Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Eureka Street
Wily Harradine delivered for Indigenous Australians
Eureka Street
I pay tribute to the great Tasmanian Catholic warrior, Brian Harradine, who died on Monday. He did some wonderful work in the Australian Senate, the chamber which Paul Keating once famously described as 'unrepresentative swill'. I was privileged to ...
Brian Harradine, Australia's longest-serving independent senator, dies in ...Yahoo!7 News
Brian Harradine, The Independent Tasmanian Senator Who Held The Balance ...Business Insider Australia
Former senator Brian Harradine - the blueprint for the power of oneSydney Morning Herald
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Aboriginal elders lament loss of culture as Indigenous youth suicides rise
ABC Online
Aboriginal elders in northern Australia say a loss of cultural identity is one of the main reasons for rising Indigenous youth suicide rates. The elders have outlined their views on the issue in a new publication. Two years of consultation has gone ...
Indigenous suicide at 'crisis' numbers after youth lose their cultural identityThe Guardian
Indigenous Elders launch campaign to tackle youth suicideSBS
Culture is key to tackling suicide epidemic, elders saySydney Morning Herald
The Australian
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Indigenous Elders reeling from suicide deaths
ABC Online
The older people's anguish is palpable and a report out today gives voice to Aboriginal Elders across northern Australia, from the Cape to the Kimberley who have never before witnessed such an epidemic of self-harm. Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

The Guardian
Indigenous fashion week: putting the bush into boutiques
The Guardian
The traditional handicrafts of a 60,000-year-old culture found a very modern interpretation on the catwalk in the first ever Australian Indigenous fashion week. With hand-printed silks, woven fabrics and street clothes, Indigenous designers showcased ...

SBS
Indigenous suicide at 'crisis' numbers after youth lose their cultural identity
The Guardian
The report features interviews with 30 elders throughout Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland and documents their solutions to prevent self-harm, particularly among younger Indigenous Australians, as part of the Culture is Life ...
Aboriginal elders lament loss of culture as Indigenous youth suicides riseABC Online
Indigenous Elders launch campaign to tackle youth suicideSBS
Culture is key to tackling suicide epidemic, elders saySydney Morning Herald
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SBS
Aboriginal elders lament loss of culture as Indigenous youth suicides rise
Yahoo!7 News
Aboriginal elders in northern Australia say a loss of cultural identity is one of the main reasons for rising Indigenous youth suicide rates. The elders have outlined their views on the issue in a new publication. Two years of consultation has gone ...
Indigenous Elders launch campaign to tackle youth suicideSBS
Culture is key to tackling suicide epidemic, elders sayWA today

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SBS
Indigenous elders launch campaign to tackle youth suicide
SBS
Hoping to tackle the alarming rate of Indigenous youth suicide, the elders have launched a campaign lobbying the Federal Government for a new approach. In some of Australia's remote Indigenous communities suicide has reached epidemic proportions.
Culture is key to tackling suicide epidemic, elders sayWA today

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Savings seen in indigenous bodies' merger
The Australian
A government ordered review of Indigenous Business Australia, which currently provides discount loans to Aboriginal companies, and the Indigenous Land Corporation has identified significant savings to the organisations' combined $3bn a year budget.

Indigenous Australian paintings put on display
DAWN.com
ISLAMABAD: Thousands of years old indigenous art forms from Australia went on display for the first time here on Sunday. The three-day exhibition, 'Bush Medicine', has been organised at the Nomad Gallery by the Australian High Commission.

The West Australian
Indigenous call for racism conscience vote
The Australian
THE Board of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples _ the peak indigenous group in the country _ has called for all members of the national parliament to have a conscience vote on the racial discrimination act changes. Section 18C of the ...
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Private enterprise urged to hire more Aboriginal staff
The Australian
Speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia roundtable, Mr Tudge outlined the challenges of the growing employment gap at a time when more than half of the indigenous population was younger than 20 years of age. Only 46 per cent of ...

ABC Local
Pilbara Indigenous Media Group Awarded
ABC Local
Mr Mowarin also has big plans for NAIDOC 2014 which he said isn't just about Indigenous Australia celebrating culture and heritage but about sharing it with the rest of Australia. "It's a celebration of who we are and our identity. "Without culture and ...

Making progress: the role of cancer councils in Australia in indigenous cancer ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Indigenous Australians have poorer outcomes from cancer for a variety of reasons including poorer participation in screening programs, later diagnosis, higher rates of cancer with poor prognosis and poorer uptake and completion of treatment. Cancer ...

Ministers worried about indigenous privacy
SBS
Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced in February he would add school attendance to the "closing the gap" targets aimed at improving the lot of indigenous Australians. The country's education ministers discussed the matter when they met on Friday.

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Sky News Australia
Ministers fret over indigenous privacy
Sky News Australia
Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced in February he would add school attendance to the 'closing the gap' targets aimed at improving the lot of indigenous Australians. The country's education ministers discussed the matter when they met on Friday.

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Cricket Australia 2014 Indigenous Scholarship holders announced
TheSportsCampus.com
Cricket Australia has today announced the four players who will receive a 2014 Indigenous Scholarship to help accelerate their cricket development. This year's recipients, Lain Beckett (NSW), Ryan Lees (Tas), Samara Williams (WA) and Natalie Plane (VIC ...

BBC News
Samantha Harris: 'Girls with blonde hair always won'
BBC News
Described as Australia's first international indigenous model, she has become something of an inspiration after appearing on the covers of major magazines, including Vogue Australia. Now the first ever Australian Indigenous Fashion Week is taking place ...

Indigenous students skipping school to avoid bullying and racism
The Conversation
More quantitative data is available in Australia about the experiences of racial discrimination for children and young people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent. In a seminar we gave this week at the Australian Institute of Family ...

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New Statesman
Australia's grand vision for a national broadband network has shrunk
New Statesman
Despite Australia's terrors, people have been making their marks on this nation for longer than almost any other. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people are part of one of the oldest continuous human cultures, but their presence in modern Australia ...

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Nova Peris links new race act to referendum
The Australian
Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten used Australia Day to reaffirm their commitment to advancing constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. The Prime Minister said recognition was a “national crusade''. “It is very important to me, it is very ...