Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Sydney Morning Herald
Your baby or your safety: the terrible choice facing too many Indigenous women
The Sydney Morning Herald
It is entirely understandable that many Indigenous Australians feel they have not been well represented in and consulted by the political system in the past. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen. Indigenous women are so afraid their children will be removed they ...

Voice of America
Crocodile Industry Hopes to Boost Australia Aboriginal Communities
Voice of America
The crocodile industry in Australia's Northern Territory, a new report says, is worth more than four times the previous estimate of US $80 million. Officials hope the findings will give poorer aboriginal communities the chance to develop crocodile ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal rangers discover rock art sites while conducting burn-offs in Arnhem Land
ABC Online
A group of Aboriginal rangers has discovered hundreds of works of rock art while conducting dry season burn-offs in the remote West Arnhem region. The local people estimate there could be more than 30,000 pieces in one area alone, and a group of female ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Day off to celebrate Indigenous culture: Linda Burney's public holiday sweetener
The Sydney Morning Herald
No date was put forward for the public holiday but it is hoped it would provide Indigenous Australians with a day to celebrate their country that is not as controversial as Australia Day, sometimes called "Invasion Day" or "Survival Day". If passed ...

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Dr G Yunupingu's tragic, unnecessary death
Green Left Weekly
“Dr G. Yunpingu is remembered today as one of the most important figures in Australian music history, blind from birth and emerging from the remote Galiwin'ku community on Elcho Island off the coast of Arnhem Land to sell over half a million copies of ...

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Legendary Indigenous Musician G. Yunupingu Dies Aged 46
Pedestrian TV
World-renowned Indigenous Australian musician Dr G. Yunupingu has passed away at the age of 46. A statement from a publicist confirmed that the “great Australian” Dr G. Yunupingu died at Royal Darwin Hospital on Tuesday. Dr G. Yunpingu is ...

Rugby.com.au
Pocock's 'transformative' effect on Classic Wallabies Indigenous Exchange
Rugby.com.au
The Classic Wallabies are helping the less fortunate help themselves CWIE's success has attracted government attention, while there is also talk of reciprocal programs with Pienaar's foundation, that would involve working with Indigenous Australians at ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Kaitlen Dodd is representing Australia at World Indigenous Fashion Week in the Seychelles
dailytelegraph.com.au
The 19-year-old will represent Australia at World Indigenous Fashion Week in the Seychelles in October and is set to walk the runway in Sao Paulo, Brazil, next month. Kaitlen represent Australia at World Indigenous Fashion Week in the Seychelles ...

SBS
Bill Shorten set to promise national vote on becoming a republic
SBS
Queen Elizabeth II would farewell Australia with affection and good grace, the country could still compete at the Commonwealth Games and fawn over the royal babies. Mr Shorten says enshrining a voice for indigenous Australians is the first priority for ...
Inequality not just about wealth but also about powerIndependent Australia

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Sky News Australia
Shorten to make republic vote promise
Sky News Australia
Queen Elizabeth II would farewell Australia with affection and good grace, the country could still compete at the Commonwealth Games and fawn over the royal babies. Mr Shorten says enshrining a voice for indigenous Australians is the first priority for ...
Inequality not just about wealth but also about powerIndependent Australia

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The West Australian
Shorten promises national republic vote
The West Australian
Queen Elizabeth II would farewell Australia with affection and good grace, the country could still compete at the Commonwealth Games and fawn over the royal babies. Mr Shorten says enshrining a voice for indigenous Australians is the first priority for ...
Inequality not just about wealth but also about powerIndependent Australia

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The Australian
No hiding place
The Australian
But with indigenous Australia's numbers expected to hit a million in little more than a decade, the old narrative that deaths by disease, deprivation and straight-up murderous intent were simply the end of the story for entire communities, starting ...

The $450 monthly super threshold hurts indigenous workers: experts
The New Daily
The gap in financial welfare between indigenous and other Australians is not changing and is actually being accentuated by the $450-per-month threshold for compulsory superannuation payments. So the Indigenous Superannuation Working Group of the ...

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Sky News Australia
Shorten to pledge republic vote if elected
Sky News Australia
Queen Elizabeth II would farewell Australia with affection and good grace, the country could still compete at the Commonwealth Games and fawn over the royal babies. Mr Shorten says enshrining a voice for indigenous Australians is the first priority for ...
Inequality not just about wealth but also about powerIndependent Australia

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ABC Online
Gene Gibson: Wrongful conviction shines light on lack of translators
ABC Online
Mr Gibson, like many Indigenous Australians who do not speak English as a first language, is somewhat like a foreigner in his own justice system. It is something which concerns WA's chief justice Wayne Martin. Earlier this month, he told a conference ...

Melbourne CBD standstill: Rally for Elijah Doughty halts peak-hour traffic, trams
The Age
Melbourne's CBD was brought to a standstill on Friday night by protesters rallying over the death of Indigenous teenager Elijah Doughty in Western Australia. Traffic and trams were brought to a halt by protesters, who staged a peaceful sit-in in the ...

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Inside Film
You Are Here: “Our culture and heritage is still alive; it has never died and it never will die.”
Inside Film
The initiative was launched last year in the lead up to the proposed referendum on constitutional recognition, and aimed to showcase stories about the place of Indigenous Australians today. Connection to Country will screen on NITV on August 6. Mowarin ...

ArtsHub (subscription) (blog)
Giving voice to creation songs
ArtsHub (subscription) (blog)
Sung into Being gives notable focus to renowned artist Rover Joolama Thomas, Moon added. 'Thomas was one of the first Indigenous Australian artists acquired for the Holmes à Court Collection. He forged new conventions in Aboriginal art and created new ...

The Australian
Labor state conference to debate Australia Day change
The Australian
The conference, being held in Townsville on Friday and Saturday, will debate a motion from a Brisbane ALP branch to change the date of Australia Day to be respectful of the feelings of some indigenous Australians who are opposed to having it on January ...

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Broadsheet
On Now: Koskela's First Indigenous Group Show
Broadsheet
After numerous successful collaborations and product development, this winter the Australian design house is exhibiting Walma / Moon Rise, its first Indigenous group art show in the Koskela Gallery, with 24 contemporary works by 15 Indigenous ...