Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Dr G Yunupingu's death highlights gap in Indigenous life expectancy
ABC Online
The death this week of the wonderful singer Dr G Yunipingu at the age of just 46 from long-term illness, brings home once again the disparity in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. On average, it's 10 years and in ...
Australia's most successful indigenous musician has diedThe Economist (blog)

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The Cairns Post
Indigenous census responses reveal attitudes towards racism
The Cairns Post
Evidence of how “unracist” and culturally senstive Australia is can be found in a lot of places. There are “indigenous only” sporting teams, Murri Courts, exclusive hunting and fishing rights, native title, and exclusive-use computer rooms at universities.

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Uluru statement puts constitutional recognition within reach
The Australian
Not until the regional dialogues began, however, were indigenous Australians asked, collectively, what recognition means to them. If Australia is serious about recognition, this is the threshold question. Constitutional change that is not regarded as ...

Australia's most successful indigenous musician has died
The Economist (blog)
DR YUNUPINGU, an indigenous Australian musician who sold over half a million records worldwide, wrote very few songs in English. The rest were sung in different languages of the Yolngu Matha group, which includes more than 30 languages and dialects ...

NSW reforms point way to reducing high rate of indigenous incarceration
The Australian
A report from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research shows the incarceration of indigenous Australians in that state has increased by 25 per cent since 2013. The report attributes this rise to more indigenous people being charged with, and ...

ABC Online
Elijah Doughty's Mother Calls For Peace And Justice After Teen's Death
Huffington Post Australia
And while she acknowledged she wants justice for her son's death, she also told '7.30' that the Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities of Kalgoorlie and Western Australia need to unite. "I want the man that's killed my son to get what he deserves, ...
Elijah Doughty trial: How Indigenous rangers worked with police to ease tensions in KalgoorlieABC Online
Sentence for Elijah Doughty's killer sparks anger. Was justice served?The Guardian
Elijah Doughty decision shows there is rarely justice for aboriginal victimsEureka Street (registration)

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NEWS.com.au
Justin Trudeau 'all talk no action' for indigenous rights, says Rise documentary director
NEWS.com.au
Australians may look to Canada as a leader in indigenous rights, but Carson-Fox said both countries shared similar issues. She also pointed out that just because Canada had signed treaties with its first people, it didn't mean things were better there.

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ABC Online
Patty Mills on the NBA, his $65m deal and inspiring Indigenous kids
ABC Online
Patty Mills may have just signed a new $65 million deal to play in the NBA, but he is quick to point out "I was still able to catch those crayfish" on a recent visit home to the Torres Strait Islands. The Australian basketball star has found enormous ...
Aussie NBA superstar Patty Mills talks pre-game rituals and NBA sledgingNEWS.com.au

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Yahoo7 News
New music from late Australian indigenous singer Gurrumul
Yahoo7 News
Sydney (AFP) - New music from world-renowned Australian Aboriginal singer Gurrumul will be released next month, his record label said, with one album already completed as part of a documentary. The singer, who was born blind and never gave any ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Rising Number of Indigenous Professionals But Still Unfinished Business
Pro Bono Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have a history of entrepreneurship and engaging with the mainstream economy but constitutional reform remains unfinished business, according to author, journalist and special adviser to the Prime ...

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The Guardian
Sentence for Elijah Doughty's killer sparks anger. Was justice served?
The Guardian
The outcome was met by anger and grief from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, as well as many non-Indigenous Australians, who say it is a product of systemic inequality. The same systemic inequality that has contributed to the ...
Elijah Doughty trial: How Indigenous rangers worked with police to ease tensions in KalgoorlieABC Online
Elijah Doughty decision shows there is rarely justice for aboriginal victimsEureka Street (registration)

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ABC Online
Why the remote APY Lands dominate the Australian art scene
ABC Online
The centre of Australia's contemporary art scene isn't the wharves of Sydney Harbour or an alleyway in Melbourne: it's a handful of tiny art centres in remote Indigenous communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of South ...

NEWS.com.au
Aussie NBA superstar Patty Mills talks pre-game rituals, Australian basketball and sledging
NEWS.com.au
The 28-year-old point guard for the San Antonio Spurs is the only indigenous Australian in history to have an NBA title to his name. He's also just become very, very rich. The Canberra-born superstar just signed a $50 million four-year contract ...
Patty Mills relishing basketball's growth in Australia as he helps promote 2018 Commonwealth GamesSporting News

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Justice 'grossly unequal' for Aboriginal people: judge
National Indigenous Times
The Chief Justice of Western Australia — a state where Aboriginal people are imprisoned at a higher rate than anywhere else in Australia — says there's no doubt Aboriginal people are disadvantaged within the justice system. Chief Justice Wayne Martin ...

Holmes a Court shares exclusive artworks
National Indigenous Times
The paintings and sculptures come from the collection of West Australian businesswoman and philanthropist Janet Holmes a Court, who travelled to Brisbane for the exhibition's opening on Friday. Ms Holmes a Court began collecting work by Aboriginal ...

National Indigenous Times
Kris keeps his eye on the prize
National Indigenous Times
Dr Kris Rallah Baker surgery at Royal Darwin Hospital. Dr Baker is Australian's first indigenous eye doctor set to become an opthlamologist next year. As a straight 'A' student in high school, Kris Rallah-Baker wisely chose to ignore the people who ...

National Indigenous Times
Kris keeps his eye on the prize
National Indigenous Times
Dr Kris Rallah Baker surgery at Royal Darwin Hospital. Dr Baker is Australian's first indigenous eye doctor set to become an opthlamologist next year. As a straight 'A' student in high school, Kris Rallah-Baker wisely chose to ignore the people who ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Patty Mills ready for NBA future at San Antonio Spurs as he launches book tour
The Sydney Morning Herald
Canberra basketball star Patty Mills admits he's "still pinching myself" after signing a $65 million deal in the NBA, joking: "I'm just a little indigenous boy who likes to dance". But the San Antonio Spurs point guard wants to use his profile to ...
Patty Mills talks about influence of fellow 2018 Commonwealth Games ambassador Cathy FreemanFox Sports

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ABC Online
Dr G Yunupingu: Australia's most prominent Indigenous musician dies aged 46
ABC Online
Australia's most prominent Indigenous music artist Dr G Yunupingu has died aged 46 and is being mourned by family and friends as a "genius and wonderful human being". The singer — from the remote community of Galiwin'ku on Elcho Island, 500 ...
Indigenous musician G Yunupingu dies aged 46: 'Voice of a generation'The Sydney Morning Herald
Singer Yunupingu dies aged 46The Australian
Iconic Aboriginal singer Dr G Yunupingu dies aged 46NEWS.com.au
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The Australian
Put nation first, Marcia Langton tells indigenous MPs
The Australian
The follow-up declaration, from a meeting convened in Sydney on Monday by indigenous social justice commissioner June Oscar and Reconciliation Australia co-chairman Tom Calma, called for “the leadership of this country to support the Referendum ...