Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Why Indigenous culture and tourism need each other
ABC Message Stick
With Asian holidaymakers flocking to Australia, Indigenous tour operators are getting ready to reap the rewards. International short-term visitor arrivals to Australia hit the highest level on record in April, according to the most recent figures ...

Pro Bono Australia
Australia's Youngest Generation is the Most Vulnerable Says Report
Pro Bono Australia
The level of over-representation of Indigenous people aged 10 – 17 years in detention increased from 19 times the rate of non-Indigenous young people in 2011 to 26 times in 2015. Young people who have been homeless have a mental (79.9 per cent) or ...
Children In Poverty Report Shows One In Six Aussie Kids Live In PovertyHuffington Post Australia
Australian governments have failed children: UNICEF reportBrisbane Times

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The Conversation AU
Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary law
The Conversation AU
While the Australian Law Reform Commissions's 1986 report on the use of customary law for Aboriginal people was a great initiative, it was, in hindsight, a notion well before its time. Although 30 years have elapsed since the report was published, ...
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treatyThe Australian
Aboriginal leaders demand Indigenous affairs be put on the federal agendaABC Local
Election 2016: Calls for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff to head new DepartmentABC Online
National Indigenous Times -ABC Message Stick -Save The Children Australia
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The Conversation AU
Governments must stop negatively framing policies aimed at Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
The continual construction of Indigenous Australians as “failures” in the media and in policy is having unintended consequences. Media reporting and policies almost always focus on what is “wrong” with Indigenous Australians. They look at the problems ...

Neil Thomson: champion for Aboriginal Australians
Brisbane Times
Professor Neil Thomson, who died earlier this year aged 73, worked tirelessly throughout his life to improve the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people in Australia. Among his many achievements, was the establishment of the groundbreaking Australian ...

The Guardian
'We vote too': Indigenous groups warn both parties they want action
The Guardian
They also warned the next government to reinstate funding for the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, which the Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, said was unrepresentative. “What we've got done here today has been a united voice ...

The Australian Financial Review
The NAB Indigenous associate who could be CEO one day
The Australian Financial Review
"It's not easier or harder being an Indigenous Australian," he said. "Location wise it can be. You're also not being exposed to as many opportunities. But I grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales so I was probably lucky. The best part is I ...

The Australian
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treaty
The Australian
They will express “deep concern” that indigenous Australians continue to experience unacceptable disadvantage, are isolated to the margins of the national debate and suffer because of policies that “continue to be made for and to, rather than with ...
Unions weigh into retirement debateGold Coast Bulletin

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Daily Mail
Mikayla George, 16, becomes the first Indigenous Winter Olympian for Australia
Daily Mail
[Because aerial skiing is high risk] everything has to be practiced until it's absolutely perfect,' Mikayla told the Australia Indigenous Alpine Sport Foundation, for which she is an ambassador. 'Just a boot can be several kilos. Then you carry your ...

Weekly Times Now
Rural Victoria offers a peek into Aboriginal Australian history
Weekly Times Now
The Bangerang Cultural Centre, originally the Shepparton Arts Council, is the first Aboriginal cultural “keeping place or museum” to be developed and managed by the Aboriginal community in Australia. The centre houses an important collection of ...

Illawarra Mercury
South Australia dining: Getting the indigenous food experience at Adelaide's Orana restaurant
Illawarra Mercury
The menu at Orana is a confluence of indigenous produce and classical technique and is the brainchild of Scottish expat Jock Zonfrillo, who after arriving in Australia in the mid–90s has made it his mission to prove that native ingredients have a place ...

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The Border Mail
South Australia dining: Getting the indigenous food experience at Adelaide's Orana restaurant
The Border Mail
The menu at Orana is a confluence of indigenous produce and classical technique and is the brainchild of Scottish expat Jock Zonfrillo, who after arriving in Australia in the mid–90s has made it his mission to prove that native ingredients have a place ...

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ABC Online
Call for action against 'charlatans' targeting Aboriginal communities
ABC Online
Aboriginal leaders are calling for a crackdown on "charlatans" who for decades have preyed on Aboriginal communities and misappropriated enormous amounts of money meant for the nation's poorest people.

The Guardian
Indigenous leaders call feud between minister and land council chief 'childish'
The Guardian
“I would implore Malcolm Turnbull, if his Coalition government is returned on July 2, to look among his caucus and find a new minister who has the interests of Indigenous people at heart and a commitment to work with the institutional architecture, not ...

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SBS
'Compelling' science reveals Indigenous people the first Australians
SBS
The ancestor's DNA showed similarities with DNA from other Indigenous Australians, “types that are only found in Aboriginal people and not found anywhere else,” he says. "By going back and reanalysing the samples with more advanced technology, we ...
Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitantsScience Daily
The first Australians WERE Aborigines: 'Mungo Man' DNA contradicts claims unknown race preceded indigenous peopleDaily Mail
Mungo Man DNA test settles row on Aborigines here firstThe Australian
Australia Network News
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Science Daily
Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitants
Science Daily
This earlier study was interpreted as evidence that Aboriginal people were not the first Australians, and that Mungo Man represented an extinct lineage of modern humans that occupied the continent before Aboriginal Australians. Scientists from Griffith ...
The first Australians WERE Aborigines: 'Mungo Man' DNA contradicts claims unknown race preceded indigenous peopleDaily Mail
Mungo Man DNA test settles row on Aborigines here firstThe Australian

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Phys.Org
Conflicting theories of Mungo Man debunked: Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitants
Phys.Org
The original excavation of Mungo Man, found near Lake Mungo in southwestern New South Wales, Australia. Credit: Wilfred Shawcross. Griffith University researchers have found evidence that demonstrates Aboriginal people were the first to inhabit ...
The first Australians WERE Aborigines: 'Mungo Man' DNA contradicts claims unknown race preceded indigenous peopleDaily Mail
Mungo Man DNA test settles row on Aborigines here firstThe Australian

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The Australian
Fraud suspected in 44 remote indigenous programs
The Australian
Warren Mundine, chairman of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, said: “We wouldn't accept in the wider Australian community … people sitting on boards who have no financial or no business background. ” Reconciliation Australia chief ...
Indigenous organisations rocked by allegations of fraud and corruptionDaily Mail

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The Guardian
Indigenous health: Queensland's gulf in cancer survival rates fails to improve
The Guardian
Its findings, based on the cases of 214,000 cancer patients aged 20 to 89, will prompt further work by health authorities on how to better engage Indigenous patients with services and treatment. Survival rates among Indigenous people went from 53% over ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous organisations investigated amid allegations of fraud and corruption by senior figures
ABC Online
Ms Beacroft said the separate corporate regime for Aboriginal Australia was vital because it provided both the flexibility to deal with the nuances of Indigenous cultures across the country, but also sharp powers to crack down on unscrupulous operators.