Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Good Food
Canberra's Indigenous gardener Adam Shipp reaps rewards at Greening Australia
Good Food
Adam Shipp has been working with Greening Australia in Aranda as the Indigenous restoration officer since 2012. He was born and raised in Canberra, spending all his school and working life here. His father is a Wiradjuri from central-west NSW; his ...

WA wants to go it alone on Aboriginal property reform
The Australian
Western Australia is refusing to work with an Abbott government committee examining reforms to indigenous property rights, a position the committee chairman has labelled “childish” and damaging to the push to create jobs and Aboriginal economic ...
Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WAABC Message Stick

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The Age
Aborigines have zero voice in Australia: Pearson
The Australian
“At the end of the day, parliament could say 'we don't listen to that advice' but it would be salutatory advice,” he said. He said that, as an “extreme minority”, indigenous Australians were “excluded from democratic structures”. “Yet, we are a special ...
Pearson proposal at odds with realityBrisbane Times

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Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WA
ABC Message Stick
The high rates of Indigenous incarceration in Australia are a blight on this country but head west and the number of Aboriginal children behind bars is truly disturbing. In fact the rates are so bad that after releasing a report on the national picture ...

ABC Online
Landcare co-founder and Indigenous advocate Phillip Toyne dies aged 67
ABC Online
Indigenous advocate and co-founder of the national Landcare program, Phillip Toyne, has died aged 67. Mr Toyne established the environmental organisation with Rick Farley in 1989 when he was head of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Prior to that ...
Phillip Toyne, environmentalist and champion of indigenous land rights, diesThe Australian
Tributes for Phillip Toyne, the quiet giant of environmental leadershipThe Fifth Estate
Co-founder of Landcare Australia program Phillip Toyne dies at 67The Guardian
Northern Rivers Echo
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The Australian
Phillip Toyne, environmentalist and champion of indigenous land rights, dies
The Australian
Mr Toyne is best known as the co-founder of the Landcare movement in 1989 while head of the Australian Conservation Foundation from 1986-1992; in a ground-breaking union that saw the environmental movement join forces with Australia's farmers.
Landcare co-founder and Indigenous advocate Phillip Toyne dies aged 67ABC Online
Leading environmental campaigner Phillip Toyne dies at 67Sydney Morning Herald
Landcare co-founder Phillip Toyne has died aged 67Fraser Coast Chronicle
The Guardian
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ABC Online
Youth suicide at crisis levels among Indigenous population, experts warn
ABC Online
Across Australia, young Indigenous Australians up to 24 years old are 5.2 times more likely to die due to intentional self-harm than other young people in the same age range. Rowe Butterworth knows the struggle all too well. His parents split when he ...

IANS
Dalai Lama meets aborigines in Australia
IANS
... could preserve precious Aboriginal custom and traditional knowledge by adapting modern technology. He also encouraged the Aboriginal people to maintain traditional names. The Dalai Lama will finish his Australian tour with a stop in Perth on Monday.
Dalai Lama meets with Uluru traditional owners; says more needs to be done to ...ABC Online

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Sydney Morning Herald
Matildas Kyah Simon and Lydia Williams the unlikely idols of Canada's ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The two Aboriginal stars of Australian women's football are blossoming into idols of an indigenous community on the other side of the world. Proudly waving the flag of their background on the biggest stage of the world, their success story is providing ...

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Financial Times
Aboriginal art auction: Australia's first nation comes to the saleroom
Financial Times
Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia, staged at the Asia Society in New York in 1988, was the first of a run of major shows to introduce overseas audiences to the complex art produced by one of the world's oldest continuing cultures, inspiring ...

Daily Life
Aboriginal groups distressed at high rate of Indigenous children removed from ...
Daily Life
Aboriginal groups are distressed at figures that show indigenous children are more than 12 times as likely to be placed in state care – a rate that places Victoria higher than the national average. Victoria has also registered the largest increase ...

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The Age
Aboriginal groups distressed at high rate of Indigenous children removed from ...
The Age
Aboriginal groups are distressed at figures that show indigenous children are more than 12 times as likely to be placed in state care – a rate that places Victoria higher than the national average. Victoria has also registered the largest increase ...

The Conversation UK
What residents of an English mining town learned from visiting Aboriginal ...
The Conversation UK
The groups, from Ashington, Northumberland, and various Aboriginal communities around Brisbane, Australia, have very different histories, traditions and environments, separated as they are by thousands of miles and years of human history. Members of ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal art collection sells for more than $2 million in historic Sotheby's ...
ABC Online
Sotheby's senior consultant from Australia, Tim Klingender, the specialist in charge of the sale, said he was thrilled with the results. "It was a bit of a risk to put a sale of Aboriginal art outside Australia and I always wondered whether Australian ...

ABC Online
WA Aboriginal children 53 times more likely to be jailed than peers, Amnesty ...
ABC Online
Western Australia's Chief Justice Wayne Martin says the justice system must accept some of the blame for what he describes as "appalling" Aboriginal incarceration rates. A report released today by Amnesty International shows Aboriginal children in WA ...
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – AmnestyThe Guardian
Detention: WA worst state for jailing indigenous youthThe Australian
WA justice system must accept blame for state's 'appalling' Aboriginal ...ABC Message Stick
NEWS.com.au
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The Guardian
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – Amnesty
The Guardian
Aboriginal children who break the law in Western Australia are less likely to get off with just a caution than non-Aboriginal children, less likely to receive bail, and proportionally less likely to be referred to diversionary programs, according to a ...
Detention: WA worst state for jailing indigenous youthThe Australian
Indigenous youth 53 times more likely to end up in jail, report findsSBS
WA justice system must accept blame for state's 'appalling' Aboriginal ...ABC Message Stick
NEWS.com.au
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The Australian
Detention: WA worst state for jailing indigenous youth
The Australian
The report 'There is always a brighter future: Keeping Indigenous kids in the community and out of detention in Western Australia', was three years in the making, and includes research in Albany, Bunbury, Perth, Kalgoorlie, Geraldton, Broome, Mowanjum, ...
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – AmnestyThe Guardian
WA Aboriginal children 53 times more likely to be jailed than peers, Amnesty ...ABC Online
Indigenous youth 53 times more likely to end up in jail, report findsSBS
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SBS
More Indigenous women dying from pregnancy complications
SBS
Indigenous Australian women are at greater risk of dying due to complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, despite Australia's otherwise low rates of maternal death. A new report shows Indigenous women are dying at more than twice the rate of ...
Indigenous death rate in childbirth comparable to developing countriesThe Guardian
'Maternal deaths' are rare in Australia9news.com.au

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The Guardian
Indigenous death rate in childbirth comparable to developing countries
The Guardian
Indigenous Australians are receiving substandard medical care that sees them dying during childbirth at a rate comparable to women in developing countries, the regional manager of maternal and child health at the Institute of Urban Indigenous Health ...
More indigenous women dying from pregnancy complicationsSBS
'Maternal deaths' are rare in AustraliaThe Australian (blog)

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SBS
Housing crisis leaves Indigenous Australians in 'third world conditions'
SBS
It's claimed the current model is piece-meal and inefficient with Indigenous Australians overrepresented in homelessness and over-crowding. One family in Cummeragunja southern New South Wales is now living in a condemned residence, claiming they ...