Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Kimberley Land Council chief threatens to 'kill' Broome's tourism industry in ...
ABC Online
Anthony Watson said he would be happy to move his own community to Cable Beach and "camp for weeks and months" to ensure the Western Australian Government involved Aboriginal people in its discussions about the future of remote communities.

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Jobs Program for Indigenous People With Disability
Pro Bono Australia
“The disability community in Indigenous Australia is very diverse and it's really important to recognise this when working in community. This project gives valuable insights and we hope it will also instill greater confidence in service providers and ...

ABC Online
First Indigenous doctor graduates from Charles Darwin University's medicine ...
ABC Online
The first batch of graduates from the Territory's medicine program, run at Charles Darwin University in conjunction with Flinders University in South Australia, entered the workforce this year. Among them is Dr Kane Vellar, the first Indigenous person ...

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Australian Olympic Committee
AOC changes constitution to recognise indigenous heritage
Australian Olympic Committee
AOC: Members at the Australian Olympic Committee Annual General Meeting in Sydney today have unanimously voted to amend the Constitution to recognise the nation's first people. The new passage in the AOC Constitution reads: “To recognise the ...

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The Australian
Remote communities offered hope by Colin Barnett's road map
The Australian
Many indigenous leaders in Western Australia share Barnett's conviction that reform is imperative for these communities. Leaders such as June Oscar at Fitzroy Crossing, who has led the campaign for alcohol restrictions and attention to fetal alcohol ...
WA Indigenous groups frustrated at lack of detail in remote communities planThe Guardian
Aboriginal people to be consulted on remote community closures: WA GovernmentABC Online
WA Govt 'braves' remote indigenous planPerth Now
ABC Message Stick
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The Australian
Olympic steps to recognise indigenous in constitution
The Australian
Senator Peris, who was Australia's first Aboriginal Olympic gold medallist, as part of the 1996 Hockeyroos team in Atlanta, said the AOC's move would provide an example to follow in the lead-up to the national referendum. “This simple act includes my ...

ABC Online
Call to end protests over WA Aboriginal community closures
ABC Online
Western Australia's Aboriginal Affairs Minister has called for an end to national protests over the potential closure of some of WA's 274 remote Indigenous communities. Large rallies were staged across the country protesting against Premier Colin ...
WA Indigenous groups frustrated at lack of detail in remote communities planThe Guardian
WA Govt 'braves' remote indigenous planPerth Now
Aboriginal elders voice concern over plans to close remote communitiesABC Message Stick
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ABC Online
Indigenous expert joins Australian Heritage Council
The Age
Lyndon Ormond-Parker, who was born in Darwin, is of Alyawarr descent from the Barkley Tablelands in the Northern Territory. An Indigenous cultural expert of over 15 years' standing, Mr Ormond-Parker is an Australian Research Council Fellow in the ...
Northern Land Council chief Joe Morrison calls for Indigenous involvement in ...ABC Online
Australia returns land to indigenous ownersRadio New Zealand
Infrastructure on NT budget wishlistYahoo7 News

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ABC Online
Northern Land Council chief Joe Morrison calls for Indigenous involvement in ...
ABC Online
The head of one of Australia's most powerful Indigenous bodies has accused Adam Giles's Country Liberal Party (CLP) Government of "sweeping aside" Indigenous people to develop the Northern Territory. The Northern Land Council's (NLC) chief Joe ...
Australia returns land to indigenous ownersRadio New Zealand
Infrastructure on NT budget wishlistCourier Mail

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The Guardian
WA Indigenous groups frustrated at lack of detail in remote communities plan
The Guardian
Its chairman, Anthony Watson, told Guardian Australia the announcement was “very disappointing.” “We were expecting that they would put out a report, not a five-page PR exercise,” he said. “There is no comfort. We don't know the details … they have ...
Aboriginal people to be consulted on remote community closures: WA GovernmentABC Online
WA Govt 'braves' remote indigenous planPerth Now
WA remote indigenous communities closure plan 'stab in the dark': Premier ...NEWS.com.au

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The Conversation AU
Some Australian Indigenous languages you should know
The Conversation AU
As an ice-breaker, I often ask my linguistics students to name an Australian Indigenous language. Some are able to name Warlpiri, Yolngu Matha or Arrente, but most cannot manage the name of a single language. That is astonishing given there are 250 to ...
Exhibition: Indigenous Australia – enduring civilisationGeographical

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The Australian
Indigenous culture focus for Australia's first UN woman
The Australian
“It seems to have attracted huge international coverage,” Professor Davis told The Australian. “It was the subject of much concern.” The indigenous professor says there is a misconception globally that affluent developed nations such as Australia do ...

Perth Now
Barnett unveils remote plan
The Australian
The Barnett government has unveiled a radical overhaul of services and spending in the state's 274 remote communities, declaring the $4.9 billion rolled out each year on indigenous programs in Western Australia was like a “noodle nation” of duplication ...
Lift the shackles and remote communities will thriveHerald Sun
WA Govt 'braves' remote indigenous planPerth Now
WA Govt to outline indigenous communities closure planNEWS.com.au
ABC Message Stick -Radio Australia
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Indigenous teen's 'trust experiment' makes global impact after beach video ...
Radio Australia
The brave teen said it was part of a larger social experiment to raise awareness about the level of distrust towards Indigenous Australians. "It was pretty confronting to learn that only 13 per cent of Australians trusted Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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NEWS.com.au
Blame booze, not the past: Pearson
NEWS.com.au
The Australian reports that the noted academic used a speech in Brisbane to urge indigenous people to “rise above historic trauma”, likening that process to the way in which Jewish people have endured after the Holocaust. “I have to push back against ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Christian Thompson tells Indigenous Australia's story in The Imperial Relic
Sydney Morning Herald
In one photograph, Christian Thompson's head can be just seen emerging from a fabric sheath resembling an old-fashioned gramophone horn. In another, he wears an elaborate helmet made of maps, including one of the distribution of Aboriginal language ...

teleSUR English
Uranium Contaminated Indigenous Australian Communities' Water
teleSUR English
Unsafe levels of uranium were found in the water supplies of four Indigenous communities during tests between 2012 and 2014, according to a report from the Office of the Auditor General Western Australia. “Uranium leaches naturally from soils, rocks ...

Get over historical indigenous wrongs: Noel Pearson
The Australian
“We've constructed a major industry out of indigenous disadvantage. Australia spent $33 billion last year in the name of indigenous people … yet the results are the poorest you can imagine.'' Mr Pearson said white Australia believed indigenous people ...

Get over historical indigenous wrongs: Noel Pearson
The Australian
“We've constructed a major industry out of indigenous disadvantage. Australia spent $33 billion last year in the name of indigenous people … yet the results are the poorest you can imagine.'' Mr Pearson said white Australia believed indigenous people ...

The Canberra Times
ADFA theatre honours Australia's first Indigenous officer, Reg Saunders
The Canberra Times
When Captain Reg Saunders, Australia's first Indigenous army officer, discovered a cold and hungry baby in an abandoned Korean village more than 60 years ago the veteran of the Middle East, Greece, Crete and the Pacific war was stumped. "How were we ...

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