Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Yahoo!7 News
Jandamarra, story of Indigenous freedom fighter, set for Sydney Opera House ...
Yahoo!7 News
Now the story of Jandamarra, an Aboriginal freedom fighter from Western Australia's Kimberley region, will be told in a major choral work at the Sydney Opera House. Playwright Steve Hawke has joined forces with leading composer Paul Stanhope to tell ...

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Green groups 'block indigenous progress'
Yahoo!7 News
"Green groups should hang their heads in shame for wanting to keep indigenous Australians in poverty," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review. Those groups, including the Wilderness Society, were responsible for the abandonment ...

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The West Australian
Green groups 'block indigenous progress'
The West Australian
"Green groups should hang their heads in shame for wanting to keep indigenous Australians in poverty," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review. Those groups, including the Wilderness Society, were responsible for the abandonment ...

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jobs push aims to end disparity
The Australian
“The Australian government has committed up to $45 million for VTECs and the initiative is well on the way to meeting the target of placing 5000 indigenous Australians into guaranteed jobs across Australia before July 2015,” Senator Scullion said. “It ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Green groups keep Aboriginal people in poverty
The Australian Financial Review
Aboriginal people in Cape York had their land but, unlike every other landowner in Australia, weren't allowed to prosper from it. The Wilderness Society was the main agitator for the 2009 declaration. In a statement after the decision, it said ...

Green groups 'block indigenous progress'
Courier Mail
"Green groups should hang their heads in shame for wanting to keep indigenous Australians in poverty," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review. Those groups, including the Wilderness Society, were responsible for the abandonment ...

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Green groups 'block indigenous progress'
The Australian
"Green groups should hang their heads in shame for wanting to keep indigenous Australians in poverty," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review. Those groups, including the Wilderness Society, were responsible for the abandonment ...

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What drove SA Indigenous men to fight for a country that did not recognise them?
ABC Local
Over 100 South Australian Aboriginal men volunteered to fight for Australia in World War 1. Escaping the grips of an approaching recession, the men joined the 'bob-a-day' brigade for a country that only 15 years earlier abandoned its Indigenous ...

The Guardian (blog)
Artists investigate their Chinese-Indigenous Australian mixed heritage
The Guardian (blog)
Yiban Yiban – Yellah Fellah opened on a sweltering summer afternoon at Redtory Art & Design Factory in Guangzhou, the sprawling capital of Guangdong province in southern China. While the contemporary art scene in Guangzhou is less pronounced than ...

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Researchers set to tackle Indigenous education gap
UQ News
Two new University of Queensland projects will address the under-representation of Indigenous academics in the higher education field, working to close the education gap at universities across Australia. UQ's Dr Katelyn Barney and Dr Chelsea Bond have ...

Larissa Chambers is continuing the proud tradition of indigenous runners in ...
Courier Mail
A distant relative of Freeman, who was the golden girl of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Chambers is continuing the proud tradition of indigenous runners in Australian athletics. The 18 year old leaves on Thursday for the IAAF World Junior Championships in ...

Noel Pearson teaching model to get $22m
The Australian
BACK-to-basics schooling will be rolled out across indigenous Australia to lift literacy, as the federal government provides $22 million to fund a dramatic expansion of Direct Instruction from a pilot teaching program on Queensland's Cape York ...

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Indigenous dance performance marks Australian Navy Chief handover
Yahoo!7 News
The outgoing Chief of Navy, Vice-Admiral Ray Griggs, named the troupe Bungaree, after a 19th century Aboriginal performer who circumnavigated Australia with explorer Mathew Flinders. The dancers performed at his handover ceremony today, as he ...

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Indigenous authors explore Twitter fiction and new literary genres
ABC Online
When you think of Indigenous Australian literature, you might not immediately think of horror, fantasy or even Twitter fiction. Indigenous authors are exploring new genres and many of their works are slowly finding mainstream readership, writes Rhianna ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Gordon Bennett explored indigenous past through his conceptual art
Sydney Morning Herald
GORDON BENNETT, 1955-2014. "I am an indigenous Australian. My mother is an indigenous Australian and her mother before that and so on for countless generations. My father was English. My work comes out of small town and suburban Australia.

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Aboriginal Art Directory News
'Abstraction (Citizen)' 2010, A late Gordon Bennett work on canvas ...
Aboriginal Art Directory News
“I am an Indigenous Australian. My mother is an Indigenous Australian and her mother before that and so on for countless generations. My father was English. My work comes out of small town and suburban Australia. I was socialised into an essentially ...

New focus for Indigenous suicide prevention
ABC Online
ANNA VIDOT: The disturbingly high rate of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is bad enough, but according to psychologist and professor, Pat Dudgeon, from the University of Western Australia's School of Indigenous Studies, the ...

Employing Indigenous Australians
WA today
You can enhance your business with the different perspectives, experience and knowledge of Indigenous employees. They can contribute to the development of cross-cultural awareness in your workplace, which is vital in communicating with suppliers and ...

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Employing Indigenous Australians
Brisbane Times
... workplace open to diversity when you consider that: 56% of Indigenous Australians are under 25 years old, compared with about 33% in the rest of the population. the Indigenous population in Australia is growing faster than the non-Indigenous ...

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Radio Australia
Aboriginal remains returned from Chicago museum to Launceston
Radio Australia
The remains of three Tasmanian Indigenous Australians have been returned to the state after almost 200 years. In the 1830s, three skulls were donated to a museum in England and then transferred to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1958.

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