Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Indigenous land body drafts bill to put funds above politics
Brisbane Times
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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Plea on indigenous misery
The West Australian
Plea on indigenous misery The West Australian. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has declared war on "passive racism", saying he is affronted that a clever and innovative country such as Australia had not solved indigenous disadvantage.

The West Australian
Plea on indigenous misery
The West Australian
Plea on indigenous misery The West Australian. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has declared war on "passive racism", saying he is affronted that a clever and innovative country such as Australia had not solved indigenous disadvantage.

Plea on indigenous misery
The West Australian
Plea on indigenous misery The West Australian. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has declared war on "passive racism", saying he is affronted that a clever and innovative country such as Australia had not solved indigenous disadvantage.
A radical rethink on housing is necessary, says ScullionNational Indigenous Times
Another $18 million committed towards combating truancyNoosa News

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Another $18 million committed towards combating truancy
Noosa News
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said on Sunday (Mar 23) 40 remote communities already benefit from school attendance officers on the ground working with parents and communities to improve school attendance rates. "Attendance rates ...

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Another $18 million committed towards combating truancy
Coffs Coast Advocate
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said on Sunday (Mar 23) 40 remote communities already benefit from school attendance officers on the ground working with parents and communities to improve school attendance rates. "Attendance rates ...

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Another $18 million committed towards combating truancy
Toowoomba Chronicle
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said on Sunday (Mar 23) 40 remote communities already benefit from school attendance officers on the ground working with parents and communities to improve school attendance rates. "Attendance rates ...

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Euahlayi People take on Australia in court
National Indigenous Times
The Euahlayi Peoples of western New South Wales have challenged the Commonwealth of Australia's right to claim sovereignty of their Country by refusing to pay rates being charged by the Brewarrina Shire Council and taking action in the... More of this ...

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Hundreds protest in support for Swan Valley's Nyungahs but Barnett says “no way”
National Indigenous Times
Hundreds of protesters led by Elders, sister and brother, Bella and Herbert Bropho gathered at the steps of Western Australia's Parliament demanding the State Government clear the way for the Swan Valley Nyungah People to return to their former home at ...

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Baseball - Indigenous Australian footballer Goodes tosses first pitch
Yahoo Eurosport UK
Indigenous football player Adam Goodes, who was named Australian of the Year in 2013, threw the ceremonial first pitch before the opening game of the Major League Baseball season at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Saturday. Reuters – 7 hours ago.

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Indigenous Australian footballer Goodes tosses first pitch
Reuters
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Indigenous football player Adam Goodes, who was named Australian of the Year in 2013, threw the ceremonial first pitch before the opening game of the Major League Baseball season at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Saturday.

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SBS
Indigenous Australian footballer Goodes tosses first pitch
SBS
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Indigenous football player Adam Goodes, who was named Australian of the Year in 2013, threw the ceremonial first pitch before the opening game of the Major League Baseball season at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Saturday.

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Indigenous Australian footballer Goodes tosses first pitch
Reuters UK
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Indigenous football player Adam Goodes, who was named Australian of the Year in 2013, threw the ceremonial first pitch before the opening game of the Major League Baseball season at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Saturday.

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OpEdNews
Another stolen generation: how Australia still wrecks Aboriginal families
OpEdNews
I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because [as an Aboriginal Australian] you're guilty before you're found innocent." The child's grandmother demands to know why "the stealing of our kids is happening all over again." A welfare official says ...

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The Guardian
Another stolen generation: how Australia still wrecks Aboriginal families
The Guardian
I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because [as an Aboriginal Australian] you're guilty before you're found innocent." The child's grandmother demands to know why "the stealing of our kids is happening all over again". A welfare official says ...

Closing the gap
ABC Local
Elijah organised an event at his school in Mount Isa this week, as part of Close the Gap Day celebrations held across Australia. The annual event aims to raise awareness about the gap in health between Indigenous and non Indigenous Australians.

ABC Local
Closing the gap
ABC Local
He's been invited to join the Indigenous Youth Parliament in Canberra later this year and has also been offered a job with the Australian Electoral Commission where he will assist Indigenous people to enrol to vote. "Lots of Indigenous people, I don't ...

Culture war
The Australian
It would be the first enterprise to map the songlines of indigenous Australia with the tools of modern science, and do so with Aboriginal participation, in a cross-cultural spirit, co-operatively, preserving knowledge, advancing understanding. It would ...

IBNLive
Australia open to hosting Maori cricket side
IBNLive
Cricket Australia has said it is open to inviting a Maori team to play in a tournament featuring indigenous sides at a future date as steps towards a revival of a representative team gathers pace in New Zealand. Maori sides affiliated to New Zealand's ...
Australia open to hosting Maori sideReuters UK
Is the Maori-Australian dream all it's cracked up to be?SBS

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Mandatory sentencing and indigenous Australians
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The recent debate of the Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Assault and Intoxication) Act 2014 ('the Act') in New South Wales Parliament has sparked discussion of the impact mandatory sentencing has on Australia's indigenous population. The Act is ...