Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Award-winning app boosts language skills to improve Indigenous health
ABC Online
Imagine every time you went to the doctor, you had a massive language barrier, because English isn't your first language and it's rare that medical professionals can speak your language. This is a situation faced by many Indigenous people in Australia.

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Australia Day: Councils to be banned from changing the date if Liberals win SA election
ABC Online
Councils would be banned from changing the date they use to celebrate Australia Day in South Australia, the State Liberals have declared, if they win government in March. SA Opposition Leader Steven Marshall, who is also the spokesperson for Aboriginal ...

ABC Local
Australia Day: Hobart City Council gets behind campaign for date change
ABC Local
The Hobart City Council is formally joining the push to change the date of Australia Day and will back aldermen who want to take part in the annual Invasion Day march. At its full meeting on Monday night, a four-point motion was passed seven votes to ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous leaders angry about Government's 'lack of responsibility' to address constitution issue
ABC Online
... Statement, which arose from six months of consultations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. "I'm angry about the intransigence. And the lack of responsibility," he said. "I'm angry that our people are constantly seeking the sentiment ...

Katherine Times
More Aboriginal Australians finishing school
Katherine Times
The census results show that the highest Year 12 completion rates in 2016 were in the Australian Capital Territory (57 per cent) and Queensland (42 per cent) while the Northern Territory had the lowest proportion (22 per cent). The number of Aboriginal ...

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Rugby's indigenous recognition a step in the right direction
The Australian
Australia is the only G20 nation that does not include nuclear power in this recipe, with the disastrous results that David describes. Nuclear power plants are expensive to build but cheap to operate so that the cost of electricity from them is in the ...

The Advertiser
SA Liberals would force local councils to celebrate Australia Day on January 26 if they won government
The Advertiser
Councillor Bruce Hull had argued that January 26 was the wrong day to celebrate Australia Day because it marked the British invasion of Aboriginal land. Interstate, the Yarra and Darebin councils in Victoria in August voted to scrap their Australia Day ...

SBS
Chinese-Australians prone to undiagnosed cases of Hepatitis B
SBS
Nearly 240,000 Australians have chronic Hepatitis B, but 38 per cent remain undiagnosed. Health organisations hope this latest campaign will not only raise awareness about Hepatitis B within the Chinese community, but also dispel myths about the ...

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ANZSOG to blaze Indigenous trail
PS News
A conference in Sydney hosted by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) and the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) has resolved that more needs to be done in the Australian Public Service to recognise ...

The Advertiser
Caleb Bond: Stopping Aboriginal violence is a conversation we must have as Australians
The Advertiser
Keith Woodford, the husband of Gayle Woodford who was lured from her home and brutally raped and murdered by Aboriginal man Dudley Davey while working in the APY lands, yesterday called for more police in the Outback. It is one of the great shames of ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
'The spread of credentialism': tripling of Australians with university degrees
The Sydney Morning Herald
The census data showed that 56 per cent of Australians aged 15 and over, or 9.6 million people, hold a post-school qualification, up from 46 per cent in 2006. There were also some positive signs for Indigenous Australians. In the past decade, the ...
Census shows Australians working shorter weeks, but women still bear most household responsibilitiesABC Online

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ESPN
Mills congratulates Wallabies for representing Indigenous people
ESPN
The Wallabies, who defeated the All Blacks 23-18 in Brisbane, did so wearing a special jersey to celebrate Australian Indigenous culture that was described by Kurtley Beale at launch as "pretty cool ... amazing ... it's obviously a very special symbol ...
ARU's recognition of indigenous players a long time cmoingThe Australian
Bernard Foley hopes to see Wallabies' indigenous tributes continueCourier Mail
Read praises Wallabies' Indigenous jerseyRugby.com.au
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Illawarra Mercury
Closing the Gap set for overhaul after failing to improve outcomes for Indigenous Australians
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"We are committed to co-designing the Closing the Gap refresh and that is why the [Council of Australian Governments] will hear from the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples and discuss priorities and objectives for each state and territory ...
Indigenous Closing the Gap strategy facing overhaulIllawarra Mercury
'They must listen': Indigenous congress optimistic about Closing the Gap changesThe Guardian

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Indigenous 'closing the gap' strategy facing overhaul
Ballarat Courier
Up to $300 billion in government spending will come under scrutiny as state and territory leaders consider a "refresh" of the Closing the Gap strategy to reduce Indigenous disadvantage in Australia. Australia's Indigenous affairs ministers will ...

The Border Mail
Overhaul of Closing the Gap strategy welcomed
The Border Mail
Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion, speaks to Local Elder Uncle Moogi at the Kornar Winmil Yunti Aboriginal Corporation in Adelaide. Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (AAP Image/David Mariuz) NO ARCHIVING. Australia's Aboriginal affairs ...

Researchers Appeal to Government to Offer Indigenous Healing Practices
National Geographic Australia
The remote province of Nauiyu, around 250km South of Darwin, is the first of the four Australian analyses to investigate indigenous trauma and healing from a local and communal standpoint. Gavin Morris, a researcher from Charles Darwin University, ...

The Guardian
As Indigenous people we exist outside of sporting arenas and welfare dependency
The Guardian
Indigenous and mainstream Australians often have very different ideas about the concept of “success”. For non-Indigenous Australians success opportunities are almost exclusively economic concepts, based on stolen and inherited resources and privilege.

ABC Online
Census shows Australians working shorter weeks, but women still bear most household responsibilities
ABC Online
[shows] a 27 per cent increase in fitness instructors, a 25 per cent rise in the number or beauty therapists and a 23 per cent increase in bar attendants and baristas," Ms Kindermann said. Professionals were also on the rise among Indigenous ...

Illawarra Mercury
Indigenous Closing the Gap strategy facing overhaul | Illawarra ...
Illawarra Mercury
Up to $300 billion in government spending will come under scrutiny as state and territory leaders consider a "refresh" of the Closing the Gap strategy to reduce ...
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Courier Mail
Australia beat England at Allan Border Field to take lead in women's Ashes series
Courier Mail
Alex Blackwell topscored with 67 not out but 20-year-old indigenous all-rounder Ash Gardner, with 27 off 18 balls including two sixes, provided the late innings cannon fire that broke the game after Australia were feeling the pressure of a mounting run ...
Women's Ashes: First blood to Australia with ODi winThe Australian

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