Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Paris museum to host rooftop Aboriginal artwork
ABC Online
An artwork by a leading Aboriginal artist will soon be viewed by millions of people when it goes on display on the roof of a Paris museum. Western Australian contemporary artist Lena Nyadbi was commissioned to design a piece specifically for the roof ...

A step forward for Aboriginal workers
Murray Mail
A Regional Agreement has been signed between the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin and the Minister for Resources and Energy, Gary Gray, with NBG and the Gnaala Karla Booja people aimed at increasing Aboriginal employment in the region ...

The Guardian (blog)
Australia's boom is anything but for its Aboriginal people
The Guardian (blog)
More than any other colonial society, Australia consigns its dirtiest secrets, past and present, to wilful ignorance or indifference. When I was at school in Sydney, standard texts all but dismissed the most enduring human entity on earth, the ...

inmycommunity
Indigenous teens can now play on
inmycommunity
A LACK of opportunities for Aboriginal teenagers to stay involved in football has prompted two coaches to start an indigenous colts team based in the WA Amateur Football League. Shannon Gover and John Kalin, who have both previously been involved in ...

Vancouver Sun
Jesse Williams becomes first indigenous Aussie to make NFL draft, picked up by ...
NEWS.com.au
Williams' management said he will be the first indigenous Australian to play in the NFL. Two other Aussies, Louisiana State University's Brad Wing and University of Hawaii's Alex Dunnachie, both punters, have entered the draft but are yet to be selected.
Aussie Williams drafted by NFL's SeahawksABC Online
Tha Monstar shines in NFL DraftABC Local
Jesse makes NFL cut in fifth roundBayside Bulletin

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Opposition to cut indigenous programs: PM
The Australian
"Clearly the Opposition has a plan for deep cuts right across the board - health, education, programs that support Indigenous Australians, as well as a plan for tax increases," Ms Gillard said. She was responding to recent comments from Opposition ...
Remote communities should pay own rates: SenatorYahoo!7 News

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SBS
Can Indigenous Australians help save African cultures?
SBS
"I think we would really welcome in terms of diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia, to engage with another group of indigenous peoples from another continent in terms of their rich cultural diversity within Africa and the African ...

SBS
Can Indigenous Australians help save African cultures?
SBS
"I think we would really welcome in terms of diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia, to engage with another group of indigenous peoples from another continent in terms of their rich cultural diversity within Africa and the African ...

Successful Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund projects announced
Invest in Australia
Environment Minister Tony Burke and Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation Yvette D'Ath today announced the 44 successful applications under the Australian Government's Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund Capacity Building ...

Brisbane Times
Calls to better honour Indigenous soldiers
SBS
Indigenous Australia's contribution to the nation's security has been present at every conflict from the colonial forces through to the current operations in the Middle East. In his address to the Canberra gathering, Gary Oakley from the Australian War ...
Call for more Indigenous honour roll nominationsABC Local

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Indigenous military to be honoured through art
SBS
Military service by Indigenous Australians has never been highlighted at the Australian War Memorial, but that's about to change, as the Memorial commissions its first Indigenous official war artist.

Call for more Indigenous honour roll nominations
ABC Local
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Jeanette Powell, says nominations close at the end of June. "It's about people who have given to their community, who have been champions of their Australian community and have worked so hard to get schools, to [get ...

Recognising the role of Indigenous and Maori soldiers
SBS
Realising the difference between the Australian Aborigines and the New Zealand Maori is that we signed a treaty here in 1840 that gave us the rights of British citizenship. And inherent in those rights is when Britain calls that you man up (act in a ...

Indigenous Olympian tells tales of Vietnam - Ninemsn
Ninemsn
He is also the nephew of Australia's most famous indigenous soldier, Captain Reg Saunders MBE. Reg Saunders was the first Aboriginal Australian to be commissioned as an officer in the Australian Army. Australia's military involvement in the Vietnam War ...

Indigenous prisoners of war in focus for ANZAC Day
ABC Message Stick
MIRIAM HALL: The Redfern ANZAC Commemoration Day was established to celebrate the war efforts by Indigenous Australians. Pastor Ray Minniecon set up the first Commemoration Day in 2006, and he's heard some painful stories of Indigenous people ...

Sky News Australia
Gillard government focused at pleasing indigenous communities
Oye! Times
The federal government of Australia has committed $44.1 million for remote indigenous communities in five states in its May budget. The funds are aimed at enhancing municipal services in 340 remote indigenous communities in Western Australia, South ...
Martu people to take control of massive land areaABC Online

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Sky News Australia
Cash for indigenous communities
Sky News Australia
The federal government will commit the money in the May budget towards improving municipal services in 340 remote indigenous communities in Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria. Municipal services are usually the ...
Martu people to take control of massive land areaABC Online

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Budget cash for indigenous communities
The Australian
The federal government will commit the money in the May budget towards improving municipal services in 340 remote indigenous communities in Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria. Municipal services are usually the ...
Martu people to take control of massive land areaABC Online

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ABC Local
Our black history: lest we forget Aboriginal veterans - WA Today
WA today
In August 1916, Private Douglas Grant departed Australia on a troop carrier bound for the United Kingdom. Like thousands of other young Australian men, Grant had signed up for the AIF and wound up fighting in the trenches on the Western Front in France.
Aboriginal Diggers 'couldn't even get a beer in a pub'Illawarra Mercury
Best we forget? - Canberra TimesThe Canberra Times

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Sky News Australia
Tony Abbott still won't rule out Indigenous cuts
Invest in Australia
After years of underinvestment and neglect under the Howard Government, this Labor Government has made unprecedented investments to close the gap on Indigenous disadvantage, with more than $5.2 billion in funding for employment, education, health ...
Labor prepares budget groundThe Australian
Greater conviction could have secured education funding - Sydney Morning HeraldSydney Morning Herald

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