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Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Economy heading for cliff: Chaney - WA Business News

Sun, 2012/11/18 - 11:04pm

Economy heading for cliff: Chaney
WA Business News
Fresh legal action has been launched to stop Woodside's $35 billion gas hub project at James Price Point, near Broome, which has divided Aboriginal and community groups in Western Australia's far north. The Aus. Capacity fears grow for Fremantle Port ...

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Aboriginal language decline: the digital intervention - ABC Message Stick

Sun, 2012/11/18 - 10:38pm

Aboriginal language decline: the digital intervention
ABC Message Stick
Most Australian's are completely oblivious to the fact that our nation is home to some of the world's language diversity hotspots. Indigenous languages hold important stories of human history, but they are sadly in decline. ABC's Ben Collins writes ...

'Blackfella Facebook' for Indigenous youth - SBS

Sun, 2012/11/18 - 8:41pm

SBS

'Blackfella Facebook' for Indigenous youth
SBS
National Centre for Indigenous Excellence ambassador, and Indigenous Australian author, Anita Heiss, has already posted four goals on her own "Black Fella Facebook" profile page, which range from doing home improvements to reading 52 books in 52 ...

For Australian Aborigines, the Health Problems of Westernization - The Atlantic

Sun, 2012/11/18 - 4:05pm

The Atlantic

For Australian Aborigines, the Health Problems of Westernization
The Atlantic
The Australian aboriginal community Mutitjulu lies in the shadow of Uluru, one of the country's most popular tourist destinations, but it could not be more different from the polished walkways and restaurants that make up the neighboring resort town of ...

Death of girl sparks calls for croc hunts - The Australian

Sun, 2012/11/18 - 1:09pm

Death of girl sparks calls for croc hunts
The Australian
Graham Webb, chairman of the Crocodile Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, said properly organised trophy hunting could add to efforts by indigenous people to use crocodiles as a sustainable resource. Increase Text ...

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New action to stop $35bn gas hub - The Australian

Sun, 2012/11/18 - 1:04pm

New action to stop $35bn gas hub
The Australian
FRESH legal action has been launched to stop Woodside's $35 billion gas hub project at James Price Point, near Broome, which has divided Aboriginal and community groups in Western Australia's far north. The WA Supreme Court has been asked to ...

Boom creates Aboriginal prosperity - The Australian

Sun, 2012/11/18 - 1:04pm

Boom creates Aboriginal prosperity
The Australian
The University of Melbourne chair of Australian Indigenous Studies said the historic 1992 Mabo case, the Native Title Act and engagement with the mining sector had changed the paradigm for Aboriginal engagement with the private sector. "The emergence ...

Offending ourselves into a new age of censorship - NEWS.com.au

Sun, 2012/11/18 - 3:16am

Offending ourselves into a new age of censorship
NEWS.com.au
Logic should tell you that Abbott is hardly going to use a function where he is singing the praises of his fellow MP Ken Wyatt, the first indigenous Australian to be elected to the House of Representatives, as a vehicle to ridicule the sense of ...

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Child abuse inquiry may include issue of indigenous mistreatment - The Australian

Sun, 2012/11/18 - 1:35am

Child abuse inquiry may include issue of indigenous mistreatment
The Australian
“What we've discovered is that states doing their own inquiries (and) institutions doing their own internal inquiries haven't dealt with this issue sufficiently,” Mr Butler told Sky News's Australian Agenda. Asked whether the commission could be a ...

Today's aboriginal elders -- with their links to the past -- are forging an ... - Winnipeg Free Press

Sat, 2012/11/17 - 5:39pm

Winnipeg Free Press

Today's aboriginal elders -- with their links to the past -- are forging an ...
Winnipeg Free Press
Elsewhere in the world, countries such as Australia are working on land-management agreements with indigenous people for the same reason. A delegation of three aboriginal Australians met with experts, including traditional aboriginal elders and land ...

Censorship push shows too many taking offence - Adelaide Now

Sat, 2012/11/17 - 12:15pm

Censorship push shows too many taking offence
Adelaide Now
Logic should tell you that Abbott is hardly going to use a function where he is singing the praises of his fellow MP Ken Wyatt, the first indigenous Australian to be elected to the House of Representatives, as a vehicle to ridicule the sense of ...

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ABC2′s indigenous footy show axed - Media Spy

Fri, 2012/11/16 - 4:22pm

Media Spy

ABC2′s indigenous footy show axed
Media Spy
Covering Australian Rules Football from an Aboriginal standpoint, the show had been called ground-breaking for its mix of sport, music, personalities and culture. Executive producer and host Grant Hansen, who founded the show in its original format, ...
Cut program inspired cultural unityThe Age
The end for Mangrook showEsperance Express

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Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia selects SiteMinder as channel ... - TravelBizMonitor

Fri, 2012/11/16 - 2:28pm

Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia selects SiteMinder as channel ...
TravelBizMonitor
Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia has engaged global online distribution solutions provider, SiteMinder, to implement a holistic technology offering, and to extend their reach to more online markets around the world. Voyages' properties at Ayers ...

Cut program inspired cultural unity - The Age

Fri, 2012/11/16 - 1:07pm

The Age

Cut program inspired cultural unity
The Age
... be missing something significant. As for the ABC, I'm going to be one of many watching very closely to see how long it is before the national broadcaster comes up with a program that better serves both indigenous Australia and the cause of ...
The end for Mangrook showEsperance Express

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depressing example of populist politics - The Australian

Fri, 2012/11/16 - 1:05pm

ABC Online

depressing example of populist politics
The Australian
THE dismal, populist and doomed quality of Australian governance has been on display this week with Julia Gillard announcing an in-principle royal commission into child sexual abuse, a panicked Tony Abbott falling into line and an ignorant media ...
PM's assurance to Pell is a concernThe Age
Many a good deed undoneWA today

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Labor loses plot on Aborigines - The Australian (blog)

Fri, 2012/11/16 - 1:05pm

Labor loses plot on Aborigines
The Australian (blog)
Aborigines make up a far smaller percentage of Australia's population, and their support in a federal election might only be decisive in the seat of Lingiari in the Northern Territory and perhaps in one or two outer metropolitan seats in Sydney ...

Carving a route to indigenous wealth - The Age

Fri, 2012/11/16 - 1:04pm

The Age

Carving a route to indigenous wealth
The Age
By the late 1980s, indigenous policy and much public commentary in Australia was based on a paradigm that saw Aboriginal people as victims of a brutal colonial legacy, as residents of remote regions where they strove to maintain the vestiges of a ...

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Cleavage gives Canberra allure - Sydney Morning Herald

Fri, 2012/11/16 - 1:02pm

Sydney Morning Herald

Cleavage gives Canberra allure
Sydney Morning Herald
He quotes the author of Canberra's First Hundred Years, Frederick Robinson, explaining in 1924 that the Australian Aboriginal ''spat out his words like chewing tobacco'' and also ''burred his Rs more frequently than a Scotchman''. In short, Ngambri ...

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Carving a route to indigenous wealth - Brisbane Times

Fri, 2012/11/16 - 1:02pm

Brisbane Times

Carving a route to indigenous wealth
Brisbane Times
By the late 1980s, indigenous policy and much public commentary in Australia was based on a paradigm that saw Aboriginal people as victims of a brutal colonial legacy, as residents of remote regions where they strove to maintain the vestiges of a ...

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Wiradjuri artist Harry Wedge remembered - SBS

Fri, 2012/11/16 - 7:56am

SBS

Wiradjuri artist Harry Wedge remembered
SBS
The artwork of Indigenous Australian icon, Harry Wedge (SBS). The Wiradjuri people of New South Wales have lost another Indigenous icon recently - the artist Harry Wedge, who was also a nephew of activist Isobel Coe. NITV's Nancia Guivarra reports.

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