Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Wellington Times
Push for Prime Minister's public servants to move to Alice Springs
Wellington Times
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 ...

Push for Prime Minister's public servants to move to Alice Springs
Barossa & Light Herald
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 ...

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The Canberra Times
Push for Prime Minister's public servants to move to Alice Springs
The Canberra Times
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 more of its people were ...

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West Coast Sentinel
UN 'deeply disturbed' by Indigenous detention
West Coast Sentinel
Indigenous Australians are living in "appalling" conditions and young Aborigines in detention are "essentially being punished for being poor", the United Nations has declared in a scathing report. A 15-day tour of Indigenous communities and high-level ...

The Advertiser
In Australia, poorer means unhealthier
The Advertiser
The report notes while there have been some improvements overall in the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, including falls in smoking rates and infant mortality, indigenous Australians continue to have a lower life expectancy ...

SBS
Illegal love: Is this NT couple Australia's Richard and Mildred Loving?
SBS
In Australia's Northern Territory – also in 1959 – Mick Daly, a white Australian drover and his Aboriginal girlfriend, Gladys Namagu were refused permission to marry by Government officials. They were dubbed the 'Outback Romeo and Juliet' and their ...

The West Australian
Local councils consider Australia Day date change
The West Australian
Cockburn and Bassendean councils have formed working groups to review January 26 and consult with local Aboriginal communities after Fremantle sparked national debate when it decided to scrap its annual Australia Day fireworks. Elsewhere in the nation ...

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Perth Now
Councils talk Australia Day date change
Perth Now
Cockburn and Bassendean councils have formed working groups to review January 26 and consult with local Aboriginal communities after Fremantle sparked national debate when it decided to scrap its annual Australia Day fireworks. A City of Fremantle ...

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The Australian
Indigenous Australian Gene Gibson was lost in translation
The Australian
On the clipped green lawns of Perth's Supreme Court Gardens, two small children run around in the autumn sunshine, under the watchful eye of their Aboriginal grandma, aunts and teenage cousins. Inside the Victorian-era building, beyond the white entry ...

SBS
Car dealer hitting Indigenous customers with 48 per cent interest loans fined $1.2m
SBS
The Centrelink welfare debt crisis engulfing the Department of Human Services has been affecting Aboriginal Australians, with NITV receiving more than one hundred claims from people saying they have received of demands for repayment despite correctly ...

ABC Online
Walking in two worlds
ABC Online
MITS (Melbourne Indigenous Transition School) brings 22 Aboriginal students from around Australia to their Melbourne boarding house, and spends 12 months helping to prepare them for mainstream education. It then helps place them with different private ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Imagining an Indigenous led performing arts venue
ArtsHub (subscription)
A handful of venues including NORPA and Sydney Opera House have dedicated programs led and driven by Indigenous artists but there is not one major performing venue in Australia dedicated to Indigenous performance. 'We don't have Indigenous-owned ...

ECU News
Western Australia's Indigenous Prisoner Dilemma
ECU News
Two years ago, former Premier Colin Barnett stood on the steps of Parliament and addressed 500 indigenous Australians protesting for change of government policy regarding indigenous incarceration. “I would be failing you as the Premier of this state if ...

The Advertiser
Aged care probe after scabies scare
The Advertiser
Mr Norvill said he was organising to move his mother out of the home, who was a member of the Stolen Generation and was well respected in her adviser role in the South Australia's Aboriginal Health Research Ethics Committee since 1986. “She helped ...

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ABC Online
Nigel Scullion rejects United Nations' call for Australia to establish Indigenous justice target
ABC Online
Despite making up just 3 per cent of the general population, about a quarter of Australia's prison population is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The UN Special Rapporteur visited Perth's Bandyup Women's Prison, the Children's Koori Court in ...
UN expert slams high levels of discrimination against Aboriginals in AustraliaThe Canary
UN 'deeply disturbed' by Indigenous detentionNambucca Guardian News

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NT elders hope app can save young lives
NEWS.com.au
Warlpiri elders from Lajamanu have partnered with the Black Dog Institute to develop Australia's first indigenous community-led suicide prevention app. Young Aboriginal people die from suicide at five times the national rate. But Lajamanu has been ...

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NT elders hope app can save young lives
SBS
... hope to save lives by bringing their traditional wisdom into the digital age. Warlpiri elders from Lajamanu have partnered with the Black Dog Institute to develop Australia's first indigenous community-led suicide prevention app. Young Aboriginal ...

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National Indigenous Times
18C battle won but war not over: Congress NEWS
National Indigenous Times
The Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) said the defeat of the proposed changes was “a commonsense victory for Aboriginal Australians and human rights”. ALS Chairman and Walbunga elder Bunja Smith thanked the Senators who defeated the changes.

National Indigenous Times
18C battle won but war not over: Congress NEWS
National Indigenous Times
The Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) said the defeat of the proposed changes was “a commonsense victory for Aboriginal Australians and human rights”. ALS Chairman and Walbunga elder Bunja Smith thanked the Senators who defeated the changes.

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National Indigenous Times
Treaty talks begin for South Australia
National Indigenous Times
South Australia's Treaty Commissioner Roger Thomas began consultations this week with Aboriginal people to discuss what a state Treaty might look like. Initial talks will focus on whether Aboriginal people want a treaty, whether there should be a ...