Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Sky News Australia
Indigenous council looks to trim fat
Sky News Australia
The Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council is looking at what fat can be trimmed from federal government spending on Aboriginal programs. Chairman Warren Mundine said money matters were on the agenda at the council's meeting in Sydney on ...

Bad news: negative Indigenous health coverage reinforces stigma
The Conversation
When Aboriginal people are persistently portrayed as drunks, welfare dependents and violent perpetrators, it can fuel racist attitudes among the wider population and this type of racism has a major impact on the health of Aboriginal Australians. In ...

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Search to track down Indigenous serviceman barred from Australia
SBS
The missing servicemen fought alongside Australian soldiers in South Africa, but were not allowed back into Australia because of the White Australia Policy. Lecturer Dale Kerwin from Griffith University estimates that around 50 trackers went to Africa ...

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Tracking down Australia's Indigenous servicemen
SBS
Aboriginal trackers who weren't allowed home after serving in the Boer War are the focus of an ongoing search by Australian organisations. The missing servicemen fought alongside Australian soldiers in South Africa, but were not allowed back into ...

Daily Mail
Model Samantha Harris rocks possum fur for Indigenous Fashion Week
Daily Mail
The 23-year old model shared the striking photo on Sunday. 'Campaign shot for the first ever Australian Indigenous Fashion Week which launches next month,' she posted to more than 45,000 followers.

Australian Teacher Magazine
Once again, Australia is stealing its Indigenous children
Thanh Nien Daily
This happened to an Aboriginal family in outback New South Wales. It is happening across Australia in a scandalous and largely unrecognized abuse of human rights that evokes the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century. Up to the 1970s, thousands ...
Aboriginal AFL Academy launchedAustralian Teacher Magazine

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Australian Teacher Magazine
Aboriginal AFL Academy launched
Australian Teacher Magazine
AN exciting and innovative new Indigenous AFL program has been launched in South Australia, which aims to provide an elite training environment for Indigenous students who demonstrate a commitment to achieving excellence in both sport and education.

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The Guardian
Indigenous MPs accuse NT ruling party colleagues of racial harassment
The Guardian
“Alison Anderson is a very, very fine and articulate voice of Indigenous Australia – I deeply respect Alison Anderson,” Abbott told reporters in Sydney. “In the end though, the relationship between Alison and Adam Giles is a matter for Alison and for ...
Another NT government in crisisSBS

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ABC Online
Percy Trezise: One man's passion for Quinkan Rock Art helps preserve ...
ABC Online
He wore a pith helmet, a pistol on his hip, and chomped down on a cigarette holder. He moved quickly through the Cape York Peninsula scrub and was often accompanied by his bush mates, including his adventure partner, Aboriginal artist Dick Roughsey.

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The Land Account must be protected for future Indigenous generations
On Line opinion
Connections to and caring for land have been central to the lives of Indigenous peoples in Australia for thousands of years. The Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) has released a Draft Bill to focus attention on a key land issue for the future. The ...

Your rights and responsibilities
The Australian
IN the past 15 years I've focused hard on trying to improve the lives of indigenous children here in Australia and Balinese children in Indonesia, yet for me any feelings of accomplishment or pride are always tempered by an awareness of how much more ...

Race act debate misses the point
The Australian
The original inhabitants of Australia didn't see themselves as an “Aboriginal race”. They were part of hundreds of separate tribal nations. I'm from the Bundjalung nation and also a descendant of the Gumbaynggirr and Yuin peoples. On my desk there's a ...

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PM's council splits over free speech
The Australian
The Australian Indigenous Education Foundation chief executive and NSW Human Rights Ambassador said that racism must be fought “head on”, not through the courts as under section 18C of the RDA. Section 18C makes it unlawful to offend, insult, ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous leader makes Brandis uneasy
Yahoo!7 News
Attorney-General George Brandis was forced to sit awkwardly in a crowd as an indigenous leader attacked his planned changes to racial discrimination laws. Speaking at the launch of a reconciliation action plan, Reconciliation Australia co-chairman Tom ...
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Proposed changes to RDA slammed by Tom CalmaSBS

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Indigenous leader makes Brandis uneasy
The Australian
Speaking at the launch of a reconciliation action plan, Reconciliation Australia co-chairman Tom Calma continued his criticism in front of the politician driving the reforms. While Mr Calma's comments were not quite as pointed as in media reports on ...

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Indigenous leader makes Brandis uneasy
Ninemsn
Speaking at the launch of a reconciliation action plan, Reconciliation Australia co-chairman Tom Calma continued his criticism in front of the politician driving the reforms. While Mr Calma's comments were not quite as pointed as in media reports on ...

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Leading By Example
Pro Bono Australia
Under Towart's leadership, Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre has tripled its annual revenue, more than doubled its enrolment growth and developed new course including Australia's most advanced Indigenous leadership qualification, the Advanced ...

The Canberra Times
Racism is the fault line that runs through Australia
The Canberra Times
It was only a snort, a short derisive exhalation of air. But it was enough. I was at a barbecue with friends in Kempsey in NSW. The talk turned to the town's indigenous population. I said something along the lines of the odds being stacked against them ...

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Indigenous leader Tom Calma pans race-hate changes
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous leader Tom Calma has condemned George Brandis' proposed changes to race-hate laws, saying they would be a major setback to reconciliation. And one of Australia's most influential Jewish groups, the Zionist Federation of Australia, has called ...

Sydney Morning Herald
George Brandis' race hate law changes condemned by respected indigenous ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Dr Calma, the co-chairman of Reconciliation Australia, said Senator Brandis' changes would set back the reconciliation process between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Dr Calma and Senator Brandis are preparing to launch a ''reconciliation ...

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