Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

RANZCO CEO responds
Insight News
Australia's first Indigenous ophthalmologist, Dr Kristopher Rallah-Baker, contributed a Soapbox article in September commenting on racism and a lack of Indigenous representation within the profession. RANZCO CEO DR DAVID ANDREWS has submitted the ...

The Guardian
Indigenous advancement funding redirected to cattlemen and fishing groups
The Guardian
The $490, 000 grants come from the IAS culture and capability division, which is supposed to fund “Indigenous cultural expression and conservation” and “participation in the social and economic life of Australia.” Labor Senator Malarndirri McCarthy ...

Business Insider Australia
MAP: The most likely route the ancestors of Aboriginal people took to get to Australia
Business Insider Australia
Scientists have identified the most likely route Aboriginal people took to get to Australia tens of thousands of years ago. The research is the earliest, indirect evidence for sea faring by humans anywhere in the world. The findings challenge a theory ...
First humans to reach Australia likely island-hopped to New Guinea then walked – studyThe Guardian
Explained: The journey of the first AustraliansCosmos

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The Conversation AU
From the jarnpa of central Australia to trolls: the many meanings of monsters
The Conversation AU
In central Australia, for example, many Aboriginal people are terrified of jarnpa. These monsters may look like humans, but they possess superhuman powers. They can fly as fast as a bullet and make themselves invisible. They love to kill and do so with ...

National Indigenous Times
Genuine inclusion of Indigenous people shouldn't be a 'sometimes thing'
National Indigenous Times
“Her in-depth research background, high-level education and hands-on experience with the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Australians all make her a significant and valued addition to the board of the Adelaide Fringe,” Mr Minear said. “The Adelaide ...

National Indigenous Times
Art scam: company swamps market with Aboriginal products made in Indo
National Indigenous Times
Boomerangs, didgeridoos and message stones featuring Aboriginal-style designs, but made in Indonesia have landed an Australian souvenir wholesaler in court. A Federal Court judge this month found Birubi Art Pty Ltd to have made false or misleading ...

The Guardian
First humans to reach Australia likely island-hopped to New Guinea then walked – study
The Guardian
A study led by Australian National University PhD candidate Shimona Kealy and published in the Journal of Human Evolution has modelled the most likely route from southeast Asia to the Australian mainland based on which pathway would have required the ...
MAP: The most likely route the ancestors of Aboriginal people took to get to AustraliaBusiness Insider Australia
Explained: The journey of the first AustraliansCosmos

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Fairfield City Champion
Indigenous youth report good health
Fairfield City Champion
Most young indigenous Australians believe they are in good or excellent health and three in four of them are happy at least most of the time, a new report shows. But the mortality rate for indigenous young people is twice as high as it is for those who ...
Indigenous youth report good health | Daily Mail OnlineDaily Mail

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Wauchope Gazette
Indigenous youth report good health
Wauchope Gazette
Most young indigenous Australians believe they are in good or excellent health and three in four of them are happy at least most of the time, a new report shows. But the mortality rate for indigenous young people is twice as high as it is for those who ...

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Indigenous youth report good health
9news.com.au
Most young indigenous Australians believe they are in good or excellent health and three in four of them are happy at least most of the time, a new report shows. But the mortality rate for indigenous young people is twice as high as it is for those who ...

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Indigenous street signs sat in a shed for five years
The Australian
Officials and senior ministers said the project was about “ongoing recognition of Aboriginal communities in mainstream Australia”. But Mr Jackman said the project stopped short of actually installing street signs on the APY Lands, despite the high cost ...

SBS
Abbott begins whirlwind tour of remote Indigenous communities
SBS
Former prime minister Tony Abbott is playing down criticism that his visit to remote South Australian Aboriginal communities is ill-timed and offensive. Mr Abbott arrived in Ceduna on Tuesday and was in Yalata on Tuesday evening.
Abbott talks school attendance on Far West trip | PHOTOSWest Coast Sentinel

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2GB
'The federal government's being played': Anti-Australia Day council works loophole
2GB
The Byron Shire Council originally decided last month to move all Australia Day events to another day out of respect to Indigenous Australians. Prime Minister Scott Morrisson was among the first to criticise the council's anti-Australia Day stance ...

Mid-Day
RACGP takes aim at racism in healthcare
RACGP
'Acts of racism and discrimination negatively impact the development of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical workforce. Results from [the Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association] 2016 member survey found that more than 60% of Aboriginal ...
Native tales from Down UnderMid-Day

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RACGP
NACCHO and the RACGP: Working together for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
RACGP
Key RACGP initiatives include annual awards for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, early career doctors and organisations working in the community sector, and advocacy work for improvements in key programs such as the Australian General ...

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ABC News
Former employee at Northern Territory Telstra franchise details tactics used to upsell devices
ABC News
Last month, the ABC revealed Indigenous Australians in some of the nation's most remote communities had been handed exorbitant Telstra phone bills after signing up to contracts they did not understand. In one case, a Tiwi Islands woman living on ...

EducationHQ Australia
"Red dirt" schools need more local language Aboriginal teachers
EducationHQ Australia
He and his co-author, Dr Sam Osborne of the University of South Australia, have called for action on the one thing that all groups agreed on: the need for first language local Aboriginal educators in schools. “Each group recognised the value of ...

EducationHQ Australia
The silent racism in Australia's school system
EducationHQ Australia
Our institutions, the scholar from ANU says, work to gradually knead the 'Indigenous-ness' out of children, offshoots of a system that to this day whispers 'yes, you are the problem, but we can fix you'. “When (in 1814) … the governor opened the first ...

NEWS.com.au
The 2018 Sounds of Australia have been revealed and they include a rock band, an indigenous legend and a whale
NEWS.com.au
Gurrumul's self-titled debut album, released just a decade ago, has also been included in the 2018 Sounds Of Australia. The album introduced the naturally gifted singer and songwriter to the world, promoting indigenous language as its cultural ...
2018's Sounds of Australia revealedWhitsunday Times

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The New Daily
Life on Nauru is very pleasant, says Tony Abbott
The Australian
But Queensland Nationals senator George Christensen said conditions for refugee children on Nauru were no worse than in many Australian towns. “There's Australian children, indigenous and non-indigenous alike, that are perhaps in worse situations than ...
Govt caves to pressure – Nauru kids to stay in AustraliaThe New Daily

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