Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Indigenous doctors graduate in record numbers from University of New South ...
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NICK GRIMM: Aboriginal people are almost twice as likely to end up in hospital as non-Indigenous Australians. But, they're much less likely to be treated by an Indigenous doctor, since only a tiny percentage of medical practitioners in Australia are ...

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The Conversation AU
'Work with us not for us' to end the Indigenous policy chaos
The Conversation AU
The inequitable status of Indigenous Australians is broadly recognised. “Closing the Gap” is an officially declared policy priority. However, the results, as recorded in the latest government report, Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage, are not impressive.
Stop peddling lies – “$30 billion spent on Indigenous disadvantage” is a lieThe Stringer

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Aljazeera.com
Australia's indigenous incarceration crisis
Aljazeera.com
The rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander incarceration is now 18 times higher than that of non-indigenous Australians. Last month, the Law Council of Australia declared the rate of indigenous imprisonment, which has grown by more than 50 ...
Stop peddling lies – “$30 billion spent on Indigenous disadvantage” is a lieThe Stringer

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The Guardian
Indigenous and community groups condemn cashless welfare card plan
The Guardian
In a joint statement the 37 groups – including Mission Australia, Homelessness Australia, St Vincent de Paul Society, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait lslander Legal Services and several state councils of social service – called on the federal ...

Charity Kindles boost reading skills of indigenous children
The Australian
“We'll be reaching out to Australia's top CEOs soon to see how we can get our digital library launched. We want young indigenous readers to be among the first to take advantage of the best technology available. We will get this done. It is simply a ...

BBC News
Australia PM Abbott wants indigenous referendum in 2017
BBC News
Australian PM Tony Abbott has vowed to "sweat blood" to secure constitutional recognition for indigenous people, saying he wants a referendum in 2017. But Mr Abbott said he would not rush with the date until he was confident the referendum would succeed.
Hindus to back indigenous recognition in Australia's referendumOye! Times
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he is ready to "sweat blood" to achieve ...ABC Online
Tony Abbott continues to pussyfoot around Indigenous recognitionThe Guardian
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Australia PM Abbott wants referendum to recognize Aboriginal people in ...
i24news
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday that he hopes to hold a vote in May 2017 on changing the country's constitution to finally recognize Australia's indigenous people. The constitution currently does not recognize Aboriginal and ...

Aljazeera.com
Australian PM backs Aboriginal recognition
Aljazeera.com
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that he was ready to "sweat blood" to hold a referendum in 2017 on constitutional recognition for indigenous people, according to Australian media reports. At a fundraising dinner for the RECOGNISE ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal leaders question motives behind PM Tony Abbott's push on Constitution
ABC Online
At a meeting of Australia's largest Aboriginal Land Council in Kakadu National Park, Joe Morrison said the Prime Minister's push for a referendum on Constitutional recognition would be threatened by the Government's handling of Aboriginal affairs in ...

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Don't aim too low on constitutional recognition of indigenous peoples, Kirstie ...
Sydney Morning Herald
One of indigenous Australia's elected leaders has expressed fears that Prime Minister Tony Abbott was "aiming too low" in his efforts to recognise the First Australians in the nation's founding document. Kirstie Parker, the co-chair of the National ...

BBC News
Australia's biggest native title claim filed in Queensland
BBC News
Australia's biggest native title claim - covering 14.6m ha (36m acres) of land and waters - has been lodged in a Brisbane court. The claim - filed on behalf of nine traditional owners - refers to much of the Cape York peninsula in the far-north of ...
Indigenous Groups Have Come Together To Make The Biggest Native Title ...Business Insider Australia
Huge native title claim lodged for Queensland's Cape York peninsulaThe Age
Cape York Land Council lodge native land claim for Queensland peninsulaDaily Mail

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Rundle: Warren Mundine's individual treaty idea a confused farrago
Crikey
One has to concede the whole indigenous issue has long been a farrago, but it seems that it's only when the dreamers encounter someone saying something which doesn't help their various noble causes that it's noticed. by Norman Hanscombe on Dec 12, ...

Tony Abbott continues to pussyfoot around Indigenous recognition
The Guardian
“And when it comes, I suspect, that it will take the form of a pact – a heartfelt pact – between Indigenous people and conservative Australia.” In the immense old Carriageworks on the edge of Redfern in Sydney, big names in black and white Australia ...

BBC News
Australia eyes indigenous recognition vote
BBC News
More than a century after its constitution was drafted, Australia is edging closer to formally recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the nation's first people. Changing the constitution to recognise the nation's first people is not ...

The Guardian
Spending on targeted Indigenous services falling, says report
The Guardian
Spending on broader community services also used by Indigenous Australians, such as hospitals, has gone up, the productivity commission reports. But spending on dedicated Indigenous services has fallen. Photograph: Trevor Lush/Getty Images.
Number of indigenous in prison jumps 84pc in a decadeThe Australian
UN call for review of Australia's mandatory sentencing laws has backing of ...ABC Online
NT, WA to ignore UN calls for mandatory sentencing reviewABC Message Stick
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Abbott “prepared to sweat blood” for 2017 referendum on Indigenous recognition
Australian Conservative
So, almost every year as a Member of Parliament, starting with trips to Alice Springs in the mid-1990s that invariably included dinner with Charlie Perkins, I have tried to spend as much time as I could with Indigenous Australians in Indigenous ...

The Guardian
Tony Abbott aims for Indigenous recognition referendum 50 years after 1967
The Guardian
When constitutional recognition came, it would be “a heartfelt pact between Indigenous people and conservative Australia”, he said. But he said it was more important to get recognition right than to rush it through. Speaking at a dinner in Sydney on ...

ABC Online
Number of indigenous in prison jumps 84pc in a decade
The Australian
A spokeswoman for Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said: “ We're tackling underlying disadvantages which increase the likelihood of indigenous Australians coming into contact with the criminal justice system, particularly poor education and ...
UN call for review of Australia's mandatory sentencing laws has backing of ...ABC Online
NT, WA to ignore UN calls for mandatory sentencing reviewABC Message Stick
New co-payment model will jeopardise Indigenous health, says sectorSBS
Pro Bono Australia -The Guardian
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ABC Online
Number of indigenous in prison jumps 84pc in a decade
The Australian
A spokeswoman for Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said: “ We're tackling underlying disadvantages which increase the likelihood of indigenous Australians coming into contact with the criminal justice system, particularly poor education and ...
UN call for review of Australia's mandatory sentencing laws has backing of ...ABC Online
NT, WA to ignore UN calls for mandatory sentencing reviewABC Message Stick
New co-payment model will jeopardise Indigenous health, says sectorSBS
Pro Bono Australia -The Guardian
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ABC Online
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he is ready to "sweat blood" to achieve ...
ABC Online
"We will get constitutional recognition and, when it comes, I suspect that it will take the form of a pact, a heartfelt pact between Indigenous people and conservative Australia," he said. Mr Abbott also announced another $5 million funding for the ...

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