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Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

indigenous people must forgive - The Age

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 1:32pm

The Age

indigenous people must forgive
The Age
Racism against indigenous people in Australia used to be a mainstream attitude perpetuated in all the institutions - media, government, schools and universities, business and the legal system, for example. It is now very much in the minority. Indirect ...

Let us put indigenous first for jobs - The Australian

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 1:07pm

Let us put indigenous first for jobs
The Australian
"Under our resource industry-government collaboration project, AMMA Skills Connect, we have this week begun inducting a group of indigenous jobseekers on a fully-funded Certificate II in hospitality with the view to work at one of Western Australia's ...

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Let us put indigenous first for jobs - The Australian

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 1:04pm

Let us put indigenous first for jobs
The Australian
"Under our resource industry-government collaboration project, AMMA Skills Connect, we have this week begun inducting a group of indigenous jobseekers on a fully-funded Certificate II in hospitality with the view to work at one of Western Australia's ...

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Monarchists criticised for warning of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous ... - ABC Online

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 10:23am

Sky News Australia

Monarchists criticised for warning of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous ...
ABC Online
The 2014 Senior Australian of the Year has accused the Monarchists League of peddling prejudice for suggesting that a referendum to recognise Aboriginal people would be accompanied by "almost certain violence". The group has warned that there is a real ...
Chaney: Indigenous recognition achievableThe Australian

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Australians celebrate survival of Indigenous culture - SBS

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 9:05am

SBS

Australians celebrate survival of Indigenous culture
SBS
While Australia Day celebrates the arrival of Europeans 226 years ago, the day is also used as an opportunity to remember those who have walked the land for thousands of years and to celebrate indigenous culture. Events like the Yabun festival in ...

Mundine calls for Indigenous treaties - SBS

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 6:05am

SBS

Mundine calls for Indigenous treaties
SBS
Mr Mundine is now urging Mr Abbott to do what decades of Prime Ministers before him have either been unable or unwilling to: negotiate treaties with Australia's Indigenous people. He says there should be separate treaties with each of what he calls the ...
To move on, indigenous people must forgiveThe Age
Central Land Council rejects Warren Mundine's Indigenous treaty proposalABC Online
Indigenous recognition more complicated constitutional change than you thinkCrikey
Radio Australia
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Tony Abbott promises to recognise Aborigines as nation's first people - Sydney Morning Herald

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 4:19am

Tony Abbott promises to recognise Aborigines as nation's first people
Sydney Morning Herald
The Senior Australian of the Year, former federal politician and founding co-chairman of Reconciliation Australia, Fred Chaney, said it was important to work in partnership with the indigenous community to ''enable the Aboriginal people of Australia to ...

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Monarchists warn of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous recognition ... - ABC Online

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 3:38am

Sky News Australia

Monarchists warn of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous recognition ...
ABC Online
"The appalling desecration of Captain Cook's cottage in Melbourne by anti-Australia Day vandals will cause many people to resile from the very thought of a referendum and the now almost certain violence that will accompany it," the group's national ...
Chaney: Indigenous recognition achievableThe Australian
Monarchists criticised for warning of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous ...Radio Australia

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Labor ridicules proposal by Warren Mundine for indigenous treaties - The Australian

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 2:44am

Sydney Morning Herald

Labor ridicules proposal by Warren Mundine for indigenous treaties
The Australian
Tony Abbott's chief adviser on Aboriginal affairs, Warren Mundine, proposed the idea in an Australia Day address, saying the treaties could allow indigenous Australians to "forgive'', while resolving drawn-out native title cases. But Labor's spokesman ...
Chaney: Indigenous recognition achievableGeelong Advertiser
Abbott on indigenous recognition crusadeHerald Sun

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Australia Day: Indigenous people are told to 'get over it'. It's impossible - The Guardian

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 11:08pm

The Guardian

Australia Day: Indigenous people are told to 'get over it'. It's impossible
The Guardian
Australians may want us to "get over it", to stop being so "sensitive". But then, why do we still set aside a day of remembrance on ANZAC day to commemorate those who risked their lives at war? And why don't we acknowledge the brave Aboriginal fighters ...

Indigenous recognition referendum: Tony Abbott refuses to set a deadline - The Guardian

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 10:44pm

The Guardian

Indigenous recognition referendum: Tony Abbott refuses to set a deadline
The Guardian
Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP. The prime minister has hosed down calls to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution during this parliamentary term, saying the landmark reform needs to put to the people when it is most likely to succeed. On the ...

Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award - The West Australian

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 9:51pm

Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award
The West Australian
The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal ...

Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award - ABC Online

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 9:40pm

Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award
ABC Online
The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal ...

Aboriginal Athlete Receives Australia's Top Civic Honor - Voice of America

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 5:08pm

Voice of America

Aboriginal Athlete Receives Australia's Top Civic Honor
Voice of America
"But in the last five years, you know, I have really changed my perception of what is Australia Day, what it is to be Australian, and for me it is about celebrating the positives that, you know, we are still here as indigenous people.” Goodes is also ...

Survival Day seeks a positive focus - The Age

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 3:07pm

The Age

Survival Day seeks a positive focus
The Age
It could be any other Australia Day festival if it weren't for the didgeridoo droning and The Last Post. For indigenous Australians and many others at the seventh annual Survival Day festival in Belgrave on Sunday, January 26 is a day mixed with ...

Goodes great choice, say Australia Day revellers - Sydney Morning Herald

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 1:29pm

Sydney Morning Herald

Goodes great choice, say Australia Day revellers
Sydney Morning Herald
Australians celebrating in Circular Quay on Sunday described Adam Goodes as a wonderful ambassador and a rightful winner of the coveted Australian of the Year award. Goodes, an AFL champion and indigenous community leader, said he wanted to use ...

Political leaders want to right wrongs done to indigenous Australians - The Australian

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 1:13pm

The West Australian

Political leaders want to right wrongs done to indigenous Australians
The Australian
TONY Abbott and Bill Shorten have used Australia Day to reaffirm their strong commitment to advancing the constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians as soon as possible. The Prime Minister, who presided over a citizenship ceremony on the ...
Adam Goodes pushes for indigenous recognition ahead of Australia DaySydney Morning Herald
Abbott on indigenous recognition crusadeThe West Australian
Indigenous footballer Adam Goodes named Australian of the YearSBS

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Indigenous channel reappraises its strategy in reaching out to a broader range ... - The Australian

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 1:13pm

Indigenous channel reappraises its strategy in reaching out to a broader range ...
The Australian
RELAUNCHING as one of SBS's digital channels was meant to bring National Indigenous Television to a wider audience, but 12 months since its free-to-air debut the channel is reassessing its strategy after struggling to cut through to mainstream Australia.

Rio Tinto details blueprint for indigenous jobs - The Australian

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 1:08pm

Rio Tinto details blueprint for indigenous jobs
The Australian
Rio Tinto Australia managing director David Peever, who has been appointed to the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, has written to the indigenous jobs review headed by mining magnate Andrew Forrest to present a blueprint for change.

First nations need to sign treaties - The Australian

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 1:04pm

First nations need to sign treaties
The Australian
The head of Mr Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council, former ALP national president Warren Mundine, said indigenous Australians needed to "forgive Australia as a nation" and permit themselves to "love their country (and) take pride in Australia's ...

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