Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Indigenous lawyers and law students making a mark on SA courts under scholarship and mentoring programs
ABC Online
Thirty years after South Australia's first Indigenous lawyer started practising, a growing cohort of law students is following in her footsteps. In 1985, Irene Watson made history as the first Aboriginal lawyer in South Australia. This year, the Law ...

The Australian
Noma Australia: Rene Redzepi popup dines out on indigenous ingredients
The Australian
In most chefs' hands, Rene Redzepi's zeal to shine a light on indigenous Australian ingredients used in new ways at his Sydney Noma pop-up would be nothing short of commercial suicide. Certainly for any Australian chef. Just ask Orana's Jock Zonfrillo ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Beyond Bangarra: the centrality of Indigenous art in Australia
ArtsHub (subscription)
Designers are often misunderstood as mere window dressers instead of meaning-makers intrinsic to creative process. Where does Australia fit in Singapore's regional art hub? Singapore has positioned itself as a regional hub, throwing vast amounts of ...

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Screen Australia opens $400000 worth of funding for Indigenous filmmakers
Inside Film
Screen Australia will provide up to $400,000 funding as part of The Next Step Indigenous Screen Business Fellowship. The funding is a targeted initiative for production companies run by Indigenous screen practitioners who are ready to take the next ...

NEWS.com.au
QUT embroiled in 'segregation' furore
NEWS.com.au
The issue has been highlighted in a Federal Court case, first reported by The Australian newspaper, in which an employee at a Queensland university's indigenous unit is seeking $250,000 in damages under Australia's racial discrimination laws ...

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Harvard Gazette
Indigenous Australian Art Exhibit Opens in Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Art Museums' special exhibition on Indigenous Art from Australia opens on Friday, with an opening celebration on Thursday night. Entitled “Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia,” the exhibition includes works by ...
Breaking bonds of timeHarvard Gazette

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cricket.com.au
Indigenous players get a chance to step up
cricket.com.au
The inaugural National Indigenous Cricket Championships start in Alice Springs next week, providing Aboriginal and Torres Islander cricketers more opportunities than ever before to reach the top. From Monday, 12 teams of Australia's most talented male ...

ABC Local
Bunbury Australia Day sign vandalised in a indigenous racial protest
ABC Local
Staff arrived at Summit Realty on Victoria Street this morning to find the graffiti and puddles of wet paint on the footpath outside the building. Principal real estate agent Greg Gardiner told the ABC it was "disappointing" to see. The business ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous education would suffer if Gonski funding scrapped, experts warn
The Guardian
Indigenous educators and members of the Australian Education Union (AEU) met a dozen members of parliament, including the education minister, Simon Birmingham, and the opposition leader, Bill Shorten, during a visit to Canberra on Wednesday.
Government 'confused' on school funding9news.com.au

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Domain News
Paul Pholeros, Indigenous housing advocate mourned by architectural world
Domain News
Starved of federal funds since 2011 to continue his multi-award winning 'housing for health' work in Australia's Indigenous communities, Pholeros and colleagues at environmental health and design studio Healthhabitat were still soldiering on ...
Tributes flow for deceased Paul Pholeros, architect, activist and 'source of inspiration for all'Architecture and Design

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The Guardian
Paul Pholeros, architect who helped reduce Indigenous poverty, dies at 62
The Guardian
Tributes for the award-winning Sydney architect described him as a “courageous and compassionate advocate” and “irreplaceable” for his role in improving health outcomes in Aboriginal communities across Australia. Pholeros was the co-director of ...

Huffington Post Australia
The Torch Project Wins Fight For Aboriginal Inmates To Sell Art
Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Australians are 13 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Indigenous people, while the juvenile incarceration rate for the Indigenous community is 24 times that of the non-Indigenous community. Kent Morris, a curator and statewide ...
Indigenous artists to be allowed to sell work created in prisonSBS
Jeff Kennett secures law change to allow Aboriginal prisoners to sell artThe Australian Financial Review
Locked up but not locked down: Indigenous art sells behind barsArtsHub (subscription)

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The Guardian
Stan Grant says he is open to career in politics to advocate for Indigenous Australians
The Guardian
Grant replied that the response to a speech he gave last year on Indigenous Australians which went viral, prompted him to think about entering federal politics. “The response to the speech that I gave, I found so overwhelming and overwhelmingly ...

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Sampan
Indigenous Art from Australia at Harvard Art Museums on Feb. 4
Sampan
The special exhibition Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia is opening February 5, 2016, and will be on display through September 18, 2016 at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA. A survey exhibition of Indigenous art from ...

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The Advertiser
Indigenous issue must stay in the spotlight
The Advertiser
The last referendum was on whether or not Australia should have an Australian head of state. That debate included the question of recognition of indigenous Australians in the Constitution. Both are issues whose time have come. I have written many times ...

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International Business Times AU
Increasing support for #changethedate of Australia Day - Will 2017 be the year? Six Australians have their say
International Business Times AU
“Celebrating on this date is insensitive, and offensive to many Indigenous Australians . . . No-one is saying we shouldn't have a day to celebrate Australia . . . but the January 26th marks the beginning of white occupation, massacres and cultural ...
Two Victorian men dress up in BLACKFACE Aboriginal costumes to attend 21st birthdayDaily Mail

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Music Feeds
Artists Rally Against Racist Abuse Aimed At Indigenous Rapper Briggs
Music Feeds
Following calling out those two “redneck scumbags” for dressing up in blackface as indigenous men for at an Australian Icon themed party, First Australian artists Briggs proceeded to cop a tonne of abuse online. Not only that, but there is actually a ...

Newcastle Herald
Ballarat men dress up in Aboriginal black face, accused of being racists
Newcastle Herald
“'These 2 legends had the best costumes last night, I reckon they nailed the "Australian Icons" theme perfect! Top stuff lads!' read the post. The photo was reposted by a number of indigenous rights activists, slamming it for being overtly racist ...

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Ballarat men spark outrage after dressing up as indigenous Australians
3AW
Two Ballarat men have sparked outrage after dressing up as indigenous Australians at a weekend party. The men painted themselves in "black face" from head to toe and have come under fire from several high-profile indigenous people after a photo of the ...

NEWS.com.au
Blackface Aboriginal costume dress up: Adam Briggs slams 'redneck scumbags'
NEWS.com.au
That changed once she raised the point it was disrespectful to indigenous Australians. Ms Austin's post soon went viral and was picked up by high-profile indigenous rapper and Yorta Yorta man Adam Briggs who went on to share the post, and said anyone ...
Artists Rally Against Racist Abuse Aimed At Indigenous Rapper BriggsMusic Feeds

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