Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Indigenous ranger program changing lives
ABC Online
An Indigenous ranger program is under threat of closure in Western Australia's Kimberley as it's left without funding. The year long course takes high school students out of the school room and into the paddock, to teach them about livestock. The ...

Indigenous rangers rid Millstream of its last date palms
ABC Online
Date palms are synonymous with the Middle East, but the tall distinctive trees have a long history plaguing one of Western Australia's national parks. However, the weed's days at Millstream in the Pilbara region are numbered, with rangers from the ...

Did legalised slavery exist in Australia?
ABC Online
For almost a century, tens of thousands of Indigenous Australians were forced to work for pastoral stations, missions and government reserves for little more than pocket money. Some have called it legalised slavery and are now fighting to recoup stolen ...

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Aboriginal leaders reject call to halt English lessons
The Australian
He told The Australian that Aboriginal children should learn to read but questioned the language in which they should be taught, what version of English or if it should be in their own language. “We get so caught up in a narrow understanding of what it ...

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Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this ...
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The Recognise campaign calls for a referendum and for all Australians to back constitutional change. It's backed by the Federal Government, Opposition and the Greens, as well the AFL and Cricket Australia. However, there are members of the Indigenous ...

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Ms Liddle is concerned that proceeding with a referendum to recognise Aboriginal people in the constitution will set back the campaign for a treaty with Indigenous Australia. The Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres ...
Honouring Indigenous servicemenABC Online
Indigenous Australians in wartime: it's time to tell the whole storyThe Guardian
Veterans push PM for Indigenous war memorialSBS
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Indigenous campaign builds against constitutional recognition
ABC Local
The Indigenous community is split over a campaign to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Constitution. The Recognise campaign calls for a referendum and for all Australians to back constitutional change. It's backed by the ...

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Honouring Indigenous servicemen
ABC Online
This year's NAIDOC theme, Serving Country: Centenary and Beyond, honours all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women who have fought in defence of Australia from the frontier wars through to present day. "There are records that Aboriginal ...
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Indigenous Australians in wartime: it's time to tell the whole storyThe Guardian
Veterans push PM for Indigenous war memorialSBS
West Coast Sentinel -GlobalPost
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Budget cuts will lead to early Indigenous smoking deaths, ex-race ...
ABC Online
In 2010, Mr Calma became the national coordinator of the Tackling Indigenous Smoking program, with teams of six around the country running anti-smoking programs targeting Indigenous Australians. "In Darwin, we've got a situation where one of our major ...

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Five Indigenous female writers who should be on school reading lists
The Guardian (blog)
Janke's work is pretty much my idea of the 'great Australian novel'. It covers the geography from Sydney to Cairns and the Torres Strait, and manages to be a love story, crime novel, legal lesson, and a comment on contemporary Indigenous Australians ...

Cuts to Indigenous anti-smoking programs will contribute to early deaths of ...
ABC Online
Anti-smoking programs for non-Indigenous Australians have achieved great success in the last 70 years, with rates dropping to one in five for men and less for women. By contrast, around half all Aboriginal adults smoke. Tom Calma is warning that cuts ...

Native Australian bush tucker creates 'Outback Pride'
ABC Local
The aim was two-fold: to find and save some of Australia's nutritious native plants and to empower Aboriginal communities by giving them ownership of cultivation sites. "We're giving them the joy of tired muscles after a hard day of working in the sun".

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PNG's ambitious plan for indigenous business
Radio Australia
GARRETT: Mr Maru says he plans to do that by reserving all businesses with an initial investment of less than 10 million kina around 4 million Australian dollars for indigenous business people. Mr Abe says while that looks like a great idea on the ...

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Must see Indigenous drama returns to Melbourne
ArtsHub (subscription)
The play (an earlier development of which was staged at La Mama in 2011) is inspired by a defining story drawn from Indigenous Australian history: a Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry in 1881 which detailed the conflict between Indigenous landowners and ...

Reconciliation means recognising the Frontier Wars
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The Australian War Memorial's refusal to acknowledge the Frontier Wars between Indigenous Australians and white settlers is historically dishonest and is holding back reconciliation, writes Alan Stephens. The Australian War Memorial is one of Australia ...

Reconciliation means recognising the Frontier Wars
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The Australian War Memorial's refusal to acknowledge the Frontier Wars between Indigenous Australians and white settlers is historically dishonest and is holding back reconciliation, writes Alan Stephens. The Australian War Memorial is one of Australia ...

The Australian War Memorial distorts our history
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The Australian War Memorial's refusal to acknowledge the Frontier Wars between Indigenous Australians and white settlers is historically dishonest and is holding back reconciliation, writes Alan Stephens. The Australian War Memorial is one of Australia ...

The Australian War Memorial distorts our history
ABC Message Stick
The Australian War Memorial's refusal to acknowledge the Frontier Wars between Indigenous Australians and white settlers is historically dishonest and is holding back reconciliation, writes Alan Stephens. The Australian War Memorial is one of Australia ...

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Regional doctors gather for Indigenous health forum
ABC Local
The program included practical workshops, clinical updates and briefings on programs that exist to close the life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Childhood obesity, kidney disease and hearing programs were just some ...

Regional doctors gather for Indigenous health forum
ABC Online
The program included practical workshops, clinical updates and briefings on programs that exist to close the life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Childhood obesity, kidney disease and hearing programs were just some ...