Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Meet Australia's first Indigenous Green Army
ABC Online (blog)
Earlier this year, the Australian Government funded a program for a group of Indigenous 17-to-24-year-olds with hands on environmental management training. They restored natural and culturally-significant landscapes on Stradbroke Island in Moreton Bay.

ABC Online
Indigenous cattle station in Western Australia attracts interest from ...
ABC Online
Mowanjum Aboriginal Corporation CEO Steve Austin said the trial had attracted international interest and they were on the verge of expansion. "We are looking for an investor with the dollars we need to put in the infrastructure we need to move to the ...

The Australian
Time to remedy great wrong against indigenous: Malcolm Turnbull
The Australian
Addressing the first meeting of a new 16-member referendum council that will steer the process of constitutional recognition for indigenous Australians, the Prime Minister said he was confident there was sufficient goodwill to reach a successful ...
Constitutional recognition: Indigenous voices to shape referendum questionSydney Morning Herald
Indigenous will lead talks on Constitutional recognitionThe Sunshine Coast Daily
Australian Indigenous leaders meet with PM to discuss landmark constitutional ...GlobalPost

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Domestic violence behind spike in indigenous jail numbers: John Rau
The Australian
In response to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures that show South Australia has the second-highest rate of Aboriginal imprisonment of all states, Mr Rau said the problem was not the state's corrections system but rather a “deeply entrenched ...

The Guardian
Ignoring Indigenous Australians a big error, Turnbull tells referendum council
The Guardian
Recognising Indigenous Australians in the constitution will help right a “great wrong”, the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has said, as he sets out the path to a referendum on the issue. The referendum council, set up this month and tasked with ...
Time to remedy great wrong against indigenous: Malcolm TurnbullThe Australian
Constitutional recognition: Indigenous voices to shape referendum questionSydney Morning Herald
Indigenous will lead talks on Constitutional recognitionThe Sunshine Coast Daily

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The Conversation AU
Turnbull can't be Australia's leader for reform until human rights are respected
The Conversation AU
The international community's recent review of Australia's human rights record – as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) – makes this particularly timely. Turnbull's ability to address the human rights of asylum seekers and Indigenous ...

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ABC Online
Referendum Council to meet for first time, PM flags Indigenous-led consultations
ABC Online
Mr Shorten told reporters that the meeting would be another step towards the "overdue recognition" of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. He also noted that any change had to be made in the context that Indigenous Australians do not get "an equal ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
In every other comparable nation, treaties and indigenous sovereignty are a ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The absence of a treaty meant that Australia could be created in 1901 by ignoring Aboriginal peoples. They were set aside as a "dying race" that would not survive white settlement. The Constitution even declared that they were not to be counted in ...

Brisbane Times
How an Indigenous treaty would build a better foundation for Australia
Brisbane Times
These problems will hopefully be rectified if Australia finally comes to vote on Indigenous recognition after the next federal election. The process towards that goal begins afresh today when Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's referendum council meets ...

The Age
How an Indigenous treaty would build a better foundation for Australia
The Age
The absence of a treaty meant that Australia could be created in 1901 by ignoring Aboriginal peoples. They were set aside as a "dying race" that would not survive white settlement. The Constitution even declared that they were not to be counted in ...

ABC Online
Indigenous mentor turning lives around in Halls Creek
ABC Online
In an outback town with a troubled reputation, a local Aboriginal man is helping turn around the prospects for the next generation. Carl Merrison was born and bred in the remote West Australian town of Halls Creek, which was once described by Kimberley ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Virtual dreaming - Indigenous Australia restored in the digital world
Sydney Morning Herald
Williams, a NSW local council Citizen of the Year and volunteer working to engage Aboriginal men with their communities, is caught between optimism – that non-Indigenous Australians might take an interest in Aboriginal culture – and concerns that ...

Indigenous peoples locked into disadvantage
The Saturday Paper (subscription)
This was conducted under the baton of the Law Council of Australia. At the same time another coalition of interested parties, called Change the Record, has come up with a “Blueprint for Change”, with measures to address disproportionate rates of ...

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The Guardian
I can't call myself an Indigenous Australian and also say sovereignty never ceded
The Guardian
I cannot on one hand call myself an “Indigenous Australian” and then say “sovereignty never ceded” in the same breath. The two are incompatible. We will never hear Palestinian liberation fighters call themselves “Palestinian Israelis” or hear members ...
Take stock of your human rights record, Catholic Bishop tells governmentSBS

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Here's What It's Like To Grow Up Gay And Indigenous In Australia
BuzzFeed News
“When I was coming out and trying to reconcile being gay with my Aboriginal culture I was told by an elder very close to me that being gay didn't exist traditionally. He told me it's bad and all these awful things would happen to me,” Gregory Phillips ...

New South Wales Rugby League
A Trip To Remember
New South Wales Rugby League
It was a momentous tour, headlined by a visit to Villiers-Bretonneux on Armistice Day followed by an historic match as the first Aboriginal side to play on the Somme Battlefields – in addition to visits to the Australian embassies in Paris and Rome ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Australia through Aboriginal eyes: the only way to understand our land
Sydney Morning Herald
In 1992, the United Nations International Year for the World's Indigenous People, I did not want to see out the year without saying something definitive about the general plight of indigenous people around the world and most particularly of our own.

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Press TV
Rare indigenous artifacts return to Australia on loan from Britain
Press TV
Islamabad is hosting a show where hunters and gun enthusiasts check out the latest locally made weapons. The 3-day event is called Target and Outdoor Shooting Sports. A new study suggests that people who tend to have negative perceptions may be more ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Keating's Redfern Park speech
Sydney Morning Herald
Twenty-three years after he confronted Australians with the truth of Indigenous dispossession, Paul Keating has delivered another profound message on reconciliation, this time in more nuanced language. Back in 1992, the then prime minister said the ...
Australia through Aboriginal eyes: the only way to understand our landBrisbane Times

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ABC Online
Healing ceremony held for former and fallen Indigenous servicemen of both ...
ABC Online
Lia Pootah Indigenous man Keith Farrell was 18 years old when he joined the armed services during World War II, even though officially Tasmanian Indigenous Australians were regarded as extinct and all Aboriginal people were banned from enlisting.