Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Brisbane Times
Telstra slammed after 21 Indigenous Australians left $90000 in debt
Brisbane Times
Telstra has been criticised by a consumer group after more than 20 Indigenous Australians were left with a total of $90,000 in debt when sales staff at one of its branded retail outlets in Western Australia sold them plans they could not afford. This ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Telstra slammed after 21 Indigenous Australians left $90000 in debt
The Sydney Morning Herald
Telstra has been criticised by a consumer group after more than 20 Indigenous Australians were left with a total of $90,000 in debt when sales staff at one of its branded retail outlets in Western Australia sold them plans they could not afford. This ...

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ArtsHub
The rise and rise of Indigenous ceramics
ArtsHub
Yhonnie Scarce has been named the recipient of Shepparton Art Museum's $20,000 Indigenous Ceramic Award (ICA), regarded as the most prestigious national award for Indigenous ceramics in Australia, and one that pushes perceptions of the field.

The Guardian
Tony Abbott accepts job as special envoy on Indigenous affairs
The Guardian
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has accepted an offer to become Scott Morrison's special envoy on Indigenous affairs, saying school attendance and performance will be his major focus. Morrison offered the Liberal backbencher the envoy role after ...
PM Morrison and what he might mean for Indigenous AustraliaSBS
Tony Abbott holds out on Scott Morrison's Indigenous Affairs special ...The Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott accepts indigenous envoy role in Morrison Government9news.com.au
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The Conversation AU
The Indigenous employment gap is widening and we don't know how to fix it
The Conversation AU
The Closing the Gap framework sought to halve the employment gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, among other targets. But the employment target expired unmet this year. In remote parts of Australia, the gap has actually widened ...

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The Guardian
Labor targets Michael Sukkar's seat with Indigenous recognition advocate
The Guardian
So when I say I've reaped the benefits of the amazing opportunities Australia offers, I really have.” On Monday, Morris, a prominent advocate for Indigenous recognition known for her work at Noel Pearson's Cape York Institute, announced another career ...

The Guardian
States failing to take up lifesaving phone service for Indigenous prisoners
The Guardian
The Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, says he is “disappointed” that only two of Australia's states and territories have accepted the federal government's offer to fund a lifesaving custody notification service, two years after he made the ...
'National Shame': 147 Indigenous Deaths in Australian CustodyteleSUR tv HTTPS (press release) (blog)
Almost 150 Indigenous Australians Die In Custody In Country Since 2008 - ReportsUrduPoint News

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The Australian
Leah Purcell credits indigenous unit of Screen Australia for helping her career
The Australian
Purcell is one of many actors and filmmakers whose work has been supported by the indigenous department of Screen Australia, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this month. Since 1993 more than 160 titles — features, television series and ...

The Weekly Times
Miranda: Pre-settlement Australian history must be preserved locally
The Weekly Times
It's part of an international project called The Relational Museum and Its Objects: Engaging Indigenous Australia With Their Distributed Collections. The idea is to link indigenous people with their material culture and to link small, local and often ...

The Guardian
'National shame': 147 Indigenous people die in custody in Australia in a decade
The Guardian
Australia's shocking treatment of Indigenous people has been laid bare with the publication of new figures by the Guardian showing 147 Indigenous people – some of them children – have died in custody in the past 10 years. Opposition parties have ...

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'National shame': 147 Indigenous people die in custody in Australia in a decade  The Guardian

Australia's shocking treatment of Indigenous people has been laid bare with the publication of new figures by the Guardian showing 147 Indigenous people ...

Deaths inside: every Indigenous death in custody since 2008 tracked – interactive  The Guardian

More than 400 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody since the end of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991.

ABC News
Dingoes to no longer be classified as native animals under Western Australian law
ABC News
Dingoes will no longer be classified as native animals under planned changes to Western Australia's biodiversity laws. The iconic animals will be considered no different to wild dogs from 2019 under reforms to the Biodiversity Conservation Act. Dingoes ...

Art Guide Australia
Yhonnie Scarce wins 2018 Indigenous Ceramic Award
Art Guide Australia
Congratulations to Yhonnie Scarce who has taken out the 2018 Indigenous Ceramic Award (ICA) with her porcelain and glass work, Servant and Slave, 2018. The $20,000 award is acquisitive and Scarce's piece will join the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) ...

The West Australian
World Heritage listing of Burrup Peninsula rock art edges closer with nomination process starting
ABC News
A landmark agreement over a future World Heritage listing of the Burrup Peninsula's ancient rock art has been signed by the West Australian Government and the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation. The WA Premier, state ministers, Indigenous stakeholders ...
World Heritage-list call for Burrup Peninsula rock artThe West Australian
Ball rolling on Burrup Peninsula rock-art listingThe Australian
State to seek World Heritage Listing for Burrup Peninsula rock artWAtoday
The Guardian
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The Guardian
Morning mail: Aboriginal leaders call for review of deaths in custody
The Guardian
Aboriginal leaders have called for an immediate review of the “absolutely unacceptable” numbers of Indigenous deaths in custody, following the launch of Guardian Australia's Deaths Inside project which tracks all such deaths since 2008 – 147 of them.

ABC News
Being born in a remote leprosy institution just the beginning of life's challenges for health pioneer
ABC News
With newspapers highlighting the threat to the white population of the Kimberley, a leprosarium called Bungarun, which forcefully detained Indigenous patients, was established by the West Australian government in 1936. Ms Watson's parents were just two ...

ABC News
After 'whitesplaining' row, Indigenous theatre voices back calls for national company
ABC News
A few weeks ago, accusations that Australian theatre is hijacking Indigenous stories and "whitesplaining" them for the audience rippled through the industry. They were made by Indigenous playwright H Lawrence Sumner after the launch of his play, The ...

The Guardian
We examined every Indigenous death in custody since 2008. This is why
The Guardian
From May 2018, the reporting team has been reading every coronial finding relating to an Indigenous death in custody from 2008 onwards in Australia, and following up reports of cases that are still awaiting inquest. For the years 2010-2015, we ...

The Guardian
Deaths inside
The Guardian
Guardian Australia's reporting team has spent months collecting and analysing all available coronial data and other sources to build this searchable database. “Deaths inside” tracks every known Indigenous death in custody in every jurisdiction from ...