Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts, by Mike Smith. Source: Supplied
The Australian
In this way it marks a new intellectual approach to occupying the Aboriginal inland. Here we are, at the outset of The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts, gazing at the country through Smith's eyes. What can we see? A desert palimpsest, a manuscript ...

Into the Bloodstream (Archie Roach)
The Australian
It's an entirely apposite quirk of fate, then, that sees the simultaneous release of landmark works from two of Aboriginal Australia's deadliest singer-songwriters. Strengthening the parallel is the fact Into the Bloodstream and Blak & Blu are ...

Evening Standard
Prince Charles visits a rugby league exhibition at Bondi Beach, unsettling ...
NEWS.com.au
The NSW and Australia representative met Prince Charles as rugby league showed off its indigenous roots - via a game on the beach involving NRL stars Greg Inglis, Willie Tonga and Bird. And despite being coached in how to present himself to His Royal ...
Royal Sydney: Rain, hail and shineABC Online
Prince Charles the football fanHerald Sun
Prince Charles caught out by Sydney stormThe Australian

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Sydney Morning Herald
Prince Charles leaves his mark on NRL
Sydney Morning Herald
The NSW and Australia representative met Prince Charles as rugby league showed off its indigenous roots - via a game on the beach involving NRL stars Greg Inglis, Willie Tonga and Bird. And despite being coached in how to present himself to His Royal ...
Royal Sydney: Rain, hail and shineABC Online
Prince Charles caught out by Sydney stormThe Australian
Prince Charles the football fanHerald Sun
Cumberland Courier Newspapers
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Language may contribute to Indigenous disadvantage
UQ News
“We noticed that although most Indigenous children in Australia do not speak a traditional language, neither do they speak Standard Australian English in their homes and communities,” Dr Mushin said. “Teachers may assume that their children already ...

Indigenous music mentors rewarded with award
ABC Online
Two Indigenous music mentors have been jointly named as the Northern Territory Australian of the Year. Mark Grose and Michael Hohnen are the co-founders of Darwin-based record label Skinnyfish music, which has promoted and connected Indigenous ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Australian life just keeps getting longer
Sydney Morning Herald
''You are still spritely and you think you've been frugal, but the money's just not there.'' Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely to die in any age as non-indigenous people. Tweet · Pin It · Email article · Print · Reprints ...

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Federal recognition for the Wet Tropics
The Cairns Post
Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke will today announce the indigenous heritage values of the region will be added to the existing Wet Tropics national heritage listing. The region, which stretches from Cooktown to Townsville, includes the Barron ...
Cape York owners to decide heritage statusThe Australian
'Unanswered questions' over Cape's UNESCO bidABC Online

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Telegraph.co.uk
The Sapphires, review
Telegraph.co.uk
Tony Briggs's script is based on the experiences of his mother and aunt, who toured Vietnam as singers in the late 1960s, and it dares to raise two murky issues from Australia's past: Aboriginal land rights and the state-enforced adoption of indigenous ...
Jessica Mauboy Exclusive InterviewFemaleFirst.co.uk

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Millions spent on deserted township
The Australian
THE demise of a tiny Aboriginal community in remote South Australia has exposed concerns over the viability of service delivery to isolated outback communities. Watarru, a small community on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert in the Anangu ...

Aboriginal bodies 'ignored violence against women'
The Australian
In a territory "with more Aboriginal controlled land and autonomy or self-determination than any other place in Australia'', the intervention "brought to the surface the (once unspoken) tension between indigenous self-determination and Aboriginal women ...

The Age
Catch 82: we're all living longer … but can we afford to?
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely to die at any age as non-indigenous. Australians in cities are the least likely to die, suffering only 5.6 deaths per 1000 compared with 8.2 per thousand in very remote places. In NSW the death rate ...
Australian life just keeps getting longerThe Age

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Australian life just keeps getting longer
The Age
... until it runs out. ''What they hell do you do when you turn 87?'' he said. ''You are still spritely and you think you've been frugal, but the money's just not there.'' Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely to die in any age as non ...

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Indigenous health clinic nearly finished
ABC Online
Western Australian Health Minister Kim Hames says final works on an Aboriginal health clinic in Wiluna are set to be completed by this month. The facility faced months of delays when funds ran short during construction in June. Months later, a deal was ...

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Research shows smoking rates declining among Indigenous Australians
Radio Australia
It's not often we hear good news about health indicators for Indigenous Australians, but a new report has found that the number of heavy smokers within Australia's Indigenous population has almost halved in the past 20 years. Australian research shows ...

ABC Online
Peace prize winner condemns NSW Taser use
ABC Message Stick
Senator Holland is renowned for fighting against apartheid in South Africa, helping create a democratic Zimbabwe and advocating for indigenous Australians. She continues to promote peace in Zimbabwe through her role as minister for reconciliation ...
Sekai Holland to receive Sydney Peace Prize 2012ABC Online

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Express Advocate Wyong
National Indigenous 3on3 Basketball and Hip Hop Challenge to be held at ...
Express Advocate Wyong
There will be good vibes, fun and plenty of action when the National Indigenous 3on3 Basketball and Hip Hop Challenge is held at Bateau Bay PCYC on November 23. It's a fun free day for indigenous and non-indigenous school students of Wyong Shire to ...

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Men's Sheds Share in New Funding
Invest in Australia
Twenty-six Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Men's Sheds and groups, located in every mainland state and the Northern Territory, have won grants for their local community activities in a special $125,000 round funded by the Australian Government.

Australian research shows indigenous heavy smoking rates declining
Radio Australia
It's not often we hear good news about health indicators for indigenous Australians, but a new report has found that the number of indigenous heavy smokers has almost halved in the past 20 years. Australian research shows indigenous heavy smoking rates ...

Buru, Mitsubishi strike Kimberley gas deal
Ninemsn
Last month Buru Energy stopped work at its Ungani oil project in Western Australia after traditional owners said it had destroyed a significant Aboriginal archaeological site. Nyikina Mangala traditional owners had demanded the Perth-based company ...

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