Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Aboriginal health is everybody's business
Crikey (blog)
The Croakey Reporting Service's last post from the Health Workforce Australia Conference details how the development of a culturally inclusive, interdisciplinary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health curriculum framework is contributing to ...

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'Barking up the wrong tree': Australia's indigenous diabetes strategy
Endocrinology Update
Strategies to tackle type 2 diabetes among indigenous people need to get out of the clinics and into the community, finds an review that suggests Australia's efforts in particular need a re-jig. Indigenous populations across the globe are the hardest ...

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Screen Australia funds four Indigenous film-makers
MuMbrella
The funding is provided through the Screen Australia Indigenous Department's Long Black Feature program, a strategic initiative aimed at encouraging and supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to author and craft outstanding feature ...

Your ABC, the public broadcaster that's lost its sense of purpose
The Australian
It actually puts indigenous Australians on the box, just as the ABC would if it was fulfilling its statutory obligation to "reflect the cultural diversity of the Australian community". The ABC's charter runs to a mere 500 words but, even so, the ...

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Labor rejects remote agency amalgamation
The Australian
The Australian revealed yesterday that the Coalition had launched a review to determine whether Indigenous Business Australia and the ILC -- worth a combined $3 billion should be merged. Mr Neumann told The Australian : "I don't necessarily think ...

Tiga Bayles on Indigenous constitutional recognition.
ABC Online (blog)
"Whereas the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God, have agreed to unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth under the Crown of the United Kingdom of ...

Coalition Overhauls Remote Indigenous Jobs Program
Pro Bono Australia
The $1.5 billion RJCP started in July in 60 remote regions across Australia, replacing four previous employment services in remote Australia: the Community Development Employments Projects program, Job Services Australia, the Indigenous Employment ...

I'll be Abbott's worst nightmare, vows top indigenous adviser Mundine
The Australian
TONY Abbott's top adviser on Aboriginal affairs says his shake-up of indigenous policy will be as bold as the Hawke and Keating governments' economic reforms and help to transform welfare for all Australians. Warren Mundine, chairman of the new ...
I'll be nightmare for Abbott: MundineThe West Australian

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Remote indigenous agencies overhaul
The Australian
INDIGENOUS Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has moved to overhaul two of the nation's most powerful Aboriginal economic bodies, launching a review to determine whether Indigenous Business Australia and the Indigenous Land Corporation should be ...

PwC's Indigenous Consulting: Creating Advantage::
Invest in Australia
PIC, which is majority Indigenous owned, led and managed, is now Australia's biggest Indigenous consulting firm, which aims to create shared value – commercial activity that can deliver societal impact - by bringing cultural integrity to Indigenous ...

Finding common ground
The Australian
Yaru means "rock" in Bundjalung language: the Slabbs own 51 per cent of the company, making this Australia's first indigenous bottled water. It's an attractive package: the company's first customer was the Sofitel hotel group and in the past couple of ...

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Indigenous business a culture watershed
The Australian
The Slabbs control 51 per cent of the business, making Yaru Australia's first indigenous-owned bottled water. Through Supply Nation, an organisation that connects corporate and government customers with indigenous businesses and suppliers, Yaru has ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Game face … Patty Mills is only the second indigenous Australian to play in ...
Sydney Morning Herald
He's only the second indigenous Australian to achieve such a feat, after Torres Strait Islander Nathan Jawai, who made history when he debuted for the Toronto Raptors in 2008. (Jawai now plays for Galatasaray Liv Hospital of the Turkish Basketball ...

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The Darkside offers indigenous insight to the spirit world
The Australian
Is it possible that indigenous people, with a culture rooted in stories of an ancient Dreamtime, have a deeper insight into spiritual reality than those of us reared in the traditions of Western scientific enlightenment? The Darkside won't provide ...

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Fines and bans for telco that ripped off Indigenous Australians
ZDNet
The Australian Federal Court today handed out over half a million dollars in fines against Excite Mobile and three of its staff members after they were found to have engaged in false and misleading conduct with customers in remote indigenous ...

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How fear and funding undercut a fair go for Indigenous Victorians
The Conversation
While most Australians are well aware of entrenched criminal justice issues facing Indigenous men and women, such as the disproportionately high rates of imprisonment, our new research shows that those legal problems go well beyond police and prisons.

SBS
Marking 50 years of Indigenous federal voting
SBS
Queensland and Western Australia, for example, were the only states that had laws specifically preventing Indigenous people from voting while South Australia gave all adults, including Indigenous adults, the right to vote. At the Commonwealth level ...
What can Australia learn from other countries about Birth Registration?HealthCanal.com

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Metro
Uluru resort will not fail
The Australian
The ILC last month made changes to the Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia board, appointing a new chairwoman and five new directors, sparking a row over the resort's profitability. ILC chairwoman Dawn Casey linked the changes to a writedown in the ...
Climbers urged to resist lure of Australia's UluruThe Star Online
Direct flights from China on cards for UluruTravel Weekly
Ashes 2013: Could trip to Ayers Rock see England boomerang back in Adelaide?Daily Mail
Daily Star
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'A troubled relationship': Media struggles with reporting on Indigenous Aussies
SBS
Indigenous Australia has long had a troubled relationship with the mainstream media. On Invasion Day in 2012, a small gathering of people outside Old Parliament House were told Tony Abbott wanted the Tent Embassy torn down. It later emerged the ...

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Indigenous teens make movies with the VCA
artsHub Australia (subscription)
... Nue Dae, alongside the 2012 hit The Sapphires, feature Indigenous actors telling stories based on real life events and situations, opening up a broader discussion of how Indigenous culture is and has been represented through Australian film and ...

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