Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Conversation AU
Excluding Indigenous youth from schools may severely increase their risk of incarceration
The Conversation AU
Many Indigenous children, particularly boys aged 10 to 17 years, are receiving lengthy suspensions from schools throughout Australia. Even more concerning is the over-representation of young Indigenous males incarcerated in Australia's juvenile ...

ABC Online
An athlete who couldn't outrun his past
ABC Online
His story was unique, but his death is recorded as just one of the dozens of young Aboriginal people who take their own lives in Australia each year. From 2011 to 2015, of the 317 Australian children who ended their lives, 85 were Indigenous. That is 9 ...

ABC Online
Australia's 'big' problem: What are we going to do with our ageing super statues?
ABC Online
Indigenous artist Munganbana Norman Miller has proposed the Cook statue be given a Big Boomerang to hold. Then there is South Australia's "Larry" the Lobster. Created in 1979, the 17-metre fibreglass crustacean has been on the market intermittently ...

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ABC Online
Dr G Yunupingu, renowned Indigenous musician, to be farewelled at state memorial in Darwin
ABC Online
Yorta Yorta soprano and Dean of Indigenous performance at the Victorian College of the Arts, Deborah Cheetham, said Dr G Yunupingu's music changed the landscape for Indigenous artists. "[He] ignited a fire for Aboriginal Australians that singing in ...

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EOI - Manager, State Schools - Indigenous Education
EducationHQ Australia
EOI - Manager, State Schools - Indigenous Education. Temporary full-time job recruited via Department of Education and Training (Queensland) (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia). Job Reference QLD/CO253793/17E. Closing date September 25, 2017.

The Australian
$53m spent but gap widens in troubled town of Roebourne
The Australian
Aboriginal residents in the troubled town of Roebourne are falling behind the rest of Australia, and particularly behind other Aboriginal Australians, at a rate that defies huge spending programs by state and commonwealth governments, an unpublished ...
Town of the damned: the Australian town with 'staggering' child sex abuse rateNEWS.com.au

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The Australian
Linda Burney wants Turnbull to prioritise question for constitutional referendum
The Australian
A process of engagement with indigenous and non-indigenous Australians would be needed to thrash out finer details of the constitutional shake-up. Ms Burney said the urgency of the task was heightened by a number of obstacles to change, including the ...

The Australian
Tracks divide locals, outrage experts
The Australian
“The middens there are unlike anything anywhere else in Australia — incredibly important Aboriginal sites that are several thousand years old, and they want to open them to vandals.” The three tracks were closed in 2012 after damage to middens, dunes ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Advance Australia Fair translated into Ngunawal for the first time, sung at Parliament House
The Sydney Morning Herald
Minerals Council chief executive Brendan Pearson said Indigenous communities were "one of the most important partnerships for Australia's mining industry", and this was one way of honouring that. "We always look to pay respect to Indigenous communities ...

Herald Sun
Community pays financial and emotional costs for increased imprisonment
Herald Sun
Those studies proved that the common factor for indigenous and non-indigenous Australians was entrenched disadvantage, leading to social alienation, crime and imprisonment. Of course, individuals make decisions about their own lives and should be ...

Bellingen Courier Sun
Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Bellingen Courier Sun
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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Bunbury Mail
Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Bunbury Mail
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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Bendigo Advertiser
Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Bendigo Advertiser
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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ABC Online
Mining millions to lift traditional Aboriginal landowners out of 'poverty', says Ngadju elder
ABC Online
Twenty-five years since the High Court's landmark Mabo decision, traditional landowners in one of Western Australia's biggest mining regions are finally starting to see the benefits of native title. The resources wealth of WA's Goldfields, which ...

Teacher Magazine
Better education outcomes for Indigenous students
Teacher Magazine
So it is worth studying this in more detail, which we at the OECD have just done, analysing education outcomes of Indigenous students in Canada, New Zealand and Queensland, Australia. What struck us most is that pockets of excellence and promising ...

The Conversation AU
A nation of convict cussers? Time for Australian law to embrace our potty mouths
The Conversation AU
A mere 2% of adults contested their charges by entering a “not guilty” plea. Indigenous Australians comprised 27% of those proceeded against for offensive language, despite comprising 3% of the NSW population. Australia may have a reputation for robust ...

Ballarat Courier
Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Ballarat Courier
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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Illawarra Mercury
Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Illawarra Mercury
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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The Australian
Government names companies to manage its portfolio
The Australian
The company's property arm will deliver services to 37 different Australian government entities. Broadspectrum Property, head of corporate real estate, Emma Forster-Mitrovski, said the group would work with Colliers International as a key subcontractor.

The Australian
Pilbara-wide ban on full-strength alcohol sales in the offing
The Australian
Last week, The Australian spoke to several indigenous men who have been drinking hard since those days. Some were incoherent as they hitched or even drove to Wickham, 15 minutes down the road from Roebourne, where one of the state's busiest bottle ...
Town of the damned: the Australian town with 'staggering' child sex abuse rateNEWS.com.au

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