Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

We've lost 98% of Indigenous music traditions – who cares?
The Conversation
Australian Indigenous performance traditions, among the oldest in the world, are also among the most endangered. According to a Statement on Indigenous Australian Music and Dance endorsed in 2011 by the…

SBS
'Aboriginal fighting page' could be allowed under new Racial Discrimination Act
SBS
A Facebook page promoting violent street fights between Indigenous Australians could be permissible under proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act, says Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane. By. Stephanie Anderson.

Indigenous people three times more likely to suffer from dementia: study
ABC Message Stick
Indigenous people have dementia rates three or four times higher than non-Indigenous people, researchers in the Northern Territory have found. The study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, examined 780 cases of dementia in the Territory ...

Indigenous Australians three times more likely to suffer from dementia, NT ...
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"It shows that even though the Indigenous population in Australia is relatively small, they're disproportionally affected by dementia so we have to make sure that any program, any service, any research really does pay attention to the Indigenous ...
increased incidence of dementia in indigenous AustraliansRadio Australia
The Indigenous Population Is Getting Dementia At Three Times The Rate Of ...Business Insider Australia
High prevalence of Dementia in NT Indigenous PopulationThe Conversation

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Indigenous Australians three times more likely to suffer from dementia, NT ...
ABC Online
The study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, examined 780 cases of dementia in the Territory between 2008 and 2011 and found it struck Indigenous people at a younger age. Community geriatrician Michael Lowe says the median age of ...
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The Indigenous Population Is Getting Dementia At Three Times The Rate Of ...Business Insider Australia

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increased incidence of dementia in indigenous Australians
Radio Australia
A Northern Territory study has found Aboriginal people are three times more likely to suffer Dementia than non-Indigenous Australians. and at an earlier age. Researchers say the burden of of the condition will only increase, as the population ages and ...
The Indigenous Population Is Getting Dementia At Three Times The Rate Of ...Business Insider Australia

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Indigenous dementia needs urgent action
ABC Online
That's the finding of a Northern Territory study that has prompted calls for urgent action to address the growing number of Indigenous Australians with dementia. And researchers say the burden of the condition will only increase as the population ages ...

The Indigenous Population Is Getting Dementia At Three Times The Rate Of ...
Business Insider Australia
A detail as Prince William shakes hands with a Aboriginal man. Scott Barbour/Getty Images. Australia's indigenous population is getting dementia at a rate three times that of non-indigenous residents, according to research published in the Medical ...

In search of the indigenous little people of northern Australia
The Australian
THEY are everywhere in north Australia, and nowhere. They are real and unreal; mythical and historical. They are depicted in the rock art, they are in the stories, they are in the minds of men and women from Cape York and the Top End right across to ...

Defection of Indigenous MPs poses big challenges
The Australian
By attaching herself, as a symbol of Australia's fight against indigenous disadvantage, to Clive Palmer's Punch and Judy show, Anderson may have limited her ability to manoeuvre in a policy area dominated by the intelligentsia. It remains to be seen ...

Scullion rejects report on indigenous body overhaul
The Australian
The report has angered Indigenous Minister Nigel Scullion, who said “it presents ambiguous and confused findings” after he requested options for an overhaul of the Indigenous Land Corp and Indigenous Business Australia. “It provides support for both, ...

Australian Teacher Magazine
Plan to lift Indigenous school attendance
Australian Teacher Magazine
Prime Minister Tony Abbott used the annual Closing the Gap speech in February to set a new target of lifting Indigenous school attendance to the same level as non-Indigenous children within five years. Of the 184,000 Indigenous students in Australia ...

Plan to lift indigenous school attendance
Ninemsn
Prime Minister Tony Abbott used the annual Closing the Gap speech in February to set a new target of lifting indigenous school attendance to the same level as non-indigenous children within five years. Of the 184,000 indigenous students in Australia ...

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The Guardian
Education vouchers in plan for indigenous affairs overhaul
The Australian
The radical proposal comes as the audit commission argues that disadvantage faced by indigenous Australians be better targeted, with programs that are failing to be slashed. It also calls for the merger of Indigenous Business Australia and the ...
Indigenous programs should be consolidated, audit report saysThe Guardian
Condemnation over audit's proposed welfare cutsSBS
Cut early, cut often: where the Commission of Audit wants the axe to fall on ...Government News
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The Guardian
Five questions to Eugenia Flynn on racism, and loving Australia | IndigenousX
The Guardian
I feel like if we can work to reduce systemic racism it will lead to the betterment of our (Indigenous Australian's) position and therefore the betterment of Australia as a whole. The very document that gives Australia its mandate, the Constitution of ...

The Australian Financial Review
Hipsters take over Aboriginal Redfern
The Australian Financial Review
Across Australia's biggest cities, where most indigenous people live, soaring property prices are increasing the marginalisation of Australia's most disadvantaged group, whose home-ownership rate is half the national average. The pattern is part of a ...

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Nathan Lovett-Murray's top 5songs by Indigenous artists
FasterLouder
To highlight the growth of the Indigenous hip-hop scene in Australia it was announced this morning that Lovett-Murray will present a showcase concert at the 2014 National Indigenous Music Awards ceremony in Darwin to draw attention to some of the most ...
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Indigenous deafness under the microscope
ABC Online
Indigenous Australians have one of the highest levels of ear disease and hearing loss in the world. Rates are up to ten times more than non-Indigenous Australians and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation estimates Indigenous ...

Brisbane Times
Education vouchers in plan for indigenous affairs overhaul
The Australian
The radical proposal comes as the audit commission argues that disadvantage faced by indigenous Australians be better targeted, with programs that are failing to be slashed. It also calls for the merger of Indigenous Business Australia and the ...
Commission of Audit: major recommendationsSydney Morning Herald
Proposed merger of Screen Australia and Australia Council spells … incoherenceThe Conversation

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Social impact fund to assist indigenous company with Thiess/QGC contract
Gas Today
Indigenous company Iman Operations has secured an $800,000 impact investment funding package from Social Ventures Australia to enable the company to deliver on a large commercial cleaning contract valued at approximately $5 million over 12 months ...

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