Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Independent Australia
Close the Gap still reveals gaping holes in Government efforts
Independent Australia
Malcolm Turnbull and the Australian Government are failing Indigenous Australians when it comes to Closing the Gap, Daniel Gough writes. TODAY I WRITE TO voice my concerns and profound anger at a long-term issue faced by our nation that still hasn't ...

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Daily Telegraph
Jessica Mauboy: 'It makes me feel I'm not good enough'
Daily Telegraph
... others — had been submitted for consideration by Mauboy and the Australian team. In the end, she only listened to about four of them (“I feel bad”) before digging her heels in and putting her own words on the page. She had a lot to say. “I went ...
'She is clear-eyed and principled': Jewish group praises Jessica Mauboy for standing up to 'antisemitic' anti-Israel ...Daily Mail

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Radio Australia
Bush clinic for Indigenous men aims to break down barriers to hospital
Radio Australia
The Bush Classrooms project is a collaboration between local support services, including Great Southern Aboriginal Health Services, the Albany Youth Support Association, Wanslea Family Services and Palmerston. For participant Henry Jones, the program ...

ABC Online
Australia's top-ranked tennis player Ashleigh Barty announced as Indigenous ambassador
ABC Online
Australia's top-ranked tennis player, Ashleigh Barty, will become Tennis Australia's Indigenous ambassador, as part of a push to promote the sport to Aboriginal children. It coincides with the announcement of a National Indigenous Tennis Carnival ...

NEWS.com.au
Gurrumul film follows his remarkable life
NEWS.com.au
The film also had access to Gurrumul's home on Elcho Island, recording several poignant moments, including the funerals of both his parents. The result is a film that has a lot to say about the extraordinary musician, and indigenous Australian culture ...

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Western Advocate
Gurrumul film follows his remarkable life
Western Advocate
From the beginning of his working relationship with Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, producer Michael Hohnen knew that he was special. So much so, that the man who helped bring the indigenous Australian musician to the world, had the wherewithal to start ...

The Guardian
Prince Charles has visited the remote Northern Territory town of Nhulunbuy but will it change anything for ...
NT News
Because we go to Canada, New Zealand, we go to meet lots of indigenous people all over the world,” Mr Rooke says. Just two days before the Prince and his entourage touched down at Gove Airport, they had flown from Australia for a fly-in, fly-out visit ...
Northern Territory town camps need $77m for urgent repairsThe Guardian

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Prince Charles has visited the remote Northern Territory town of Nhulunbuy but will it change anything for ...
The Advertiser
Because we go to Canada, New Zealand, we go to meet lots of indigenous people all over the world,” Mr Rooke says. Just two days before the Prince and his entourage touched down at Gove Airport, they had flown from Australia for a fly-in, fly-out visit ...

Indigenous should be moved out of town camp ghettos, says report
The Australian
A $2.4 million review of the Northern Territory's 43 Aboriginal town camps has found many are ghettos with poor infrastructure, social problems and few economic opportunities, and their residents should be encouraged to move to urban centres. The ...

The Australian
Life lessons
The Australian
We end our journey the following morning with a healing ceremony on the beach at Nangudga Lake. Bannon-Harrison calls on the wind spirit koorah-karigh and, to my surprise, a breeze I hadn't noticed becomes stronger and my dress flies in the air. Then ...

Pro Bono Australia
Permanent Housing is Number One Priority
Pro Bono Australia
“Unlike in the USA, where the issue of veterans' homelessness receives widespread attention, there has been limited research into the issue in Australia,” he said. “Neither Census nor administrative data sources have included veterans' status. However ...

The Advertiser
Gin at Tasting Australia festival: Awareness of local botanicals and flavours is helping drive South Australia's gin ...
The Advertiser
Then, on Thursday, Tasting Australia hosts the inaugural Spirit Awards, with more than 160 entrants — half of them gins from across Australia. SA's take on the global gin craze has gone to the next level and fits perfectly with our pioneering stance ...

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The Australian
Commonwealth Games 2018 Day 9 live coverage: Guy Sebastian heads closing ceremony line-up
The Australian
As he and Solomon waited for the baton, he gave the Australian a nudge. Solomon stood his ground, took the baton from Ralph, put his foot on the gas and for a moment ran Australia into the 400m relay final. The elation was short-lived. Australian ...

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Wide World of Sports
Police arrest five at indigenous protest during Commonwealth Games
Wide World of Sports
Friday's protest was the latest in a string of actions by a group upset by the impact of the Commonwealth on indigenous populations in Australia including a disruption of the Queen's Baton Relay last week. The group has been camping at a site on the ...
Aboriginal communities shame colonialist Commonwealth GamesGreen Left Weekly
Aboriginal abuse victim throttles himself in Games protestYahoo7 News
'Stolenwealth Games': Aboriginal Activists Continue Anit-Commonwealth Protest in AustraliateleSUR tv HTTPS (press release) (blog)

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The Canberra Times
From remote Indigenous communities to the Australian Running Festival
The Canberra Times
Indigenous Marathon Foundation director Robert de Castella with 15-year-old Kakadu runners Jesse Hunter and Catherine Ralph ahead of this weekend's Australian Running Festival. Photo: Sitthixay Ditthavong. Mr de Castella said the app also offered an ...
Why does Indigenous success make some white Australians uncomfortable?ABC Online
In both schooling and sport, Australia has slowly come to recognise its Aboriginal talent poolThe Conversation AU
A culturally even healthcare system starts in the waiting roomThe Big Smoke Australia

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The Sydney Morning Herald
From remote Indigenous communities to the Australian Running Festival
The Sydney Morning Herald
At the start of this year, Catherine Ralph couldn't run more than a few hundred metres without stopping for a breather. But just a few short months later, the 15-year-old from a remote town in Kakadu National Park can run 5km in about 35 minutes, and ...
From remote Indigenous communities to the Australian Running ...The Canberra Times
A culturally even healthcare system starts in the waiting roomThe Big Smoke Australia

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Eternity News
Final miracle brings Indigenous recording home
Eternity News
They come with considerable life and cross-cultural experience and great skill in this multi-voice recording effort. “However, as most missionaries will testify, working with Australian Aboriginal people is a new and different experience. They have ...

The Conversation AU
In both schooling and sport, Australia has slowly come to recognise its Aboriginal talent pool
The Conversation AU
The year was 1979, not 1879, when Fr Eugene Perez, a Catholic priest in the Kimberleys, asserted that “his” Aborigines “correspond to the Palaeolithic age”, “primitives who remain dwarfed to the bare essentials of human existence”, “undeniably immature ...
Prince Charles has visited the remote Northern Territory town of Nhulunbuy but will it change anything for ...NT News
Aboriginal communities shame colonialist Commonwealth GamesGreen Left Weekly
A culturally even healthcare system starts in the waiting roomThe Big Smoke Australia
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ABC Online
Commonwealth Games organisers accused of shunting Indigenous artists into obscurity
ABC Online
... to paint some boomerang souvenirs has exclusive rights to sell Indigenous art at the Games. The owner of Jabiru Boomerangs, John Palombo, refused to be formally interviewed but told ABC News those boomerangs are not for sale as Commonwealth Games ...

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Radio Australia
The Stella Prize: Alexis Wright wins for her collective memoir Tracker
Radio Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article contains images of people who have died. "How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?" This is the opening line of ...