Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Good Food
Canberra's Indigenous gardener Adam Shipp reaps rewards at Greening Australia
Good Food
Adam Shipp has been working with Greening Australia in Aranda as the Indigenous restoration officer since 2012. He was born and raised in Canberra, spending all his school and working life here. His father is a Wiradjuri from central-west NSW; his ...

ABC Online
Indigenous community 'resilient' as mine closure talks continue
ABC Online
Residents from a remote Indigenous community in northern South Australia believe their town will suffer from, but ultimately survive, the Alinta Energy coal mine closure. The company announced last week its Leigh Creek mine and two Port Augusta power ...

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WA wants to go it alone on Aboriginal property reform
The Australian
Western Australia is refusing to work with an Abbott government committee examining reforms to indigenous property rights, a position the committee chairman has labelled “childish” and damaging to the push to create jobs and Aboriginal economic ...
Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WAABC Message Stick

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The Age
Aborigines have zero voice in Australia: Pearson
The Australian
“At the end of the day, parliament could say 'we don't listen to that advice' but it would be salutatory advice,” he said. He said that, as an “extreme minority”, indigenous Australians were “excluded from democratic structures”. “Yet, we are a special ...
Pearson proposal at odds with realityBrisbane Times

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The Guardian
White supremacist accused of selling cannabis to Indigenous communities
The Guardian
A white supremacist and neo-Nazi supporter accused of running a large cannabis plantation is suspected of selling his product to members of an Indigenous community in north Queensland, say police. John Lee, who came to police attention through his ...

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Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WA
ABC Message Stick
The high rates of Indigenous incarceration in Australia are a blight on this country but head west and the number of Aboriginal children behind bars is truly disturbing. In fact the rates are so bad that after releasing a report on the national picture ...

The Australian
Phillip Toyne, environmentalist and champion of indigenous land rights, dies
The Australian
Mr Toyne is best known as the co-founder of the Landcare movement in 1989 while head of the Australian Conservation Foundation from 1986-1992; in a ground-breaking union that saw the environmental movement join forces with Australia's farmers.
Landcare co-founder and Indigenous advocate Phillip Toyne dies aged 67ABC Online
Co-founder of Landcare Australia program Phillip Toyne dies at 67The Guardian
Leading environmental campaigner Phillip Toyne dies at 67Sydney Morning Herald
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ABC Online
Youth suicide at crisis levels among Indigenous population, experts warn
ABC Online
Across Australia, young Indigenous Australians up to 24 years old are 5.2 times more likely to die due to intentional self-harm than other young people in the same age range. Rowe Butterworth knows the struggle all too well. His parents split when he ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Matildas Kyah Simon and Lydia Williams the unlikely idols of Canada's ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The two Aboriginal stars of Australian women's football are blossoming into idols of an indigenous community on the other side of the world. Proudly waving the flag of their background on the biggest stage of the world, their success story is providing ...

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ABC Online
Landcare co-founder and Indigenous advocate Phillip Toyne dies aged 67
ABC Online
Indigenous advocate and co-founder of the national Landcare program, Phillip Toyne, has died aged 67. Mr Toyne established the environmental organisation with Rick Farley in 1989 when he was head of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Prior to that ...
Leading environmental campaigner Phillip Toyne dies at 67Sydney Morning Herald
Co-founder of Landcare Australia program Phillip Toyne dies at 67The Guardian

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Financial Times
Aboriginal art auction: Australia's first nation comes to the saleroom
Financial Times
Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia, staged at the Asia Society in New York in 1988, was the first of a run of major shows to introduce overseas audiences to the complex art produced by one of the world's oldest continuing cultures, inspiring ...

Daily Life
Aboriginal groups distressed at high rate of Indigenous children removed from ...
Daily Life
Aboriginal groups are distressed at figures that show indigenous children are more than 12 times as likely to be placed in state care – a rate that places Victoria higher than the national average. Victoria has also registered the largest increase ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous Australians call on Standard Chartered not to fund coal mine project
The Guardian
A group of Indigenous Australians has urged Standard Chartered to rule out funding a massive coal mine on their ancestral lands in a meeting with executives in London. Representatives of the Wangan and Jagalingou people travelled to the bank's ...

The Age
Aboriginal groups distressed at high rate of Indigenous children removed from ...
The Age
Victoria has also registered the largest increase across Australia in the number of Aboriginal children removed from their families, a staggering 42 per cent rise last year, according to the most recent figures. "It's disheartening. We struggle every ...

The Guardian
Indigenous recognition: parties told compromise key on referendum question
The Guardian
The group spearheading the campaign to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution wants a referendum question to be finalised by the end of the year, but has warned that all parties will need to compromise on it. Tanya Hosch, a joint ...

SBS
Damning findings on Indigenous incarceration in WA
SBS
Well sadly because Western Australia locks up Indigenous children at the highest rate in the country. The overrepresentation of children in detention is shameful. It's shameful right across Australia, but it's staggeringly shameful here in WA where it ...

ABC Online
Indigenous bark shield to return
The Australian
“This is something not currently represented in our collection … this is a chance to bring it back and work with indigenous communities and try to learn more about its history,” she said. It is not known when the wooden piece was taken from Australia ...
Aboriginal art collection sells for more than $2 million in historic Sotheby's ...ABC Online
Aboriginal art sold for $2 million at Sotheby's auctionABC Message Stick

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The Guardian
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – Amnesty
The Guardian
Aboriginal children who break the law in Western Australia are less likely to get off with just a caution than non-Aboriginal children, less likely to receive bail, and proportionally less likely to be referred to diversionary programs, according to a ...
Indigenous youth 52 times more likely to end up in jail, report findsSBS
Indigenous stockmen and women honoured in outback QueenslandABC Online
WA worst for Aboriginal youth behind barsNEWS.com.au

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ABC Online
Indigenous stockmen and women honoured in outback Queensland
ABC Online
A new display in an outback Queensland museum has opened to tell the stories of Indigenous stockmen and women across Australia. The Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame at Longreach, in the state's central-west, received federal funding for the project, ...
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – AmnestyThe Guardian
WA worst for Aboriginal youth behind barsWA today

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The Australian
Detention: WA worst state for jailing indigenous youth
The Australian
The report 'There is always a brighter future: Keeping Indigenous kids in the community and out of detention in Western Australia', was three years in the making, and includes research in Albany, Bunbury, Perth, Kalgoorlie, Geraldton, Broome, Mowanjum, ...
Indigenous stockmen and women honoured in outback QueenslandABC Online
Indigenous youth 53 times more likely to end up in jail, report findsSBS
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – AmnestyThe Guardian
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