Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

SBS
Indigenous Elders launch campaign to tackle youth suicide
SBS
Aboriginal Elders from across Australia have united to tackle the alarming rate of Indigenous youth suicide. The Elders have written a report and launched a campaign to lobby Canberra for a new approach they hope could save a generation. In Western ...
Indigenous suicide at 'crisis' numbers after youth lose their cultural identityThe Guardian
As Industry Craves Authenticity, Aboriginal Fashion Week Takes FlightThe Business of Fashion
Aboriginal elders lament rise of youth suicidesABC Message Stick
Sydney Morning Herald
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Savings seen in indigenous bodies' merger
The Australian
A government ordered review of Indigenous Business Australia, which currently provides discount loans to Aboriginal companies, and the Indigenous Land Corporation has identified significant savings to the organisations' combined $3bn a year budget.

Indigenous Australian paintings put on display
DAWN.com
ISLAMABAD: Thousands of years old indigenous art forms from Australia went on display for the first time here on Sunday. The three-day exhibition, 'Bush Medicine', has been organised at the Nomad Gallery by the Australian High Commission.

The West Australian
Indigenous call for racism conscience vote
The Australian
THE Board of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples _ the peak indigenous group in the country _ has called for all members of the national parliament to have a conscience vote on the racial discrimination act changes. Section 18C of the ...
What we thinkJ-Wire Jewish Australian News Service

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Private enterprise urged to hire more Aboriginal staff
The Australian
Speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia roundtable, Mr Tudge outlined the challenges of the growing employment gap at a time when more than half of the indigenous population was younger than 20 years of age. Only 46 per cent of ...

Truthout Interviews John Pilger on Aborigine Assimilation by Abduction in ...
Truth-Out
According to a report filed by John Pilger on Truthout, Aborigine child abductions are number roughly 14,000 in 2013 alone. It's not family members who are taking these children; it's the Australian government. Under a government program designed to ...

Indigenous MMA athlete Chris Indich fighting for a UFC future at The Ultimate ...
Courier Mail
The 26-year-old is about to become Australia's first indigenous Mixed Martial Arts athlete to compete at the top of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Indich, nicknamed 'the Savage', will have less than 15 minutes to effect five years of ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Samson and Delilah: rewatching classic Australian films
The Guardian (blog)
... had its heart in the right place but its perspective is that of an outsider trying – and failing – to understand. Samson and Delilah is different. Brutal and brilliant, poignant and profound, it's one of our finest – and most painful – portraits of ...

The West Australian
Footy star speaks out on vilification
The West Australian
Larry Kickett, Australia's only indigenous football commissioner, says Federal Government plans to repeal part of the Racial Discrimination Act can only be a backward step - particularly in the eyes of those who still felt regularly vilified. Kickett ...

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Wellbeing by Starlight
Echonetdaily
Steve Strong will discuss concrete evidence of pre-Aboriginal inhabitation of Australia and Mary-Louise Myers is offering an in-depth workshop on women's health. This Easter we are also offering three two-hour workshops per day as well as the usual ...

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Samantha Harris: 'Girls with blonde hair always won'
BBC News
"Hard work pays off," according to model Samantha Harris. Described as Australia's first international indigenous model, she has become something of an inspiration after appearing on the covers of major magazines, including Vogue Australia. Now the ...

ABC Online
In the documentary 'Living My Way', Jake Briggs showcases his ability within ...
ABC Online
The First Peoples Disability Network Australia and Aboriginal Disability Network NSW have devised a comprehensive 10-point-plan for the implementation of the NDIS in Aboriginal communities, based on its work across the country in advocating for the ...
Indigenous students skipping school to avoid bullying and racismThe Conversation
Chancellor's Medallist focuses on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educationMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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SBS
Disaster declared in Cooktown as severe Tropical Cyclone Ita threatens to ...
Courier Mail
... as forecast. Latest tracking has it coming ashore at Murdoch Point, 50km north of Cape Flattery. The community of Laura, population about 100, and home to some of Australia's most magnificent Aboriginal art is also in the storm's firing line but ...
Aboriginal mayor demands Cape York cyclone sheltersSBS
Cyclone Ita predicted to reach category four off far north QueenslandRadio Australia

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The Guardian (blog)
The Gods of Wheat Street: where soap opera meets the spirit world
The Guardian (blog)
“Australian Aboriginal stories and spirituality are not Aesop's fables," Bell says. "There's not always a clear moral in the story. They can be a little inaccessible for Western audiences. Sometimes with indigenous cultures, the story is the thing that ...

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Indigenous students skipping school to avoid bullying and racism
The Conversation
More quantitative data is available in Australia about the experiences of racial discrimination for children and young people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent. In a seminar we gave this week at the Australian Institute of Family ...

New Statesman
Australia's grand vision for a national broadband network has shrunk
New Statesman
Despite Australia's terrors, people have been making their marks on this nation for longer than almost any other. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people are part of one of the oldest continuous human cultures, but their presence in modern Australia ...

Nova Peris links new race act to referendum
The Australian
Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten used Australia Day to reaffirm their commitment to advancing constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. The Prime Minister said recognition was a “national crusade''. “It is very important to me, it is very ...

Palestinians brought their condition upon themselves
The Australian (blog)
This article was the first I have heard that I was not to be reappointed to the board of Indigenous Business Australia or that the government was not happy with my performance. Interestingly, the article does not focus on the IBA but on the Indigenous ...

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5 Movies You Must See Before Going to Australia
Huffington Post
On its surface, Walkabout is just a survival story set in the Outback, but beneath the lush setting is a comparison of two contrasting, but colliding, worlds: city-life in Adelaide (the capital of South Australia) and the aboriginal, untamed life in ...

SBS
Artists fight to preserve royalty scheme
SBS
Members of Australia's art community have gathered at Boomalli Aboriginal Arts Cooperative to show their support for a royalty scheme aimed at helping artists collect ongoing profits from the resale of their works. By. Tara Callinan. Source. NITV News.

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