Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Keeler walks catwalk for Indigenous Fashion Week
ABC Local
Katarina, originally from Ceduna, walked the runway at Australian Indigenous Fashion Week in Sydney after being named as a finalist in the Indigenous Model Search Competition. She says the event has an important role in increasing diversity in the ...

Keeler walks catwalk for Indigenous Fashion Week
ABC Local
Katarina, originally from Ceduna, walked the runway at Australian Indigenous Fashion Week in Sydney after being named as a finalist in the Indigenous Model Search Competition. She says the event has an important role in increasing diversity in the ...

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Report Highlights Indigenous Youth Plight
Pro Bono Australia
Young Indigenous Australians are 17 times more likely to be placed under youth justice supervision than non-Indigenous youth, according to a report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). The report,Youth Justice in Australia 2012 ...
Report shows decrease in young people under justice supervision ordersThe West Australian

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Fashion Times
Innaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week Showcased Aboriginal Designs ...
Fashion Times
Bringing together Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture with the country's formal fashion industry, the inaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week kicked off last week, and its organizers are already planning to expand. "In terms ...

SBS
Comment: Australia's dirty secret: who's breathing toxic air?
SBS
1/. Video. Audio. Australians living in poorer communities, with lower employment and education levels, as well as communities with a high proportion of Indigenous people, are significantly more likely to be exposed to high levels of toxic air ...
Australia's dirty secret: who's breathing toxic air?The Ecologist

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Australia's dirty secret: who's breathing toxic air?
The Conversation
Australians living in poorer communities, with lower employment and education levels, as well as communities with a high proportion of Indigenous people, are significantly more likely to be exposed to high levels of toxic air pollution. These are the ...

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Action needed on Indigenous youth suicide
ABC Online
MICHAEL COGGAN: While this small community of about 500 people is making some headway steering young people away from suicide and self harm, Aboriginal elders from across the Top End of Australia have produced a report calling for urgent action to ...

Eureka Street
Wily Harradine delivered for Indigenous Australians
Eureka Street
I pay tribute to the great Tasmanian Catholic warrior, Brian Harradine, who died on Monday. He did some wonderful work in the Australian Senate, the chamber which Paul Keating once famously described as 'unrepresentative swill'. I was privileged to ...
Brian Harradine, Australia's longest-serving independent senator, dies in ...Yahoo!7 News
Brian Harradine, The Independent Tasmanian Senator Who Held The Balance ...Business Insider Australia
Former senator Brian Harradine - the blueprint for the power of oneSydney Morning Herald
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Aboriginal elders lament loss of culture as Indigenous youth suicides rise
ABC Online
Aboriginal elders in northern Australia say a loss of cultural identity is one of the main reasons for rising Indigenous youth suicide rates. The elders have outlined their views on the issue in a new publication. Two years of consultation has gone ...
Indigenous suicide at 'crisis' numbers after youth lose their cultural identityThe Guardian
Indigenous Elders launch campaign to tackle youth suicideSBS
Culture is key to tackling suicide epidemic, elders saySydney Morning Herald
The Australian
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Indigenous Elders reeling from suicide deaths
ABC Online
The older people's anguish is palpable and a report out today gives voice to Aboriginal Elders across northern Australia, from the Cape to the Kimberley who have never before witnessed such an epidemic of self-harm. Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

The Guardian
Indigenous fashion week: putting the bush into boutiques
The Guardian
The traditional handicrafts of a 60,000-year-old culture found a very modern interpretation on the catwalk in the first ever Australian Indigenous fashion week. With hand-printed silks, woven fabrics and street clothes, Indigenous designers showcased ...

SBS
Indigenous suicide at 'crisis' numbers after youth lose their cultural identity
The Guardian
The report features interviews with 30 elders throughout Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland and documents their solutions to prevent self-harm, particularly among younger Indigenous Australians, as part of the Culture is Life ...
Aboriginal elders lament loss of culture as Indigenous youth suicides riseABC Online
Indigenous Elders launch campaign to tackle youth suicideSBS
Culture is key to tackling suicide epidemic, elders saySydney Morning Herald
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Aboriginal elders lament loss of culture as Indigenous youth suicides rise
Yahoo!7 News
Aboriginal elders in northern Australia say a loss of cultural identity is one of the main reasons for rising Indigenous youth suicide rates. The elders have outlined their views on the issue in a new publication. Two years of consultation has gone ...
Indigenous Elders launch campaign to tackle youth suicideSBS
Culture is key to tackling suicide epidemic, elders sayWA today

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Indigenous elders launch campaign to tackle youth suicide
SBS
Hoping to tackle the alarming rate of Indigenous youth suicide, the elders have launched a campaign lobbying the Federal Government for a new approach. In some of Australia's remote Indigenous communities suicide has reached epidemic proportions.
Culture is key to tackling suicide epidemic, elders sayWA today

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Savings seen in indigenous bodies' merger
The Australian
A government ordered review of Indigenous Business Australia, which currently provides discount loans to Aboriginal companies, and the Indigenous Land Corporation has identified significant savings to the organisations' combined $3bn a year budget.

Indigenous Australian paintings put on display
DAWN.com
ISLAMABAD: Thousands of years old indigenous art forms from Australia went on display for the first time here on Sunday. The three-day exhibition, 'Bush Medicine', has been organised at the Nomad Gallery by the Australian High Commission.

The West Australian
Indigenous call for racism conscience vote
The Australian
THE Board of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples _ the peak indigenous group in the country _ has called for all members of the national parliament to have a conscience vote on the racial discrimination act changes. Section 18C of the ...
What we thinkJ-Wire Jewish Australian News Service

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Private enterprise urged to hire more Aboriginal staff
The Australian
Speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia roundtable, Mr Tudge outlined the challenges of the growing employment gap at a time when more than half of the indigenous population was younger than 20 years of age. Only 46 per cent of ...

ABC Local
Pilbara Indigenous Media Group Awarded
ABC Local
Mr Mowarin also has big plans for NAIDOC 2014 which he said isn't just about Indigenous Australia celebrating culture and heritage but about sharing it with the rest of Australia. "It's a celebration of who we are and our identity. "Without culture and ...

Making progress: the role of cancer councils in Australia in indigenous cancer ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Indigenous Australians have poorer outcomes from cancer for a variety of reasons including poorer participation in screening programs, later diagnosis, higher rates of cancer with poor prognosis and poorer uptake and completion of treatment. Cancer ...