Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Technology Decisions
Using data to improve Indigenous outcomes
Technology Decisions
The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is aiming to improve the way data is collected and used to improve policy outcomes for Indigenous Australians. During a speech at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)'s conference on ...

South Burnett Times
Researching Indigenous dementia to tackle rising statistics
South Burnett Times
INDIGENOUS Australian seniors are three times more likely to experience dementia than other Australians. This high rate of dementia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities will be targeted by five ground-breaking research projects, aiming ...

ABC Online
Diabetes program gives hope to resident who was 'waiting to die'
ABC Online
These monumental wins for the two women were small by comparison to battles others still face. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were almost four times more likely than non-Indigenous Australians to have diabetes, according to Diabetes ...

ABC Online
How early are we catching cancer in Australia?
ABC Online
The stage at which cancers are diagnosed — that is, how severe they are when picked up — has been analysed for the first time in Australia in new research. The data reveals different rates of diagnosis between cancers, geographic locations and groups ...

ABC Local
South Australia's treaty negotiations on hold while Premier considers their future
ABC Local
... the Liberal Party's opposition to treaties as unworkable. Mr Marshall said the current treaty negotiations underway between the government and the Narungga, Adnyamathanha and Ngarrindjeri people would be put on hold while Dr Thomas completed his ...

The Conversation AU
Real Bodies controversy: how Australian museums regulate the display of human remains
The Conversation AU
Australian universities began talks in the 1980s about the future of their collections. These discussions juggled the ongoing importance of anatomy museums in medical education with historical issues of consent. The National Museum of Australia ceased ...

The Australian
Indigenous children no safer from abuse than a decade ago
The Australian
Children living in remote Aboriginal communities in South Australia's far north are no safer from sexual abuse than they were a decade ago, with Premier Steven Marshall warning there is no silver bullet for the “very significant” issues. Ten years ago ...

The Australian Financial Review
Judge to end bitter battle of James Price Point
The Australian Financial Review
A bitter dispute that forced Australians to consider if Indigenous rights, environmental protections and economic development can co-exist will end this week when a Federal Court judge personally delivers a judgment in a remote West Australian ...

NT News
Win for dialysis patients in Northern Territory
NT News
Federal Minister for Health Greg Hunt will unveil the new plan today which will offer new support to Australia's most dialysis dependent sector — indigenous Territorians. The Territory's Indigenous Affairs Minister CLP senator Nigel Scullion hailed ...

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SBS
Captain Cook monument centrepiece of Kurnell plan
SBS
A leading historian is optimistic plans for a new monument at the Kurnell landing site of Captain James Cook will spark an honest national conversation about the shared history of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The aquatic monument will be ...
Sydney to get new $3m Captain Cook memorial in 'inclusive project'The Guardian

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ABC Online
Port Botany site's $50 million redevelopment, including James Cook statue, set to transform historic site
ABC Online
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the revamp of Sydney's historical Port Botany site, the place of the first encounter between Europeans and Indigenous Australians, will allow the country to "celebrate, understand and interpret" the "momentous place ...
Captain Cook monument centrepiece of Kurnell planSBS
Sydney to get new Captain Cook memorial as part of $50m revampThe Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney to get new $3m Captain Cook memorial in 'inclusive project'The Guardian

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney to get new Captain Cook memorial as part of $50m revamp
The Sydney Morning Herald
A new memorial to Captain Cook will be built at Botany Bay as part of a $50 million redevelopment of the site where the British explorer and his crew first set foot on Australian soil. The memorial will commemorate Cook's encounter with Indigenous ...
Sydney to get new $3m Captain Cook memorial in 'inclusive project'The Guardian
Cook monument centrepiece of Kurnell planSBS
Scott Morrison to announce upgrade to Captain James Cook memorial in Sydney's Botany Bay9news.com.au

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Radio Australia
Australian Ninja Warrior star Jack Wilson signs on to help fight chronic Indigenous obesity
Radio Australia
The foundation, established in 2009 by world marathon champion Rob de Castella, has had 75 graduates finish a major international marathon, including New York, Boston and Tokyo. "When I was 21 years old I was in full steam ahead of my partying, junk ...

The Guardian
Sydney to get new $3m Captain Cook memorial in 'inclusive project'
The Guardian
... has announced that a new $3m memorial to Captain Cook will be built at Sydney's Botany Bay, as part of a “very inclusive project” to commemorate the site of European colonisers' first arrival on Australian soil. The statue will be part of a broader ...
Scott Morrison to announce upgrade to Captain James Cook memorial in Sydney's Botany Bay9news.com.au

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ABC Online
Australian Ninja Warrior star Jack Wilson signs on to help fight chronic Indigenous obesity
ABC Online
Reality television star Jack Wilson is helping a regional New South Wales Indigenous co-operative to arrest soaring rates of obesity in its members. Originally from Mount Isa and now living in Bondi, Wilson shot to stardom in July on Australian Ninja ...

NEWS.com.au
Troy Delmege's Instagram comment slammed
NEWS.com.au
... when he made a strange comment about indigenous Australians. “Couldn't be more excited,” he said in the video. “Can't wait to get the tan on, get some heat on me after being in Melbourne for a few weeks.” He then pointed at his Bowyer before adding ...

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Herald Sun (blog)
STAN GRANT RUBS OUT THAT LINE OF "RACE"
Herald Sun (blog)
It's that crude line of race Grant slashes between us — Aborigines on one side, whites on the other. Victims versus oppressors. When Grant says “my people” he means only Aboriginal people, and not all his fellow Australians. When Grant says “you”, he ...
'We're quick to take offence and slow to forgive': Stan GrantStarts at 60

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The Guardian
World experts call for Australia to act on devastating HTLV-1 virus
The Guardian
The obscure but devastating virus affecting thousands of people in central Australia is a “very significant problem”, according to international experts on HTLV-1. The UK's leading human T-lymphotropic virus clinician said he was “shocked by the ...

The Australian
Identity politics traps the indigenous mind in cycle of grievance
The Australian
Consider the Australia of my grandfather's life, and the world I enjoy. Then, Aboriginal kids often were locked out of schools; today we have more indigenous university graduates than at any time in our history. Once, my grandfather and so many like ...

The Australian
$50m for Botany Bay memorial to Captain James Cook
The Australian
Mr Morrison, whose electorate of Cook includes the precinct, told The Weekend Australian that the expansion would deliver a “place of commemoration and recognition and understanding of two cultures, and the incredible Captain Cook”. Delivery of a new ...
Developing important historic site of James Cook landing a long-time dream for MP Scott MorrisonDaily Telegraph

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