Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Huffington Post Australia
Stan Grant 'Positive' About Recognising Indigenous Australians In The Constitution
Huffington Post Australia
Popular broadcaster and Referendum Council member Stan Grant has conceded it will to be difficult to achieve Indigenous recognition in the constitution but says it must be done to preserve Aboriginal rights and unite Australia. Grant this week replaced ...
Stan Grant appointed to Referendum Council on Indigenous recognitionThe Guardian
Stan Grant to advise Malcolm Turnbull on Indigenous recognitionSydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant lands important new jobNEWS.com.au
SBS -Sky News Australia -Yahoo7 News
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Anadolu Agency
Australia slammed for indigenous incarceration rates
Anadolu Agency
On the 25th anniversary of what was heralded as a game-changing report on Aboriginal deaths in Australian prisons, an indigenous rights campaigner says the government's success claims are based on skewed facts. Amnesty International's Julian Cleary ...
'Vicious cycle' as Australia indigenous prison rates soarYahoo7 News
Aboriginal deaths in custody: 25 years on, the vicious cycle remainsThe Guardian
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment RatesPro Bono Australia
Sky News Australia -Gizmodo Australia (blog) -World Policy Institute (blog)
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The Guardian
Stan Grant appointed to Referendum Council on Indigenous recognition
The Guardian
There is not only no Indigenous recognition in the constitution, but clauses that have been used to work against the better interests of Indigenous people.” Grant said he was determined that constitutional recognition should not be simply about ...
Stan Grant to advise Malcolm Turnbull on Indigenous recognitionSydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant lands important new jobNEWS.com.au
Stan Grant appointed special adviser to PM on Indigenous recognitionSBS
The Australian
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Bombala Times
Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Bombala Times
Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who are locked up. In the Northern Territory, they represent more than 90 per cent of those children in ...

Illawarra Mercury
Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Illawarra Mercury
Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who are locked up. In the Northern Territory, they represent more than 90 per cent of those children in ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant to advise Malcolm Turnbull on Indigenous recognition
Sydney Morning Herald
Popular broadcaster Stan Grant will help lead the nation towards the constitutional recognition of Indigenous people. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten have appointed Mr Grant, a Wiradjuri man and award-winning reporter ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
When volcanoes clash: Transcendence tells Australia's history through Indigenous eyes
Sydney Morning Herald
According to Dja Dja Wurrung man Justice Nelson, telling this history in Nyernila: Aboriginal Creation Stories of Victoria, all the rocks thrown by Lalgambook at Tarrengower can still be seen today. They form the Guildford Plateau, where the Jaara ...

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Indigenous Australian student shares screenshots of racist Grindr abuse
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A university student has opened up about the frequent racist messages that he receives through online dating apps, SBS reports. Dustin Mangatjay McGregor has Yolngu heritage, which means he comes from a group of Indigenous people from the ...
Gay indigenous man screenshots racist messages he gets on GrindrDaily Mail

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Yahoo7 News
'Vicious cycle' as Australia indigenous prison rates soar
Yahoo7 News
The calls came on the 25th anniversary Friday of the landmark Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, which recommended sweeping reforms to improve the plight of the nation's first peoples, who are the country's most impoverished.
Aboriginal deaths in custody: 25 years on, the vicious cycle remainsThe Guardian
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment RatesPro Bono Australia
Australia's Treatment of Aboriginal People is Its Dirty SecretWorld Policy Institute (blog)
Gizmodo Australia (blog) -Daily Mail -ABC Message Stick
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The Guardian
Aboriginal deaths in custody: 25 years on, the vicious cycle remains
The Guardian
She is one of about 340 Indigenous people to have died in custody since the royal commission into such deaths handed down its final report on 15 April 1991. The bulk of the commission's 339 recommendations remain unimplemented or only partially ...
Why we should honour the humanity of every person who dies in custodyThe Conversation AU

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Indigenous incarceration in Australia at a glance
The Conversation AU
The Conversation is funded by Michigan, Boston U, Ohio State, Case Western Reserve, Florida, UMass Amherst, Georgia State, Michigan State, Rutgers Newark, Penn State, South Florida, Texas A&M, SUNY ESF, Albany, Binghamton, UT Austin, Tufts, U of ...

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The Guardian
Gurrumul hospital row highlights Indigenous health obstacles
The Guardian
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is a multi-award winning singer who has toured the world. He's also a 46-year-old Yolngu man from Australia's far north, a member of one the country's most disadvantaged communities, and when he ended up in hospital ...

Australia's Treatment of Aboriginal People is Its Dirty Secret
World Policy Institute (blog)
They said that elderly indigenous people in the homelands had received no food from an aged care program funded by the Australian government and administered by the regional council. “One elderly man with end-stage Parkinson's received two small ...

Daily Mail
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment Rates
Pro Bono Australia
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council has called on governments to fundamentally rethink the way they work with Aboriginal communities if they are to combat the deepening crisis of rising imprisonment rates for indigenous people. The call comes on the eve of ...
Aboriginal young people make up more than half of the youths across Australia who are locked up.Daily Mail
Australian indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked upStuff.co.nz
Cleverman Is An ABC TV Series About An Aboriginal SuperheroGizmodo Australia (blog)
Junkee -Daily Life -Eureka Street (registration)
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Daily Mail
Actor Jack Charles calls for training for taxi drivers after being refused service
The Guardian
“I want to know who invented the idea of asking Aboriginal people to pay upfront, no matter what the time of day. “You need a bastard like me. A deadset, ridgy-didge, beyond redemption bastard like me, to take on the taxi industry, to take on the ...
Aboriginal actor Jack Charles refused a ride by a taxi in Melbourne AGAINDaily Mail

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Stuff.co.nz
Australian indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Stuff.co.nz
Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who are locked up. In the Northern Territory, they represent more than 90 per cent of those children in ...

Gizmodo Australia (blog)
Cleverman Is An ABC TV Series About An Aboriginal Superhero
Gizmodo Australia (blog)
“Cleverman marks a new era for Australia's production sector, inviting audiences to experience a bold new story-world where Aboriginal storytelling meets high concept genre drama,” said Sally Riley, Head of Indigenous, ABC TV. “With an 80 per cent ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Deaths in custody: Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who are locked up. In the Northern Territory, they represent more than 90 per cent of those children in ...

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The Australian
Jail rates send indigenous people to 'broken, bleak future'
The Australian
Mr Dodson said indigenous people had lost trust in the legal system. “It is a feared and despised processing plant that propels the most vulnerable and disabled of our people towards a broken, bleak future,” he said. Advocating a “justice reinvestment” ...
Patrick Dodson says Indigenous incarceration rate an 'utter disgrace'The Guardian
[ April 13, 2016 ] Justice system “sucking us up like waste”, says Dodson NEWSNational Indigenous Times
Patrick Dodson makes impassioned plea for 'a smarter form of justice'Sydney Morning Herald
SBS -Sky News Australia -ABC Online
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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous prison rate is a national crisis, and our international shame
Sydney Morning Herald
Unpaid fines or drinking in public should never be a death sentence. Yet, for Indigenous people, this is still the case, a generation on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Twenty-five years ago, the royal commission laid out a ...
Aboriginal public servants on their own on pay, says govtThe Canberra Times
Call for overhaulThe Guardian (Australia)

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