Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Abbott is quietly failing on his 'PM for Aboriginal affairs' promise
The Conversation
This path leads from statesman-like pronouncements, about fundamental change to the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, to neglect, cuts and harsh policy measures. While it is never unexpected, this change is always ...

drive for indigenous jobs, training
The Australian
The employment rate of non-indigenous Australians rose from 75 per cent to 75.6 per cent between 2008 and 2012-13, while the indigenous rate fell from 48.2 per cent to 45.9 per cent. However a partnership between Australia's biggest human resources ...

Indigenous health leaders say co-payments must be scrapped, as new ...
Crikey (blog)
“A coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations calls on the Australian Government to recognise that a co-payment is against the principles of health equity outlined in the Statement of Intent to Close the Gap in Indigenous Health ...

#Budget2014 risks to 'closing the gap' include Indigenous cancer impact
Crikey (blog)
In other Budget reaction, the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM) has welcomed new funding for 500 nursing and allied health scholarships for rural and regional Australia, and called for some places to be ...

Budget: Indigenous Australians among hardest hit
ABC Local
It's a chilly May day in Canberra as dozens of indigenous health leaders meet to lobby for exemptions to the contraversial co-payment initiative for indigenous Australians. There was a collective shiver when Aboriginal Medical Services around the ...

Budget: Indigenous Australians among hardest hit
ABC Local
It's a chilly May day in Canberra as dozens of indigenous health leaders meet to lobby for exemptions to the contraversial co-payment initiative for indigenous Australians. There was a collective shiver when Aboriginal Medical Services around the ...
#Budget2014 risks to 'closing the gap' include Indigenous cancer impactCrikey (blog)
This budget could devastate Indigenous AustraliansABC Message Stick

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This budget could devastate Indigenous Australians
ABC Message Stick
From cuts to youth welfare to the new Medicare co-payment, the budget will have a profound impact on Indigenous Australians. Mick Gooda asks, will the Federal Government speak to Aboriginal leaders before proceeding? I have spoken with many ...

Warren Mundine warns on remote funding
The Australian
SCORES of organisations running programs for indigenous Australia have been warned they should expect to lose their funding — even if they are meeting their targets — if their programs sit outside the Abbott government's three remote focus areas.

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Fremantle Dockers
Johnson to launch Freo's 2014 Indigenous Round jumper
Fremantle Dockers
Former Fremantle player and current development coach Roger Hayden worked with Richard Walley, one of Australia's leading Aboriginal performers, artists, musicians and writers, to create the Indigenous Round Guernsey. Fremantle wore the 2013 jumper ...

SAP's $1m boost to indigenous scholarships
The Australian
THE Australian Indigenous Education Foundation can already name Australia's largest corporations, such as BHP Billiton, Commonwealth Bank and Qantas, as among its backers, but the latest coup for the organisation is a funding deal with global software ...

GP co-payment to hit indigenous population hard
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australians have vastly poorer health than average, and there is still a life expectancy gap of about 11 years between indigenous and non-indigenous men in Australia, according to the latest Closing the Gap report. Donna Ah Chee, CEO of the ...

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Wall Street Journal
Skeleton mystery's Aussie link
NEWS.com.au
Picture: Paul Nicklen Source: AFP. A SKELETON of a teenager more than 12,000 years old with a facial structure resembling that of an indigenous Australian is offering new clues about the origins of the first Native Americans. Named “Naia” by scientists ...
Ancient Skeleton May Settle Debate on First AmericansNewser
Prehistoric girl's bones in underwater cave links ancient, modern Native AmericansMontreal Gazette
Where did Native Americans come from? 'Naya' skeleton paints detailed picture.Alaska Dispatch
Ars Technica
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The Guardian
Cash for jails: Tony Abbott's budget for Indigenous Australia
The Guardian
Since the end of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, Indigenous incarceration rates have jumped in every state and territory: 90% in the NT, 53% in NSW, and 50% in Western Australia. On Tuesday night, the scared eyes of that small ...

Australia-Taiwan Indigenous Music Exchange starts
China Post
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Australian Office Taipei (澳洲辦事處) and the Council of Indigenous Peoples (原民會) yesterday launched the Australia-Taiwan Indigenous Music Exchange, a series of performances co-organized by the Lovely Taiwan Foundation (台灣 ...

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remote 'can ill afford co-payment'
The Australian
The body that oversees Australia's not-for-profit Aboriginal health organisations yesterday said it believed Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders should be exempt from the co-payments “to prevent any backward steps in Aboriginal health”. The National ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Mokuy review – an Indigenous journey with beauty and tenderness
The Guardian (blog)
As one of the most colonised Aboriginal peoples in northern Australia, Larrakia art and culture is usually sidelined in preference for the more “traditional” work of their Top End neighbours. This Garrmalang turnaround is due in no small part to the ...

Rethinking indigenous Australia's agricultural past
ABC Online
Historians, indigenous writers and academics are rethinking Australia's perception of indigenous land management, arguing the first Australians had complex systems of agriculture that went far beyond the the hunter gatherer tag. "I came across repeated ...

Indigenous schooling in NT a 'human tragedy'
ABC Online
The state of Indigenous schooling in the Northern Territory has been described as a 'human tragedy'. A report into Indigenous education in the Top End has found the system is failing students and things are only getting worse. Caroline Winter. Source ...

REGIONAL PORTS: Gladstone funds boost in indigenous education
Lloyd's List Daily Commercial News
Gladstone Ports Corporation (GPC) has set a goal of ensuring a long-term employment rate of 5% of employees are of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander or Australian South Sea Islander heritage. Currently around 2.6% of its workforce identifies as ...

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Budget 2014: fuel excise, cuts to Indigenous programs will hurt regional WA ...
ABC Online
The increase in the fuel excise levy and deep cuts to Indigenous funding announced in last night's federal budget will hit regional Western Australia hard, interest groups say. The Federal Government said parts of the budget would be tough on regional ...