Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

'Hollow words' from PM on gap
The Australian
BILL Shorten has accused Tony Abbott of betraying Aborigines after having promised to be the Prime Minister for indigenous Australians and then cutting more than $500 million of related funding in the budget. He warns that Labor would no longer offer ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
indigenous good gets lost in the bad
Sydney Morning Herald
But her stories gave me an understanding of the inherent resilience she possessed, a quality I now recognise in every indigenous Australian. Our first nations communities have not only survived 226 years of enforced, institutionalised and entrenched ...
The bone collectors: a brutal chapter in Australia's pastThe Guardian
Killer budget bad news for Aboriginal peopleGreen Left Weekly

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The Guardian
The bone collectors: a brutal chapter in Australia's past
The Guardian
Other remains from collections in Berlin, at Washington's Smithsonian Museum, Oxford University and London's Natural History Museum have been repatriated directly to Australian Indigenous communities. The federal government, through the Ministry for ...
Killer budget bad news for Aboriginal peopleGreen Left Weekly

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Indigenous kids score in 'round ball' program
The Australian
The first indigenous soccer player selected for Australia, who once tried out with Everton and Tottenham Hotspur, Moriarty was born in the remote Northern Territory indigenous community of Borroloola and says football changed his life. It was with this ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Documentary to raise awareness of NBA star Patrick Mills' indigenous heritage
Sydney Morning Herald
"That would open up a whole can of worms, they'd be like 'what do you mean Indigenous Australians? There's black people in Australia? "What's really good is they want to learn about it and they're fascinated about hearing about it." Mills, in his fifth ...
Patty Mills Riding an Aussie Hoops Explosion, and the NBA Finals Is Just a StartBleacher Report

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Australian Ageing Agenda
New Indigenous Fund to Tackle Budget Cuts
Pro Bono Australia
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has revealed at the ACOSS National Conference that it will set up a public fund in response to the Federal Government cutting its cash commitment to the advocacy peak body. At the conference, in ...
Honoured for service to Indigenous aged careAustralian Ageing Agenda
Indigenous body 'victim of cruel funding game'The Australian
Indigenous housing may be left out of The BlockABC Online
Parramatta Sun
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San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich recognises indigenous Australians, Patty ...
Herald Sun
In his fifth season, Mills is the first Australian of indigenous heritage to play in the NBA Finals and continues to play a key part in the team as Tony Parker's back-up. One of Mills's uncles Danny Morseau was the first indigenous basketball player ...
Spurs coach's emotional Mabo speechFox Sports

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Calls for proper recognition of Indigenous veterans
ABC Local
NANCE HAXTON: Reconciliation Australia co-chair and University of Canberra chancellor Dr Tom Calma is calling for better recognition of Indigenous veterans in the lead-up to centenary commemorations of World War I in August. For the past year the ...

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Australian Ageing Agenda
Honoured for service to Indigenous aged care
Australian Ageing Agenda
Marjorie Tripp, a Ngarrindjeri elder from South Australia who has spent decades working for aged care equality for Aboriginal Australians, says she hopes the progress made in service provision continues over the coming decades. Her services to the ...
Indigenous housing may be left out of The BlockABC Online
Mundine lashes out at social mediaThe Australian

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Honour roll set up for Australia's indigenous veterans
Radio Australia
There is an increasing push for better recognition of Australia's indigenous veterans in the lead-up to commemorations in August marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. Honour roll set up for Australia's indigenous veterans ...
Calls for proper recognition of Indigenous veteransABC Online

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Calls for proper recognition of Indigenous veterans
ABC Online
NANCE HAXTON: More than 400 Indigenous young men fought for their country in World War I. Once at the battlefront they were treated as equals and received the same pay. But it was a very different story on their return to Australia. Redland City ...
Honour roll set up for Australia's indigenous veteransRadio Australia

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Indigenous body 'victim of cruel funding game'
The Australian
Kirstie Parker, the co-chairwoman of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, will today address the first day of the Australian Council of Social Service conference in Brisbane, condemning funding cuts in indigenous affairs. “While our mobs ...

The Guardian (blog)
Indigenous Australian films wow east Africa
The Guardian (blog)
When organisers of a tour of Indigenous Australian films in east Africa announced public screenings of the films in Kampala on social media, several people got in touch wondering if they'd get the chance to watch “wildlife documentaries”. “They're like ...

An Indigenous history in cartoons
ArtsHub (subscription)
Presented by the Burrinja Cultural Centre in partnership with the Australian Cartoon Museum, She'll Be Right, Mate takes a somewhat different approach to the way our Indigenous history has been recorded. Featuring over 70 cartoons chronicling ...

The rise of methamphetamine use in Aboriginal communities
ABC Local
While the Australian Crime Commission's Illicit Drug Data Report 2012-13 detailed record rates of methamphetamine use and the impacts in Australian cities, the meth or 'ice' story in the Kimberley has mostly been limited to quietly spoken rumours of a ...

Leading Patyegarang's dance of culture and country
ArtsHub (subscription)
The forthcoming Bangarra Dance Theatre production of Patyegarang has given Indigenous dancer Jasmin Sheppard a unique chance to express her culture and country on stage through dance. 'It's been exciting to embody a character and take her story on a ...

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Indigenous Australian Artist Gordon Bennett Dies at 58
In the Air, Art+Auction's Gossip Column (blog)
Acclaimed contemporary Indigenous Australian artist Gordon Bennett has died of natural causes at 58. He will be remembered as one of Australia's most critically engaged and innovative artists. A statement from Brisbane's Milani Gallery says that his ...

Indigenous kids go from Borroloola to Brazil
SBS - The World Game
Moriarty, is an accomplished painter and author who has an Order of Australia, but what these kids would hold in the highest esteem is that he was the first Indigenous Australian selected to represent Australia in football. However his story is one of ...

Indigenous leader makes her military mark on the nation
The Australian
Her role in establishing Australia's first war memorial to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, unveiled in Adelaide last year, and her distinguished service to the indigenous community through the promotion of improved aged-care and health results ...

SFGate
Indigenous Australian heritage a point of pride for Spurs' Mills
SFGate
Popovich explained to his players the significance of June 3 to indigenous Australians, who celebrate it as Eddie Mabo Day, the anniversary of a high court decision recognizing the land rights of indigenous Australians and, specifically, Torres Strait ...