Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Anger, sadness, shame: Stories by Indigenous Australians hit home  The Sydney Morning Herald

Adam Goodes and Deborah Cheetham tell their stories in Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, a new anthology that aims to break down stereotypes.

ABC News
Indigenous villagers concerned about town water source after approval of granite quarry
ABC News
The Indigenous village of Roelands, in Western Australia's South West, is a special place for the handful of people who live there. From the early 1940s it was used as a mission for stolen generations children. Roelands CEO Les Wallam was just four ...

Stellar line-up for first Roebourne peace concert
The West Australian
Archie will be joined by a line-up of local artists who'll take to the stage alongside Australia's top indigenous artists which include nationally acclaimed Broome artist Steven Pigram and Bidyadanga singer-songwriter John Bennett. Every day in the ...

ABC News
'Australian Antiques Roadshow' sees farmers hand in Aboriginal artefacts held for generations
ABC News
A unique team is embarking on what they call the "Australian Antiques Roadshow" to try to preserve ancient Aboriginal artefacts uncovered on farmland and, in some cases, kept in secret for generations.

The Australian
Desert footballers fight to save their game
The Australian
An Australian rules football league in South Australia's remote Aboriginal lands, suspended after incidents of violence, will not resume this year, the sport's governing body has ruled. But there is confidence a new community advisory board will work ...

The Australian
Uniting Church pulls out of Shalom Christian College indigenous school
The Australian
“It highlighted the incredibly difficult and complex space of indigenous education in Australia today … it wasn't condemnatory of the staff, the management or the board but it simply highlighted how challenging it was to operate in this space,” he said.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Anger, sadness, shame: Stories by Indigenous Australians hit home
The Sydney Morning Herald
Adam Goodes and Deborah Cheetham tell their stories in Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, a new anthology that aims to break down stereotypes.

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Brisbane Times
Anger, sadness, shame: Stories by Indigenous Australians hit home
Brisbane Times
I didn't know any Indigenous Australians and I had never really thought about how it would feel to be Aboriginal. But, like all the best writing, Noonuccal's words took me out of myself and made me realise how hurtful it would be to be taunted because ...

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The Australian
Writers pan Horne Prize's 'absurd PC censorship'
The Australian
Writers who spoke to The Weekend Australian said it appeared the new conditions would rule out, for example, an essay by a Caucasian person about the living conditions of Aboriginal people or the struggles faced by some refugees from Africa who settle ...

NT Aboriginal rangers offered govt grants
NEWS.com.au
The Larrakia rangers, representing the indigenous people from around Darwin, now have two boats. The group recently received a new $83,000 5.4-metre boat as part of the NT government Aboriginal ranger grants program that will be used for activities ...

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SBS (blog)
'Terrible injustice' if Aboriginal man Daniel Love is deported to PNG, lawyers say
SBS (blog)
The proud Kamilaroi man was born in PNG in 1979, and has been living in Australia since he was five on a permanent residency visa. However despite having an Aboriginal Australian father, his parents didn't complete the necessary paperwork to make him ...

Daily Telegraph
NSW council will move its Australia Day date
Daily Telegraph
Cr Cameron, who voted for said “it was not up to indigenous people” but up to council to change the date “out of respect”. Cr Hackett voted against and said she thought the issue should be delayed and put to the public. Cr Ndiaye said Australia 26 “was ...
Council to change Australia Day dateNorthern Star

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The Guardian (blog)
'Wholesale massacre': Carl Feilberg exposed the ugly truth of the Australian frontier
The Guardian (blog)
He wrote millions of words provoking the conscience of townspeople, frontiersman and politicians in Australia and Britain. His writings about colonial violence against Aboriginal people impacted federation and regional geopolitics, and enhanced ...

The Australian
How Rusty and co helped bring Rome home
The Australian
Encounters (2015) was a history of indigenous Australia told through objects — some previously unseen — drawn from the British Museum's collection, while A History of the World in 100 Objects (2016-17) drew record crowds to the NMA. Rosemary Neill ...

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The Conversation AU
Aboriginal people lived in Australia's desert interior 50000 years ago, earlier than first thought
The Conversation AU
New evidence shows that people have lived inland in Western Australia for more than 50,000 years. That's 10,000 years earlier than previously known for Australian deserts. The finding comes from archaeological work performed at the request of the ...
Research finds Aboriginals lived in Western Desert 50000 years agoUniversity News: The University of Western Australia

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ten daily
For Once I Agree With Pauline Hanson: It's More Than OK To Be White
ten daily
Look at our treatment of Indigenous Australians, for example. White people stole their land and have spent the last 248 years incarcerating them in much higher rates than the general population. In the Northern Territory, 84 percent of adult prisoners ...

RACGP
How close is Australia to becoming the first country to end HIV transmission?
RACGP
'We also need to take stock of very concerning increases in the rate of HIV among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – now double the rate of non-Indigenous Australians.' There are rising concerns regarding these increasing rates of HIV in ...

myPolice (press release) (blog)
Laura Police welcome Red Earth students
myPolice (press release) (blog)
Red Earth seeks to open the eyes of young Australians living in city areas by connecting them to students and communities in remote Indigenous Australia. Located over 300km north of Cairns, Laura is just one of their camping stops where students learn ...

Australian Mining
Fortescue awards two Aboriginal-owned businesses $6m in contracts
Australian Mining
Fortescue Metals Group has signed contracts with two Western Australian Aboriginal businesses totalling $6 million as part of the company's Billion Opportunities program. Kooya Australia Fleet Solutions was awarded a three-year contract for vehicle ...

Ballarat Courier
Five easy ways to explore what it really means to be Australian in Ballarat
Ballarat Courier
Engaging in conversations, with Aboriginal elders or youths, or presentations involving the experiences of indigenous Australians may not only open up your mind to one of the world's oldest cultures, but introduce you to an important part of our community.