Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Facebook facing pressure in Australia over Aboriginal discrimination
WJLA
The Aboriginal Memes Facebook page has created a furor in Australia this week with its depictions of indigenous Australians as drunks and welfare cheats. Australia's media watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, is investigating ...

BBC News
Facebook removes 'racist' page in Australia
BBC News
How Facebook decides what to ban. A Facebook page that depicted Aboriginal people in Australia as drunks and welfare cheats has been removed after a public outcry. The Aboriginal Memes page had allowed users to post jokes about indigenous people.

Eureka Street
Soul sisters shine in gem
Sydney Morning Herald
Based loosely on fact, the script by Briggs and Keith Thompson centres on Australia's first indigenous girl group - three sisters and a cousin from the Cummeragunja Mission - who get their big break when they're invited to entertain American troops ...
Sapphire in the rough gets away from IT crowdThe Canberra Times
Aboriginal voices silence Vietnamese war storiesEureka Street

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AEC still alive in Deadly Awards
PS News
Director of the Indigenous Electoral Participation Program at the AEC, Bob Eckhardt, said the nomination recognised the AEC's work in encouraging Indigenous Australians to enrol and vote through the Indigenous Electoral Participation Program (IEPP).

Abbott to join CEOs on Aurukun working bee
The Australian
... business bosses at a remote Aboriginal community this weekend. Mr Abbott will join Fortescue Metals boss Andrew Forrest, National Australian Bank chairman Michael Chaney, retailer Gerry Harvey and Rio Tinto Australia managing director David Peever.

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Vanuatu i selebreitim International Day of the World's Indigenous People
Radio Australia
Australia Hai Komisin long Vanuatu i holim namba tu yar blong Arts Festival na dispela yar, ol i bringim wanpela lain pipol blong Aboriginal na Torres Strait Island long stap insait long dispela wan wik festival. image - ni-van chief with Richard ...

Indigenous solutions to power needs
ABC Local
An Indigenous company has joined forces with a solar power company to build renewable energy systems in remote Western Australia. Carey Power plans to train and employ local Aboriginal people to install and maintain the power systems, which will also ...
Young Australians Want Reconciliation- SurveyPro Bono Australia
"Makes you proud to be black eh?": Reflections on meaningful Indigenous ...7thSpace Interactive (press release)

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National leaders give their support to Damien Hooper “The Aboriginal flag is a ...
National Indigenous Times
By National Indigenous Times reporter Geoff Bagnall. Australia and the world stopped and listened, at least for a while, when Australia's Olympic boxing champion, Damien Hooper declared loud and proud his heritage as a descendant of Australia's First ...

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Australian government helps shut down racist Facebook page
Radio Australia
It took over 24 hours but a controversial Facebook page known as Aboriginal Memes has been shut down after complaints were made that it vilified indigenous Australians. Australian government helps shut down racist Facebook page (Credit: ABC). For much ...

More help urged for Indigenous inmates
ABC Message Stick
Western Australia's Inspector of Custodial Services says the programs at Albany Regional Prison do not do enough to help Indigenous detainees. Neil Morgan's report on the prison was released this week and made six recommendations to improve the ...

COMMENT: Unfair, unbalanced - misreporting petrol sniffing 'scourge'
SBS
Once again, petrol sniffing in Indigenous communities is in the headlines. And once again, sadly, the restraint that newspapers normally exercise in reporting drug issues among non-Indigenous Australians has been thrown aside, writes Peter d'Abbs from ...

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NEWS.com.au
Shame on Facebook, but let's not forget that racism is a wider public health ...
Crikey (blog)
As of this moment, more than 10000 people have signed this petition calling on Facebook to take down the racist attack on Indigenous Australians that is in the news. And more than 16000 people have signed this one. I wonder how many people from the ...
Facebook should ban racist page: ConroySydney Morning Herald
Conroy in talks with Facebook over hate pageSBS
Contents removed from racist Facebook pageThe Age

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Conroy in talks with Facebook over hate page
SBS
The page used internet jokes or “memes” to racially vilify Indigenous Australians, with text referencing colonialism and substance abuse placed against photos of Indigenous people without their consent. SBS believes the site was created by a 16-year ...

Young Australians Want Reconciliation- Survey
Pro Bono Australia
The results indicate that the majority of young people believe trust between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is low (75 per cent), but 81 per cent of young people want to take action. “We know that young people are major players in ...
"Makes you proud to be black eh?": Reflections on meaningful Indigenous ...7thSpace Interactive (press release)

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Literacy workshops discovering writing talent in remote Australia
Radio Australia
But as Karen Williams, executive director of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation has found it takes a lifetime to improve living standards for indigenous communities. Ms Williams has been conducting literacy workshops for children in Australia's remote ...

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Unfair and unbalanced: misreporting the petrol sniffing 'scourge'
The Conversation
A July front page of The Australian showed two young Aboriginal men, both identifiable, one with a hose in his mouth siphoning petrol from a car, the other clutching a soft drink bottle apparently containing petrol. “The scourge is back”, declared ...

NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal flag appears at Olympic Village despite recent controversy ...
Herald Sun
During the first week of Olympic competition, Australian boxer Damien Hooper was forced to apologise for wearing a t-shirt bearing the Aboriginal flag. According to International Olympic Committee regulations, no form of commercial, political or ...
John Carlos's Advice to Olympic Boxer Damien HooperThe Nation. (blog)

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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says Facebook should have removed ...
Perth Now
The creator removed content from the Aboriginal Memes Facebook page following a barrage of complaints to Facebook, the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the Australian Human Rights Commission. But Mr Conroy says Facebook itself ...

Yahoo!Xtra Blogs (blog)
Aboriginal flag appears at Games village
Yahoo!Xtra Blogs (blog)
"I'm aware of it," Australian team boss Nick Green told AAP. "The IOC have not instructed it be removed." It is understood the flag hangs from an apartment occupied by popular indigenous basketballer Patrick Mills. From a nearby balcony hangs a Torres ...

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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says Facebook should have removed ...
NEWS.com.au
The creator removed content from the Aboriginal Memes Facebook page following a barrage of complaints to Facebook, the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the Australian Human Rights Commission. But Mr Conroy says Facebook itself ...