Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Sky News Australia
Indigenous players face racism: Eddie Betts
Sky News Australia
'The throwing of a banana and its association with slurs on indigenous Australians and other cultural groups, which has sadly occurred in sports around the world, is deeply racist and offensive, and should be rejected by every part of our game ...
Internet says what authorities won't after banana allegedly thrown at Indigenous athleteMashable
Port Adelaide fan who threw banana at AFL star Eddie Betts agrees to cultural awareness programABC Online
Australia, we are terrible at talking about racismThe Monthly (subscription)
Huffington Post Australia -The Guardian
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Pro Bono Australia
Triggs to Act As Indigenous Social Justice Commissioner
Pro Bono Australia
Australian Human Rights Commission president Professor Gillian Triggs has been appointed as the acting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner for three months while a selection process is undertaken to replace former ...

Mashable
Banana allegedly thrown at Indigenous Australian athlete
Mashable
The Australian sporting community is reeling after a spectator allegedly threw a banana at Indigenous Australian player Eddie Betts during an Australian Football League (AFL) game in Adelaide Saturday. Betts, who plays for the Adelaide Football Club ...
Port Adelaide say fan who threw banana at Eddie Betts faces life banThe Guardian
Adelaide Crows 'disgusted' after banana thrown at Eddie Betts by Port Adelaide fan, Power to investigateABC Online
Port trying to contact AFL banana throwerSports News

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teleSUR English
Australia Marks 50 Years Since Historic Indigenous Walk Off
teleSUR English
On August 23 1966, a group of around 200 Gurindji men and women decided to walk off the Wave Hill cattle station in the town of Kalkarindji in the Northern Territory, in protest of the poor living and working conditions of Indigenous Australians. The ...
Wave Hill Walk Off 50th Anniversary - speech by Dave OliverACTU (press release)

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Quartz
Four Corners Don Dale report: Australia needs its own Black Lives ...
Quartz
On July 25, Australian current affairs program Four Corners aired a report focusing on the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, a former maximum-security prison ...
'We Tortured Some Kids': Parody Advert Unveils the Horrors at ...AlterNet
Worthy and Unworthy Victims of Child Abuse - CounterpunchCounterPunch

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NEWS.com.au
'Do black deaths matter?'
NEWS.com.au
He says “Black Lives Matter” overseas, but Australia is “not at a point where we can fully accept that”. The Project host used Friday night's editorial to tackle the huge number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders being locked up in Australian ...

Huffington Post
Indigenous Australians Fight Planned Nuclear Dump On Sacred Lands
Huffington Post
It's this above-ground dump for domestic waste that affects the Flinders, known for its haunting landscapes and home to the Adnyamathanha people, one of several hundred indigenous groups in Australia. For the first time, the government says it has ...

Australia Revisits Samples from Indigenous Australians
GenomeWeb
Australia has a cache of blood samples collected from indigenous Australians in the 1960 and 1970s that could be used to reconnect families and help treat disease, but the samples are tinged with a legacy of racism and exploitation, the Guardian reports.

Ever-present scandal surrounding the incarceration of indigenous Australians
Equal Times
The images have been seen around the world and have shaken Australia: teenager Dylan Voller hooded and to strapped a chair in the Don Dale juvenile detention centre near Darwin, in the north of the country. It is an image, along with others recorded ...

The Guardian
Indigenous rangers receive commonwealth funding commitment to 2020
The Guardian
Nigel Scullion has committed funding for the Indigenous ranger program to 2020, two years beyond the current federal government commitment, and will look at increasing it further. Speaking to a joint meeting of the Central and Northern Land Councils at ...

Indigenous Australians fight nuclear dump plan on 'sacred land'
Reuters UK
HAWKER, Australia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Enice Marsh remembers the black clouds of "poison stuff" that billowed from the northwest after British atomic bomb tests in the 1950s spread fallout across swathes of South Australia. Now a new kind of ...

StartupSmart
Meet the Australian entrepreneur using technology to preserve Indigenous culture who inspired Malcolm Turnbull
StartupSmart
An Australian entrepreneur is set to launch a new app to help preserve the culture of Indigenous Australians through technology. Northern Territory-based founder Mikaela Jade will launch the Digital Rangers app next month at the IUCN World Conservation ...

The Guardian
Indigenous DNA at centre of ethical furore could help reconnect stolen generations
The Guardian
Historic blood samples collected from Indigenous Australians could connect members of the stolen generations to their families and improve healthcare for chronic diseases, but not without confronting a troubled legacy of scientific exploitation and ...

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Thomson Reuters Foundation
Indigenous Australians fight nuclear dump plan on 'sacred land'
Reuters
HAWKER, Australia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Enice Marsh remembers the black clouds of "poison stuff" that billowed from the northwest after British atomic bomb tests in the 1950s spread fallout across swathes of South Australia. Now a new kind of ...
Fight over Australia nuclear dump shows clash of world viewsThomson Reuters Foundation

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Thomson Reuters Foundation
Indigenous Australians fight nuclear dump plan on "sacred land"
Thomson Reuters Foundation
It's this above-ground dump for domestic waste that affects the Flinders, known for its haunting landscapes and home to the Adnyamathanha people, one of several hundred indigenous groups in Australia. For the first time, the government says it has ...

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Artforum
Comments About Indigenous Australians from Marina Abramović's Forthcoming Memoir to be Removed
Artforum
Comments regarding indigenous Australians in the uncorrected proof of performance artist Marina Abramović's forthcoming memoir, Walk Through Walls, which have caused a great deal of backlash against her on social media (via #TheRacistIsPresent), will ...

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The Guardian
Marina Abramović responds to allegations of racism over comments about Indigenous Australians
The Guardian
New York-based performance artist Marina Abramović has attempted to clarify an inflammatory passage from an uncorrected proof of her forthcoming memoir, in which she refers to Indigenous Australians as “really strange and different” people, who “look ...
Star artist calls Indigenous Australians 'dinosaurs'BBC News
Artist Marina Abramovic calls indigenous Australians dinosaurs in ...Daily Mail
Marina Abramović Writes Disparagingly About Aboriginal Australians #TheRacistIsPresentHyperallergic
NEWS.com.au -ArtsHub (subscription) -Junkee
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Performance artist Marina Abramovic calls Aboriginal Australians ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
An excerpt from a draft of the memoirs of renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic has been slammed for describing Aboriginal Australians as "dinosaurs" ...
Marina Abramović responds to allegations of racism over comments about Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Marina Abramovic's memoir: Book describes Aborigines as ...NEWS.com.au
Star artist calls Indigenous Australians 'dinosaurs'BBC News
Daily Mail -Hyperallergic -ArtsHub (subscription) -Facebook
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The Guardian
Indigenous-owned company approved to open mine in Arnhem Land
The Guardian
Guardian Australia understands negotiations with Rio Tinto to sell the bauxite are under way and the mine still needs approval from the Northern Territory Department of Mines and Energy, which is not possible until after the 27 August election. A ...

9news.com.au
Artist's offensive description of indigenous Australians
9news.com.au
A renowned performance artist has described Australian aboriginal people as "dinosaurs" and "terrible" to look at in a new memoir, according to an excerpt posted online by a US critic. An extract from the book “Walk Through Walls” by Marina Abramovic ...
Artist Marina Abramovic calls indigenous Australians dinosaurs in ...Daily Mail
Marina Abramović Writes Disparagingly About Aboriginal ...Hyperallergic

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