Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Equine therapy can help Aboriginal university students, says researcher
ABC Online
A Sunshine Coast researcher wants to replicate a successful equine therapy program being used in America to improve the retention rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students in Australia. Dr Bindi Bennett, from the University of ...

ABC Local
Change the date: Darwin City Council flags axing Australia Day
ABC Local
Last month, the Indigenous Affairs Minister and Senator for the Northern Territory Nigel Scullion said not a single Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person had approached him about changing the date of Australia Day. Senator Scullion said many ...
Could This Be The First Sydney Council To Ditch Australia Day?Junkee

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Independent Australia
Closing the Gap requests for Indigenous participation are ironic — at best
Independent Australia
Unless overcome, structural issues in the heart of Australian politics and governance seem destined to doom the Turnbull Government's Closing the Gap "refresh", writes Dr Zoe Staines. LAST YEAR was full of highs and lows in Australian Indigenous ...
Rudd to fight watered down Closing the GapWestern Advocate

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Junkee
Could This Be The First Sydney Council To Ditch Australia Day?
Junkee
Sydney's Inner West Council could be the first local government in Australia's largest city to ditch Australia Day festivities if a Greens motion calling for the change is successful next week. Greens councillor Tom Kiat is moving a motion at the next ...

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NEWS.com.au
As a gay man, this is why I want to thank Anthony Mundine for his homophobic outbursts
NEWS.com.au
Got it. And as for Aboriginal culture forbidding homosexuality? Well Dameyon Bonson, the founder of Black Rainbow, a mental health and anti-suicide organisation for LGBTI Indigenous Australians, calls BS on that. “There's no basis in his argument. You ...

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InDaily
Podcast: Recording Australia's threatened indigenous languages
InDaily
Photo: AIATSIS/Wikimedia Commons. In today's podcast, The Message Pod's Nicole Haack talks to Daniel Bogre Udell, the founder of Wikitongues – a volunteer-driven organisation that has been growing its online database since 2013. The movement has more ...

The Australian
Leave Australia Day alone, Albanese tells Sydney's Inner West Council
The Australian
“I look forward to future citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day and note the Greens political party councillors and state MPs participated in this celebration without telling the new citizens that they didn't think their induction into our nation was ...

The Guardian
Closing the Gap: Turnbull rejects claims government has abandoned strategy
The Guardian
The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has brushed off claims the federal government has ditched the Closing the Gap strategy to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians, saying it is expanding the program and devoting more money to the cause. A ...
Closing the Gap review finds policy 'effectively abandoned' amid 'extensive funding cuts'ABC Online
Australia's Aboriginal life expectancy gap widensABC News
Australia accused of 'effectively abandoning' indigenous goalsBBC News
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SBS
Figure skating - Aboriginal Windsor breaks ice in Pyeongchang
SBS
... homeland and during Friday's opening ceremony, he will march in the front row of Australia's delegation with chef de mission Ian Chesterman and four-times Olympian snowboarder Holly Crawford. "It's absolutely an honour to be able to do that, a ...

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POPSUGAR Australia
What We're Fighting For: 3 Indigenous Australians Tell Us About the Change They Wish to See
POPSUGAR Australia
This feature is dedicated to our #NoChangeNoFuture initiative. From the Women's March, to Australia voting yes to same sex marriage, and the #MeToo movement, 2017 taught us to look beyond ourselves and come together as a collective of powerful women ...

Daily Telegraph
Labor slams 'hopeless' government for 'abandoning' Closing the Gap
SBS
Indigenous Labor Senator Pat Dodson has condemned the Turnbull government for not committing to Closing the Gap between Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians. Speaking at the Close the Gap Campaign review, a frustrated Senator Dodson ...
The flags we fly and holidays we celebrate signal who we are as a nationThe Guardian (blog)
Closing the Gap review finds policy 'effectively abandoned' amid - ABCABC Online
Malcolm Turnbull slammed for leaving indigenous health, Close the Gap breakfast earlyDaily Telegraph
BBC News -Illawarra Mercury
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Daily Mail
Sydney council to consider Aus Day change
SBS
"It's pretty clear coming from the indigenous community that January 26 is not an appropriate day to have an Australia Day event," he told AAP on Thursday. "I think that's shared by probably a majority of people in the inner west who are not indigenous ...
Sydney council considers dumping Australia Day celebrations and replacing them with with an Aboriginal ...Daily Mail

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ABC Online
Youth united by pale skin and Aboriginality here to inspire interest in Indigenous culture
ABC Online
Brianna Martin and Michael James want you to know that beneath their white skin runs a rich and proud Indigenous heritage that they want to share with as many people as possible. The teenagers have heard it before — yes they are Indigenous Australians ...

Daily Telegraph
The flags we fly and holidays we celebrate signal who we are as a nation
The Guardian (blog)
Regrettable but perhaps not surprising, given the recent rhetorical contortions of opponents, from the prime minister down, to re-thinking Australia Day. Barely a week later we hear the yowls of resistance from the bunker, amid spurious arguments that ...
Damning review finds Closing the Gap policy 'effectively abandoned'SBS
Malcolm Turnbull slammed for leaving indigenous health, Close the Gap breakfast earlyDaily Telegraph
Australia accused of 'effectively abandoning' indigenous goalsBBC News
ABC Online -NEWS.com.au
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Daily Telegraph
Malcolm Turnbull slammed for leaving indigenous health, Close the Gap breakfast early
Daily Telegraph
Mr Turnbull attended for the first two major speeches by June Oscar, Close the Gap Campaign co-chair and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, and Rod Little, Co-Chair at the National Congress of Australia's First People ...
Pat Dodson slams Malcolm Turnbull for leaving Close The Gap breakfastABC Online

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Politics Live: Backdown on secrecy laws, citizenship saga gets personal
The Sydney Morning Herald
Labor has hit out at the government over a newly released review of Australia's Closing the Gap strategy to address Indigenous disadvantage. The 10-year review from the Close the Gap steering committee has concluded the policy was "effectively ...

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ABC Online
What happened to the top students of the class of 1998?
ABC Online
Like Dr Irving-Stonebraker, she knew from a young age what she wanted to be: a lawyer and advocate for Indigenous Australians. She said that dream was borne after witnessing racial discrimination towards Indigenous students from teachers at primary ...

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The Guardian
Closing the Gap health goals 'effectively abandoned' for political reasons
The Guardian
A Closing the Gap review said that viewing Indigenous health spending as part of a 25-year program 'was effectively abandoned after five years'. Photograph: Tracey Nearmy/AAP. The Closing the Gap strategy was established in 2008 with the aim of ...
Indigenous health needs more money: reportSBS

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Inner west council first Sydney council to debate ditching Australia Day celebrations
The Sydney Morning Herald
Last year, the Turnbull government stripped Melbourne's Yarra and Darebin councils of their powers to hold citizenship ceremonies after they voted to cease holding ceremonies on Australia Day. Cr Byrne instead wants the council to "consult with the ...

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Brisbane Times
Inner west council first Sydney council to debate ditching Australia Day celebrations
Brisbane Times
Last year, the Turnbull government stripped Melbourne's Yarra and Darebin councils of their powers to hold citizenship ceremonies after they voted to cease holding ceremonies on Australia Day. Cr Byrne instead wants the council to "consult with the ...

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