Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Lessons from Australia? Engaging indigenous peoples in carbon markets
On Line opinion
Carbon markets have long been a tool to reduce emissions that contribute to climate change. But globally, they remain fragmented, spanning mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol, the United Nations' REDD+ program and voluntary markets. Currently ...

Remote kids need full Western education
The Australian
WEST Australian indigenous MP Ben Wyatt says Aboriginal children in remote communities need a "full Western education" and many parents must compromise on activities they consider part of cultural life for the sake of their children's economic futures.

Sydney Morning Herald
Sapphires sparkle with 12 AACTA nods
ABC Message Stick
The feel-good feature tells the story of an all-girl singing group plucked from a remote Aboriginal community to play for Australian troops serving in Vietnam. Three of the nominations are for the film's cast, including best actor for Chris O'Dowd ...
Sapphires in running for 12 'Aussie Oscars'Brisbane Times
The Sapphires top of the AACTAs with 12 nominationsNEWS.com.au
Stars bright after making cut for awardsSydney Morning Herald
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The West Australian
Indigenous mining jobs push misguided, spokesman says
Australian Mining
The mining industry's drive to increase the number of Indigenous Australian in resources work is 'misguided' according to Indigenous spokesperson David Collard. His comments came yesterday at an Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations ...
Non-indigenous business owners exploiting Aboriginal employment and training ...The Australian
Mining job push for Aboriginals 'misguided'The West Australian
Indigenous corporate mentorship 'opening doors'SBS

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SBS
SA moves to recognise first peoples
SBS
It came a day after the federal government introduced an Act of Recognition into parliament to recognise that Australia was first inhabited by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The federal Act has been proposed because efforts to reform the ...

Sky News Australia
Blogger backs new packaging laws
Sky News Australia
Mr Pearson, a 32-year-old Aboriginal from Newcastle, ditched the durries on Friday - the day before Australia's world-first plain packaging laws began. His quit attempt is not linked to the laws, which force cigarette manufacturers to produce olive ...

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Grog-ban challenge sparks ire
The Australian
INDIGENOUS leaders have attacked a decision by the nation's peak Aboriginal body, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, to apply to join a High Court challenge against alcohol bans in Queensland. The High Court has agreed to hear a claim ...

SBS
Non-indigenous business owners exploiting Aboriginal employment and training ...
The Australian
The founder of The Willmett Group was at the University of Western Australia yesterday to offer his thoughts on indigenous employment to the annual Indigenous Business Enterprise and Corporations Conference. Professor Marcia Langton, chairwoman of ...
Indigenous mentorship 'opening doors'SBS

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First People's bid to join alcohol-ban challenge sparks Warren Mundine anger
The Australian
INDIGENOUS leaders have attacked a decision by the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples to apply to join a High Court challenge against alcohol restrictions in Queensland, arguing the nation's peak Aboriginal body should instead be thinking ...

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Shell to help combat petrol sniffing
Yahoo!7 News
Minister for Indigenous Health Warren Snowdon announced on Monday Shell would join BP in producing and supplying the fuel in remote Australia. BP will continue supplying the fuel in Central and South Australia and parts of Western Australia, including ...

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Blogger backs new packaging laws
The Australian (blog)
Mr Pearson's blogs have already spurred several other people to quit and he particularly wants to inspire young indigenous Australians. Smoking causes one out of every five deaths among Australia's indigenous population, according to the Menzies School ...

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Murgon woman a show stopper
The Queensland Times
Born to an Aborginal mother and a white Australian father, the actress has come a long way since she moved from Murgon to Brisbane when she 19. Purcell is currently starring in the ABC1 drama Redfern Now, a six-part series about indigenous Australians ...

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Celebration of Aboriginal culture comes to the Central Coast
ABC Online
The ABC Central Coast studio was filled with the sounds of Indigenous music from NAISDA Dance College - Australia's National Indigenous Dance Training College. The Datiwuy clan from Elcho Island in North East Arnhem Land played the didgeridoo, clap ...

SBS
Indigenous corporate mentorship 'opening doors'
SBS
+ Comment. 0. The Melbourne Business School and Victoria's Aboriginal Chamber of Commerce, Kinaway, built the program in response to research showing Australian Indigenous entrepreneurs have few fellow Indigenous role-models in business. (AAP) ...

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Newman Government will hear plan to give serial indigenous offenders work ...
The Australian
Indigenous leader Warren Mundine will meet with Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie next month to talk about his controversial proposal, which has been bankrolled by some of Australia's richest people. Mr Mundine, speaking exclusively to The Courier-Mail, ...

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Newman Government will hear plan to give serial indigenous offenders work ...
Herald Sun
Indigenous leader Warren Mundine will meet with Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie next month to talk about his controversial proposal, which has been bankrolled by some of Australia's richest people. Mr Mundine, speaking exclusively to The Courier-Mail, ...

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Top indigenous body seeks role in grog appeal
The Australian
THE nation's peak Aboriginal body, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, has made a controversial decision to apply to join a High Court challenge against alcohol restrictions in Queensland. The High Court has agreed to hear a claim by ...

NEWS.com.au
Suspect crocodile was known to locals
The Australian
One longtime Arnhem Land resident expressed surprise at the news, saying Aboriginal people were typically croc-wise. Another said children could act irresponsibly when their parents were distracted. Joe Morrison, chief of the North Australian ...
Locals fed suspected killer crocodileAdelaide Now

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Australia blind to disability needs: actor
Herald Sun
"Being indigenous and coming from a marginalised part of Australian society, I think it's important that we put the focus back on not just special needs people but their family (and) carers," he said. Digital Pass - $5 weekend papers. "Mainstream ...

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Australia : Launch of fairer deal on ATMs for remote indigenous communities ...
Equities.com
The Gillard Government welcomes the launch today of a new initiative by the Australian banking industry and two major independent ATM companies to provide free transactions at 79 ATMs across very remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

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