Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
Defending racism in Australian media 101
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
We also saw this narrative play out during the Bill Leak cartoon about Aboriginal fathers saga. That Bill Leak depicted Aboriginal children as small adults, robbing them of any compassion or humanity, or that he regularly depicted Aboriginal men and ...

New Matilda
A Toxic Mix: Welfare Reform And The Mob In Remote Australia
New Matilda
Rome (Canberra) continues to fiddle while Black Australia burns. Professor Jon Altman weighs in on the ongoing disasters of government policy that have a tight grip on remote living Indigenous people. In the last month I participated in two workshops.

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Audtions for 2019 - Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts
ArtsHub
The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA) invites Australia's next generation of stage, screen and recording stars to audition this September for a coveted place in one of the centre's nationally accredited courses starting in February 2019.

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The Guardian
Greens demand Scott Morrison tackle high rate of Aboriginal deaths in custody
The Guardian
It comes after Guardian Australia's Deaths Inside investigation found 407 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody since the end of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991. The Greens have said they ...

Good Food
Taste test: a guide to native Australian honey varieties
Good Food
Rod wants it to rain because even the hardy Australian bush closes down during a drought. He and beekeepers around the nation rely on access to native forests so their charges, European honey bees, can feast upon the nectar and make enough honey to ...

ABC News
Drag mentorship brings Indigenous drag queens to Broken Heel festival
ABC News
A new generation of Indigenous drag queens is being mentored by the country's best in a program launched this year by Australia's only outback drag festival, Broken Heel. This year's three-day festival, a celebration of drag culture, saw record crowds ...

NEWS.com.au
'Racism … hate … comes from that lack of education', student tells Q&A
NEWS.com.au
Fellow panellist Dylan Storer agreed, drawing from experiences at a majority indigenous school in a small community in the Kimberleys in Western Australia. “We had eight weeks of that term focused on the American civil rights movement, in the last two ...

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The Australian
Ex-ATSIC chief Geoff Clark and family could face more than 80 fraud charges
The Australian
A high-stakes fraud case against Geoff Clark will allege serious criminal conduct stretching back to his time as chairman of the powerful Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, formerly the peak governing body for indigenous Australia. In ...

Daily Telegraph
Critics of Abbott's new role are wasting time
Daily Telegraph
Is the article assuming that Indigenous people need protecting from Abbott? Who is playing the role of modern-day protector here? Continuing the chorus of doom and gloom, Rod Little, co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples ...

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The Conversation AU
A new way to recognise an Indigenous nation in Australia
The Conversation AU
After years of debate, the process for achieving constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians has reached a crossroads. More than a year has gone by since the Uluru Statement from the Heart, when Indigenous peoples rejected symbolic ...

The Guardian
Indigenous women in custody more likely than men to have died where policy not followed
The Guardian
... as male prisoners to have not received appropriate medical care and 50% more likely to have died in circumstances where procedures were not followed. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are the fastest growing prison population in Australia.

The Conversation AU
A new way to recognise an Indigenous nation in Australia
The Conversation AU
After years of debate, the process for achieving constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians has reached a crossroads. More than a year has gone by since the Uluru Statement from the Heart, when Indigenous peoples rejected symbolic ...

Australian Ageing Agenda
Aged care system must prepare for Stolen Generations
Australian Ageing Agenda
Australia's aged care sector needs to start preparing for the specific needs of the Stolen Generations as they enter the system over the next five years, the head of the Healing Foundation says. The Healing foundation is a national Aboriginal and ...

SBS
Indigenous MP Linda Burney slams 'joke' Tony Abbott envoy appointment
SBS
The Indigenous MP is scathing about the former prime minister's new role as details emerge about what the job entails. "This is just a joke. They are making it up as they go along with Tony Abbott as the special envoy for Indigenous Australians," Ms ...

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The Australian
PoliticsNow: Liberals still have a good fighting chance: Tony Abbott
The Australian
The indigenous MP is scathing about the former prime minister's new role as details emerge about what the job entails. “This is just a joke. They are making it up as they go along with Tony Abbott as the special envoy for indigenous Australians,” Ms ...

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A new way to recognise an Indigenous nation in Australia  The Conversation AU

A federal system could deliver on three of the four key elements of the Uluru Statement. Plus, all the elements already exist or are in the works in Australia.

ABC News
Reconciling the dark history of slavery and murder in Australian pearling, points to a brighter future
ABC News
But he's also the descendent of the Bardi and Jawi, the Aboriginal people who live at the tip of the Dampier Peninsula where crystal clear oceans swirl over rugged rock and coral reef of Australia's north-west. Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

The Mercury
Census figures show more Tasmanians are identifying with their indigenous heritage
The Mercury
Newly released census figures show Tasmania has one of the nation's highest rates of people who identify as being of Aboriginal origin, and the numbers are rising. The Australian Bureau of Statistics says the estimated residential population of ...

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ABC News
Indigenous parents homeschooling children in face of literacy and numeracy gap
ABC News
Life expectancy: Close the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation; Employment: Halve the gap in employment by 2018; Reading and writing: Halve the gap in reading and numeracy for Indigenous ...

The Australian
Eternal treasures
The Australian
From its contested custodianship of Greece's Elgin Marbles to Australian indigenous artefacts collected through acts of exploitation or violence, the museum is often accused of being a repository of treasures obtained in questionable circumstances. But ...

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