Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

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Calls To Boycott Comedian Trevor Noah's Australian Tour Over Joke About Indigenous Women
Music Feeds
Trevor Noah's forthcoming Australian tour has sparked some belated backlash, after footage of the South African comedian making an offensive joke about Aboriginal women was dredged up on Twitter. A clip of the current Daily Show host's 2013 stand-up ...

ABC News
Aboriginal rangers key to reining in massive fires burning 'out of sight' across the country every year
ABC News
In the heart of Western Australia, far from the big cities or even the smaller towns, massive wildfires burn across the deserts in the warmer months. The fires — in some cases the size of Sydney — were often caused by a pattern of lightning strikes ...
'Largest, most representative' collection gives SA gallery edgeAlice Springs News Online

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The Australian
Uncle Tom a slur meant to keep indigenous Australians online
The Australian
In the 1950s, my father was paid an “Aboriginal allowance”, not a full salary, and couldn't afford a mortgage. He approached his union, which helped him secure equal pay. Because he was Aboriginal, no bank would lend him money. He borrowed from a ...
Rita Panahi: Warren Mundine deserves better from the LeftHerald Sun

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Brag Magazine
Trevor Noah under fire for controversial past remarks about Indigenous women
Brag Magazine
There's a growing call for Trevor Noah's upcoming tour of Australia to be boycotted after a clip featuring the comedian's insensitive, racist, and sexist comments towards Indigenous women surfaced on Twitter. Over the weekend, a clip from Trevor Noah's ...

NT News
Fighting fake indigenous art with real life experiences
NT News
A NEW cultural hub opening in Darwin is combating the scourge of fake indigenous art in Australia and offering authentic experiences for locals and visitors alike. Provenance Arts features a range of genuine Aboriginal artwork and will also provide ...

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
Australia is not a multicultural country
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
And since it was not so long ago that Indigenous people in Australia were framed as savages, and as the possible 'missing link' in human evolution, that analogy is particularly apt in acknowledging how we are still portrayed within the settler-colonial ...

Art Guide Australia
Jefa Greenaway on blak design and why it matters
Art Guide Australia
Blak Design Matters, an exhibition at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne's Federation Square, will showcase the eclectic and often uncategorisable nature of Indigenous Australian design. Across a range of disciplines, the survey proves that blak ...

ABC News
The influence of black American music on Australian Indigenous musicians
ABC News
When Indigenous jazz and blues singer Georgia Lee approached the microphone to sing Strange Fruit at the Sydney Town Hall in 1948, she was uncharacteristically nervous. The song, about the lynchings of black men in the American Deep South, was first ...

ABC News
Salon in remote Indigenous community gives more than just hair cuts
ABC News
At the washbasin of the first ever hair salon to open in the remote Aboriginal community of Santa Teresa in Central Australia, owner and hairdresser Kim Marshall is showing her newest student the proper technique to blow-dry hair. "So far I've learnt ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous playwright Nakkiah Lui could be Australia's next David Williamson
The Sydney Morning Herald
The little red Suzuki is whizzing along Sydney's M4, in the direction of the far western suburbs, specifically the Indigenous urban heartland of St Marys and Mount Druitt. At the wheel is Nakkiah Lui, the 27-year-old playwright, actor, director and ...

The Australian
Art brings good fortune, but also damage to APY Lands
The Australian
An explosion of international interest in the work of artists from South Australia's remote indigenous lands has delivered an economic boon of non-welfare money while fuelling social problems as disputes driven by jealousy and gambling lead to violence ...

Australian Defence Magazine
Indigenous lead for Garden Island refurb
Australian Defence Magazine
“These works are essential to ensure the RAN can safely berth and maintain its ships at Garden Island, which is the major home-port on the east coast of Australia.” “The Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP) has supercharged the Indigenous business ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Some people in government wish we had died out, says Anita Heiss
The Sydney Morning Herald
Remarkably, debate over what happened to Indigenous Australians when this country was settled by Europeans continues to this day. Statistics on the Reconciliation Australia website show one in three Australians don't recognise the Stolen Generations.

ABC News
Dingo arrival coincides with decline of native predators on Australian mainland: fossil study
ABC News
If dingoes did enter Australia during the timeframe suggested by the study, this could help explain the decline of other native predators around this time. The study highlights evidence that Tasmanian tiger and devil populations began waning around the ...
Dawn of the dingo: Iconic Australian dog was brought to the continent aboard Aboriginal ships 1500 years later than ...Daily Mail

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The Conversation AU
Explainer: how Tasmania's Aboriginal people reclaimed a language, palawa kani
The Conversation AU
Across Australia, an estimated 250 Indigenous Australian languages and hundreds more dialects were spoken before the British arrived. The cultural disruption caused by invasion has resulted in more than half of these languages vanishing. In parts of ...

SBS (blog)
Expert Opinion: Traditional Indigenous healers should work alongside doctors to help close the gap
SBS (blog)
Ngangkari are Aboriginal healers of the Anangu of the Western Desert in Central Australia, which includes the Pitjantjatjara, Ngaanyatjarra and Yankunytjatjara peoples. In some places, particularly South Australia, ngangkari are increasingly being ...

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The Guardian
Native title system 'embeds racism', Australia's first Indigenous silk says
The Guardian
Australia's first Indigenous silk, Tony McAvoy, says the native title system “embeds racism” and puts traditional owners under “duress” to approve mining developments or risk losing their land without compensation. McAvoy, speaking at a forum in ...

NEWS.com.au
Aust breaching standards: Indigenous group
NEWS.com.au
A submission by the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations group, representing traditional owner organisations across the Murray-Darling Basin, says the Water Act is inconsistent with Australia's international obligations under the Biodiversity ...
Call for Water Act to further recognise Indigenous rights, interestsABC News

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Aust breaching standards: Indigenous group
NT News
A submission by the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations group, representing traditional owner organisations across the Murray-Darling Basin, says the Water Act is inconsistent with Australia's international obligations under the Biodiversity ...

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The Conversation AU
Ten classics of Indigenous design
The Conversation AU
Blak Design Matters is the first exhibition in Australia specifically dedicated to contemporary Indigenous design. Its curator, architect and academic Jefa Greenaway, describes the show as a snapshot that “takes the pulse of what's happening now ...