Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian
Most want original cultures celebrated
The Australian
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians feel even more strongly that their cultures should be recognised and celebrated as something that makes Australia unique, with 82 per cent support. Mr Abbott used his New Year's Day message to urge a ...
How Indigenous Australians map their worldABC Online (blog)
Australia Day ambassador to add inspiration and prideMy Sunshine Coast (press release)
Q&A with Kirstie Parker: on acts of kindness and Indigenous survivalThe Guardian

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Champions of indigenous advancement
The Australian
Beyond that cusp is a future where indigenous Australians close the gap on black and white numbers in employment, incarceration and education. Grab yourself a pen green, gold, red, black, yellow and scribble the words of Mr Mundine across your 2014 ...
Australian of the Year: NSW candidate Adam GoodesABC Online

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SBS
Debate revived on what Australia Day means to Indigenous Aussies
SBS
As millions of Aussies prepare to celebrate Australia Day this weekend, the debate on what the day means to Indigenous Australians has been revived. By. Tara Callinan. Source. NITV News. UPDATED 3 MINS AGO. On January 26, 1788 Captain Arthur ...

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The Guardian
Push intensifies for Indigenous recognition in constitution
The Guardian
The Indigenous leader charged with building community consensus to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution says the issue should be dealt with in this term of government, and considered separately from the next federal election. Tanya ...

SBS
'Invasion Day' debate resurfaces
SBS
To some Indigenous Australians, January the 26th is "Invasion Day" - the day in 1788 when the First Fleet of British settlers arrived on Australian shores. By. Marina Freri. Source. World News Australia Radio. UPDATED 29 MINS AGO. To some Indigenous ...
Australia Day is not a cause for celebration for allFraser Coast Chronicle
Should we shift our Australia Day?Central Queensland news
Australia Day – celebration of a nationMyguidon

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The Guardian
How Indigenous Australians map their world
ABC Online (blog)
Their culture is complex and diverse, having the oldest living cultural history in the world going back at least 50,000 years. The Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures have survived for so long mainly due to their ability to adapt ...
Q&A with Kirstie Parker: on acts of kindness and Indigenous survivalThe Guardian

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Indigenous soldiers remembered: the research behind Black Diggers
The Conversation
Black Diggers premiered at the Sydney Festival last weekend – and initial inspiration came from the discovery by festival director Lieven Bertels, that a young Aboriginal soldier, Private Rufus Rigney from Raukkan in South Australia, was buried in the ...

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SBS
Indigenous football ambassador on mission to find new stars
SBS
In the same year, he also became the first to lead an Australian club side to domestic success, after Newcastle Jets won the A-League championship. A proud indigenous Australian and FFA ambassador North is passionate about encouraging indigenous ...

Crikey
Razer's class warfare: Aboriginal Australia needs capital, not bullshit feelings
Crikey
Razer's class warfare: Aboriginal Australia needs capital, not bullshit feelings. by Helen Razer. There is one of those things I believe the expert photoshoppers call a “macro” currently circulating madly online. I am all for a critique of that ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Archie Roach still a powerful voice for Indigenous justice
The Guardian (blog)
Yet Roach's music has had a more overtly political voice which speaks directly to issues affecting Australia's Indigenous people, drawing on stories from his life. Roach credits forerunners like Little and Bob Randall – whose 1970 song Brown Skin Baby ...

Crikey
Razer's class warfare: Aboriginal Australia needs capital, not bullshit feelings
Crikey
It is time for a real Treaty ratified by the Australian Parliament and by a referendum of all Indigenous people. If Indigenous people really want the Constitution to be 'completed' that can be agreed in the Treaty as well. by Boerwar on Jan 23, 2014 at ...

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Australia's young Indigenous bring powerful voice to rights message
UNICEF Australia
YOUNG Indigenous teenagers from across the country converge on Sydney this week to bring their singing and song-writing talents to a project led by UNICEF Australia. The crew of talented performers has been brought together by experienced mentors and ...

Research shows Alaska Native, Australian indigenous groups' isolation from flu
Ktoo
Indigenous populations in Alaska and Australia may be vulnerable to influenza, particularly a recent form of bird flu. Since the first break-out of H7N9 in China early last year, 150 people have been infected and 45 people have been killed. Two people ...

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Patriot games: keeping it real on Australia Day
Brisbane Times
Twitter lit up with outrage, quickly followed by Facebook and news websites. Some said the T-shirts were insensitive towards indigenous Australians. Others went further and argued the shirts were racist. It wasn't long before Aldi took the T-shirts off ...
Racism leaves a bad tasteThe Advocate

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Harness goodwill to close the gap
The Australian (blog)
When prime minister Kevin Rudd made the apology to indigenous Australians in 2008, he invited indigenous and non-indigenous Australians to work in partnership to close the indigenous employment gap. Governments across Australia pledged to halve the ...

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keeping it real on Australia Day
The Age
Twitter lit up with outrage, quickly followed by Facebook and news websites. Some said the T-shirts were insensitive towards indigenous Australians. Others went further and argued the shirts were racist. It wasn't long before Aldi took the T-shirts off ...
Racism leaves a bad tasteThe Advocate

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SBS
Australia's human rights performance under fire
SBS
The New York-based group, Human Rights Watch, has released a scathing review of Australia's policies on asylum seekers, disability, sexual orientation and Indigenous affairs. The report criticises the current Coalition government and its Labor predecessor.
Australia marked down in rights reportSydney Morning Herald

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More 'money on ground' with indigenous reforms
The Australian
THE powerful Minerals Council of Australia says the government's decision to merge 26 indigenous programs into five will provide significantly more money to be spent on aboriginal people with up to half of all commonwealth money spent clogged up in ...

Yareah Magazine
Contemporary Māori and Indigenous Australian art. Black Australia
Yareah Magazine
And opening 28 March is the largest and most significant exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art ever shown in New Zealand in My Country: Contemporary Art from Black Australia – a touring show from Queensland Art Gallery ...

From 26 indigenous programs to five
The Australian
... Education, Employment and Workplace Relations; Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs; Health and Ageing; Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education; Regional Australia, Local Government, ...

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