Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Jakarta Post
Aboriginal woman's slaying exposes Australia's racial divide
Jakarta Post
Aboriginal woman's slaying exposes Australia's racial divide The family of Lynette Daley walks along Ten Mile Beach after visiting the site where she died near Yamba, Australia, Aug. 15, 2016. The brutal death of Daley, an Aboriginal woman, and the ...

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ABC Online
Noel Pearson complains to CCC over Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy audit release
ABC Online
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says he will lodge a complaint with Queensland's corruption watchdog over the release of an audit into his Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy. The Academy, led by an independent board and chaired by Noel Pearson, ...

The Australian
Indigenous treaties 'just playing games with words'
The Australian
This assessment, from constitutional lawyers Greg Craven and Anne Twomey, comes after moves toward state-based treaties with Aboriginal communities emerged in Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory. Professor Craven, vice-chancellor of ...

The Australian
Sovereignty: Same indigenous stories, fresh telling
The Australian
Clarke's work Born of the Land features in Sovereignty, an exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne that focuses on the contemporary art of indigenous people from southeast Australia. Born of the Land represents death and ...

The Australian
Indigenous spending to double, warns Michael Mansell
The Australian
“Compensation could be either in the form of money or land, or both,” he writes, citing the instance of the 2015 Noongar agreement in Western Australia that saw claimants surrender native title in exchange for gaining freehold title to up to 320,000ha ...

The Guardian
Female artists and curators making ACCA and NGV 'a little bit blacker'
The Age
"We're taking a 'B' and an 'L' and we're making it a little blacker at ACCA," Paola Balla said on Thursday. The co-curator of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art's first exhibition dedicated entirely to Aboriginal artists, which opens on ...
Long overlooked, Indigenous women's art takes centre stage in Melbourne exhibitionThe Guardian
Indigenous art exhibition Who's Afraid of Colour redefining the genreABC Online

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Business News
Startup bent for indigenous jobs
Business News
The overarching theme of the Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference was to propose strategies to ensure indigenous Australians have the same access to capital and skills as non-indigenous Australians. “Part of (it) is education and ...

SBS
Looking past Hobart Mayor's 'I didn't kill them' comments: MONA's vision unveiled
SBS
Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art, MONA in Hobart has a big vision for a National Truth and Reconciliation Art Park that acknowledges the truth of Australia's history and its frontier wars with Aboriginal peoples. Palawa man Greg Lehman worked on ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous art exhibition Who's Afraid of Colour redefining the genre ...
ABC Online
A new exhibition of works by female Aboriginal artists at the National Gallery of Victoria challenges the idea of what Aboriginal art is meant to look like.
Female artists and curators making ACCA and NGV 'a little bit blacker'The Age
Long overlooked, Indigenous women's art takes centre stage in ...The Guardian

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Detention centres 'may hurt' Aussie UN bid
Yahoo7 News
Amnesty International and the Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) both believe Australia needs to lift its game in terms of asylum seekers and indigenous Australians to improve its chances of securing a seat. "It needs to, in good faith, clean up its own ...

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Detention centres 'may hurt' Aussie UN bid
NEWS.com.au
Amnesty International and the Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) both believe Australia needs to lift its game in terms of asylum seekers and indigenous Australians to improve its chances of securing a seat. "It needs to, in good faith, clean up its own ...

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The Australian
We should unite around indigenous recognition
The Australian
The more talk there is of treaties, the less likely it is that Australians will come together to recognise indigenous people in our Constitution. As we report today, South Australia's government has joined Victoria in the pursuit of a treaty with ...
SA to commence Aboriginal treaty talksGeelong Advertiser

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The Australian
Warren Mundine tells Aboriginal groups to get house in order
The Australian
There is enormous responsibility on Aboriginal groups across South Australia to ensure their “houses are in order” before they push for compensation as part of treaty talks with the Weatherill government, the chairman of the Prime Minister's indigenous ...

South Australia moves towards treaty with Indigenous nations
ABC Message Stick
LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Across Australia separate campaigns are simultaneously pushing for greater recognition of Australia's Aboriginal history. In South Australia today historic negotiations began to sign a treaty between that government and it's ...

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The Guardian
SA government aims to sign treaty with Indigenous Australians within 12 months
The Guardian
Treaty negotiations will soon begin between Indigenous South Australians and the state government, a step some Aboriginal groups say is an “olive branch”. The SA government has set aside $4.4m over five years for a treaty process that would involve ...
SA to commence Aboriginal treaty talksNEWS.com.au

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Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Livingstone working to close the Australia Day gap
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
"The resolution by council was to include up to two indigenous persons in the Australia Day committee which was a motion I moved after feeling very strongly about trying to make positive steps towards inclusive leadership and decision making for ...

Independent Australia
The myth of 'over-funded' Indigenous communities
Independent Australia
For instance, Roebourne in Western Australia's Pilbara is said to have 67 service providers with over 400 programmes for less than 1,200 residents. I know Roebourne pretty much inside out and I do not know where these 67 services are located. Certainly ...

ABC Online
Australia should create seventh state run by Indigenous people, lawyer Michael Mansell says
ABC Online
Australia should create a seventh state run by Indigenous people, with its own parliament and court system, an Aboriginal lawyer and activist has proposed. Tasmanian Michael Mansell said statehood was the "ultimate prize" on the path towards ...

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ABC Online
What will Indigenous treaties mean?
ABC Online
Australia is the only Commonwealth country that does not have a treaty with its Indigenous peoples and interestingly, the states are leading the charge, the ABC's editor of Indigenous affairs says. Stan Grant said there was still a "big debate" around ...

SBS
Winners of the 2016 Indigenous STEM Awards announced
SBS
Despite Indigenous knowledge systems; ecology, astronomy, biology and engineering having sustained Australia for thousands of years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are very underrepresented in today's scientific workforce. Approximately 2 ...