Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
World's largest study into Indigenous health finds location doesn't determine disadvantage
ABC Online
MARK COLVIN: The world's biggest study on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people has found that living in a richer country doesn't give Indigenous people an advantage. The study of more than 150 million Indigenous people in 23 countries was ...
UN goals on Indigenous people in danger of failingSBS
Australian NFP Funds Global Research on Indigenous Peoples HealthPro Bono Australia
Global snapshot of indigenous peoples health releasedScience Daily
HealthCanal.com (press release) (blog)
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SBS
UN goals on Indigenous people in danger of failing
SBS
The Indigenous and Tribal Peoples' Health Population Study provides a snapshot of how Indigenous people across the world are tracking now in comparison to the wider population. It was commissioned by the British medical journal The Lancet. Executive ...
Australian NFP Funds Global Research on Indigenous Peoples HealthPro Bono Australia
Indigenous peoples around the world still live in greater poverty, report findsABC Online
First Lancet global snapshot of indigenous peoples health released University of MelbourneEurekAlert (press release)
Voxy
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The Conversation AU
Aboriginal – Māori: how Indigenous health suffers on both sides of the ditch
The Conversation AU
Indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand, despite the distance separating them and varying histories, have one disturbing issue in common: poor health. A landmark comprehensive report published today in medical journal The Lancet has highlighted ...

Times Higher Education (THE) (blog)
World insight: one size can't fit all for indigenous communities
Times Higher Education (THE) (blog)
Forty-three years ago, the South Australian Institute of Technology, an antecedent institute of the University of South Australia, was the trailblazing institution in Australia for the provision of opportunity and education to Aboriginal and Torres ...

The Guardian
The Uluru decision highlights what's so wrong with Indigenous policy
The Guardian
In May next year the Australian public is scheduled to vote on whether our constitution should be amended to recognise Indigenous Australians. Serious concerns surround the feasibility of that date, the precise form of recognition, and whether ...

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Australian NFP Funds Global Research on Indigenous Peoples Health
Pro Bono Australia
An Australian Indigenous Not for Profit has funded a world first study into the health and wellbeing of more than 154 million Indigenous and tribal people globally. The report revealed the extent of work that needs to be done if the United Nations is ...

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The Conversation AU
Ideas for Australia: Closing the gap is proving hard, but we can do better by working developmentally
The Conversation AU
The significance of government services and funding to the livelihoods of Indigenous people goes well beyond the experience of other Australians. Australian townships and developing communities overseas are generally underpinned by a market economy.

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The Guardian
Closing the Gap: Greens call for federal spending on Indigenous rangers
The Guardian
Ranger groups and Indigenous protected areas (IPAs) have been federally funded since 2007, and are considered a success among Indigenous affairs policies. Under the scheme local Indigenous people are trained and employed to maintain, monitor, and ...

The Guardian
Indigenous health: wealthy nations not always better than developing countries
The Guardian
A grandmother holds her granddaughter at a “town camp” on the outskirts of Alice Springs, Australia. Life expectancy for Indigenous populations in Australia, Canada and New Zealand is on par with those of Indigenous people in Kenya, Panama and ...
Indigenous health gap a global challenge, says studySydney Morning Herald

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Mashable
7 obvious reasons why you shouldn't climb sacred site in Australia
Mashable
There is a beautiful rock in the middle of Australia sometimes known as Ayers Rock, but now more commonly known by its traditional Indigenous name, Uluru. The red rock that stands sensationally in the middle of Australia's red desert centre has been ...
NT leader calls on Indigenous groups to get behind climbing Uluru9news.com.au
Uluru climb plan sparks a national debateThe New Daily
Given you can climb Uluru you should also be able to do sick ollies off the Anzac MemorialSBS
ABC Online
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Māori Television
Canada's commitment to indigenous people an example for NZ
Māori Television
Labour MP Peeni Henare says New Zealand and Australia should follow the Canadian government's lead and pay more attention to the rights of indigenous people. Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has allocated an unprecedented $8.4bil over five ...

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theMusic
Beni Bjah Highlights Indigenous Youth Issues After Song Of The Year Win
theMusic
“The youth incarceration rate in WA is at 48% for indigenous youth in prisons here, and by the year 2020 all prisoners Australia wide – youth and adults – every one out of two will be indigenous if we keep going this way, and I just feel like music is ...

SBS
White People Claim Indigenous Culture “Not As Important As Standing On A Rock”
SBS
While climbing Uluru is still considered offensive to the first peoples from that region, the push to allow tourists to climb the sacred site has gathered speed this week with many white Australians claiming that ascending the rock is part of their ...

The Guardian
Adam Goodes: AFL great to speak at Indigenous youth summit
The Guardian
Maddee Clark, one of the delegates at the summit, told Guardian Australia that she hoped the focus on mental health would see mainstream mental health organisations make a space for Indigenous people to join their campaigns. Clark, a 26-year-old queer ...

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Hundreds of distinct indigenous groups in Australia
CCTV
Today, we take a look at problems facing Australia's aboriginees. There are hundreds of Indigenous communities and societies in Australia, each with its own unique culture, custom and language. An appallingproblem facing the groups is the high crime rate.

The Guardian
Aboriginal sci-fi Neomad wins Australia's top comic book award
The Guardian
And on Friday it was picked up by the Aboriginal sci-fi comic book Neomad, created with the input of more than 30 young people in the Western Australian community of Ieramugadu (also known as Roebourne). It's an incredible achievement for a group of ...
Indigenous Sci-Fi NEOMAD Glows Neon With Praise And CultureHuffington Post Australia

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The Guardian
How do you buy Indigenous Australian art ethically?
The Guardian
These practices were “rampant” in Alice Springs some years ago, says Philip Watkins, who is head of Desart, an association of central Australian Aboriginal art and craft centres. A Senate inquiry into the matter was held in 2007 and from that a ...
Pat Dodson must keep on highlighting Australia's continuing shameSydney Morning Herald
Not Content With Wrecking The Environment, Greg Hunt Is Now Desecrating Sacred SitesNew Matilda
Public Service ApprenticeshipsPro Bono Australia

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Sydney Morning Herald
Pat Dodson must keep on highlighting Australia's continuing shame
Sydney Morning Herald
It's now been 24 years since was called Australia's unutterable shame, the legacy of dispossession, degradation and devastation of Indigenous people, in the High Court's reversal of the legal fallacy that this was an empty continent. Since Mabo, we ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous community lets tourists in on newly won Australian homeland
The Guardian
An Indigenous group who won a huge land title claim is partnering with a commercial tourism operator to bring visitors to its region – a remote and seldom visited part of Australia. Intrepid Travel, a global company known for taking tourists on ...

The Guardian
Acrimony and legal threat as Indigenous group approves Adani mine
The Guardian
More than 300 people attended the Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) meeting on Saturday where Adani said members “voted overwhelmingly” to authorise an Indigenous land use agreement (ILUA) with the miners for the construction and operation of the ...
Traditional owners shrug off Adani's land use pact in AustraliaLivemint
Adani's $21.7-billion coal mine project in Australia gets traditional land owners' authorisationDaily News & Analysis
Adani $12 billion Carmichael coal project faces fresh legal challengeMINING.com

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