Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

National Indigenous Times
Big jump in school retention rate: report
National Indigenous Times
But while there were some gains for Indigenous Australia in this year's report there were also losses. Nearly 32 percent of Indigenous children up to the age of 14 lived in homes that ran out of money for basic living expenses in 2014-15. They were ...
'I won't be the lone voice': Vonda Malone wants Torres Strait Islanders to be heardThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Classroom 'innovation' leading the way for high Naplan results
The Guardian
“The first [and] ongoing step has been to build teacher and teacher-aide capacity,” she said. Using funds from a Queensland state government grant, the school employed a numeracy coach whose mandate was to improve mathematics results for ESL and ...

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Radio Australia
Black Divaz documentary illuminates what it means to be Indigenous and queer in Australia
Radio Australia
The one-hour documentary was commissioned by NITV and had its world premiere at the Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney to a packed 800-seat cinema. It was broadcast last weekend on SBS, and is available on SBS On Demand throughout March. Dedicating ...

ABC Online
Indigenous work for the dole scheme slaps thousands with serious failures
ABC Online
Thousands of people in a controversial work for the dole scheme have been threatened with having their Centrelink payments cut off for eight weeks. The Community Development Programme (CDP) forces unemployed people in remote areas to work up to three ...

The Australian
Green Lee Rhiannon's European kangaroo roadtrip 'absolute insanity'
The Australian
It contains a re-enactment of a phone call from an “anonymous kangaroo harvester”, and shows two activists holding the body of a kangaroo killed by a gunshot declaring: “This kangaroo represents the face of the kangaroo industry.” Mr Littleproud ...

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The Australian
Call to eliminate cap for indigenous uni enrolments
The Australian
Places for indigenous students in Australian universities should be quarantined from any limits on student enrolments, according to the dean of Aboriginal engagement and strategic projects at the University of South Australia, Peter Buckskin. Professor ...

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SBS
Book on black women musicians dumped after explosive claims author didn't interview artists
SBS
A new book detailing the history of black women in Australian music has been killed by its publisher after several of the women featured in its pages made explosive claims it was inaccurate, and that the author did not speak to them at all during the ...
Deadly Woman Blues book to be pulped following backlash over 'distressing' errorsThe Sydney Morning Herald

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SBS
Will Australia follow the NT's promise to raise the age of criminal responsibility?
SBS
One of such 'in principle' commitments was the promise to raise the age of criminal responsibility. Following the announcement, Amnesty International's Indigenous Rights Campaigner, Roxanne Moore, pointed out the NT government must raise the age of ...

Beef Central
Indigenous cattlemen experience eye-opening trip to Indonesia
Beef Central
Terrance Long, 38, overseer at Gunbalanya Station, Northern Territory, and Robbie Kelly, 24, stockman at Roebuck Export Depot, Western Australia, travelled to Indonesia under a partnership between Halleen Australasian Livestock Traders and the ILC's ...

SBS
Redress scheme is racist towards Indigenous people, Senate committee hears
SBS
Some eligibility requirements of the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse have been labelled as racist towards Indigenous Australians. In the 2017-2018 budget the Australian Government committed $33.4 million towards the ...

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Deadly Woman Blues book to be pulped following backlash over 'distressing' errors
The Sydney Morning Herald
She added that her frustration with the project was perfectly encapsulated in the words of indigenous activist and actor Shareena Clanton on the ABC's Q&A on February 19. "I'm really tired of non-Indigenous peoples making commentaries about Indigenous ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Canberra woman Mikaela Jade wins national award for rock art app
The Sydney Morning Herald
("Veuve" is French for widow.) Mikaela, who has been working on Indigital Storytelling for six years, mostly recently collaborating with Microsoft to use the content on its mixed reality device, HoloLens, felt the award was further validation of her ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Canberra woman Mikaela Jade wins national award for rock art app
The Sydney Morning Herald
("Veuve" is French for widow.) Mikaela, who has been working on Indigital Storytelling for six years, mostly recently collaborating with Microsoft to use the content on its mixed reality device, HoloLens, felt the award was further validation of her ...

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous Canberra woman Mikaela Jade wins national award for rock art app
The Canberra Times
It was like a double-edged sword, because I could see it so clearly," she said. "I think just chipping away at it and doing it in a remote community was probably the best thing I ever did because we could just get on with it. There wasn't a whole ...

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UNSW Newsroom
UNSW student wins prestigious Indigenous law scholarship
UNSW Newsroom
On Tuesday, the UNSW Sydney student was awarded the Law Council of Australia's 2018 John Koowarta Reconciliation Law Scholarship. The prestigious award is the only national scholarship dedicated to helping Indigenous law students achieve their ambition ...

The North West Star
Kalkadoon woman to speak at business conference
The North West Star
A Cloncurry businesswoman is one of the keynote speakers at the first national Indigenous Women in Business conference this May. The Strong Women, Strong Business conference will draw together more than 120 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women ...

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The Advocate
Aussie tennis legend Evonne Goolagong visits Burnie.
The Advocate
Evonne Goolagong Cawley had three dreams, to win Wimbledon, start a grassroots foundation and to see Indigenous Australian recognised in the constitution. The former world number one and seven-time singles grand slam winner has achieved the first two ...

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The Advocate
Aussie tennis legend Evonne Goolagong visits Burnie.
The Advocate
Evonne Goolagong Cawley had three dreams, to win Wimbledon, start a grassroots foundation and to see Indigenous Australian recognised in the constitution. The former world number one and seven-time singles grand slam winner has achieved the first two ...

The Australian
Aboriginal children's sexual health a national tragedy
The Australian
... born to mothers with syphilis are dying. Labor senator Patrick Dodson has been quoted as saying the national response was inadequate. “Something's not working here,” Senator Dodson said. “If this was happening in Victoria …” But of course, it's ...

MuMbrella
Philanthropy supports journalism initiative with Indigenous affairs at its heart
The Guardian
“I'm delighted and honoured to join the team at the Guardian, who are making this significant public commitment to the coverage of Indigenous affairs, with the support of The Balnaves Foundation. Our stories matter. Now more than ever there's a need to ...
Guardian Australia and the University of Melbourne launch journalism trustMuMbrella

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