Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian
Indigenous prisoner dies in South Australia after altercation left him braindead
The Guardian
An Indigenous man has died after an apparent altercation involving prison guards at a South Australian jail. Police say the 29-year-old man, known only as Mr Morrison for cultural reasons, died early on Monday morning at the Royal Adelaide hospital ...
Aboriginal inmate dies after South Australian jail incidentSBS
Aboriginal inmate left 'brain-dead': familySky News Australia
Family of Yatala prisoner involved in brawl with guards want time to grieve before protestsABC Online

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ABC Online
Smartphone app could replace traditional atrial fibrillation detection in outback Australia
ABC Online
The iECG replaces a traditional ECG machine to detect atrial fibrillation, which is responsible for one third of all strokes in Australia. A pilot program run by the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Sydney is trialling the ...
The Health News – 26 September 2016Health Professional Radio (press release) (blog)

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Crikey (registration) (blog)
Blacks in the back cunts in the front. New work by Therese Ritchie
Crikey (registration) (blog)
Blacks in the back, cunts in the front and the response to it, is emblematic of how non-indigenous Australia embraces and yet looks away from aboriginal people at the same time. This ruptured thinking process is the stringy bond with our earlier task ...

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The Guardian
The Gweagal shield and the fight to change the British Museum's attitude to seized artefacts
The Guardian
Almost 250 years ago, Captain James Cook and his men shot Rodney Kelly's ancestor, the Gweagal warrior Cooman, stole his shield and spears, and took them back to England in a presciently violent opening act of Australian east coast Aboriginal and ...

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ABC Online
SA Aboriginal community of Scotdesco turns to saltbush farming to create remote jobs
ABC Online
The Aboriginal community of Scotdesco on South Australia's west coast, has pinned its hopes on farming to overcome shockingly high levels of unemployment. Robert Larking's office spans 25,000 acres on the edge of the Nullarbor, where he manages the ...

Noise11
Indigenous Australia Included In NASA Voyager Box Set
Noise11
Indigenous music from Australia has been included in a new box set featuring music from NASA's 'Voyager' program. In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager missions, each of which contained a golden record containing the music, sounds and languages of ...

Herald Sun
The call for NRL indigenous players to refuse to stand for the national anthem is an empty gesture
Herald Sun
They called on indigenous players to refuse to stand for the national anthem during the league's grand final next Sunday. The reason? Racism. The result? A “closing of the gap” between black and white Australia. This poses lots of questions. Might this ...

SBS
Whadjuk man walking across Australia to meet Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to discuss Aboriginal Affairs
SBS
A Whadjuk man from the Noongar people of South West Western Australia has told SBS World News he is walking across Australia to bring Aboriginal Affairs to the head of the Prime Minister's agenda. Clinton Pryor said that he wanted the walk to catch the ...

ABC Online
Boyer Lectures: Sir Michael Marmot says wealth inequality threatens Australia's egalitarian dream
ABC Online
Sir Michael, the president of the World Medical Association, says Australia's claim to be an egalitarian country has always relied on ignoring the plight of its Indigenous population. Now, he says, the egalitarian claim of Australia's non-Indigenous ...

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Australia has knowledge and means to overcome social inequality
The Australian
I was struck that in Australia, which escaped the worst of the global financial crisis, the same language was being employed for reductions in public spending, slimming down and contracting out of public services, and depriving Aboriginal communities ...

Saltwater by Cathy McLennan: encounters with indigenous teens
The Australian
For many, perhaps most, Australians, the entrenched disadvantage and community dysfunction that draw vulnerable indigenous children into a cycle of repeat offending and incarceration are largely an abstraction. These issues are read about sporadically ...

Courier Mail
Clash between a Muslim lawyer and far right organisation leader on ABC's Hack Live0:43
Courier Mail
Mr Cottrell also shocked other panellists on the show when he replied “so what” to a question about European settlers killing indigenous Australians. In a taped piece before the debate Mr Cottrell admitted he was a racist. “I don't view myself as far ...
'Hack Live' On Nationalism Proved Nothin' But Blair Cottrell's IntolerancePedestrian TV

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NEWS.com.au
'I'm no Nazi, but I am a racist'
NEWS.com.au
Mr Cottrell also shocked other panellists on the show when he replied “so what” to a question about European settlers killing indigenous Australians. In a taped piece before the debate Mr Cottrell admitted he was a racist. “I don't view myself as far ...
'Hack Live' On Nationalism Proved Nothin' But Blair Cottrell's IntolerancePedestrian TV
Hack Live: what happened when we debated Aussie PatriotismABC Online

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ABC Online
Queensland class action over unpaid wages for Indigenous people 'setting a national precedent'
ABC Online
"Because we had a room down the back we never asked questions, because they might have done something to us," she said. Ms Perry, now 71 years old, is one of the dozens of people around Australia who have come forward wanting to be part of the class ...

SBS
SBS Indigenous reporter discovers relative honoured at Australian War Memorial
SBS
I knew it was a going to be a lovely story about honouring our Indigenous Australians who served our country. But little did I know that the story was much closer to home. My great-great grandfather Harry Thorpe was honoured in one of the displays ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous leaders pass no confidence motion in WA Aboriginal affairs minister
The Guardian
Western Australia Aboriginal affairs spokesman Ben Wyatt (left), Labor senator for Western Australia Pat Dodson (centre), and state Greens MP Robin Chapple (right) attend the Yule River bush meeting near Port Hedland on Thursday. Photograph: Leanne ...
WA remote communities: Lack of detail on reform roadmap a concern, Senator Pat Dodson saysABC Online

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ABC Online
Health improvements seen in Indigenous Australians but 'disease burden' still high, AIHW report says
ABC Online
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience more than twice the "disease burden" than non-Indigenous Australians, according an analysis of illness and death figures. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report concluded ...
Disease rate higher for indigenous people | SBS NewsSBS

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Disease rate higher for indigenous people
SBS
The latest snapshot of indigenous health by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows while there have been improvements, there remains a wide gap in terms of illnesses and deaths suffered by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders compared ...

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Justice reinvestment offers chance to cut number of indigenous inmates
The Australian
Indigenous Australians represent 2.5 per cent of the population and 27 per cent of prisoners. About half of those behind bars are there for nonviolent offences, including driving offences, property offences and breaches of court orders. But we know ...

ABC Online
First exhibition honouring Indigenous military service launches at Australian War Memorial
ABC Online
The first exhibition in honour of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' military service in times of war and peace launched today at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples fought in the Boer War ...
War memorial exhibition explores Indigenous military serviceThe Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous servicemen and women honoured at the Australian War MemorialSBS
Indigenous service celebrated in new AWM exhibitionThe Canberra Times
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