Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The 5 Most Promising Indigenous Hip Hop Acts Of 2014
Tone Deaf
Our contemporary popular culture has a paternalistic and offensive relationship with Indigenous Australia. Not so long ago, through consecutive government policy we attempted a cultural genocide. Indigenous people all over the country were not allowed ...

Tone Deaf
The 5 Most Promising Indigenous Hip Hop Acts Of 2014
Tone Deaf
Our contemporary popular culture has a paternalistic and offensive relationship with Indigenous Australia. Not so long ago, through consecutive government policy we attempted a cultural genocide. Indigenous people all over the country were not allowed ...

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Aboriginal student aims for Australia's top job
ABC Local
"I just want to learn about how to become a great leader so that I can help both the Aboriginal people, my people, and non-Indigenous people in Australia so that we can work together to close the gap and move forward as one," he said. Elijah recently ...

Aboriginal student aims for Australia's top job
ABC Local
Aboriginal student aims for Australia's top job. By Blythe Moore. Australia has never had an Aboriginal Prime Minister, but a teenager from the remote community of Doomadgee in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria is hoping to one day change that. Print ...

Indigenous Australians in wartime: it's time to tell the whole story
The Guardian
Australia is finally telling the stories of the Indigenous soldiers who have served in our wars and conflicts. This year's Naidoc (National Aboriginal and Islanders Observance Day Committee) week, which began yesterday, is fittingly celebrating the ...
Prince of footy talks NAIDOC WeekABC Online (blog)

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Brisbane Times
Cricket Australia recognises indigenous Australians
Brisbane Times
Former Australian Test cricketer and the first indigenous Australian to represent Australia, Jason Gillespie, said via a statement Cricket Australia's support for the movement filled him with pride. Gillespie is currently coaching in the United Kingdom ...

Aboriginal Australian Art Exhibit Comes to South Jakarta
Jakarta Globe
Jakarta. An exhibition of indigenous Australian visual art opened at D'Gallerie in South Jakarta on Thursday night. “Message Stick: Indigenous Identity in Urban Australia,” tells the stories of some of the complex perspectives of contemporary ...

SBS
Indigenous advisor calls Tony Abbott's comments about settlement of Australia ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's chief indigenous adviser has described as ''silly'' the Prime Minister's comment that Australia was ''scarcely settled'' before British colonisation. The chairman of the Prime Minister's indigenous advisory council, Warren Mundine, was in ...
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's comments on British settlement 'highly offensive ...ABC Online
Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisationSBS
Indigenous senator angry at Australian PM's comment on settlementGlobalPost
The Guardian -NEWS.com.au
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Kicking some Port Adelaide Power goals for indigenous youth
The Australian
As director of Adelaide Football Club's indigenous program, Andrew McLeod's good works extend as far as South Australia's furthest corner, the APY Lands in the shadow of Uluru. Hawthorn has forged a strong link with Aboriginal communities in the ...

Ancient wisdom tapped for trees
The Australian
Discovering what indigenous Australians want included in those standards has fallen to a group headed by Rowan Foley, a former Uluru park ranger of the Wondunna clan of the Badtjala people from Fraser Island. “As the original owners and managers of our ...

Brisbane Times
Australia's last indigenous police tracker, Barry Port, has been described as ...
Courier Mail
BARRY Port, Australia's last indigenous police tracker, has been described as a living legend. The 71-year-old's retirement yesterday brings to a close a remarkable era for the Aboriginal craftsmen who have helped police hunt down criminals and find ...
Cape York Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port retiringABC Local
Australia's last 'tracker' Barry Port retiresBrisbane Times
Indigenous police tracker 'living legend'Yahoo!7 News

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Indigenous senator angry at Australian PM's comment on settlement
GlobalPost
CANBERRA, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Australia's indigenous senator Nova Peris on Friday condemned the comments by Prime Minister Tony Abbott on British settlement, saying they were "highly offensive, dismissive of indigenous peoples." Delivering the keynote ...

SBS
Australia's last Indigenous police tracker a 'living legend'
SBS
Barry Port, Australia's last indigenous police tracker, has been described as a living legend. The 71-year-old's retirement on Friday brings to a close a remarkable era for the Aboriginal craftsmen who have helped police hunt down criminals and find ...
Australia's last police tracker retiresNinemsn
Cape York Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port retiringABC Local
Australia's last 'tracker' Barry Port retiresBrisbane Times
Yahoo!7 News
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Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's comments on Australia being 'unsettled' before the British ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's chief indigenous adviser has described as ''silly'' the Prime Minister's comment that Australia was ''unsettled'' before British colonisation. The chairman of the Prime Minister's indigenous advisory council, Warren Mundine, was in the ...
Australia 'unsettled' before British arrived: Tony AbbottThe Australian
Australia 'unsettled' before the British came? Tony Abbott knows betterThe Guardian
Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisationSBS
Pedestrian TV
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Indigenous artists tap soul of their homelands
Sydney Morning Herald
Thompson is one of a number of indigenous artists – including filmmaker Warwick Thornton and visual artists such as Vernon Ah Kee, Daniel Boyd, Esme Timbery and Julie Gough – from around Australia who take Perkins into their communities and inside ...

The Guardian
Australia 'unsettled' before the British came? Tony Abbott knows better
The Guardian
And he knows, too well, that British troops – and later, locally raised military units, paramilitaries and raiding parties – carried on a war with the first inhabitants that claimed, by conservative estimate, 20,000 Indigenous Australians and 2,000 ...

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SBS
Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisation
SBS
Previous Next. Images. 02. 1/. 02. Video. 1/. Audio. The chairman of the prime minister's Indigenous Advisory Council has labelled Tony Abbott's remarks that Australia as 'unsettled' prior to the British colonisation as 'stupid'.

Training centre to guarantee up to 200 indigenous jobs in CQ
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
"It's vital that employment programmes are aligned to real jobs because getting indigenous Australians into ongoing employment is critical to reducing indigenous disadvantage," Senator Scullion said. The Australian Government has committed up to $45 ...

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Business News (subscription)
CCI to deliver 300 indigenous jobs
Business News (subscription)
“CCI is proud to have been selected as the largest VTEC provider in Australia creating pathways into real jobs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians,” CCI chief executive officer Deidre Willmott said. “This program is about working with ...
Canberra Close Up: John Paul JankeABC Local

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Australia: Sydney Opera House hosts festival celebrating queer Indigenous culture
PinkNews.co.uk
Sydney Opera House is to hold a three day festival this week to celebrate queer identities in Australia's Aboriginal community. Events ranging from talks to films and cabaret performances will take place from 4-6 July, as part of the country's annual ...