Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Will remote indigenous settlements in future be condemned as apartheid?
The Australian
Probably some settlements are quite viable but many are clearly dysfunctional and we have compromised the educational and social development of several generations of indigenous Australians by allowing them to exist in the name of culture. They will ...

NT News
Allegations of students being 'abandoned' at Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
NT News
Batchelor Institute is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education provider offering entry level VET certificates through to PhDs. It has been operating in the Territory, in several forms, since the late 1960s — when it was a small annex of ...

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UNSW Newsroom
Opinion The VR film Carriberrie is a vital face-to-face experience of threatened Indigenous culture
UNSW Newsroom
OPINION: Virtual reality technology is making it far easier to connect with remote Indigenous Australians. Carriberrie, a mesmerising 360-degree, live-action documentary film showing at the Australian Museum in March, illustrates how well immersive ...

The colourful, fabulous, and sometimes turbulent history of the Sydney Mardi Gras
Cosmopolitan
In 1980, following a successful — but very cold — Mardi Gras, it was agreed that the event would be moved from winter to summer. This helped to distance the event from being purely a political demonstration, and established it as a celebration of the ...

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The Guardian
If equality can happen for marriage, it can happen for Indigenous people
The Guardian
7 December 2017 saw Australia become the 25th country to legalise marriage between people of the same sex. Love essentially won. Images of my uncles and partner during the celebration on Oxford Street in Sydney filled me with feelings of jubilation and ...

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The Conversation AU
The VR film Carriberrie is a vital face-to-face experience of threatened Indigenous culture
The Conversation AU
Virtual reality technology is making it far easier to connect with remote Indigenous Australians. Carriberrie, a mesmerising 360-degree, live-action documentary film showing at the Australian Museum in March, illustrates how well immersive technology ...

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The Australian
Culture can never be used as an excuse for abuse of children
The Australian
The main reason indigenous children are seven times likelier than non-indigenous children to be the subject of a “substantiated” (proven) report of abuse and neglect — as the report released yesterday, Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence in Australia ...

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National Indigenous Times
50 years since Rose beat the world, where are we?
National Indigenous Times
Fifty years ago this week, Lionel Rose became the first Aboriginal Australian to win a world championship. On 26 February 1968, he defeated Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan for the world bantamweight boxing title. His success occurred nine months ...
Closing the Indigenous accountancy gapINTHEBLACK
Introducing Weave: a month-long celebration of Indigenous art, culture and film in AustraliaHappy

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Now To Love
Nuclear weapon testing killed and blinded Aussies in our own backyard
Now To Love
When we hear about nuclear weapons, we think of the notorious and devastating Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, but what about Australia? For years, Indigenous communities in South Australia endured extreme nuclear weapon testing at the hands of the ...
Australia and nuclear strategy: the empty middle ground?The Strategist (blog)

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The Interpreter
2017 Australia–Papua New Guinea Emerging Leaders Dialogue Outcomes Report
The Interpreter
Participants noted that some populations, for example Indigenous Australians, are more at risk of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and heart disease and that health promotion campaigns should be designed appropriately to combat this. Programs ...

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Closing the Indigenous accountancy gap
INTHEBLACK
“At its worst, a lack of financial literacy leaves Indigenous peoples vulnerable to financial exploitation …” Cable's experience, however, is not typical of Indigenous Australians and the accounting profession. Of the 200,000 accountants accredited in ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Canberra Now: News in 90 seconds for Wednesday, February 28, 2018
The Sydney Morning Herald
San Antonio Spurs' Patty Mills, center, from Australia, drives between Cleveland Cavaliers' Jeff Green, left, and Kyle Korver in the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak). Photo: TONY DEJAK ...

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Gold Coast Bulletin
Claim that some indigenous activists are considering terror ahead of Commonwealth Games should be taken deadly ...
Gold Coast Bulletin
That evil is rearing its head again, and this time the Gold Coast is in the gun-sights. A report by Richard Ferguson in Monday's Australian carried alarming quotes from indigenous activist Wayne Wharton, who claimed that young Aboriginals harbour such ...

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New research reveals higher domestic violence rates for indigenous
The Australian
The report, released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, suggests indigenous women are 32 times more likely than non-indigenous women to be admitted to hospital due to family violence. Indigenous men are 23 times more likely to be ...

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SBS
Australia's Peter Cosgrove vows to promote religious freedoms, Indigenous rights in new UN human rights position
SBS
Sorry, it appears as though your operating system and/or web browser does not support modern standards. Please consider updating your web browser. It is the first time Australia has been elected a member of the UN Human Rights Council. Updated Updated ...

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InDaily
Marshall's grand old RAH plan running behind interstate rival
InDaily
Marshall's concept also appears likely to delay – or even kill off – hopes for a broader contemporary art gallery for the site, which is currently the subject of an international design competition. He said today the absence of a national indigenous ...
SA Libs want art gallery on hospital siteSBS

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SBS
This native superfood is 8 times as nutritious as potato and tastes as sweet as coconut
SBS
We all know about the North American yam and its place on the Thanksgiving table (even if candied yams are actually made with sweet potatoes), but did you know that Australia has native varieties of the root vegetable, too? There's a long agricultural ...

The Australian
PoliticsNow: live news, analysis from the House of Representatives and Senate
The Australian
“Governments make the mistake of hand selecting people that they will listen to.” Earlier this month, Mr Turnbull said the government would not support the “voice” concept and warned it would become a third chamber of parliament. “If it were to succeed ...
Politics Live: Malcolm Turnbull tries to shake off Barnaby Joyce sagaThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
Morning mail: voters not troubled by Joyce affair
The Guardian
Two of Australia's most acclaimed writers, Helen Garner and Kim Scott, took to the stage together at Perth writers' week. Brigid Delaney hears them sharing their thoughts on literature, writing communities, #MeToo and more. “Garner could deliver her ...

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The Guardian (blog)
When Douglas Grant met Henry Lawson: new light on Australia's dark story
The Guardian (blog)
Grant's life was complex, incorporating so many competing narratives of Australian history. There is the frequently overlooked story of modern Australia – that of violent dispossession and all its profound reverberations through intergenerational ...