Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian, less European
The Sydney Morning Herald
A record 2.8 per cent of Australians identified themselves as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, up from 2.5 per cent in 2011 and 2.3 per cent in 2006. Although the census has been conducted every five years since 1911, it has only consistently ...
Census 2016: This is Australia as 100 peopleABC Online
Census 2016: Australia hits 'tipping point' as Melbourne is set to overtake SydneyThe Northern Daily Leader
Census 2016: Perth households hit by mortgage stress while Australia loses its religionThe West Australian
Gizmodo Australia -The Conversation AU -NEWS.com.au
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ABC Online
Indigenous art pioneer Peter Fannin dies in Alice Springs
ABC Online
Tributes are flowing in for Peter Fannin, a local Central Australian botanist, Indigenous art pioneer, and philanthropist who died in Alice Springs aged 86. Along with the late Geoffrey Bardon, Mr Fannin was instrumental in the birth of the Western ...

The Westender
Major exhibition by Indigenous artist at Griffith Uni
The Westender
A major exhibition celebrating the work of Bidjara artist Christian Thompson opens at Griffith University Art Gallery next month. One of Australia's leading contemporary artists, Thompson made history as one of the first two Aboriginal Australians ...

SBS
Census 2016: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population growing
SBS
The first results of the 2016 Census of Population and Housing, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today, show Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples represent 2.8 per cent of the population, up from 2.5 per cent in 2011, and 2.3 ...

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ABC Online
Jimmy Chi: Bran Nue Dae playwright, award-winning Indigenous 'WA treasure' dies
ABC Online
Indigenous playwright Jimmy Chi, who penned acclaimed Australian play Bran Nue Dae which was later turned into a major motion picture, has died. Chi passed away in Broome hospital on Monday afternoon aged 69. His sister, Maxine, told the ABC he ...
Bran Nue Dae playwright and Broome legend passes awaySBS
Bran Nue Dae playwright dies in WAThe Australian

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The Conversation AU
Census 2016 reveals Australia is becoming much more diverse – but can we trust the data?
The Conversation AU
The 2016 Census reveals that Australia is becoming much more diverse – in language, country of birth, Indigenous status, and religion. In the 2011 Census, 69.8% of people reported being born in Australia. This declined over the past five years to 66.7%.
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian, less EuropeanThe Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: This is Australia as 100 peopleABC Online
Census data reveals a fast changing nationSpatial Source
The West Australian -Daily Advertiser -BBC News -Australian Bureau of Statistics
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: Australia hits 'tipping point' as Melbourne is set to overtake Sydney
The Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne is set to overtake Sydney as Australia's most populous city; for the first time in history the majority of us born overseas are from Asia not Europe; and there has been a 40 per cent surge in the number of people declaring themselves in a ...
Census 2016: This is Australia as 100 peopleABC Online
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian than EuropeanDaily Advertiser
Census 2016: Perth households hit by mortgage stress while Australia loses its religionThe West Australian
Gizmodo Australia -Sky News Australia
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The Conversation AU
Why many high-achieving Indigenous students are shunning university
The Conversation AU
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
Census 2016: This is Australia as 100 people
ABC Online
For the indigenous status, school education and religion categories, the people who did not state an answer were excluded from the calculation of proportions for each group. The number of federal MPs by gender came from the Parliament of Australia ...
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 EuropeanDaily Advertiser
Census 2016: Perth households hit by mortgage stress while Australia loses its religionThe West Australian
Gizmodo Australia -The Guardian -Sky News Australia
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ABC Online
Bran Nue Dae playwright, award-winning Indigenous 'WA state treasure' dies
ABC Online
The Indigenous playwright who penned acclaimed Australian play Bran Nue Dae, which was later turned into a major motion picture, has died. The man, who is not named for cultural reasons, passed away in Broome hospital yesterday afternoon aged 69.

ABC Online
Barker College agrees to launch Aboriginal academy for girls in Utopia homelands
ABC Online
The 1955 Australian film Jedda told the story of a young Aboriginal girl separated from her family and raised by a white woman, taught European ways and forbidden to learn her own culture. Now, the woman who played Jedda hopes to reverse that by ...

ABC Online
Through American eyes
ABC Online
It has been 50 years since Australia's Indigenous people won the right to be counted in the national census and to be covered by federal laws, 25 years since the High Court provided a way for them to reclaim land that colonisers stole. But many of ...

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New York Times
Australia Through American Eyes
New York Times
But many of Australia's First Peoples continue to encounter both discrimination and despair. Indigenous Australians are imprisoned at roughly 13 times the rate of nonindigenous Australians. They are just 3 percent of the country's population, with ...

The Australian
Decade sees 46.7 per cent jump in indigenous school students
The Australian
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has projected that the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 14 and under will increase from 240,620 in 2011 to between 285,200 and 315,200 in 2026, equating to an increase of between 19 per ...

Newcastle Herald
Advance Australia Fair excludes Indigenous Australians: Lake Macquarie Council
Newcastle Herald
LAKE Macquarie Council will ask the government to change Australia's national anthem because of references to “colonisation and white settlement” that exclude Indigenous Australians. Labor Councillor Brian Adamthwaite moved a notice of motion at ...

Google News

Families go hungry under CDP: advocates
NEWS.com.au
The government is revamping its controversial Community Development Programme, which covers about 35,000 people, mostly from Aboriginal communities. The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency and the Human Rights Law Centre have ...

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The West Australian
Inquest into Aboriginal youth suicide in Western Australia starts today
The West Australian
The opening of the mass inquest this morning heard how almost 40 reports from government and non-government inquiries into indigenous youth suicide had been produced in WA in the past 15 years — but the horrific problem was still as prevalent as ever.
Inquest into high rate of suicide in Indigenous communities in WA's northABC Online
Call for radical change after 13 young Indigenous suicides in Kimberley regionThe Guardian
Details of Aboriginal youth suicides 'heart-wrenching, Coroner warnsPerth Now

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The Australian
ALP cares for power and glory over human rights
The Australian
The ALP had its chance to push through a great human rights victory, something up there with counting indigenous Australians in the Census, and giving women the vote, but Gillard cared too much about her own power to do it. And then what happened?

InDaily
Indigenous beverage company launches Wattleseed Lager
InDaily
Wattleseed has been part of the diet of indigenous Australians for thousands of years and was traditionally ground into a flour. Adelaide-based Something Wild Beverages is a division of native food company Something Wild Australia, which specialises in ...

ABC Online
Inquest into high rate of suicide in Indigenous communities in WA's north
ABC Online
Ten years after an almost identical inquiry, the State Coroner will examine the suicide of 13 Aboriginal people from the Kimberley region — including a 10-year-old girl from a remote bush community. It will be one of the largest inquests in Australia ...

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