Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

New Matilda
We Do Need To Be Concerned About Creating 'Another Stolen Generations'
New Matilda
The state intervenes often into the realm of family to ensure the protection of Australia's children, investigating 119,173 cases of suspected child abuse or neglect last financial year (2016-17). More than 36% of all Australian children living in care ...

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Independent Australia
Dutton, Sunrise and the invisible system of white privilege
Independent Australia
Dr Jennifer Wilson discusses the ethos of white superiority and entitlement in recent comments by Peter Dutton and Channel 7's 'Sunrise' panel. HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER PETER DUTTON last week postulated the interesting notion that white farmers in South ...

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ABC Online
Think there are no homeless people in your area? Think again
ABC Online
... was the greatest contributor to the national increase in homelessness of nearly 5 per cent since the last census. Indigenous people represent 20 per cent of the homeless, and nearly three-quarters of those were living in severely crowded dwellings ...

Townsville Bulletin
Charters Towers student stuns at Australia's largest fashion event
Townsville Bulletin
Babetha Nona, from Blackheath and Thornburgh College, was chosen as one of 50 models from 6000 applicants to represent her culture at Virgin Australia's Melbourne Fashion Festival last week. “I got accepted during the holidays in December,” Ms Nona ...

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The Australian
Indigenous ABC comedy clip parodies white people
The Australian
Lui is an award-winning Aboriginal playwright who wrote the Sydney Theatre Company hit play Black is the New White, which has toured Australia and is returning for an encore season this year. “The clip, which is clearly satirical and humorous, has been ...

Great Lakes Advocate
The Evonne Goolagong Foundation (EGF) is visiting Forster Tennis Club in 2018
Great Lakes Advocate
The EGF runs Australia wide, based on the dream, believe, learn, achieve program supported by the Australian Government, which promotes and helps provide better health and education for young Indigenous Australians. “We use tennis as a vehicle to ...

The Guardian
Senate inquiry to examine claims Indigenous suicide prevention funding misspent
The Guardian
Claims that funding for Indigenous suicide prevention programs is being spent on travel costs will be examined at Senate inquiry into rural and remote mental health services. The inquiry was approved in the Senate on Monday with backing from Labor and ...

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Washington Post
Peter Dutton's 'fast track' for white South African farmers is a throwback to a long, racist history
The Conversation AU
South African apartheid, the White Australia Policy, and treatment of Indigenous Australians became hot-button issues from the late 1950s onward. Apartheid, introduced in 1948 and modelled on Queensland legislation, entered public consciousness after ...
Australia's Trump thinks South Africa's white farmers need savingWashington Post
Australia has enough racists of its ownNews24

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Eternity News
Indigenous prayer vigil held at site of first contact
Eternity News
The sign was amended in the 1990s, replacing the “birthplace of a nation” with “the birthplace of modern Australia”, as an attempt to recognise the Aboriginal people who were already here when Cook arrived. Yet, as historian Mark McKenna wrote in the ...

The Advertiser
Adelaide model Akiima featured in Vogue Australia April 2018 edition celebrating diversity in fashion
The Advertiser
Editor-in-chief Edwina McCann said the 23-year-old, who was born in a Kenyan refugee camp, was the catalyst for the April issue. Ms McCann met Akiima at the 2017 Adelaide Fashion Festival. Akiima stars on “The Faces: Uniting Australian Fashion” cover ...

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Herald Sun
Adelaide model Akiima featured in Vogue Australia April 2018 edition celebrating diversity in fashion
Herald Sun
Editor-in-chief Edwina McCann said the 23-year-old, who was born in a Kenyan refugee camp, was the catalyst for the April issue. Ms McCann met Akiima at the 2017 Adelaide Fashion Festival. Akiima stars on “The Faces: Uniting Australian Fashion” cover ...

Voice of America
Australia to Export Celebrated Aboriginal Education Program to Africa
Voice of America
One of Australia's most successful Aboriginal mentoring projects is bringing its methods to South Africa and Uganda. The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, or AIME, began in 2005, serving just 25 Aboriginal children in Sydney. Since then, the ...

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Daily Telegraph
Vogue Australia: Charlee Fraser, Akiima, Fernanda Ly and Andreja Pejic represent diverse country
Daily Telegraph
Australian beauties, both male and female, feature heavily on the international runways, but never before have we seen so many homegrown models at the top of their game from such diverse backgrounds. Ly's modelling career is on the rise and is taking ...
Gossip Queen: Andreja Pejic takes a leap into acting worldHerald Sun

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ABC Online
Syphilis jumps to Western Australia; doctors say 'complacent' safe sex attitudes to blame
ABC Online
Some sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in Western Australia, with Aboriginal communities in the north hit particularly hard by a syphilis outbreak. Across the population, Syphilis has more than doubled the five-year average, up 112 per cent ...

The Guardian
So many Australian place names honour murderous white men and their violent acts
The Guardian
Willshire wrote books about his maltreatment (including killing) of Aboriginal men and sexual abuse of Indigenous women who were, he maintained, put on earth to satisfy the needs of white pioneering males. As you drive around this continent, stop and ...

Blue Mountains Gazette
Emu Trekkers donates first funds to Indigenous Literacy Foundation
Blue Mountains Gazette
“Our core business is about providing resources to help Indigenous Australians develop a love of books and at the same time increase literacy rates,” she said. “Because many books in the market are not culturally appropriate for remote communities, our ...

ABC Online
Indigenous work for the dole scheme 'failing abysmally', worsening poverty, Greens say
ABC Online
Participants are being slapped with more penalties than every other Australian jobseeker combined, prompting claims it is worsening poverty and hunger in Aboriginal communities. The Government has conceded the Community Development Programme (CDP ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Whitefella dreaming: it's time to discover our reconciled republic
The Sydney Morning Herald
As Peggy Rockman Napaljarri and Lee Cataldi explain in their introduction to Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories, an extraordinary collection of 15 stories from Warlpiri elders, the arrival of Europeans meant the “end of the Jukurrpa as a world view, as a ...

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The Australian
Adoption can save Aboriginal kids from chaos
The Australian
Children need permanent care, guidance and a home.” Some Aboriginal leaders agree, but unfortunately the federal government does not have the legislative power to change policy in this area, although it does in the case of international adoptions. Most ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
James Cook: founder of 'modern Australia', or the embodiment of dispossession?
The Sydney Morning Herald
Since 2000, every anniversary of Cook's landing has been commemorated through a “Meeting of Two Cultures” ceremony, in which visiting dignitaries, politicians, local Indigenous elders and school and community groups come together to listen, remember ...