Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Brisbane Times
Two out of three children in detention in Queensland are Indigenous
Brisbane Times
Youth Minister Di Farmer said the Palaszczuk government was deeply concerned about the rates of Indigenous youths in detention and was actively addressing the issue. "We have established a Youth Justice First Nations Action Board, the first of its kind ...

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Daily Telegraph
Indigenous disadvantage is driven by a lack of participation in the Australian economy
Daily Telegraph
Business isn't something that Australians normally associate with indigenous people. It's usually disadvantage, welfare, remote communities with “no jobs” and disparity. The disparity is real and exists for one reason — too many indigenous people don ...

9news.com.au
Fifty years on, Harold Holt's family remember 'genuine humanitarian' and loving father
9news.com.au
He had helped changed migration for Non-Europeans, assisted with the abolition of the White Australia policy, improved the lives of Indigenous Australians, oversaw major reforms to the banking industry and was the minister responsible for the ...
Opinion: Malcolm Turnbull and Harold Holt share many traits except the will to take risksCourier Mail
The life and death of Harold HoltThe Australian
Harold Holt: the legacy is evident, 50 years after his disappearanceThe Guardian

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Daily Telegraph
It's not racist to be worried about immigration
Daily Telegraph
For many years, as a nation, we have accepted immigrants from around the world — it's part of what makes Australia unique. If you're not the child of an indigenous Australian, you're the child of an immigrant. I am — my family came here in the mid ...

Courier Mail
Opinion: Malcolm Turnbull and Harold Holt share many traits except the will to take risks
Courier Mail
Formerly as treasurer, Holt also launched our decimal currency in 1966 — and resisted Menzies' awful idea to name the new notes “royals” — and steered the iconic 1967 indigenous Australians referendum. Holt, unlike Menzies, also cultivated ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Ashes 2017/18: Numbers up for Cricket Australia's Indigenous teams milestones
The Sydney Morning Herald
Cricket Australia has commissioned a project to assign cap numbers for every player who has represented the national Indigenous male and female teams. The initiative is part of the celebrations commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 1868 tour of ...

The Guardian
Beyond Batman: how Indigenous superheroes are turning comics inside out
The Guardian
In 1988, while Australia was disingenuously promising a treaty to placate the First Peoples protesting against bicentenary celebrations, an Aboriginal character called Gateway appeared in the comic Uncanny Xmen #229. The mutant superhero Wolverine was ...

The Australian
Anna Clark's The Catch: The Story of Fishing in Australia
The Australian
Smith dominates England · Steve Smith of Australia reacts on Day 2 of the Third Test match between Australia and Wayne Smith. Steve Smith, take a bow. By stumps, the Australian captain had almost singlehandedly wrested control of the third Ashes Test ...

Vogue Australia
What it takes to design the world's most sustainable lamp
Vogue Australia
The PET Lamp project in Australia — a weaver works on a lamp in Arhem Land. First in Colombia, followed by Chile, Ethiopia, Japan and Chile again, and now to Australia's own Arnhem Land, the PET lamp project has seen some of the most remote indigenous ...

Pursuit
Connecting to country through architecture
Pursuit
Place is important to Indigenous people and yet there are only a handful of Aboriginal architects in Australia. Jefa Greenaway is working to change that. Share selection to: There are many Indigenous heroes who have paved the way, opening the door for ...

ABC Online
Indigenous work-for-the-dole scheme 'cannot and should not continue', Senate committee report warns
ABC Online
"People on income support in remote Australia were being fined for not showing up to hygiene classes and 3D printing training, it is farcical." Most of the approximately 15,000 people required to undertake CDP activities are Aboriginal or Torres Strait ...

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A new Vatican publication showcases Australia's Indigenous culture
mnnews.today
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Chairperson, Professor Michael McDaniel, said the process taken to reconnect these cultural forms with their communities is particularly significant. “Through the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Now the royal commission is over, society faces a test
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been a five-year investigation, and ultimately an assertion, of the rights of the child. But it's been much more than that. It's been an exhaustive examination of what can ...

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ABC Online
Army scouts trained to use Indigenous bushcraft skills through Tulugal Program
ABC Online
The Army is using ancient Indigenous bushcraft, tracking and survival skills to help give its scouts a vital edge. Lieutenant Colonel James Molnar created the Tulugal Program to improve the ability of light cavalry scouts to conduct reconnaissance ...

9news.com.au
Harold Holt's disappearance still baffles 50 years on
9news.com.au
He made the role of prime minister more informal, developed relationships with the media and was "superb" on television, Brown added. "He was a modern presence, a much more approachable and affable kind of guy." During his almost two years as prime ...

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Brisbane Times
Indigenous methods meet western science for ANU graduate Sam Provost
Brisbane Times
"They should rightly be very proud of their achievements and on behalf of the whole university, I offer my best wishes for the future." Mr Provost graduated the ANU with a Bachelor of Science (Resource and Environmental Management) and will continue ...

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Courier Mail
Letters to the Editor, December 15, 2017
Courier Mail
Successive federal governments have poured billions of taxpayer dollars into redressing these issues and alleviating the circumstances in which Aboriginal people live. It appears to have done little good and many ask where the money has gone. The ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal artists of Ernabella celebrate 50-year link with renowned Sturt craft workshop
ABC Online
Australia's oldest Indigenous arts centre. The skills and life experience the young artists gained at Sturt helped to shape the direction of Ernabella Arts, and continue to have influence as their knowledge is passed onto the next generation. Original ...

ABC Online
Proving the link between living on country and improved Indigenous health
ABC Online
Understanding culture the gamechanger for Indigenous health. Remote Indigenous communities across Australia report some of the highest rates of chronic disease and preventable illnesses. But Dr Wenitong said it was a misconception that people in those ...

Noosa News
Indigenous recognition is overdue, Australia must act now
Noosa News
A GREAT many of us who do not have indigenous heritage feel a gnawing discomfort when discussing issues that pertain to Australia's first nation people. We worry what we say might be rude, or insensitive or - worse - culturally offensive. And those in ...

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