Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Indigenous Co Secures Social Investment Funding
Pro Bono Australia
An Indigenous company, Iman Operations, has secured a $800,000 impact investment funding package from Social Ventures Australia (SVA) to enable the company to deliver on a multi-million dollar cleaning contract. The commercial cleaning contract is ...

Plane sailing as Natalie earns Cricket Australia scholarship
Frankston weekly
Hoping to join cricket heroes such as Ellyse Perry, Meg Lanning and Alex Blackwell in the future is Natalie Plane, one of four young players to receive an Indigenous Scholarship from Cricket Australia. Plane, 17, now plays with Melbourne Cricket Club ...

Remote funds under threat
The Australian (blog)
Defence has a large portfolio of infrastructure assets across Australia in good working order. Defence housing is backed by private-sector investment through the Defence Housing Australia investment program. We should look at this approach for ...

Take indigenous housing to market, says Warren Mundine
The Australian
The Australian can reveal that the government is looking at a range of efficiencies in indigenous spending in next month's budget, including for less to be spent in the renewed indigenous housing program, which the government wants to be run under a ...

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Australian Indigenous FW highlights aboriginal culture
Fibre2fashion.com
Centuries old Aussie aboriginal culture grabbed the spotlight at the recently held inaugural edition of Australian Indigenous Fashion Week (AIFW), a runway-cum-trade event that highlighted designs crafted by the aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders ...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island war heroes 'vanished' from the Anzac legendThe Daily Telegraph

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The Guardian
Five question to Shaun Edwards: on Indigenous fashion and culture
The Guardian
Fashion with a capital F. Let's debate about the "black is the new black" in fashion, and get people talking about the recent Australian Indigenous Fashion week. I was the only male designer showcasing men's swimsuits and supporting young strong male ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island war heroes 'vanished' from the Anzac legend
The Daily Telegraph
The 19-year-old Queenslander signed up in May, and by August was disembarking in Suez, Egypt, to begin training for the Australian Light Horse Remount Unit. The young indigenous trooper would fight in the 11th Light Horse Regiment in Egypt for the next ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Ranger mine: Rio Tinto, ERA can't pay for rehab? Indigenous owners say 'no no ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The relationship between Energy Resources of Australia and a crucial group of indigenous people appears to be deteriorating, after the miner raised doubts about its ability to pay for the rehabilitation of the Ranger uranium mine near Kakadu. The open ...

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Australian Indigenous Fashion Week Isn't Just Pretty Prints
The Fashion Spot
But Desert Designs wasn't the only example of Australia's oft-ostracised Aboriginal culture making its mark on modern fashion. After the last shows of MBFWA official had wound down, the inaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week picked up the baton ...

The Fashion Spot
Models walk the runway at the Desert Designs show during Mercedes-Benz ...
The Fashion Spot
But Desert Designs wasn't the only example of Australia's oft-ostracised Aboriginal culture making its mark on modern fashion. After the last shows of MBFWA official had wound down, the inaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week picked up the baton ...

Indigenous firm cleans up for the future
The Australian
Iman Operations, which secured the cleaning contract with Thiess — the contractor on QGC's LNG project in Queensland's Surat Basin — sourced an $800,000 loan through Social Ventures Australia to allow it to scale-up to increase its workforce to take ...

The Guardian (blog)
Blak Wave: 'It's all about Indigenous self-representation'
The Guardian (blog)
What does it mean to be young, gifted and black in Australia today? Who are the next generation of Indigenous arts creators, curators and policymakers? Are Indigenous voices part of the mainstream creative discourse or always “other"? And how do you ...

SBS
High rate of Indigenous youths under supervision
SBS
Amnesty International's Indigenous Rights Campaigner Rodney Dillon is part of a team researching for a justice report focusing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth. The report is concentrating on Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern ...
Number of young people under youth justice supervision dropsABC Message Stick

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Keeler walks catwalk for Indigenous Fashion Week
ABC Local
Katarina, originally from Ceduna, walked the runway at Australian Indigenous Fashion Week in Sydney after being named as a finalist in the Indigenous Model Search Competition. She says the event has an important role in increasing diversity in the ...

Keeler walks catwalk for Indigenous Fashion Week
ABC Local
Katarina, originally from Ceduna, walked the runway at Australian Indigenous Fashion Week in Sydney after being named as a finalist in the Indigenous Model Search Competition. She says the event has an important role in increasing diversity in the ...

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Radio Australia
Report Highlights Indigenous Youth Plight
Pro Bono Australia
Young Indigenous Australians are 17 times more likely to be placed under youth justice supervision than non-Indigenous youth, according to a report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). The report,Youth Justice in Australia 2012 ...
Report shows decrease in young people under justice supervision ordersThe West Australian

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Fashion Times
Innaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week Showcased Aboriginal Designs ...
Fashion Times
Bringing together Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture with the country's formal fashion industry, the inaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week kicked off last week, and its organizers are already planning to expand. "In terms ...

SBS
Comment: Australia's dirty secret: who's breathing toxic air?
SBS
1/. Video. Audio. Australians living in poorer communities, with lower employment and education levels, as well as communities with a high proportion of Indigenous people, are significantly more likely to be exposed to high levels of toxic air ...
Australia's dirty secret: who's breathing toxic air?The Ecologist

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Australia's dirty secret: who's breathing toxic air?
The Conversation
Australians living in poorer communities, with lower employment and education levels, as well as communities with a high proportion of Indigenous people, are significantly more likely to be exposed to high levels of toxic air pollution. These are the ...

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Action needed on Indigenous youth suicide
ABC Online
MICHAEL COGGAN: While this small community of about 500 people is making some headway steering young people away from suicide and self harm, Aboriginal elders from across the Top End of Australia have produced a report calling for urgent action to ...