Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

New STI figures highlight Indigenous health disparity
ABC Online
Fresh Health Department statistics show a disparity in the number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) between Indigenous Western Australians and non-Indigenous residents. The cases of gonorrhoea from July to September declined by a quarter in the ...

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Concert to raise awareness about inclusion of indigenous Australians in ...
Herald Sun
A COBURG concert aims to change the tune of debate regarding recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia's Constitution. The Recognise Moreland Community Concert will feature “songs of respect and relationship” by Shane ...

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Indigenous incarceration rates still rising
ABC Local
Over many years as director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Don Weatherburn has tracked the disturbing ascension of the numbers of Aboriginal people in Australian gaols. Weatherburn talked to Genevieve Jacobs about his newly ...

Aboriginal Australians Managed the Forest Better than Europeans
Care2.com
Yet, Australia has also been inhabited by humans for thousands of years. These humans clearly had a functional relationship with the fires that raged across the continent, or they wouldn't have been able to survive. How did they do it? Australia's ...
Give NDIS a chance, MP tells Top EndThe Australian

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Aboriginal beauty treatments
Stuff.co.nz
Further research led Heron to Aboriginal elder and "healing man", Kakkib Li'Dthia Warrawee'a from the Ya'idt-Midtung people of north-east Victoria, who taught her about "touch therapy" used by Aboriginal Australians. "He agreed to teach me because he ...

SBS
'No indigenous' pub owner apologises
WA today
Talkback caller Lisa told Radio 6PR that her nephew, an Aboriginal man working in the mining industry, was refused service when he went into the pub with a group of non-Aboriginal work friends. "We went up to the bar and they wouldn't serve him, he ...
WA publican apologises for barring Indigenous patronsSBS
Publican sorry for racist signThe West Australian
Bar owner defends racist signThe Dominion Post

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'Cut the cash and we won't close the gap'
The Australian
Dr Brown, who was in one of the first groups of Aboriginal medical graduates in Australia and previously an indigenous health adviser to the Australian Medical Association, was yesterday appointed as Warren Mundine's deputy after receiving the backing ...

Chemistry World
Geological technique adapted to analyse Aboriginal Australian objects
Chemistry World
Aboriginal Australian people use mineral pigments such as kaolinite and hematite to decorate wood, bark, resin and other organic substances. The analysis of these materials in a non-destructive way can be extremely challenging. In objects with ...

South Australia Police Caught in Perjury Against Aboriginal Elder
Mathaba.Net
The Labor Weatherill government had called upon Tribal Elders to attend parliament in relation to their inclusion in the State constitution, and many local Aboriginal leaders took up the offer, believing they were being asked into parliament for their ...

gap program to target dementia
The Australian
Dementia affects the indigenous community earlier in life, with 73 per cent of indigenous dementia cases occurring between the age of 60 and 70; compared with 70 and older for the majority of non-Aboriginal Australians. Alzheimer's Australia chief ...

Why you have to watch this film
The Age
For the last few weeks, I've seen a film bring together Aboriginal people all over Australia. The buzz around Utopia - a documentary by John Pilger - has been unprecedented. Some 4000 people attended the open-air premiere in Redfern last month - both ...

Aboriginal artist Richard Bell accuses Adelaide Festival artist of using ...
Herald Sun
A LEADING Australian indigenous artist has accused another artist featured in the Adelaide Festival's main exhibition of “blatantly” appropriating indigenous designs he says have been presented as “decoration and fluff”. Queensland-born Richard Bell ...

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Aboriginal artist Richard Bell accuses Adelaide Festival artist of using ...
NEWS.com.au
Queensland-born Richard Bell said Archibald Prize-winning artist Del Kathryn Barton was insulting Aboriginal people with her large-scale painting, the heart land, at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The work, an intensely coloured and detailed 9m ...

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Brisbane Times
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
Brisbane Times
We travelled across Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory, treating Aboriginal men, women and children for trachoma and other eye diseases, problems which still plague remote Aboriginal communities today. The Australia I saw in ...
Hostility to John Pilger's film a denial of nation's brutal pastThe Canberra Times

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The Age
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
The Age
Fortunately, there's a simple way in – an opportunity to get a "punter's guide" to the truth about the treatment of Aboriginal Australians. John Pilger's latest film, Utopia - a 110-minute feature length documentary more than two years in the making ...
Hostility to John Pilger's film a denial of nation's brutal pastWA today

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Sydney Morning Herald
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
Sydney Morning Herald
It's the new mantra in Aboriginal affairs: get your kids to school. Prime Ministers Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd were fond of saying it. So too is Prime Minister Tony Abbott. While I don't accept that education alone, or rather a lack of access to it ...

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BBC News
How Aborigines could solve Australia's bushfire problem
BBC News
Strong winds and soaring temperatures have led to dozens of bushfires in southern Australia. Could Aboriginal "gardening" techniques be used to control them in future? I am only an hour into visiting a retired couple just north of Sydney when I realise ...

Indigenous mentor system pours $38m into economy
The Australian
The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience program is now so big and successful that an independent KPMG report due to be released today has concluded it contributed $38 million to the economy in 2012. The Weekend Australian can reveal that ...

Two young women have been caught on camera racially abusing and assaulting ...
The Australian
... Brian Swan said police believed they had identified the women, and it was with the help of a slew of public tip-offs. Police are expected to charge the two young women who bashed and racially vilified a partially blind indigenous man on a Gold ...

The Guardian
Woman turns herself in over Gold Coast bus attack on elderly man
The Guardian
“The victim actually doesn't identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander,” he said. “However it is concerning that the alleged [attackers] perceived that he was.” Dr Tim Soutphommasane, race discrimination commissioner at the Australian Human ...
Women in racist attack on old manManawatu Standard
Gold Coast bus attack: two women leave elderly man 'upset and shaken'Brisbane Times

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