Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Failing Aboriginal Australians
CounterPunch
Several recent events in Australia have served to again highlight how little the peoples and cultures of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island nations feature on the national radar. Lack of formal education about Aborigines and a failure on the media ...

Call for action on indigenous suicide
The Australian
Professor Chandler has been invited to address a roundtable of indigenous elders, youth leaders, health professionals, academics, social justice campaigners and government figures hosted by the University of Western Australia. One of the convenors, ...

Opinion: Teaching in mother tongue key to engaging indigenous students
Courier Mail
IT WAS reported last week that Australian jail populations have “risen sharply” in the past year. In among the statistical data was the fact indigenous prisoners now represent 28 per cent of the total jail population. What wasn't reported was this is ...

Sydney Morning Herald
NBA star Patty Mills wants to revive his family club
Sydney Morning Herald
He is now an NBA championship-winning star with the San Antonio Spurs, but Patty Mills began basketball in Canberra as a four-year-old with the Shadows. Mills wants to help resurrect the multicultural and Australian indigenous basketball club founded ...
Australian basketball needs to take advantage of Patty Mills-maniaWarrnambool Standard

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No new term for Indigenous Business Australia chair Dawn Casey
The Australian
Dr Casey's five-year term at the head of the IBA, which promotes self-sufficiency and economic independence among indigenous Australians, ends on June 28. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion today paid tribute to Dr Casey, who The Australian ...

Blue & Green Tomorrow
Australian indigenous groups win legal battle to develop ecotourism hotspots
Blue & Green Tomorrow
Indigenous people in Australia have won a battle in the federal court to overturn legislation made in 2009 that restricted development around three rivers in Cape York, Queensland. A four-year legal battle to undo development restrictions, originally ...

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Tying Indigenous affairs spending to real outcomes
ABC Message Stick
Much of the assistance to Indigenous Australia is either inefficient or not achieving sustained improvements. Without jobs, opportunity can never follow - that's why the Coalition is committed to smarter, targeted Indigenous affairs spending that will ...

New head of Indigenous at Screen Australia
MuMbrella
Screen Australia today announced Penny Smallacombe as its new Head of Indigenous, succeeding Erica Glynn, who, after 11 years with Screen Australia and predecessor agency the AFC, announced her departure earlier this year. Graeme Mason, CEO of ...

Defence contract for indigenous business
The Australian
"Our goal is to train and employ indigenous Australian and Torres Strait Islander men and women in order to provide lasting careers in the various industries that we work with," the company's website says. Parliamentary secretary Alan Tudge said the ...

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Indigenous Australia left behind in rheumatic heart disease fight
The Conversation
Vintage medical textbooks are filled with diagnoses unfamiliar to contemporary doctors – wandering wombs, blackwater fever, biliousness and other historic curios. Acute rheumatic fever has become one of…

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Daily Mail
Patty Mills, Aboriginal NBA Champion
Indian Country Today Media Network
(Mills is not the first Indigenous Australian to play in the NBA -- that honor goes to Nathan Jawai, also a Torres Strait Islander, who made his debut in 2009 playing for the Toronto Raptors. Jawai went on to play for the Minnesota Timberwolves as well.).
'Whatever he did he was brilliant at': Patty Mills' former PE teacher hails ...Daily Mail
The powerful message behind NBA champion Patty Mills donning the Torres ...Herald Sun
Flying 3 Flags and Seeking One BannerNew York Times
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Indigenous Prisoner Program Cut
Pro Bono Australia
“Six months ago the Australian government brutally stripped our budget by 4.5 per cent over four years, and now we're facing even more cuts, this time with a program that is solely, purely 'frontline',” Naden said. “We have heard so many public ...

Reuters
Patty Mills: First Indigenous Australian To Win An NBA Championship
WebProNews
Patty Mills made Australian sporting history by helping his team, the San Antonio Spurs, defeat the Miami Heat. The San Antonio Spurs now have five championships under their belt since their first win in 1999. Mills, 25, an indigenous Australian ...
Patty Mills helps San Antonio Spurs win NBA Finals over Miami HeatSydney Morning Herald
Patty Mills planning on following in Cathy Freeman's footsteps by becoming an ...Herald Sun
The world goes nuts for Australian Patty Mills as he wins NBA Finals with San ...NEWS.com.au
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Daily Mail
'Whatever he did he was brilliant at': Patty Mills' former PE teacher hails ...
Daily Mail
Patrick Mills has become the third Australian to win the NBA title after putting in an astounding performance for the San Antonio Spurs on Monday - but he could just as easily have become an AFL star, his former PE teacher has revealed. The 25-year-old ...
Flying 3 Flags and Seeking One BannerNew York Times
Patty Mills reveals Cathy Freeman's 400m gold medal inspired NBA dreamThe Australian
Mills' destiny inspired by FreemanFox Sports
Courier Mail -The Daily Telegraph
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CNN
Mills thankful for Australian support
Sportal.com.au
In the process Mills became the first indigenous Australian to win an NBA title and just the fourth Australian - behind Luc Longley (1996-1998), Andrew Gaze (1999) and Spurs team-mate Aron Baynes (2014) - to taste the ultimate success at the highest level.
The world goes nuts for our Patty MillsNEWS.com.au
Patty Mills earns plaudits as San Antonio Spurs win NBA championshipThe Age
The world goes nuts for Australian Patty Mills as he wins NBA Finals with San ...Perth Now
Warrnambool Standard
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Daily Mail
Patty Mills helps San Antonio Spurs win NBA Finals over Miami Heat
Sydney Morning Herald
Mills' uncle Danny Morseu, who was the first indigenous Australian to play basketball for Australia at the Olympics, is also in San Antonio for the game. After barely playing in the Spurs' agonising 4-3 loss last season, the sharp-shooting Mills has ...
Patty Mills: First Indigenous Australian To Win An NBA ChampionshipWebProNews
'Whatever he did he was brilliant at': Patty Mills' former PE teacher hails ...Daily Mail
Flying 3 Flags and Seeking One BannerNew York Times
The Australian -Fox Sports
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Patty Mills and San Antonio Spurs one win away from NBA championship dream
The Canberra Times
Mills, 25, will become the first indigenous Australian to win an NBA title and just the third Australian to achieve the feat if the Spurs win, following in the footsteps of greats Luc Longley and Andrew Gaze. It's a long way from the Tuggeranong ...

Abbott breaches faith with Aborigines in 'act of political theft'
The Australian
Australians have heard a lot about Tony Abbott's broken promises — but even I didn't think the Prime Minister would breach faith with indigenous Australians so shamelessly and so brazenly. Aboriginal Australians welcomed Abbott into their communities.

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Abbott breaches faith with Aborigines in 'act of political theft'
The Australian
Australians have heard a lot about Tony Abbott's broken promises — but even I didn't think the Prime Minister would breach faith with indigenous Australians so shamelessly and so brazenly. Aboriginal Australians welcomed Abbott into their communities.

Doctors Say Racist Receptionists Are Among The Health Challenges For ...
Business Insider Australia
The latest Medical Journal of Australia has an investigation of health issues affecting Indigenous Australians including crusted scabies, childhood obesity and lack of follow-up care. Obesity rates in Aboriginal children in NSW are increasing at a ...