Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Coal miner slams Indigenous 'cash grab'
Australian Mining
Wallarah 2 has rejected the Darkinjung Local Land Council's opposition to the Wallarah 2 coal mine as a 'cash grab'. It came after the local Land Council revealed it was aiming to seek an injunction against the mine. Earlier this week the Darkinjung ...

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Guardian Liberty Voice
Australia Has a Free Speech Problem
Guardian Liberty Voice
His reason for assuming they weren't actually indigenous was that their skin was too fair. He alleged in these articles that such people were benefiting from a false identity by participating in government programs for indigenous Australians and named ...
MP Wyatt could cross floor over Discrimination ActABC Message Stick
Brandis, bigotry and balancing free speechSydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Advisory Council head Warren Mundine fears proposed laws would ...NEWS.com.au

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Claims of racism more damaging than the real thing
The Australian
Political correctness, with regard to people who identify as Aboriginal Australians, has reached the ridiculous stage where one can be accused of being racist simply by questioning the motives of some people who identify as being Aboriginal. Or there ...
Indigenous Diggers to Tell Their StoriesThe Epoch Times

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Indigenous Diggers to Tell Their Stories
The Epoch Times
After laying down their lives for their country, they returned to the same discriminatory policies prevalent at the time, said Professor Mick Dodson, director of the National Center for Indigenous Studies at the Australian National University (ANU ...
Claims of racism more damaging than the real thingThe Australian

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Give people right to free speech, says Sue Gordon
The Australian
“Political correctness, with regard to people who identify as Aboriginal Australians, has reached the ridiculous stage where one can be accused of being racist simply by questioning the motives of some people who identify as being Aboriginal,” Mr ...

Australia Is Again Stealing Its Indigenous Children
Toward Freedom
The tape is searing. There is the voice of an infant screaming as he is wrenched from his mother, who pleads, "There is nothing wrong with my baby. Why are you doing this to us? I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because (as an Australian ...

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Indigenous leaders back footy factory
NEWS.com.au
Young Australian of the Year Vincent “Jack” Buckskin and Central District legend Sonny Morey said the plan would help address unemployment in the region. A quarter of a million footballs, yet to be branded but used during the AFL's annual indigenous ...

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SBS
New project to shed light on legacy of Indigenous diggers
ABC Online
The Serving Our Country project documents the experiences of returned Indigenous soldiers and their families and is funded by the Australian Research Council, the Defence Department and the Australian War Memorial. Professor Mick Dodson of the ...
Australia Is Again Stealing Its Indigenous ChildrenTruth-Out
Aboriginal communities struggle with child suicideSBS

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Sydney Morning Herald
Jessica Mauboy bestowed rare Australian honour at Eurovision 2014
Sydney Morning Herald
“As a young indigenous artist who has achieved global success, Jessica's performance will be a fantastic coup for Eurovision's worldwide audience and showcase the strong links between the song contest and SBS's purpose of reflecting diversity. We are ...
Jess Mauboy to sing at EurovisionNEWS.com.au
Jessica Mauboy to perform at EurovisionYahoo!7 News
Jessica Mauboy will represent Australia at Eurovision Song Contest and use it ...Daily Mail
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High school students want the gap closed
South Coast Register
National Close the Gap Day draws people together in events to remind politicians of their commitment to close the gap on health inequality between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. About 150,000 people across Australia gathered for events ...

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Australia Is Again Stealing Its Indigenous Children
Truth-Out
This happened to an Aboriginal family in outback New South Wales. It is happening across Australia in a scandalous and largely unrecognized abuse of human rights that evokes the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century. Up to the 1970s, thousands ...
New project to shed light on legacy of Indigenous diggersABC Online
Aboriginal communities struggle with child suicideSBS

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Andrew Bolt isn't a racist, but ...
ABC Message Stick
The Coalition's push to make changes to the Racial Discrimination Act was in part a response to a court ruling that Andrew Bolt had breached the Act over his comments about Aboriginal Australians. Here, Chelsea Bond revisits the newspaper columnist's ...

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The Guardian
Latest death stats highlight killer habits
The Australian
The figures show the death rate for indigenous Australians is double that of non-indigenous Australians. The leading cause of death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was heart disease followed by diabetes. Increase Text Size · Decrease ...
Six out of ten die from cancer or cardiovascular disease, says ABSThe Guardian
Dementia deaths up as heart disease fallsPerth Now

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Once Again, Australia is Stealing Its Indigenous Children
CounterPunch
This happened to an Aboriginal family in outback New South Wales. It is happening across Australia in a scandalous and largely unrecognised abuse of human rights that evokes the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century. Up to the 1970s, thousands ...

Equality at risk as consequences of recognition are unclear
The Australian
INDIGENOUS leader Mick Dodson reckons that if the Australian Constitution is to have any relevance to Aborigines, it has to “affirm our basic identity as human beings”. So, Aborigines are not human beings unless they are recognised in the Constitution.

Leaders issue $2bn challenge for Abbott
The Australian
Revenue from the land account, which has a fixed capital base, provides guaranteed funding to the corporation to buy and manage land for indigenous Australians for a range of social, cultural, environmental and economic benefits. The land account and ...

SBS
Indigenous Land Corporation moves to secure millions in funding
SBS
The corporation wants the Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion to introduce the bill to Parliament, just one month after the Northern Territory Senator received the report on the proposed merger of the corporation and Indigenous Business Australia.
Leaders issue $2bn challenge for AbbottThe Australian
Indigenous land body drafts bill to put funds above politicsBrisbane Times

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Green Left Weekly
John Pilger: Australia stealing Indigenous children once more
Green Left Weekly
The tape is searing. There is the voice of an infant screaming as he is wrenched from his mother, who pleads, "There is nothing wrong with my baby. Why are you doing this to us? I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because [as an Australian ...

Once again, Australia is stealing its indigenous children
On Line opinion
This happened to an Aboriginal family in outback New South Wales. It is happening across Australia in a scandalous and largely unrecognised abuse of human rights that evokes the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century. Up to the 1970s, thousands ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous land body drafts bill to put funds above politics
Sydney Morning Herald
The bill is likely to be interpreted as an early souring of the relationship between indigenous Australia and the Abbott government as its only real prospect of advancement is if it is taken up by Labor and the Greens and introduced into the Senate.

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