Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Sky News Australia
Indigenous disadvantage does not diminish over time, High Court rules
ABC Online
Disadvantage caused by a person's Indigenous heritage does not diminish over time and should be taken into account in sentencing of criminal offences, the High Court has found. Lawyers for William Bugmy, a 31-year-old from Wilcannia convicted of ...
High Court rules on indigenous sentencesSky News Australia
Jail sentences to heed 'disadvantage'The Australian (blog)

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Australia's first indigenous PM could be in WA
WA today
One of two West Australian teenagers are in the running be the first indigenous 'prime minister'. While Tony Abbott was recently elected to the nation's top job, students Shannon Hart-Cole and Jayden Gerrand from Warnbro Community High School and ...
Two Western Australian students have finished in top three of simulated ...ABC Online

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Sky News Australia
High Court rules on indigenous sentences
Sky News Australia
The High Court has dismissed an appeal from an indigenous man who sought to have an extended jail sentence overturned on the grounds it hadn't taken into account his disadvantaged background as an Aboriginal person. West Australian man Ernest ...
Indigenous disadvantage does not diminish over time, High Court rulesABC Online

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Good Food
Coles recruits celebrity food-wizard to create product range from indigenous ...
Marketing magazine Australia
After partnering on a range of Christmas desserts, Coles and world-renowned chef-wizard Heston Blumenthal have formed a partnership that will see Blumenthal create a range of products for the supermarket that will “embrace Australian and indigenous ...
Blumenthal brewing up new products for AustraliaGood Food
Heston Blumenthal strikes deal with ColesFOOD Magazine - Australia

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Good Food
Blumenthal brewing up new products for Australia
Good Food
The creative force behind Britain's The Fat Duck restaurant says he will be using indigenous ingredients and his own brand of science-based food to create items for Coles from 2014. Blumenthal, who's also filming an ad with small appliance manufacturer ...

SBS
Indigenous rugby team say they'll 'do it for the diggers'
SBS
Australia's under-17 Indigenous rugby team is currently preparing to play their first of three matches in France. Like any sporting team, they are hungry for a win. But after exploring their heritage at Belgium's Menin Gate Memorial, the young side has ...

Two Western Australian students have finished in top three of simulated ...
ABC Local
Two Indigenous students from Western Australia will travel to Canberra to address senior politicians after finishing at the top of a simulated election for the nation's first Indigenous prime minister. The competition was run by the Australian ...

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'Appalling' conditions in Indigenous schools
SBS
Born and raised in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands of remote South Australia, Aboriginal language worker Karina Lester spends her working days travelling across schools in remote communities in South Australia, the Northern Territory ...

SBS
The challenges of remote Indigenous education
SBS
Born and raised in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands of remote South Australia, Aboriginal language worker Karina Lester spends her working days travelling across schools in remote communities in South Australia, the Northern Territory ...

New Flying Art indigenous-themed aircraft to fly for Qantas in November
The Australian
The striking design featured the spirits of Indigenous Australians in the form of kangaroos travelling through the red, desert landscape. Wunala Dreaming was joined a year later by a Boeing 747-300, Nalanji Dreaming, featuring a vivid blue symbolising ...
Qantas brings back Aboriginal-themed Dreamtime liveryAustralian Business Traveller

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Cash Up For Grabs for Indigenous Groups
Pro Bono Australia
Grants of up to $10,000 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups and individuals are now available under an ACT Government's grants program. The $205,000 of funding is for leadership, training and development opportunities to showcase ...

Price cuts to put homes in reach
The Australian
He said land tenure reform was essential to drive economic development for indigenous Australians, especially in remote areas where land was subject to communal title. Ms Price strongly supported the need for reform of the land rights law in the Territory.

Ice Age struck Australia's Aboriginals hard
Australian Geographic
A NEW STUDY HAS revealed how indigenous Australians coped with the last Ice Age, roughly 20,000 years ago. Researchers say that when the climate cooled dramatically, Aboriginal groups sought refuge in well-watered areas, such as along rivers, and ...

Gift of sight helps Indigenous Australians reconnect with country
ABC Local
Indigenous people are six times more likely than other Australians to go blind, and figures show Central Australia and the Barkly regions have the poorest eye health status in the country. Angus Thornton is a project officer with the Fred Hollows ...
Fred Hollows Foundation launches surgery blitz in Alice Springs to improve ...Yahoo!7 News
Hollows Foundation launches eye surgery blitzABC Online

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Fred Hollows Foundation launches surgery blitz in Alice Springs to improve ...
ABC Online
Indigenous people are six times more likely than other Australians to go blind, and figures show Central Australia and the Barkley region of the Northern Territory have the poorest eye health status in the country. Around 30 patients travelled from ...

Fred Hollows Foundation launches surgery blitz in Alice Springs to improve ...
ABC Online
Indigenous people are six times more likely than other Australians to go blind, and figures show Central Australia and the Barkley region of the Northern Territory have the poorest eye health status in the country. Around 30 patients travelled from ...
Hollows Foundation launches eye surgery blitzABC Message Stick

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Australian's new PM launches indigenous advisory council
Mizo News
Canberra: Australian's new Prime Minister Tony Abbott has launched an indigenous advisory council in an effort to reverse the chronic disadvantages suffered by Australia's first inhabitants, BBC reported Thursday. The focus of the council will be to ...

Waipareira Hosts Urban Indigenous Group From Australia
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Te Whanau O Waipareira welcomes a group of urban indigenous Australians to find out first-hand how we deliver services to the whanau. On Monday, a high level delegation of aboriginal representatives from NGOs including the Ngwalla Willumbong ...

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The first Aboriginal PM
ABC Local
The Other Election is an initiative by AIME that showcases over 600 Indigenous students in years 10-12 delivering what would be their inaugural speech as Australia's first Indigenous Prime Minister. Kaitlin Reeves from Toormina High School is a ...

Mundine not the only voice: indigenous leader
The Australian
She told The Australian that the congress was the representative body for indigenous Australia, including the most remote communities. Ms Parker said while Tony Abbott was entitled to receive advice from his new high-level council, he must bear in mind ...