Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Censorship push shows too many taking offence
Adelaide Now
Logic should tell you that Abbott is hardly going to use a function where he is singing the praises of his fellow MP Ken Wyatt, the first indigenous Australian to be elected to the House of Representatives, as a vehicle to ridicule the sense of ...

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Media Spy
ABC2′s indigenous footy show axed
Media Spy
Covering Australian Rules Football from an Aboriginal standpoint, the show had been called ground-breaking for its mix of sport, music, personalities and culture. Executive producer and host Grant Hansen, who founded the show in its original format, ...
Cut program inspired cultural unityThe Age
The end for Mangrook showEsperance Express

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Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia selects SiteMinder as channel ...
TravelBizMonitor
Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia has engaged global online distribution solutions provider, SiteMinder, to implement a holistic technology offering, and to extend their reach to more online markets around the world. Voyages' properties at Ayers ...

The Age
Cut program inspired cultural unity
The Age
... be missing something significant. As for the ABC, I'm going to be one of many watching very closely to see how long it is before the national broadcaster comes up with a program that better serves both indigenous Australia and the cause of ...
The end for Mangrook showEsperance Express

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ABC Online
depressing example of populist politics
The Australian
THE dismal, populist and doomed quality of Australian governance has been on display this week with Julia Gillard announcing an in-principle royal commission into child sexual abuse, a panicked Tony Abbott falling into line and an ignorant media ...
PM's assurance to Pell is a concernThe Age
Many a good deed undoneWA today

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Labor loses plot on Aborigines
The Australian (blog)
Aborigines make up a far smaller percentage of Australia's population, and their support in a federal election might only be decisive in the seat of Lingiari in the Northern Territory and perhaps in one or two outer metropolitan seats in Sydney ...

The Age
Carving a route to indigenous wealth
The Age
By the late 1980s, indigenous policy and much public commentary in Australia was based on a paradigm that saw Aboriginal people as victims of a brutal colonial legacy, as residents of remote regions where they strove to maintain the vestiges of a ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Cleavage gives Canberra allure
Sydney Morning Herald
He quotes the author of Canberra's First Hundred Years, Frederick Robinson, explaining in 1924 that the Australian Aboriginal ''spat out his words like chewing tobacco'' and also ''burred his Rs more frequently than a Scotchman''. In short, Ngambri ...

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Brisbane Times
Carving a route to indigenous wealth
Brisbane Times
By the late 1980s, indigenous policy and much public commentary in Australia was based on a paradigm that saw Aboriginal people as victims of a brutal colonial legacy, as residents of remote regions where they strove to maintain the vestiges of a ...

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SBS
Wiradjuri artist Harry Wedge remembered
SBS
The artwork of Indigenous Australian icon, Harry Wedge (SBS). The Wiradjuri people of New South Wales have lost another Indigenous icon recently - the artist Harry Wedge, who was also a nephew of activist Isobel Coe. NITV's Nancia Guivarra reports.

Barnett defends Abbott's Aboriginal quote
NEWS.com.au
Mr Abbott on Tuesday said it would be terrific to have an "authentic" indigenous representative of central Australia in Canberra, in response to a question about the possibility of Northern Territory minister Alison Anderson switching to federal politics.

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Barnett defends Abbott's Aboriginal quote
The Australian
Mr Abbott on Tuesday said it would be terrific to have an "authentic" indigenous representative of central Australia in Canberra, in response to a question about the possibility of Northern Territory minister Alison Anderson switching to federal politics.

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Barnett defends Abbott's Aboriginal quote
Herald Sun
Mr Abbott on Tuesday said it would be terrific to have an "authentic" indigenous representative of central Australia in Canberra, in response to a question about the possibility of Northern Territory minister Alison Anderson switching to federal politics.

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Indigenous alcohol abuse hits 'crisis point'
ABC Online
A forum has been told that alcohol abuse among Indigenous Territorians has hit a crisis point. Stakeholders have met to discuss alcohol policy and its impact on Aboriginal communities. The Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the Northern Territory group ...

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China Daily
China meets Australia through images
China Daily
They are among a total of 107 photos and videos exhibited at the National Art Museum of China as a testimony to the growing confidence of Australian artists, particularly indigenous artists, as well as their concerns about native cultures. The ...

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New social media site for Indigenous people
SBS
A new social media website for Indigenous people has been launched by the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence. The social network has similar functions to Facebook, including friending, walls, photos, events and chatting, but with an Indigenous ...

Unique program opens employment doors for Aboriginal trainees on Gorgon ...
PACE Today
A group of Aboriginal students at Challenger Institute of Technology have become the first to complete a unique training initiative that has resulted in employment opportunities on the Chevron-operated Gorgon Project. Western Australia's large training ...

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Hills Shire Times
Indigenous students swap Halls Creek for the Hills
Hills Shire Times
The remote West Australian town of Halls Creek is a long way from the Hills in more ways than one. The heat is stifling, severe disadvantage is commonplace and school attendance is irregular at best. But 10 Aboriginal children have made the challenging ...

Charles Darwin University
Australian indigenous artists learn Japanese mokuhanga printmaking techniques
The Japan Daily Press
Australian indigenous artists learn Japanese mokuhanga printmaking techniques. By Radhika Seth / November 15, 2012 / No Comments · Australian indigenous artists learn Japanese mokuhanga printmaking techniques. The printmaking team at Charles ...
Indigenous artists learn Japanese printmaking techniquesCharles Darwin University

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WA today
A confected culture war
The Australian
These activists seemingly prefer to tweet from Sydney and Melbourne rather than help address the injustices faced by indigenous Australians across the continent. Mr Abbott was not sparking a debate about Aboriginality; he was acknowledging the gulf ...
Aboriginal identity forum with a twist on TwitterSBS
Abbott's comments unhelpful - WyattSky News Australia
Abbott's culture language clunky, Lib MPSydney Morning Herald
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