Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Conversation AU
FactCheck Q&A: are Indigenous children ten times more likely to be living in out-of-home care?
The Conversation AU
Their most recent report on this issue, Child Protection Australia 2013–14, indicates that Indigenous children (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) are 9.2 times as likely to be in out-of-home care than non-Indigenous children in Australia. So it's ...

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Daily Life
Indigenous Australians have a right to speak our first language
Daily Life
It's therefore remarkable that while a "White Australian Leader" can receive superlatives for reciting an Indigenous language in parliament, a female Aboriginal politician can be reprimanded for reverting to her native tongue during a debate in the ...

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SBS
US singer Rob Thomas apologises for racist joke about Indigenous Australians and alcohol
SBS
US singer Rob Thomas has apologised for making a racist remark about Indigenous Australians overnight in front of thousands of fans. In front of fans in Melbourne last night at Rod Laver Arena, Thomas, who is known for major hits with band Matchbox 20 ...
Rob Thomas Insults Indigenous Australians And Owes Australia An ApologyNoise11
Rob Thomas makes offensive comment about Aboriginal Australians during Melbourne showWonderwall
Matchbox 20 frontman stuns fans with racist remarkSydney Morning Herald
Daily Mail
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Sydney Morning Herald
How Aboriginal artist Dave Malangi's design ended up on Australia's money
Sydney Morning Herald
A camel, according to conventional wisdom, is a horse designed by a committee. We've had our share of camels born of committees in Australia, but the Currency Note Design Group, convened in 1963 by the governor of the Reserve Bank, H. C. "Nugget" ...

Noise11
Rob Thomas Insults Indigenous Australians And Owes Australia An Apology
Noise11
Whatever, Ron Thomas needs to apologise to Indigenous Australian's after telling the Melbourne audience on his opening night of his Australian tour that on the flight from New York 'I start drinking until I'm a black Australian”. The comment beggars ...

The Australian (subscription)
Push for Aboriginal ID tests
The Australian (subscription)
Council chairman Warren Mundine and Queensland Aboriginal leader Stephen Hagan, who until recently headed a council of Australia's Federal Court-vetted native title organisations, said the existing system to approve claims of Aboriginality was outdated ...

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The Australian (subscription)
Indigenous tongues deserve recognition as official languages
The Australian (subscription)
Like New Zealand, Australia could enact an Australian Languages Act, declaring English and indigenous Australian languages as official languages of the commonwealth, and setting out fair rules for people to apply for leave to speak other foreign ...
Aboriginal minister Bess Price denied request to speak Indigenous language in NT ParliamentABC Online
Indigenous MP ruled disorderly for speaking Warlpiri language in parliamentThe Guardian
Australian Politician Fights for Indigenous Languages in ParliamentteleSUR English
SBS -Sky News Australia -La prensa
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ABC Online
Children from Indigenous communities more likely to suffer unintentional injuries, study finds
ABC Online
Children from Indigenous communities are almost twice as likely to be hospitalised for unintentional injuries than non-Aboriginal children, a study has found. The study, led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW), is the first of its kind in ...
Indigenous children almost twice as likely to be hospitalised for unintentional injuriesABC Local
Study finds Aboriginal children experience high burden of unintentional injuryindiablooms

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The Australian (subscription)
Indigenous Australian children more likely to suffer accidental injury, study finds
The Australian (subscription)
The UNSW-led project, published today in the American Journal of Public Health, finds that indigenous children are more than one and a half times more likely than their non-indigenous counterparts to be hospitalised with an unintentional injury. The ...
Children from Indigenous communities more likely to suffer unintentional injuries, study findsABC Online
Indigenous children almost twice as likely to be hospitalised for unintentional injuriesABC Local

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The Guardian
Indigenous prisoners in police custody get 24-hour counselling hotline
The Guardian
The Western Australian government has expanded a scheme to provide support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners to cover people held in police custody, but death in custody campaigners say the new scheme is not what was promised.

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The Australian (subscription)
Denial won't save Aboriginal kids
The Australian (subscription)
With section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act rearing its head once again, many Australians may fear accusations of racism if they point out that too many Aboriginal children live in disgraceful conditions from which non-Aboriginal children would ...

The Australian (subscription)
Alan Jones isn't racist, he wants Aboriginal kids to be safe
The Australian (subscription)
The fear of being labelled racist has driven too many of us to remain silent about abuse in Aboriginal Australia. That silence has condemned too many indigenous kids to undergo and witness things children simply should never see. In late 1993 while I ...

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Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Australia's “Closing the Gap” fraud: Indigenous conditions worsen
World Socialist Web Site
Delivering the Australian government's annual “Closing the Gap” report on indigenous disadvantage to parliament last week, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull turned the world on its head. He extolled the report as an “exciting opportunity, to empower the ...
OPINION: Working together is the only way forwardThe Sunshine Coast Daily
Women in This Country Are Going to Jail to Escape Domestic ViolenceTakePart

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Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Australia's “Closing the Gap” fraud: Indigenous conditions worsen
World Socialist Web Site
Delivering the Australian government's annual “Closing the Gap” report on indigenous disadvantage to parliament last week, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull turned the world on its head. He extolled the report as an “exciting opportunity, to empower the ...
OPINION: Working together is the only way forwardThe Sunshine Coast Daily
Women in This Country Are Going to Jail to Escape Domestic ViolenceTakePart

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The Guardian
Indigenous MP ruled disorderly for speaking Warlpiri language in parliament
The Guardian
“Warlpiri is one of the first languages for the first people of Australia, and Warlpiri to me is the easiest language for me to express myself in,” Price told the ABC. “I believe our languages should be acknowledged and we are forever and a day having ...
Aboriginal minister Bess Price denied request to speak Indigenous language in NT ParliamentABC Online
Indigenous tongues deserve recognition as official languagesThe Australian (subscription)
Australian Politician Fights for Indigenous Languages in ParliamentteleSUR English
SBS
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The Guardian
With 80% Indigenous cast Cleverman becomes first Australian show at Berlinale
The Guardian
It's another busy morning in Potsdamer Platz: black-clad people stream into the lobby of the Grand Hyatt, hurriedly grabbing coffees from street-trucks before the first deals of the day. By 10am script pitches can be heard at tables as numbers are ...

The Guardian
Indigenous writer Bruce Pascoe: Australian literature needs to be better at telling Indigenous stories
The Guardian
When Bruce Pascoe released his non-fiction book Dark Emu: Black Seeds, Agriculture or Accident? – which drew evidence of precolonial Aboriginal Australia food production from diaries of early explorers, challenging their categorisation as hunter ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal minister Bess Price denied request to speak Indigenous language in NT Parliament
ABC Online
The failed request from Local Government Minister Bess Nungarrayi Price came after the central Australian MP was warned over disorderly conduct after she interjected in a parliamentary debate in Warlpiri, prompting NT Speaker Kezia Purick to declare ...
Indigenous MP ruled disorderly for speaking Warlpiri language in parliamentThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Self-declared sovereign Indigenous nation recognised by Australian minister
The Guardian
The Yidindji cabinet is composed of the foreign affairs and trade minister, Murrumu Walubara Yidindji – a former National Indigenous Television Canberra press gallery journalist who renounced his Australian citizenship to live under tribal law in 2014 ...

ABC Online
Warlpiri minister Bess Price denied request to speak Indigenous language in NT Parliament
ABC Online
The failed request from Local Government Minister Bess Nungarrayi Price came after the central Australian MP was warned over disorderly conduct after she interjected in a parliamentary debate in Warlpiri, prompting NT Speaker Kezia Purick to declare ...

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