Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Conversation AU
Friday essay: Dark Emu and the blindness of Australian agriculture
The Conversation AU
The key contention in Pascoe's book is that the whole distinction between the farming colonist and the hunter-gatherer indigene is based on a radical, and frankly self-serving, misunderstanding of the way that the Indigenous peoples of Australia lived ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous treaties are meaningless without addressing the issue of sovereignty
The Conversation AU
The major debate is whether, at the national level, there should be a single treaty, or treaties with each Indigenous nation. A template that could be used across Australia by each Indigenous nation (or a cluster of them) in such negotiations, would ...

2GB
'We've chucked out money willy-nilly': Warren Mudine slams 'untargeted' indigenous spending
2GB
Mudine will be joining a NSW government advisory body tasked with overcoming indigenous disadvantage. He hopes to direct conversation away from tokenistic, virtue signalling debates around Australia Day and get back to what actually Advances ...

NT News
'Our least engaged PM for nearly 50 years'
NT News
Mr Turnbull is the least engaged prime minister in Australia's indigenous affairs since William McMahon, who left office in 1972. The problems facing Aboriginal children appear to discomfort him, as a topic. Worse, he and NT Chief Minister Michael ...

PS News
Indigenous land petition finds new home
PS News
The National Archives of Australia has formally presented a copy of the historic 1972 'Larrakia petition' in which 1,000 signatories appealed to Queen Elizabeth to help the Aboriginal people of Australia gain land rights and political representation ...

The Age
Nation ripe for talks on an Indigenous treaty
The Age
The Western Australian government recently announced it will hold talks on the establishment of an "independent office for Aboriginal people", even as the Northern Territory government committed to three years of consultation on a treaty. In Victoria ...

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The Guardian
Pru Goward rejects call to appoint Aboriginal child and family commissioner
The Guardian
The peak body for Aboriginal organisations working in the system, the Aboriginal Child, Family and Community Care State Secretariat, or AbSec, told Guardian Australia an Aboriginal child and family commissioner could direct investment in child and ...

The Australian
Malcolm Turnbull hits back at NT News
The Australian
In February, a toddler was raped in Tennant Creek, having remained with relatives despite the family being the subject of 52 notifications to child protection services over 16 years — an instance indigenous leader Warren Mundine earlier this week said ...

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Crikey
Rundle: the Voice to Parliament sounds like a very bad deal
Crikey
In the distant future, when all Australians have an equal say in our laws and policies, there will be no need for an aboriginal voice to parliament and people like that US citizen, Rupert Murdoch, will not have a disproportionate influence over what we ...

ABC News
The real Aboriginal 'Dreamtime' to be highlighted in Dream Mine Time art exhibition
ABC News
When white anthropologists began studying Aboriginal culture, they came up with the term "Dreamtime" to describe the mythology and history of Indigenous Australians. But they couldn't have been more wrong. What they were trying to define is too complex ...

The Conversation AU
How flexischools could help close the gap in Indigenous education
The Conversation AU
This year marked the tenth year of the Australian government reporting on targets made to close the educational gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian students. The report card showed some slow gains, but overall it was another national ...

ABC Message Stick
Aboriginal bark paintings described as among Australia's 'greatest treasures' bound for Beijing
ABC Message Stick
A decades-old bark painting of an ancient saltwater crocodile in Arnhem Land will make an historic journey to China next month. This intricately painted — and very carefully preserved — mystic creature is known as a "totemic crocodile" and was ...

The Advertiser
Scrapped indigenous treaty negotiations cost SA taxpayers $1.8 million
The Advertiser
Mr Maher initially pledged $4.4 million over five years to create treaties with dozens of indigenous groups in SA. He told The Advertiser that the treaty process was the “most significant piece of Aboriginal affairs reform South Australia has embarked on”.
Just one week away from making historyNational Indigenous Times
Victorian parliament votes for treaty — but still no sovereigntyGreen Left Weekly

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National Indigenous Times
Just one week away from making history
National Indigenous Times
Mr Wyatt said a $1.3 billion agreement between the WA Government and the South-West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council — currently before the National Native Title Tribunal for approval — was seen by many as Australia's first Indigenous treaty.

National Indigenous Times
Ramone lines up new soccer league
National Indigenous Times
A new national Indigenous football league is kicking off in Queensland and organisers hope it will discover Australia's answer to legendary international players such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. The first Australian Indigenous Football ...

National Indigenous Times
Suicide rates among elderly may be skewed
National Indigenous Times
Accurate estimates of the Indigenous suicide rate, particularly in older groups, could be higher than previously thought and impeded by records that don't list a person's ethnicity, according to a report in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of ...

National Indigenous Times
Elsie's deadly example has island on the hop
National Indigenous Times
“Before 2014 you would hardly see anyone, let alone an Indigenous person, out on the road exercising,” Ms Seriat says. She was this week awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for her services to the Thursday ...

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National Indigenous Times
Indigenous achievers awarded across Oz
National Indigenous Times
In WA, elder and nurse Gail Allison was recognised in the state's WA Day Awards for improving the lives of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Ms Allison's work to prevent drug and alcohol abuse has had a significant impact on the country areas ...

The Guardian
Calls for NSW Aboriginal child and family commissioner in wake of scathing report
The Guardian
AbSec, the peak organisation for Aboriginal groups working in the system, said the “the lack of transparency around the report has made it impossible for Aboriginal communities to participate fully in reforms”. • Sign up to receive the top stories in ...

Supercars.com
Five memorable indigenous liveries
Supercars.com
Garry Rogers Motorsport's new livery is the latest indigenous-themed look to join the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship grid. Supercars.com revisits five memorable efforts, celebrating a series of partnerships between teams and the indigenous ...
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