Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Australia's coal politics are undermining democratic and Indigenous rights
The Conversation AU
These challenges sit outside the current powers of the Coordinator General and are at the intersection of Australia's native title system and the rights of Indigenous peoples under international law and conventions. For Indigenous communities, the mine ...

ABC Online
Rottnest Island: Black prison to white playground
ABC Online
The inmates buried here were among almost 4,000 men and boys from all across Western Australia imprisoned in the Aboriginal-only Rottnest Island Prison between 1838 and 1931. When the first white settlers came sailing up the Derbarl Yerrigan, or Swan ...

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The Australian
Indigenous dictionary project aims to keep endangered languages alive
The Australian
The prototype includes Anindilyakwa, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara speakers but has the potential to cover all of Australia's living languages. Each dynamic dictionary entry includes text, audio recordings and video of speakers. Indigenous ...

Billboard
Jessica Mauboy Becomes First Indigenous Artist to Debut Atop Australia's Albums Chart
Billboard
Jessica Mauboy has claimed a piece of history by becoming the first Indigenous Australian artist to debut at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. The 27-year-old Darwin-born singer and actor bows at the national chart summit with The Secret Daughter (Songs ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Lack of accountability letting down Indigenous Australians
The Australian Financial Review
Any stranger visiting Australia who was presented with a statistical snapshot of what is happening in some of our Indigenous communities could be forgiven for concluding that ours is an uncaring nation, indifferent to the plight of some of our most ...

SBS
Shadow Trackers: Hunting monsters in the unexplored Australia
SBS
But one question that isn't asked often enough is how truly Australian this fear is. In watching Shadow Trackers, a new SBS documentary series focusing on two Indigenous myth and monster hunters, you quickly come to realise that our First Peoples have ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal communities struggle with world's highest rheumatic heart disease rates
ABC Online
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is completely preventable, but children in Australian Aboriginal communities still have the highest rate in the world. Six years ago, 12-year-old Paddy Cahill told his parents he did not want to go to school because his ...

Manila Bulletin
Discovering the past: Australian Embassy holds exhibit showcasing Indigenous Australians of Filipino descent
Manila Bulletin
Aside from marking the 70th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Philippines and Australia, the exhibit aims to raise awareness that there is a deep historical Australian indigenous connection between the two countries, even before they ...

Community Newspaper Group
Reigning Miss NAIDOC out to change perceptions about media coverage of indigenous Australians
Community Newspaper Group
FRUSTRATED with the overwhelmingly negative media coverage surrounding indigenous Australians, Applecross resident, Noongar and reigning Miss NAIDOC Shelley Cable set out to change perceptions. After joining forces with friend Mikayla King ...

The Mercury
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre applauds Kingborough Council's Australia Day date shift bid
The Mercury
She said Australia Day celebrated the invasion of one people's land by another people and ignored the previous 40,000 years of indigenous culture. “There has been no treaty to mark the end of hostilities, there's been no negotiation of the terms on ...

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The Guardian
Business must help with social reform: Ken Henry
The Australian
Dr Henry, the board's latest recruit, said he wanted to help new indigenous businesses on Cape York manage risk and become financially resilient. Since bowing out as Treasury secretary in 2012 he has been appointed to head the board of National ...
Noel Pearson hits out at political parties for 'welfare reform failure'The Guardian

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The Australian
18C debate: Media needs freedom to cover all indigenous affairs
The Australian
Even worse, Cronin admits that for a time the impact of section 18C meant he considered having West Australian Newspapers abandon its coverage of Aboriginal affairs. Cronin's view has been informed by his struggle to defend a cartoon by Paul Zanetti ...

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The Guardian
Noel Pearson hits out at political parties for 'welfare reform failure'
The Guardian
“These vampire industries have completely colonised Indigenous Australia and constitute the Australian welfare state's main response to poverty and the problems that arose from welfare dependency … there's no incentive for players to resolve the ...

SBS
Australia's newest sporting champions are an Indigenous figure skater and his Russian-born partner
SBS
Indigenous ice skater Harley Windsor from Rooty Hill in Sydney's west and his Russian-born partner Ekaterina (Katia) Alexandrovskaya made history at the Junior Grand Prix event in Tallinn, Estonia on September 30 when they won the pairs title, beating ...

The Guardian
Bill Leak cartoon on Indigenous parents reflects situation in WA, says police chief
The Guardian
“To all the hardworking, loving Aboriginal parents across Western Australia, I commend your resilience in being strong role models for our children in the face of constant struggles you encounter on a daily basis. To all the hardworking, loving non ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous designers show their fashions on Adelaide catwalk
ABC Online
"Dilly bags were really important for our people so I've adapted the techniques of dilly bags into clothing," she said. Ms Carmichael, a descendant of the Ngugi people from Quandamooka saltwater country in eastern Australia, previously was a painter ...

The Australian
Noel Pearson: 'radical centre' can solve indigenous issues
The Australian
Paul Keating was the radical centre's greatest exponent in Australia, while John Howard was the “great manager of the centre”. Mr Pearson said the causes of indigenous disadvantage and poverty were a subject of “great convulsion”. “Though historical ...

Catholic Leader
Indigenous culture should be in Australian classrooms, graduating Catholic Torres Strait student says
Catholic Leader
INDIGENOUS high school graduate Sahamar Ruben wants Australia's education curriculum to include studies in Indigenous culture for the sake of non-indigenous students. Miss Ruben, a Torres Strait Islander student from St Peter Claver College, Riverview, ...

The Age
Boxing Day Test will honour Indigenous players
The Age
Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland is hoping that a commemorative tour of England will encourage another Indigenous player into the Test ranks. Australia hasn't had an Indigenous player since fast bowler Jason Gillespie, who played his last Test ...
Boxing Day 1866 Aboriginal team v MCC remembered 150 years on at MCGABC Online
Artwork to mark Boxing Day celebrations | cricket.com.aucricket.com.au
Australia's Boxing Day Test to honour 1866 Aboriginal XITheSportsCampus.com

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Boxing Day Test will honour Indigenous players
The Sydney Morning Herald
Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland is hoping that an upcoming commemorative tour of England will encourage another Indigenous player into the Test ...
Artwork to mark Boxing Day celebrations | cricket.com.aucricket.com.au
Commonwealth Bank Boxing Day Test to honour 1866 Aboriginal XIWisden India

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