Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian (blog)
The stolen generations: an unending disaster for Australia
The Guardian (blog)
I've thought a lot about this conundrum as I've read about Australia's stolen generations and pondered whether removal is currently enacted unduly often with Aboriginal Australians. The rationale for the removal of the original stolen generations was ...

Echonetdaily
Australia's top Indigenous surfers to gather at Bells
Echonetdaily
The event is in its third year after a 16-year hiatus and has turned into a showcase of the elite indigenous surfers in the country. Surfing Victoria Indigenous Aquatic Manager and Contest Director, Steve Parker is ecstatic to be holding the event at ...

The Guardian
education lift not matched by jobs
The Australian
... made significant gains in education, but not employment. “What's concerning, though, is these education gains aren't improving employment; we found that since 2008 employment outcomes for indigenous Australians did not improve in any state or ...
Indigenous hit hardest by dole changesDaily Mail

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As Northern Territory tourist numbers double, Indigenous operators prepare
ABC Online
With Asian holidaymakers flocking to Australia's north, Indigenous tour operators in the Top End are readying to reap the rewards. Tourist numbers in the Northern Territory have doubled over the past three years, with visitors from China and its Asian ...

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As NT tourist numbers soar, Indigenous operators prepare
ABC Message Stick
With Asian holidaymakers flocking to Australia's north, Indigenous tour operators in the Top End are readying to reap the rewards. Tourist numbers in the Northern Territory have doubled over the past three years, with visitors from China and its Asian ...

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Fundraising efforts criticised in Australian indigenous community
Radio Australia
Two charities say they acted swiftly to withdraw fundraising efforts in an indigenous community, when it emerged that agents were signing people up to direct debit payment plans. The companies were raising money in Far North Queensland on behalf of Red ...
Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this ...ABC Message Stick

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The Australian Financial Review
Fears Tony Abbott will widen indigenous gap
The Australian
THE deputy chairman of Tony Abbott's indigenous advisory council, doctor Ngiare Brown, has denounced budget cuts to indigenous affairs and says the $7 GP co-payment will hurt indigenous people and other vulnerable Australians who desperately need ...
Budget: Indigenous Australians among hardest hitABC Local
Long-term approach needed to improve indigenous healthThe Australian Financial Review
This budget could devastate Indigenous AustraliansABC Message Stick
Crikey (blog) -ACTU (press release) -The Canberra Times
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Recycling plant keen to boost Indigenous jobs
ABC Online
A study showed it could be profitable recycling cardboard alone and the South Burnett Regional Council and Indigenous Business Australia are working together on job opportunities. Manager Andrew Beckett says the facility employs four Indigenous people ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Long-term approach needed to improve indigenous health
The Australian Financial Review
The health status of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people remains unacceptable, with them experiencing a significantly higher incidence of disease and morbidity, as well as lower life expectancy than the average Australian population.
Budget: Indigenous Australians among hardest hitABC Local
This budget could devastate Indigenous AustraliansABC Message Stick
Indigenous health leaders say co-payments must be scrapped, as new ...Crikey (blog)
ACTU (press release) -Sydney Morning Herald
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Rethinking Indigenous Australia's agricultural past
ABC Online
It has long been thought that prior to white settlement, Indigenous Australians lived a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Now some scholars argue that the first Australians practiced forms of agriculture and aquaculture, writes Cathy Pryor.
drive for indigenous jobs, trainingThe Australian

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#Budget2014 risks to 'closing the gap' include Indigenous cancer impact
Crikey (blog)
In other Budget reaction, the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM) has welcomed new funding for 500 nursing and allied health scholarships for rural and regional Australia, and called for some places to be ...

Abbott is quietly failing on his 'PM for Aboriginal affairs' promise
The Conversation
This path leads from statesman-like pronouncements, about fundamental change to the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, to neglect, cuts and harsh policy measures. While it is never unexpected, this change is always ...

drive for indigenous jobs, training
The Australian
The employment rate of non-indigenous Australians rose from 75 per cent to 75.6 per cent between 2008 and 2012-13, while the indigenous rate fell from 48.2 per cent to 45.9 per cent. However a partnership between Australia's biggest human resources ...

Indigenous health leaders say co-payments must be scrapped, as new ...
Crikey (blog)
“A coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations calls on the Australian Government to recognise that a co-payment is against the principles of health equity outlined in the Statement of Intent to Close the Gap in Indigenous Health ...

#Budget2014 risks to 'closing the gap' include Indigenous cancer impact
Crikey (blog)
In other Budget reaction, the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM) has welcomed new funding for 500 nursing and allied health scholarships for rural and regional Australia, and called for some places to be ...

Budget: Indigenous Australians among hardest hit
ABC Local
It's a chilly May day in Canberra as dozens of indigenous health leaders meet to lobby for exemptions to the contraversial co-payment initiative for indigenous Australians. There was a collective shiver when Aboriginal Medical Services around the ...

Budget: Indigenous Australians among hardest hit
ABC Local
It's a chilly May day in Canberra as dozens of indigenous health leaders meet to lobby for exemptions to the contraversial co-payment initiative for indigenous Australians. There was a collective shiver when Aboriginal Medical Services around the ...
#Budget2014 risks to 'closing the gap' include Indigenous cancer impactCrikey (blog)
This budget could devastate Indigenous AustraliansABC Message Stick

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This budget could devastate Indigenous Australians
ABC Message Stick
From cuts to youth welfare to the new Medicare co-payment, the budget will have a profound impact on Indigenous Australians. Mick Gooda asks, will the Federal Government speak to Aboriginal leaders before proceeding? I have spoken with many ...

Warren Mundine warns on remote funding
The Australian
SCORES of organisations running programs for indigenous Australia have been warned they should expect to lose their funding — even if they are meeting their targets — if their programs sit outside the Abbott government's three remote focus areas.

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Fremantle Dockers
Johnson to launch Freo's 2014 Indigenous Round jumper
Fremantle Dockers
Former Fremantle player and current development coach Roger Hayden worked with Richard Walley, one of Australia's leading Aboriginal performers, artists, musicians and writers, to create the Indigenous Round Guernsey. Fremantle wore the 2013 jumper ...