Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Freeman banks on support for islanders
The Australian
But Credit Suisse isn't alone, with Citigroup late last month unveiling a collaboration with Indigenous Business Australia and Supply Nation for a mentoring partnership for indigenous businesses. UBS supports the Nura Gili Centre for Indigenous ...

Review: Pilger's Utopia shows us Aboriginal Australia in 2014
The Conversation
Welcome to Aboriginal Australia in the 21st Century – John Pilger's Utopia. It was more than two decades ago when I saw John Pilger's 1986 documentary The Secret Country for the first time. I was a 17-year-old…

French Tribune
Kangaroo Sketch in Portuguese Prayer Book might Prove Existence of ...
French Tribune
This suggests the existence of Indigenous Australian before the arrival of Dutch. The book has been purchased at about US$15,000 by a New York gallery, Les Enluminures. It is believed that the book was possessed by a nun from western Portugal, named ...
'Kangaroo' sketch suggests Portuguese may have beaten Dutch to AustraliaBignews Portugal

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Summer camp aims to lift Indigenous uni enrolments
ABC Online
Indigenous students make up only one per cent of higher education enrolments in Australia. As Tracy Bowden reports, a special summer camp at the University of Sydney is hoping to help change that. TRACY BOWDEN, REPORTER: The summer holidays in ...

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ABC Online
Summer camp aims to lift Indigenous uni enrolments
ABC Online
Indigenous students make up only one per cent of higher education enrolments in Australia. As Tracy Bowden reports, a special summer camp at the University of Sydney is hoping to help change that. TRACY BOWDEN, REPORTER: The summer holidays in ...

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Bid to boost Indigenous cancer survival rates
SBS
The University of Western Australia's School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care is investigating different models of cancer treatment and how they could be used to boost Indigenous survival rates. Preliminary research indicates Aboriginal ...

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Outcomes much poorer for Indigenous Australians with cancer
SBS
The University of Western Australia's School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care is investigating different models of cancer treatment and how they could be used to boost Indigenous survival rates. Preliminary research indicates Aboriginal ...

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SBS
What changes to teaching of Indigenous history?
SBS
"There are two aspects to Australia's history that are paramount. The first of course is our Indigenous history, because for thousands of years Indigenous Australians have lived on this continent. The second aspect of our history is our beginnings as a ...
Rocking the education debate all over againThe Age
Kathy Marks: Review set to stoke culture fireNew Zealand Herald
Australia: New school curriculum to promote war and nationalismWorld Socialist Web Site

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From utopia to Utopia
artsHub Australia (subscription)
Two years in the making, Utopia is Pilger's fourth documentary on Indigenous Australia and includes interviews with those he first met during the making of his seminal film, The Secret Country, in 1985. Pilger's film moves from Sydney to Canberra, and ...

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to show in Ak
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Highlighting the many relationships to place and sparking debate as to the politics of land, My Countrycelebrates the powerful art of Indigenous Australians today. The exhibition comes to New Zealand thanks to support from the Australia Council for the ...

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Development Manager, Indigenous Strategy & Services
Pro Bono Australia
In 2012, the University launched the Wingara Mura – Bunga Barrabugu, a comprehensive strategic plan to renew the University's efforts to provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with opportunities to engage with one of Australia's best ...

The Guardian
Where exactly does Christopher Pyne stand on teaching Indigenous history?
The Guardian
There are two aspects of Australia's history that are paramount. First of course is our Indigenous history because for thousands of years Indigenous Australians have lived on this continent. The second aspect of our history is our beginnings as a ...
Inquiry labelled "disgusting"6minutes

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Indigenous hepatitis B program cash uncertainty
The West Australian
The chief executive of Hepatitis Australia says Commonwealth money meant to help Indigenous people deal with hepatitis B has yet to be distributed. Helen Tyrell says that, in August last year, then-health minister Tanya Plibersek assigned $5.8 million ...

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Indigenous hepatitis B program cash uncertainty
ABC Online
The chief executive of Hepatitis Australia says Commonwealth money meant to help Indigenous people deal with hepatitis B has yet to be distributed. Helen Tyrell says that, in August last year, then-health minister Tanya Plibersek assigned $5.8 million ...

The Guardian (blog)
Black Diggers: challenging Anzac myths
The Guardian (blog)
According to the Australian War Memorial, more than 400 Indigenous Australians fought for the British empire in the first world war. This is probably a conservative estimate: thanks to curious Commonwealth rules about who was eligible to fight ...

New exhibition presents indigenous views from across Aust
Voxy
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o TÄ maki is bringing the largest and most significant exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian art yet seen in New Zealand to Auckland with My Country: Contemporary Art from Black Australia from Friday 28 March.

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Dalje.com
Indigenous Peoples Higher Risk Bird Flu
Indian Country Today Media Network
Studies of indigenous populations in Alaska and Australia by researchers at Australia's University of Melbourne have found that genetic differences is the driver that puts Indigenous Peoples at higher risk of severe complications from the new, severe ...
Some indigenous people more susceptible to new flu strainsMENAFN.COM
Study indicates some groups have specific genetic make-up that prevents from ...News-Medical.net

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Tackling cancer in indigenous Australians
HealthCanal.com
Over the past 30 years, improvements in cancer treatments have resulted in better cancer survival in the wider community. Unfortunately, these same benefits have not been seen for Indigenous Australians who continue to experience much poorer outcomes ...
It's up to all Aussies to fight for a just societyMackay Daily Mercury

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New partnerships support Indigenous health
The Age
“I would like to be able to begin this conversation with my family, Wotjobaluk people, to then translate this into positive outcomes for Aboriginal people suffering from dementia in Australia. My ultimate goal is to incorporate a diagnostic approach ...

UPI.com
Some indigenous people more susceptible to new flu strains
UPI.com
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found indigenous people such as in Alaska and Australia displayed limited immunity response to the effects of influenza. Lead author Peter Doherty, a laureate professor from ...
Indigenous groups more vulnerable in fight against fluScience Daily (press release)

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