Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Huffington Post Australia
Australia Appointed To UN Human Rights Council Despite Shaky Record
Huffington Post Australia
But just three months ago, the U.N.'s Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights slammed Australia's progress on human rights for its own Indigenous population. In its July report 'Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of ...
Australia's Human Rights Council election comes with a challenge to improve its domestic recordThe Conversation AU (blog)
Australia wins seat on UN Human Rights Council despite criticismSBS
Australia elected to UN human rights council as criticisms surround Congo electionThe Sydney Morning Herald
The West Australian -Yahoo7 News
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The Guardian
Indigenous poet Ellen van Neerven abused by year 12 English students
The Guardian
An Australian poet has become the target of online abuse from high school students after one of her pieces was used in end-of-year exams. Ellen van Neerven, an Indigenous writer and poet who won the prestigious David Unaipon Award in 2013, became the ...

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Sky News Australia
Australia elected to UN Human Rights Council
Sky News Australia
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples pointed to the federal government's relationship with indigenous Australians that had been 'sorely strained' in recent years. The UN is set to scrutinise Australia's human rights record on Wednesday ...
Australia elected to UN human rights council as criticisms surround Congo electionThe Sydney Morning Herald
Australia to use UN seat to push women's rightsEchonetdaily
Mass Graves Don't Keep Congolese Off UN Rights CouncilCourthouse News Service

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Teacher Magazine (blog)
Practices that support Indigenous students
Teacher Magazine (blog)
In his latest Teacher column Andreas Schleicher shares the findings of an OECD study analysing the education outcomes of Indigenous students in Canada, New Zealand and Australia. In this follow-up, we take a look at some of promising school practices ...

Sky News Australia
Meningococcal death prompts investigation
Sky News Australia
Last week the 25th case of the W strain of the deadly disease was confirmed in the central Australian indigenous communities of Barkly and Katherine. All of those affected had been Aboriginal people while 19 of the recorded were kids younger than 10.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Aust wins seat on UN Human Rights Council
SBS
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples pointed to the federal government's relationship with indigenous Australians that had been "sorely strained" in recent years. The UN is set to scrutinise Australia's human rights record on Wednesday ...
Australia elected to UNHCR as criticisms surround Congo electionBrisbane Times

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The Guardian
The artists painting their Indigenous songlines to stay healthy and strong
The Guardian
Twenty-four stallholders, representing Indigenous arts centres from around Australia, have brought their best work to Adelaide to sell in the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute. The art fair is part of the Tarnanthi festival of ...

NEWS.com.au
Albert Namatjira's family recovers copyright of his work after decades-long battle
NEWS.com.au
It is a victory for his family and clan who have been denied any rights or revenue from his work for more than 30 years, The Weekend Australian reported. Namatjira, an Arrernte man from Central Australia, is recognised as Australia's greatest ...

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NT News
Albert Namatjira's family recovers copyright of his work after decades-long battle
NT News
It is a victory for his family and clan who have been denied any rights or revenue from his work for more than 30 years, The Weekend Australian reported. Namatjira, an Arrernte man from Central Australia, is recognised as Australia's greatest ...

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The Australian
Beersheba centenary: family with most to lose in Great War
The Australian
The Lovetts are Gunditjmara people from the Lake Condah district, indigenous Australians whose links to this continent go back more than 60,000 years. In the 1840s, they were known as the “fighting Gunditjmara” for their fierce determination to resist ...

Child dies from meningococcal in Darwin
SBS
Last week the 25th case of the W strain of the deadly disease was confirmed in the central Australian indigenous communities of Barkly and Katherine. All of those affected had been Aboriginal people while 19 of the recorded were kids younger than 10.

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Rugby.com.au
Full press conference: Indigenous mural unveil
Rugby.com.au
A mural that represents the design behind the first ever indigenous Wallabies jersey was unveiled in Brisbane today. Local council members, Classic Wallaby Tim Horan and the artists involved were on hand to commemorate the artwork. Australia takes on ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
A century on, an Indigenous family rides back into its World War I history
The Sydney Morning Herald
He was one of five Lovett brothers from the Lake Condah Aboriginal Mission in western Victoria to sign up to fight in the First World War. They and other men from Lake Condah had to battle for the very right to fight for Australia, for Indigenous men ...

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'Buy local' purchasing plan backfires
Government News
One supplier says the new contract unfairly favours foreign-owned companies over Australian suppliers, because the only manufacturer of Australian made indigenous paper refuses to supply the only Australian owned company on the Panel. “Instead of ...

ABC Online
Australia's human rights record under scrutiny ahead of expected election to UN committee
ABC Online
... indefinite detention of some 2,000 asylum seekers in offshore detention centres, along with the backward trend in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, education and employment, means Australia's once highly regarded reputation is being ...
Australia's human rights record under microscope amid UN council bidSBS
Aust to gain seat on UN human rights bodyNEWS.com.au
Report on Australia's human rights record to be scrutinised by UN committeeThe Guardian
Junkee -International Business Times AU
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The Guardian (blog)
Travel and endless talk connected me to details Chatwin's Songlines missed
The Guardian (blog)
But Chatwin's, reductive, partial take on what pioneering anthropologists had long called “Dreaming tracks” opened a window onto the other – not least here in Australia where white engagement with Indigenous culture and belief remains culpably wanting.

The Conversation AU (blog)
We just Black matter: Australia's indifference to Aboriginal lives and land
The Conversation AU (blog)
Meanwhile, the murders of Aboriginal people in Australia have been less visible. If mentioned at all, Aboriginal deaths at the hands of the state are variously framed as “suspicious”, “unknown”, “accidental” or “inevitable”, despite the presence of ...

First Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography being compiled by university academics
ABC Local
Many Australians have heard of prominent Indigenous activists such as Bennelong, Eddie Mabo and Faith Bandler but know little about their background. Academics from the ANU and the University of Western Australia have begun work on the first ...

SBS
Australia's human rights record 'no hurdle' to UN council bid: Bishop
SBS
"During Australia's last review, in 2009, committee members raised concerns about the Australian government's policies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' rights, its cruel treatment of people seeking asylum, its use of national security ...
Report on Australia's human rights record to be scrutinised by UN committeeThe Guardian

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SBS
Australia's human rights record under microscope amid UN council bid
SBS
An expert committee will grill the Australian government on its human rights record, including on indigenous affairs and asylum seeker policies, as Australia prepares to join the powerful UN Human Rights Council. A coalition of non-government ...
Report on Australia's human rights record to be scrutinised by UN committeeThe Guardian

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