Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Busby Marou want to help 'close the gap'
NEWS.com.au
But on their upcoming album, Postcards from the Shell House, the duo subtly address their desire for the country to "close the gap" between indigenous and non-indigenous people on the song Paint This Land, which also features the indigenous Australian ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous Advisory Council's suspension applauded by rival advisory group
ABC Online
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has applauded the Prime Minister for suspending the Indigenous Advisory Council (IAC), saying it is the better and more representative body for the Turnbull Government to turn to for advice on ...
Malcolm Turnbull dissolves Tony Abbott's Indigenous advisory councilThe Sydney Morning Herald

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WAtoday
Highest indigenous prisoner rates in WA
WAtoday
WA has the highest indigenous imprisonment rate in Australia. Photo: Andrew Meares. It also shows that WA has the highest percentage of female prisoners - 22.3 per cent compared to the national rate of 18.3 per cent. Six people died from apparent ...

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ABC Online
Malcolm Turnbull dissolves Indigenous Advisory Council, but 'commitment remains'
ABC Online
The Aboriginal leader has had a rocky relationship with Mr Turnbull, previously slamming the setting up of an Aboriginal incarceration inquiry. Mr Mundine questioned which "dickhead" had thought up the Australian Law Reform Commission's inquiry into ...

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Courier Mail
Mundine wants to divide our country. Not unite it
dailytelegraph.com.au
Granted, there's no specific recognition of indigenous people in the lyrics — that could and should be addressed. But let's not junk the anthems just because of lines like “in history's page let every stage, Advance Australia Fair” or “for those who ...
'I'm trying to better Australia': MundineCourier Mail
Anthony Mundine won t stand for national anthem, Danny Green responds - Yahoo7Yahoo7 News
Anthony Mundine won't stand for Australia national anthemDaily Mail
The Australian -NEWS.com.au -Herald Sun
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Catholic Leader
Religious sister named Senior Australian of the Year full of joy
Catholic Leader
IN accepting her award as 2017 Senior Australian of the Year, Sr Anne Gardiner did so “on behalf of all Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, who have lived and ministered among Australia's indigenous people for more than a century”. “I am most ...

ABC Online
Hip hop engages Indigenous teenagers in social change
ABC Online
Indigenous teenagers from across Australia are using hip hop and social media to bring attention to social issues affecting their communities. The B-Town Warriors, from Bourke High School in north-western New South Wales, have had their song People of ...

Architecture AU
Remote Indigenous settlements – more than tiny dots on a map
Architecture AU
Some communities have disintegrated into troubled social localities, but in this hidden part of Indigenous Australia, there are also many quiet achievers who have initiated projects that sustain residents, invigorate remote regions and drive the ...

SBS
Where are our Aboriginal actors? - Indigenous cast removed from ...
SBS
Aboriginal stories may be told overseas, but the people telling them are hidden.
Mark Coles Smith on what Indigenous film and television characters mean for Aboriginal AustraliaABC Online
'Skinny-ankled Noongar kid' takes charge of Health ACHIEVEMENTNational Indigenous Times

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National Indigenous Times
Top Indigenous players sweep into Broome SPORT
National Indigenous Times
A who's who of Indigenous footy stars will be in Broome for a four-day camp beginning today (February 1). Fifty-five players from clubs around Australia are gathering in the northern West Australian town to bond in player-led cultural development ...

SBS
Parrot pie and possum curry – how colonial Australians embraced native food
SBS
The relationship between European settlers and native Australian foodstuffs during the 19th century was a complex one. While the taste for native ingredients waxed and waned for the first century of European settlement, there's ample evidence to ...

Swinburne University of Technology
Funding restricts support for homeless Indigenous Australians
Swinburne University of Technology
Indigenous Australians experience homelessness at a rate 14 times higher than non-Indigenous Australians, yet current funding arrangements are making it difficult for support services to provide Indigenous people with the most appropriate assistance, ...

ABC Online
Mark Coles Smith on what Indigenous film and television characters mean for Aboriginal Australia
ABC Online
A 2016 Screen Australia study found that while non-Anglo-Celtic characters were under-represented on Australian television, a significant exception was that Indigenous characters had come from nowhere to make up 5 per cent of on-screen characters, ...

Townsville Bulletin
Indigenous elder turns 110
Townsville Bulletin
The former stockman known for his easygoing nature, celebrated his 110th birthday with family at his Kirwan home this week. He is the oldest living member of the Kukatj tribe of the Normanton area where he grew up mustering cattle with the early ...

SBS
The markers of everyday racism in Australia
SBS
Let's try to understand the experience of everyday racism by negotiating the material world of an Aboriginal person in northern Australia. You have come into Katherine, Northern Territory, from a remote community. It might be say, Barunga, 80 ...

ABC Online
Southern Stars name Ashleigh Gardner in squad, could become Australia's first Indigenous cricket player in 59 years
ABC Online
Gardner set the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) alight this season with a break-out performance, and her reward is being named the first Indigenous player in the Australian women's team in 59 years. The last Indigenous player in national women's ...
Indigenous star Ashleigh Gardner in line to debut for Southern StarsThe Age
Perry ruled out, historic debut loomscricket.com.au

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Wingham Chronicle
Australia Day addresses
Wingham Chronicle
It is crucial that the future generations are educated about, and understand, the history of our country and the importance and sacrifices made by Indigenous Australians. By doing that, our country will become even greater than it already is. It'll be ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
I'm just misunderstood, says Mundine
The Australian
Mundine said the anthem was the theme song for the divisive White Australia policy, and unjust to him and his fellow indigenous population. “I'm about uniting people together, uniting the country together,” he said. “Do your research on the anthem, do ...
'I'm trying to better Australia': Mundinedailytelegraph.com.au
Anthony Mundine won t stand for national anthem, Danny Green responds - Yahoo7Yahoo7 News
Mundine has insulted all of usThe Advertiser
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The Australian
Indigenous MP Billy Gordon seeks Pauline Hanson deal
The Australian
Mr Gordon won the seat as a Labor candidate in 2015 from the Liberal National Party on the back of preferences, largely from the Greens and Katter's Australian Party. “I'd like to talk to Steve and get the lay of the land and have a dialogue; everybody ...

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Mandurah Mail
Indigenous Youth Conference offers chance to make a change
Mandurah Mail
The National Indigenous Youth Parliament (NIYP) is a week-long leadership program for Indigenous Australians aged 16 to 25. Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers said it was a golden opportunity to learn about government and leadership directly from the ...