Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Remembering Aboriginal service in the Great War, one century on
The Australian
Among the thousands of those first Anzacs were a number of First Australians, Aboriginal men who were prohibited from joining but did so anyway — Aboriginal men who answered a call that wasn't to them, to fight for a nation that didn't recognise them.

The Australian
Doctor's Dream an insight into indigenous disadvantage
The Australian
THE genre is well established, if unique to Australia: the memoir of discovery and self-discovery written by outside helpers after a spell of bush life in the remote Aboriginal communities of the centre or the north. It is a literary form that provides ...

ABC Online
Over-representation of Indigenous Australians in prison a catastrophe, says ...
ABC Online
The over-representation of Indigenous Australians in prison is one of the most urgent human rights issues facing the country today, according to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda. In his 2014 Social Justice ...
Indigenous incarceration: Tony Abbott focuses on school attendance and jobsThe Guardian
Australian Human Rights Commission Deplores Aboriginal Conviction RateSputnik International
Australian co-operative helps Aboriginal people fight discriminationCo-Operative News
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Australian Human Rights Commission Deplores Aboriginal Conviction Rate
Sputnik International
MOSCOW, December 4 (Sputnik) — The excessive number of indigenous people in Australian detention centers is a human rights issue the country needs to tackle immediately, Mick Gooda, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner, ...
Australian co-operative helps Aboriginal people fight discriminationCo-Operative News
Indigenous incarceration: Tony Abbott focuses on school attendance and jobsThe Guardian
Indigenous imprisonment urgent issue: GoodaEchonetdaily

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APY power granted to South Australia Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ian Hunter
The Australian
SOUTH Australian Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ian Hunter has been granted a historic new power to put the APY executive into administration, just hours after a no-confidence motion was passed against him for his handling of the indigenous lands crisis.

VICE News
Australia Is Locking Up Mentally Impaired Aboriginal Men in Jail Indefinitely
VICE News
The Australian Human Rights Commission investigated the cases of four aboriginal men — identified only as KA, KB, KC, and KD in the report — but these potentially represent just the tip of the iceberg. The cases expose a struggle to govern ...

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VICE News
Australia Is Locking Up Mentally Impaired Aboriginal Men in Jail Indefinitely
VICE News
The Australian Human Rights Commission investigated the cases of four aboriginal men — identified only as KA, KB, KC, and KD in the report — but these potentially represent just the tip of the iceberg. The cases expose a struggle to govern ...

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Co-Operative News
Australian co-operative helps Aboriginal people fight discrimination
Co-Operative News
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people represent one of the most profoundly disadvantaged groups in Australian society. Now a co-operative is trying to address this by improving the access of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to high quality ...
Australian Human Rights Commission Deplores Aboriginal Conviction RateSputnik International

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The Guardian
Indigenous legal aid cuts have harmed frontline services, says Productivity ...
The Guardian
The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency is closing its Nhulunbuy office despite increasing caseloads, while the New South Wales prisoner ThroughCare program, launched at the recommendation of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians can take pride in disability policy gains
The Conversation AU
Australia has improved on the reporting of disability within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities over the last few years. After significant lobbying, Australia is now one of the few countries to collect information on disability in the ...
Creating Digital Inclusion for Indigenous AustraliansPro Bono Australia
Yatdjuligin: an important new book for nursing and for the health of ...Crikey (blog)
Survivors join anti smoking campaignNational Indigenous Times

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians can take pride in disability policy gains
The Conversation AU
Australia has improved on the reporting of disability within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities over the last few years. After significant lobbying, Australia is now one of the few countries to collect information on disability in the ...
Creating Digital Inclusion for Indigenous AustraliansPro Bono Australia
Yatdjuligin: an important new book for nursing and for the health of ...Crikey (blog)
Survivors join anti smoking campaignNational Indigenous Times

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Creating Digital Inclusion for Indigenous Australians
Pro Bono Australia
Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are embracing new technologies, but significant barriers remain when it comes to participating fully in the digital economy and emerging social media culture, according to an e-book commissioned by the ...

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Indigenous communities 'have no rights to fight closures'
The Australian
South Australian Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ian Hunter said that up to 4000 people would be affected across the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands. “Prime Minister Abbott claims to be the prime minister for indigenous peoples, but his ...

Slump in resources earnings hits indigenous businesses living big on royalties
The Australian
Gumala Aboriginal Corporation, one of the richest indigenous businesses in Australia, last week suspended all programs and laid off more than 20 staff following a sharp drop in iron ore royalty income from its agreement with Rio Tinto. Gumala earned ...

The Canberra Times
Bar Association calls for more funding to Aboriginal legal services
The Canberra Times
He said the Bar Association believed the incarceration rate for indigenous Australians in the ACT was roughly triple that of non-indigenous, based on data from the Productivity Commission's Report on Government Services and from the Australian Bureau ...

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Brisbane Times
Bar Association calls for more funding to Aboriginal legal services
Brisbane Times
He said the Bar Association believed the incarceration rate for indigenous Australians in the ACT was roughly triple that of non-indigenous, based on data from the Productivity Commission's Report on Government Services and from the Australian Bureau ...

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Greens have trapped Aborigines in poverty says Warren Mundine
The Australian
“The Greens' agenda will keep indigenous Australians in poverty and is the greatest threat to the preservation of traditional language and culture. “Green groups in Australia want to keep indigenous Australians and their land frozen in time. “This is ...

ABC Online
As iron ore price plunges, Marcia Langton urges Aboriginal businesses to diversify
ABC Online
Professor Langton was a key speaker at an Indigenous business conference at the University of Western Australia in Perth on Monday. She said many of the successful Aboriginal businesses in WA were highly exposed to the iron ore price, which had ...
Marcia Langton lashes out at future fund silenceThe Australian

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ABC Online
Fred Chaney, retiring Reconciliation Australia head, hopes future Indigenous ...
ABC Online
"I think there's an enormous challenge in getting us away from a totally assimilationist mindset and understanding that a continuing part of Australia is the Aboriginal tribes and nations that are such an important ongoing part of the fabric of ...

Land trust 'failing Aborigines', says Ben Wyatt
The Australian
State Labor indigenous affairs spokesman Ben Wyatt will tell the Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference to be held at the University of Western Australia in Perth this week that divesting some of the 24 million hectares — about 10 ...