Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

CRN Australia
Reseller banned from entering indigenous communities
CRN Australia
A reseller accused of "unconscionable conduct" against indigenous customers has agreed with the Federal Court to stop its sales practices and pay $20,000 in compensation. In January, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission commenced ...

CBC.ca
Canada removing objector status to UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
CBC.ca
The declaration — first adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007 — recognizes Indigenous people's basic human rights, as well as rights to self-determination, language, equality and land, among others. "We are fully adopting this and ...
Canada endorses United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesGlobalnews.ca

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The Guardian
Shorten pledges 400 scholarships for Indigenous teachers – video
The Guardian
... seat of Leichhardt in Cairns. Shorten tells reporters that 'we need more kids from an Indigenous and Torres Strait background finishing Year 12'. Labor has pledged 400 scholarships for Indigenous Australians to become teachers, if it wins the 2 ...

The Guardian
Labor's Patrick Dodson says Indigenous treaty should be an option
The Guardian
Dodson noted that Victoria had begun negotiations with Indigenous Australians for a settlement agreement, which would be the first treaty with Indigenous Australians in Australia and follow similar arrangements with first peoples in Canada, the US and ...
Election 2016: Labor pledges more indigenous teachersSBS
Sam Dastyari hops on Shorten's busThe Australian Financial Review
Bill Shorten visits Cairns on first day of Federal Election campaignThe Cairns Post
The Australian
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SBS
Election 2016: Labor pledges more indigenous teachers
SBS
Labor wants to get more indigenous teachers into Australian classrooms if it wins the July 2 federal election. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has promised 400 teaching scholarships for indigenous Australians, at a cost of $4.8 million over four years ...
Election 2016: Sam Dastyari hops on Bill Shorten's busThe Australian Financial Review
Federal election 2016: who won day two of the campaign?The Australian
Bill Shorten makes education a priority as Labor 'underdogs' hit campaign trailThe Guardian
NEWS.com.au -The Cairns Post -Sky News Australia
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The Conversation AU
Black Velvet: redefining and celebrating Indigenous Australian women in art
The Conversation AU
A picture of strength: lifelong activist Bonita Mabo OA in front of her portrait as a young woman, which features in her granddaughter Boneta-Marie Mabo's first solo exhibition. Josef Ruckli, courtesy of the State Library of Queensland, CC BY ...

Huffington Post Australia
Homelessness, Indigenous Affairs And Dementia Groups React To The Federal Budget
Huffington Post Australia
Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Dr Helen Szoke said this lack of recognition showed the rhetoric of 'Closing The Gap' in healthcare and life expectancy for Indigenous Australians had not prompted any additional funding on top of previously announced ...
Don't forget victims in push to cut Indigenous numbers in prisonThe Age

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ABC Online
Indigenous suicide prevention: Stan Grant inspired by WA town's search for answers
ABC Online
The conference, organised by a national Indigenous Suicide Prevention Project, brought together Indigenous academics, researchers and community members from around Australia to address what its co-chair Tom Calma has called "a suicide epidemic" ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous suicide prevention: Stan Grant inspired by WA town's search for answers
ABC Online
The conference, organised by a national Indigenous Suicide Prevention Project, brought together Indigenous academics, researchers and community members from around Australia to address what its co-chair Tom Calma has called "a suicide epidemic" ...

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The Guardian
Australian election 2016: talk turns to Indigenous treaty at Labor event – politics live
The Guardian
The Victorian government will begin talks to work out Australia's first treaty with Indigenous people within weeks. A meeting with First Nations representatives, convened by the State government earlier this month, firmly rejected Constitutional ...
Shorten unveils Indigenous scholarshipsSBS

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The Age
Don't forget victims in push to cut Indigenous numbers in prison
The Age
The campaign to reduce the number of Indigenous people in prison tends to miss the point. The majority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners are in jail for assaults and sexual assault and, on average, for each Indigenous prisoner, there ...

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ABC Online
Ayers Rock Resort: GFC blamed as Indigenous Land Corporation secures $65ml bailout
ABC Online
Speaking at a ceremony on Saturday to mark the resort's Indigenous employment rate reaching 35 per cent, Mr Scullion said the loan was "precisely in keeping with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's commitment to do things with Indigenous people, not to ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous suicide rates climb as governments 'drag the chain' on handing over control
The Guardian
Governments have been “dragging the chain” when it comes to empowering Indigenous communities, people and services to address the devastating rates of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, a conference heard on Friday.
Suicide on the rise among indigenous youthSky News Australia
Recognition doesn't exclude treaty: GrantYahoo7 News
Successful rural suicide prevention program informs new initiative tailored to Indigenous needsABC Online
Gay News Network
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ACCC acts to protect indigenous consumers
Yahoo7 News
"Indigenous consumer protection is an enduring priority for the ACCC and we took this action to protect the rights of Indigenous consumers under that Australian Consumer Law," ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said. "We encourage Indigenous consumers to ...

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Recognition doesn't exclude treaty: Grant
Yahoo7 News
Constitutional recognition does not have to exclude the future prospect of a treaty for indigenous people, Stan Grant says. Mr Grant has been appointed to the Referendum Council to advise the government on a way towards a referendum on recognising ...

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Sky News Australia
Suicide on the rise among indigenous youth
Sky News Australia
Suicide is the main cause of death for indigenous people aged 15-35. "How are we going to fix this?" Kunoth-Monks, an activist and elder from Utopia in Central Australia, asks. Professor Pat Dudgeon is co-chairwoman of the government-funded Aboriginal ...
Lost between two worldsABC Online

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ABC Online
Successful rural suicide prevention program informs new initiative tailored to Indigenous needs
ABC Online
A new pilot program informed and run by Farm-Link was launched in March and is specifically targeted at Aboriginal people. Speaking at the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide prevention conference in Alice Springs, Farm-Link ...

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CBC.ca
Australia's Indigenous 'guardians' program finding favour in Ottawa
CBC.ca
An experiment that has won favour in Australia is gathering steam in Ottawa as the federal government scrambles to live up to its promise to help Aboriginal Peoples. Members of a Canadian team called the Indigenous Leadership Initiative are proposing a ...

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AllAfrica.com
Africa: Indigenous People Miss Out On Vital Services
AllAfrica.com
The study, which evaluated more than half of the world's indigenous communities, found they scored lower across the board than non-indigenous people on access to basic services. This reduces their life expectancy and educational attainment, and ...

Alice Springs meeting to battle self-harm
Yahoo7 News
Almost 400 people gathered in Alice Springs from around the country have similar questions, and they have united for Australia's first conference on the prevention of indigenous suicide. Suicide is the leading cause of death for indigenous people aged ...

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