Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's beauty industry is far from a picture of racial representation
Sydney Morning Herald
Cleo magazine editor Sharri Markson surveyed major Australian modelling agencies and the statistics speak for themselves: of 1100 models, only seven were indigenous and 16 Chinese. Such statistics hardly reflect the country's diversity: Multicall ...

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SBS
Indigenous recognition plan revived
SBS
After allocating $10-million to promote the concept, the former Labor government shelved plans for a referendum on recognition of Indigenous Australians in the Constitution. The Labor government argued there was no point in pursuing the matter because ...

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Mundine warns of budget pain
The Australian
In an exclusive interview and writing in The Australian today, the indigenous leader said that, although he actively opposed the cuts to Aboriginal legal aid announced last month, his opposition was not ideological and he wanted spending to be ...

SBS
Constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians urged
Radio Australia
The Australian Prime Minister's chief adviser on indigenous policy has urged him to take a "cautious" but proactive approach to constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians. In his New Year's Day message, Tony Abbott vowed to use this year to ...
Indigenous recognition vote likelyThe West Australian
Abbott to revive Indigenous recognition pushSBS
Have a go in 2014, Abbott urges AustraliansThe Australian
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Indigenous recognition vote likely
The West Australian
A referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution could be held within this term of Parliament, according to the chairman of the committee Tony Abbott has entrusted to push the case for change. WA Liberal MP Ken Wyatt welcomed the ...

Indigenous recognition vote likely
The West Australian
A referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution could be held within this term of Parliament, according to the chairman of the committee Tony Abbott has entrusted to push the case for change. WA Liberal MP Ken Wyatt welcomed the ...

Sky News Australia
PM Tony Abbott to start 'conversation' on Indigenous recognition in 2014
ABC Online
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he will use 2014 to start a "conversation" about recognising Indigenous Australians in the constitution. The former Labor government shelved plans for a referendum on the issue because it argued there was not enough ...
Have a go in 2014, Abbott urges AustraliansThe Australian
Abbott Seeks to Recognize Aborigines in Australia's ConstitutionBusinessweek
Tony Abbott calls for optimism in first new year messageSydney Morning Herald
NEWS.com.au -Sky News Australia
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SBS
Abbott to revive Indigenous recognition push
SBS
Australians should enter 2014 full of optimism and willing to have a go to better their country, Prime Minister Tony Abbott says. He says the strength of the country is in its people's willingness to better their lives. "This is the year I hope more of ...
Have a go in 2014, Abbott urges AustraliansThe Australian
Abbott Seeks to Recognize Aborigines in Australia's ConstitutionBusinessweek
Tony Abbott, Bill Shorten give their 2014 New Year's messagesThe Daily Telegraph
Brisbane Times
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The West Australian
Hawke govt launched Aboriginal death probe
The West Australian
With Australia's bicentenary approaching, the government led by Bob Hawke decided something must be done about a rising tide of complaints that indigenous people were dying in suspicious circumstances in police cells. Cabinet papers for 1987, released ...
Cabinet Papers 1986-87: The struggle for indigenous land rightsSydney Morning Herald
Secret Hawke era cabinet papers releasedSBS

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Sydney Morning Herald
Cabinet Papers 1986-87: The struggle for indigenous land rights
Sydney Morning Herald
The Hawke government continued to grapple with the sensitive issue of indigenous land rights. In March 1986 Aboriginal Affairs Minister Clyde Holding told cabinet that NSW, Queensland and South Australia had enacted legislation and Victoria was ...
Hawke govt launched Aboriginal death probeNEWS.com.au

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SBS
Secret Hawke era cabinet papers released
SBS
Cabinet documents also reveal the government considered compensating Aboriginal victims of British nuclear tests conducted in South Australia during the 1950s and '60s. Cabinet looked at making $2.5 million dollars in compensation available for the ...
Cabinet Papers 1986-87: Leading the west in fighting South Africa's apartheidSydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
Hawke govt launched Aboriginal death probe
NEWS.com.au
WITH Australia's bicentenary approaching, the government led by Bob Hawke decided something must be done about a rising tide of complaints that indigenous people were dying in suspicious circumstances in police cells. Cabinet papers for 1987, released ...
Secret Hawke era cabinet papers releasedSBS
Cabinet Papers 1986-87: Negative gearing almost axedSydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
Hawke govt launched Aboriginal death probe
The Australian
WITH Australia's bicentenary approaching, the government led by Bob Hawke decided something must be done about a rising tide of complaints that indigenous people were dying in suspicious circumstances in police cells. Cabinet papers for 1987, released ...
Cabinet Papers 1986-87: The struggle for indigenous land rightsSydney Morning Herald

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SBS
Have a go in 2014, Abbott urges Australians
The Australian
AN upbeat Tony Abbott believes the nation enters 2014 full of optimism and has vowed to begin the conversation to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution. In a personal and informal new year message, the Prime Minister praises Australians ...
Abbott Seeks to Recognize Aborigines in Australia's ConstitutionBusinessweek
Abbott to revive Indigenous recognition pushSBS
Tony Abbott, Bill Shorten give their 2014 New Year's messagesThe Daily Telegraph
Brisbane Times
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Sydney Morning Herald
John Pilger's damning new film about indigenous Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
"It's so degrading," says Noongar elder Noel Nannup in John Pilger's latest film about indigenous disadvantage in Australia. The Aboriginal man is standing in a $240-a-night hotel room on Rottnest Island which used to be divided into three prison cells ...

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Gas fracking wars to open up on a new front
The Australian
In its submission to the West Australian fracking inquiry, the Yawuru native title body, led by respected indigenous elder Patrick Dodson, said it was opposed to the practice on its traditional lands until independent scientific evidence proved "beyond ...

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Practical approach to closing the gap
The Australian
But for Nash it's key to embedding a cultural awareness that survives his period in office and deepens the firm's commitment to promoting economic prosperity in indigenous Australia. "We've sustained this over three generations of chairs and CEOs, but ...

The Guardian
Five questions to Luke Pearson, on Indigenous justice and education
The Guardian
Education is one of my greatest passions, in particular the education we provide to Indigenous students, and the education we provide to all students about Indigenous Australia. These are both crucially important, and complementary, issues. One can ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous ventures in push to beat business hurdles
Sydney Morning Herald
Out of the desert, prophets come, wrote A.D. Hope in his seminal 1939 poem Australia. These days, of course, it's the profits pouring out of the Pilbara we look to for salvation - from the current accounts deficit, obviously, but also from the ...

The Guardian
Uncapping university places no help to Indigenous, rural and remote students
The Guardian
The uncapping of undergraduate university places failed to increase the participation of Indigenous, regional and remote Australians and was not the main cause of improved entry by students from poorer backgrounds, a key student body has told a review ...

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