Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Herald Sun
Footscray's Wominjeka Festival to showcase breakout indigenous musicians
Herald Sun
THE WEEK-long Wominjeka festival will kick off with a free concert featuring a stellar line-up of indigenous artists from around Australia. The seventh year of the festival will open with Terrain 2017 with headline act Frank Yamma and other breakout ...

The Guardian
Cashless welfare card treats Aboriginal people 'as third-class citizens'
The Guardian
“The cashless welfare card is unfair, a form of control and reminds Aboriginal people every day that they are treated as second- and third-class citizens in their own land,” she told Guardian Australia. “One of the key issues in many of the areas where ...
Indigenous People Treated “As Third-Class Citizens” Under Cashless Welfare CardStudent Edge (blog)

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Indigenous owners hope ancient eel traps will be recognised as world heritage
The Guardian
Known as Budj Bim, the site received national heritage listing in 2004 and has been put forward for inclusion in the Australian government's nomination to the Unesco world heritage council by the Victorian government, at the instigation of the ...

Investment Magazine
Big Super Day Out gets into the festival vibe in Melbourne
Investment Magazine
The Big Super Day Out is extending its reach. Now in its third year, the event designed to encourage Indigenous Australians to get engaged with their superannuation will hitch its wagon to major cultural festivals, in a bid to reach a larger audience ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Teaching doctors empathy through art
ArtsHub (subscription)
Another said the experience: '…enriched my knowledge about the hardship and troubles Indigenous Australians encountered. Whilst I was aware of the discrimination, abuse, and abduction, among other things that have occurred, it was still difficult to ...

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Brisbane Times
What is saving an Australian life worth?
Brisbane Times
"If we'd invested a little of the money we spent going to war in Iraq or inflating the budget of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation on programs that lowered indigenous diabetes to just twice that of non-indigenous Australians, around ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
What is saving an Australian life worth?
The Sydney Morning Herald
"If we'd invested a little of the money we spent going to war in Iraq or inflating the budget of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation on programs that lowered indigenous diabetes to just twice that of non-indigenous Australians, around ...

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Turnbull hands over Indigenous land
Blue Mountains Gazette
One of Australia's longest-running native title claims has been settled after almost 40 years, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull officially handing back an area of land near Darwin to its traditional owners. Mr Turnbull broke from election ...

The Guardian
Family Rules: Indigenous family of 10 strong women star in refreshing new reality series
The Guardian
When it comes to Indigenous families in Australia, negative stereotypes abound: parents being indifferent to their children; chronic welfare dependency. But in Family Rules they're blown aside to make room for something more positive and refreshing: an ...

More work needed on human rights
Lawyers Weekly
“Indeed, this year we have seen serious human rights violations in respect of the treatment of people seeking asylum, unprecedented national security measures, an ongoing crisis in protecting the rights of Indigenous Australians, a failure to realise ...

NT News
Andrea showing the way forward
NT News
It was in the South Australian capital where she completed high school, university and the first stage of her career. “I did a degree in Aboriginal affairs and public administration because I felt I needed to understand ... the history and the journey ...

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Illawarra Mercury
Treaty Grounds of Waitangi: Visiting New Zealand's most important national monument
Illawarra Mercury
The rock is a sacred site for Indigenous Australians and one with which their non-Indigenous compatriots can also spiritually identity – even if some of the latter still persist in climbing over it – and, at the same time, Waitangi itself represents a ...

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Daily Mail
Right wing group calls Indigenous band Dispossessed reverse racists for burning flag
Daily Mail
A right-wing political group called on 'patriots' to gather at an Indigenous band's show after the band said it would burn the Australian flag at its Melbourne gig on Saturday night. Neil Erikson spoke out on behalf of the Australian Settlers Rebellion ...

SBS
Remembering Auriel Andrew: A woman as powerful as her voice
SBS
Her name will go down in history and not just because of her talent. She was the first Aboriginal woman to perform on Australian television, she received an Order of Australia Medal (OAM), she recorded 'Brown Skin Baby' with Bob Randall and sang ...

Sky News Australia
Ex-bikie Martin has indigenous claim revoked
Sky News Australia
Ex-Rebels bikie member Shane Martin, deported to New Zealand under section 501 of the immigration act, has been dealt a blow in his bid to return to australia, with an Aboriginal group revoking his claim to indigenous heritage. Shane Martin has been ...
Deported dad of AFL star Dustin Martin rejected by indigenous support groupDaily Mail

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Illawarra Mercury
Treaty Grounds of Waitangi: Visiting New Zealand's most important national monument
Illawarra Mercury
The rock is a sacred site for Indigenous Australians and one with which their non-Indigenous compatriots can also spiritually identity – even if some of the latter still persist in climbing over it – and, at the same time, Waitangi itself represents a ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Story of Australia's People review: Geoffrey Blainey's conservative populism
The Sydney Morning Herald
In the first widely praised volume, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia, Blainey updates his 1975 classic, Triumph of the Nomads, reassessing his past views of Australia's Indigenous and early British history. He has a change of heart on key aspects ...

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Basic Income News
“Can Less Work be More Fair?” – Report from Australia's Green Institute
Basic Income News
“Basic income makes basic sense for remote Indigenous Australia” by Jon Altman, research professor at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University in Melbourne and emeritus professor of the Australian National ...

Shepparton News
Australians ready to decide
Shepparton News
And despite what your views on the change-the-date movement, it is clear that many Australians feel left in the cold, or even saddened that the day for our national celebrations is January 26. For years many indigenous Australians have used Australia ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Fancy a cockroach canape? Australian Museum tempts visitors with unusual menu
The Sydney Morning Herald
Between 400-500 people are expected to attend the Culture Up Late evenings, sampling a range of insects including the native Australian giant burrowing cockroach, otherwise known as the Macropanesthia Rhinoceros. The museum's cultural programmer ...

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