Mainstream media news

Golf Australia
Crawley, Fahey control Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander champs
Golf Australia
Stunning weather greeted participants of the 2016 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Championships at Nudgee Golf Club today. With the course in beautiful condition, a couple of Maroochy River Golf Club members took control of both the men's and ...

Junkee
Australia's First Openly Gay Indigenous MP Delivered An Inspiring ...
Junkee
Labor MP Chansey Paech has declared his pride at being Australia's first openly gay Indigenous parliamentarian. Speaking yesterday during the first sitting of ...
I'm gay, I'm Indigenous, I'm proud: PaechSBS
'I am young, I am gay, I am black': 1st openly gay Indigenous MP's ...The Australian Women's Weekly
'I am young, I am gay, I am black': 13th NT Parliament opens to ...ABC Online

all 7 news articles »

Brighton and Hove News
Australian Aboriginal remains begin long journey home
Birmingham Newsroom
A collection of Aboriginal remains discovered at the University of Birmingham and at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, were handed back to traditional custodians from Australia in a spiritual ceremony last week (14 October 2016). The ancestral remains ...
Cup made from aboriginal man's skull returned to Australia for burialBrighton and Hove News

all 2 news articles »

The Australian
Atlantic Philanthropies project to boost indigenous leadership
The Australian
The University of Melbourne last week became the lead institution for one of the biggest single philanthropic projects in Australian history. The size, scale and ambition of the $160 million, 20-year project are breathtaking. And it's pure Atlantic ...

and more »

The Australian
Bill Leak cartoon: the war on free speech has just begun
The Australian
Free speech is always a first-order priority — because, without it, you can't truly discuss any of the others. Dalrymple's diagnosis — that political correctness is to thought as “sentimentality is to compassion” — applies surely to Australian ...
Je suis Bill Leak: where is the Left now?Herald Sun (blog)
Abbott tweets to re-open debate on 18cSky News Australia

all 24 news articles »

SBS
Significant Indigenous artworks to be auctioned off in Melbourne - SBS
SBS
A comprehensive international collection of Indigenous Australian artworks has come home. Owned by US tech magnate, Stephen Luczo, and his wife Agatha, ...

and more »

Deanna Schreiber nominated for NSW Senior Australian of the Year award
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
She is a finalist the NSW Senior Australian of the Year category. Mrs Schreiber was praised by the National Australia Day Council work her work with the with the Sutherland Shire Aboriginal community over the past four decades in the areas of health, ...

UQ News
Urgency demanded for Indigenous maternity services
UQ News
“We need a new maternity services plan, incorporating high level monitoring, otherwise Australia will not tackle emerging priorities and complete unfinished business from the last plan, particularly for Indigenous women in rural and remote communities.”.

UQ News
Urgency demanded for Indigenous maternity services
UQ News
“We need a new maternity services plan, incorporating high level monitoring, otherwise Australia will not tackle emerging priorities and complete unfinished business from the last plan, particularly for Indigenous women in rural and remote communities.”.

NT Aboriginal boarding school in jeopardy
The Australian
Almost 300 Northern Territory children have rallied outside Parliament House demanding the government save Australia's largest Aboriginal boarding school. Darwin's Kormilda School, which has severe financial woes, is at risk of closing and wants ...

and more »

NT Aboriginal boarding school in jeopardy
NEWS.com.au
Almost 300 Northern Territory children have rallied outside Parliament House demanding the government save Australia's largest Aboriginal boarding school. Darwin's Kormilda School, which has severe financial woes, is at risk of closing and wants ...

and more »

SBS
NT Aboriginal boarding school in jeopardy
SBS
Almost 300 Northern Territory children have rallied outside Parliament House demanding the government save Australia's largest Aboriginal boarding school. Darwin's Kormilda School, which has severe financial woes, is at risk of closing and wants ...
Long asks PM to scrap Royal CommissionSky News Australia
AFL great Michael Long addresses a Kormilda College rally on the steps of NT Parliament House. PICTURE: Michael ...NEWS.com.au

all 6 news articles »

theMusic
Whitewashed 'Priscilla' Comes Under Fire For Dropping Sole Aboriginal Character
theMusic
The Australian theatre scene has often been criticised for under-representing Indigenous performers, but the decision by producers of the hit show Priscilla Queen of the Desert: the Musical to remove the sole Aboriginal character from the production's ...

B&T
Commonwealth Bank Announces $15 Million Investment In Women's Cricket Australia
B&T
Cricket Australia and the Commonwealth Bank have committed to the single largest investment in women's sport and diversity programs in Australia Women's cricket, Australia's Indigenous players and players with a disability are the big winners after ...
CA, CommBank make landmark investmentcricket.com.au
Cricket Australia's $15 million injection for women and diversity programsFox Sports
CommBank pumps $15m into women's cricketAdNews
The Australian -SportsPro Media -ABC Online
all 16 news articles »

New York Times
Kaakutja, Perhaps the First Known Boomerang Victim
New York Times
No one had ever seen trauma such as this in Australia's archaeological history, they said. They started reading into the ethnohistory of the Aboriginals and looking at cave paintings for clues. The literature directed them to two wooden weapons, the ...

and more »

Junkee
The 'Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert' Musical Has Cut Its Only ...
Junkee
At a time when the dominant depiction of Australians in film was Mick Dundee, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert famously offered a different ...
Garry McQuinn reveals he excluded Jimmy from Priscilla Queen of ...Daily Mail

all 3 news articles »

ABC Online
Casey Conway: Gay former NRL player and Indigenous model, becomes face of NT sexual health campaign
ABC Online
Casey Conway represents a triple-threat for organisers of the Northern Territory's latest sexual health campaign as a former national rugby league (NRL) player who is Aboriginal and gay. The Queenslander agreed to lend his face, and body, to a series ...

and more »

ABC Online
Casey Conway: Gay former NRL player and Indigenous model, becomes face of NT sexual health campaign
ABC Online
Casey Conway represents a triple-threat for organisers of the Northern Territory's latest sexual health campaign as a former national rugby league (NRL) player who is Aboriginal and gay. The Queenslander agreed to lend his face, and body, to a series ...

and more »Google News

Daily Review
Priscilla musical slammed for cutting only Aboriginal character
Daily Review
The producers of Australian hit Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the Musical have come under fire for cutting the character of Jimmy from the New Zealand production of the show, which opened last week. Jimmy is the only Aboriginal character in the ...
The 'Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert' Musical Has Cut Its Only Indigenous Australian CharacterJunkee

all 5 news articles »

ABC Online
Douglas Adams' Babel fish translator concept close to reality as language applications get smarter
ABC Online
"More and more people will understand that they do not just need to desert or discard their heritage language, such as Italians or Greeks in Australia, or Aboriginals in Australia," Professor Zuckermann said. "It means there will be more opportunities ...