Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Program announced for Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference
CIM Newsmagazine (press release) (blog)
A copy of the program can be found online, with key highlights including a keynote presentation from Eddie Fry, Chair of Indigenous Land Council and Indigenous Business Australia. AITC 2018 will take place from 30 October to 1 November at the Mantra in ...

Indigenous children don't need to be fixed – they need rights and opportunities
The Guardian
Our kids need to grow up as Aboriginal children with rights and opportunities, with a voice and the ability to control their own destination. I am mix-matched – a creation by others who decided they knew what was best for me. I am a product of ...

The Advertiser
The big problem with legalising euthanasia
The Advertiser
In 2013, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released data showing that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are 2.6 times more likely to die by suicide compared with non-Indigenous Australians. Suicide rates among young indigenous ...

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ABC News
Aboriginal teen being punched in face among claims of police mistreatment in Broken Hill
ABC News
Allegations that police punched an Aboriginal teenager in the face and released him without charge are among claims of police misbehaviour in far west New South Wales. Community members in Broken Hill are concerned about the impact of what they say ...

The Conversation AU
When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia?
The Conversation AU
Many Aboriginal Australians would say with conviction that they have always been here. Their ancestors and traditional learnings tell them of this history, and their precise place within it. Our review of the scientific evidence, published today in ...

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The Guardian
Bathurst, where the spirits prowl and whisper painful, bloody truths
The Guardian
But it is amazing how very closely, when it comes to the Bathurst war – like so many others on the Australian frontier – various Indigenous and European records accord. ***. The country all around is drought-stricken and bone dry, dusty and desperate ...

The Australian
Business pushes for indigenous 'voice' referendum by 2020
The Australian
A referendum establishing an indigenous “voice” to parliament should be held within 12 months of a federal election, Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott has declared, raising the prospect of constitutional recognition ...

Ninety years on, no justice for Australia's last Aboriginal massacre
The New Daily
Tuesday marks 90 years since the last recorded massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia. The murder of a white dingo hunter by a Warlpiri tribesman led to a spate of revenge killings of Aboriginal people in Central Australia in 1928. Officially, 31 ...

When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia?  The Conversation AU

Aboriginal Australians have effectively been on their country for as long as modern human populations have been outside of Africa. We have a limit as to how ...

The Indian Express
Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull accused of 'humiliating' indigenous leaders
The Indian Express
Australia's indigenous leaders have accused Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's government of “humiliating” them by refusing to establish an indigenous advisory body to parliament. Turnbull on Sunday ruled out supporting a referendum on enshrining the ...
Australian PM accused of "humiliating" indigenous leadersXinhua

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The Indian Express
Australian PM accused of "humiliating" indigenous leaders
Xinhua
6 (Xinhua) -- Australia's indigenous leaders have accused Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's government of "humiliating" them by refusing to establish an indigenous advisory body to parliament. Prime Minister (PM) Malcolm Turnbull on Sunday ruled out ...
Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull accused of 'humiliating' indigenous leadersThe Indian Express

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ABC Message Stick
Tim Winton joins push for World Heritage listing of ancient rock art on WA's Dampier Archipelago
ABC Message Stick
Across the islands of Western Australia's remote Dampier Archipelago are more than a million ancient Aboriginal rock carvings known as petroglyphs. Indigenous people who coexisted with now extinct species have left an indelible record in the hard rock ...

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The Age
Sky News under fire for hosting far-right 'activist' Blair Cottrell
The Age
"If Aboriginal culture was just 24 hours old, white people colonised & created Australian civilisation in 5 minutes," he wrote online earlier this year. Cottrell was also found guilty of inciting serious contempt of Muslims in September 2017 after ...

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ABC News
Prime Minister accused of 'humiliating' Aboriginal leaders with rejection of referendum
ABC News
There has been optimism and broad support for the idea of establishing an Indigenous advisory body in the constitution among thousands of Australians at one of the most important Indigenous gatherings, the annual Garma Festival in Arnhem Land this ...
Empowered Aboriginals to succeed: PearsonThe Australian
Garma festival: PM's rejection of Uluru Statement a 'missed opportunity'SBS
Garma festival: Noel Pearson warns against treaty before constitutional dealThe Guardian

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SBS
Celebrating 25 years of Indigenous stories on screen
SBS
There were once very few Indigenous Australians in lead roles on television and in cinema. That changed with the establishment of the Indigenous Department at Screen Australia, 25 years ago. A quarter of a century on, Aboriginal writer, director and ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
The world is being undone before us. If we do not reimagine Australia, we will be undone too
The Guardian
It would make some sense of my father's odd, wry acceptance of the two times he suffered the indignity of being refused service in bars as a “half-caste” when we went on a family camping trip to Western Australia in the 70s. It was, I later learnt, not ...
Australia must confront the brutal truths of its history, says Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthyThe Sydney Morning Herald

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SBS
'Chef's Oscar' for champion of Australian native food, Jock Zonfrillo
SBS
Jock, who owns Adelaide's popular Orana restaurant, was awarded for his work as a champion of native Australian foods, and long-term supporter of many Indigenous communities. Food writer Melissa Leong says it's an extremely prestigious award.

ABC News
Noel Pearson says Indigenous Australians must not be intimidated by 'ordinary' Malcolm Turnbull
ABC News
A referendum to give Indigenous people more power to run their own affairs is a "life and death matter", Indigenous leaders say. At the Garma Festival in north-east Arnhem Land, Gumatj clan leaders Dr Galarrwuy Yunupingu and Djawa Yunupingu said they ...
Garma festival: Indigenous sovereignty would be a 'gift for all Australians''The Guardian
'Two peoples side by side' - The AustralianThe Australian
Garma festival: Australians need to 'recognise colonisation was wrong'SBS
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The Australian
Pearson pushes constitution-first line on indigenous treaty
The Australian
“The Uluru Statement from the Heart anticipated that following the constitutional voice, there will be a process of treaty, a process of national, regional and local agreement-making, of Makarrata, and we seek a commission to be established in ...
Pearson vows fight for voice will go on9news.com.au

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The Guardian
'Whitesplaining' and lip service: six Indigenous theatremakers critique the industry
The Guardian
As a public spat, it covered pretty much all the bases – race, gender, freedom of speech and the political divide – offering a good opportunity to take stock of the Indigenous theatre landscape as a whole. Guardian Australia asked six practitioners ...