Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Local
Possum skin cloaks and bush medicine explained in Aboriginal seasonal calendar app
ABC Local
For tens of thousands of years, Australia's Indigenous people have lived by the seasons: hunting, gathering, healing and surviving the elements based on their knowledge of the land and water, climate and weather. In recent years, that knowledge has ...

The Guardian
How David Bowie's Let's Dance shone a light on Australia's Indigenous struggle
The Guardian
As King told Fairfax in 2013, “[The clip] showed the rest of the world that there are Indigenous people here in Australia, and that we're not this textbook carbon copy of someone standing there with a spear; that there are modern Aboriginals, and this ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
The album cover that launched David Bowie's Australia obsession
Sydney Morning Herald
Three years before Crocodile Dundee, David Bowie's famous 1983 film clip to Let's Dance, which swung a spotlight on indigenous struggles, was shot on location in Carinda, rural NSW. Then the music video for China Girl was filmed in Sydney the same year.
Singer gone ... David Bowie at The Rocks, Sydney in 2004. Picture: Alan PrykeNEWS.com.au

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NEWS.com.au
David Bowie's love for and fascination with Australia revealed
NEWS.com.au
The video of the title track was filmed around Sydney and the far north NSW town of Carinda with a strong focus on indigenous themes and the clash of urban and rural lifestyles. He felt strongly about the disenfranchisement of indigenous Australians ...

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Briefly: Tesla Competitors, Awesome Games Done Quick, Faking A Murderer
Lifehacker Australia
Brief news items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: An Indigenous Australian company is looking to compete with Tesla's Powerwall, this year's Awesome Games Done Quick earns over a million and Netflix's Making A Murderer might not have included ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Top city universities falling behind on indigenous enrolment
Sydney Morning Herald
"There is an aspirational impediment that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids think they couldn't get into the best universities in Australia, but the reality is they can and they succeed," said Sydney University deputy Vice-Chancellor Shane ...

The Guardian
'Operation Boomerang' lamb ad insults Indigenous people, say critics
The Guardian
The Australia Day-themed lamb commercial starring Lee Lin Chin has come under fire for depicting a military campaign called “Operation Boomerang” on what is considered a day of anger and mourning for many Indigenous people.

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Gizmodo Australia
Indigenous Australian Solar Energy Company Takes On Tesla
Gizmodo Australia
This Queensland company's core mission is based on the fundamental Aboriginal approach of stewardship of the earth and its resources, and this means a move away from a reliance on fossil fuels for energy. Oh, and it offers a 10kWh solar energy storage ...

ABC Online
Neville Bonner bark painting donated to Museum of Australian Democracy by ...
ABC Online
A bark painting depicting the life story of Australia's first Indigenous parliamentarian, Neville Bonner, has been donated to the Museum of Australian Democracy (MOAD) by his son, Alfred Bonner. The painting shows Bonner's birth in 1922 under a tree in ...

Choosing a new Australian flag
Independent Australia
Chair of the National Wattle Day Association, Terry Fewtrell, supports the Golden Wattle flag, arguing that the wattle links us to the earliest human occupation of this continent. Indigenous Australians have used wattle for thousands of years as a ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
Is There Anything Comparable in Australia???
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Attracting eminent artists and scholars from around the world, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is widely considered the finest collection of indigenous Australian art outside Australia. It possesses more than 1,800 objects, including paintings ...

UVA Today (press release) (registration)
Backed by Mellon Grant, UVA Establishes New Center to Study Indigenous Art
UVA Today (press release) (registration)
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is awarding $815,000 to the University of Virginia to create a research center for the study of the indigenous art of Australia and the Americas. The grant provides four years of funding for a proposal from the College ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Tarnanthi review: Art Gallery of SA festival shows vitality of Indigenous art
Sydney Morning Herald
Tarnanthi is the title of new Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia that sends a message about the resilience and vitality of Indigenous work. It's a message that needs to be broadcast ...

The Guardian
WA police introduce prerecorded cautions in Aboriginal languages
The Guardian
Indigenous people will soon be able to hear a prerecorded caution in any Aboriginal language if arrested in Western Australia under changes prompted by the case of an Indigenous man who was charged with murder despite not understanding his rights or ...

Winning playwright will honour Indigenous champion
ArtsHub (subscription)
As the recipient of the 2015 NSW Aboriginal Art Fellowship, Sydney based playwright and producer Andrea James is set to tell an important story from Australia's Indigenous history. James will use the 30,000 fellowship to produce a play about the life ...

NT radio broadcasting Aboriginal voices
Yahoo7 News
About 40 years ago, possibly the only time you could hear Aboriginal languages spoken or sung in public was at church, says musician Warren H. Williams. But that changed when the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association launched in 1980.

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The Stringer
Indigenous suicide: Prevention efforts need to be more upriver; strengthening ...
The Stringer
I fall into several main groupings when it comes to suicide risk. I am male, and I am in my 40's. I live with depression and I live with anxiety. I am gay, and I am an Indigenous Australian. I am a gay Indigenous male in his 40's living with depression ...

NT News
Dream of owning home now reality
NT News
They were considering moving south to find a more affordable place to live but were able to secure a low-interest loan through Indigenous Business Australia's Indigenous Home Ownership Program, which is approaching $1 billion of current loans issued.

Tone Deaf
Australia Day Bush Doof Forced To Change Its Name After Backlash
Tone Deaf
A bush doof slated for the Australia Day weekend has sparked a firestorm of controversy after it was accused of showing disrespect towards Indigenous Australian culture. The wave of criticism has now resulted in the event changing its name. Lets Go ...

SBS (blog)
Aboriginal people and politics in 2015 - a year of euphoric highs and fraught lows
SBS (blog)
The Referendum Council met with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten for the first time in December to discuss potentially amending the Constitution to recognise Indigenous Australians. Some Australians believe that ...