Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
Too soon for indigenous referendum on constitutional recognition, final report says
The Australian
It is too soon for Australia to go to a referendum on the question of constitutional recognition of indigenous people, according to the final report on the matter by a parliamentary joint select committee co-chaired by the father of reconciliation Pat ...

The Guardian
Indigenous voice proposal endorsed by joint parliamentary committee
The Guardian
The joint parliamentary committee on constitutional reform has released its final report today, endorsing the proposal for an Indigenous voice to parliament and recommending “a process of co-design” between the government and Aboriginal and Torres ...
Liberal and Labor MPs revive hopes for Indigenous Voice to ParliamentSBS
The Indigenous community deserves a voice in the constitution. Will the nation finally listen?The Conversation AU
Major life expectancy gap among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peopleRACGP
ABC News -My Sunshine Coast (press release)
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Dharawal FC? Budding A-League club could assume Indigenous identity
The Sydney Morning Herald
If Southern Expansion wins the race for an A-League licence on December 12, Australian sport could have its first club representative of an indigenous nation. The Dharawal country is set to heavily influence the identity of the football club and could ...

RACGP
No longer a death sentence: Australia making progress in diagnosis and management of HIV
RACGP
'There has also been an increase in HIV diagnoses in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people compared to non-Indigenous Australians, and there is still quite low awareness of PrEP in the general community in Australia, with an increase in HIV ...

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Chronicle
Indigenous USQ almunus heads to Cambridge for study
Chronicle
The Charlie Perkins Scholarship program was established in 2009 in the memory of Dr Charlie Perkins AO, one of the first Indigenous Australians to graduate from university. Dr Perkins believed a university degree would prepare him for the rigours of ...

Indigenous voice to parliament should be reconsidered, bipartisan committee finds  ABC News

Indigenous Australians should have a voice to parliament and the government should consider supporting the body, a bi-partisan committee says in its report ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal-led justice project saves rural town almost $3m
The Guardian
“Maranguka is a recognition that we in Australia continue to spend far too much on the end product rather than deal with the upfront,” the NSW health minister, Brad Hazzard, said in launching the report. “I don't share the views of some of my ...

ABC News
Sentinelese incident shines spotlight on India's 'fragmented and contradictory' indigenous protections
ABC News
The suspected killing of an American missionary on a remote Indian island has sparked calls to better protect indigenous people from increasing pressure to free up their land for tourism, mines and highways.
An isolated tribe killed a missionary — and gave an anti-immigration politician an ideaWashington Post
Anti-immigration Australian senator Pauline Hanson praises Sentinelese for 'protecting their border'Scroll.in

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The Conversation AU
Twelve charts on race and racism in Australia
The Conversation AU
And 27 years since the end of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in Custody, more than 400 Aboriginal and Torres Trait Islander people have died in custody, and Indigenous Australians are still massively over-representated in our prison system.

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National Indigenous Times
Australia's most popular Indigenous songs recorded on first-ever chart
National Indigenous Times
The weekly chart of the most heard Indigenous songs across Australian radio has been launched by the organisers of the National Indigenous Music Awards, Radio Monitor and music marketing group SGC. Busby Marou (Sounds of Summer) took out the first ...

SBS
Politicians pay tribute to the late Bonita Mabo
SBS
Last week she received an honorary doctorate from James Cook University, recognising 45 years of advocacy for Indigenous Australians and Australian South Sea Islanders. She co-founded the Black Community School in Townsville, the country's first ...

ABC Local
The program helping Indigenous Australians quit smoking
ABC Local
A program in Sydney that's helping Indigenous people quit smoking is also exploring the deeper reasons why it's still the norm for roughly a third of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults. Organisers behind the "Talking About Tobacco Use" (TATU) ...

The Guardian
Bonita Mabo: tributes pour in for 'mother of native title'
The Guardian
“A formidable 'woman Tanna', Aunty Bonita will be greatly missed as Australia has lost one of the greatest matriarchs of all time. Because of her, we can.” Reconciliation Australia's chief executive, Karen Mundine, said Mabo had “made a powerful ...
Bonita Mabo remembered as a 'proud woman' by her familyTownsville Bulletin
Anti-corruption body on the cardsThe Saturday Paper
Indigenous rights activist Bonita Mabo dies days after accoladeRadio New Zealand

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The Australian
Kelly O'Dwyer says Liberal Party seen as homophobic, anti-women, climate-change deniers
The Australian
Mr Dreyfus said it was “nonsense” to suggest Labor was walking away from constitutionally enshrining the voice, after The Australian revealed the party is set to endorse a parliamentary report that rejects indigenous constitutional recognition until ...

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Indigenous voice remains Labor plan
9news.com.au
Labor remains committed to giving indigenous Australians a formal voice in federal parliament and enshrining it in the constitution. In a joint statement with indigenous federal Labor MPs, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said reports his party may walk ...

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ABC Life
We need to talk about cultural appropriation in fashion
ABC Life
Chanel upset Indigenous Australians by selling a $1,930 designer boomerang as part of a collection in 2017. Victoria's Secret was forced to apologise in 2012 for putting a Native American-style headdress on a model in one of its fashion shows. At the ...

The Australian
Labor set to put republic before indigenous voice vote
The Australian
The lack of dissent from Labor will anger indigenous Australians who have already put Mr Shorten on notice, and add to rancour at next month's ALP national conference in Adelaide where some members will push for a change to the party's platform to put ...

ABC News
Noel Pearson calls on Bill Shorten to prioritise Indigenous recognition over Republic if elected
ABC News
Mr Pearson said the referendum question must be put to the Australian people. Mr Pearson said Indigenous Australians wanted a vote as soon as possible, and that it would be offensive to have a vote on the republic first. "If we ever move towards an ...

Noel Pearson urges Shorten to prioritise Indigenous recognition over Republic  ABC News

Cape York leader Noel Pearson calls on Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to put a referendum on Indigenous recognition to a vote if he wins the election next year ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Push for national Indigenous sports body
The Sydney Morning Herald
A push to establish a national body focusing on furthering the interests of Indigenous people in Australian sport is gathering momentum, with dual Geelong premiership player Mathew Stokes among those supporting the concept. Former Indigenous ...

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