Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

A desperate search is underway for a two-year-old boy, missing in remote Far North Queensland. The toddler was last seen late yesterday afternoon near the homestead of Koolatah Station, about 100 kilometres east of Kowanyama in Cape York. SES crews and police are being flown into the area from Cairns while neighbouring cattle properties use mustering helicopters to search for the boy. SES regional director Wayne Coutts said they were also using drones with technology capable of detecting body heat. "This is absolutely urgent, a young child like this," Mr Coutts said. "All resources are bein...

Labor senator says he wants to work with Ken Wyatt to address these 'systemic and seminal issues' in government's first term.

Every morning at Stanwell Park Preschool in the Illawarra region south of Sydney there's a yarning circle. This dedicated group time for the three- to ...

Design firm SJB has built a new BMW and MINI dealership in Rushcutters Bay, Sydney.

BHP has awarded the largest single contract through its Local Buying Program to a Pilbara Aboriginal Traditional Owner business, Gumala Enterprises at the ...

1. Aboriginal rugby players snub Australian national anthem | World  The Times
2. Our national anthem is non-inclusive: Indigenous Australians shouldn't have to sing it  The Conversation AU
3. Ex-Indigenous chair urges inclusion of Aboriginal language in anthem  The Age
4. Indigenous players to make quiet protest at State of Origin  SBS
5. Liberal MP says 'a lot of Australians' would support anthem re-wording ahead of Origin protest  ABC News
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The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and partners announced today the winners of the 10th Equator Prize, recognizing 22 local and indigenous ...

Allan Dib has just come back from the US to his hometown of Melbourne after working on #LikeAGirl. He will join Clemenger MD Simon Lamplough, leader of ...

A training session was held in Port Lincoln on June 1 to educate local and rural GPs, Nurses and Aboriginal Workers on a new method to test for cervical cancer ...

It's time for a national conversation on the national anthem.

Batemans Bay was gifted 60000 years of traditional medicine with guest ngangkaṟi or Aboriginal healers who are spending two days...

By Lisa Millar Campaigning to save the life of his Bali Nine friend Myuran Sukumaran. On television loudly decrying the treatment of refugees. Railing against injustice towards Australia's Indigenous population. But being seen as Australia's activist artist is wearing thin. "Yes it does, it's tiresome, I'm over it at the moment," he said on a visit to Brisbane ahead of a major exhibition. "I didn't mean to get that voice but my parents — they have three boys — and they expect all their sons to stand up for things I think." But the anger he faced — including bullets carrying death threats le...

It is traditional at major sports events to begin with a rendition of the national anthem. At the State of Origin rugby league clash between New South Wales and ...

Support for Māori communities was a funding priority in New Zealand's well-being budget. In a Facebook post, Labour MP Meka Whaitiri celebrated the new ...

In 1918, in Wünsdorf prisoner-of-war camp, a German sculptor created a bust of Indigenous soldier Douglas Grant. For decades, the whereabouts of this ...

A majority of the world’s cultivated macadamias are grown in Hawaii, but the crunchy, creamy nuts are in fact indigenous to Australia. In fact, as a recent study has shown, Hawaii’s macadamias appear to stem from a small group of trees, or possibly just a single tree, in Queensland—a stunning revelation, as far as nut-related discoveries go. “It was a bit of a shock to see just how narrow the gene pool was from which the Hawaiian cultivars were developed,” Catherine Nock, a plant scientist at Australia’s Southern Cross University and first author of a new paper in Frontiers in Plant Science...

A new report has shed light on statistics surrounding family, domestic and sexual violence - showing one in six women and one in nine men experienced ...

By Jen Browning Had Bob Foster ignored his gut instinct when he was mining in the 1980s, the world might never have known about a new species of dinosaur and the first dinosaur herd to be discovered in Australia. Mr Foster was working at the Sheepyard opal field near Lightning Ridge, NSW, when he kept coming across what looked like "horses' hooves". "We used to smash them up looking for opal in them, because that's what we were out there to do," he said. But when the hoof-like bones kept coming, he began to think twice. "After several months of finding these things and smashing them up, I s...

The legacy of Captain Cook's first voyage in the Pacific is a challenging one. As we approach the marking of 250 years...

Never fear: There's so much to do around what was formerly known as Ayers Rock besides climb it.