Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students tackle constitutional reform
ABC Local
Students discussed the inclusion of Indigenous Australians in the constitution and staged a mock election. The university's Wayne Costelloe said students' critical thinking around the issues surrounding the recognition of Australia's first peoples was ...

The Guardian
Indigenous painting found at charity shop sells for $1800
The Guardian
An ochre and charcoal artwork by an internationally exhibited Aboriginal artist from far north Western Australia has been sold for $1,800 – from a charity shop. The artwork, titled Spearhead Dreaming, turned up in a pile of donations to St Vincent de ...

Awards honour extraordinary commitment to Indigenous health
UQ News
“They are exceptional philanthropists who have made an extraordinary commitment to creating change through efforts to close the gap in life expectancy and to help progressing towards health equality for Indigenous Australians,” he said. “Mr Poche, who ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians retire with 23% less savings
The Conversation AU
Indigenous people will retire with 23% less income than non-Indigenous Australians, according to new research by Griffith Centre for Personal Finance and Superannuation. People who identify as being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI ...

The Conversation AU
Laying pathways for greater success in education for Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
Graduates of a 2015 Tertiary Entry Program, which paves the way into university courses, with lead author and CQUniversity's Pro Vice-Chancellor of Indigenous Engagement, Bronwyn Fredericks (fourth from left) and Provost Hilary Winchester (far right).

The Economist (blog)
Australia struggles to bring equality to its indigenous population
The Economist (blog)
THE massive gulf in living standards between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians has long been one of the country's great shames. After much pressure from activists, governments have channelled increasing amounts of money and political will in an ...

Huffington Post Australia
Australia Is The Only Developed Country To Still Have Trachoma
Huffington Post Australia
Our teams visited more than 465 communities and screened about 100,000 people, 62,000 of whom were Indigenous Australians. They found that nearly half of Australia's Indigenous people had trachoma and, in some regions of the Northern Territory and ...

Herald Sun
Indigenous Australians must stop the excuses and accept responsibility
Herald Sun
And once again Aboriginal “leaders” offered those exhausted and divisive excuses. Don't blame Aborigines, insisted Professor Tom Calma, co-chair of Reconciliation Australia. He told the ABC: “The lack of progress should never be interpreted as a ...

ABC Online
Meet 7 Indigenous legends who are fighting to 'close the gap'
ABC Online
Australia is failing to meet most of its goals to close the gap between Indigenous and other Australians on health, education and employment. The latest annual report card on Indigenous disadvantage, handed down on Wednesday, shows only two of the ...
How Woman of Influence Dawn Casey closed the gap on racismThe Australian Financial Review
Indigenous doctors key to improving health9news.com.au

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Malcolm Turnbull delivers Closing the Gap report which shows Indigenous life expectancy has not improved
Radio Australia
The Prime Minister said his Government would redouble its efforts to engage with Indigenous Australians. "Under successive governments, under both sides, progress against the Close the Gap targets has been mixed, we have to be honest," he said.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Malcolm Turnbull's Closing-the-Gap oratory
Sydney Morning Herald
Labor is supporting calls by Indigenous leaders to add a new target on closing the incarceration gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, with Mr Shorten saying: "It is wrong that an Aboriginal man of 18 is more likely to go to jail than ...
Turnbull urges stronger partnership between government and Indigenous Australia to close the gapThe Conversation AU
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull delivers the tenth annual Closing the Gap address to Parliament on ...NEWS.com.au
Closing the Gap: Australia is failing to meet its goals on tackling Indigenous disadvantageABC Online
Northern Star -SBS
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The Conversation AU
Turnbull urges stronger partnership between government and Indigenous Australia to close the gap
The Conversation AU
The 2016 Closing the Gap Prime Minister's Report shows a bleak picture on progress on Indigenous employment and little improvement in school attendance. Australia is not on track to halve the gap in employment between Indigenous and non-Indigenous ...
Closing the Gap: Australia is failing to meet its goals on tackling Indigenous disadvantageABC Online
Malcolm Turnbull's Closing-the-Gap oratorySydney Morning Herald
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull delivers the tenth annual Closing the Gap address to Parliament on ...NEWS.com.au
Northern Star -SBS
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The Guardian
Battle for bark art: Indigenous leaders hail breakthrough in talks with British Museum
The Guardian
Detail of an etched bark taken from the Dja Dja Wurrung people in the 1850s and now in the collection of the British Museum. It is currently on show in Canberra as part of the National Museum of Australia's Encounters exhibition. Photograph: Museum ...

The Australian
NRL All Stars: Indigenous stars want Kangaroos to do war dance
The Australian
“It's something I really want to see the Kangaroos do before I retire from playing for Australia,” Indigenous All Stars captain Greg Inglis told The Australian. And watching as Inglis taught the dance to the next generation of players around a fire at ...
'The game owes it to indigenous Australians'Courier Mail

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Sydney Morning Herald
Dr Jackie Huggins Photo: Eva Schroeder
Sydney Morning Herald
Mr Turnbull will deliver his first major speech on Indigenous affairs when the annual Closing the Gap report is tabled in Parliament on Wednesday morning. He is expected to affirm a commitment to improving the future of Indigenous Australia "not by ...
Reconciliation support grows, but racial tensions still a problem in Australia, report findsABC Online
Indigenous reconciliation report finds deep support but 'piecemeal' policiesThe Guardian
Everyone has a role to play in closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia, Kia Dowell writesABC Message Stick
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Indigenous literary festival a place to learn, laugh and participate
ArtsHub (subscription)
Blak & Bright is presented by First Nations Australia Writers' Network, alongside Australian Poetry, the City of Literature Office, the Emerging Writers' Festival, Express Media, the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Small Press Network, the Wheeler ...

ABC Online
Reconciliation support grows, but racial tensions still a problem in Australia, report finds
ABC Online
The State of Reconciliation in Australia has found the vast majority of people believed the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians was important. But it also found a third of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had been ...
Indigenous reconciliation report finds deep support but 'piecemeal' policiesThe Guardian
Warren Mundine blasts indigenous funding wasteThe Australian
NSW Indigenous leader welcomes suicide response trial but says more early intervention neededABC Message Stick

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The Guardian
Northern Territory intervention should be disbanded, says Indigenous advocacy group
The Guardian
National Congress co-chair Rod Little said the damage done by the intervention to the self-image and human rights of Indigenous people in the NT, coupled with the lack of progress, meant there was no reason to keep the policy in place. “Let's remove it ...
Greens urge Malcolm Turnbull to consider treaty with Indigenous people alongside constitutional recognition pushABC Online

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Courier Mail
'The game owes it to indigenous Australians'
Courier Mail
The All stars, and Indigenous All stars are announced, All stars coach Wayne Bennett. Pic Jono Searle. “It's not a game about making money or anything other than indigenous Australia and us giving back. “The money part doesn't interest me. If we're ...
All Stars match may be last as uncertainty surrounds its futureThe Australian

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The Guardian
Northern Territory intervention 'fails on human rights' and closing the gap
The Guardian
According to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data, Indigenous people made up 3% of the population but 27% of the prison population, and 52% of all young people in detention. In the NT, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples make up 86 ...
Warren Mundine blasts indigenous funding wasteThe Australian

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