Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

No, Shireen. Apartheid in Australia is a real danger
Herald Sun (blog)
In my experience, having talked with indigenous people about constitutional recognition for almost six years, very few indigenous Australians want a separate state in the international sense, as Windschuttle suggests. Few feel this is desirable, let ...

ABC Online
Reflecting on the Freedom Rides 50 years on from Charlie Perkins' graduation as first Aboriginal to complete university
ABC Online
It was an unremarkable feat for most other students at the time, but for Charlie Perkins — and for Aboriginal people across Australia — it was part of a movement that propelled Indigenous rights forward, on to the front pages of our newspapers and to ...

Pridham donates $5m to UniSA
The Australian
Investment banker and Sydney Swans chair Andrew Pridham will today donate $5 million to his alma mater, the University of South Australia, to help with major building works and provide scholarships to indigenous students and elite international athletes.

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'Separatism' through indigenous recognition an irrational fear
The Australian
Last Saturday, Inquirer ran an extract from Keith Windschuttle's new book, The Break-Up of Australia: The Real Agenda Behind Aboriginal Recognition, which contends that indigenous activists seek constitutional recognition because it will lead to ...

SBS
Listen or lose it: Indigenous community threatens to close Uluru | NITV
SBS
A remote Indigenous community near Uluru has threatened to "close the rock" if their voices aren't heard and people continue to live in poverty.

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SBS
Call for nationwide Indigenous Hepatitis B vaccinations
SBS
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are at significant increased risk of Hepatitis B, according to a new World Health Organisation report. Its authors say that with the higher rate of Hepatitis B for Indigenous Australians - 3.6 cases per ...

ABC Online
Stan Grant to join ABC as editor of Indigenous Affairs
ABC Online
Stan Grant, one of Australia's best known and most respected journalists, is joining ABC News as an editor of Indigenous Affairs coverage. Starting in December, Grant will lead and drive ABC News's coverage of Indigenous Affairs, overseeing planning ...
ABC axes Friday edition of 7.30 programThe Sydney Morning Herald

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ABC Online
Overhaul crisis-hit NT jail system: report
9news.com.au
A scathing report on the Northern Territory's correctional system calls for a complete overhaul to address a "devastating" crisis unfolding for Indigenous Australians. NT attorney-general and justice minister Natasha Fyles released the executive ...
'Gross over-representation' of Indigenous people in NT jails a 'crisis of devastating proportions': Hamburger reportABC Online

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SBS
Top 20 names for Indigenous babies 2016
SBS
With our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population making up such a small percentage of overall Australia, the most common or 'trending' names in Indigenous communities are submerged into the culture of the wider Australia only. Although an ...

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The Age
When Australian cricket was a relief from Indigenous misery - The Age
The Age
Across the dreaming grasslands of western Victoria, in the shadow of the mountain range named by homesick Scottish settlers The Grampians and Gariwerd by ...

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NEWS.com.au
Threats to make Uluru off-limits to tourists
NEWS.com.au
The Australian Law Reform Commission will be asked to examine the factors leading to the over-representation of indigenous Australians in the country's prison system. Residents filled a whiteboard with ideas to help the community, and the first ...
Threats to close Uluru to touristsPerth Now

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ABC Message Stick
Bush tucker taking off as Qantas adds Kakadu plum to its menu
ABC Message Stick
Kakadu plums are harvested from the wild each year across northern Australia, mostly by Indigenous communities, and are regarded as having more vitamin C than any other fruit on the planet. Tahlia Mandie from Kakadu Plum Co. has teamed up with ...

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Daily Mail
Remote indigenous Anangu tribe threaten to 'close down' Uluru if their voices aren't heard
Daily Mail
The monolith, which is located the heart of Australia's 'red centre', is sacred to Indigenous people - but it is also popular with large numbers of tourists from around the world, who clamber up its sides and take dramatic dawn and sunset photos.

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The Australian
Domestic violence action plan to focus on indigenous women, kids
The Australian
The plan, to be unveiled at a special Council of Australian Governments summit in Brisbane, will note that domestic violence cost Australia up to $26 billion in the past year, and indigenous women were 34 times more likely to be hospitalised for family ...
Brisbane summit on family violence9news.com.au

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The Australian
18C offensive to indigenous women, says John Anderson
The Australian
“It plainly isn't true; whether you're talking about indigenous communities or Australia at large. These Aboriginal women have been telling me for years how deeply they often fear for their children's safety because of alcoholism among the young men in ...

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ABC Online
WA Government accused of rejecting Indigenous prisoner hotline that would have prevented death in custody
ABC Online
The grandmother of a woman who died in police custody says the West Australian Government has failed Aboriginal people by declining a Federal Government offer to introduce a telephone service which she says would reduce incarceration rates. During a ...
NT's mandatory sentencing could be scrappedSky News Australia

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SBS
Top 20 names for Indigenous babies 2016
SBS
With our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population making up such a small percentage of overall Australia, the most common or 'trending' names in Indigenous communities are submerged into the culture of the wider Australia only. Although an ...
[ October 27, 2016 ] National Congress on verge of extinction, say leaders CULTURENational Indigenous Times
The Road to a TreatyNew Matilda

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We'll close Uluru: Indigenous community
Geelong Advertiser
Mr Thomas said the same issues were raised in the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report yet things are now worse for his people. Indigenous Australians made up 14 per cent of the national prison population 25 years ago - by ...

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ABC Online
Mundine rips into imprisonment inquiry
ABC Online
Attorney-General George Brandis has announced plans to hold the inquiry through the Australian Law Reform Commission, to address the "national tragedy" of Indigenous Australians being held behind bars. The head of the Prime Minister's Indigenous ...

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We'll close Uluru: Indigenous community
NEWS.com.au
Mr Thomas said the same issues were raised in the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report yet things are now worse for his people. Indigenous Australians made up 14 per cent of the national prison population 25 years ago - by ...

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