Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Aboriginal languages finding new life with technology
GlobalNews.ca
The result of all the work was the Chat app, which is available in over 100 aboriginal languages – every Canadian one and others in places like Australia and the U.S. too. So far, the app has been downloaded about 7,000 times. “When going through ...

Australia's Uranium Bonanza: Making the World a More Dangerous Place
Center for Research on Globalization
Australia has 40% of the world's uranium, all of it on indigenous land. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has just been to India to sell uranium to a government that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and whose enemy, Pakistan, is ...
Indian leaders interact with Australian premierTimes of India
The grubby saga of uranium sales to IndiaThe Guardian (Australia)

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Boxscore
Australia's Indigenous cricket team finishes tour with three wins and two losses
Boxscore
Cricket Australia: (Oct. 24, 2012) - The National Indigenous Cricket Development Squad has been defeated by 20 runs by MIG Cricket Club in Mumbai today, finishing their 12-day tour of India with three wins and two losses. Results Game 1 – 35 overs ...

Desert memories come into vogue
The Australian
It will be the largest single-owner auction of indigenous and non-indigenous contemporary Australian art. The sale will comprise about 25 per cent of the famous Laverty Collection and will include works by William Robinson, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Peter ...

TV mogul now a 'big brother'
The Australian
Flanked by the likes of UBS Australia chief executive Matthew Grounds, Future Fund chairman David Gonski and former Fairfax chief Fred Hilmer, he will open Balnaves Place, the new home for the university's Nura Gili Centre for Indigenous Programs that ...

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Billions spent but Aborigines still live in the third world
The Australian
They failed to educate most of the indigenous people of the Northern Territory; failed to make them healthy or create jobs for them. It is a failure shared by both parties here and in Canberra, and shared by people outside of politics. It is a failure ...
Anderson calls for schools to be made equalABC Online

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Sydney Morning Herald
Redfern in their words
Sydney Morning Herald
McGovern says he knew little of Aboriginal Australia but that this was, if anything, an advantage. ''The writers were unguarded and open. In a way, they granted me the right to be stupid and to offend. I could go in there and say things that no white ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Climbing Uluru could be banned
Telegraph.co.uk
The giant red landmark, located in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, is sacred to the Anangu, the Aboriginal people of the area, who have jointly run the park with the Australian Government since 1985. While it is currently not prohibited to climb ...
Climbing Uluru at risk as numbers dropNEWS.com.au
Ban on climbing Uluru comes nearer as ratio of visitors tackling the iconic ...Daily Mail
Visitors to Uluru could be banned from climbing on itTNT Magazine

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The Canberra Times
GP conference to tackle the issue of racism in health services
Crikey (blog)
The health system needs to be more proactive in addressing racism, according to a submission made by the RACGP National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health to the Australian Human Rights Commission National Anti-Racism ...
High-achieving ACT youngsters lead the wayThe Canberra Times

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ABC Local
Top end station set to achieve Australian first in carbon farming
ABC Local
This burning draws on traditional fire practices used by indigenous people before white settlement, and could turn out to be a substantial income earner in the carbon offsets market. This project centres on Fish River Station, around 2 hours south of ...

Burnett Heads students rap
Bundaberg News Mail
The competition encourages primary schools to perform and film their own version of the GenerationOne theme song Hands Across Australia, to inspire their response to indigenous disparity. Burnett Heads primary teacher Jodie Hack said they decided to ...
Coffs students try their hands at performingClarence Valley Daily Examiner

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Anderson calls for schools to be made equal
ABC Online
Indigenous Advancement Minister Alison Anderson says Aboriginal languages should not be taught at remote Northern Territory schools. She says Indigenous schools should have the same learning requirements as those in capital cities. Ms Anderson has ...

Coffs students try their hands at performing
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
The winning school is awarded $15,000 and the campaign is part of GenerationOne's aim to bring all Australians together to end the disparity between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in one generation. Singing, dancing and filming their ...

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BBC News
Indian leaders interact with Australian premier
Times of India
The topics ranging from attacks on Indian students in Australia, Australia's diplomatic priorities and recognition of Australia's indigenous population. Well-known television personality and the anchor of popular chat show 'The Devil's Advocate', Karan ...
Seed sown for farmers' sexy imageSydney Morning Herald
Australian opposition leader apologizes to PMKTVL
Suddenly, a glimmer of hopeThe Canberra Times

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The Australian Constitution: it's the right thing to do
National Indigenous Times
His is a story pretty typical for an Aboriginal man of that vintage: grew up on a mission, knew hard times as a kid, worked hard his whole life, never had a lot of spare cash. His main preoccupation these days is making sure that his children and ...

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Aboriginal art in the home of absinthe
swissinfo.ch
But Môtiers is in fact a cultural capital – albeit Australian culture. La Grange museum is part of the Château d'Ivernois and is filled with aboriginal art. At the moment it is home to "Waii" – an exhibition of the engravings of Dennis Nona, a print ...

Income management raises gender issues
SBS
As income management is implemented in South Australia's APY Aboriginal Lands, signs are emerging that it's creating a gender divide, SBS reporter Karen Ashford reports. SBS Radio: Income management raises fresh concerns. The SBS MP3 Player ...

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Get 'corporate' with economy, Treasurer Wayne Swan told
The Australian
The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows the indigenous fertility rate is 2.57 babies for each woman, compared with 1.89 for all women in Australia. The peak age group for Aboriginal women to give birth was 20-24 and the birth rate was 149 ...

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Bonus cut will hurt indigenous mums: MP
Herald Sun
As part of its mid-year budget update, the government will reduce the bonus from $5000 to $3000 for second and subsequent children from mid-2013. Treasurer Wayne Swan justified the change by arguing "after the first child you've already bought the cot, ...

Bonus cut will hurt indigenous mums: MP
The Australian
As part of its mid-year budget update, the government will reduce the bonus from $5000 to $3000 for second and subsequent children from mid-2013. Treasurer Wayne Swan justified the change by arguing "after the first child you've already bought the cot, ...

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