Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

SBS
Dodson fears shelving of indigenous plan
SBS
Now that Australia had a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council it had an even greater responsibility to progress reconciliation, Senator Dodson said. "Indigenous people are very frustrated. Our issues and concerns go to the heart of the ...

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Dodson fears shelving of indigenous plan
The Australian
Now that Australia had a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council it had an even greater responsibility to progress reconciliation, Senator Dodson said. "Indigenous people are very frustrated. Our issues and concerns go to the heart of the ...

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Defence Connect
Exhibition remembers those who served
Daily Liberal
An exhibition detailing the contribution of Indigenous Australians to Australia's armed forces is set to open at the Western Plains Cultural Centre on Saturday, October 28. More than 100,000 people have experienced the Shrine of Remembrance's touring ...
Defence prime takes on Indigenous work experience studentsDefence Connect
Invasion Day averted in the Inner WestSydney City News
Progress on pause: the potential of the Service Learning in Indigenous Communities initiativeHoni Soit

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The Conversation AU
Census data shows just how bad we've been at closing inequality gaps
The Conversation AU
One of the targets of the Closing the Gap strategy (which is slated to undergo a “sweeping overhaul”) is to “halve the gap in employment outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a decade (by 2018).” But the latest census data ...

Daily Telegraph
Johnathan Thurston's historic acknowledgment to country to help Kangaroos rise
Daily Telegraph
Kangaroos coach Mal Meninga is a supporter of Thurston's acknowledgment to country. There have been calls for the Kangaroos to do a similar war dance to the Indigenous All Stars. An Australian team did a war cry about 50 years ago. “It wouldn't have ...
Rugby League World Cup: Johnathan Thurston wants pre-game acknowledgement to 'unite Australia'The Sydney Morning Herald

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ABC Online
Stargazing tours share traditional Indigenous stories in Queensland's Gulf
ABC Online
Aside from marking a change in season and offering directions in the dark of night, the stars have long been used by Aboriginal Australians for storytelling — and those stories are now being shared. On Australia's largest aggregate salt pans in ...

Deutsche Welle
Aboriginal woman's remains return to Aust
NEWS.com.au
The woman's descendants had designed a cloth with handprints and messages for her return home to family members. The remains of 52 indigenous Australians have already been returned from Germany. Ethnological museums and collections across the ...
German museum returns remains of indigenous Australian womanDeutsche Welle

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Deutsche Welle
Aboriginal woman's remains return to Aust
The Australian
The woman's descendants had designed a cloth with handprints and messages for her return home to family members. The remains of 52 indigenous Australians have already been returned from Germany. Ethnological museums and collections across the ...
German museum returns remains of indigenous Australian womanDeutsche Welle

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Deutsche Welle
German museum returns remains of indigenous Australian woman
Deutsche Welle
The deceased woman's body had been taken from her native Australia by a German mine leaseholder, who in 1909 gave it to the regional museum. The woman's descendants had prepared a cloth with handprints and messages ready for her return to her ...
Aboriginal woman's remains return to AustNEWS.com.au

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Indigenous dismay over political silence on Uluru statement
The Australian
Her address will come on the heels of Cape York lawyer Noel Pearson furiously lashing out at white Australia's failure “to take responsibility for your country” on the issue. “I'm angry about the intransigence and the lack of responsibility taken ...

Radio Australia
Indigenous recognition: Government stalling on First Nations body referendum, Labor says
Radio Australia
"Constitutional reform to accommodate the wishes of Indigenous Australians is important, but personally I'm not convinced that the model that was arrived at in Uluru is the right one," he said. "The idea of the consultative body established in the ...

Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Four Rocky players to line up with Indigenous Allstars
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
The championships start on Friday and have attracted some of Australia and New Zealand's best darts players, who will vie for a share of the $60,000 in prizemoney. It has been a big year for the local quartet, who were also part of the first all ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Rugby League World Cup: Johnathan Thurston wants pre-game acknowledgement to 'unite Australia'
The Sydney Morning Herald
Debutant Dane Gagai will be one of three Kangaroos players with Indigenous heritage in Meninga's 17 for the clash against England along with Will Chambers and fellow-rookie Wade Graham. Meninga's overhaul of the Australian culture has put an ...

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Daily Telegraph
Wallabies' indigenous jersey set to stay after nation embraces popular strip
Daily Telegraph
The indigenous jersey championed by Kurtley Beale is set to stay. Sales of the jersey have gone gangbusters and numerous high profile athletes, such as Matt Giteau and Anthony Mundine, called for the Wallabies to adopt the jersey permanently. It is ...
Plans underway to ensure the Indigenous Wallabies jersey will be worn againFox Sports

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Law Council throws support behind referendum on the creation of ...  Law Council of Australia

Law Council backs indigenous voice vote
The Australian
Five months ago the Referendum Council backed a referendum for a constitutionally-enshrined indigenous advisory body at a historic convention in Central Australia. It's recommendations, delivered to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader ...

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Fox Sports
Plans underway to ensure the Indigenous Wallabies jersey will be worn again
Fox Sports
Although the NRL and AFL have both held an Indigenous Round in their regular season for a number of years, the new-look and eye-catching jersey worn by the Wallabies in Brisbane on Saturday was the first of its kind by an Australian national sporting ...

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Law Council backs Aboriginal referendum
NEWS.com.au
... treaty-making mechanism and a reconciliation commission. "We are now calling for genuine commitment from all federal parliamentarians to implement the Referendum Council's recommendations swiftly," Law Council of Australia President Fiona McLeod ...

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The Mandarin
Indigenous Affairs and public administration: can't we do better?
The Mandarin
One message came through clearly: it is the public sector, not Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, that has to change practice, culture and the relational basis of their interactions with Australia's First Peoples. Delegates to the ...

Indigenous leaders fear reform risks stall
The Australian
But Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson said there had been no bigger champion for constitutional reform than the Greens. "We've certainly worked very hard with indigenous leaders and indigenous communities over many many years," he said. "Of course ...

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