Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Intestacy Rules for Indigenous Australians
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The high rate of intestacy among Indigenous Australians, and the fact that existing intestacy law did not reflect Indigenous relationships and traditions, made the introduction of the amendments to the Succession Act a necessity. The necessity has been ...

The Guardian
Australia must act now to prevent a new Stolen Generation tragedy
The Guardian
In February 2008, the then prime minister Kevin Rudd addressed the national parliament and the Australian people to apologise to every person and Indigenous family devastated by the forced removal of children. We know them as the Stolen Generations.

New Matilda
Not Just For Laughs: How Australian Satirists Are Undermining White Supremacist Patriarchy
New Matilda
In a conversation about constitutional recognition, Pickering's character adopts the breezy ignorance of white Australia about Aboriginal affairs. “So, we just put in an acknowledgement [of Indigenous Australians in the constitution]and that seems easy ...

Welfare over culture: indigenous children have a right to safety
The Australian
Similar assertions have been made by the Aboriginal industry in response to the escalating crisis in indigenous child welfare. Such arguments risk perpetuating the gaps in social outcomes between the most disadvantaged indigenous Australians and other ...

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ABC Message Stick
Rare Menang artefacts return to Albany after 180 years
ABC Message Stick
After two years of negotiations between the Albany Heritage Reference Group Aboriginal Corporation (AHRGAC), Western Australian Museum and British Museum, the collection will be displayed at WA Museum Albany from November until April.

Yahoo7 News
WA real estate agent resigns after Australia Day fireworks debacle telling woman to get the f**k out of the country ...
Yahoo7 News
The annual celebrations had been cancelled in Fremantle, Western Australia in August because it was found to be insensitive to Indigenous Australians. Some of the Indigenous population of Australia view this anniversary as Invasion Day. Stuart Endersby ...

WAtoday
'Get the f--k out of this country': Perth estate agent quits over fireworks rant
WAtoday
"The 26th marks a massive and ongoing genocide of our indigenous people and by Harcourts promoting this you are doing much damage to your reputation and and the lives of our fellow indigenous Australians. Many Perth residents have seen this and your ...

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The Canberra Times
Winnunga chief says Inanna's Aboriginal housing tenders should have gone to an Indigenous group
The Canberra Times
Toora Women's Inc and EveryMan Australia won the tender to manage the clients and properties left in the lurch by Inanna's sudden closure last month. Julie Tongs criticised the ACT Government's decision to hand Inanna's contracts to two non-Indigenous ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
9 things Indigenous arts workers wish you knew
ArtsHub (subscription)
... Aboriginal Australia. CAAMA brings economic benefits, mental wellbeing and cultural sustainability to Indigenous communities across Central Australia. ... Fear of getting it wrong is a key reason producers fail to program Indigenous arts. So we ...

SBS
Were Indigenous Australians the world's first bakers?
SBS
“That puts Australian baking way beyond anything that's ever happened anywhere else in the world,” says author Bruce Pascoe. He's talking about 36,000-year-old grindstones discovered in New South Wales, used by Aboriginal Australians to turn seeds into ...

ABC Online
First Australian Indigenous-language video game offers new platform for ancient culture
ABC Online
The world's first Aboriginal Australian-language video game is being developed in a bid to preserve traditional language and culture. The endless runner game is titled Tjinari, meaning "someone always on the go" in the Western Desert language ...

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Illawarra Mercury
What is My Grandmother's Lingo?
SBS
More than 90 per cent of Australia's Indigenous languages are critically endangered, and it's predicted that without intervention, Indigenous language knowledge will cease to exist in the next 10 to 30 years. My Grandmother's Lingo aims to once again ...
Interactive project to preserve Indigenous cultureIllawarra Mercury

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Huffington Post Australia
Young Aussies Are Preserving Indigenous Language In The Coolest ...
Huffington Post Australia
'My Grandmother's Lingo' is an interactive animation revitalising forgotten language.
What is My Grandmother's Lingo? | NITV - SBSSBS

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ArtsHub (subscription)
The voice of Aboriginal Australia
ArtsHub (subscription)
For those living in major cities, it's hard to conceive the importance of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA). CAAMA's broadcast convoy rolls from Darwin to Ceduna right through Central Australia, second only to the ABC, with ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Bold visions for future Indigenous arts leaders
ArtsHub (subscription)
I don't think we have the same thing here in Australia, so I'm looking at how their cultural industry and cultural sector is able to value traditional modes of craft and expression.' De Vries also commented on the connection within the Indigenous Arts ...

New Stolen Generation growing fast, says Michael Lavarch
The Australian
Professor Lavarch will tell the audience a key shift in the Council of Australian Governments' Closing the Gap project must be to include analysis of the difference in removal rates between indigenous and non-indigenous children. “If you look at these ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Ditch plebiscite or hate will spread to Indigenous referendum, Malcolm Turnbull warned
The Sydney Morning Herald
... hurt the prospects for Indigenous constitutional recognition. Indigenous academic Marcia Langton has warned that a vitriolic campaign against marriage equality would "unleash the dogs" on Aboriginal Australia in a referendum campaign that would ...

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Herald Sun
Daniel Ricciardo calls on Australians jailed at Malaysian F1 Grand Prix to be freed
Herald Sun
Group members previously stripped to their budgie smugglers at Croatia Yacht Week and in Sydney's Martin Place at a parade called Strut The Streets to help raise cash to mentor indigenous Australians. The pals predominantly met while studying at the ...
Diplomat's son among 'well-connected' Aussie strippersMalay Mail Online

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia could learn a lot if it actually listened to Indigenous women on domestic violence
The Sydney Morning Herald
For two days last year, a crowd of mainly Aboriginal women from many communities across Central Australia gathered in Alice Springs to discuss the impacts of family and domestic violence on our communities. We also talked about the many initiatives ...
[ October 4, 2016 ] Exclusive; Burney, Mundine clash over violence in Indigenous communities NEWSNational Indigenous Times
Warren Mundine Complains About Aboriginal Silence, Instead Of Government Inaction On Family ViolenceNew Matilda
Mundine calls for domestic violence inquiryNT News
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ABC Online
Dance competition keeps Indigenous culture alive at Sydney Opera House
ABC Online
The Sydney Opera House's Indigenous programming director, Rhoda Roberts, said the competition was "a vital opportunity" for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. "We're a generation that is facing something that no other Aboriginal ...

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