Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Mandarin
Turnbull: we are committed to doing things with, not to, Aboriginal people
The Mandarin
Lucy and I recently visited the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies AIATSIS here in Canberra. We learned there, that before European settlement, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians spoke up to 600 ...

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SBS
Sydney council votes to keep Australia Day
SBS
While council voted down the proposal, Mayor Darcy Byrne said it was time to "recognise the truth of colonisation" and backed plans for a memorial to Aboriginal people killed in the Frontier Wars. "Australia was the scene of a frontier war that ...
Sydney council votes to keep Aust DayNEWS.com.au

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Sydney council to consider Aust Day change
SBS
Mr Byrne will use his mayoral minutes to urge council to continue its festivities, but ensure it is a "day of reflection and commemoration" rather than celebration. "I'm proposing we consult with the local Aboriginal community about how the nature of ...

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ABC Local
Baby formula to be sold in remote Indigenous communities for same price as rest of Australia
ABC Local
Remote northern Indigenous communities will no longer have to pay more than the rest of the country for baby formula, thanks to a new deal with an Australian food supplier. The Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation (ALPA) reached an agreement ...

The Australian Financial Review
Closing the gap in Indigenous politics
The Australian Financial Review
Beyond the fierce political arguments over the date of Australia Day, over constitutional recognition or over the prospects of a new "voice" to parliament for Indigenous Australia, there's a much grittier reality being lived every day. That reality ...

Yahoo7 News
Australia still struggling to improve Aboriginal lives, report says
Yahoo7 News
Aborigines, who make up about three percent of the total national population of 25 million, are among the most disadvantaged Australians. Monday's report -- marking a decade since former prime minister Kevin Rudd made a historic apology to Aboriginal ...
Rudd's apology, 10 years on: the elusive hope of a 'breakthrough moment'The Guardian
Three reasons why the gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians aren't closingThe Conversation AU
Did this seminal moment in Australia's history change anything?NEWS.com.au
ABC Online -Tasmania Examiner
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The Guardian
Australia still struggling to improve Aboriginal lives, report says
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Sydney, Feb 12, 2018 (AFP) - - Australia is making some progress in improving health and education among its indigenous population, an annual report said Monday, but it is still missing most targets to reduce Aboriginal disadvantage a decade after ...
Bill Shorten says Labor will pursue Indigenous voice to parliament without CoalitionThe Guardian
Australia fails to 'close gap' in improving lives of Aborigines: reportReuters
Three reasons why the gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians aren't closingThe Conversation AU
Deutsche Welle
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Griffith News (press release)
Summer school nurtures future Indigenous researchers
Griffith News (press release)
After her aunt underwent surgery for lung cancer in November last year Eden's cousin sourced some Gumby Gumby from an Aboriginal elder. “My aunt has been drinking it as tea since the surgery and she's doing really well.” Native to Australia, the Gumby ...
New call for Indigenous reparation scheme to resolve 'national tragedy'SBS
New call for indigenous reparation schemeThe Border Mail

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Catholic Outlook (press release) (blog)
Next 10 years must deliver more for Indigenous Australians
Catholic Outlook (press release) (blog)
Darwin Bishop Eugene Hurley and the chair of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council have lamented the slow progress – and lack of progress in some cases – in the 10 years since then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered a ...

The Guardian
Bill Shorten says Labor will pursue Indigenous voice to parliament without Coalition
The Guardian
Shorten also committed Labor to a compensation scheme for members of the stolen generations in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, who are not able to access state-based schemes, saying that doing so was “resolving unfinished ...

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The Conversation AU
Rudd's apology, 10 years on: the elusive hope of a 'breakthrough moment'
The Guardian
A woman watches Kevin Rudd's apology to Indigenous Australians on 13 February 2008. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images. At 9am on 13 February 2008, Ian Hamm stood in the offices of the Aboriginal Advancement League in Thornbury, Melbourne ...
Australia still struggling to improve Aboriginal lives, report saysYahoo7 News
Australia fails to 'close gap' in improving lives of Aborigines: reportReuters
Three reasons why the gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians aren't closingThe Conversation AU
Deutsche Welle
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The Conversation AU
Three reasons why the gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians aren't closing
The Conversation AU
This year's Closing the Gap report tells a more positive story than the 2017 report on the seven measurable gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in the areas of health, education and employment. According to the government's figures ...

Tasmania Examiner
On Closing the Gap day, politicians should stop talking and listen
The Guardian (blog)
This from two leaders who are overseeing the implementation of $500m-plus of cuts to Indigenous programs from the 2014 federal budget, as if doing so has had no impact on the width of “the gap”. Such a voice to parliament would say that Closing the Gap ...
Apology, Sorry Day: Did this moment change anything?NEWS.com.au
Australia to commemorate tenth anniversary of national apologyTasmania Examiner
Government might legislate indigenous 'voice'The Australian
Northern Star
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The Guardian
Wayne Swan says Barnaby Joyce can't survive the controversy – as it happened
The Guardian
Also launched today, the Indigenous Grants Policy (IGP) will pilot a new approach to Indigenous service delivery. The new IGP will apply the principles of the IPP to our service delivery funding, to increase the number of Indigenous owned and ...
PoliticsNow: Live news, analysis, video from CanberraThe Australian

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The Northern Daily Leader
Gunnedah connected Harley Winsor will be representing Australia at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea
The Northern Daily Leader
What started as a passing interest soon became an obsession for Harley as he developed his skills under the watchful eye of Russian born couple, Andrei and Galina Pachin, at Canterbury Ice Rink. It was this Russian connection that eventually saw him ...

The Australian
PoliticsNow: Rolling news, analysis, video from Canberra
The Australian
“I think if you were to ask all Australians, black and white, what it would now be like if we had not delivered a national apology 10 years ago I think the country would be radically different. Mr Rudd said it was a “false dichotomy” to put practical ...
'Where do you guys get off?': Cabinet minister's hallway rant over Barnaby JoyceThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Save the Children Australia and Aarnja Empowered Communities collaborate to empower families in the Dampier ...
Save The Children Australia
Families in the Dampier Peninsular will get a boost to children's services through a partnership between Save the Children Australia and Aarnja Empowered Communities. The partnership was signed in December last year with the aim of the two ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Push for Indigenous XI in Futures League
The Sydney Morning Herald
Australian Indigenous cricket captain Dan Christian has called for an Indigenous XI to be included in the Futures League in a bid to fast-track the development of the nation's Indigenous cricketers. Veteran all-rounder Christian, one of only a handful ...

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The Australian
Government might legislate indigenous 'voice'
The Australian
Meanwhile, Senator Dodson said the date of Australia Day did not need to change but there should be a stronger recognition of Aboriginal culture. “There is a real need for us to consider how we go about the celebrations on Australia Day and how are the ...
Why can't we fix this and Close the Gap?SBS

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SBS
Awkward question Australians must ask
The Queensland Times
TEN years ago on February 13, a small group of indigenous representatives walked uncertainly through security gates to the Prime Minister's courtyard inside Parliament House. They passed a low, sculptured representation of inland Australia with a ...
Why can't we fix this and Close the Gap?Illawarra Mercury

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