Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Indigenous Tweets Highlight International Mother Language Day in Australia
Global Voices Online
Wamut,aka @kriolkantri on Twitter, and blogger of ten years, shared indigenous tweets on Storify: “February 21 is International Mother Language Day and this year, Australians showed off Aboriginal and Islander languages in a spectacular way and ...

The Australian
State funeral for Indigenous and South Sea Islander activist Faith Bandler
Radio Australia
After many years campaigning for indigenous rights, Faith Bandler switched her focus to her own people, the 16,000 descendants of South Sea Islanders like her father who were brought to Australia against their will. She founded the National Commission ...
Human rights activist Faith Bandler farewelled at state funeralSBS
Faith lives in world Bandler touchedThe Australian
Hundreds remember activist Faith Bandler at public funeralABC Message Stick
The New Daily -Yahoo!7 News
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High Indigenous heart disease death rate
SBS
A new report highlights the need to further reduce heart disease death rates among Indigenous Australians. 23 Feb 2015 - 8:32 PM UPDATED 56 MINS AGO. 0. A new report highlights the need to further narrow the gap between the death rates from heart ...
An open letter from Paul VandenberghPort Adelaide

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Independent Australia
Indigenous community closures in WA: Barnett turns his back on traditional owners
Independent Australia
Prior to Christmas, the West Australian Government announced that it would be closing up to 150 remote Indigenous Communities in Western Australia. This announcement came as a complete surprise to the Indigenous communities, who were not provided ...

Herald Sun
We need an indigenous commissioner: Long
AFL.com.au
Long has been a highly influential figure for indigenous Australians since he took a stand against on-field racism in 1995, objecting to comments made to him by Collingwood ruckman Damian Monkhorst. Long's stand resulted in the AFL enacting the first ...
Essendon great Michael Long declares he wants to be first indigenous AFL ...Herald Sun

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Ambitious Indigenous Jobs Plan for Northern Territory
Pro Bono Australia
The Northern Territory Government has announced an ambitious plan to double the number of Indigenous Australians employed in public service in the state. Chief Minister Adam Giles announced recently that his Government planned to meet the newly set ...

The Guardian
What next for Freedom Ride and bringing change to Indigenous Australia?
The Guardian
The Freedom Ride of 1965 was led by 29 students, including the University of Sydney's first Indigenous student Charles Perkins, with the aim of exposing the harsh reality of Australia's treatment of its Indigenous people. This month a group made up of ...

The Australian
change propels inertia
The Australian
The leaders, managers and workforce of the entire indigenous sector across Australia have been given no information about their funding submissions. No one can plan service delivery and operability without clarity on what the minister's decision is on ...

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Indigenous Australians Face Eviction from Protest Camp
teleSUR English
When the AHC first began to be handed parts of what would later become the Block in the 1970s, it was widely viewed as a major victory in the battle for Indigenous land rights. The entire area was earmarked for affordable housing for Indigenous ...

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Crikey
Australia's indigenous affairs minister set on outright kava ban
Radio Australia
Federal Indigenous Affairs minister and Northern Territory Senator Nigel Scullion says Australia accepts people practising their culture, but when it is perverted, redirected, and harms First Australians, it isn't a right, it's a privilege. He says in ...
Gulag Territory: NT's shameful incarceration of Aboriginal AustraliansCrikey

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2 Broke Girls slammed for Aboriginal joke
NEWS.com.au
In the scene a male character reveals that he has been flirting with an Australian girl online and says: “She's part Aboriginal, but she has a great personality!” Unhappy viewers took to social media with former Channel Nine personality and The Block ...
Popular sitcom '2 Broke Girls' slammed for racist Indigenous Australian jokeSBS
'It's not about being hypersensitive'Herald Sun
2 Broke Girls slammed for indigenous racial slurSheKnows.com

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US sitcom '2 Broke Girls' slammed for racist Indigenous Australian joke
SBS
Tuesday night's episode of American sitcom '2 Broke Girls' has angered Australians fans after a racist joke about Indigenous Australians was aired to more than 320,000 viewers. The joke was made by a male character named Han who explained that he was ...
Rudd slams 2 Broke Girls 'racist' jokeNEWS.com.au
2 Broke Girls under fire for racist joke about Aboriginal AustraliansStuff.co.nz
2 Broke Girls slammed for indigenous racial slurSheKnows.com

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SBS
Popular sitcom '2 Broke Girls' slammed for racist Indigenous Australian joke
SBS
Tuesday night's episode of American sitcom '2 Broke Girls' has angered Australians fans after a racist joke about Indigenous Australians was aired to more than 320,000 viewers. The joke was made by a male character named Han who explained that he was ...
Rudd slams 2 Broke Girls 'racist' jokeNEWS.com.au
Susie O'Brien: 2 Broke Girls Aboriginal slur just the latest in string of rape ...Herald Sun
2 Broke Girls slammed for indigenous racial slurSheKnows.com

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Inside Out: Indigenous imprisonment in Australia - documentary video
The Guardian
Filmed on the plains of north-western New South Wales, this documentary looks at one man's fight against the scourge of Indigenous imprisonment in his community. Inside Out tells the story of a pastor and former prison guard, Uncle Isaac Gordon, whose ...

Sydney Morning Herald
2 Broke Girls season 4 under fire for racist joke about Aboriginal Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
Australian fans of the American comedy show 2 Broke Girls responded in uproar over the racist joke about Indigenous Australians, which aired on Tuesday evening. During the season four episode, titled And the Fun Factory, a male character is shown ...
2 Broke Girls slammed for indigenous racial slurSheKnows.com

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Fulbright scholar plans to shine a light on indigenous entrepreneurship
StartupSmart
A PhD student at the University of Technology, Sydney has been awarded the 2015 Fulbright Indigenous Postgraduate Scholarship to advance his research into the socio-economic and cultural impacts of indigenous entrepreneurship and social enterprise.

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Gulag Territory – how the NT leads the world in indigenous incarceration
Crikey (blog)
One week later, the Australian Productivity Commission released its report, “Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage.” The findings described Australia's ongoing failings in dealing with the problems which continue to afflict Australia's Aboriginal population.

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ABC Online
Indigenous ranger training program kicks off for Ngadju nation in Western ...
ABC Online
After four years of planning, 19 indigenous rangers from the Ngadju nation in Western Australia have begun their first ever training program to help conserve country. The course is part of a Gondwana link, Rangeland NRM and Ngadju conservation land ...

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Opportunity to Grow Indigenous Employment in Australia
Rigzone (registration)
Indigenous employment programs in Australia's oil and gas industry have an opportunity to develop significantly in the coming years as growth continues around the country, according to Derek Flucker, chairman of the Aboriginal Enterprises in Mining, ...

The Australian
Property red tape 'stifles Aborigines': Tim Wilson
The Australian
“We can't complain about the cost of welfare programs for Australia's first citizens when we concurrently deny them the freedom to use the primary asset they own to escape dependency. It is not our place to tell Aboriginal Australia how to use their ...
Indigenous Australians should get more from native title: Human Rights ...The Conversation AU
Native title reforms to escape dependency9news.com.au

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