Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Light-skinned indigenous people face discrimination: Michelle Lovegrove
CBC.ca
Judging aboriginal people by their skin colour — whether light or dark — is wrong, asserted an indigenous Australian broadcast journalist in a public talk last week at the University of British Columbia. "Australia has this obsession with colour and ...

The Diplomat
Abbott Confuses on Indigenous Australians
The Diplomat
With his throwaway “lifestyle choice” comment about those who live in remote communities Tony Abbott has angered indigenous Australia. The prime minister's recent track record on gaffes may well be laughable, but in this case things are a little more ...
Is Tony Abbott a pass or fail on Indigenous affairs?The New Daily
Tony Abbott refuses to apologise for 'lifestyle choices' commentsThe Guardian
Australia's remote indigenous communities fear closureNewsfirst
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“A future where we harness the determination of all Australians, Indigenous ...
The Stringer
The Aboriginal community has shown itself to be mindful of the migrant experiences of different communities. It is imperative that the migrant communities display the same regard for the experiences of the Indigenous communities. The Australian ...

The New Daily
Is Tony Abbott a pass or fail on Indigenous affairs?
The New Daily
Tony Abbott came to power claiming he would be the Prime Minister for Indigenous people, but 18 months after winning government his work in the area has been criticised as shallow, misjudged and “hopeless”. Search for “Abbott in remote Australia” and ...
Australia's remote indigenous communities fear closureNewsfirst
Tony Abbott refuses to apologise for 'lifestyle choices' commentsThe Guardian
Tony the troglodyteIndependent Australia
Perth Now -Herald Sun
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ABC Online
Governments accused of 'walking away' from Indigenous housing commitment ...
ABC Online
Northern Territory community leaders have accused the Federal and Northern Territory governments of "walking away" from a commitment to Indigenous housing. Megan Raymond lives in Binjari, a community 15 kilometres south-west of Katherine with a ...
'Unfair and arbitrary. Is the only thing new in the Indigenous Advancement ...Crikey (blog)

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Newsfirst
Australia's remote indigenous communities fear closure
Newsfirst
Derby Aboriginal elder Lorna Hudson was a child when government authorities in the 1960s moved her people from tiny Sunday Island off the remote north-west coast of Western Australia to the mainland. For a time most of the Sunday Island “saltwater” ...
Tony Abbott refuses to apologise for 'lifestyle choices' commentsThe Guardian
Tony the troglodyteIndependent Australia
Bishop backs PM after Aboriginal commentsPerth Now

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Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Dodson's heartfelt plea to Tony Abbott: Change course on indigenous ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Dodson, one of the country's most respected indigenous leaders, has issued an urgent plea to Tony Abbott to change track, warning that the fate of the referendum on recognition of the first Australians hangs in the balance. Mr Dodson issued his ...
Abbott trashes Australia's reputation abroad — againIndependent Australia
Abbott promises Islamist crackdownThe Australian
Police evacuate aboriginal protest camp in PerthNews24
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Green Left Weekly
Tony Abbott shuts down Aboriginal legal services
Green Left Weekly
On March 9, the ABC reported that the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, based in Darwin, will soon have to stop taking new clients amid uncertainty over its funding next financial year. On March 9, the Lawyers Weekly quoted Australian Bar ...
Nigel Scullion under fires for cuts under new Indigenous Advancement StrategyHerald Sun
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...Bendigo Advertiser

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Independent Australia
Abbott trashes Australia's reputation abroad — again
Independent Australia
In Malaysia and Indonesia, articles pillorying the hapless Australian PM and equally inept Foreign Minister have become almost daily fare. Malaysia's Sin Chew Daily headed its report 'Fury as Australia PM calls Aboriginal communities a “lifestyle ...
Aboriginal rally brings Melbourne CBD to standstillHerald Sun
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...Bendigo Advertiser

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The Age
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...
The Age
More than a thousand protesters shut down traffic in Melbourne's CBD to rally against the planned closure of remote Indigenous communities in West Australia. The group had hoped to confront Tony Abbott at the National Gallery, where he had been ...
Tony Abbott shuts down Aboriginal legal servicesGreen Left Weekly

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The Age
Aboriginal rally brings Melbourne CBD to standstill
Herald Sun
Ms Onus said the protest was in response to WA premier Colin Barnett flagging that about 150 of the state's 274 remote indigenous communities may be shut down. The communities house more than 12,000 Aboriginal people. “Children aren't attending ...
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...Bendigo Advertiser

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ABC Online
Federal Government funding cuts 'possibly an oversight': NT Indigenous group
ABC Online
A Northern Territory youth service tackling petrol sniffing in disadvantaged Indigenous communities says it hopes Federal Government funding cuts to youth programs are "an oversight". Two regional councils in Central Australia raised the alarm earlier ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's lifestyle choice remark leaves 'everyone hurting inside' in ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Not since John Howard declared that there was no need to say sorry for past injustices has a prime minister so unwittingly inflicted such hurt on indigenous Australia. Ms Cox regards Mr Abbott's assertion that "it's not the job of the taxpayer to ...
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'NEWS.com.au
For the real story on Indigenous Australia, social beats old mediaThe Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians Still Not Thrilled About 'Lifestyle Choice' To Take ...SBS
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The Conversation AU
Who we should recognise as First Australians in the constitution
The Conversation AU
Writing in the magazine Quadrant, the historian Keith Windschuttle claimed that Indigenous Australians should not have Native Title rights because they were not the first to occupy Australia. He claimed that over most of the continent they had wiped ...

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'Soft totalitarianism?' What Rundle gets wrong about constitutional recognition
Crikey
That's why, in 1967, more than 90% of Australians voted to remove two clauses from the constitution. Those sections excluded Aboriginal people from a federal law-making power and from being counted in the population. So complete was the exclusion of my ...

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The Age
Closing the divide between all Australians
The Age
Aboriginal people negotiate daily the terrain between the requirements of non-Indigenous Australia and the requirements of their own communities, cultures and laws. This is not a simple task, and requires respect and support of Australian governments ...
'Soft totalitarianism?' What Rundle gets wrong about constitutional recognitionCrikey
Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this ...ABC Message Stick

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Subaru pulls TV ad deemed “highly offensive” to indigenous Australians
SmartCompany.com.au
Subaru Australia has pulled a television advertisement after the advertising watchdog found it would be likely to offend people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent. The Advertising Standards Board ruled an ad promoting the company's new ...

Abbott sparks anger on Aboriginal “lifestyle choices”
InDaily
Canberra | Senior government ministers have come to the defence of Tony Abbott after the prime minister suggested indigenous Australians were making “lifestyle choices” to live in remote communities. Abbott is resisting Opposition calls he apologise ...

Briggs plans to widen AFL's indigenous engagement
ABC Local
... Briggs has been appointed the inaugural Chair of the AFL Indigenous Advisory Group. Briggs told ABC Goulburn Murray's Joseph Thomsen that he is honoured by the opportunity to help determine the future of indigenous engagement across Australia.

BBC News
Australia's remote indigenous communities fear closure
BBC News
Derby Aboriginal elder Lorna Hudson was a child when government authorities in the 1960s moved her people from tiny Sunday Island off the remote north-west coast of Western Australia to the mainland. For a time most of the Sunday Island "saltwater" ...