Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

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 ...

The Australian
Asia puts locals between a rock and a hard place
The Australian
Seafarms Ltd is in talks with traditional owners for a new indigenous land-use agreement giving access. With projects of this scale comes the prospect of economic opportunity, but also the fear indigenous Australians will miss out on a share of the ...

The Guardian
Indigenous disability: telling stories of strength and dignity
The Guardian
The stories of 30 of them, including Bellotti, have been captured by Australian artist and photographer Belinda Mason, as part of her latest exhibition, Unfinished Business, which will tour Australia from January. All the Indigenous people she ...

The Australian
Cabinet papers 1990-91: lingering indigenous remorse for Hawke
The Australian
He declared “there is still so much to be done'' for indigenous Australians “and I wished I could have done more''. Documents show that in 1991 cabinet agreed to establish a council for Aboriginal reconciliation, anticipated the final report into the ...
Hawke Government Cabinet Papers Grapple With Same Issues As Modern AustraliaHuffington Post Australia
Cabinet papers 1990-91: Hawke's fight to keep mining out of Kakadu helped ...The Guardian
Malcolm Turnbull a menace to the Labor Social gathering: Bob HawkeThe Times (subscription)

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Huffington Post Australia
First Nations honoured with Welcome to Country
SBS
Indigenous Australians have been looking to the heavens intuitively for direction from the Sun, Moon and stars for thousands of years. In Dreamtime astrology 2016 marks the year of the Lizard. Here are your Dreamtime animal signs and 'destiny ...
Happy New Year From The Huffington Post AustraliaHuffington Post Australia
Australia set to ring in 2016 in styleSky News Australia
Australia rings in new year, with Sydney's spectacular firework display at the ...The Guardian
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The Guardian
A testing year for Australia's social cohesion as multiculturalism debate ...
The Guardian
Confronting the country's prejudices towards Indigenous Australians will loom large again in 2016, as it prepares for a debate on constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people. A referendum to change the constitution is ...

Lawyers Weekly
Human rights in Australia: what to expect in 2016
Lawyers Weekly
The launch of the Australian Medical Association's Indigenous Health Report Card — demonstrating the destructive impact of imprisonment on indigenous health outcomes — and the release of the Change the Record Blueprint for Change has added further ...

Plain packaging effective in reducing misperceptions of tobacco products among ...
Medical Xpress
Following the introduction of plain packaging on tobacco products in 2012, Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were 12 per cent less likely to think certain tobacco brands were less harmful than others, a new study found.

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The Stringer
Plain packaging effective in reducing misperceptions of tobacco products among ...
EurekAlert (press release)
29, 2015 - Following the introduction of plain packaging on tobacco products in 2012, Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were 12 per cent less likely to think certain tobacco brands were less harmful than others, a new study found.
Plain cigarette packaging helps smokers quit the habit, new study revealsMirror.co.uk
Smoking Cessation: Plain Packaging Better in Reducing Misconceptions About ...Latinos Health

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