Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Junkee
Why Every Aussie Should Learn To Speak An Indigenous Australian Language
Junkee
It does seem ridiculous that in Australia very few people speak an Australian language. Who of you reading this piece speaks or knows anything about one or more of the at least 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages? This is because ...
Extract from Andrew Pridham's Indigenous Round AddressSydney Swans
Legal services hit by cuts in Federal BudgetThe Guardian (Australia)
Indigenous jobs in resources on the riseMy Sunshine Coast (press release)
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Telegraph.co.uk
Aboriginal teen model makes history after reaching Miss World Australia finals
Telegraph.co.uk
An Aboriginal teenager from a tiny outback township will be the first indigenous model to represent the Northern Territory in the Miss World Australia after she was spotted by a scout while withdrawing money from an ATM. Maminydjama Maymuru, 19, whose ...
Miss World Australia gets a make overThe Sydney Morning Herald
Miss World Australia beauty firstdailytelegraph.com.au

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Impact Investment Finances Indigenous Community Solar Project
Pro Bono Australia
In what is believed to be an Australian first, an impact investment loan via two philanthropic foundations has seen a 139-panel solar power system installed at an Indigenous community in Western Australia. The 36-kilowatt system at the Kurrawang ...

Australia's first Indigenous-inspired ibis hotel
Travel Weekly
During National Reconciliation Week 2016, AccorHotels will unveil its very first Indigenous-inspired ibis hotel in Australia at Sydney Olympic Park on Thursday 2 June. Celebrating the hotel's local links with Indigenous community, culture, and art, the ...
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Woolworths hires extra indigenous workers
Yahoo7 News
Indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion said these jobs were part of Woolworths' commitment to employ an additional 1600 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the country by 2019 through the government's Employment Parity Initiative.

SBS
Australian Rugby Union's bid to attract more Indigenous talent
SBS
The Australian Rugby Union's Reconciliation Action Plan aims to harness indigenous talent to the sport and stop the AFL and NRL from taking the best talent. But success won't just be measured in player numbers. The ARU says respect and understanding of ...
Australian Rugby to focus on increasing Indigenous engagementTheSportsCampus.com
Australian Rugby Union launches second Reconciliation Action Plan in RedfernHerald Sun

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Travel Daily Media (press release) (registration) (blog)
“Indigenous-inspired” ibis hotel to be unveiled in Australia
Travel Daily Media (press release) (registration) (blog)
Launched to coincide with National Reconciliation Week 2016, the hotel will be located at Sydney Olympic Park. It has been designed in partnership with Balarinji, an Indigenous-owned creative agency which has previously designed aircraft liveries for ...

Perth Now
Dodson backs Indigenous Day for WA
Perth Now
One of Australia's most respected indigenous leaders, Mr Dodson, below, said WA Day, which marks the arrival of Captain James Stirling's Parmelia at the Swan River Colony on June 1, 1829, did not have to be “wiped off” the calendar. But he said ...

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ABC Local
Mildura's young citizen recipient encourages Indigenous youth to embrace culture
ABC Local
Mr Clarke said Sorry Day was a special day for Indigenous people and evoked pride in him. "You look at the history and it's not the greatest history. Australia does have a dark history. Some of the stuff that was done to my people and some of the stuff ...

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ABC Online
Help Indigenous Australians through economic development: NSW Ombudsman's office
ABC Online
Economic prosperity is key to improving social outcomes for Aboriginal people, according to a report released by the New South Wales Ombudsman's office. The special report tabled in NSW Parliament today comes in the wake of NSW becoming the first ...

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ABC Local
Mildura's young citizen recipient encourages Indigenous youth to embrace culture
ABC Local
Mr Clarke said Sorry Day was a special day for Indigenous people and evoked pride in him. "You look at the history and it's not the greatest history. Australia does have a dark history. Some of the stuff that was done to my people and some of the stuff ...

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PBS NewsHour
Indigenous artists illuminate Sydney Opera House in light festival
PBS NewsHour
The process of creating the project, which draws on the interconnected history and relationships between Australia's Indigenous tribes, was more than just projecting pretty pictures onto the iconic structure, Roberts told The Sydney Morning Herald ...

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NT News
Northern Territory girls part of Melbourne Indigenous Transition School that is Australia's first stand-alone ...
NT News
Students at the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School have come from the top end of the territory, including remote communities near Daly River and Kakadu. However, they have come together as one at the school and at the Richmond Junior Football ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
ABC TV's Indigenous superhero Cleverman premieres
The Sydney Morning Herald
"I wanted to create a superhero for my son," says Ryan Griffen, the creator of upcoming ABC TV series Cleverman. "A hero that was based on Aboriginal culture. When I was growing up, I would always tell people I was an Aboriginal, and would get into ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Malcolm Turnbull And Bill Shorten Join In The Long Walk For Indigenous Reconciliation
Huffington Post Australia
Opposition leader Bill Shorten cited reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians as "unfinished business". "Until this country can secure equal treatment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, we cannot truly celebrate ...
Election 2016: Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten agree racism persistsThe Sydney Morning Herald
Shorten: 'Systemic racism' in AustraliaNEWS.com.au
LiveBlogLast Updated 6.30pm AEDTFederal election 2016: Malcolm Turnbull, Bill Shorten in MelbourneThe Australian
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The Guardian
Vivid festival 2016 opens with powerful statement by Indigenous Australia
The Guardian
At 6pm on Friday, when the Vivid festival lights were switched on for the first time in 2016 and the Sydney CBD was suddenly illuminated in bright colours, its centrepiece was a powerful cultural statement from Indigenous Australia. Over the 23 nights ...
Indigenous colours light up the nightThe Straits Times
Vivid Sydney 2016: Lights and installations illuminate city as festival launchedABC Online

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teleSUR English
Indigenous Australians Call for Change on 'National Sorry Day'
teleSUR English
As Australia marked National Sorry Day on Thursday, Indigenous people in the state of South Australia renewed calls for on a national compensation scheme for members of the Stolen Generation, who were forcibly removed under paternalistic government ...
Australia Offers 'National Sorry Day' to Black Aboriginal People for Brutal Eugenics and Theft of Their Children ...Atlanta Black Star

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teleSUR English
Indigenous Australians Call For More on 'National Sorry Day'
teleSUR English
As Australia marked National Sorry Day on Thursday, Indigenous people in the state of South Australia renewed calls for on a national compensation scheme for members of the Stolen Generation, who were forcibly removed under paternalistic government ...
Australia Offers 'National Sorry Day' to Black Aboriginal People for Brutal Eugenics and Theft of Their Children ...Atlanta Black Star

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The Guardian
Indigenous weaver Yvonne Koolmatrie wins $50000 Red Ochre art prize
The Guardian
In 1982 Yvonne Koolmatrie read that Indigenous Australia's weaving culture was extinct. She says that motivated her to prove otherwise: “Today, it is still very much alive.” The Ngarrindjeri weaver from South Australia has been named a winner in the ...
Koolmatrie to receive top Indigenous art awardInDaily
Aboriginal artist Yvonne Koolmatrie to be recognised with Red Ochre lifetime achievement awardABC Online
KOOLMATRIE WINS THE RED OCHREAboriginal Art Directory News
Courier Mail
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ABC Online
Indigenous entrepreneurs tackle community joblessness
ABC Online
Long-term unemployment is a major concern for Indigenous Australians, with less than half the working-age population in jobs. But a new wave of Indigenous entrepreneurs is hoping to turn that around, by employing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders ...
Australia's first Indigenous Startup Weekend aims to help close the gapStartupSmart

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