Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

PwC's Indigenous Consulting: Creating Advantage::
Invest in Australia
PIC, which is majority Indigenous owned, led and managed, is now Australia's biggest Indigenous consulting firm, which aims to create shared value – commercial activity that can deliver societal impact - by bringing cultural integrity to Indigenous ...

Finding common ground
The Australian
Yaru means "rock" in Bundjalung language: the Slabbs own 51 per cent of the company, making this Australia's first indigenous bottled water. It's an attractive package: the company's first customer was the Sofitel hotel group and in the past couple of ...

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Indigenous business a culture watershed
The Australian
The Slabbs control 51 per cent of the business, making Yaru Australia's first indigenous-owned bottled water. Through Supply Nation, an organisation that connects corporate and government customers with indigenous businesses and suppliers, Yaru has ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Game face … Patty Mills is only the second indigenous Australian to play in ...
Sydney Morning Herald
He's only the second indigenous Australian to achieve such a feat, after Torres Strait Islander Nathan Jawai, who made history when he debuted for the Toronto Raptors in 2008. (Jawai now plays for Galatasaray Liv Hospital of the Turkish Basketball ...

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The Darkside offers indigenous insight to the spirit world
The Australian
Is it possible that indigenous people, with a culture rooted in stories of an ancient Dreamtime, have a deeper insight into spiritual reality than those of us reared in the traditions of Western scientific enlightenment? The Darkside won't provide ...

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Fines and bans for telco that ripped off Indigenous Australians
ZDNet
The Australian Federal Court today handed out over half a million dollars in fines against Excite Mobile and three of its staff members after they were found to have engaged in false and misleading conduct with customers in remote indigenous ...

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How fear and funding undercut a fair go for Indigenous Victorians
The Conversation
While most Australians are well aware of entrenched criminal justice issues facing Indigenous men and women, such as the disproportionately high rates of imprisonment, our new research shows that those legal problems go well beyond police and prisons.

SBS
Marking 50 years of Indigenous federal voting
SBS
Queensland and Western Australia, for example, were the only states that had laws specifically preventing Indigenous people from voting while South Australia gave all adults, including Indigenous adults, the right to vote. At the Commonwealth level ...
What can Australia learn from other countries about Birth Registration?HealthCanal.com

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Metro
Uluru resort will not fail
The Australian
The ILC last month made changes to the Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia board, appointing a new chairwoman and five new directors, sparking a row over the resort's profitability. ILC chairwoman Dawn Casey linked the changes to a writedown in the ...
Climbers urged to resist lure of Australia's UluruThe Star Online
Direct flights from China on cards for UluruTravel Weekly
Ashes 2013: Could trip to Ayers Rock see England boomerang back in Adelaide?Daily Mail
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'A troubled relationship': Media struggles with reporting on Indigenous Aussies
SBS
Indigenous Australia has long had a troubled relationship with the mainstream media. On Invasion Day in 2012, a small gathering of people outside Old Parliament House were told Tony Abbott wanted the Tent Embassy torn down. It later emerged the ...

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Indigenous teens make movies with the VCA
artsHub Australia (subscription)
... Nue Dae, alongside the 2012 hit The Sapphires, feature Indigenous actors telling stories based on real life events and situations, opening up a broader discussion of how Indigenous culture is and has been represented through Australian film and ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Namatjiras meet with royalty - again
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Grandchildren of Central Australian Indigenous artist, Albert Namatjira, have met with Her Majesty The Queen ahead of the international premiere of the play Namatjira at Southbank Centre, the UK's largest arts centre. Lenie and Kevin Namatjira, both ...
Namatjira shares his watercolours with the worldSBS
Namatjira's legacy remembered at Buckingham PalaceThe Age
Aboriginal artists meet Queen sixty years after grandfatherClarence Valley Daily Examiner

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Sydney Morning Herald
Namatjira's descendants meet the Queen
The Australian
Kevin and Lenie Namatjira, both established watercolour artists in their own right, used the occasion to call for a better deal for indigenous Australia. They said that while they were treated like royalty in London it was a different story back in the ...
Namatjira's grandchildren honour artist's legacyThe Canberra Times
Aboriginal artists meet Queen sixty years after grandfatherCentral Queensland news
Kevin and Lenie Namatjira visit Queen 50 yrs after grandfather AlbertNEWS.com.au

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SBS
Wasted decade as indigenous health fails to show improvement
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous health has not improved at all in many areas of Australia over the past decade, data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday showed. The largest-ever survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health found rates of ...
Australia's first ever Indigenous health survey results revealedSBS
Indigenous smoking falls but still highSky News Australia
Indigenous anger over exclusionThe Australian
Illawarra Mercury (blog) -Crikey (blog)
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Sky News Australia
Indigenous smoking falls but still high
Sky News Australia
Smoking rates among indigenous people have fallen by 10 per cent in a decade, but are still far higher than the rest of the community. New figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show 41 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
Wasted decade as indigenous health fails to show improvementDaily Life

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Fred's vision still pushing indigenous healthcare
The Australian
Fred Hollows Foundation chief executive Brian Doolan said the technology was the next big jump in the delivery of health services to indigenous Australians since Hollows's time. "It puts the best of technology right into the hands of Aboriginal ...

SBS
Australia's first ever Indigenous health survey results revealed
SBS
"Smoking rates have declined since 2002, so they've come down from 51 per cent to 41 per cent. This is a really major impact on smoking rates and a major impact on long term health," says the Australian Bureau of Statistics Head of Health, Dr Paul Jelfs.
Indigenous anger over exclusionThe Australian
BLOG: Understanding and respect key to reconciliationIllawarra Mercury (blog)
Indigenous groups call for specific focus from Royal Commission into child ...Crikey (blog)

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SBS
Namatjira shares his watercolours with the world
SBS
Members of the iconic Australian family have travelled from the Northern Territory to London where tickets to 'Namatjira' the stage performance have sold out well ahead of opening night. Despite being the first Indigenous Australian to be granted ...
Namatjira's legacy remembered at Buckingham PalaceThe Age
Aboriginal artists meet Queen sixty years after grandfatherThe Queensland Times
Albert Namatjira's grandchildren meet Her Majesty The QueenAustralian Times
ABC Message Stick -NEWS.com.au
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Remote Aboriginal communities need more assistance
The Australian
It comes as peak indigenous body the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has written to the Prime Minister and requested an "early meeting" to discuss the relationship between the government of Australia and the congress. Mr Shergold told ...

Indigenous anger over exclusion
The Australian
THE Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse must consider Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues, according to the nation's peak indigenous groups, which will today release a statement condemning their exclusion. A ...
BLOG: Understanding and respect key to reconciliationIllawarra Mercury (blog)

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