industries that we work with," the company's website says. Parliamentary secretary Alan Tudge said the ...

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Indigenous Australia left behind in rheumatic heart disease fight
The Conversation
Vintage medical textbooks are filled with diagnoses unfamiliar to contemporary doctors – wandering wombs, blackwater fever, biliousness and other historic curios. Acute rheumatic fever has become one of…

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Daily Mail
Patty Mills, Aboriginal NBA Champion
Indian Country Today Media Network
(Mills is not the first Indigenous Australian to play in the NBA -- that honor goes to Nathan Jawai, also a Torres Strait Islander, who made his debut in 2009 playing for the Toronto Raptors. Jawai went on to play for the Minnesota Timberwolves as well.).
'Whatever he did he was brilliant at': Patty Mills' former PE teacher hails ...Daily Mail
The powerful message behind NBA champion Patty Mills donning the Torres ...Herald Sun
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Indigenous Prisoner Program Cut
Pro Bono Australia
“Six months ago the Australian government brutally stripped our budget by 4.5 per cent over four years, and now we're facing even more cuts, this time with a program that is solely, purely 'frontline',” Naden said. “We have heard so many public ...

Reuters
Patty Mills: First Indigenous Australian To Win An NBA Championship
WebProNews
Patty Mills made Australian sporting history by helping his team, the San Antonio Spurs, defeat the Miami Heat. The San Antonio Spurs now have five championships under their belt since their first win in 1999. Mills, 25, an indigenous Australian ...
Patty Mills helps San Antonio Spurs win NBA Finals over Miami HeatSydney Morning Herald
Patty Mills planning on following in Cathy Freeman's footsteps by becoming an ...Herald Sun
The world goes nuts for Australian Patty Mills as he wins NBA Finals with San ...NEWS.com.au
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Daily Mail
'Whatever he did he was brilliant at': Patty Mills' former PE teacher hails ...
Daily Mail
Patrick Mills has become the third Australian to win the NBA title after putting in an astounding performance for the San Antonio Spurs on Monday - but he could just as easily have become an AFL star, his former PE teacher has revealed. The 25-year-old ...
Flying 3 Flags and Seeking One BannerNew York Times
Patty Mills reveals Cathy Freeman's 400m gold medal inspired NBA dreamThe Australian
Mills' destiny inspired by FreemanFox Sports
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CNN
Mills thankful for Australian support
Sportal.com.au
In the process Mills became the first indigenous Australian to win an NBA title and just the fourth Australian - behind Luc Longley (1996-1998), Andrew Gaze (1999) and Spurs team-mate Aron Baynes (2014) - to taste the ultimate success at the highest level.
The world goes nuts for our Patty MillsNEWS.com.au
Patty Mills earns plaudits as San Antonio Spurs win NBA championshipThe Age
The world goes nuts for Australian Patty Mills as he wins NBA Finals with San ...Perth Now
Warrnambool Standard
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Daily Mail
Patty Mills helps San Antonio Spurs win NBA Finals over Miami Heat
Sydney Morning Herald
Mills' uncle Danny Morseu, who was the first indigenous Australian to play basketball for Australia at the Olympics, is also in San Antonio for the game. After barely playing in the Spurs' agonising 4-3 loss last season, the sharp-shooting Mills has ...
Patty Mills: First Indigenous Australian To Win An NBA ChampionshipWebProNews
'Whatever he did he was brilliant at': Patty Mills' former PE teacher hails ...Daily Mail
Flying 3 Flags and Seeking One BannerNew York Times
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Patty Mills and San Antonio Spurs one win away from NBA championship dream
The Canberra Times
Mills, 25, will become the first indigenous Australian to win an NBA title and just the third Australian to achieve the feat if the Spurs win, following in the footsteps of greats Luc Longley and Andrew Gaze. It's a long way from the Tuggeranong ...

Abbott breaches faith with Aborigines in 'act of political theft'
The Australian
Australians have heard a lot about Tony Abbott's broken promises — but even I didn't think the Prime Minister would breach faith with indigenous Australians so shamelessly and so brazenly. Aboriginal Australians welcomed Abbott into their communities.

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Abbott breaches faith with Aborigines in 'act of political theft'
The Australian
Australians have heard a lot about Tony Abbott's broken promises — but even I didn't think the Prime Minister would breach faith with indigenous Australians so shamelessly and so brazenly. Aboriginal Australians welcomed Abbott into their communities.

Doctors Say Racist Receptionists Are Among The Health Challenges For ...
Business Insider Australia
The latest Medical Journal of Australia has an investigation of health issues affecting Indigenous Australians including crusted scabies, childhood obesity and lack of follow-up care. Obesity rates in Aboriginal children in NSW are increasing at a ...

'Hollow words' from PM on gap
The Australian
BILL Shorten has accused Tony Abbott of betraying Aborigines after having promised to be the Prime Minister for indigenous Australians and then cutting more than $500 million of related funding in the budget. He warns that Labor would no longer offer ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
indigenous good gets lost in the bad
Sydney Morning Herald
But her stories gave me an understanding of the inherent resilience she possessed, a quality I now recognise in every indigenous Australian. Our first nations communities have not only survived 226 years of enforced, institutionalised and entrenched ...
The bone collectors: a brutal chapter in Australia's pastThe Guardian
Killer budget bad news for Aboriginal peopleGreen Left Weekly

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The Guardian
The bone collectors: a brutal chapter in Australia's past
The Guardian
Other remains from collections in Berlin, at Washington's Smithsonian Museum, Oxford University and London's Natural History Museum have been repatriated directly to Australian Indigenous communities. The federal government, through the Ministry for ...
Killer budget bad news for Aboriginal peopleGreen Left Weekly

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Indigenous kids score in 'round ball' program
The Australian
The first indigenous soccer player selected for Australia, who once tried out with Everton and Tottenham Hotspur, Moriarty was born in the remote Northern Territory indigenous community of Borroloola and says football changed his life. It was with this ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Documentary to raise awareness of NBA star Patrick Mills' indigenous heritage
Sydney Morning Herald
"That would open up a whole can of worms, they'd be like 'what do you mean Indigenous Australians? There's black people in Australia? "What's really good is they want to learn about it and they're fascinated about hearing about it." Mills, in his fifth ...
Patty Mills Riding an Aussie Hoops Explosion, and the NBA Finals Is Just a StartBleacher Report

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Australian Ageing Agenda
New Indigenous Fund to Tackle Budget Cuts
Pro Bono Australia
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has revealed at the ACOSS National Conference that it will set up a public fund in response to the Federal Government cutting its cash commitment to the advocacy peak body. At the conference, in ...
Honoured for service to Indigenous aged careAustralian Ageing Agenda
Indigenous body 'victim of cruel funding game'The Australian
Indigenous housing may be left out of The BlockABC Online
Parramatta Sun
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