Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian
Indigenous legal services peak body wins last-minute pre-budget reprieve
The Guardian
Wednesday's funding announcement comes less than two months after Brandis reinstated $25m worth of cuts to community-based legal aid services, citing the impact the cuts would have on Indigenous Australians and survivors of domestic violence in ...
Indigenous Australia exhibition tells many storiesBBC News

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BBC News
Indigenous Australia exhibition tells many stories
BBC News
An enormous exhibition banner flaps gently in the breeze as a small group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women crane their necks upwards to read the words: 'Indigenous Australia: enduring civilization'. The long awaited exhibition ...

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The Guardian
Most groups funded under Indigenous advancement strategy non-Indigenous
The Guardian
Geographically, the largest share went to eastern New South Wales (18%), which has a quarter of Australia's Indigenous population, followed by greater Western Australia (13%) and the Top End and Tiwi Islands region (11%). A 10th of the funding went to ...

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ABC Online
Revive stamp duty exemption for Tasmania's Indigenous first home buyers ...
ABC Online
One of Tasmania's peak Indigenous bodies has urged the State Government not to "ignore" Indigenous Australians in this year's state budget. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) wants the Government to reinstate first home buyers stamp duty exemption ...

ABC Online
Majority of grants from Indigenous Advancement Strategy first round given to ...
ABC Online
Less than half of the successful applicants for the first round of the new federal Indigenous Affairs funding scheme were Aboriginal organisations. The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet confirmed the figure in its submission to a Senate inquiry ...
Most groups funded under Indigenous advancement strategy non-IndigenousThe Guardian

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The Conversation AU
Racism towards Indigenous Australians: reporting the good with the bad
The Conversation AU
Can we trace modern-day racism against Indigenous Australians to the country's British invaders? Often when trying to extinguish a fire, it is more important to know what sustains it rather than what started it.
Artefacts help us plot future course by learning from pastThe Australian
Aboriginal art unfit for Western eyesTelegraph.co.uk
'We don't have monopoly on taxpayer dollars': Aboriginal elder Garry Murray3AW

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Indigenous employment making tracks
PS News
Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Senator Nigel Scullion said the 300 new jobs would be delivered through ILC subsidiary companies, Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia and National Indigenous Pastoral Enterprises Pty Ltd (NIPE) and at the ILC-operated ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Cataract surgery 'blitzes' not a long-term solution for Indigenous communities ...
Sydney Morning Herald
"[Indigenous people] who manage to get onto a waiting list will wait almost twice as long as non-Indigenous Australians, sometimes waiting several years or more before receiving surgery," the authors said. Australia's first eye surgical blitzes, called ...
Doctors say cataract surgery blitzes aren't helping fix eye problems for ...Business Insider Australia
Cataract blitzes not long-term solutionPerth Now

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Domestic abuse of Indigenous women a 'national crisis'
Radio Australia
The situation is deeply worrying, with two women killed in Australia every week as a result of domestic violence. So far this year, 32 women have lost their lives. However, for Indigenous women the statistics are even more appalling. In fact ...

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MuMbrella
Investigative journalist, indigenous Australians, top marketers and creative ...
MuMbrella
They include panels featuring some of Australia's top marketers; a discussion on the media industry's responsibilities to recruit more indigenous Australians; the five questions that any brand should ask with advice from Melbourne's most awarded ...

Brisbane Times
300 indigenous protesters stage Brisbane City Hall sit-in
Brisbane Times
Around 300 people stormed into Brisbane's City Hall on Saturday night and staged an old-fashioned sit-in to protest the forced closure of indigenous communities in Western and Southern Australia. The surprise action followed a rally in King George ...
Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City HallThe Guardian

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The Australian
Artefacts help us plot future course by learning from past
The Australian
In the Indigenous Australia — Enduring Civilisation exhibition, opened by Prince Charles at London's British Museum on Thursday, there is a shield that once belonged to a Gweagal traditional owner, who held it at the time of the first encounter ...
Aboriginal art unfit for Western eyesTelegraph.co.uk

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Brisbane Times
300 indigenous protestors stage Brisbane City Hall sit-in
Brisbane Times
Around 300 people stormed into Brisbane's City Hall on Saturday night and staged an old-fashioned sit-in to protest the forced closure of indigenous communities in Western and Southern Australia. The surprise action followed a rally in King George ...
Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City HallThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Indigenous incarceration at record levels as Queensland's prison population soars
The Guardian
Figures obtained by Guardian Australia from Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) show Indigenous people, who make up less than 4% of the state's population, remain grossly overrepresented in prisons, where they account for almost a third of inmates.

The Guardian
Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City Hall
The Guardian
“We wanted to make a point to the state and federal government in Queensland that what affects Western Australia, their Indigenous communities, once they do that there, they're going to come to Queensland, they're going to close down communities like ...

Australian Education Union slams Wilson Review of Northern Territory ...
ABC Online
A review of Indigenous education in the Northern Territory has been labelled a "sham" by the NT's education union. But NT Education Minister Peter Chandler has strongly rejected the claims and said he would "not apologise for spending money on a ...

BuzzFeed News
6 Shocking Facts About Indigenous Imprisonment In Australia
BuzzFeed News
In the past 10 years the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment has increased by 88%, compared to the non-Indigenous imprisonment rate which has increased by 28%. Indigenous Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda says the ...
Change the Record campaign aims to cut Indigenous jail rates in a generationThe Guardian
National Justice Coalition launch strategy to reduce over-representation of ...ABC Online
Shining the spotlight on Indigenous pharmacy servicesPharmacy News
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The Australian (blog)
Polarising forces threaten to derail bid for indigenous recognition
The Australian (blog)
The danger is that Australia faces a debacle in the campaign to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Constitution. The fear is that the indigenous referendum will suffer the same defeat as the republic referendum 15 years ago. This ...

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The Australian
British Museum indigenous exhibition earns royal approval
The Australian
Muriata, a traditional basket-maker from north Queensland, was among a group of indigenous artists, curators and community leaders who met the prince on Thursday night at the launch of the British Museum exhibition Indigenous Australia: Enduring ...

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The Australian
Polarising forces threaten to derailbid for indigenous recognition
The Australian
The danger is that Australia faces a debacle in the campaign to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Constitution. The fear is that the indigenous referendum will suffer the same defeat as the republic referendum 15 years ago. This ...