Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Day 3 of Australia 2013: Indigenous Energy Medicine
Futurehealth
In years past we had learned that this work was very familiar to Maori and Australian aboriginal people who practiced similarly. Apparently, all indigenous people developed forms of manual or touch therapies and their own versions of energy medicine.

The Age
Mining does not offer the answer to indigenous woes
The Age
It is very disappointing that Russell Skelton's defence of Marcia Langton and her 2012 ABC Boyer lectures on this page last week was based on crude name-calling and misinformation. According to Skelton, ''Marcia Langton's contentious Boyer lectures, ...

allmediascotland.com (press release)
Australia move for Annette, from one 'indigenous' TV channel to another
allmediascotland.com (press release)
A 'SCHEDULE producer' at one of the partners in Gaelic language TV channel, BBC ALBA, has moved to Australia, to take up a posting at a TV channel that, like BBC ALBA, specialises in 'indigenous people' programming. Lisa Annette has worked for MG ...

The Global Mail
Blasting The Colonial Past
The Global Mail
Blasting The Colonial Past. By Debra Jopson March 11, 2013. The history British settlement was written into sandstone by Australia's Aboriginal people – but a mixture of disregard and “progress” has put these precious rock-art records at risk.

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Sydney Morning Herald
the past is the key to what we are now
Sydney Morning Herald
The story of non-indigenous Australian history has always been mostly the story of the upper layers of society, in large part because only the gentry were literate and could therefore leave a written record of themselves. As a nation we're reasonably ...

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Downer: New thinking for indigenous poverty
Adelaide Now
After preliminary banter about what a great place everyone thinks Australia is, he launched into me in a frenzy, saying the living standards of our indigenous people were a disgrace. On and on he went. We were racists, we didn't care, we were as bad as ...

Silver lining to shearing-shed shortage
The Australian
But if a skills shortage can have a silver lining, it's in the growth and encouragement of both women and indigenous Australians into the shearing industry. A special 15-week live-in shearing training school is now run three times a year at the ...

Meet Ben Wyatt, one of the most accomplished MPs you've never heard of
The Australian
For a 38-year-old who has been in politics just seven years, Wyatt has made his mark as an advocate for sensible and principled policy reforms, though few outside Western Australia know his name. Wyatt is also the opposition's indigenous affairs ...

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New Reconciliation Awards ambassador
North Queensland Cowboys
“These awards are a step forward in highlighting the action that is being taken every day to 'close the gap' between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.” Nominations are now open for the 2013 Queensland Reconciliation Awards. A total prize pool ...
Johnathan Thurston named Queensland Reconciliation Awards AmbassadorMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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Australian uranium discovery threatens ancient indigenous cave art
The Guardian
Australia aboriginal art threatened by mining industry : Archaeologist and rock-art specialist Wayne Brennan examines a fire-damaged and graffiti-covered rock art site in the Blue Mountains, Australia. Photograph: Paul Tacon/The Global Mail. Uranium ...

ABC Local
Crocodile farmer snaps up NT Rural Women's Award
ABC Local
The winner of the Northern Territory RIRDC Rural Women's Award wants to help Indigenous communities expand Australia's crocodile industry. Giovanna Webb, from Crocodylus Park, spends her time in croc-infested waters, the fashion houses of Europe and ...

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The Global Mail
Rock Art Riches: The Devastating Cost of Australia's Mining Boom
The Global Mail
Tucked away in the sandstone ridges of the rugged tropics near Australia's north-eastern tip, the ochre “bullymen” with their big penises and staring eyes still cling to the rock. These are secret paintings, made by Aboriginal men who were driven from ...

Dramatic punt on Old Tote
The Australian
THE year 1963 marked the first time all indigenous Australians could vote in a federal election. It was the year artist Margaret Preston died and Patrick White's third published play, A Cheery Soul, was produced in Melbourne. It wasn't an especially ...

Education key to indigenous advancement
Radio Australia
She says she has worked over he past 40 years to build a bridge of understanding between Aboriginal and Non-aboriginals and to advance Aboriginal people through increasing awareness, advancement and appreciation of Aboriginal people and culture.

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Educatiion key to indigenous advancement
Radio Australia
She says she has worked over he past 40 years to build a bridge of understanding between Aboriginal and Non-aboriginals and to advance Aboriginal people through increasing awareness, advancement and appreciation of Aboriginal people and culture.

Aboriginal members warn the bush losing confidence in conservatives
The Australian
Mr Giles would have become Australia's first indigenous treasurer had he taken the deputy job. The ensuing crisis prompted Ms Anderson to warn caucus colleagues she and the other Aboriginal members could leave the party if the factions did not unite.

Dramatic punt on Old Tote
The Australian
THE year 1963 marked the first time all indigenous Australians could vote in a federal election. It was the year artist Margaret Preston died and Patrick White's third published play, A Cheery Soul, was produced in Melbourne. It wasn't an especially ...

VISIONARY, CULTURALLY-ATTUNED CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Pro Bono Australia
This includes superb new, near-CBD amenities, record enrolments and student retention and students whose excellence in their disciplines is winning them accolades throughout Indigenous and mainstream Australia. To take up this exciting leadership role, ...

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DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND DEREGULATION - AUSTRALIA : New ...
4-traders (press release)
The Waringarri Arts Aboriginal Corporation will be given a shot in the arm to help attract and retain professional art staff thanks to a Federal Government grant for a new duplex unit. Minister for the Arts Simon Crean said today $625,000 provided ...

ABC Online
Recognising Indigenous Australia: we must not fail again
ABC Online
It is time for the Australian constitution to recognise who we are and the contribution Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have made to our nation. writes Matt Thistlethwaite. I was born and bred in Maroubra in Sydney's east. I have lived in ...