Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Praise for Indigenous MP Josie Farrer as WA Parliament votes on Aboriginal ...
ABC Online
Legislation amending the WA Constitution to recognise Aboriginal people as the first peoples of Western Australia is due to pass State Parliament. The Bill was introduced to Parliament in June by Josie Farrer, the Aboriginal Member for Kimberley, who ...
Same-sex: Wayne Bergmann says aboriginals should back marriage equalityThe Australian
WA Aboriginal Recognition Bill progresses9news.com.au

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Transforming The Nation's Healthcare
Benchmarks set to measure cardiac care and outcomes for Indigenous Australians
Transforming The Nation's Healthcare
A new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows that there have been some improvements in cardiac care and lower death rates from cardiac conditions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. “The report Better ...
“Why aren't I in prison?” … Some questions about white privilege #JustJusticeCrikey (registration) (blog)
Indigenous art greets international visitors into BrisbaneMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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ABC Online
AFL boss Gillon McLachlan says game will grow by targetting multicultural and ...
ABC Online
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan has made a bold pitch to strengthen the game's place as Australia's number one sport by targeting the next generation of talent within multicultural and indigenous communities. Armed with a $2.5 billion war chest ...
Twilight time nearingAFL.com.au

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The Guardian
Indigenous leaders to meet Tony Abbott over constitutional recognition
The Guardian
“You cannot have constitutional recognition without the support of Indigenous people,” Labor's indigenous affairs spokesman, Shayne Neumann, told Guardian Australia. “I'm hoping that the prime minister will listen to the voices of well-respected ...
PM to meet indigenous leadersYahoo7 News
PM calls meeting to address impasse on referendum ahead of week in remote ...ABC Online

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Sydney Morning Herald
PM to meet indigenous leaders
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Noel Pearson, Patrick Dodson, Megan Davis and Kirstie Parker will meet with Mr Abbott on Thursday. They want the federal government to fund special indigenous consultations on how to recognise Aboriginal people in Australia's founding document but Mr ...
Tony Abbott moves to heal rift on Indigenous recognitionSydney Morning Herald

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Independent Australia
Ignorance, cruelty, racism and bigotry in Australia
Independent Australia
The racism that occurs against Indigenous people in Australia, is particularly castigatory. It is offensive, because not only does the system seek to undermine the cultural sovereignty of Indigenous people, but the societal norms – and stemming racism ...

The Guardian
Mick Gooda to head Queensland taskforce to pay stolen Aboriginal wages
The Guardian
Australia's social justice commissioner, Mick Gooda, will lead a Queensland government taskforce responsible for paying $21m in damages to Indigenous people who had their wages systematically stolen by the state last century. Gooda and the taskforce ...
Mick Gooda to head Stolen Wages TaskforceBrisbane Times

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Aboriginal LGBTQIs voice their views on Aboriginal petition against same-sex ...
SBS
"Which is less than 0.05 percent of the Aboriginal population of Australia", said Indigilez leadership and support group's Tanya Quakawoot. "So a very small percentage of Aboriginal people oppose gay marriage without any consultation with Indigenous ...

PS News
DFAT launches Indigenous strategy
PS News
He said a young Indigenous Policy Officer in the Department, Sara-Kate Goltz-Wharton last month joined Australian Indigenous Leaders at the Human Rights Council in Geneva for the annual session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous ...

International Business Times AU
Strategy proposed to increase prospects for indigenous Australians
International Business Times AU
“Australia has a leadership role to play in shaping the international agenda on indigenous issues,” Bishop said. She further ensured that this strategy would inspire the native Australians to participate and aid the programs and thereby build on their ...

Partnership Creates Indigenous Jobs
Pro Bono Australia
A partnership between a Victorian university and the largest Indigenous employer in Australia is working to create jobs in the Northern Territory. Swinburne University of Technology has teamed up with the Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation ...

Group highlights indigenous super troubles
Yahoo7 News
Indigenous Australians have less retirement savings and greater difficulty in accessing their superannuation funds than the rest of the population. They also have less opportunity to benefit from their compulsory savings because they have lower life ...

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The Australian
Mimili Maku centre helps indigenous art bloom in the desert
The Australian
When artists Robert Fielding and Betty Kuntiwa Pumani were recognised at Darwin's peak National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards this month, a tiny community in South Australia's remote and often troubled Anangu Pitjantjatjara ...
DARWIN – THE BIGGER PICTUREAboriginal Art Directory News

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The New Daily
Mentally ill Indigenous Australians betrayed by the system
The New Daily
Early death, widespread disease and dispossession have taken their toll. Still the nation's health workers fail the First Peoples. Indigenous Australians have different health needs, experts say. Photo: Getty. Single Indigenous mother of five Linda ...

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The Guardian
Paperless arrests endanger Indigenous lives, Northern Territory coroner says
The Guardian
About 95% of people being held in NT cells for liquor offences are Aboriginal, and so there is an increased chance of their dying in police custody, the inquest heard. “Unless the paperless arrest laws are struck from the statute books, more and more ...
NT coroner says paperless arrest system 'manifestly unfair' at inquest into ...ABC Online
NT coroner recommends repeal of new police powers after Indigenous death in ...ABC Message Stick

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Huffington Post
The Firsthand Racism I Experienced in Australia
Huffington Post
Adam Goodes, an indigenous Australian football player, doing an indigenous dance and throwing an imaginary spear (it was actually choreographed as a boomerang) towards the crowd to celebrate a goal during Indigenous Week has opened a can of ...
Why do Australian elites think racism lurks in every suburb?The Australian Financial Review
Australian PM calls for end to Goodes booingBulletin Leader

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The Australian
Mutitjulu unaware of 'Uluru bark petition' on sanctity
The Australian
The so-called Uluru bark petition was signed by about 30 indigenous people, but claimed to represent the Aboriginal people of Australia. “This is a cultural initiative, it is not a Christian initiative,'' Pastor Walker said. “But you can align the two ...

Independent Australia
Tony Abbott and White Australia: Let's be serious about change
Independent Australia
The innate conservatism of Tony Abbott and much of white Australia is steering the discussion of genuine Indigenous rights towards a minimalist and almost meaningless constitutional conclusion, says Jeff McMullen. When most of the world recognises the ...

PS News
DFAT launches Indigenous strategy
PS News
Australia's first ever strategy for advancing the interests of the world's Indigenous peoples has been released by the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Peter Varghese (pictured). As part of the DFAT Indigenous Peoples ...

The Guardian
Australia desperately needs more Indigenous teachers. Our students deserve it
The Guardian
Feel-good stories of “success” like mine may hide the fact that Australia is startling short on Indigenous educators. Indigenous teachers form about 1% of the teaching community, while Indigenous students make up 5% of the student population. It has ...