Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian
Bathurst, where the spirits prowl and whisper painful, bloody truths
The Guardian
But it is amazing how very closely, when it comes to the Bathurst war – like so many others on the Australian frontier – various Indigenous and European records accord. ***. The country all around is drought-stricken and bone dry, dusty and desperate ...

The Australian
Business pushes for indigenous 'voice' referendum by 2020
The Australian
A referendum establishing an indigenous “voice” to parliament should be held within 12 months of a federal election, Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott has declared, raising the prospect of constitutional recognition ...

Ninety years on, no justice for Australia's last Aboriginal massacre
The New Daily
Tuesday marks 90 years since the last recorded massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia. The murder of a white dingo hunter by a Warlpiri tribesman led to a spate of revenge killings of Aboriginal people in Central Australia in 1928. Officially, 31 ...

When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia?  The Conversation AU

Aboriginal Australians have effectively been on their country for as long as modern human populations have been outside of Africa. We have a limit as to how ...

The Indian Express
Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull accused of 'humiliating' indigenous leaders
The Indian Express
Australia's indigenous leaders have accused Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's government of “humiliating” them by refusing to establish an indigenous advisory body to parliament. Turnbull on Sunday ruled out supporting a referendum on enshrining the ...
Australian PM accused of "humiliating" indigenous leadersXinhua

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The Indian Express
Australian PM accused of "humiliating" indigenous leaders
Xinhua
6 (Xinhua) -- Australia's indigenous leaders have accused Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's government of "humiliating" them by refusing to establish an indigenous advisory body to parliament. Prime Minister (PM) Malcolm Turnbull on Sunday ruled out ...
Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull accused of 'humiliating' indigenous leadersThe Indian Express

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ABC Message Stick
Tim Winton joins push for World Heritage listing of ancient rock art on WA's Dampier Archipelago
ABC Message Stick
Across the islands of Western Australia's remote Dampier Archipelago are more than a million ancient Aboriginal rock carvings known as petroglyphs. Indigenous people who coexisted with now extinct species have left an indelible record in the hard rock ...

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The Age
Sky News under fire for hosting far-right 'activist' Blair Cottrell
The Age
"If Aboriginal culture was just 24 hours old, white people colonised & created Australian civilisation in 5 minutes," he wrote online earlier this year. Cottrell was also found guilty of inciting serious contempt of Muslims in September 2017 after ...

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ABC News
Prime Minister accused of 'humiliating' Aboriginal leaders with rejection of referendum
ABC News
There has been optimism and broad support for the idea of establishing an Indigenous advisory body in the constitution among thousands of Australians at one of the most important Indigenous gatherings, the annual Garma Festival in Arnhem Land this ...
Empowered Aboriginals to succeed: PearsonThe Australian
Garma festival: PM's rejection of Uluru Statement a 'missed opportunity'SBS
Garma festival: Noel Pearson warns against treaty before constitutional dealThe Guardian

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SBS
Celebrating 25 years of Indigenous stories on screen
SBS
There were once very few Indigenous Australians in lead roles on television and in cinema. That changed with the establishment of the Indigenous Department at Screen Australia, 25 years ago. A quarter of a century on, Aboriginal writer, director and ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
The world is being undone before us. If we do not reimagine Australia, we will be undone too
The Guardian
It would make some sense of my father's odd, wry acceptance of the two times he suffered the indignity of being refused service in bars as a “half-caste” when we went on a family camping trip to Western Australia in the 70s. It was, I later learnt, not ...
Australia must confront the brutal truths of its history, says Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthyThe Sydney Morning Herald

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SBS
'Chef's Oscar' for champion of Australian native food, Jock Zonfrillo
SBS
Jock, who owns Adelaide's popular Orana restaurant, was awarded for his work as a champion of native Australian foods, and long-term supporter of many Indigenous communities. Food writer Melissa Leong says it's an extremely prestigious award.

ABC News
Noel Pearson says Indigenous Australians must not be intimidated by 'ordinary' Malcolm Turnbull
ABC News
A referendum to give Indigenous people more power to run their own affairs is a "life and death matter", Indigenous leaders say. At the Garma Festival in north-east Arnhem Land, Gumatj clan leaders Dr Galarrwuy Yunupingu and Djawa Yunupingu said they ...
Garma festival: Indigenous sovereignty would be a 'gift for all Australians''The Guardian
'Two peoples side by side' - The AustralianThe Australian
Garma festival: Australians need to 'recognise colonisation was wrong'SBS
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The Australian
Pearson pushes constitution-first line on indigenous treaty
The Australian
“The Uluru Statement from the Heart anticipated that following the constitutional voice, there will be a process of treaty, a process of national, regional and local agreement-making, of Makarrata, and we seek a commission to be established in ...
Pearson vows fight for voice will go on9news.com.au

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The Guardian
'Whitesplaining' and lip service: six Indigenous theatremakers critique the industry
The Guardian
As a public spat, it covered pretty much all the bases – race, gender, freedom of speech and the political divide – offering a good opportunity to take stock of the Indigenous theatre landscape as a whole. Guardian Australia asked six practitioners ...

The Guardian
Garma festival: Indigenous sovereignty would be a 'gift for all Australians''
The Guardian
The annual Garma festival in northeast Arnhem Land opened for the 20th year on Friday with attendees told that Indigenous sovereignty would be a “gift for all the Australian people”. At a ceremonial welcome at the Gulkula grounds on Gumatj country ...
Garma: Government urged to repair relations with Indigenous communitiesABC News
Garma festival: Australians need to recognise colonisation was wrong, says activistSBS

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The Australian
Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, War, Defence and Citizenship
The Australian
When Charles Bean wrote his 12-volume official history of Australia's involvement in World War I, he made a passing reference to just one Aboriginal Digger, a private who was highly decorated in the epic battle of Mont St Quentin on August 31, 1918 ...

The Australian
At-risk animals on menu for Aboriginal elder
The Australian
Galarrwuy Yunupingu has praised Captain Cook and Arthur Phillip before demanding Aborigines be allowed to eat endangered native species and pledging to ask governments to hand Australia back. The Gumatj leader spoke at the opening of the 20th ...

The Australian
British Museum to lift profile of world's oldest living culture
The Australian
The British Museum is seeking to address a Mediterranean “bias” in its collections and will devote more space to indigenous Australia, including historic artefacts and objects from the present day that demonstrate the “entire span of human history in ...

Yunupingu calls out government over land
NEWS.com.au
The Dilak Authority representing the Yolngu people had agreed this week to tell the government Australia's colonisation was wrong and it endorsed last year's Uluru statement calling for an Aboriginal voice in parliament through an independent ...

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