Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Capital Life October 7 2017
Brisbane Times
Balgo, presented by local Indigenous gallery, Jaktman Australian Contemporary Gallery, is a unique exhibition of contemporary Australian Indigenous art from Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia. It includes many highly collected artists ...

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The West Australian
Elder encourages career in the military
The West Australian
Mr Taylor's comments came ahead of this week's visit by indigenous defence force members who were in Geraldton to encourage Aboriginal people to join the Australian armed forces. Mr Taylor said he had had a long and interesting career since joining the ...

SBS
Queensland police investigating after officer allegedly grabs Indigenous schoolgirl
SBS
The video shows a police officer confronting a group of Indigenous teenagers and their parents at Murgon, about 250km north-west of Brisbane, in Queensland. The officer is seen grabbing two young Indigenous females from the group - one reported to SBS ...

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SBS
From Waleed Aly to Nicole Kidman: Australia's most culturally powerful named
SBS
Indigenous activist Megan Davis also made the list for delivering the statement 'From the Heart' at Uluru on the issue of constitutional recognition. The Women's AFL League made the top 10 for reshaping the game in Australia. Social commentator and ...

ABC Online
Indigenous activist Evelyn Scott hailed as key freedom fighter at ...
ABC Online
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk joins hundreds of family and friends of Indigenous leader Dr Evelyn Scott AO at a state funeral in Townsville, where ...

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ABC Online
Evelyn Scott remembered at state funeral - The Australian
The Australian
The legacy of Indigenous rights activist Evelyn Scott has been remembered by high-profile indigenous figures and government officials at a state funeral in ...
Indigenous activist Evelyn Scott hailed as key freedom fighter at ...ABC Online

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Illawarra Mercury
Meow Ludo talks Bitcoin, biohacking and his opal card ahead of Wollongong visit
Illawarra Mercury
“Vaccinations and microchips should be mandatory for everyone, adopt a blockchain senate, high density urban accommodation ... recognition for indigenous Australians after we form a republic and sit down with them to form a new constitution,” he said.

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The North West Star
Indigenous women less likely to survive breast cancer
The North West Star
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in Australia yet Indigenous women are 16 per cent less likely to survive than non-Indigenous women. Cancer Australia CEO Helen Zorbas said the video had been produced to put vital knowledge ...

The West Australian
Coles boost Kwinana indigenous workforce
The West Australian
“It is great to have 12 new indigenous recruits join our stores at Kwinana and surrounding suburbs. “There are currently more than 395 indigenous team members in Western Australia and I look forward to this number growing.” All participants that ...

Yahoo7 News
Stirred by same-sex marriage vote, Australia's youth gets serious
Yahoo7 News
SYDNEY (Reuters) - It was supposed to relieve a headache for Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, but a postal vote on whether to legalize same-sex marriage has awakened interest in politics among young voters who could ultimately turf him out ...

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The Australian
'Rock lobster' not dead, just shipwrecked
The Australian
It is one of nature's great escapes. Giant indigenous stick insects, dubbed “land lobsters” by the locals, vanished from the face of the Earth after a 1918 shipwreck unleashed rats on Lord Howe Island. Eight decades later, researchers found a colony of ...

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The Australian Financial Review
True Leaders 2017: Marcia Langton maintains the rage
The Australian Financial Review
Langton, a descendant of the Yiman and Bidjara nations of Queensland and the foundation chair and professor in Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, has made a habit of calling out inconvenient truths for those who have imagined ...

Evelyn Scott farewelled at state funeral
Yahoo7 News
Born in 1935, Dr Scott's career started in north Queensland where she lobbied for legal, housing and medical services and indigenous women's rights. She was involved in the referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in 1967. Before the legislative ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
The Vandemonian War review: Nick Brodie's study of brutal fighting in Tasmania
The Sydney Morning Herald
It was argued all Aborigines had automatically become British subjects, and were technically protected by British law. Soldiers who killed Indigenous Australians could be charged with murder unless their actions had been authorised by a magistrate or ...

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Spreading the good lifestyle message
The Age
On his business card (one side Mark, one side Mary G) Bin Bakar, who also has an honorary doctorate, lists some of his awards: National Indigenous Person of the Year 07/08, WA Australian of the Year 08, A High Commendation for Human Rights Medal ...

The Australian
Indigenous tours strikes a chord with international visitors
The Australian
“I remember being amazed by the natural beauty and traditional stories,” recalls Whiteland, now 36, who has taken his grandfather's passion for indigenous tourism and turned it into an award-winning venture based in Western Australia's Margaret River.

The Australian
Recognise campaign comes to a quiet end
The Australian
The campaign was established in 2012 as a program within Reconciliation Australia, as one recommendation of an expert panel on recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the constitution. It faced criticism from some quarters, including in ...

SBS
Leah Purcell and referendum council named in list of Australia's most culturally powerful
SBS
An annual list naming Australia's culturally most powerful people has included Indigenous actress Leah Purcell and the former Referendum Council. The referendum and its co-chair Megan Davis were listed at seven on the list, while actor Leah Purcell ...

The Advertiser
Minority voices are being ignored in SSM debate
The Advertiser
These fearless freedom fighters led the campaign to have indigenous Australians recognised in the national census — a goal that was achieved with the 1967 referendum on indigenous rights. Perkins and Clague were not only eloquent orators; they were ...

SBS
Indigenous Queens of the Desert: 'There's not many of us out there, but we kick ass'
SBS
... want to support the LGBTQI+ Indigenous community that come from those regional and remote communities, so I'm really proud that we have six really fierce contestants from those regional and remote towns all around Australia,” Mis Ellaneous explained.