Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

NEWS.com.au
Pregnant smokers in government's sights
Herald Sun
PREGNANT women and indigenous Australians are being targeted in a new anti-smoking campaign that comes a month before all cigarettes have to be sold in plain packaging. The latest statistics suggest one in seven Australian women smoke during ...
Anti-smoking ads target Indigenous pregnant womenABC Online

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Teachers to learn Aboriginal English after 'horse' misunderstanding
Perth Now
The new training, touted as a world-first and based on 20 years of research, is designed to ensure indigenous children are not wrongly disciplined or lose confidence. And, it will help teachers who speak standard Australian English to communicate with ...

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Teachers to learn Aboriginal English after 'horse' misunderstanding
The Australian
The new training, touted as a world-first and based on 20 years of research, is designed to ensure indigenous children are not wrongly disciplined or lose confidence. And, it will help teachers who speak standard Australian English to communicate with ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Investors face wait for a glittering prize
Sydney Morning Herald
An estimated one million cinema viewers have now seen a story about Aboriginal women rising above racism with warmth and humour, giving a fresh perspective on indigenous Australia. Only 13 Australian releases have taken more at the local box office - a ...

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NTNews.com.au
Storm stops indigenous runners
The Canberra Times
CANBERRA sporting icon Robert de Castella and his fledgling group of indigenous marathon runners have been left ''devastated'' by the cancellation of the New York Marathon just 31 hours before the race. De Castella has spent nine months training eight ...
Team focuses on marathon clean-upNTNews.com.au

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Spirited Australian festivals
NEWS.com.au
Uplift promotes various perspectives including science, wellness, art, ecology, new economics, indigenous culture and youth and will feature guest speakers including Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jonathan Goldman, Paul Stamets and Bruce Lipton, and ...

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Aboriginal runners to help New York after Sandy
AFP
NEW YORK — Eight indigenous Australians who spent months training for the New York marathon said they were disappointed it was cancelled but will now volunteer to help the city recover from superstorm Sandy. The six men and two women, hand-picked ...

ABC News
Aboriginal runners volunteer to help with recovery after New York marathon ...
Herald Sun
EIGHT indigenous Australians who spent months training for the New York marathon said they were disappointed it was cancelled but will now volunteer to help the city recover from superstorm Sandy. The six men and two women, hand-picked as part of a ...
Aussies dismayed at marathon's cancellationSydney Morning Herald

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AFP
Aussies dismayed at marathon's cancellation
Sydney Morning Herald
Marathon legend Robert de Castella said the eight indigenous Australians who had travelled to New York with him to do the marathon - after nine months of training - were "absolutely devastated". De Castella said the team, part of the Indigenous ...
Aboriginal runners to help New York after SandyAFP

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Should Local Governments be constitutionally recognised?
Coolum News
"Prime Minister Julia Gillard gave an undertaking when coming to office in 2010 to hold referendums by the end of 2013 on both constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians and constitutional recognition of local government," Ms Lewis said ...

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Redfern Now on ABC
National Indigenous Times
Redfern Now, six stories that explores life of Indigenous families, and the first drama series written, directed and produced by Indigenous Australians, will begin screening on ABC1 this Thursday 1st November. The series has pulled together Indigenous ...

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Aboriginal people 'in welfare trap'
NTNews.com.au
"It is the kind of question the rest of Australia has been asking for years, as it tries to connect the dots, tries to understand why a long-running mining boom can exist literally next door to a culture of entitlement and welfare dependency.'' In a ...

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My dream: a real future of our own making
The Australian
TODAY I want to provide a statement on the status of Aboriginal communities living in the Northern Territory. Most Australians would have an idea of those communities, whether right or wrong. Even those of us with deep knowledge have to admit how ...

Sick at heart: why a disillusioned Warren Mundine quit the Labor Party
The Australian
I saw that we could end the disparity between indigenous and non-indigenous Australia within a generation. And I believed (government) policies were never going to do it. "It became more about the politics than actually achieving anything. And I began ...

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Yahoo!7 News
A courageous indigenous voice speaks the truth
The Australian (blog)
WHAT a breath of fresh air Northern Territory Indigenous Advancement Minister Alison Anderson is for speaking out about the corrosive culture of entitlement and welfare dependency that blights Aboriginal people across this land ("My people must grow up ...
NT Aboriginal politician calls for end to culture of welfareABC Online
Minister slams Indigenous culture of dependencyYahoo!7 News

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Free agent
The Australian
For most of his adult life, he proudly did so first as a member, and then as the first indigenous National President of the Australian Labor Party - but that relationship is now over. "I know there are people who are going to be shocked when they hear ...

Blown by fickle winds of Aboriginal policy
The Australian
This week Russell Skelton from The Age took the words right out of my mouth. Skelton is a Fairfax exception, regularly bringing unsettling guests into the parlours of cosmopolitan Melbourne: the peoples of remote Aboriginal Australia. His writing tells ...

Sydney Morning Herald
What the rest of us can bet on: some culture
Sydney Morning Herald
Foremost among them is a ''world-class'' national indigenous cultural centre. The Visitor Economy Taskforce, with a keen eye on international tourists, has told the state government that Sydney needs such a centre. Its report laments: ''NSW has ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Chris O'Dowd interview: The Sapphires
Telegraph.co.uk
A feelgood musical about an indigenous Australian girl group that goes to Vietnam to sing soul music to the American troops in the 1970s, it has already been a hit in Australia, and could well repeat that success worldwide. Before the festival ...

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Leading Aboriginal corporation in administration
ABC Local
JON ALTMAN: The BAC expanded to the point where it was the largest Indigenous development corporation in north Australia and it was the envy of very many remote and Indigenous communities who saw the BAC as just the outstanding model for ...

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