Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ArtsHub (subscription)
Why we need context in Indigenous art
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Symposium is part of Desert Mob, a unique gathering of artists, artworks and audiences focused around Aboriginal art centres of Central Australia. Desert Mob also includes an exhibition, a marketplace and a number of satellite events in Alice ...

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The Advertiser
Karina Lester: Aboriginal people do not want a nuclear waste dump in South Australia
The Advertiser
Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara, Kokatha, Adnyamathanha and other Aboriginal people of South Australia have been fighting this nuclear problem now for decades, since my father heard a British official falsely claiming that Anangu had been consulted on ...

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Mashable
Sydney Opera House will light up with Indigenous Australian art ...
Mashable
The sails of the Sydney Opera House are often a canvas for projections throughout the year, but now the icon is set to be a display for Indigenous Australian art ...
Sydney Opera House launches new, year-round Indigenous light ...The Guardian
Sydney Opera House sails to light up every sunset with Indigenous artThe Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Opera House to come alive with indigenous artBBC News
Time Out Sydney (blog) -9Honey -Daily Mail
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The Guardian
Sydney Opera House launches new, year-round Indigenous light ...
The Guardian
The Sydney Opera House launches Badu Gili, a seven-minute projection of Indigenous art on to the the building's sails – the first time the landmark has ...
Australia's most iconic building will have Indigenous art projected on it every sunsetMashable
Sydney Opera House sails to light up every sunset with Indigenous artThe Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Opera House to come alive with indigenous artBBC News
Time Out Sydney (blog) -9Honey
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The Guardian
Ex NT minister grilled over 'anecdotal' Indigenous underage marriage claims
The Guardian
Dr Peggy Dwyer, representing the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, suggested Elferink had no evidence of the practice continuing. “Beyond knowing that the practice has been present in the Northern Territory for tens of thousands of years, the ...
Indigenous kids abused for culture: Ex MPNEWS.com.au
Royal commission: John Elferink wanted certain Aboriginal cultural practices outlawed as child abuseABC Online

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The Stawell Times-News
Region's Indigenous community set to benefit from dramatic cash injection
The Stawell Times-News
Budja Budja Aboriginal Corporation chief executive Tim Chatfield said the money would enable improved outcomes for the Indigenous community in the region. “It is definitely a big win for Aboriginal Australians and their communities in the Wimmera ...

The Conversation AU
Census 2016: what's changed for Indigenous Australians?
The Conversation AU
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a complicated history with the Australian census. Until the 1967 referendum, the question about Indigenous status was used mainly to exclude the Indigenous population from official population statistics ...
Census 2016: indigenous people return to pre-settlement numbersThe Australian
Census 2016: Australia hits 'tipping point' as Melbourne is set to overtake SydneyThe Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian than EuropeanThe Border Mail
ABC Online -The West Australian -BBC News -Australian Bureau of Statistics
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The West Australian
A Noongar lullaby is the first step in increasing knowledge of this indigenous Australian language
The West Australian
The tune is familiar but the words are unrecognisable to far too many West Australians. At Middle Swan Primary School three women sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in Noongar, the indigenous language of the South West. “Djinda djinda kanangoor (Twinkle ...

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SBS
Why many high-achieving Indigenous students are shunning university
SBS
Indigenous students remain vastly underrepresented in higher education in Australia. According to Universities Australia, Indigenous people comprise 2.7% of Australia's working age population but only 1.6% of university domestic student enrolments.

ABC Online
Indigenous art: Pormpuraaw artists turn ghost nets into world-renowned pieces
ABC Online
Thousands are found in Cape York and the wider northern Australia area. Brought in on northern currents, many are discarded by illegal fishers. Artist Sid Bruce Shortjoe hoped the community's art raises awareness about the damage the nets do to the ...

The Guardian
Class is the new black: The dangers of an obsession with the ... - ABC
ABC Online
Chelsea Bond says focusing on an Aboriginal middle class obscures the fact that Indigenous Australians face significant challenges no matter their ...
Work for the dole racially discriminatory in remote areas, inquiry told ...The Guardian
Social security program 'inherently discriminatory', lawyers say ...Lawyers Weekly

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ABC Online
Diamonds are not forever: Indigenous communities grapple with end of the mining boom
ABC Online
As Australia's resources boom wanes, several Indigenous communities that were once promised prosperity have been left grappling with a legacy of endemic poverty and questions about how mining money has been spent. For the traditional land owners ...

InDaily
New research shows there is still a long way to go in providing equality in education
The Conversation AU
Key junctions in education are important for disadvantaged groups such as Indigenous Australians, and those from regional and remote areas and low socioeconomic backgrounds. One of the most concerning findings is the degree to which school ...
Australia's staggering education divideInDaily
Australia's 'staggering' education divideSBS
Education gulf can't be bridged with money alone – inequality expertThe Guardian

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Opera House sails to light up every sunset with Indigenous art
The Sydney Morning Herald
The nightly animation includes the works of five artists from across Australia and the Torres Strait Islands, including Queenslander Jenuarrie (Judith Warrie), the young NSW artist Frances Belle Parker, Torres Strait artist Alick Tipoti, as well as the ...

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The Australian
Dancer, pilot, lawyer: indigenous children have life targets
The Australian
In the early 1990s I was involved in career workshops for indigenous students from Year 6 upwards across South Australia, western NSW and Victoria. In 1994 we worked with about 1200 students in a specifically interactive program. We found that ...

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Census 2016: indigenous people return to pre-settlement numbers
The Australian
Overall indigenous Australians remain significantly younger than non-indigenous ones. In 2006 the median age was 20, rising to 21 in 2011 and 23 last year. The median age for non-indigenous Australians in 2016 was 38. More than half — 53 per cent ...

The Australian
Census 2016: numbers add up despite the ABS glitches
The Australian
It included University of NSW chairwoman of indigenous health, professor Lisa Jackson, Melbourne University head of demography professor Peter McDonald, former Australian statistician Dennis Trewin, former assistant chief Canadian statistician Peter ...

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The Australian
Indigenous culture to light up Sydney Opera House
The Australian
The nightly “lighting of the sails” with indigenous artworks, revealed by The Australian last year, follows the very popular Vivid displays that ended this month. Screened on the eastern side of the Bennelong restaurant at sunset, the seven-minute ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Australian gin brands: more than 100 and rising fast
The Australian Financial Review
“I want to help Aboriginal people stay on their land and work, and to put money back into community.” It's not the kind of thing you expect to hear at the launch of a new craft spirit. But Something Wild Beverages' Australian Green Ant Gin is not ...

Daily Mail
Local council demands government change Australia's national anthem because references to 'colonisation and white ...
Daily Mail
A town council will appeal to the government to change the countries national anthem because the current song doesn't include Indigenous Australians. Lake Macquarie Council says references to the 'colonisation and white settlement' excludes Aboriginal ...