Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

70 Indigenous people being tested for bridging program to enter the army
ABC Local
KATHERINE GREGORY: Segumar is one of 70 Indigenous women and men from around Australia, aged between 18 and 40, who have spent the last week in Darwin learning about life in the army to see if it's a career they want and are capable of taking on.

The Guardian
Treaty push should replace Indigenous Recognise campaign, says Yolngu leader
The Guardian
Yingiya Mark Guyula of the Yolngu Nations Assembly is calling for the efforts being put into recognition of Indigenous Australians in the constitution to be redirected to treaties between Australian governments and Indigenous nations. Photograph: Lisa ...

After Paris, Indigenous People Must Take the Lead on Climate Change
CounterPunch
As two of the last three states to sign the 2007 UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the United States and Australia continue to trade off the price of carbon for the lives of indigenous peoples. Canada was the third state that ...

SBS
Documentary highlights heart disease killing Indigenous Australians
SBS
A documentary, filmed over two years across Australia, highlights the unusually high prevalence of rheumatic heart disease among the nation's Indigenous community. It focused on remote communities in the Northern Territory, where about 98 per cent of ...
Tackling rheumatic heart disease in remote Indigenous communities 'key to Closing the Gap'ABC Online

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Quartz
An ancient Australian connection to India?
Quartz
When was the remote Australian continent first settled? Where did these ancient Australians come from? Was the island settled once, or on multiple occasions? Is there a genealogical connection between the indigenous people of Australia and India?

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BBC News
Australia town shocked as girl, 10, 'takes own life'
BBC News
A remote community is reeling and support agencies are searching for answers after the apparent suicide of an Indigenous Australian girl, aged 10. The girl's body was found at Looma in the Kimberly region on Sunday. It was the 19th Indigenous suicide ...
Suicide of girl incomprehensible: Nova PerisSky News Australia

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Huffington Post Australia
Why Are So Many Indigenous People Killing Themselves?
Huffington Post Australia
Like so many other Indigenous people, I remember looking at my skin when I was younger and wishing that I wasn't Aboriginal. Wondering why I was born cursed with this brown skin, the visual representation of everything that made me so different from ...

Huffington Post Australia
Why Are So Many Indigenous People Killing Themselves?
Huffington Post Australia
Like so many other Indigenous people, I remember looking at my skin when I was younger and wishing that I wasn't Aboriginal. Wondering why I was born cursed with this brown skin, the visual representation of everything that made me so different from ...

Newcastle Herald
Suicide of 10-year-old 'incomprehensible'
Sky News Australia
Labor Senator Nova Peris says it is incomprehensible a girl as young as 10 took her own life. A 10-year-old Aboriginal girl committed suicide on Sunday in the remote community of Looma, near Derby in Western Australia's Kimberley region. 'I can't ...
The road to safety isn't always clear, but children's rights must come firstNewcastle Herald

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Junkee
Introducing 'Spear': A Must-See Film About Indigenous Experience In Modern Australia
Junkee
What does it mean to be a young Indigenous person today? As we've seen recently, it often involves calling people out on their ignorance. Not only has Australia had a number of baffling incidents of blackface, they've inevitably been followed up by a ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal Heritage Act changes give traditional owners less say: Indigenous groups
ABC Online
"This is going to help people who want to access lands and destroy heritage, rather than improving the protection of Aboriginal heritage," he said. There are tens of thousands of sacred Indigenous sites across South Australia, from ancient song lines ...
Indigenous Business Partnership Changes LivesNewsMaker (press release)

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Daily Liberal
Partnership to deliver better health results for Indigenous Australians
Daily Liberal
Of the 31 Primary Health Networks (PHN) in Australia, Western NSW is the only one that has an Aboriginal Health Council, meaning it is a trailblazer as far as the commitment to Indigenous health is concerned. William 'Smiley' Johnstone has taken on the ...

Dr. David Suzuki reveals seven things Australia could learn from its Indigenous peoples
SBS
5: “Indigenous people celebrate and thank the creator for the world that they live in, that's not the way science does it and the knowledge acquired through that way of living is absolutely essential for the survival of those people, if their knowledge ...

ABC Online
Nhulunbuy independent candidate Yingiya Mark Guyula calls for treaty with Indigenous people
ABC Online
Yingiya Mark Guyula will run in the NT seat of Nhulunbuy with the backing of the Yolngu Nations Assembly, a group of Arnhem Land Aboriginal leaders. He said Australian Government ministers needed to hold the same diplomatic talks with Arnhem Land ...

ABC Online
Sandalwood oil producer Santanol recruits Aboriginal workers in Western Australia's far north
ABC Online
Santanol held two information and recruitment sessions at the Waringarri Aboriginal Corporation in the East Kimberley yesterday. More than 50 people applied for the six labourer and two machine operator jobs starting in Kununurra on Monday. Santanol ...

The Guardian
A 10-year-old girl has taken her own life. How can we possibly look away?
The Guardian
I have spent these last weeks travelling Australia speaking to people about how we – Indigenous people – live with the weight of our history. We are connected directly to the darkness of our past. We are born out of the legacy of dispossession and ...

ABC Online
Tree clearing: Indigenous leader Noel Pearson hits out at changes to Queensland's Native Vegetation Act
ABC Online
Prominent Cape York Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has hit out against the tightening of Queensland's tree clearing laws, arguing the changes could hurt Indigenous people trying to break out of poverty. The Palaszczuk Government wants to make it harder ...

The Guardian
Ten-year-old Aboriginal girl kills herself in far north Western Australia
The Guardian
A 10-year-old Aboriginal girl has taken her own life in far north Western Australia, the youngest of 19 Indigenous people to kill themselves in remote areas of the state since December. Guardian Australia understands the girl died on Sunday in the ...
Apparent suicide of 10-year-old Indigenous girl shocks remote WA communityABC Online
WA community in shock after suicide of Aboriginal childThe Australian (subscription) (blog)

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Pedestrian TV
Australia's 1st Ever Indigenous Women's Cricket Team Is Touring India Soon
Pedestrian TV
HUGE win for Aboriginal women being represented in sport - Australia's first national Indigenous women's cricket team has been selected for a massive tour of India in May. The side will be captained by Sydney Sixers' teenager Ashleigh Gardner (pictured ...
Sydney Sixers teenager to lead Australiadailytelegraph.com.au
First Australian Indigenous Women's Team Selected for Tour of IndiaTheSportsCampus.com
Ashleigh Gardner to captain first Indigenous women's cricket team on tour of IndiaABC Online
NT News
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Pedestrian TV
Australia's 1st Ever Indigenous Women's Cricket Team Is Touring India Soon
Pedestrian TV
HUGE win for Aboriginal women being represented in sport - Australia's first national Indigenous women's cricket team has been selected for a massive tour of India in May. The side will be captained by Sydney Sixers' teenager Ashleigh Gardner (pictured ...
First Australian Indigenous Women's Team Selected for Tour of IndiaTheSportsCampus.com
Sydney Sixers teenager to lead Australiadailytelegraph.com.au
Ashleigh Gardner to captain first Indigenous women's cricket team on tour of IndiaABC Online
NT News
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