Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Indigenous “Homeless Away from Home”
Pro Bono Australia
The University of South Australia's Centre for Rural Health and Community Development surveyed Indigenous travellers in Ceduna and Port Augusta to find out their reasons for travel, how long they planned to be away from home, and how often they visited.

NZ does better with national day than Australia
Voxy
Professor McAllister, who has just released a book on the issue, said indigenous Australians reject participation in Australia Day and stage alternative events that protest against their marginalised status and disadvantaged condition. Aboriginal ...

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NZ does better with its national day than Australia, UC expert says
Voxy
Professor McAllister, who has just released a book on the issue, said indigenous Australians reject participation in Australia Day and stage alternative events that protest against their marginalised status and disadvantaged condition. Aboriginal ...

Australian oil project halted by Aboriginal protest
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Kred Enterprises on Friday said Nyikina Mangala, traditional owners of the land on which it had been prospecting for oil, had demanded a stop to the operations by the Perth-based company, at the project sit around 100 km east of Broome in Western ...

The Dartmouth
Gilchrist's 'Chalk Talk' lecture focuses on Aboriginal art
The Dartmouth
For Homecoming weekend, the talk focused on Aboriginal art from Australia, which is also the focus of the Hood exhibit titled “Crossing Cultures: The Own and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art.” Curated by Gilchrist, who works ...

Indigenous-only jail could provide model for NT
ABC Online
The superintendent of a new Indigenous-only prison in Western Australia says the Northern Territory should develop a similar facility. Mike Macfarlane is a former superintendent of the Alice Springs Correctional Centre and will supervise the staff and ...

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Gardiner graduates to PGA Tour
The Australian
Gardiner, born of an Aboriginal mother and Scottish father, hoped to inspire others as the first indigenous Australian to represent on golf's biggest stage. “I am very proud ... it's a great feeling,” he said. “Golf has become more popular the last 10 ...

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Green Left Weekly
Call for indigenous eye health equity
6minutes
It would cost only $70 million to end most preventable vision loss among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, a leading specialist said last week, eliminating 11% of the health gap between indigenous Australians and the rest of the community.
Kids in care 'losing culture'The Australian
Aboriginal students to protest to 'Save the Koori Centre at Sydney University'Green Left Weekly

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Globe and Mail
Native land-care tips from Down Under
Globe and Mail
A delegation of Australian Indigenous Rangers arrived in Vancouver on the weekend for a tour that will take them to Yellowknife and Winnipeg before ending in Ottawa in a week. The group, organized by the Pew Environment Group, is here to talk to native ...
From the Outback to the Boreal - Australia's 'Indigenous Rangers' to Share New ...Canada NewsWire (press release)

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Gardiner wants to be role model on US tour
Brisbane Times
Gardiner, born of an Aboriginal mother and Scottish father, hoped to inspire others as the first indigenous Australian to represent on golf's biggest stage. "I am very proud...it's a great feeling," he said. "Golf has become more popular the last 10-15 ...

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Philanthropic Investment in Aboriginal Women Needed - Report
Pro Bono Australia
Australian philanthropists are being urged to investing in programs to assist Aboriginal women and girls who can then act as catalysts for social change in their local communities, according to a new AMP report. The AMP Foundation report The Best of ...

Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal students to protest to 'Save the Koori Centre at Sydney University'
Green Left Weekly
I want to build a fair and more compassionate Australia." Jackson continued: “As an Aboriginal man himself one wonders what has changed the thinking of Shane from one of great and high ideals to a low assimilationist attitude to the Koori Centre. Our ...

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Scott Gardiner becomes first Aborigine to gain US PGA Tour card
Herald Sun
Gardiner, born of an Aboriginal mother and Scottish father, hoped to inspire others as the first indigenous Australian to represent on golf's biggest stage. "I am very proud . . . it's a great feeling," he said. "Golf has become more popular the last ...

Green Left Weekly
Kids in care 'losing culture'
The Australian
Indigenous children are increasingly overrepresented in state care, the Queensland Child Protection Inquiry has heard. One in every two indigenous children is expected to be reported to the state's child safety department this year and half the ...
Aboriginal students to protest to 'Save the Koori Centre at Sydney University'Green Left Weekly

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Sydney Morning Herald
Actor, director and writer Leah Purcell. Source: Supplied
The Australian
ACTOR, director and writer Leah Purcell is one of the ensemble cast featuring in Redfern Now, a six-part ABC drama that has the distinction of being the first series produced, directed, written and acted by indigenous Australians. Purcell talks about ...
Big ideas shape city life storiesBrisbane Times

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Sydney Morning Herald
Chop chop: Jamie picks up the pace
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous arrival. Redfern Now is one of the most exciting – and inclusive – new dramas to come out of ABC television. It's prompted a surge of pride in Australia's indigenous arts community because of the momentum behind the show and the calibre of ...

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Big ideas shape city life stories
Brisbane Times
The series stars some of Aboriginal Australia's best-known actors - Leah Purcell, Deborah Mailman and her Sapphires co-stars Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell - and harnesses serious directorial clout, with Wayne Blair (The Sapphires) and Rachel ...

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Big ideas shape city life stories
Sydney Morning Herald
The series stars some of Aboriginal Australia's best-known actors - Leah Purcell, Deborah Mailman and her Sapphires co-stars Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell - and harnesses serious directorial clout, with Wayne Blair (The Sapphires) and Rachel ...

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Yothu Yindi to be inducted into ARIA Hall of Fame
NEWS.com.au
The seminal collective of Aboriginal and non-indigenous musicians, led by Australian of The Year Mandawuy Yunupingu, stormed the charts worldwide with the unforgettable anthem "Treaty". The song, written by Paul Kelly with the north-east Arnhem Land ...
Hall of fame accolade crowns a life of firstsThe Australian

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Indigenous rangers to share land management skills
ABC Online
A group of Indigenous rangers from central and northern Australia is travelling to Canada to share skills in Indigenous land management. The trip has been organised by the Pew Environment Group. Patrick O'Leary from Pew says rangers will share their ...
I don't want his apologyNational Indigenous Times

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