Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Sydney City News
Alternative ways to embrace Australia/Invasion Day
Sydney City News
Firstly, it is important to acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land. Here at Alternative Media Group, we pay our respects to the elders both past and present; and extend that respect to all Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders ...

The Australian
Bank Creates 400 Jobs for Indigenous Aussies
Pro Bono Australia
A major Australian bank has signed a contract that will see it employ at least 400 indigenous Australians. Westpac announced today that it had signed a 10 year contract with CareerTrackers' Indigenous Internship program to recruit at least 40 ...
Westpac commits to 400 Aboriginal placesThe Australian (blog)

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BBC News
Australia's Aboriginal comedians fight prejudice with wit
BBC News
She is also all-Aboriginal. In the new show, Blak Cabaret, this burly drag queen rules. And in a retold version of history she asks: What would happen if blacks invaded a white native Australia? The Sydney Festival premiere, featuring Torres Strait ...

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BBC News
Australia's Aboriginal comedians fight prejudice with wit
BBC News
She is also all-Aboriginal. In the new show, Blak Cabaret, this burly drag queen rules. And in a retold version of history she asks: What would happen if blacks invaded a white native Australia? The Sydney Festival premiere, featuring Torres Strait ...

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Is this Australia's Stonehenge?
Northern Star
Father and son team Steven and Evan Strong have combined the written testimony of a forgotten Australia archaeologist, oral indigenous history, and ancient Australian artefacts to sensationally conclude that Aboriginal civilization was far more ...

Google News

APY inquiries still under wraps, no action taken on recommendations
The Australian
He is working with APY and the Indigenous Land Corporation in implementing processes and procedure to grow the business,” she said. Ms Johns said Mr Singer's decision to resign now, ahead of general elections that must be held before the end of May, ...

Google News

Westpac commits to 400 Aboriginal places
The Australian (blog)
Australia's top companies have broadened their indigenous engagement strategies to include not just current employment or procurement targets but education and training, spending $72 million last year according to the Business Council of Australia.

Indigenous business workshop on Coffs Coast this Wednesday
Coffs Coast Advocate
INDIGENOUS Business Australia (IBA) will be running a free Into Business workshop in Coffs Harbour this Wednesdays. The workshop is part of IBA's national Business Development and Assistance Program, which assists Indigenous Australians to establish, ...

Removal of Aboriginal children at crisis point and rising
Green Left Weekly
The Productivity Commission into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage released its findings into government attempts to 'close the gap' between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia. It has been almost three years since the last Overcoming Indigenous ...

The Australian
Cries from remote indigenous communities go unheard
The Australian
But that's the point — while the Manoora tragedy is unprecedented for Queensland and Australia, there is a steady stream of information to services and agencies across the state and nation recording the lesser tragedies of remote indigenous Australia ...

Sydney Morning Herald
What if the French had settled Australia first?
Sydney Morning Herald
David Hill says either way the result would likely have not been different for the First Australians. Author and indigenous professor Larissa Behrendt agrees: "My father used to say that the only difference is that we'd probably be fighting for land ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous group had no say in Tasmanian wilderness area plan
The Guardian
The draft management plan, released on Thursday after a leaked report was obtained by the Australian, cites concerns raised by Indigenous Australians as one of the key reasons to remove the word “wilderness” from descriptions of the area, and replace ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Working in partnership with Aboriginal culture
ArtsHub (subscription)
Our audiences have very little understanding of the diversity of Aboriginal people and cultures. Australian was a multicultural nation before invasion, it's still one today. Views of Aboriginality are often very homogenising. We don't speak with one ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Australia Day in Sydney 2015: 'Biggest and most ambitious Australia Day ever ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Before a performance by children from the NSW Public Schools Aboriginal Dance Ensemble, Australia Day Council of NSW chairman Angelos Frangopoulos revealed a packed schedule of Sydney Harbour races, Aboriginal ceremonies, concerts, sports ...
Sydney sets the stage for Australia DayTravel Weekly (blog)
5 Australia Day Celebrations In Sydney You Cannot MissBusiness Review Australia

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The Guardian
National Indigenous Times to keep publishing while in administration
The Guardian
“The paper is staffed and owned by Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and we are proud of the dedicated team of predominantly Indigenous Australian writers and columnists who contribute to the publication,” the NIT site says. “It does not, and ...

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The West Australian
Indigenous leader's plea to celebrate Australia Day
The West Australian
Mr Isaacs also says Australia Day is not the occasion for further apologies for past wrongs, but a chance for all people to share their diversity of cultures and to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the traditional owners of ...

The Australian
Millions needed to make gardens grow
The Australian
A NOT-FOR-PROFIT organisation that works to ensure thousands of Aboriginal children in remote communities can eat fresh fruit and vegetables is succeeding — where governments have failed for decades — in closing Australia's indigenous health gap.

India Today
Cate Blanchett depends on indigenous Australian Emu oil for her skin
IBNLive
Los Angeles: Actress Cate Blanchett, 45, says she swears by the power of Emu oil for keeping her skin in check. "I tend to use really basic creams, and I like to put an oil on, like an emu oil from Australia. It's from the Emu (bird) and it's really ...
Cate Blanchett denies emu oil comment after it stirs up controversyIndia Today
Cate Blanchett trusts Emu oil for skinindiatvnews.com (press release) (blog)

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1932: Australia Day adopted in NSW only to be reversed to Anniversary Day by the
Camden Haven Courier
2000: The first Aboriginal woman to be awarded the Order of Australia (1976) and recipient of the Australian of the Year award in 1984, Lowitja O'Donoghue, delivered the Australia Day address and called for reconciliation between white and Indigenous ...

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Daily Review
Making fire in indigenous arts
Daily Review
In 1977 the late Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri painted his magisterial Warlugulong that is “arguably the most important indigenous work in the National Gallery of Australia's collection.” In 2010 then National Gallery director Ron Radford said of ...