Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Loop PNG
Barras to play Australia Indigenous today
Loop PNG
The Barras managed to force a draw with Australia Indigenous. The current tour is in preparation for the ICC Intercontinental Cup (ICUP)/World Cricket League Championships (WCLC) Round 6 fixture against Scotland. The event will be held in Port Moresby ...

The Age
Benjamin Law: Australia's literacy rate is shocking - and potentially dangerous
The Age
Some years back, an OECD study surveyed Australians aged between 15 and 74 and rated them on their literacy skills. The results were shocking: 43.7 per cent had below-proficiency-level literacy. If you're young and Indigenous, the chances of you ...

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The Age
Historic statues: Where Indigenous people and women go missing
The Age
When Genevieve Grieves embarked on her doctorate a few years ago, she surveyed the monuments in Melbourne's CBD to pinpoint who was being commemorated and why. Her findings were stark. Of the 520-odd memorials, statues and monuments ...

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The Canberra Times
Walking for justice: Clinton Pryor reaches end of 5800km journey
The Canberra Times
Since September last year, Clinton Pryor hasn't stopped in his quest in walking across the country for justice for Indigenous people across Australia. On Sunday he reaches the end of his journey when he arrives in Canberra after nearly 12 months on the ...
Indigenous man walks from WA to ACTThe Australian

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Benjamin Law: Australia's literacy rate is shocking - and potentially dangerous
The Sydney Morning Herald
Some years back, an OECD study surveyed Australians aged between 15 and 74 and rated them on their literacy skills. The results were shocking: 43.7 per cent had below-proficiency-level literacy. If you're young and Indigenous, the chances of you ...

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Indigenous man walks from WA to ACT
The Australian
Clinton Pryor will descend on Canberra on Sunday morning, a year after setting out from Perth on his walk for justice. Thousands are expected to join him as he marches down Canberra's main avenue to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy at Old Parliament House.

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SBS
'Australian film of the year' to air in London
SBS
Indigenous-Australian film making talent will be on display at the upcoming London Film Festival, with Warwick Thronton's Sweet Country in the official competition. The Melbourne-born festival director Clare Stewart told AAP the "highly-anticipated ...

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The Australian
National Gallery of Australia muzzled over Namatjira art treasures
The Australian
Franchesca Cubillo, the NGA's senior curator of indigenous Australian art, revealed the gallery had sought permission from Legend Press to use Namatjira's images in catalogues or promotional materials in 2010 (for an NGA book on indigenous art) and in ...

The Australian
Revisionist plans will die in a ditch, says Barnaby Joyce
The Australian
On Monday, the Opposition Leader said an extra plaque should be placed on the statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park, which proclaims that Cook discovered Australia, to recognise that indigenous Australians inhabited the continent before ...

The Age
Historical heritage must be built up, not torn down
The Australian
The lack of memorials to Australia's distinguished indigenous heroes and high achievers should be redressed, ideally as a result of ideas from Aborigines. In Sydney, statues of indigenous leaders such as Bennelong and Pemulwuy, who were local leaders ...
There is a unifying solution to the statues stand-offThe Age

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The Australian
Coming home to Mother Earth
The Australian
Landy-Ariel is an excellent teacher, for where I can see nothing around us but modern development, she senses Mother Earth acutely. After all, indigenous Australians are the oldest culture in the world, she reminds me; their relationship to the earth ...

The Canberra Times
Benjamin Law: Australia's literacy rate is shocking - and potentially dangerous
The Canberra Times
Some years back, an OECD study surveyed Australians aged between 15 and 74 and rated them on their literacy skills. The results were shocking: 43.7 per cent had below-proficiency-level literacy. If you're young and Indigenous, the chances of you ...

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White nationalists threaten local councils over Australia Day changes
The New Daily
Adding fuel to the debate on Australia's history, prominent indigenous journalist Stan Grant last week said the inscription on the statue of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park (above left) should be changed because it perpetuated the “damaging myth ...

History wars flare up again, concealing real story
The Advocate
The events left not only North America reeling, but Australia, too. When the ABC's indigenous editor Stan Grant suggested last week that a statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park misrepresented Australian history, a firestorm erupted. A ...

Mandurah Mail
Mandurah's Assumption Primary School receives grant to create Aboriginal mural
Mandurah Mail
"The School Reconciliation Grants help local communities to explore and establish achievable outcomes while highlighting the importance of reconciliation and the significance it plays in making the lives of Indigenous Australians brighter," Mr Lockyer ...

The Australian
Low voter turnout hampers remote NT governance
The Australian
He said he had recently returned from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, where over the course of a fortnight, not one indigenous person mentioned constitutional recognition, changing Australia Day or modifying monuments — issues that ...

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The Mabo Oration
ArtsHub (subscription)
Noel Pearson gave the powerful inaugural address in 2005 pointing out that the principles established by Mabo represented the best opportunity for resolution of colonial grievance between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, noting that it was a ...

The Australian
Albo denies criticising Shorten on Cook statue
The Australian
On Monday, Mr Shorten said an extra plaque should be placed on the statue, which proclaims that Cook discovered Australia, to recognise that indigenous Australians inhabited the continent before European settlement. Mr Albanese responded by saying ...

The Australian
Grog abuse drops under welfare card
The Australian
Almost half the 2141 welfare recipients in the remote trial communities of East Kimberley in Western Australia and Ceduna, South Australia, reported significantly cutting their drinking, drug and gambling dependence. There was a significant reduction ...

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ABC Online
Changing weather: Understanding Australia through ancient Indigenous knowledge of seasons
ABC Online
"We call it arretherre. It's the bad wind. People get irritable and cranky because of the west wind." Arrernte indigenous elder Veronica Dobson is talking about the weather from a unique point of view. She learned about the natural world from her ...

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