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Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Nakkiah Lui's Black is the New White turns racism on its head - The Australian

Fri, 2017/05/12 - 2:16pm

The Australian

Nakkiah Lui's Black is the New White turns racism on its head
The Australian
The play by Andrew Bovell pushed the boundaries but failed to present the three-dimensional portrait of indigenous Australians that is at the core of Black is the New White. It seemed a step too far to apply the same critical lens to the First Peoples ...

Netball Australia launches camp to encourage indigenous players - The Australian

Fri, 2017/05/12 - 2:06pm

The Australian

Netball Australia launches camp to encourage indigenous players
The Australian
According to Ella-Duncan, the first Aboriginal woman invited to the AIS and now a board member at Netball Australia, the camp will move beyond skills development and focus on preparing players for the demands of elite sport. “The high-performance camp ...

Into the Heart of Tasmania review: Gaining a sense of Aboriginal culture - The Sydney Morning Herald

Fri, 2017/05/12 - 9:01am

The Sydney Morning Herald

Into the Heart of Tasmania review: Gaining a sense of Aboriginal culture
The Sydney Morning Herald
It is a tribute to the value of archives in recording Australia's long and rich Aboriginal culture and heritage and will shape the way future scholars and academics proceed. They can now put to rest the myths of the colonial era perpetrated by those in ...

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Advance Australia Fair is our anthem, right or wrong - ABC Online

Fri, 2017/05/12 - 8:41am

ABC Online

Advance Australia Fair is our anthem, right or wrong
ABC Online
Indigenous people comprise fewer than 3 per cent of the Australian population but are more than 10 per cent of the National Rugby League competition. Of the 13 players who ran out for the Australian Kangaroos against New Zealand in the Anzac test, five ...

NRL Indigenous round kicks off amid national anthem controversy - SBS

Fri, 2017/05/12 - 7:15am

SBS

NRL Indigenous round kicks off amid national anthem controversy
SBS
Despite having kicked off just last night, this year NRL's Indigenous Round has already been shrouded in controversy. At last night's Bulldogs Cowboys game, Advance Australia Fair was sung in both the Dharug language and then in English. A NRL ...
Bulldogs' Elliott happy to be a role modelNRL.COM

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Push for Prime Minister's public servants to move to Alice Springs - Camden Haven Courier

Fri, 2017/05/12 - 2:32am

Camden Haven Courier

Push for Prime Minister's public servants to move to Alice Springs
Camden Haven Courier
Mike Reed, Chairman of the NT branch of Regional Development Australia, Northern Territory, says the indigenous programs and services being pursued by the federal government are failing, and that PM&C might have better luck if if put more people closer ...

Rheumatic heart disease a blight on indigenous population - The Australian

Wed, 2017/05/10 - 2:24pm

The Australian

Rheumatic heart disease a blight on indigenous population
The Australian
But many affected indigenous youth fail to receive more than half their monthly penicillin requirement. More than 2600 people in the Northern Territory have rheumatic heart disease, while sufferers in Western Australia's remote Kimberley Region are ...

Aboriginal Wandering Mission: third man charged over sex offences - The Australian

Wed, 2017/05/10 - 2:34am

Aboriginal Wandering Mission: third man charged over sex offences
The Australian
... ongoing investigations stemming from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which identified historic and persistent child sex offences occurring at the Wandering Mission and other locations within Western Australia.

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Turnbull Budget has Glaring Omissions for Indigenous Australians ... - Pro Bono Australia

Wed, 2017/05/10 - 1:45am

Pro Bono Australia

Turnbull Budget has Glaring Omissions for Indigenous Australians ...
Pro Bono Australia
The delivery of the 2017 budget for Indigenous Australians was a “mixed bag” of support and omissions, leaders of key Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
BUDGET 2017: Indigenous bodies say government is out of touch ...SBS

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Migrant, Indigenous bodies say new budget measures are discriminatory - SBS

Tue, 2017/05/09 - 8:38pm

SBS

Migrant, Indigenous bodies say new budget measures are discriminatory
SBS
The Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA) says proposed stricter residency requirements for the age pension, as well as the new foreign worker levy could be discriminatory. FECCA's concerns come as the national Aboriginal and ...

BUDGET 2017: What it means for Indigenous Australians - SBS

Tue, 2017/05/09 - 11:05am

SBS

BUDGET 2017: What it means for Indigenous Australians
SBS
The federal budget has been handed down in Parliament House with the government promising a fair and practical plan forward that makes the right choices for hard-working Australians. But how does the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population fair?
Family Matters. Let's keep Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids in culture.Save The Children Australia
Let's not miss more sports opportunitiesTownsville Bulletin
2017 Budget: $5.9 Million For Apps To Help Indigenous Kids With EducationGizmodo Australia

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Federal budget 2017: Aboriginal people exposed to British nuclear testing to receive improved health care - ABC Online

Mon, 2017/05/08 - 8:39pm

ABC Online

Federal budget 2017: Aboriginal people exposed to British nuclear testing to receive improved health care
ABC Online
Many Indigenous people were moved away before the tests in South Australia's far north. But some remained and were subjected to extreme levels of radiation, which a royal commission linked to significant injuries and disabilities. Veterans' Affairs ...

Indigenous Australian Archie Roach to perform at Bella Coola Music Fest - Coast Mountain News

Mon, 2017/05/08 - 6:37pm

Indigenous Australian Archie Roach to perform at Bella Coola Music Fest
Coast Mountain News
The men covered the troubled landscape of modern Aboriginal Australia in the hope of reawakening a discussion of the many issues faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and of Reconciliation. Archie continued to collect awards ...

Family Matters. Let's keep Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids in culture. - Save The Children Australia

Mon, 2017/05/08 - 11:36am

Save The Children Australia

Family Matters. Let's keep Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids in culture.
Save The Children Australia
In 2008, when Kevin Rudd made his historic apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous Australians, he envisaged 'a future where this parliament resolves that the injustices of the past must never, never happen again.' It is happening again, and it ...

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'Revenge porn' on 'mass scale' in Australia: survey - Yahoo7 News

Mon, 2017/05/08 - 7:55am

Yahoo7 News

'Revenge porn' on 'mass scale' in Australia: survey
Yahoo7 News
Academics at Monash University and RMIT University found that men and women were equally likely to be targetted, while 50 percent of those from minority groups, like Aboriginal Australians and those with disabilities, reported some form of abuse. About ...

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Australia needs a civil rights movement to end mass Indigenous ... - Independent Australia

Mon, 2017/05/08 - 6:44am

Independent Australia

Australia needs a civil rights movement to end mass Indigenous ...
Independent Australia
THE MASS INCARCERATION of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be a civil rights issue, one of the pressing issues of our generation.
Recognition: indigenous leaders rail at 'beads and trinkets'The Australian

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Little J & Big Cuz: Australia's First Animated Show for Indigenous Kids - Broadsheet

Mon, 2017/05/08 - 1:43am

Broadsheet

Little J & Big Cuz: Australia's First Animated Show for Indigenous Kids
Broadsheet
“Never before has an Australian animated show targeted an audience of four- to six-year-olds from the Indigenous community. As an Indigenous person this seemed wrong,” says director and designer Tony Thorne. “It should've happened 10 years ago.”.

Inquiry into WA Aboriginal trust - The Australian

Mon, 2017/05/08 - 12:58am

Inquiry into WA Aboriginal trust
The Australian
Australia needs Macron policies · Australia needs Macron policies Robert Gottliebsen. If we strip away the political rhetoric, the French president-elect has a set of policies that would transform Australia.

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