Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Forget tomatoes and carrots: why indigenous vegetables and fruits should be on ...
ABC Online
"It's not an issue of whether you should be eating Australian indigenous vegetables. "If we can find ones from Africa or central America which are also good and healthy for you, why not try them?" Dr Keatinge over-sees the world's largest public ...

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Justice system failing indigenous women
The Age
Perhaps the most lamentable blot on Australia, which boasts an overall standard of living coveted by so many less-fortunate nations, is the gap between the situation of indigenous people and that of the rest of the population. Across a range of ...

Voice of America
Justice system failing indigenous women
The Canberra Times
Perhaps the most lamentable blot on Australia, which boasts an overall standard of living coveted by so many less-fortunate nations, is the gap between the situation of indigenous people and that of the rest of the population. Across a range of ...
Canberra to Aborigines: No School? No Welfare.Voice of America

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Voice of America
No School, No Welfare Australia's Aboriginal Parents Warned
Voice of America
SYDNEY—. Beginning next week, school attendance will be linked to welfare payments for parents in Aboriginal lands in South Australia. If parents don't send their children to school, they could lose state benefits. But the Australian prime minister's ...

King Hit brings Indigenous tent boxers' struggle for equality to the stage
ABC Online
In an era when the only level playing field Indigenous people had with white Australians was the boxing ring or football field, tent troupes gave Aboriginal fighters a brief shot at glory. The boxing troupes travelled the country between the late 1800s ...

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Dan Sultan swings though indigenous music awards
The Australian
Aside from touring Australia in the past few months, Sultan displayed his range of musical interest and versatility by joining rockers Spiderbait and hip hop outfit Hilltop Hoods on stage at the Splendour in the Grass festival three weeks ago. “One of ...
Jessica Mauboy, Dan Sultan and hip hop artist Briggs the big winners at ...ABC Online
Mauboy shares stage with Indigenous talent at NIMAsABC Message Stick

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More Career Awareness Needed for Indigenous Youth - Report
Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous youth are failing to realise their career aspirations due to a perceived lack of educational and employment opportunities, new research out of welfare Not for Profit Mission Australia has revealed. According to the 2014 Mission Australia ...

Pyning for Indigenous rights in the Australian Curriculum
The Conversation AU
The soon-to-be-released review of the Australian Curriculum was outlined by Education Minister Christopher Pyne as intended to address “fair criticism” that the curriculum was overly focused on “the way we've treated Indigenous Australians” at the ...

Pyning for Indigenous rights in the Australian Curriculum
The Conversation AU
The soon-to-be-released review of the Australian Curriculum was outlined by Education Minister Christopher Pyne as intended to address “fair criticism” that the curriculum was overly focused on “the way we've treated Indigenous Australians” at the ...

World Socialist Web Site
Forrest report the way to go
The Australian (blog)
ANDREW Forrest's report on Australia's indigenous policies is a disturbing document. The scale of our collective failure is laid bare in all its awful detail. Billions of dollars have failed to deliver anything close to acceptable levels of Aboriginal ...
Australia: NAIDOC glorifies Aboriginal involvement in World War IWorld Socialist Web Site

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Aboriginal Art Directory News
NATSIAA shows how urban trends eclipse Aboriginal art traditions
The Australian
Aboriginal art's journey from the remote settlements of the western desert to the gleaming gallery spaces of modernity has taken 40 years, but it is complete now. Indigenous art in Australia is becoming a subset of the mainstream art space: defined by ...
Tony Albert Wins $50000 Indigenous Art AwardAustralian Photography + digital
DARWIN 2014 - The Bigger PictureAboriginal Art Directory News

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World Socialist Web Site
Australia: NAIDOC glorifies Aboriginal involvement in World War I
World Socialist Web Site
In line with the Australian government's intensive efforts to condition the population to future military conflicts and boost recruitment, the National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) has embraced the official centenary ...

NRL.COM
NRL Indigenous leaders launch Close The Gap Round
NRL.COM
Aboriginal babies are up to three times more likely to die before the age of one than other babies in Australia and Aboriginal people face much higher risks of heart disease, cancer and kidney failure. Greg Inglis said it was important that Indigenous ...

New York Times
Measuring the Apology of Australia's Ex-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
New York Times
This time, we will look at the apology of Kevin Rudd, the former prime minister of Australia, to Australia's indigenous community in 2008. With the benefit of six years of hindsight, we are in a much better position to judge the apology's authenticity.

Indigenous recruiting group Karlka secures work for 1000 people at major food ...
ABC Online
A Western Australian Aboriginal Corporation, Karlka Nyaparli Aboriginal Corporation (Karlka), has joined forces with the Australian Recruiting Group to form a national indigenous employment business. The Karlka Recruiting Group (KRG) will partner with ...

Australia's most prestigious Indigenous art award goes to...
ArtsHub (subscription)
And with winners from QLD, SA, NT, WA and NSW chosen across this year's 306 entries, this is an award that connects with the pulse of indigenous Australia. We asked Albert why he valued the NATSIAA Telstra Awards: 'What I love about the Telstra Award ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Sydney artist wins Aboriginal art award for work inspired by police shooting
The Guardian (blog)
A 33-year-old Sydney-based artist has won one of Australia's most prestigious art awards with a bold critique of police attitudes towards Indigenous men. Tony Albert picked up the $50,000 main prize at the 31st National Aboriginal & Torres Strait ...

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Green Left Weekly
Why Australia should not become the world's nuclear waste dump
Green Left Weekly
Former prime minister Bob Hawke is urging Australia to become the world's nuclear waste dump. But he has little hope of succeeding. Hawke said Australia could end the disadvantage endured by its Indigenous population by opening up traditional lands as ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Swans players and Lend Lease working for indigenous Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
Business and sport have converged with Sydney Swan premiership players, Michael O'Loughlin and Adam Goodes, teaming up with Lend Lease, to offer education and recognition for young and old indigenous Australians. Wearing their many hats, the two ...

The Guardian (blog)
Prize plea: don't frame art by culture
The Australian
“Maybe there has to be a discussion about whether (the prize) has broken out of the boundaries that were created for it when it was instituted, because indigenous Australia now is not what it was 32 years ago.” The award, the first and longest-running ...
Sydney artist wins Aboriginal art award for work inspired by police shootingThe Guardian (blog)
Tony Albert hits Telstra prize targetThe West Australian

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