Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Darwin Aboriginal camp suffering neglect and disrepair
ABC Online
... gets to be Prime Minister, Tony Abbott says fixing Australia's greatest "national failure" - dire Indigenous disadvantage - will be one of his personal priorities, and he says average Australians are very uneasy about the predicament of Indigenous ...

Darwin Aboriginal camp under threat from development
ABC Online
If he gets to be prime minister, Tony Abbott says fixing Australia's greatest 'national failure' - dire Indigenous disadvantage - will be one of his personal priorities. The One Mile Dam Aboriginial camp from where we're broadcasting this morning is ...

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Indigenous councils unite to save threatened turtles
ABC Local
Three Indigenous councils on far north Queensland's western Cape York have joined forces to help protect endangered and vulnerable turtles. The Northern Peninsula, Mapoon and Pormpuraaw councils will pool resources and expertise to better coordinate ...

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Comment: The unfinished business of reducing Indigenous incarceration
SBS
Every two years, the Productivity Commission releases a report on the level of Indigenous disadvantage in Australia. These reports make for fairly bleak reading: most indicators show no change, and in some areas the “gap” between Indigenous and ...

Change needs a conservative: Noel Pearson
The Australian
Mr Abbott's pledge to put Aboriginal Australia at the centre of his agenda is widely regarded as significant by indigenous leaders because the area has traditionally been seen as a Labor stronghold. Mr Abbott's decision to make the commitment in his ...

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Unfinished business: reducing Indigenous incarceration
The Conversation
Every two years, the Productivity Commission releases a report on the level of Indigenous disadvantage in Australia. These reports make for fairly bleak reading: most indicators show no change, and in some areas the “gap” between Indigenous and ...

Indigenous health spending greater in remote areas
Invest in Australia
The report, Expenditure on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2010-11: an analysis by remoteness and disease released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), provides additional detail to a report entitled ...

Boing Boing
In Australia, what may be a 'new' indigenous language has been recorded
Boing Boing
US-based Australian linguist Carmel O'Shannessy has documented what she believes are "the beginnings of what's been described as the world's newest known spoken language." Light Walpiri is described as a blend of one small indigenous Australian ...

SBS
Winner of the West Australian Indigenous Art prize announced
SBS
A broad field of traditional and contemporary artists were on hand for the richest prize awarded for Indigenous Art in Australia. There were two top awards: the Best West Australian Piece and Best Overall. Warmun Ochre artist Churchill Cann was the ...
Kimberley man wins Indigenous art prizeABC Local
Artwork up there with the bestThe West Australian

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The Guardian
Health costs mount for Indigenous Australians in remote areas
The Guardian
Health expenditure on potentially preventable hospital treatment of Indigenous Australians is more than double the expenditure on non-Indigenous Australians, a new report shows – but the cause is unclear. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare ...

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SBS
Winner of the richest Indigenous Art prize announced
SBS
A contemporary North Queensland artist took home the top prize of the evening against over 137 nominations from all the country. A broad field of traditional and contemporary artists were on hand for the richest prize awarded for Indigenous Art in ...
Artwork up there with the bestThe West Australian

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SBS
Watch live: NITV forum probes Indigenous election issues
SBS
Representatives from all the major parties, as well some of the Indigenous candidates who are contesting the federal election, come face-to-face with representatives of Indigenous organisations to discuss some of the big issues facing Indigenous ...

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SBS
Watch live: Awaken's Election Special Forum on Indigenous issues
SBS
Watch NITV's Awaken Special Federal Election Forum on Indigenous issues. Find out about the issues important to and affecting Indigenous Australians in this Septembers election. New figures reveal that 51 percent of kids in NSW jails are Aboriginal ...

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SBS
Kimberley man wins Indigenous art prize
ABC Local
A Kimberley man has won the WA section of the nation's richest Indigenous art prize. Churchill Cann, from the Warmun community, received the $10,000 WA artist prize at the Indigenous Art Awards. The Warmun Gallery says Mr Churchill won the award for ...
Winner of the West Australian Indigenous Art prize announcedSBS
Artwork up there with the bestThe West Australian

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Kimberley man wins Indigenous art prize
ABC Online
A Kimberley man has won the WA section of the nation's richest Indigenous art prize. Churchill Cann, from the Warmun community, received the $10,000 WA artist prize at the Indigenous Art Awards. The Warmun Gallery says Mr Churchill won the award for ...

Australian Geographic
Mapping indigenous language across Australia
Australian Geographic
The map displays some of the traditional languages once spoken by indigenous groups across Australia, and was created using data collected by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Dianne Hosking, who ...

Australian Geographic
On this day: Wave Hill indigenous protest
Australian Geographic
A nine-year strike followed that remains the longest in Australian history, ending with the handing back of the land to the Gurindji by the Australian government. This event marked a crucial point in the national Aboriginal land rights movement and led ...

Government partly at fault over Indigenous art slump
Radio Australia
For the better part of a decade Indigenous Australian art was at the top of many collectors "must have" list. Government partly at fault over Indigenous art slump (Credit: ABC). After hitting a high of $26 million in 2007, turnover has plummeted to ...

African coins clue to indigenous art
The Australian
SOLVING the mystery of how 900-year-old African coins ended up in remote Australia could not only recast the history of foreign contact Down Under, but shed light on Aboriginal rock art. How the ancient Kilwa coins, believed to date from about 1100 ...

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Aljazeera.com
Aborigines sour on Australia's Labor Party
Aljazeera.com
But largely missing from this picture is a tragedy that has been unfolding at the heart of the nation for more than a century - the plight of Australia's indigenous people, the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Often a convenient platform for ...

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