Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Advocate
What does the date really mean to Australians?
The Advocate
Seemingly without party consultation, public consultation or indeed much thought at all, Morrison instead floated the idea of a separate day to recognise Indigenous Australians. How this would differ from NAIDOC Week, Reconciliation Day and National ...

Whyalla News
What does the date really mean to Australians?
Whyalla News
Seemingly without party consultation, public consultation or indeed much thought at all, Morrison instead floated the idea of a separate day to recognise Indigenous Australians. How this would differ from NAIDOC Week, Reconciliation Day and National ...

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Starts at 60 (blog)
'Changing the date won't change history – but it might unite the nation'
Starts at 60 (blog)
Why would Aboriginals forget what happened in the past to suit a White Australia agenda; a guilt-free Australia Day on January 26. If Australia Day celebrations remain on January 26 every year I feel the same controversy will exist. For many Aboriginal ...

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Indigenous tourism entrepreneurs look to advance opportunities at Lorne conference
Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
Having seeded many Indigenous entrepreneurs across Australia over its 13 year history, the 2018 Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference (AITC) is to be hosted on Eastern Maar country on the Great Ocean Road, home of the Gadubanud people. Set to be ...

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ABC News
Indigenous communities slapped with more fines under Government work-for-the-dole scheme, data shows
ABC News
Disturbing new data reveals the impact Australia's flagship remote employment program is having on Indigenous people across the country, prompting claims it is worsening poverty in communities.

The Australian Financial Review
The 10 most culturally influential Australians in 2018
The Australian Financial Review
The Australian Financial Review Magazine defines cultural power as the ability to shape Australia's view of itself, crystallise an overarching issue in any given year, or reflect us back to ourselves. It is not the first time the Power panel has put ...

The Islander
What does the date mean to Australians?
The Islander
Seemingly without party consultation, public consultation or indeed much thought at all, Morrison instead floated the idea of a separate day to recognise Indigenous Australians. How this would differ from NAIDOC Week, Reconciliation Day and National ...

Google News

RACGP
Latest report shows continued positive results for Australian breast screening program
RACGP
This year's Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's (AIHW) BreastScreen Australia monitoring report, released during Breast Cancer Awareness month, shows continued positive results from the screening program, which has helped diagnose a ...

The Guardian
Songs for Peace: how Roebourne is turning the page on tragedy
The Guardian
To build goodwill, and to bolster community, on Saturday – the weekend anniversary of Pat's death – Big hART and the local Indigenous community launched the inaugural Songs for Peace next door to a memorial that was opened for him last year. “We will ...

The Guardian
Indigenous council seeks 'clarity' on Tony Abbott's envoy role
The Guardian
He also reiterated his views about Australia Day falling on 26 January, and Morrison's suggestion for a separate day to celebrate Indigenous people. “I've made no secret of my view that we have to change the date,” Ah See said. “The date has to change ...

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ABC News
Australian bustards, also known as bush turkeys, spotted at Neds Corner, Victoria
ABC News
A native apex predator nearly shot out of existence by the early settlers has been spotted in Victoria's north-west, giving hope that massive regeneration works along the Murray River are enticing the bird back to the state. Known by the Indigenous ...

The Guardian
WA Indigenous community tries to rid water supply of unsafe level of uranium
The Guardian
An Aboriginal community in Western Australia is trying to raise money to fix its water supply, which contains unsafe levels of uranium. Buttah Windee is a community of four houses about 3km from Meekatharra, a mining town that's name means “place of ...

The Guardian (blog)
Etched in Bone – chronicling Australia's shameful trade in Indigenous remains
The Guardian (blog)
Etched in Bone brings the remarkable insight and sensitivity of Thomas, a multiaward-winning historian and writer – now filmmaker – to the profound cultural impact on one Indigenous community touched by the 1948 American-Australian scientific ...

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National Indigenous Times
Action needed on regional and remote virus rise
National Indigenous Times
Associate Professor Ward also said while 70 percent of diagnoses in non-Indigenous Australia were men who had sex with other men, in the Indigenous population more than half of all diagnoses were heterosexual people infected through sex or drugs.

Courier Mail
Letters to the Editor, October 3, 2018
Courier Mail
Australia Day aside, I believe there is strong support for indigenous Australians to have a day to celebrate and display their culture, history and lifestyle. Why not? There are already days that recognise and celebrate the culture of Australian ...

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Daily Telegraph
Call for 'Corroboree Day' petty identity politics
Daily Telegraph
The Veterans Affairs Minister this week has just added more fuel to the NSW government's astonishingly self-inflicted funeral pyre with his idiotic idea of an alternative indigenous Australia Day. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory ...

ABC News
Tasmanian Aboriginal group calls for west coast land handback
ABC News
Tasmania's Aboriginal Land Council is pushing for what would be the first handback of land in more than a decade to preserve "precious" Indigenous sites on the state's west coast. The narrow strip of land running from Granville Harbour in the south to ...

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ABC News
In multicultural Australia, corporate boardrooms are still overwhelmingly white Anglo-Saxon
ABC News
In the past few decades Australia has become a very different country. Only 58 per cent of Australians still have British roots; 18 per cent are European; 21 per cent non-European; and 3 per cent of Australians are Indigenous. By contrast, in the big ...

Ten of the most iconic storytellers in Australian music
Tone Deaf
Arguably one of his best known tracks is that of 'From Little Things Big Things Grow', written with Kev Carmody and telling the story of the Indigenous Australian struggle for land rights and reconciliation. However, give a listen to tracks like ...

Etched in Bone – chronicling Australia's shameful trade in Indigenous remains  The Guardian

A sensitive documentary shows the theft and eventual return of human bones to Arnhem Land.