Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Indigenous fire practice could slash global emissions: UN report
Brisbane Times
Ancient Indigenous Australian bush-burning could be used around the world to radically cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to a United Nations research body, which also challenges Prime Minister Tony Abbott's refusal to embrace the purchase of ...

The Guardian
Nova Peris: 2015 can be the turning point for Aboriginal Australia. Let's not ...
The Guardian
Protesters listen to Labor senator Nova Peris at the #sosblakaustralia rally outside parliament house in Darwin on May 1, 2015 demonstrating against possible closures of Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. Photograph: Helen Davidson for the ...

The Australian
Tony Abbott goes bush to visit home of land rights
The Australian
“It is a good decision; to be honest, I was depressed about how it was progressing and it is great that the PM can see the need for indigenous Australians to have a forum to debate it,'' he said. “There is no point in trying to convince the rest of ...
PM fulfils indigenous community promiseNT News
Australian PM to spend week with remote Aboriginal communitiesYahoo News
PM open to indigenous insights up northSBS
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The Guardian
Australian PM to spend week with remote Aboriginal communities
The West Australian
Abbott's government in June unveiled an ambitious plan to develop northern Australia -- a vast area spanning more than three million square kilometres (1.16 million square miles) with a population of over one million people and which includes the Great ...
Tony Abbott: welfare card will help lift Indigenous people 'by their bootstraps'The Guardian
Time running out for the Prime Minister for Indigenous affairsThe Age
PM fulfils indigenous community promiseThe Australian (blog)
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The Guardian
Tony Abbott: welfare card will help lift Indigenous people 'by their bootstraps'
The Guardian
The prime minister was speaking on the eve of his tour of northern Australian Indigenous communities as part of fulfilling a promise to spend a week a year those communities discussing issues important to Indigenous Australians. It will be the second ...

The Age
Tony Abbott plans to go where no Prime Minister has been before
Sydney Morning Herald
In July 1997, John Howard spent a single day on Thursday Island in his first visit to an Indigenous community, very much on the defensive after former prime minister Malcolm Fraser said Australia faced a "moral crisis" over its treatment of Indigenous ...
Time running out for the Prime Minister for Indigenous affairsThe Age
PM fulfils indigenous community promiseThe Australian (blog)
Tony Abbott first prime minister to visit grave of Eddie MaboNEWS.com.au

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The Australian (blog)
PM open to indigenous insights up north
The Australian (blog)
ON the way there, he stopped off in Broome and Kununurra, in Western Australia, where he spoke to indigenous leader Pat Dodson about the move that community has made to change native title areas into freehold land. "We can read all the briefing papers ...
PM fulfils indigenous community promiseNT News
PM to arrive in Torres Strait for weekYahoo7 News

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Sky News Australia
PM fulfils indigenous community promise
The Australian (blog)
AS proof, Mr Abbott will travel this week to the Torres Strait Islands, delivering for a second time on his pre-election promise to spend one week a year in a remote indigenous community. The prime minister touches down on Sunday evening, bringing with ...
PM to arrive in Torres Strait for weekSBS

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Sky News Australia
PM fulfils indigenous community promise
9news.com.au
It is also home to Australia's second indigenous people, whose culture more closely aligns with the Melanesian people of Papua New Guinea than mainland indigenous Australians. Federal government MP Warren Entsch, whose electorate of Leichhardt ...
PM to arrive in Torres Strait for weekSBS

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The Canberra Times
Time running out for the Prime Minister for Indigenous affairs
The Canberra Times
No prime minister came to the job with more exposure to Indigenous Australia, or promised more. Abbott, after all, was the country's first self-proclaimed Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs. Addressing the country's "national failure" in this area ...
Abbott denies an 'about face' on Indigenous forumsBulletin Leader

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The Age
Time running out for the Prime Minister for Indigenous affairs
The Age
No prime minister came to the job with more exposure to Indigenous Australia, or promised more. Abbott, after all, was the country's first self-proclaimed Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs. Addressing the country's "national failure" in this area ...

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Abbott denies an 'about face' on Indigenous forums
Bulletin Leader
Far North Queensland's Noel Pearson, West Australian Indigenous leader Patrick Dodson, Indigenous lawyer and constitutional expert Megan Davis and National Congress of Australia's First Peoples co- chair Kirstie Parker were all asked to meet with the ...

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CBC.ca
Aboriginal Music Week brings in NZ, Australian acts to mentor locals
CBC.ca
"I find the people out here are incredible passionate about their people," said Walker, an indigenous singer-songwriter who has been nationally recognized in Australia. "It's great to connect with people on the other side of the world that can relate ...

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Swap books to support Indigenous literacy
ArtsHub (subscription)
'The advocacy day is about raising awareness of the need for resources and appropriate resources in remote communities because they are the ones with the lowest literacy rates and the most disadvantaged in Australia today,' said Executive Director ...

ABC Online
Endangered Indigenous languages to be recorded in dictionaries
ABC Online
The Australian National University (ANU) has started forming dictionaries for 10 endangered Indigenous Australian languages, giving undergraduate students the opportunity to take part. ANU Indigenous linguistics chairwoman Jane Simpson told 666 ABC ...
Racing to record Indigenous languages under attack from 'onslaught of English'The Guardian

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ABC Online
Indigenous leader: 2017 unlikely for constitutional referendum
ABC Online
... four indigenous representatives including lawyer and constitutional expert Megan Davis; Cape York representative Noel Pearson; National Congress of Australia's First Peoples co-chair Kirstie Parker and West Australian Indigenous leader Patrick Dodson.
Tony Abbott changes mind, supports Indigenous meetings on recognitionThe Guardian
Indigenous leaders to meet with PMThe Australian (blog)
PM to meet indigenous leadersYahoo7 News
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The Guardian
Tony Abbott changes mind, supports Indigenous meetings on recognition
The Guardian
Pearson, who joined the head of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, Kirstie Parker; Indigenous constitutional lawyer Megan Davis and Broome leader Patrick Dodson, said the foursome fought hard for the outcome. “It's a rumble we had to ...
PM calls meeting to address impasse on referendum ahead of week in remote ...ABC Online
PM to meet indigenous leadersYahoo7 News
Tony Abbott will today talk with indigenous leaders on a Constitutional ...Business Insider Australia

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ABC Online
Prime Minister Tony Abbott facing insider rebellion on referendum to recognise ...
ABC Online
West Australian Liberal senator Chris Back said the question of whether to recognise Aboriginal people in the constitution was "very, very vexed." He said he was concerned the process was not rushed and said he was very keen to hear the debate around ...
Indigenous leaders to meet Tony Abbott over constitutional recognitionThe Guardian
Indigenous leaders to meet with PMThe Australian (blog)
Aboriginal constitutional recognition back on cards after Australian PM ...Xinhua
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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous rights organiser Kevin Cook 'opened the pathways' for all Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
Kevin Cook 1939-2015. Kevin "Cookie" Cook, a Wandandian and Yuin​ man, was born in Wollongong in September, 1939. After work in the steel mills, he headed to Sydney to work on the new high-rise city buildings. Cookie became a dogman, the ...

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ABC Online
Praise for Indigenous MP Josie Farrer as Aboriginal recognition bill clears ...
ABC Online
Legislation amending the WA Constitution to recognise Aboriginal people as the first peoples of Western Australia has passed in the Lower House of State Parliament. The bill was introduced to Parliament in June by Josie Farrer, the Aboriginal Member ...
WA Aboriginal Recognition Bill progresses9news.com.au
Aboriginal Recognition Bill progresses through WA ParliamentNEWS.com.au

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