Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
Setting scene for crackerjack new year
The Australian
Australian Hollywood star Hugh Jackman co-designed one particular gold effect to the music of indigenous musician Gurrumul Yunupingu. Brits Rowannah Smith and Stepheine Butler, with Swiss friends Rahel Amman and Alexandra Weber, waited two hours to get ...
New Year's Eve: Partygoers swarm capital citiesNEWS.com.au
Record fireworks to light up Sydney on NYESBS
Sydney prepares for record NYE fireworksThe West Australian
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Closing the Gap: Indigenous targets mostly unmet
The Australian
Ten years after Kevin Rudd delivered the first prime minister's Closing the Gap report to parliament, only one of seven targets is on track to be met, four more are due to expire in June with no hope of being achieved and all levels of government, as ...

The Guardian
Keating's struggle to implement Mabo decision revealed in 1994-95 cabinet papers
The Guardian
“The central message is as understandable as it is unequivocal; without the achievement of true social justice for Indigenous Australians, it will not be possible to achieve lasting reconciliation.” The Keating government was also busy extending human ...

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Brisbane Times
Unearthed winner Baker Boy makes high-energy Woodford debut
Brisbane Times
Though he confesses he is not a political person, Baker does rap about his life in Melbourne and his regional home of Milingimbi and Maningrida and the importance of keeping native languages alive. “I wanna let Australia and the world know that there's ...

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The Advertiser
Tauto Sansbury: Aboriginals have little to feel positive about
The Advertiser
Like it or not, Aboriginal Australians are the most disadvantaged, ostracised, criticised and victimised group in society. We experience racism pretty much on a daily basis. I speak from experience. This is Aboriginal life. I want to share with you my ...

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PerthNow
Tauto Sansbury: Aboriginals have little to feel positive about
PerthNow
FOR the best part of my 40 years' involvement with my community, with governments, with the political system, with service providers both Aboriginal and NGOs, there isn't much I can write about that has been positive for the long term. As we enter the ...

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The South Burnett Times
Sporting achievements in the South Burnett in 2017
The South Burnett Times
Former Australian Wallaby, Super Rugby five-eighth and Kingaroy Red Ant junior Berrick Barnes joins the Lennox Head Trojans in a coaching role for the rugby union season. Deidre Murray is selected in the under-18 Australian Indigenous Schoolgirls ...

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PlayersVoice
When girls had to stop playing
PlayersVoice
In 2010, I was asked an interesting question by a documentary maker, 'Can we find an Aboriginal runner to challenge the African dominance in distance running?' I was hooked on the idea. Indigenous Australians are the original distance runners. Could we ...

Courier Mail
Adani coal megamine: Palaszczuk Government dismisses complaints about NAIF veto impact
Courier Mail
Adani Australia CEO Jeyakumar Janakaraj said the company was not prepared for the bad news about the NAIF loan veto. It followed claims by the company that the Premier's decision to veto the Federal Government loan had shaken the company and forced it ...

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The Australian
Australian of the Year: Who has inspired us the most in 2017?
The Australian
The Weekend Australian today opens nominations for its Australian of the Year for 2017, with the winner to be announced on Saturday, January 20. The award recognises the achievements of Australians in all walks of life, be it politics, sport, science ...

The Australian
Malcolm Turnbull is ashamed of himself, Bob Hawke tells festival crowd
The Australian
Malcolm Turnbull is ashamed of himself for giving up his principles to roll Tony Abbott and should resign, former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke says. Speaking at the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland on Friday, Mr Hawke also told the alternative ...
Woodford Folk Festival: Bob Hawke makes annual appearanceNEWS.com.au
Bob Hawke's advice for Malcolm Turnbull: 'resign'Brisbane Times
'He should resign': Bob Hawke, 88, blasts Malcolm Turnbull and says the prime minister should be 'ashamed' of how he ...Daily Mail

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Eternity News
A tribute to the pioneers of a national Aboriginal fellowship
Eternity News
Aboriginal Christians not only had to overcome cultural and geographical barriers to form the Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship 47 years ago; they also had to defy opposition waged by some of the missionaries, who accused them of wanting to create a ...

The Guardian
Family of Indigenous man who died in custody confront guards
The Guardian
A NSW Corrective Services spokeswoman said the commissioner, Peter Severin, “deeply regrets” Dungay's death. The commissioner and the department's Aboriginal strategy and policy staff have met with Dungay's family to “discuss their concerns and provide ...

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Australia Day 'noise' distracting from bigger issues
4BC
Doctor Anthony Dillon, postdoctoral fellow at Australian Catholic University, has called Australia Day protesters a “noisy minority”. Dr Dillon, an Indigenous Australian, tells Chris Kenny protestors should be focusing on “far more important issues ...

The Sunshine Coast Daily
Australian personalities 2017: The names on everyone's lips
The Sunshine Coast Daily
Love them or loathe them, these high-profile identities had the nation talking. League legend kicks goals off the field. HE MIGHT be best known for his State of Origin prowess but Johnathan Thurston's work off the field also scored him accolades in ...

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Toowoomba Chronicle
Australian personalities 2017: The names on everyone's lips
Toowoomba Chronicle
Love them or loathe them, these high-profile identities had the nation talking. League legend kicks goals off the field. HE MIGHT be best known for his State of Origin prowess but Johnathan Thurston's work off the field also scored him accolades in ...

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The Independent
Sol Bellear: Indigenous Australian civil rights leader, rugby player and veteran of the land rights movement
The Independent
Dogs and cats and pigs and sheep were counted in Australia before Aboriginal people.” Bellear's sacking from the Rabbitohs only served to fuel his sense of injustice. In 1970, he was part of a delegation that travelled to Atlanta to address the United ...

Victoria Police seem to be ignoring reality, hoping it'll go away
The Australian
Price chooses to attack Elise Klein for her evidence-based critique of the CDC trial in Kununurra, but ignores a growing number of reputable studies that highlight possible unintended harm to Aboriginal children including in lower school attendance and ...

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The Advertiser
State election: Liberals pledge to appoint Aboriginal children's commissioner if it wins office
The Advertiser
Liberal child protection spokeswoman Rachel Sanderson told The Advertiser her party would appoint an Assistant Commissioner for Aboriginal Children if it wins the March state election. The new role, within the Office of the Commissioner for Children ...

Herald Sun
Take our Great 2017 Aussie Quiz and test your knowledge
Herald Sun
17 At the Rio 2016 Olympics, Australia's Kyle Chalmers won the 100m freestyle gold medal after being in which place at the 50m turn (a) third (b) fifth (c) seventh? 18 Australian landscape painter, Arthur Streeton, was a leading member of which art ...