Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Magistrate tells Aboriginal teenager to be more like US rapper 50 Cent
ABC Online
A magistrate in regional Western Australia has taken an unusual approach to reducing the Indigenous incarceration rate, telling a 16-year-old Aboriginal boy to be like the American rapper 50 Cent. Geraldton Magistrate Dean Potter was sentencing the ...

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Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Poor, remote and Aboriginal have higher STI risk
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
A unique 21-year study of more than 2.4 million cases of infectious disease across Australia reveals a major social divide where being poorer, living remotely or being an Indigenous Australian means having an increased risk of sexually transmissible ...

ABC Online
Indigenous incarceration a 'national tragedy': George Brandis ... - ABC
ABC Online
The incarceration rate of Aboriginal Australians is a national tragedy, Attorney-General George Brandis says, as he announces a new examination of the factors ...
George Brandis announces inquiry into Indigenous incarceration 'national tragedy'The Sydney Morning Herald
Inquiry to examine 'national tragedy' of Indigenous over-representation in prisonsSBS
Aboriginal jail rates a tragedy: BrandisNEWS.com.au
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ABC Message Stick
New study to look at Indigenous Australian fermentation
ABC Message Stick
A new study is exploring how Indigenous Australians were able to create fermented food and drinks. The University of Adelaide is beginning to investigate these techniques, that would result in sweet foods and drinks with a mild alcohol content. It is ...

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New study to look at Indigenous Australian fermentation
ABC Online
A new study is exploring how Indigenous Australians were able to create fermented food and drinks. The University of Adelaide is beginning to investigate these techniques, that would result in sweet foods and drinks with a mild alcohol content. It is ...

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National Indigenous Times
[ October 27, 2016 ] National Congress on verge of extinction, say leaders CULTURE
National Indigenous Times
Hopes for a workable, well-funded Indigenous Congress — once lauded as a turning point in Australia's reconciliation process— are in tatters, with the organisation set up to unite Indigenous Australians on the brink of folding. Directors of the ...
The Road to a TreatyNew Matilda

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National Indigenous Times
[ October 27, 2016 ] National Congress on verge of extinction, say leaders CULTURE
National Indigenous Times
Hopes for a workable, well-funded Indigenous Congress — once lauded as a turning point in Australia's reconciliation process— are in tatters, with the organisation set up to unite Indigenous Australians on the brink of folding. Directors of the ...
The Road to a Treaty - New MatildaNew Matilda

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Bega District News
George Brandis announces inquiry into Indigenous incarceration 'national tragedy'
Bega District News
The government has announced that the Australian Law Reform Commission will investigate the Indigenous incarceration crisis, which Attorney-General George Brandis has described as a "national tragedy". Senator Brandis and Indigenous Affairs Minister ...

Armidale Express
George Brandis announces inquiry into Indigenous incarceration rates
Armidale Express
Senator Brandis said he would refer an inquiry on Indigenous incarceration to the Australian Law Reform Commission on Thursday. The commission would be asked to consider potential law reforms "to ameliorate this national tragedy," he said. "The degree ...

Brandis announces inquiry into Indigenous incarceration rates
Brisbane Times
... reduce high Indigenous incarceration rates, which Attorney-General George Brandis has described as a "national tragedy." Senator Brandis said he would refer an inquiry on Indigenous incarceration to the Australian Law Reform Commission on Thursday.

The Sydney Morning Herald
George Brandis announces inquiry into Indigenous incarceration rates
The Sydney Morning Herald
More than 25 years after the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991, Indigenous Australians made up 27 per cent of the prison population, up from 14 per cent. Senator Brandis said failed, flawed or incomplete reform efforts in that ...
Indigenous incarceration inquiry announced by George Brandis, Nigel ScullionRadio Australia
Aboriginal jail rates a tragedy: BrandisNEWS.com.au
Federal Government calls inquiry into high Aboriginal prison ratesThe West Australian
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SBS
Tasmania, ACT best societies in Australia, report says
SBS
Tasmania is the state closest to the charity sector's ideal society, according to a new report from the Community Council for Australia (CCA). The island state, which has long been an easy target for economic ridicule, was praised for its even incomes ...
Australia is no longer the home of the 'fair go', says reportThe Guardian

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Aboriginal jail rates a tragedy: Brandis
Weekly Times Now
It's been 25 years since the final report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and Senator Brandis says Australia has gone backwards in that time. Indigenous Australians made up 14 per cent of the national prison population in 1991 ...

The Conversation AU
Tom Calma
The Conversation AU
Dr Calma has been involved in Indigenous affairs at a local, community, state, national and international level and worked in the public sector for 40 years and is currently on a number of boards and committees focusing on rural and remote Australia ...

The Conversation AU
How discrimination and stressful events affect the health of our Indigenous kids
The Conversation AU
LSIC broke new ground worldwide for studying the social, developmental and familial dynamics of a group of Indigenous children and their families. Data are collected from Indigenous families across Australia, from cities to remote locations. We can use ...

Financial Times
Care crisis revealed among Australia's aboriginal children
Financial Times
The report reflects a growing child protection crisis in Australia, where aboriginal children are 10 times as likely as non-indigenous peers to be placed in state care. Its publication follows an outcry over the treatment of an indigenous youth held in ...
Keeping kids with familiesHerald Sun

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ABC Online
Google hands out more than $5m to Australian not-for-profits for innovation
ABC Online
Professor Tom Calma from the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation proposed a special program to record Australia's many Indigenous languages. "Australia was once a home of over 600 Indigenous language spoken for tens of thousands of years," ...

ABC Online
AFL push for more Indigenous umpires
ABC Online
"Certainly the last few years if you headed into an umpiring group throughout Australia it was full of a lot of white males and we are trying to change that – whether it be Indigenous, more females or more people from multicultural backgrounds," said ...

Exhibition launch: Indigenous Australians at war
Barossa & Light Herald
An exhibition honouring the role of Indigenous Australians in war will be launched at the Barossa Regional Gallery in the coming weeks. The Indigenous Australians at War exhibition will visit the region as part of a tour that has seen its stunning ...

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Exhibition launch: Indigenous Australians at war
Barossa & Light Herald
An exhibition honouring the role of Indigenous Australians in war will be launched at the Barossa Regional Gallery in the coming weeks. The Indigenous Australians at War exhibition will visit the region as part of a tour that has seen its stunning ...