Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Sydney Swans
Swans to kick off Indigenous Round at SCG
Sydney Swans
“Sir Doug Nicholls is the great untold story of Australian football, and he represented both the values of our game and epitomised the spirit of reconciliation,” Mr McLachlan said. “He was the first Indigenous player to represent Victoria at state ...
AFL to honour Sir Doug Nicholls in 2016 Indigenous roundThe Guardian
Power to play in Alice Springs in Indigenous RoundPort Adelaide
AFL names indigenous round for Sir Doug NichollsThe Age
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Sydney Morning Herald
Deborah Cheetham on why the arts can help combat racism in Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
The arts have a crucial role to play in turning around racist attitudes in the Australian community, says Indigenous opera singer Deborah Cheetham. "We must help Australians find a new song to sing," the soprano says. "We have a strong voice. But I ...

The Guardian
Supporting Adam Goodes is easy. He's the 'acceptable face' of Indigenous Australia
The Guardian
It is easy to align with Adam Goodes, he is a wealthy, powerful symbol of Indigenous survival. He should make Australians feel good. Like me though, I know Adam would be aware that we are the “acceptable faces” of Indigenous Australia. We don't pose ...

ABC Online
Program helps Indigenous Australians enter Hunter's housing market
ABC Online
In the wake of interest rate hikes by the big banks, the Hunter's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community is being reminded of services to help them get into the housing market. Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) runs programs to help ...
Life as a Young, Indigenous, A-Class Offender in AustraliaVICE

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Sydney Morning Herald
HSC 2015: Indigenous history and gender equity top priorities for new Board of ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The Board of Studies has proposed a review of Indigenous Australian content as one of its top priorities for the new NSW HSC history curriculum. The move puts the NSW organisation, in charge of educating the largest number of students in Australia ...

The Guardian
Hymns ring out over Uluru on 'bittersweet' handover anniversary
The Guardian
On Monday it will be 30 years to the day since the governor-general Sir Ninian Stephen handed the lands – known formerly by non-Indigenous Australia as Ayers Rock and the Olgas – back to the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people, the Anangu.
Ayers Rock Resort sucking Aboriginal funds - Yahoo7Yahoo7 News
Australia 'hasn't fulfilled Uluru bargain'Sky News Australia
Uluru owners let down by Aust: ScullionSBS

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous recognition must scrap race powers in constitution: Shorten
The Conversation AU
Opposition leader Bill Shorten has said that Indigenous recognition in the constitution cannot just be “empty poetry” but must lay to rest “the ghosts of the discrimination” haunting the document. Its “so-called race powers” were crafted for Australia ...

Future vision for Indigenous peoples' eye health
Sydney Morning Herald
HEALTH. Although ophthalmologist Hugh Taylor AC has been advocating for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' eye health off-and-on for about 40 years, it's still a big problem in Australia. Not that Taylor, of all people, needs reminding. As a ...

The Australian
Adam Goodes rises above the racism in post-AFL career
The Australian
The anger has mostly always been about the strong stance Goodes has taken on racism and his fearless language on the historic and contemporary role of indigenous Australians. David Jones this week unveiled Goodes as one of six brand ambassadors for ...
Why businesses like David Jones need a reconciliation action plan more than everSydney Morning Herald

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National Post
Exhibit of Australian Indigenous art displayed at Quebec City museum
National Post
QUEBEC — “Lifelines: Indigenous Contemporary Art From Australia” opened Wednesday at Quebec City's Musee de la civilisation, which called it the first major Canadian exhibition of its kind. Featuring almost 100 artworks, the show attests to the ...

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ABC Online
Health researcher on a mission to get Indigenous men talking about prostate ...
ABC Online
quHealth researchers have launched a new education kit in the hope that it will start a conversation amongst Indigenous men about prostate cancer and erectile dysfunction. Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia, with nine ...

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ABC Local
ANU researcher translates UN Declaration of Human Rights into Aboriginal ...
ABC Local
Dr Holcombe said the UDHR was foundational to western law and culture, but Indigenous Australians did not take these rights for granted. "The mass atrocities after the World War II horrified the world," she said. "There was wide recognition that there ...

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SBS
Casey Conway bares all: being a gay Aboriginal man in professional sport
SBS
Australian sport hasn't proven itself to be a bastion of racial or social harmony, especially of late. So one can only imagine the anxiety Casey Conway felt moving from Central Queensland to Sydney to play in the National Rugby League (NRL) straight ...

Australian researcher creates world-first Indigenous translation of ...
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
CANBERRA, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- For the first time, the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) has been translated into an Indigenous Australian language, researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) revealed on Thursday.

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The Australian
First indigenous Trauma Recovery Program 'an essential step'
The Australian
For Stolen Generations survivor and Aboriginal health specialist Debra Hocking it's been 30 years in the making, but with the launch of Australia's first indigenous Trauma Recovery Program she believes an essential step has been taken in closing the gap.

The Guardian
Young Indigenous imprisonment in NT: 'You wouldn't believe it in a modern-day ...
The Guardian
Jail and youth detention statistics in Australia paint a wearily familiar picture of Indigenous disadvantage but in the territory they are catastrophic. Its imprisonment rate is massively disproportionate to the rest of the country – 838.3 for every ...

The Guardian
Keating was right to intervene over recognition and Indigenous Australia's ...
The Guardian
Like Paul Keating, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are big picture people. Many, although not all, of the challenges in communities today are informed by the irresolution of unfinished business. This is not a fashionable thing to say, as ...
'We Are At The Crossroads Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Peoples ...Huffington Post Australia

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The Guardian
Paul Keating lets rip (again): Indigenous recognition could make Australia great
The Guardian
We need an Australian republic and our own flag, but only Indigenous recognition will make us a truly great country, former prime minister Paul Keating has said during a wide-ranging discussion about his legacy. “I always hoped and believed that ...

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The Guardian
How can I feel Australian when this country has told me I don't belong?
The Guardian
As much as Australia rejects us, we reach out looking for a way in. My grandfather went to war to prove his loyalty. Indigenous people have represented this country – some have captained our sporting teams. There is a yearning for this place: it is our ...

Huffington Post Australia
'We Are At The Crossroads Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Peoples ...
Huffington Post Australia
The impact of current government policies of forced removal and closure of communities, of deregistration of thousands of Aboriginal sites, will be absolutely catastrophic for us. It will also make Australia poorer as a nation. Traditional Owners from ...