Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Brisbane Times
Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians is a once-in-a ...
Brisbane Times
Triumphs and tragedies shape us. Almost 50 years ago, Australians triumphed by changing the Australian constitution for the better at referendum – Vote Yes for Aborigines. They did so in such numbers that no referendum before or since has ever matched ...

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Independent Australia
Australian Reconciliation a long way from Vergangenheitsbewaltigung
Independent Australia
In 2009, the Association established the Mullenjaiwakka Trust to honour the work and example of Mullenjaiwakka, formerly known as Lloyd McDermott, the first Indigenous Australian to be admitted as a barrister. The purpose of the Trust is to provide ...

SBS
Embracing Indigenous languages: the Kiwis just do it better
SBS
Linguist Felicity Meakins recently gave a disturbing account of exactly how little the average Aussie knows about Australia's Indigenous languages. Few know how many there are or what they are called, let alone are able to speak them. Researching what ...

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The Conversation AU
Embracing Indigenous languages: the Kiwis just do it better
The Conversation AU
Linguist Felicity Meakins recently gave a disturbing account of exactly how little the average Aussie knows about Australia's Indigenous languages. Few know how many there are or what they are called, let alone are able to speak them. Researching what ...

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ABC Online
Barunga Festival prompts renewed calls for Indigenous treaty
ABC Online
During the Barunga Festival in 1988, Mr Hawke promised a treaty between Indigenous people and the Australian Government "on behalf of all the people of Australia". The Northern and Central Land Councils then presented Mr Hawke with the Barunga ...
Burunga celebrates 30th annual festivalSky News Australia

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SBS
Queen's Birthday Honours List recognises Indigenous and Migrant Australians
SBS
You know, over the years of my activism and my advocacy work for Timor Leste, I've not exactly felt supported by the Australian Government, particularly during the years of the Indonesian occupation.But nonetheless, it's a wonderful recognition. And it ...
Queen's Birthday honours: Lucy Marshall, campaigner for Indigenous Agent ...ABC Online
Queen's Birthday 2015: Nine unsung heroesSky News Australia
Let's replace the Queen's Birthday holiday with Reconciliation DaySydney Morning Herald

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ABC Online
Queen's Birthday honours: Lucy Marshall, campaigner for Indigenous Agent ...
ABC Online
A West Australian Indigenous elder who campaigned on behalf of Aboriginal Agent Orange victims has been made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). Derby woman Lucy Marshall is one of more than 500 people recognised in this year's Queen's ...

The Guardian
Renouncing Australia: a dozen people to follow Murrumu by taking Yidinji ...
The Guardian
Asked if the decision to quit Australia to join the Yidindji nation was a “lifestyle choice” (an echo, perhaps, of prime minister Tony Abbott's controversial assertion that Indigenous Australians who live on some remote communities were exercising such ...

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The Guardian
'Unadulterated strength': the women of Indigenous Australia in their own words
The Guardian
In Ntaria, 130km west of Alice Springs in Australia's red centre, Que Kenny stands in country made famous by artist Albert Namatjira, her shock of red hair glowing against the clear blue sky. An Aboriginal transgender activist, studying law at Deakin ...

Perth Now
'I was headed to the big prison'
Perth Now
An Amnesty report launched this week, “A brighter tomorrow: Keeping indigenous kids in the community and out of detention in Australia”, shows that Australia is detaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children at its highest rate in 20 years.

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The Australian
PM calls for more debateon indigenous referendum
The Australian
The passage would recognise the prior occupation of Australia by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, express respect for their ongoing relationship with their traditional lands and waters, and indicate respect for their heritage, including ...
Does government need to fund a Indigenous Australian constitutional ...SBS

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Native title key to indigenous communities' wellbeing
The Australian
The week before, the ABC's Four Corners aired a segment showing how Aboriginal communities in Western Australia had become so dysfunctional, some of them had to be abandoned. As their police commissioner said, the safety of the town's residents ...

The Australian
Noel Pearson's proposal for recognition vindicated by history
The Australian
But the federal compact was also established on a continent that had indigenous populations predating these colonies by millennia. As long as the Aborigines exist, and as long as the Commonwealth of Australia exists, the Aborigines will always stand in ...

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APTN National News
Australian Indigenous tribes fighting resource project at home visits Alberta ...
APTN National News
BEAVER LAKE CREE NATION — Delegates from two Australian Indigenous tribes travelling the world to seek support and build awareness about a massive coal mine set to be built within their sacred territories stopped in Alberta this week. The Wangan and ...

The Australian
referendum 'in danger' of no campaign
The Australian
If MPs vote against the proposal, the Australian Electoral Commission releases a pamphlet outlining the key arguments of both sides. Senator Peris's warning comes after indigenous academic Marcia Langton also sounded caution that a no campaign could ...

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Times of India
Maoists oppose Adani Group coal project in Australia, support struggle of ...
Times of India
RAIPUR: Communist Party of India (Maoist) has expressed their solidarity with the indigenous people of Australia in their struggle against Indian industrial house Adani Group, which has signed a deal with Australian government to develop a coal mines ...

The Canberra Times
Indigenous gargoyles to stay at Australian War Memorial
The Canberra Times
Critics and Aboriginal elders' hopes controversial Indigenous gargoyles at the Australian War Memorial would be left on the scrap pile have been dashed. Among the 26 stone gargoyles of native animals lining the courtyard at the Australian War Memorial ...

SBS
PM unaware vital Aboriginal legal service is about to lose Commonwealth funding
SBS
Under New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory law, police agencies are legally obliged to call the Custody Notification Service if it has an Aboriginal person in custody. The CNS also allows Aboriginal people to receive culturally appropriate ...
Funding threat to 24-hour phone line connecting Aboriginal people in custody ...ABC Online
Hotline credited with reducing Aboriginal deaths in custody loses Government ...ABC Message Stick

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Indigenous public holiday to recognise reconciliation not ruled out
The Australian
As National Reconciliation Week came to a close yesterday, the Prime Minister was asked if it was time to consider a nationwide indigenous holiday like Mabo Day. Many Australians mark June 3 as Mabo Day — commemorating the landmark High Court land ...

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A world of division awaits
The Australian
In Australia these dynamics play out as a push for constitutional recognition for Aborigines and to create an Aboriginal consultative body within the Constitution. These are terrible ideas that strike against basic liberal principles. I oppose them not ...