Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Daily Mail
Caught on camera: Disturbing footage reveals two women punching, kicking and ...
Daily Mail
Two women have been caught on camera viciously attacking a blind, elderly Australian Aboriginal man while he was sitting down in the disabled seat of a bus. The video, which was filmed on a mobile phone by a 13-year-old girl travelling on the bus on ...

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rights Advocacy Lead
Pro Bono Australia
If Australia is the lucky country, why do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have a lower life expectancy than other Australians – and many people in the developing world? Every Australian deserves equal access to income, employment, health ...

Two teenage girls have been caught on camera allegedly racially abusing and ...
The Australian
EARLIER: SOCIAL media has exploded with repulse at two teenage girls who punched, kicked and spat on an elderly indigenous man in a horrific assault on a bus in Kirra. Footage of the incident where two drunk teenagers assaulted and racially abused a ...

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SBS
APY elders share sacred songline with the world
SBS
A painstaking project to capture one of Aboriginal Australia's most important creation stories is set to be unveiled in Adelaide. The endeavour has overcome controversy to preserve one of Central Australia's oldest intact songlines called the Ngintaka, ...

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James Price Point Aboriginal cultural leader passes away
ABC Local
Tributes have flowed today for the man from the Australian Greens with Senator Rachel Siewert expressing deep sadness at the man's passing. "His courage in fighting the James Price Point Gas hub proposal was inspiring and his leadership was a key to ...

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James Price Point Aboriginal cultural leader passes away
ABC Local
Tributes have flowed today for the man from the Australian Greens with Senator Rachel Siewert expressing deep sadness at the man's passing. "His courage in fighting the James Price Point Gas hub proposal was inspiring and his leadership was a key to ...

The Canberra Times
John Pilger hopes to open eyes to plight of Aboriginals with Utopia
The Canberra Times
John Pilger first got a taste of indigenous Australia in 1969 in a tour to Jay Creek in central Australia with Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins. The journalist and filmmaker likened what he saw to apartheid South Africa; "they were like prisoners of ...

Bell's tone mellows
The West Australian
Bell's depiction of indigenous victory includes a speech by the first Aboriginal president - after China buys Australia at a fire sale and gives it back to its traditional owners. "Privilege is invisible," he says. "There is so much racism in this ...

Closing gap is 'not the only way'
The Australian
Yesterday he met with Labor's first indigenous MP, Nova Peris, who is also the deputy chair of the committee charged with coming up with a form of words to change the Constitution to recognise indigenous Australians. But Mr Mundine has rejected a push ...

SBS
The rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class
SBS
The great story of recent Australian art has been the resurgence of Indigenous culture and its recognition as a major art form. But in a country increasingly divided by class and wealth, the rise of Indigenous art has had consequences undreamed of by ...

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Rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class in Australia
The Conversation
The Conversation is running a series, Class in Australia, to identify, illuminate and debate its many manifestations. Here, Joanna Mendelssohn examines the links between Indigenous art and class. The great…

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The Guardian
Mungo Man is a physical reminder of the need for Indigenous recognition
The Guardian
As one of the two foundational burials, with Mungo Lady, he exemplifies Aboriginal Australia's proudest traditions of antiquity and cultural development on the international stage. Traditional owners have never ceased to call for the return of all ...
Geologist who unearthed Mungo Man fights for 40000-year-old remainsThe Guardian

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The rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class in Australia
The Conversation
The great story of recent Australian art has been the resurgence of Indigenous culture and its recognition as a major art form. But in a country increasingly divided by class and wealth, the rise of Indigenous…

Call for action to close Aboriginal disadvantage
The West Australian
WA's indigenous person of the year, Ian Trust, says the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians will not be closed without "radical" action. Mr Trust, who is seeking State and Federal government support for a potentially groundbreaking ...

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Call for action to close Aboriginal disadvantage
The West Australian
Call for action to close Aboriginal disadvantage The West Australian WA Indigenous Person of the Year (2013) Ian Trust. Picture: Steve Ferrier/The West Australian. WA's indigenous person of the year, Ian Trust, says the gap between Aboriginal and ...

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Call for action to close Aboriginal disadvantage
The West Australian
WA's indigenous person of the year, Ian Trust, says the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians will not be closed without "radical" action. Mr Trust, who is seeking State and Federal government support for a potentially groundbreaking ...

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'Empower parents to close the gap'
The Australian
At present most funding was going to regional and remote regions, which represented “a minor percentage of the Aboriginal population of Australia”. “If that same mob lived in Bourke rather than western Sydney they'd be getting funding but ... if you ...

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Richard Bell: 'Asylum-seeker policy is a manifestation of Australian racism'
The Guardian (blog)
The piece that dominates the exhibition is a recreation of the Aboriginal tent embassy, which itself has sat on the grounds of Old Parliament House in Canberra since 1974 as a direct visual protest to the white colonial occupation of Australia and the ...

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On a mother of a day, bureaucrats dither, native languages wither
Crikey
International Mother Language Day has been around since 2000 and is aimed at promoting linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism — and it is especially important in Australia, where our indigenous languages are under threat. My home is in ...

Is racism affecting Australians' health?
SBS
It's well known that Indigenous Australians have much lower life expectancy than other Australians, and have disproportionately high rates of diseases and other health problems. Could that in part be due to racism? The Social Determinants of Health ...