Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

WA today
Investing in Aboriginal youth will pay huge dividends
WA today
This is our responsibility, just as we all share a responsibility to create better educational, health and life outcomes for indigenous Australia. Their plight is, without any shadow of a doubt, our national disgrace and we are not a wholly civilised ...

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still dreaming of home
The Australian
Watarru is the most isolated community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, and one of the most remote Aboriginal communities in Australia. It is 550km south of Alice Springs and until recently had a reputation as one of the safest ...

Adelaide Crows
Guernsey honors Indigenous Round
Adelaide Crows
Adelaide will wear a special guernsey against North Melbourne next Sunday to celebrate Indigenous Round and acknowledge the role of Indigenous players – past and present – who have represented the Club. The one-off guernsey incorporates the ...
Adelaide Crows turn red, yellow ... and blackAdelaide Now

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The Canberra Times
Investing in Aboriginal youth will pay huge dividends
The Canberra Times
This is our responsibility, just as we all share a responsibility to create better educational, health and life outcomes for indigenous Australia. Their plight is, without any shadow of a doubt, our national disgrace and we are not a wholly civilised ...

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Adelaide Crows turn red, yellow ... and black
Adelaide Now
The Crows will wear red, yellow and black hoops in honour of Australia's Aboriginal players in the AFL's Indigenous Round. The "indigenous guernsey" - to be worn against North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium - retains the Crows' traditional hoops but ...

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Investing in Aboriginal youth will pay huge dividends
Sydney Morning Herald
This is our responsibility, just as we all share a responsibility to create better educational, health and life outcomes for indigenous Australia. Their plight is, without any shadow of a doubt, our national disgrace and we are not a wholly civilised ...

Warren Mundine ready to assume position of power under Tony Abbott
The Australian
FORMER Labor Party national president Warren Mundine is poised to assume a powerful position in indigenous affairs under a conservative government after forging an extraordinary alliance with Tony Abbott that he declared was "bigger than partisan ...

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Intense colour
The Australian
These two works, Mother Courage and The Shadow King, are the latest attempts in Australia to tell classic plays through Aboriginal lenses. Notable examples include Enoch's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet for Bell Shakespeare in 1999 and Black Medea, ...

The life of Deborah Cheetham, Indigenous soprano
ABC Online
Singing has always been an integral part of Australia's Indigenous culture, and Indigenous soprano Deborah Cheetham, likens opera to corroboree. She talks to Phillip about composing Australia's first Indigenous opera, Pecan Summer, founding her Short ...

Campaign for Aboriginal foster carers goes bush
ABC Online
Children and Families Minister Alison Anderson says she is travelling to remote Northern Territory communities to recruit more Aboriginal foster carers. Most of the children in care in the Territory are Indigenous but there is a lack of Aboriginal ...
Child neglect crisis takes over from sex abuseThe Australian

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Camel muster master plan gets enterprise over hump
ABC Online
An Aboriginal council overseeing country on the border of Western Australia and the Northern Territory has started a camel mustering company to create employment opportunities for local people. Alex Knight from the Ngaanyatjarra Council says so far ...

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Radio Australia
Miners falling short on Indigenous consultation: Oxfam
ABC Online
A major aid agency says Australia's resources companies are not being open enough about how they gain the consent of Indigenous land owners at their overseas mining projects. A study by Oxfam Australia found that only one of the 53 biggest miners on ...
Only one Aust mining company meets UN indigenous standardsRadio Australia

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Concern over how miners gain indigenous consent
ABC Online
A major aid agency says Australia's resources companies are not being open enough about how they gain the consent of indigenous land owners at their overseas mining projects. A study by Oxfam Australia has found that only one of the 53 biggest miners ...

Indigenous camel company gets over the hump
ABC Online
A new camel company has been formed in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands near the Western Australia-Northern Territory border to muster and sell feral camels. Set up by Ngaanyatjarra Council, it will service about a dozen Indigenous communities and has created ...

Radio Australia
Only one Aust mining company meets UN indigenous standards
Radio Australia
Oxfam Australia says Australian mining companies operating overseas often fail to obtain permission from the indigenous land owners before commencing projects on their land. Only one Aust mining company meets UN indigenous standards (Credit: ABC) ...

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Tone Deaf
Yothu Yindu tribute for Indigenous awards
The Australian
Having honoured the group at the inaugural awards in 2003, Music NT manager Mark Smith says now is the perfect time to revisit Yothu Yindi's impact on Australia's indigenous music scene. "You can never forget what that band signifies and what it showed ...
Yothu Yindi To Be Celebrated At National Indigenous Music Awards 2013Tone Deaf
Yothu Yindi tribute concertNTNews.com.au
Yothu Yindi To Play 2013 NIMAstheMusic

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PM Julia Gillard unveils scheme for indigenous disability care
The Australian
Minister for Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin today announced $900,000 over three years for the First People's Disability Network Australia to provide services to assist indigenous Australians to understand and access support from DisabilityCare Australia.
Ten Point Plan for NDIS in Aboriginal CommunitiesPro Bono Australia

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Mission Australia survey says warning signs are still there for young people
National Indigenous Times
Mission-australia Mission Australia's youth survey has revealed young Aboriginal people feel more unsafe in their communities than ever before and they are more likely to be at risk from the impacts of alcohol, drugs and gambling than young non ...

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Ten Point Plan for NDIS in Aboriginal Communities
Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous Not for Profit, the First Peoples Disability Network and the Federal Government have launched a 10 point plan for the implementation for the NDIS in Aboriginal communities. The First Peoples Disability Network (FPDN) is the national peak ...

The hidden dental crisis in Aboriginal Australia
National Indigenous Times
kimberley-dental-team-John-and-Jan-Owen-from- There's little attraction in the prospect of a visit to the dentist. Obstructed by memories of times when oral operations were more about force than finesse or simply the insistent whining sound of the ...