Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

SBS
Indigenous education gap stands out in latest NAPLAN results
SBS
The gap is so pronounced in every state and territory, except Tasmania, that the mean score for Indigenous students is close to or below the 20th percentile score for non-Indigenous students. The Australian Government's Productivity Commission said ...
NAPLAN results an encouragement to those working with Indigenous studentsEducationHQ Australia
NAPLAN chief says first step to better results is teaching teenagers to readThe Age
NT student reading results on the improveNT News
The Educator
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NT News
Cricket Australia and the Stars Foundation declare cricket for girls is a ...
NT News
Sanderson Middle School students Elouise Calma (14), Talia Corrie (13) and Kayllah Motlop (13) are part of Cricket Australia and the Star Foundation plans to establish a female indigenous cricket competition throughout NT Schools. Picture: HELEN ORR ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous HIV rates a 'looming crisis', as injecting drug use becomes more ...
ABC Online
Associate Professor James Ward, an Aboriginal health researcher from the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute in Adelaide, describes HIV rates in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities as a looming crisis. "There are a ...
The first time I spoke in my own language I broke down and weptThe Guardian

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ABC Online
History made in Indigenous rugby union tour of USA
ABC Online
An Indigenous rugby union team has returned home to Australia after making sporting history during a tour of the United States. The team played several games, including a match in New Mexico against an Indigenous team from the United States.

What Australia Can Learn From New Zealand's Approach To Indigenous Languages ...
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After much consultation and development with Indigenous communities, NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli finally dropped the big news yesterday: Aboriginal languages will be available to study as an HSC subject from 2016. This comes 11 years after ...

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Mashable
Indigenous languages to be taught as a year 12 school subject in Australia
Mashable
Providing an important link to the country's heritage, indigenous Australian languages will become a subject for the first time for year 12 students in New South Wales taking their final exams. The new policy will begin in 2016. NSW Education Minister ...
Aboriginal languages to become HSC subjectSBS

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Uprising
Indigenous Australian Activist Points to Forced Displacement Of Her Community
Uprising
Friday November 27th was meant to be the biggest shopping day of the year. But that day has increasingly become a convenient day of protest for a variety of causes including low-wage workers demanding better working conditions, and Black activists ...
Aboriginal workers sought for WA prisonsPerth Now

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The Australian
Aboriginal legal service cuts blamed on toxic culture
The Australian
Several former VALS lawyers pointed out that West Australian indigenous woman Miss Dhu, whose death in custody last year is the subject of a coronial inquest, would have been refused service under VALS's November freeze. “If there's another death in ...

The Australian
Aussie rules trip to China is a great indigenous goal assist
The Australian
Only 58.5 per cent of Aboriginal 20 to 24-year-olds completed Year 12 this year, compared with 86.5 per cent of non-indigenous Australians. While AFL clubs are rolling out indigenous programs to try to address disadvantage, Port Adelaide believes it ...

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Indigenous literary festival takes flight
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'The First Nations Australia Writers Network, the national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers, celebrates Victorian Koori writing and its writers who continue the tradition of writing words to raise awareness and to show ...

ABC Online
Call for royal commission into Indigenous corporations after Mabunji financial ...
ABC Online
"I really believe that there's enough evidence around the Territory and Western Australia to suggest there should be a royal commission into the Aboriginal industry," he said. Indigenous residents worried about Mr Gravener's allegations attended ...

Sydney Morning Herald
School transforms a generation by embedding Indigenous culture into its curriculum
Sydney Morning Herald
Many programs offered to schools could be tokenistic and he and the Beaconhills community wanted to be certain the program contributed deeper and more normalised understanding of Indigenous Australia. "This is good for us all as Australians," he said.

SBS
Legendary Latin musician collaborates with Indigenous artists in new project
SBS
The charango maestro has performed with Mr Barton in Sydney, and will next collaborate with others Indigenous Australian musicians, including Archie Roach. Mr Roach, himself a celebrated traditional artist, will also take Mr Torres to the mission in ...

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Independent Australia
Racism targets Indigenous people more than any other group
Independent Australia
A report released on last month by the UNSW paints a bleak picture of justice for Indigenous Australians, particularly those with mental health disabilities. The administration of "justice" has failed my people says Natalie Cromb, IA's Indigenous ...

ABC Online
Encounters: Indigenous artefacts returned to Australia from UK in new ...
ABC Online
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia will display 151 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artefacts, most of which have not returned to Australia since they were taken by the British in early interactions. The centrepiece of the ...

The Guardian
War Memorial ceremony recognises Indigenous soldiers who died in first world war
The Guardian
The army has recognised Indigenous soldiers who died during World War I in a ceremony at the Australian War Memorial. But because their ethnicity wasn't listed in recruitment records, it is not known who they were or how many. “Today we pay our ...

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Indigenous Australians at higher risk of death from diabetes, heart and kidney ...
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Aboriginal elder Major Sumner performs a ritual dance outside Liverpool's World Museum following the return of an Australian indigenous human skull in Liverpool, northern England, May 13, 2009. The remains which were taken from Australia between 1902 ...

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Indigenous Australians more likely to suffer from diseases
International Business Times AU
Aboriginal elder Major Sumner performs a ritual dance outside Liverpool's World Museum following the return of an Australian indigenous human skull in Liverpool, northern England, May 13, 2009. The remains which were taken from Australia between 1902 ...

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ABC Online
Lawyers, advocates push for government plan to address soaring Indigenous ...
ABC Online
Lawyers, judges and Indigenous leaders are in Sydney today talking about Aboriginal Australians behind bars. The Law Council of Australia said Aboriginal families and communities are being torn apart because so many Indigenous mothers are incarcerated ...
No racism at WA hospital, inquest told9news.com.au
When unpaid fines mean paying with your life, the system is brokenNEWS.com.au
Ms Dhu's family calls for end to jail for fines as death in custody inquest beginsThe Guardian
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ABC Online
South Australian Chief Justice calls for Federal Government to back Indigenous ...
ABC Online
The Chief Justice of the South Australian Supreme Court has voiced support for adopting a "justice target" to help drive down the number of Indigenous Australians behind bars. Chief Justice Chris Kourakis believes the measure could help reduce the ...
Indigenous Australians suffer 'health and justice crisis', doctors' group warnsThe Guardian
Doctors call for target to close gap on indigenous incarceration ratesSydney Morning Herald
Calls to 'close the gap' on prison ratesSBS

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