Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Marijuana Swap for Gas Marks Path for Australia Aborigines: Jobs
Businessweek
“I never thought I'd have a chance to help build something like this,” says Wood, 23, an indigenous Australian whose mother's death was related to alcohol abuse. “I used to smoke marijuana and be pretty heavy on the grog, because I didn't have anything ...

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Marijuana Swap for Gas Marks Path for Australia Aborigines: Jobs
Bloomberg
“I never thought I'd have a chance to help build something like this,” says Wood, 23, an indigenous Australian whose mother's death was related to alcohol abuse. “I used to smoke marijuana and be pretty heavy on the grog, because I didn't have anything ...
Close the gap: joint parly callThe Australian

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Elite unit to drive Noel Pearson indigenous reforms
The Australian
Mr Pearson will co-chair the new steering committee with Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet associate secretary Liza Carroll to drive enormous change in the way money for indigenous Australians is spent. The Cape York leader told The Australian ...

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Indigenous Film Star & Director Visits Red Hill
Brisbane Broncos
A touch of Hollywood came to the NRMA Insurance Broncos yesterday when Indigenous Australian film and TV writer, actor and director Wayne Blair caught up with long-time acquaintance and Head Coach Anthony Griffin at Red Hill. The Taree born and ...

Close the gap: joint parly call
Courier Mail
"We don't just do this for the benefit of our Aboriginal brothers and sisters, we do this because it's what a dignified Australia offers to all its citizens," she said. She remembers her heart sinking while listening to last year's speech, when she was ...

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Close the gap: joint parly call
The Australian
Liberal MP Ken Wyatt, the first indigenous Australian elected to the lower house, said he was happy with the status quo. He would rather parliamentarians look at ways they could personally help close the gap in their own communities. "I would like to ...

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Electoral Commission seeks Indigenous voting boost for South Australian election
ABC Online
Concerted efforts are being made to get more people in remote Aboriginal communities to vote in the South Australian election next month. Information about candidates and issues will be broadcast and published in the local language. Nearly 3,000 people ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Melbourne Indigenous Arts festival: Deborah Cheetham's highlights
The Guardian (blog)
I'm often asked for advice on how to connect with Australia's Indigenous cultures. For some people a connection with the longest continuing culture in the world, whilst enticing, seems all too difficult and unnecessarily complicated. For others ...
'BOABS' helps Indigenous people quit smokingHealthCanal.com

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The West Australian
Electoral Commission seeks Indigenous voting boost for South Australian election
The West Australian
Concerted efforts are being made to get more people in remote Aboriginal communities to vote in the South Australian election next month. Information about candidates and issues will be broadcast and published in the local language. Nearly 3,000 people ...

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What happens to Aboriginal Australians after a stroke or traumatic brain injury?
HealthCanal.com
Professor Beth Armstrong is leading a research project examining communications disorders in Aboriginal Australians in WA. Indigenous Australians are twice as likely to suffer a stroke and 21 times as likely to suffer a traumatic brain injury as the ...

SBS
Call for compensation over 'stolen' Indigenous languages
SBS
Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann said money needed to be invested in helping Indigenous Australians reclaim their native tongues. "These Aboriginal people who suffered, whose language suffered linguicide, ought to receive compensation in the form of ...

jobs scheme central to Direct Action
The Australian
INDIGENOUS people could be given work planting trees and scrub and restoring degraded government-owned land in rural areas of Queensland, NSW and Western Australia, under the Coalition's Direct Action scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Indigenous woman looks at Australia Day
ChristianToday
Last Sunday (26th January) which to white Australians is known as Australia Day, and to mostly all Indigenous Australians its known as Invasion day or Survival day. To me growing up it was Invasion day. That's what my family taught me growing up, and ...

NRL Indigenous leadership camp 2014: War cry to unite ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Every Australian team on Kangaroo tours from 1908 to 1967 performed an Aboriginal war cry, derived from Stradbroke Island, before matches but they never did so on home soil and it was decided in 1973 that the dance ''did not reflect being Australian''.

Welcome to Aboriginal Australia in the 21st Century – John Pilger's Utopia.
Lankaweb
It was more than two decades ago when I saw John Pilger's 1986 documentary The Secret Country for the first time. I was a 17-year-old Aboriginal male suffering the indignity of public housing Australia. My identity came with a sense of collective ...

SBS
'PM for indigenous affairs' has his task cut out on that front
The Australian (blog)
The quote opens the Australian Medical Association's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Report Card 2012-2013, with Steve Hambleton, president of the AMA, commenting in the introduction on "gaps in preventive child health care, the promotion ...
Home-schooling program helps Indigenous kids get aheadSBS

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The Guardian
Andrew Bolt, Indigenous Australian? Come off it
The Guardian
Bolt also plays mischief-maker, claiming to be an Indigenous Australian. Like Pauline Hanson did in her maiden speech to the parliament in 1996, Bolt makes his claim based on a technical view that everyone born in Australia is legally, but not socially ...

Leightons in for 10 years
The Australian
Reconciliation Australia chief executive Leah Armstrong, who is on Tony Abbott's indigenous council, said the Leightons deal was a huge, long-term commitment for one of the biggest corporations in Australia that raised the hopes and aspirations of ...

Christchurch lags behind Australia on Indigenous issues
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Christchurch lags behind Australia on Indigenous issues. "In Australia, the norm is for the Koori (Aboriginal) flag to fly from council buildings all year long – at head offices, at libraries etc." Earlier today, Chch City Council voted against flying ...

Polemicist Andrew Bolt Declares Himself 'Indigenous' And Accuses PM Of ...
Business Insider Australia
Provocative Melbourne columnist Andrew Bolt has done it again, starting his Herald-Sun column today with the claim “I am an indigenous Australian” and warning that Prime Minister Tony Abbott's plan to recognise Aboriginal Australians in the ...