Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
AussieBum chief reacts to claims Australia Day undies are offensive to ...
ABC Online
AussieBum's chief executive says he was naive to the fact its Australia Day underwear featuring dot paintings, boomerangs and a cartoon depiction of a traditional Aboriginal person could cause upset. The company has received criticism for its festive ...
AussieBum's Australia Day underwear 'disrespectful' to Indigenous peopleThe Guardian

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AussieBum under fire for Aboriginal undies
Yahoo7 News
Underwear brand AussieBum's new Australia Day collection has been criticised for being "disrespectful" to Aboriginal people. The brand's new underwear line features boomerangs, dot paintings and a stereotypical cartoon of an Aboriginal man standing on ...

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The Guardian
AussieBum's Australia Day underwear 'disrespectful' to Indigenous people
The Guardian
Underwear brand AussieBum's new Australia Day collection has been criticised for being “disrespectful” to Indigenous people. The brand's new underwear line features boomerangs, dot paintings and a stereotypical cartoon of an Indigenous man standing on ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous doctor scholarship sees young people return home to practice
ABC Online
The Balnaves Scholarship provides financial assistance, accommodation and mentoring to selected Indigenous students studying medicine at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). There are currently just over 200 doctors practicing in Australia who ...

The News Hub
Australia Day AKA Invasion Day
The News Hub
Australia is a nation founded on the attempted destruction and genocide of Australia's first culture, the culture of the Indigenous Australians. Indigenous Australians have lived in Australia for 50 000 years. Indigenous Australians are not one culture ...

Google News

The Guardian
Hotspots, virtual reality and apps lead the way in Indigenous startups
The Guardian
The inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander enterprises in Australia's digital economy is strong. This is being fostered further by initiatives such as Indigenous Digital Excellence (IDX), a partnership with the Telstra foundation designed ...

Google News

BuzzFeed News
Here's How David Bowie Fought For Indigenous Rights
BuzzFeed News
The visionary singer and actor, who died on Tuesday at 69 after an 18-month battle with cancer, felt compelled to expose the mistreatment of Aboriginal Australians to the world through the video for his 1983 hit “Let's Dance”. “There is also a right ...

CRN Australia
Reseller accused of 'unconscionable conduct'
CRN Australia
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has started Federal Court legal action against technology company FDRA Pty Ltd ('The Foundation for the Digitization of Rural Australia'), formerly known as Angel Digital. The Northern Territory reseller ...

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CRN Australia
Reseller accused of 'unconscionable conduct' in indigenous communities
CRN Australia
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has started Federal Court legal action against technology company FDRA Pty Ltd ('The Foundation for the Digitization of Rural Australia'), formerly known as Angel Digital. The Northern Territory reseller ...
ACCC begins action against reseller; alleges unconscionable conductChannelLife Australia

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SBS
Stan Grant: How David Bowie's Let's Dance shone a light on Australia's ...
SBS
As King told Fairfax in 2013, “[The clip] showed the rest of the world that there are Indigenous people here in Australia, and that we're not this textbook carbon copy of someone standing there with a spear; that there are modern Aboriginals, and this ...
Bundaberg link to David Bowie rememberedBundaberg News Mail
David Bowie was absolutely entranced by Australia, but not its racist pastMashable

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ABC Online
Aboriginal culture to be front and centre of Australia Day celebrations
ABC Online
"I think it's important to recognise that Australia Day is a complex day for Aboriginal people but the great thing that's happened this year is that there has been wonderful engagement between the Australia Day Council and the Indigenous community.

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ABC Online
Indigenous doctors key to improving the health of Aboriginal communities ...
ABC Online
Another group of Indigenous medical students has graduated from Charles Darwin University (CDU), adding to the small number of university trained Aboriginal GP's in Australia. Four Indigenous students graduated from CDU as doctors last year, and two ...
Theatre preview: Jack Charles V The Crown — A true story of redemptionOttawa Citizen

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ABC Local
Possum skin cloaks and bush medicine explained in Aboriginal seasonal calendar app
ABC Local
For tens of thousands of years, Australia's Indigenous people have lived by the seasons: hunting, gathering, healing and surviving the elements based on their knowledge of the land and water, climate and weather. In recent years, that knowledge has ...

The Guardian
How David Bowie's Let's Dance shone a light on Australia's Indigenous struggle
The Guardian
As King told Fairfax in 2013, “[The clip] showed the rest of the world that there are Indigenous people here in Australia, and that we're not this textbook carbon copy of someone standing there with a spear; that there are modern Aboriginals, and this ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
The album cover that launched David Bowie's Australia obsession
Sydney Morning Herald
Three years before Crocodile Dundee, David Bowie's famous 1983 film clip to Let's Dance, which swung a spotlight on indigenous struggles, was shot on location in Carinda, rural NSW. Then the music video for China Girl was filmed in Sydney the same year.
Singer gone ... David Bowie at The Rocks, Sydney in 2004. Picture: Alan PrykeNEWS.com.au

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NEWS.com.au
David Bowie's love for and fascination with Australia revealed
NEWS.com.au
The video of the title track was filmed around Sydney and the far north NSW town of Carinda with a strong focus on indigenous themes and the clash of urban and rural lifestyles. He felt strongly about the disenfranchisement of indigenous Australians ...

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Briefly: Tesla Competitors, Awesome Games Done Quick, Faking A Murderer
Lifehacker Australia
Brief news items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: An Indigenous Australian company is looking to compete with Tesla's Powerwall, this year's Awesome Games Done Quick earns over a million and Netflix's Making A Murderer might not have included ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Top city universities falling behind on indigenous enrolment
Sydney Morning Herald
"There is an aspirational impediment that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids think they couldn't get into the best universities in Australia, but the reality is they can and they succeed," said Sydney University deputy Vice-Chancellor Shane ...

The Guardian
'Operation Boomerang' lamb ad insults Indigenous people, say critics
The Guardian
The Australia Day-themed lamb commercial starring Lee Lin Chin has come under fire for depicting a military campaign called “Operation Boomerang” on what is considered a day of anger and mourning for many Indigenous people.

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Gizmodo Australia
Indigenous Australian Solar Energy Company Takes On Tesla
Gizmodo Australia
This Queensland company's core mission is based on the fundamental Aboriginal approach of stewardship of the earth and its resources, and this means a move away from a reliance on fossil fuels for energy. Oh, and it offers a 10kWh solar energy storage ...