Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Meet three women making a difference in Indigenous society
Telstra Exchange (blog)
IDX is a partnership between the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE) and Telstra Foundation that connects the ideas, perspectives and talent of Australia's First Peoples to explore new technology: from robotics, coding and 3D printing to ...

The West Australian
Indigenous path paved with gold
The West Australian
Not so long ago it was a rarity to see indigenous people in Australian film and television, and it was even rarer to see them accurately represented. Thanks in part to the establishment 25 years ago of Screen Australia's indigenous department, stories ...

Daily Telegraph
National Indigenous Music Awards: Jessica Mauboy, Baker Boy, Gurrumul, Dan Sultan nominated
Daily Telegraph
Now he is one of the leading nominees for the 2018 NIMAs, alongside the late great Gurrumul with his historic No.1 final studio record Djarimirri. Baker Boy has captured Australia's heart with his single Marryuna, performed in his native language ...
The performers and finalists for the National Indigenous Music Awards have been announcedThe Industry Observer

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Pro Bono Australia
'How could you have blonde hair, fair skin, and a connection to country?' Meet the woman connecting Indigenous and ...
Women's Agenda
Naidoc Week 2018: Because of Her, We Can. Australia is fortunate to have the oldest continuing cultures on earth. For Rona Glynn-McDonald, a Kaytetye woman raised in Alice Springs, this knowledge is a source of great strength and pride. It also served ...
Rising Indigenous Voice Ready to Lead if ChosenPro Bono Australia
Google marks NAIDOC Week with indigenous voices on Assistant, doodleCIO Australia
Fear of loss and false promises: dodgy insurance tactics used on Indigenous peopleThe Guardian
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Women's Agenda
Blonde, fair-skinned and Aboriginal? One woman's mission to strengthen understanding between Indigenous and non ...
Women's Agenda
Naidoc Week 2018: Because of Her, We Can. Australia is fortunate to have the oldest continuing cultures on earth. For Rona Glynn-McDonald, a Kaytetye woman raised in Alice Springs, this knowledge is a source of great strength and pride. It also served ...
Fear of loss and false promises: dodgy insurance tactics used on Indigenous peopleThe Guardian
'We're leading the way': Access to justice for Aboriginal womenThe Canberra Times
NAIDOC Week puts Tasmanian women in the spotlightTasmania Examiner
Katherine Times
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The Conversation AU
The Murri Book Club and the politics of reading for Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
Although the 2018 Closing the Gap report on Indigenous disadvantage highlighted the importance of literacy for Indigenous Australians, progress remains slow. But, while reading is widely considered an unmitigated good and a marker of prestige, it is ...

The Women's Game
Faith Thomas: First Indigenous Australian to play test cricket
The Women's Game
Faith grew up in Colebrook mission in Quorn in South Australia's Flinders Ranges. "Had I not been in Colebrook, I would never have got the opportunities I did have so I consider myself not stolen but chosen," she said. Growing up, Faith would play ...

NEWS.com.au
Indigenous historian Bruce Pascoe says we've got our story all wrong
NEWS.com.au
We are taught Australia's first people were simplistic hunter-gatherers who foraged for plants and randomly hunted kangaroos. We are taught when Europeans landed, the indigenous people who first roamed the land were a disparate group of nomadic tribes, ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Warriors emerge from Patty Mills' Shadows
The Sydney Morning Herald
Club president and ACT Australian of the year Dion Devow is aiming to bring indigenous and non-indigenous communities together and he sees basketball as the perfect avenue to do so, with age groups from under 10s to under 19s in action. The Warriors ...

The RiotACT
Indigenous Canberran Jarrod Hampton proud to be in his own skin
The RiotACT
Since then, Hampton has risen through the ranks of Basketball ACT's junior and senior leagues, representing ACT at Nationals and even playing for Australia in the Australian Indigenous All-Stars team in 2015 and 2017. “Playing for the Australian ...

ABC News
Aboriginal family photos showcase culture and landscape of central Australia
ABC News
Portrait photographer Milly Hooper captures striking images of Indigenous families in the stunning natural surrounds of central Australia. The self-taught mother of four started her business after realising that few Aboriginal people were using ...

The Guardian
Fear of loss and false promises: dodgy insurance tactics used on Indigenous people
The Guardian
Over another week of scandalous revelations, the royal commission heard Indigenous Australians with poor financial literacy are routinely targeted with sales pitches for valueless insurance, sold faulty cars at usurious interest rates and wrongly ...

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ABC Local
Unconventional family violence program wins funding in Indigenous communities
ABC Local
"And it now stops with me." It's been 18 years since Mr Cuimara has used violence. He is now the founder and chief executive of the Aboriginal Male's Healing Centre, a not-for-profit community organisation based in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

ABC News
Banking royal commission: Predatory practices, exploitation of Indigenous Australians revealed
ABC News
But this week, we heard how deductions and fees costing just a few dollars are taking food out of the mouths of some of Australia's most vulnerable people. Take the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund (ACBF). With that name, you'd understandably think it ...
Funeral insurer may face criminal charges9news.com.au
The Royal Commission revealed financial services woes for many Indigenous customers. Here's what can be doneThe Conversation AU
Indigenous voice must be a win for everyone, says UN officialThe Australian
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The Sydney Morning Herald
'What sustains us?' ACCA's ambitious Indigenous exhibition finds joy amid sorrow
The Sydney Morning Herald
From top to toe there are rainbow colours dyed into the skin, mixed with a collection of traditional Indigenous designs from south-east Australia, as well as some dingo motifs. It's joyous and free-spirited, but also a work with gravitas, referencing ...

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Green Left Weekly
Gurrumul and Indigenous languages offer windows into Australia's past and present
Green Left Weekly
Understanding the deep meaning and significance of songlines is beyond most non-Indigenous Australians, but in the introductory sequence to the song's film clip, Gawurra explains its universality: “It's the thread of love that connects everything, all ...

ABC News
The Alice Springs teen working to shift the way all Australians connect with our First Peoples
ABC News
Moving from Alice Springs to Melbourne to attend university, Rona Glynn-McDonald, a proud Kaytetye woman, was astounded to find how little people local people knew about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. "Anytime I met someone new, they ...

ABC News
Kids are keeping Aboriginal languages alive — and learning just how different they are
ABC News
Ms Pope is project officer at First Languages Australia (FLA), which works to ensure the survival of Australia's traditional languages in the future. She's overseeing a national competition that invites schools to work with their local Indigenous ...

The Conversation AU
Fifty years ago, at Lake Mungo, the true scale of Aboriginal Australians' epic story was revealed
The Conversation AU
This month marks the golden jubilee of a watershed event in the history of this nation that should cause all Australians to pause and reflect. On July 15, 1968, while searching for clues to past climates and ancient landscapes on land under the joint ...

ABC News (blog)
Royal commission hears how it takes four months to open an ANZ bank account
ABC News (blog)
It took two Aboriginal customers from a community 90 minutes' drive from Katherine several visits and four months to open a basic, fee-free ANZ transaction account, the royal commission hears. The commission heard from a social worker with Save the ...
Banking royal commission day 38: Let's Insure, ANZThe Australian Financial Review

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