Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Sydney Morning Herald
Greens plan major new Australia Day date change campaign
The Sydney Morning Herald
The federal government encourages citizenship ceremonies to be held on either Australia Day or Australian Citizenship Day, in September. The issue gained further public prominence after the ABC's youth radio broadcaster Triple J announced it was moving ...

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Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)
Mental health care “grossly underfunded”: AMA
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)
Indigenous adults are 2.7 times as likely as non-Indigenous adults to suffer these levels of distress. General practitioners manage mental health problems for Indigenous Australians at 1.3 times the rate for other Australians, and mental health-related ...

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The Border Mail
Sport unites on national day as community and police come together
The Border Mail
UNITED: Albury Chief Inspector Kim Sorensen believes Australia Day will be a peaceful affair on the border. He believes the Border is an example of inclusiveness where Indigenous Australians play an important role in Australia Day ceremonies. As ...

PerthNow
Tennis legend Pat Cash reveals why he won't be celebrating Australia Day
PerthNow
“As an Australian who brought two Davis Cups home, representing my country, January 26 is not a day of celebration for me. People who really look into it would question that. “That is not going to be a celebration for me, it's like an Invasion Day ...
Why Pat Cash won't be celebrating Australia Day: Tennis legend says he was 'reduced to tears and embarrassed' after ...Daily Mail

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NEWS.com.au
Tennis legend Pat Cash reveals why he won't be celebrating Australia Day
NEWS.com.au
“As an Australian who brought two Davis Cups home, representing my country, January 26 is not a day of celebration for me. People who really look into it would question that. “That is not going to be a celebration for me, it's like an Invasion Day ...

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ABC Online
Facebook page 'Blackfulla Revolution' hacked ahead of Australia Day, say admins
ABC Online
The administrators of a popular Aboriginal Facebook community claim their page was hacked and taken offline in an attack they believe was racially motivated. "Blackfulla Revolution" was launched in 2014 and had 157,000 likes before it was removed last ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Hurricane D'Arcy Short blasts his way into national T20 selection mix
The Sydney Morning Herald
His heritage strikes a chord at Cricket Australia, where CA's indigenous engagement manager Paul Stewart has been working for four years to correct the historical abscess of the game's disconnect from Aboriginal people. Stewart's work is bearing fruit ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
This Australia Day, I'll be looking forward, not backwards
The Sydney Morning Herald
Next week most of us will celebrate Australia Day. In the lead-up to and on that day we have come to expect that some Indigenous activists will argue we should look upon the day as invasion day. That's a shame. It's a shame because the day is one where ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
This Australia Day, I'll be looking forward, not backwards
The Sydney Morning Herald
Next week most of us will celebrate Australia Day. In the lead up to and on that day we have come to expect that some Indigenous activists will be arguing that we should look upon that day as invasion day. That's a shame. It's a shame because the day ...

9news.com.au
Deadly 'Aussie flu' a wake-up call for 'complacent' Australia: AMA
9news.com.au
“(The flu) can make you feel terrible, but it also comes with other complications, including increased likelihood of hospitalisation and increased likelihood of other life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia. “We have become complacent and last year ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Living off Aboriginal disadvantage: NT public servants' immoral rip-off
The Sydney Morning Herald
A well-researched Aboriginal complaint about how they, and Australian taxpayers, are ripped off by the Northern Territory government deserves particular attention in the months ahead, if only because changes to the way the GST dollar is carved up among ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
ACT among the worst for removing Aboriginal children from families
The Sydney Morning Herald
Twenty years ago, white Australia was shocked, even if only momentarily, to learn from the Bringing them home report on the stolen generations that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children represented, from a population base of just 3 per cent ...

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ACT among the worst for removing Aboriginal children from families
WAtoday
Twenty years ago, white Australia was shocked, even if only momentarily, to learn from the Bringing them home report on the stolen generations that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children represented, from a population base of just 3 per cent ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Review: Songlines, Tracking the Seven Sisters at the National Museum of Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
That begins with a younger generation subject to the same distractions as young people everywhere, but it also means reaching out to non-Indigenous Australians and the rest of the world. After all, every society has stories of the utmost importance to ...

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Brisbane Times
Review: Songlines, Tracking the Seven Sisters at the National Museum of Australia
Brisbane Times
That begins with a younger generation subject to the same distractions as young people everywhere, but it also means reaching out to non-Indigenous Australians and the rest of the world. After all, every society has stories of the utmost importance to ...

The Epoch Times
Be Forgiving, Not Offended on Australia Day, Says Indigenous Councilor
The Epoch Times
People offended by the date of Australia day need to grow up, says an indigenous town councilor from Alice Springs who has joined efforts to voice why there is no need to change how the national day is celebrated. Jacinta Price is front and center of a ...

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National Indigenous Times
Our show must go on: Fremantle
National Indigenous Times
Fremantle, the West Australian port city that became the nation's first to cancel Australia Day, is unrepentant as it moves into its second year without the celebration. Mayor Brad Pettit said the Fremantle council wasn't bothered that it had come ...

National Indigenous Times
Treaty supporters to march on Jan 26
National Indigenous Times
Aboriginal people and supporters from across Australia are expected to descend on Sydney on January 26 for what is being described as a history-making march, three decades after the 1988 Long March that drew a crowd rivalling Vietnam War demonstrations ...

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National Indigenous Times
'We don't even have a plan': Solonec
National Indigenous Times
In October last year, Australia was voted onto the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the first time – for a three-year term. On the face of it, this presents great opportunities for the advancement of human rights in Australia, including ...
Be Forgiving, Not Offended on Australia Day, Says Indigenous CouncilorThe Epoch Times
Pictures present Aboriginals shackled in chainsKaplan Herald

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It's an F-minus for Indigenous rights
National Indigenous Times
The Northern Territory came bottom of the class, while New South Wales also flunked, but Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory got top marks. They're the results by Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, which assessed each state on a ...