Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
Shorten faces push to bring in gay and indigenous MP quotas
The Australian
“We should consider quotas for sections of our community that are under-represented in our parliaments, including indigenous Australians and the LGBTI community,” the manifesto said. The manifesto was covered in major media outlets, with the ABC ...

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Daily Telegraph
Australia Day: Prime Minister Scott Morrison insists on January 26 but wants a new 'indigenous day'
Daily Telegraph
Mr Morrison's position is that Australia Day should be celebrated on January 26, to acknowledge that on this day “Australia changed forever” and, prior to this, there was 60,000 years of indigenous history. “We know there are things that have happened ...
PM attacks Byron's alternative Australia Day planEchonetdaily

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Daily Telegraph
January 26 to stay but ScoMo wants to create a day for indigenous Australians
Daily Telegraph
SCOTT Morrison wants to create a new national day — separate from Australia Day — to honour and acknowledge the history of indigenous Australians. As the Prime Minister stepped up his attack on local councils exploiting divisions over our national ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
'Worst HIV outbreak' for Indigenous people clouds drug funding issue
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Queensland government's decision to suddenly withdraw $740,000 from trials of a successful HIV drug trial has put more than 1400 men “in limbo”, according to a sexual health expert closely linked to the trial. That was despite $870,000 in funding ...

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ABC News
Australian HIV rates declining overall, but not for everyone
ABC News
963 new cases of HIV infection in Australia in 2017, compared to 2,412 at peak of epidemic in 1987; 7 per cent decline in HIV rates in Australia over past 5 years; 41 per cent increase in HIV rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...
HIV on the rise in straight Australian men, Kirby Institute reportThe Sydney Morning Herald
HIV rates continue to increase in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communitiesABC Local
HIV on the rise among straight Aussie men, finds Kirby Institute reportNEWS.com.au
The Guardian
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Mandurah Mail
Butler credits Pinjarra for understanding Indigenous struggles
Mandurah Mail
“For me, it was the first time I came in contact with Indigenous Australia and the Noongar people of Pinjarra. “I became really good friends with a couple of families in town.” Butler said he became close with the Kearing family, in particular. “I ...

UNSW Newsroom
UNSW Indigenous Law Centre associate appointed ACT's first Aboriginal magistrate
UNSW Newsroom
... a past member of the ACT Domestic Violence Prevention Council, and former Chair of the ACT Ministerial Advisory Council on Women. She is a member of the Law Council of Australia's Indigenous Legal Issues Committee and was the 2009 recipient of the ...

ABC Local
HIV rates continue to increase in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
ABC Local
Rates of HIV infection in Australia's Indigenous communities remain stubbornly high, even as they drop across the population. New figures released today show that in 2017 Australia had its lowest number of new diagnoses in seven years. But researchers ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
HIV on the rise in straight Australian men, Kirby Institute report
The Sydney Morning Herald
HIV diagnoses among Indigenous Australians have also increased in the past five years from 26 to 31 new cases in 2017; 1.6 times the rate among the non-Indigenous Australian population (4.6 versus 2.8 per 100,000 population). Associate Professor James ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
How an Indigenous community inspired a law firm to fight for change
The Sydney Morning Herald
Just over a decade ago the remote community of Fitzroy Valley in Western Australia reached a crisis point. In the years 2005 to 2006 its people attended 50 funerals, including 13 suicides. Most of the deaths were alcohol related. "We knew things had to ...

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ABC Local
Budj Bim aerial seed bombing could see return of the tiger quoll
ABC Local
It is tipped to join the likes of Kakadu and the Great Barrier Reef as Australia's 20th UNESCO World Heritage site early next year, becoming the only Australian site listed solely for its Indigenous cultural value. So a bit of spring rejuvenation ...

Menzies, Ned and the Don: Mormons baptise prominent Australians after death
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mormons have posthumously 'baptised' prominent Australians, including former prime ministers Robert Menzies and John Curtin, bushranger Ned Kelly, cricketer Don Bradman and well-known Indigenous people. The Mormon practice of baptising the dead ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Menzies, Ned and the Don: Mormons baptise prominent Australians after death
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mormons have posthumously 'baptised' prominent Australians, including former prime ministers Robert Menzies and John Curtin, bushranger Ned Kelly, cricketer Don Bradman and well-known Indigenous people. The Mormon practice of baptising the dead ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal children should not endure the struggles their parents did
The Sydney Morning Herald
South Africans, together with many others in the world, recognise the plight of Indigenous Australians and stand in solidarity with them, says Sello Hatang, the head of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. "We as South Africans cannot just claim our own freedom.

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal children should not endure the struggles their parents did
The Sydney Morning Herald
South Africans, together with many others in the world, recognise the plight of Indigenous Australians and stand in solidarity with them, says Sello Hatang, the head of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. "We as South Africans cannot just claim our own freedom.

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Anger, sadness, shame: Stories by Indigenous Australians hit home  The Sydney Morning Herald

Adam Goodes and Deborah Cheetham tell their stories in Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, a new anthology that aims to break down stereotypes.

ABC News
Indigenous villagers concerned about town water source after approval of granite quarry
ABC News
The Indigenous village of Roelands, in Western Australia's South West, is a special place for the handful of people who live there. From the early 1940s it was used as a mission for stolen generations children. Roelands CEO Les Wallam was just four ...

Stellar line-up for first Roebourne peace concert
The West Australian
Archie will be joined by a line-up of local artists who'll take to the stage alongside Australia's top indigenous artists which include nationally acclaimed Broome artist Steven Pigram and Bidyadanga singer-songwriter John Bennett. Every day in the ...

ABC News
'Australian Antiques Roadshow' sees farmers hand in Aboriginal artefacts held for generations
ABC News
A unique team is embarking on what they call the "Australian Antiques Roadshow" to try to preserve ancient Aboriginal artefacts uncovered on farmland and, in some cases, kept in secret for generations.

The Australian
Desert footballers fight to save their game
The Australian
An Australian rules football league in South Australia's remote Aboriginal lands, suspended after incidents of violence, will not resume this year, the sport's governing body has ruled. But there is confidence a new community advisory board will work ...