Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian
Indigenous jail population has risen due to cuts, Close the Gap committee says
The Guardian
The Close the Gap Progress and Priorities 2015 report made a number of recommendations to reduce the inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, including realignment and investment in primary healthcare, and comparing Australian ...

The Guardian
Closing the Gap: poor progress on most Indigenous disadvantage measures
The Guardian
Australia is failing to close the gap in the disadvantage of Indigenous people, with little to no progress being made in improving life expectancy, education for Indigenous four-year-olds, reading, writing and numeracy rates and employment outcomes.

GOOD Magazine
Australia's Anti-Gentrification Aboriginal Tent Embassy Perseveres
GOOD Magazine
Residents of Redfern, an impoverished inner-city suburb in Sydney, Australia, are fighting against gentrification with an Aboriginal tent embassy situated on The Block, a piece of land allocated to Australia's indigenous people in 1973. The tent ...

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The Guardian
Adam Giles brings back Dave Tollner
The Australian
Mr Giles also reversed a decision made when he took over his party's leadership in a coup in early 2013 to scrap the indigenous affairs portfolio and a stand alone department on the basis that he wanted all arms of government to deliver for ...
NT chief becomes indigenous ministerPerth Now
Dave Tollner reinstated as NT Treasurer by Adam Giles in Cabinet reshuffleABC Online
Controversial MP Dave Tollner big winner in Northern Territory reshuffleThe Guardian

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Recognition for indigenous Australians a prize subject
The Australian
CEFA chief executive Kerry Jones said the prize would contribute to the community's understanding of Australia's democracy ahead of the referendum on constitutional recognition for indigenous Australians. “Too many Australians feel cynical about the ...

The Australian
Nation failing to close the indigenous gap
The Australian
The push to ensure that 95 per cent of indigenous four-year-olds in remote Australia had access to early childhood education by 2013 failed. Only 85 per cent were enrolled. “It is profoundly disappointing that most Closing the Gap targets are not on ...
We must keep striving to close the gap in Indigenous healthWA today
Change the constitution for a fairer futureBrisbane Times

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Indigenous community closures: essential service uncertainty
ABC Local
Mr Friday says it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade Indigenous communities to the level of infrastructure legally required in other Australian towns. "There's a whole myriad of issues that are swirling under the covers there, that at ...

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VICE News
Australia May Stop Providing Water and Power to Remote Aboriginal Communities
VICE News
Up to 200 indigenous communities in Australia could lose access to power and water because the government says it can no longer afford to deliver the basic services. The remote communities are mainly located across the northern tip of Australia and the ...

Stuff.co.nz
Jared Waerea-Hargreaves: Australia Indigenous all stars ought to play Maori ...
Stuff.co.nz
Sydney Roosters enforcer Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has flagged the prospect of pitting New Zealand's Maori warriors against Australia's Indigenous greats as rugby league's All Stars game continues to struggle for traction on the Gold Coast. With sluggish ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous all stars should play New Zealand's Maori team, says Jared Waerea ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Roosters enforcer Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has flagged the prospect of pitting New Zealand's Maori warriors against Australia's Indigenous greats as rugby league's All Stars game continues to struggle for traction on the Gold Coast. With sluggish ...
All Stars needs Maori side: JWHFox Sports

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Template in place for progress
The Australian
Only 16 per cent of 17 to 24-year-olds in remote indigenous Australia are in full-time work or study. More adults are dependent on welfare than work. Yet as recently as 1971, the indigenous male employment rate was 66.2 per cent — almost as high as ...

SBS
Abbott must do more in Indigenous Affairs: Mundine
SBS
Tony Abbott and the French President announced they would form a "joint expert committee to coordinate and determine the processes needed to identify and also to ascertain the origin of the Indigenous Australian human remains conserved in French public ...

Bridging the digital divide in Indigenous communities
The Age
Yet a significant digital divide exists between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Indigenous people are 69 per cent less likely than non-Indigenous people to have any internet connection and are half as likely to have broadband access, largely ...

The Guardian (blog)
Book ahead, Australia: Melbourne fashion, Revealed art, babies proms
The Guardian (blog)
Perth's Revealed art exhibition showcases emerging West Australian Indigenous artists. The sheer breadth of emerging Indigenous art talent will be on show at Perth's Revealed exhibition in April. More than 25 art centres will showcase and sell the work ...

Architecture and Design
Australian architects pledge to Aboriginal internship program
Architecture and Design
GHD, Cox Architecture and SJB Architecture will provide at least 10 internships each year for the next 10 years to Indigenous Australian university students as part of their commitment to the CareerTrackers program. CareerTrackers is a national non ...

SBS
How much does it cost to keep people in Australian jails?
SBS
Rates of education and training are highest in the ACT and South Australia, and rates of prisoners in work are highest in NSW and Victoria. Across Australia, the incarceration rate for Indigenous Australians was significantly higher than non-Indigenous ...

Lighting the way for Indigenous students
Lawyers Weekly
Other signatories to the CareerTrackers initiative include: Commonwealth Bank of Australia; GHD; Insurance Australia Group; Indigenous Business Australia; Lend Lease; Leighton Contractors; Qantas; SJB Architecture & Cox Architecture; and Westpac.

yourMortgage.com.au (blog)
NT homes not within 'acceptable standard' for Indigenous Australians
yourMortgage.com.au (blog)
A report this week has found poor housing conditions for Indigenous Australians, where 34% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families fail to receive “dwellings of acceptable standard” in public housing areas. Some of the houses lack electricity ...
Chance for indigenous constitutional recognition 'may be squandered'The Australian

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The Guardian
Leeanne Enoch's election in Queensland a huge milestone for Indigenous people
The Guardian
Enoch, who won Algester in Brisbane, and Gordon, who took the far northern seat of Cook 2,000km away, were part of a Labor surge on Saturday that has the party poised to take government just three years after suffering the worst defeat in Australian ...
The QLD election result is a win for Australian womenDaily Life

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Chance for indigenous constitutional recognition 'may be squandered'
The Australian
CRUCIAL bipartisanship on a move to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution risks being “squandered” and the momentum exhausted if a form of words and a voting date are not released this year, the Business Council of Australia says.