Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

BBC News
Australia's youth justice scandal stirs race controversy
BBC News
But this is only one scene in a terrible catalogue of videos shown on Australian television's Four Corners programme, providing a shocking insight into the treatment of children, many of them Aboriginal, behind bars in one of the wealthiest countries ...

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The Guardian
Gurrumul Yunupingu named artist of the year at National Indigenous Music awards
The Guardian
It's been 25 years since Yothu Yindi's Treaty – which Gurrumul co-wrote and performed – broke ground as the first song by a predominantly Indigenous band to chart in Australia. The artist was in the news most recently when his doctor and manager ...
Gawurra feels the love with four wins at National Indigenous Music Awards 2016The Sydney Morning Herald

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SBS
Nine Indigenous athletes to watch in Rio
SBS
The second Indigenous player to sign with the American NBA, he was part of the Championship winning San Antonio Spurs team in 2013-14. Patty has also played in both the Chinese and Australian competitions. With the squad sporting more NBA players ...

The Guardian
The truth hurts – Harold Thomas wins award with Aboriginal art that is raw and real
The Guardian
A Darwin local, and a descendant of the Luritja and Wambai people of central Australia, he was just 24 and fresh out of art school when he put together the three blocks of colour – red, yellow and black – that would become the Australian Aboriginal flag.
Harold Thomas wins $50000 Indigenous art award with stolen generations paintingThe Sydney Morning Herald
Darwin artist Harold Thomas wins National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art AwardABC Online
Activist roots inform Telstra winThe West Australian

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Rio 2016: Four things you should know about Australia's female and Indigenous Olympians
ABC Online
Australia's Indigenous cohort, at 10 athletes, is the equal second-largest Australia has fielded, after Sydney in 2000 (12 athletes) and equal to Beijing in 2008. Here are four things you need to know about the history of female and Indigenous ...

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The Guardian
'Racist' cartoon stokes debate over treatment of Indigenous Australians
The Guardian
On Friday, veteran cartoonist Bill Leak defended his sketch in the Australian newspaper of a drunk Aboriginal father forgetting his son's name, after Australia's Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, said he was appalled by the cartoon's racist ...
Indigenous dads respond to 'racist' cartoon in AustraliaBBC News
Bill Leak cartoon in The Australian an attack on Aboriginal people, Indigenous leader saysABC Online
Proud #IndigenousDads Respond To Bill Leak CartoonHuffington Post Australia
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The Conversation UK
Refugees in their own land: how Indigenous people are still homeless in modern Australia
The Conversation UK
Without anywhere that is home, Indigenous people have been without a physical space to reinvent themselves and their culture in modern Australia. Since colonisation, Aboriginal people have been internally displaced from their country. The doctrine of ...

The Australian
Noel Pearson speech on The Australian's 50th anniversary
The Australian
IN 1968, the country's greatest ethnographer, WEH Stanner, delivered his famous Boyer lecture, taking as its theme the Great Australian Silence about its indigenous peoples: the pitiful history, parlous present and precarious future. As true as Stanner ...
Homicide and suicide rates higher within indigenous communitiesReporter-Times

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ABC Online
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion condemns 'racist' cartoon published in The Australian
ABC Online
The Australian editor-in-chief Paul Whittaker defended the cartoon, citing comments made by Indigenous leaders this week, including Noel Pearson on Lateline who said: "Blackfellas have got to take charge and take responsibility for their own children.
'Racist' cartoon stokes debate over treatment of Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion condemns 'racist' Bill Leak cartoonThe Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous dads respond to 'racist' cartoon in AustraliaBBC News
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The Conversation AU
Why are so many Indigenous kids in detention in the NT in the first place?
The Conversation AU
Across Australia, governments regard locking up vulnerable Indigenous children as a legitimate exercise of state power. This practice has quickly descended into the legalisation of physical restraints, spit-hoods and ongoing isolation of young people ...

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ABC Online
Bill Leak cartoon in The Australian an attack on Aboriginal people ...
ABC Online
A cartoon published by The Australian newspaper portraying an Aboriginal man with a beer can and not remembering his son's name is an attack on Indigenous ...
The Australian defends Bill Leak's 'racist' cartoonThe Sydney Morning Herald
Australia 'will be divided on race' by referendum on constitutional recognitionThe Australian
Indigenous advocate: 'Jail is part of our life and part of being institutionalised'The Guardian
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The Australian
Australia 'will be divided on race' by referendum on constitutional recognition
The Australian
“The proposed referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in the constitution will divide the citizens of this nation into categories on the basis of race,” he said. “Every Australian who values our free and fair democracy, in which all people are ...

the AU review (blog)
Lynette Wallworth's VR experience Collisions to tell an Indigenous Australian story at ACMI
the AU review (blog)
Exploring the collision of science and spirit, this is Wallworth's first work using virtual reality technology. It is also the first to document an Indigenous Australian story. Collisions explores the homeland of Indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the ...

The Guardian
Indigenous advocate: 'jail is part of our life and part of being institutionalised'
The Guardian
“It's hard to think of a population group on the planet that is as incarcerated as Aboriginal men in Western Australia,” the chief justice of the WA supreme court, Wayne Martin, told Guardian Australia. WA Police is conducting an internal investigation ...

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The Guardian
Malcolm Turnbull battles Liberal dissent over Indigenous recognition
The Guardian
Malcolm Turnbull is facing a fresh outbreak of internal dissent over the proposal to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution before talks about the referendum on Thursday with the Labor leader, Bill Shorten. The South Australian Liberal ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Scullion says treaty could be considered
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion says Parliament should consider a treaty with Indigenous Australians if it is recommended by the recognition referendum council, breaking ranks with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on the controversial issue.
Protesters confront Nigel Scullion over Don Dale response as Tom Calma calls for his resignationABC Online

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The Australian
Liberal Party split widens as Ken Wyatt calls WA youth division prejudiced
The Australian
He has hit out at the group, saying they were engaging in “Aboriginal-sogyny”: prejudice against indigenous Australians. However, he said he did not want to stop debate on the conference floor and respected the right of those with an opposing view to ...

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The Guardian
Noel Pearson: Indigenous people need to take responsibility over youth incarceration
The Guardian
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has criticised “selective outrage” over the Northern Territory juvenile detention abuse saga, saying Indigenous people need to take some responsibility. Pearson says more focus is needed on preventing children from ...

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ABC Online
Noel Pearson: Royal commission won't fix problems facing ... - ABC
ABC Online
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has made an impassioned plea for Australians to channel their outrage into more than just another royal commission into ...
Noel Pearson: Indigenous people need to take responsibility over ...The Guardian

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ABC Online
Noel Pearson: Royal commission won't fix problems facing Indigenous Australia
ABC Online
Mr Pearson also said Australia should not let the Indigenous constitutional recognition debate be derailed. He said while recognition was purely symbolic, it should be seen as an "enabler" for further reform. "I call it putting a little plaque into the ...
Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusionThe Conversation AU
Australia's youth detention facilities under the spotlightNEWS.com.au
Gassing of Indigenous youth in Australian detention system reeks of colonialismIntercontinental Cry
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