Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Australia: Bipartisan fraud on “closing the gap” of Aboriginal poverty
World Socialist Web Site
Both leaders cynically claimed their parties were committed to eradicating the impoverishment inflicted on Australia's indigenous communities. In reality, the shocking social conditions are the direct responsibility of federal and state governments, of ...

Indigenous cricketers out to impress at Imparja Cup
Radio Australia
Historically Indigenous cricketers have struggled to reach the highest levels of the game, with very few playing professionally at state level, and almost none have made it to the Australian national team. But Cricket Australia's National Talent ...

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Black Arm Band kicks off US tour with 'Dirtsong'
The Dartmouth
Tonight, audiences will spend the night enraptured by the sound of beating drums and didgeridoo as the Black Arm Band, an indigenous Australian music group, opens their U.S. premiere with “Dirtsong.” The production is a collection of music performed in ...

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Australians close in on Tony Abbott over Gillard as preferred prime ...
Newstrack India
18 (ANI): A new opinion poll showing Australia's Opposition Leader Tony Abbott ahead of Julia Gillard as preferred prime minister among Australians is a 'wake-up call' for the Labour Party, Regional Development Minister Simon Crean has said. The ...
Gillard's poll support collapsesWA Business News

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Overhaul ahead as indigenous art fair fails to deliver
The Australian
The report outlines a new model, with a strongly curated exhibition, also open to indigenous artists from outside Australia, taking place in the terminal while indigenous art centres and other exhibitors would be invited to sell their work in a ...

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Indigenous cricketers converge on Alice Springs
ABC Online
More than 500 Indigenous cricketers from across Australia will converge on Alice Springs this week for the National Indigenous Cricket Carnival. Sebastian Kipman from Cricket Australia says the competition is in its 20th year and has attracted a record ...

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Abbott puts aside pugilism to set a new moral course
Brisbane Times
Last week, with the passage of the Act of Recognition through the House of Representatives, Australia took the first cautious step towards achieving long overdue recognition of indigenous people in the constitution. Abbott took a bolder step ...
Australians close in on Tony Abbott over Gillard as preferred prime ...Newstrack India
Gillard's poll support collapsesWA Business News

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Abbott puts aside pugilism to set a new moral course
Sydney Morning Herald
Last week, with the passage of the Act of Recognition through the House of Representatives, Australia took the first cautious step towards achieving long overdue recognition of indigenous people in the constitution. Abbott took a bolder step ...
Gillard's poll support collapsesWA Business News

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Ballina man to be Australia's first Indigenous shooter
Northern Star
BALLINA rifleman Damien Webb has been earmarked to become the first Indigenous shooter to represent Australia. The prediction comes from five-time national champion John Radford, who competes at a number of events around Australia with Webb.

Australian law relating to communal indigenous intellectual property
Lexology (registration)
Despite the breadth of Australia's laws protecting intellectual property, there is a major fall short in affording substantial intellectual property rights to cultural groups, communities, traditional/indigenous owners, or manifestations of ...

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Federal Government ready to “Recognise” Indigenous languages (but it's kinda ...
Crikey (blog)
The Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians reported that “the recognition and protection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and languages was raised at almost all consultations”. It's an issue that goes ...
'Small steps' to full Indigenous recognitionABC Message Stick

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'Small steps' to full Indigenous recognition
ABC Local
The Gippsland and East Gippsland Aboriginal Co-operative says acknowledging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Australia's first people is an important step. An act of recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders passed the House ...

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More hard work to win Indigenous Constitution recognition
Radio Australia
Campaigners for Constitutional recognition of Australia's indigenous people say they have a lot of hard work ahead of them to ensure success. More hard work to win Indigenous Constitution recognition (Credit: ABC). Five years to the day after the ...

Australian for Art
Indian Express
The stereotypes attached to the indigenous Australian culture in both Australia and internationally are plenty. In Australia, for instance, "Aboriginal is often equated to dark-skinned, uneducated people who, when they do art, only paint dots," says ...

home ownership is the key
The Australian
The 75,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders living on these lands - the 20 per cent of Australia that has been returned to indigenous ownership and control - have the worst health, shortest life expectancy, more alcohol, drug abuse and violence ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Kevin Rudd snubbed on indigenous apology
The Australian
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has addressed the crowd at a concert in Canberra celebrating the 5th anniversary of the Apology to Indigenous Australians. KEVIN Rudd was left out of a key event marking the fifth anniversary of his historic apology to ...
Indigenous Constitutional Bill sails through Australian parliamentRadio Australia
Nation's 'wound' closer to being healedSydney Morning Herald
New govt bill recognises Australia's indigenous communityThe Sunshine Coast Daily
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Myth of Indigenous rural heart health dispelled
Science Network Western Australia
aboriginal todd_river The University of Western Australia's Dr Judith Katzenellenbogen, spokesperson for the ongoing NHMRC-funded project, says the message is clear.. Image: iStockA NEW study has dispelled the belief that heart disease is higher among ...

Australia recognises indigenous peoples
Irish Times
Australia's lower house of parliament yesterday passed legislation recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the country's first inhabitants. The Bill, which coincided with the fifth anniversary of the government's apology to the “stolen ...

Effective Programs Aimed at Closing the Gap
Pro Bono Australia
Government figures show that in 2008, nearly one-third (32%) of Indigenous Australians aged 18 and over reported high or very high levels of psychological distress-more than twice the proportion for non-Indigenous adults. The Indigenous suicide rate is ...

Indigenous Constitutional Bill sails through Australian parliament
Radio Australia
Five years to the day after the Australian Parliament delivered an apology to the Stolen Generations, indigenous children forcibly taken from their parents in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, the first step's been taken towards Constitutional recognition of ...