Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

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Push to send Indigenous children to boarding schools
Radio Australia
Professor of Australian Indigenous Studies, Marcia Langton, is calling for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to be taken out of their own communities and sent to boarding schools in order to remove them from poverty and give them a better ...
Inspirational Abbott's Indigenous aspirationEureka Street

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Senator sorry for opposing Kevin Rudd apology
The Australian
In a speech in the Senate yesterday backing the government's "Act of Recognition" -- which commits Australia to changing the Constitution in a referendum to acknowledge first Australians -- Senator Scullion said he had seen big changes in Aboriginal ...

ABC Online
Push to send Indigenous children to boarding schools
ABC Online
There is a push to take Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students out of their communities and send them to boarding schools to improve their education. Professor Marcia Langton, an expert in Indigenous studies, says far from creating another ...
Inspirational Abbott's Indigenous aspirationEureka Street
OPINION: Identity key step to reconciliationNewcastle Herald

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Curable eye disease still rife among Indigenous Australians
Medical Xpress
While it disappeared from mainstream Australian society 100 years ago, trachoma continues to be a significant problem among remote Indigenous communities. Professor Hugh Taylor, Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health at the University of ...

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Indigenous dancers from across Australia meet in Adelaide
SBS
Indigenous dancers from across Australia meet in Adelaide. 26 Feb 2013, 8:19 pm - Source: Nancia Guivarra, NITV. Share This. 0 0 0. + Comment. 0. In an unusual show of cultural unity, a spectacular ceremony in Adelaide recently brought dancers together ...

Curable eye disease still rife among Indigenous Australians
HealthCanal.com
Professor Hugh Taylor, Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health at the University of Melbourne, told Flinders Indaily that while trachoma rates in some areas of central Australia had plunged in the four years since the Rudd Government's ...

Australian Geographic
On this day: Mungo Man fossil found
Australian Geographic
The discovery, made in the midst of the Aboriginal rights movement – which would quickly intergrate the findings into its slogans – would later double the time that Australia's first humans were thought to have arrived on the continent. Jim Bowler, now ...

Inspirational Abbott's Indigenous aspiration
Eureka Street
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said 'on this special anniversary we acknowledge the courage that enabled Kevin Rudd to offer the Apology and the generosity of spirit that enabled Indigenous Australians to accept it'. She spoke of the Constitution as 'a ...

Leader holds fears for Nyoongar language
inmycommunity
This marked the anniversary of the 2008 day that then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to indigenous Australians, particularly the Stolen Generation, for past wrongs. Mr Collard said more than symbolic gestures were needed to stop the Nyoongar ...

A new look at Aboriginal sentencing?
SBS
"What would significantly reduce the incarceration rate of Indigenous Australians is if the court indicated that prior convictions should no longer have a profound aggravating impact on penalty. At the moment, on prior convictions, the fact that a ...

Food gardens 'foisted' on indigenous lands
The Australian
South Australia's Labor government has defended its controversial $250,000 failed market gardens program, saying the gardens were set up in the remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands because communities wanted them. Aboriginal Affairs ...

Identity played out on stage
The Australian
It's a work that draws on unlikely sources -- a notorious column by Andrew Bolt and the SBS miniseries Women of the Sun -- for a story that confronts sensitive topics in indigenous Australia. "That whole question of our identity and our skin colour is ...

PM missed native title chance: Keating
The Australian
"I took the opportunity at Redfern Park in December 1992 of laying out fully, openly and honestly, providing a context for history of our humanity and thoughtlessness, our disregard of Australia's indigenous people. "At Redfern I made clear that we did ...

Jailing of kids 'does not work'
The Australian
WEST Australian governor Malcolm McCusker has spoken out against the state's mandatory detention laws, calling for a radical overhaul of juvenile sentencing practices that are resulting in the incarceration of hundreds of Aboriginal children. The ...

Cricket Australia looking to bring in more aboriginal talent in team
Daily News & Analysis
Cricket Australia's (CA) national talent manager Greg Chappell has said they are quite serious about bringing in more aboriginal talent in the national team. Of the 432 baggy greens handed to Australian men, only one has been worn by a player ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Hunt for Aboriginal talent starts at the Top End
Bendigo Advertiser
AT THE age of 47, Digger has seen better days. But with his Tennant Creek side in trouble against the old foe, Alice Springs, he strides proudly to the crease, his long, wiry beard barely moving despite the late afternoon breeze. For 20 years he's ...
Cup overflowing with promiseThe Border Mail

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Cup overflowing with promise
The Border Mail
One of the Imparja Cup's biggest success stories in recent years is the emergence of Cricket Australia's National Indigenous Development Squad. Each year, the best young players are selected from the tournament and become eligible for scholarships and ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Hunt for Aboriginal talent starts at the Top End
Warrnambool Standard
AT THE age of 47, Digger has seen better days. But with his Tennant Creek side in trouble against the old foe, Alice Springs, he strides proudly to the crease, his long, wiry beard barely moving despite the late afternoon breeze. For 20 years he's ...
Cup overflowing with promiseVictor Harbor Times

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Sydney Morning Herald
Hunt for Aboriginal talent starts at the Top End
Sydney Morning Herald
''I must admit when I was first alerted to that fact [I was the only indigenous Test player] it absolutely blew me away but then I thought about it a lot more,'' Gillespie said. ''Cricket Australia would love nothing more than an indigenous player and ...

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School attendance basic to improving indigenous education - Langton
Radio Australia
At the forefront of that debate is Professor Marcia Langton who has held the foundation chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne for more than 10 years. She has been vocal in her criticism of treating Aboriginal children ...