Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Equality at risk as consequences of recognition are unclear
The Australian
INDIGENOUS leader Mick Dodson reckons that if the Australian Constitution is to have any relevance to Aborigines, it has to “affirm our basic identity as human beings”. So, Aborigines are not human beings unless they are recognised in the Constitution.

Leaders issue $2bn challenge for Abbott
The Australian
Revenue from the land account, which has a fixed capital base, provides guaranteed funding to the corporation to buy and manage land for indigenous Australians for a range of social, cultural, environmental and economic benefits. The land account and ...

SBS
Indigenous Land Corporation moves to secure millions in funding
SBS
The corporation wants the Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion to introduce the bill to Parliament, just one month after the Northern Territory Senator received the report on the proposed merger of the corporation and Indigenous Business Australia.
Leaders issue $2bn challenge for AbbottThe Australian
Indigenous land body drafts bill to put funds above politicsBrisbane Times

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John Pilger: Australia stealing Indigenous children once more
Green Left Weekly
The tape is searing. There is the voice of an infant screaming as he is wrenched from his mother, who pleads, "There is nothing wrong with my baby. Why are you doing this to us? I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because [as an Australian ...

Once again, Australia is stealing its indigenous children
On Line opinion
This happened to an Aboriginal family in outback New South Wales. It is happening across Australia in a scandalous and largely unrecognised abuse of human rights that evokes the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century. Up to the 1970s, thousands ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous land body drafts bill to put funds above politics
Sydney Morning Herald
The bill is likely to be interpreted as an early souring of the relationship between indigenous Australia and the Abbott government as its only real prospect of advancement is if it is taken up by Labor and the Greens and introduced into the Senate.

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Indigenous land body drafts bill to put funds above politics
Brisbane Times
The bill is likely to be interpreted as an early souring of the relationship between indigenous Australia and the Abbott government as its only real prospect of advancement is if it is taken up by Labor and the Greens and introduced into the Senate.

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Plea on indigenous misery
The West Australian
Plea on indigenous misery The West Australian. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has declared war on "passive racism", saying he is affronted that a clever and innovative country such as Australia had not solved indigenous disadvantage.

The West Australian
Plea on indigenous misery
The West Australian
Plea on indigenous misery The West Australian. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has declared war on "passive racism", saying he is affronted that a clever and innovative country such as Australia had not solved indigenous disadvantage.

Plea on indigenous misery
The West Australian
Plea on indigenous misery The West Australian. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has declared war on "passive racism", saying he is affronted that a clever and innovative country such as Australia had not solved indigenous disadvantage.
A radical rethink on housing is necessary, says ScullionNational Indigenous Times
Another $18 million committed towards combating truancyNoosa News

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Another $18 million committed towards combating truancy
Noosa News
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said on Sunday (Mar 23) 40 remote communities already benefit from school attendance officers on the ground working with parents and communities to improve school attendance rates. "Attendance rates ...

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Another $18 million committed towards combating truancy
Coffs Coast Advocate
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said on Sunday (Mar 23) 40 remote communities already benefit from school attendance officers on the ground working with parents and communities to improve school attendance rates. "Attendance rates ...

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Another $18 million committed towards combating truancy
Toowoomba Chronicle
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said on Sunday (Mar 23) 40 remote communities already benefit from school attendance officers on the ground working with parents and communities to improve school attendance rates. "Attendance rates ...

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Euahlayi People take on Australia in court
National Indigenous Times
The Euahlayi Peoples of western New South Wales have challenged the Commonwealth of Australia's right to claim sovereignty of their Country by refusing to pay rates being charged by the Brewarrina Shire Council and taking action in the... More of this ...

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Hundreds protest in support for Swan Valley's Nyungahs but Barnett says “no way”
National Indigenous Times
Hundreds of protesters led by Elders, sister and brother, Bella and Herbert Bropho gathered at the steps of Western Australia's Parliament demanding the State Government clear the way for the Swan Valley Nyungah People to return to their former home at ...

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Baseball - Indigenous Australian footballer Goodes tosses first pitch
Yahoo Eurosport UK
Indigenous football player Adam Goodes, who was named Australian of the Year in 2013, threw the ceremonial first pitch before the opening game of the Major League Baseball season at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Saturday. Reuters – 7 hours ago.

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Indigenous Australian footballer Goodes tosses first pitch
Reuters
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Indigenous football player Adam Goodes, who was named Australian of the Year in 2013, threw the ceremonial first pitch before the opening game of the Major League Baseball season at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Saturday.

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Indigenous Australian footballer Goodes tosses first pitch
SBS
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Indigenous football player Adam Goodes, who was named Australian of the Year in 2013, threw the ceremonial first pitch before the opening game of the Major League Baseball season at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Saturday.

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Indigenous Australian footballer Goodes tosses first pitch
Reuters UK
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Indigenous football player Adam Goodes, who was named Australian of the Year in 2013, threw the ceremonial first pitch before the opening game of the Major League Baseball season at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Saturday.

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OpEdNews
Another stolen generation: how Australia still wrecks Aboriginal families
OpEdNews
I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because [as an Aboriginal Australian] you're guilty before you're found innocent." The child's grandmother demands to know why "the stealing of our kids is happening all over again." A welfare official says ...

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