Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
Closing the Gap: reconciling a policy mess
The Australian
Academic Marcia Langton has called the appointment a “punch in the guts to indigenous Australia”, and it has been described by others as being more about solving Scott Morrison's political problems than black Australia's lived ones. The Prime Minister ...

The Australian
Tony Abbott challenged to support indigenous 'bush university'
The Australian
A remote Northern Territory Aboriginal community that was at the heart of Tony Abbott's 2013 declaration that he would be a “prime minister for indigenous affairs” has challenged him to back its comprehensive plan for educational reform in his new role ...
Indigenous advisory body demands answers from PM Scott Morrison on Tony Abbott appointmentABC News
Indigenous council wary of new Abbott roleNEWS.com.au

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ABC News
Indigenous council wary of new Abbott role
The Australian
But indigenous leaders reacted angrily to the snap appointment. Rod Little, co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, said last week Mr Abbott had a poor record on indigenous affairs as prime minister. Ms Mason criticised the lack ...
Indigenous advisory body demands answers from PM Scott Morrison on Tony Abbott appointmentABC News

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ABC News
Indigenous advisory body demands answers from PM Scott Morrison on Tony Abbott appointment
ABC News
The Prime Minister's hand-picked Indigenous advisory council has written to Scott Morrison demanding a meeting and an explanation on the appointment of Tony Abbott as special envoy for Aboriginal affairs.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Molly the Weet-Bix pig drives Indigenous reading campaign
The Sydney Morning Herald
In the Binjari community of northern Australia, a domesticated pig by the name of Molly has inspired one of nine new children's books written and illustrated by Binjari women in their first language, Kriol, the largest contemporary Aboriginal language ...

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The Conversation AU
How will Indigenous people be compensated for lost native title rights? The High Court will soon decide
The Conversation AU
Today, the High Court of Australia will begin hearing the most significant case concerning Indigenous land rights since the Mabo and Wik native title cases in the 1990s. For the first time, the High Court will consider how to approach the question of ...

ABC Local
Sunrise segment on Indigenous children ruled 'inaccurate', Channel Seven seeks judicial review
ABC Local
The Australian Communication and Media Authority (ACMA) today released its findings into the 'Hot Topics' segment, which was broadcast during breakfast show Sunrise on March 13. The discussion, in which an all-white panel gave opinions on the removal ...
Seven breaches code over Sunrise segment on indigenous childrenNEWS.com.au
Broadcast Watchdog Slams 'Sunrise' For That Cooked Stolen Generation PanelPedestrian TV

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The Weekly Times
Growcom project set to build horticulture knowledge in indigenous businesses.
The Weekly Times
Growcom's innovation coach Steve Tiley and members of the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia joined Mr Canavan in Townsville last week where he announced $4 million worth of research projects to create jobs in Northern ...

The World Game
This is why Darwin is the laksa capital of Australia
The World Game
So, I thought, why not combine Asian herbs and spices with Indigenous protein to create a dish that feels very Australian.” The spirit of Green's dish would no doubt draw approval from laksa's original inventors. “It's part of Darwin life to go down to ...

ABC News
Type 2 diabetes: Understanding Australia's fastest growing chronic condition
ABC News
Research shows people from South-East Asia, North Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania have higher rates of diabetes than other Australians. Indigenous Australians are also around four times as likely to have type 2 diabetes as non-Indigenous Australians.

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Herald Sun
City of Port Phillip to consider proposal to include nod to indigenous massacres in Australia Day events
Herald Sun
Cr Gross has proposed retaining Australia Day on January 26, but to include a “morning of mourning” ceremony that acknowledged “contrition and atonement of the impacts of colonial settlement on indigenous people, including a rite based upon the ...

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
10 questions I get from non-Indigenous students
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
I find that this question is generally connected with an attempt to give British colonisation credit for any and all technological/scientific advancements in the past two centuries, as though Indigenous Australia was not already trading and ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
Mawurndjul Makes Headlines in DC
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Smee has certainly reviewed Australian Indigenous art shows before at US galleries and museums. But I sense that his report from Australia is part of a serious reawakening of interest in Aboriginal art generally across America, vastly helped by the ...

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
25 years of Screen Australia's Indigenous Department
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
Penny Smallacombe, Head of Indigenous at Screen Australia spoke at the event and remarked on the significance of the milestone, “When Walt Saunders set up the Indigenous Department in 1993, it would have been unthinkable that over 160 First Nations ...

SBS
Family still searching for Indigenous digger's lost medals
SBS
In his monumental official history of the war, Charles Bean noted the actions of “Australian half-caste” Private Irwin. It is the historian's only reference to an Indigenous person in his 12-volumes on World War One. More than 1,000 Indigenous ...

The Big Smoke Australia
Deep Time Dreaming – Billy Griffiths on Indigenous Australia
The Big Smoke Australia
But this line of thinking – which seeks to devalue, discredit and dehumanise the Australia's Indigenous population – is far from a relic of some bygone era. Today the spectres of racism and white supremacy can still be observed in the continued loss of ...

The Independent
How chef Jock Zonfrillo is helping bring back Australia's indigenous food culture
The Independent
He was told there were no interesting indigenous ingredients in Australia. But Jock Zonfrillo found the only aboriginal people he could in Sydney, who confirmed what he knew: it wasn't true. It took 17 years to learn about the oldest surviving culture ...

The Guardian
Police said HN was 'good as gold' to be in custody, three days later he was dead
The Guardian
HN is one of 147 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to die in custody in Australia since 2008, according to an investigation by Guardian Australia. He is also one of 45 Indigenous people who did not receive all appropriate health care in ...

ABC News
Arnhem Land children suffer world's highest known rates of rheumatic heart disease
ABC News
There are fears for about 400 other children in the community who were not part of the study. The Northern Territory's only paediatric cardiologist, Bo Remenyi, said up to 100 Indigenous children with rheumatic heart disease die each year in Australia.

Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
New documentary follows Indigenous Rangers' journey to Kenya to share knowledge, culture and music with Masai ...
Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
A soon-to-be-released documentary, Ranger to Ranger, will follow the journey of acclaimed Indigenous musician Dan Sultan and a group of Indigenous Australian Rangers as they travel to Kenya to share knowledge, culture and music with a tribe of Masai ...