Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

James Packer's plan for indigenous employment: Gaming tycoon grand plans
StreetCorner
Crown Limited long along made everyone aware of its plan to create long-term job opportunities for indigenous Australians - it first signed up to the Australian Employment Covenant - the indigenous employment initiative founded by mining magnate Andrew ...

BBC News
The programme has a small crew, with just three video journalists
BBC News
Australia's trailblazing indigenous TV programme "Living Black" is celebrating a decade of bringing stories of triumph, resilience and tragedy to a national audience. The country's longest-running indigenous news and current affairs show has survived ...

Roadshow to showcase mining jobs for indigenous Australians
Australian Mining
Today's Gidarjil Roadshow in Bundaberg promise to be a good opportunity for local indigenous people to learn about employment in the state's booming energy sector. As NewsMail reports, the roadshow also aims to develop an accurate database of the ...

SBS
Indigenous recognition in SA constitution
SBS
Sir, in passing this Bill, we ensure that our constitution remains a living document that responds to our times. In relation to Aboriginal people, it means certain historical facts can now be included; that respect for Aboriginal spiritual, social and ...

Avoidable indigenous deaths fall: report
NEWS.com.au
In Western Australia, there was no improvement in incidence rates of treated end-stage renal disease in recent years - currently 12 times the rate for non-indigenous Australians. But there was a 35 per cent fall in the overall mortality of indigenous ...

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Avoidable indigenous deaths fall: report
The Australian
In Western Australia, there was no improvement in incidence rates of treated end-stage renal disease in recent years - currently 12 times the rate for non-indigenous Australians. But there was a 35 per cent fall in the overall mortality of indigenous ...

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Crikey (blog)
The Good Kidney Riddle: Preventing Disease and Dialysis in the Younger ...
Crikey (blog)
Recently Donna Ah Chee, CEO , Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, gave a speech at the launch of the Kidney Action Network, examining progress in managing this major health threat to indigenous communities and the work still ahead. Many thanks to ...

Almost half all indigenous people older than 14 smoke daily
The Australian
A study released by the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand found that almost half of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders aged over 14 smoked on a daily basis, with kids as young as nine using tobacco. Overall, indigenous youth were twice ...

High hopes for new high-price NT resort
ABC Online
"This is a market that people are looking for if you have a high-end quality in an iconic site," chief executive of Indigenous Business Australia (IBA), Chris Fry, said. If all goes to plan, the Jawoyn will eventually buy-out IBA's share of the resort ...

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Stats show steady improvement for Indigenous students
Invest in Australia
"Under the Government's National Plan for School Improvement, every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student will be entitled to extra funding, whichever school they attend. Every Indigenous student will also have a personalised learning plan to ...

Ceylon Daily News
Message Stick: Indigenous Identity in Urban Australia
Ceylon Daily News
Message Stick: Indigenous Identity in Urban Australia is an Australian Government-supported touring exhibition of Indigenous Australian art. Drawn from the urban art scene in Australia, the exhibition features significant works by artists at the ...

Place, not race, is key to the gap
The Australian (blog)
The seductive idea of a single Aboriginal Australia was built up over a generation of indigenous activism; it is encouraged and given weight by the official, uniform and racially defined criterion of Aboriginal identity used by governments; and it is ...

Victoria's offences against indigenous kids 10 times non-Aboriginal rate
The Australian
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare said yesterday it was difficult to compare and contrast figures but the institute had recently found high rates of child abuse substantiations in the ACT, Western Australia and South Australia. Victorian ...

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Indigenous Australians welcome forced adoptions apology
SBS
Five years after the apology to the Stolen Generations, Indigenous Australians have welcomed the Prime Minister's apology over decades of forced adoptions separating hundreds of thousands of parents and children.

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SBS
Indigenous Australians welcome forced adoptions apology
SBS
Five years after the apology to the Stolen Generations, Indigenous Australians have welcomed the Prime Minister's apology over decades of forced adoptions separating hundreds of thousands of parents and children.

Urgent boost to indigenous health care needed in Australia
Radio Australia
An Indigenous rights campaigner is calling on the Australian Government to urgently boost healthcare in regional and remote communities to reduce preventable deaths. Urgent boost to indigenous health care needed in Australia (Credit: ABC). Aboriginal ...

Call for indigenous mental health target
The Australian
AUSTRALIAN governments are being urged to add a mental health target to their efforts to close the health gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Mental illness is second only to heart disease as one of the main reasons for the health ...

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Call for indigenous mental health target
Ninemsn
11:33pm March 20, 2013. Australian governments are being urged to add a mental health target to their efforts to close the health gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Biggest cheerleading failures. READ: Biggest cheerleading failures ...

Sleeping Beauty: why indigenous languages need to be saved from the brink
The Australian
By revitalising indigenous languages not only will we help mend faults of the past but we will be facilitating social progress by creating a greater collective understanding between non-indigenous and indigenous Australians. The revitalisation of ...

Call to renew indigenous health deal
The Australian
"Continued investment is essential if we are to build on this excellent work and be the generation to end the national disgrace that sees Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples die more than 10 years younger than the broader Australian community ...
Call for indigenous mental health targetNEWS.com.au

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