Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

MP to check on SA's indigenous lands
Ninemsn
South Australian upper house MP Kelly Vincent will spent the next week in the state's Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands to examine health, education and disability issues among indigenous communities. The Dignity for Disability MP will ...

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Indigenous girls face highest assault risk
Ninemsn
Indigenous girls face the highest risk of being injured in an assault compared to any other group in Queensland, a study has found. The study by the University of Queensland's Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine found ...

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Aboriginal laws set for huge overhaul
The Australian
Mineral Resources Minister Tom Koutsantonis said he would consult widely with Indigenous groups, mining companies and other interested parties to see which parts of the existing Act need an overhaul to cut red tape and minimise legal challenges once ...

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Aboriginal laws set for huge overhaul
Adelaide Now
Mineral Resources Minister Tom Koutsantonis said he would consult widely with Indigenous groups, mining companies and other interested parties to see which parts of the existing Act need an overhaul to cut red tape and minimise legal challenges once ...

Cape York's wasted millions, says Sarra
National Indigenous Times
BY National Indigenous Times reporter Geoff Bagnall. Australia's most prominent Indigenous academic, Dr Chris Sarra has warned the tens of millions of dollars being spent by State and Federal governments on the Cape York Institute's education program ...

SERCO fined $600000 for prison failures
National Indigenous Times
By National Indigenous Times West Australian reporter Gerry Georgatos. SERCO, the multinational company engaged by the West Australian Government to manage various services for the Department of Corrective Services, has been hit with a fine of nearly ...

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Wyatt hails deal to end “racist” will legislation
National Indigenous Times
BY National Indigenous Tomes West Australian reporter Gerry Georgatos. Western Australia's shadow Indigenous Affairs and Native Title minister, Yamaji man Ben Wyatt has applauded the State Government's introduction of legislation to allow family ...

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Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Australia: Cuba's literacy program a success for Aboriginal community
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
September 29, 2012 -- Green Left Weekly/Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Sixteen Aboriginal adults in the remote Australiann town of Wilcannia, in outback Australia, are the first graduates of a groundbreaking trial literacy program ...

Gas hub footprint steps on dinosaur toes
ABC Message Stick
"This is our only window on Australia during the age of dinosaurs 130 million years ago." Over the past year, Dr Salisbury has been working with the local Aboriginal community and Broome dinosaur enthusiasts to document the fossils near Woodside's ...

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Easing of grog bans sparks fears
The Australian
INDIGENOUS leaders have warned progress on violence and school attendance could be destroyed by a relaxing of alcohol sale bans in Aboriginal communities in Queensland. The Queensland Newman government yesterday announced its review ... Scold: The High ...

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An Australian hero whose skin was the wrong colour
On Line opinion
The Wee Waa Echo called them "radicals and professional troublemakers", adding that "it is not fanciful to see the Aboriginal problem as the powder keg for Communist aggression in Australia". Abused as "boongs" and "niggers", the Murrays' riverside ...

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AAco gets new foothold as cattle station sold
The Australian
It is understood that the Indigenous Land Corporation could be backing the purchase by the local Aboriginal people. Once a deal is finalised, the property is expected to be managed by the Australian Agricultural Company. Neighbouring properties Leopold ...

Sky News Australia
Relaxed grog bans 'to revive violence'
The Australian
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin immediately declared any change to the state's pioneering alcohol management plans, allowing entire communities to be declared dry, must not be at the expense of "vulnerable women and children".
Indigenous mayors back alcohol ban reviewHerald Sun
Slip of the tongues: language and the unintended consequences of Indigenous ...The Conversation
Indigenous councils to rule on liquorNEWS.com.au
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Mine project appeals set to be scrapped
The Australian
"The Aboriginal Heritage Act needs freshening up, it's relatively old -- I think that indigenous groups and the mining industry have been frustrated with the way it's been operating," Mr Koutsantonis told The Australian. "There has been a lot of court ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Australia was Stolen by Armed Robbery ... Jason Wing's piece installed as part ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Wing's Australia was Stolen by Armed Robbery features a bust of Captain Cook wearing a black balaclava, pictured. ''Australia was stolen from the Aboriginal people by lethal force,'' he said. Wing added the fate of indigenous people had deteriorated ...

Call for providers to deliver new $1.5b remote jobs program
Invest in Australia
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Bill Shorten said the Remote Jobs and Communities program brings together Job Services Australia, Disability Employment Services, Community Development Employment Projects and the Indigenous ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Australian health authorities under fire over Aboriginal health campaign
Telegraph.co.uk
The health department has recalled copies of the embarrassing Female Human Anatomy poster which were distributed to health centres and indigenous workers around the country as part of its "Live Longer!" public health campaign. The poster confused the ...
Health Dept withdraws inaccurate anatomy postersRadio Australia

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Sky News Australia
Indigenous mayors back alcohol ban review
The Australian
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Multicultural Affairs Minister Glenn Elmes has started his review of the alcohol management plans (AMPs) in place in 19 indigenous communities. The plans restrict or prohibit the sale and possession of alcohol ...
Slip of the tongues: language and the unintended consequences of Indigenous ...The Conversation
Indigenous councils to rule on liquorNEWS.com.au
Strategy encourages more Indigenous psychologistsRadio Australia
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Langton to deliver Boyer Lectures
The Australian
Marcia Langton has held the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne since February 2000. An anthropologist and geographer, she has researched Indigenous relationships with place, land tenure and environmental ...

Indigenous doctors share 'cultural education'
ABC Online
More than 300 Indigenous doctors from across the Pacific are gathering in Alice Springs today to share their traditional methods of medicine. Organiser Ngiare Brown says the conference is an opportunity to explore how culture can be used to enrich healing.

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