Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Broadsheet
The Voice of Indigenous Fashion Design Gets Louder
Broadsheet
Earlier this year, Chanel made headlines for its $2000 boomerang. The fashion label was criticised for disrespecting Indigenous Australians and for partaking in cultural appropriation. Nathan Sentence, an Indigenous project officer at the Australian ...

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Indigenous people challenge the 'lost knowledge' of Australian bureaucracy
Crikey
Try this: “I don't care if you're racist,” declared one Indigenous professor invited by the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) to an event jointly hosted by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Yes, I heard the sudden ...

The Guardian
Stan Grant compares Indigenous cultural sites to the Sistine Chapel
The Guardian
The ABC broadcaster made the comments at the opening of the Tarnanthi festival of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Gallery of South Australia on Thursday night. The program was introduced in Pitjantjatjara, Yolngu Marta ...

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The Conversation AU
Friday essay: the cultural meanings of wild horses
The Conversation AU
In both of those countries, as in Australia, there is a unique history of horse interactions with Indigenous communities. The great Native American horse cultures are well known and extraordinary, as Indians had no introduction to equestrian skills ...

Vogue Australia
Inside the world of South Australia's Indigenous contemporary artists ...
Vogue Australia
Flying high above the South Australian Outback, the red dirt is broken by lines of eucalyptus trees and bush scrub intersecting the earth like arteries, the lifeblood ...

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The Adelaide Review
Experiencing Ngurra
The Adelaide Review
Curator Glenn Iseger-Pilkington believes the exhibition Ngurra will challenge visitors to think about where the Aboriginal art we see on gallery walls originates and the worlds Indigenous Australians navigate. “It's an invitation from Ngaanyatjarra ...

Huffington Post Australia
The Federal Government Is Urging The States To Take On A 'Life Saving' Custodial Notification Service
Huffington Post Australia
The Federal Government is urging Australia's States and Territories to fully adopt a Custodial Notification Service (CNS) to help stop indigenous deaths in custody, amid fears the potentially life-saving proposal is being ignored a year after it was ...

The Australian
PM urged to revive indigenous constitutional recognition agenda
The Australian
Mr Mansell said it would be critical to convince Australians the proposed treaty body was not seeking to impose an “Aboriginal tax”, but it would nonetheless need to further formalise compensation paid for historical dispossessions. This would include ...

ABC Online
Sydney Dance Rites contest celebrates 'classics' of traditional Indigenous culture
ABC Online
But for Indigenous societies, encoding information in this way has allowed for the faithful recreation of knowledge relating to the physical and spiritual world, allowing it to be maintained and enhanced across millennia. Koomurri, a 25-year-old dance ...

ABC Online
'Forgotten' Indigenous digger recognised half a century on
ABC Online
One of the first Indigenous men to enlist for World War I will today be recognised with full military honours, more than 50 years after he was buried in an unmarked grave. A grave dedication service will be held today in Charters Towers for Charles ...

An indigenous focus on startups
http://www.innovationaus.com/
The Queensland government believes it's on the right the track to helping reduce the disadvantage gap among Indigenous Australians. But Kamilaroi man Dean Foley – the founder of Australia's first ever Indigenous Startup Weekend and Indigenous startup ...

Top 10 Australian workplaces
Business Review Australia
The company offers equal opportunities to Australians of all backgrounds, and makes a concerted effort to hire those who have disabilities and/or are of indigenous descent. Once hired, employees have access to a wide range of discounts at Coles stores, ...

ABC Online
NSW introduces nation's first laws to recognise and revive Indigenous languages
ABC Online
Hundreds gathered outside NSW Parliament in Sydney on Wednesday to usher in an historic piece of legislation — the Aboriginal Languages Bill. As part of the new legislation, the State Government said it would appoint an independent panel of Aboriginal ...
Aboriginal jail hotline ignored by statesThe Australian

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Aboriginal jail hotline ignored by states
The Australian
Western Australia has begun negotiations to introduce the service after the government copped criticism over the controversial death in custody of 22-year-old Aboriginal woman Ms Dhu in 2014. Gerry Georgatos, suicide prevention researcher with the ...

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Million-dollar boost for groundbreaking maternity program
UQ News
The project, led by The University of Queensland's Professor Sue Kildea and researchers from the University of Sydney and the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health, will implement Birthing on Country in two sites with a view to an Australia-wide roll out.

techAU (blog)
Ford Australia offering FREE driving skills courses in Wodonga
techAU (blog)
“We are very pleased to expand our Driving Skills for Life in 2017 to support into regional and indigenous communities. While there continues to be a strong national focus on protecting young Australian drivers, research shows that this demographic is ...

Winc launches new indigenous art range
Stationery News
Winc and the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) have launched a new product range, developed by indigenous students that will support young indigenous Australians in education. All profits from the 15 piece collection – a range of ...

Indigenous Australians might be the human cost of Australia's space program
Crikey
Australia's space aspirations have often been in lockstep with the development of weapon technology, and indigenous Australians have often paid the price for such endeavours, finds freelance writer and Adelaide-based researcher Ann Deslandes.

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ABC Online
Why are Indigenous smoking rates high? Colonialism, that's why
ABC Online
Discriminatory practices dating back to Australia's colonial history are at least partly to blame for a comparatively high smoking rate among Indigenous populations, according to a team of academic researchers at the Australian National University.

ABC Online
States urged to back 'life-saving' policy to prevent Indigenous deaths in custody
ABC Online
The program was first recommended more than 26 years ago by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, but is currently only used in New South Wales and the ACT. The family of Ms Dhu, who died in a Western Australian watch house, ...