Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Closing the gap
ABC Local
Elijah organised an event at his school in Mount Isa this week, as part of Close the Gap Day celebrations held across Australia. The annual event aims to raise awareness about the gap in health between Indigenous and non Indigenous Australians.

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Closing the gap
ABC Local
He's been invited to join the Indigenous Youth Parliament in Canberra later this year and has also been offered a job with the Australian Electoral Commission where he will assist Indigenous people to enrol to vote. "Lots of Indigenous people, I don't ...

Culture war
The Australian
It would be the first enterprise to map the songlines of indigenous Australia with the tools of modern science, and do so with Aboriginal participation, in a cross-cultural spirit, co-operatively, preserving knowledge, advancing understanding. It would ...

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Australia open to hosting Maori cricket side
IBNLive
Cricket Australia has said it is open to inviting a Maori team to play in a tournament featuring indigenous sides at a future date as steps towards a revival of a representative team gathers pace in New Zealand. Maori sides affiliated to New Zealand's ...
Australia open to hosting Maori sideReuters UK
Is the Maori-Australian dream all it's cracked up to be?SBS

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Mandatory sentencing and indigenous Australians
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The recent debate of the Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Assault and Intoxication) Act 2014 ('the Act') in New South Wales Parliament has sparked discussion of the impact mandatory sentencing has on Australia's indigenous population. The Act is ...

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Australia open to hosting Maori side
The Star Online
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Cricket Australia has said it is open to inviting a Maori team to play in a tournament featuring indigenous sides at a future date as steps towards a revival of a representative team gathers pace in New Zealand. Maori sides ...
CORRECTED-INTERVIEW-Cricket-Australia open to hosting Maori sideReuters India
INTERVIEW-Cricket-Australia open to Maori side in Imparja CupReuters UK
Is the Maori-Australian dream all it's cracked up to be?SBS

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Australia open to hosting Maori side
SBS
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Cricket Australia has said it is open to inviting a Maori team to play in a tournament featuring indigenous sides at a future date as steps towards a revival of a representative team gathers pace in New Zealand. Source. Reuters.
Australia open to Maori side in Imparja CupYahoo!7 News
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Manawatu Standard
CORRECTED-INTERVIEW-Cricket-Australia open to hosting Maori side
Eurosport.com AU
CORRECTED-INTERVIEW-Cricket-Australia open to hosting Maori side Cricket Australia has said it is open to inviting a Maori team to play in a tournament featuring indigenous sides at a future date as steps towards a revival of a representative team ...
Australia open to Maori side in Imparja CupThe Star Online

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INTERVIEW-Australia open to Maori side in Imparja Cup
Eurosport.com AU
Cricket Australia has said it is open to a Maori team joining their annual Imparja Cup festival for indigenous sides at a future date as steps towards a revival of a representative team gathers pace in New Zealand. INTERVIEW-Australia open to Maori ...

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INTERVIEW-Cricket-Australia open to Maori side in Imparja Cup
Reuters India
Aside from the Imparja Cup, Cricket Australia were heavily involved in grassroots development programmes and were taking them into indigenous schools and helping subsidise the cost of not only the programmes but equipment. "The first Australian team to ...
Australia open to hosting Maori sideThe Star Online
Is the Maori-Australian dream all it's cracked up to be?SBS

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The Guardian (blog)
Is Racism the New Black? review – a light approach to Australia's dark side
The Guardian (blog)
“Australia is very diverse,” croons filmmaker and activist Richard Frankland, an Indigenous Australian of Gunditjmara origin. He smiles, waits a beat, then lets rip: “But I'm the only Greek-looking Aboriginal that's ever worked as a waiter in a Chinese ...

Government urged to maintain Indigenous health funding
ABC Message Stick
The day is held each year as a reminder for political leaders of their commitment to achieve health equality between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians by 2030. Dr Emma Ellis has just completed a six month placement at ...

Government urged to maintain Indigenous health funding
ABC Message Stick
The day is held each year as a reminder for political leaders of their commitment to achieve health equality between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians by 2030. Dr Emma Ellis has just completed a six month placement at ...

Government urged to maintain Indigenous health funding
ABC Online
DAVID MARK: Australia was bidding for the 2022 World Cup but $45 million of taxpayer's money resulted in Australia getting just one vote. It was defeated by a country where the temperature can exceed 50 degrees at the time of the year when the World ...

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The Guardian
Roseanne Fulton and the other Indigenous disabled people Australia has failed ...
The Guardian
She is a mentally impaired Indigenous woman aged 24, who has been in a Western Australian prison for 18 months without having been convicted of a crime, simply because the Northern Territory health department – in whose care she is – cannot provide ...

Poor Cancer Survival in Indigenous Children - Report
Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous Australian children are 36 per cent more likely to die within five years of a cancer diagnosis than non-Indigenous Australian children, a landmark report has found. Released on national Close the Gap day, (March 20) researchers say it is the ...

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First Aboriginal Woman in Australia Senate Draws on Olympic Win
Bloomberg
While Peris won the seat for the now-opposition Labor party in last September's election and has since been tasked with a lead role in helping convince Australians to approve the recognition of indigenous people in the constitution, the furor over her ...

First Aboriginal Woman in Australia Senate Draws on Olympic Win
Bloomberg
While Peris won the seat for the now-opposition Labor party in last September's election and has since been tasked with a lead role in helping convince Australians to approve the recognition of indigenous people in the constitution, the furor over her ...

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Australia Senate's First Aboriginal Woman Beat Cyclone, Racism
Businessweek
While Peris won the seat for the now-opposition Labor party in last September's election and has since been tasked with a lead role in helping convince Australians to approve the recognition of indigenous people in the constitution, the furor over her ...

Indigenous children at higher risk of dying from cancers
Bundaberg News Mail
INDIGENOUS Australian children are 36 per cent more likely to die within five years of a cancer diagnosis than non-indigenous Australian children, a landmark new report has found. Released on national Close the Gap day, it is the first time researchers ...