Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Conversation AU
Explainer: the seasonal 'calendars' of Indigenous Australia
The Conversation AU
The key to understanding this temporal reality is the shape of the stone calendar. It is round, not a continuum. There is no beginning or end, and as such, there is no “New Year”. Seasons do not serve as a basis for linear metaphors of new life in ...

America Magazine
Indigenous communities in Australia press for a national voice despite setbacks
America Magazine
In Australia, Indigenous and settler relations are at a political low point, following the dismissal of a proposed First Nations “voice” in federal parliament. The voice has become part of the architecture of Aboriginal (mainland) and Torres Strait ...

Lawyers Weekly
The scores are in: Aus' 2017 human rights efforts revealed
Lawyers Weekly
“While the federal government can be awarded a couple of gold stars for ratifying OPCAT and legalising marriage equality (through a quite traumatic process), Australia has been repeatedly slammed at multiple United Nations forums this year in its ...

Coffs Coast Advocate
2017 Sport Rewind: In tune in both May and June
Coffs Coast Advocate
Coffs Harbour surfer Otis Carey claimed his second Australian Indigenous Surfing Title, putting together multiple carves and turns in the final at Bells Beach. Small in number but big on performance, the CASS Energy athletes showed their domination ...

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2017 Sport Rewind: In tune in both May and June
Coffs Coast Advocate
Coffs Harbour surfer Otis Carey claimed his second Australian Indigenous Surfing Title, putting together multiple carves and turns in the final at Bells Beach. Small in number but big on performance, the CASS Energy athletes showed their domination ...

Ballarat Courier
It Takes Courage creates links between culturally-diverse women
Ballarat Courier
The Womens Health Grampians It Takes Courage project meets weekly, hosting women from refugee and migrant backgrounds for discussion and cooked meals from each of their respective countries. Fourteen different cultures are represented, including ...

Fox Sports
Adelaide Strikers unveil Aboriginal-inspired playing shirts for Alice Springs debut
Fox Sports
THE Adelaide Strikers have unveiled unique playing shirts designed by Aboriginal artists to be worn during the Big Bash League's inaugural fixtures in Alice Springs later this month. Adelaide's players and coach Jason Gillespie, Australia's first ...

SBS - The World Game
There is a land of five rivers called Punjaub, right here in Australia!
SBS - The World Game
What's more, the adjoining estate is named 'Almora', which further deepens the connection of the Australian Punjaub with the Indian Punjab - both are named so because they are the land of five rivers, and both have an adjoining land called "Almora". Mr ...

The Border Mail
Living Lightly | Making better seafood choices
The Border Mail
UNDER PRESSURE: Our passion for seafood is causing a crisis in our oceans and as consumers we need to be far more aware of sustainable products. I'm on the seafood diet; I see food, and I eat it – Homer Simpson. Perched on an island as we are, both ...

The Guardian
Closing the Gap 'refresh': Coalition accused of ignoring Indigenous Australians
The Guardian
The voice to parliament proposal was rejected by Turnbull, who claimed it would fail at a referendum – despite polling showing it had support. Turnbull also said it was a new and undiscussed concept despite cabinet papers this week revealing it was ...

SBS
'We didn't expect to hit the main nerve:' AB Original on music and activism
SBS
Not on the scale that is necessary, including changing the date of Australia Day from January 26 to a day of mourning and the celebration of survival for Indigenous Australians. "I think being a part of the broader conversation about [these issues ...

Women's Agenda
Political hopes for 2018? Something different: #Auspol Brains Trust
Women's Agenda
Serious bi-partisan efforts to work with indigenous Australia (all of the multiple voices) to work out an honourable way forward. But my 2018 expectations are different. I'm expecting continued partisan squabbling over S44 constitutional fallout ...

The Guardian
Indigenous children's commissioner rejects out-of-home care targets
The Guardian
The other is a target to reduce the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the prison system. The two are inextricably linked: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare found in 2016 that children who were known to the child protection system ...

The Canberra Times
Keating government ignored Finance Department call to abolish National Museum
The Canberra Times
Mr Keating's cabinet agreed instead to create a Gallery of Aboriginal Australia, housing the National Museum's Indigenous collections, on Acton peninsula with new accommodation for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

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Still far short of closing the gap
The Australian
It is good news for the next generation of indigenous Australians that the decade-old Closing the Gap process is on track to meet one of its most important targets — halving the gap for Year 12 or equivalent attainment by indigenous students by 2020 ...

The Advertiser
Adelaide Strikers to wear new shirts designed by Aboriginal artists for historic BBL match in Alice Springs
The Advertiser
Strikers men's coach Jason Gillespie, who is the first indigenous Australian Test cricketer, said the shirts were a “great initiative”. “The shirts look brilliant, the artists have done a great job. We will all be very proud to wear them in Alice ...

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Herald Sun
Adelaide Strikers to wear new shirts designed by Aboriginal artists for historic BBL match in Alice Springs
Herald Sun
Strikers men's coach Jason Gillespie, who is the first indigenous Australian Test cricketer, said the shirts were a “great initiative”. “The shirts look brilliant, the artists have done a great job. We will all be very proud to wear them in Alice ...

Belfast Telegraph
Northern Ireland journalist scoops award in Australia for her work
Belfast Telegraph
Jane Bardon, formerly a BBC reporter in Northern Ireland, is now a senior reporter with ABC based in Darwin, Australia. She is also the daughter of Jonathan Bardon, the author of A History of Ulster, which is regarded as the definitive book on the ...

The Australian
Keating held Court over native title
The Australian
And in 1995 the key “third plank” of the native title act, the so-called “social justice package”, began to be considered, after Mr Keating sought the views of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission on further measures to address the ...
Native title: How the West lost its land actBrisbane Times

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The Conversation AU
Cabinet papers 1994-95: The Keating government begins to craft its legacy
The Conversation AU
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission's work as a national representative body was seen as integral to overcoming this challenge. The new National Native Title Tribunal brought sharp focus to these concerns. Keating urged that this body ...
Cabinet papers: PM made captain's call on DeaneThe Australian
Keating's struggle to implement Mabo decision revealed in 1994-95 cabinet papersThe Guardian

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