Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Linda Burney wants to talk to the broken families of young indigenous people who have taken their own lives, to help find solutions to the suicide crisis, after ...

The threat of fines of up to 1.6 million for failing to prevent damage to indigenous sites in the Grampians is driving the ban on climbing in large parts of the region, ...

I remember a 10-year-old Indigenous child lost to suicide. The year before her death, she found her 11-year-old first cousin had taken his life. Two years earlier her 13-year-old sister had taken her life. They lived in crushing poverty and confronted an arc of distress born of that inescapable poverty. For the past decade, I’ve focused my research and working life on suicide prevention and its indisputable intersection with poverty. From a trauma recovery vantage, I’ve worked alongside more than 1000 suicide-affected families. These include hundreds of First Nations families. I’ve journeye...

I remember a 10-year-old Indigenous child lost to suicide. The year before her death, she found her 11-year-old first cousin had taken his life. Two years earlier her 13-year-old sister had taken her life. They lived in crushing poverty and confronted an arc of distress born of that inescapable poverty. For the past decade, I’ve focused my research and working life on suicide prevention and its indisputable intersection with poverty. From a trauma recovery vantage, I’ve worked alongside more than 1000 suicide-affected families. These include hundreds of First Nations families. I’ve journeye...

Origin stars Cody Walker, Will Chambers, Latrell Mitchell and Josh Addo-Carr have had some Hollywood support thrown behind their decision to boycott the ...

While I respect and support their right to believe in, promote and express their culture I find it difficult to understand their disagreement with Advance Australia ...

Origin stars Cody Walker, Will Chambers, Latrell Mitchell and Josh Addo-Carr have had some Hollywood support thrown behind their decision to boycott the ...

Kristina Keneally is continuing her rise and rise, appointed to “shadow” Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton, in Anthony Albanese's frontbench bench line up ...

Still basking in the afterglow of winning what many thought was the unwinnable election and with weeks of dead political airtime before parliament sits again, ...

million over three years will be invested by the Palaszczuk Government to help lift academic outcomes for more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has unveiled a new Labor frontbench that includes promotions for two Western Australians in the key portfolios of trade and resources. Unveiling the shake-up in Sydney on Sunday, Mr Albanese said Brand MP Madeleine King would be promoted to into the trade portfolio as the only Western Australian in shadow cabinet. Burt MP Matt Keogh was promoted to the outer-ministry portfolios of WA resources and defence industry. Senator Pat Dodson, who would've been appointed Indigenous affairs minster if Labor had won the election, becomes asisstant minister for reconc...

Editorial for the May 31, 2019 edition of the Illawarra Mercury.

OUTER SHADOW MINISTRY * Stephen Jones moves into the shadow assistant treasurer role, and also shadow minister for financial services * Shayne ...

OUTER SHADOW MINISTRY * Stephen Jones moves into the shadow assistant treasurer role, and also shadow minister for financial services * Shayne ...

BURRBGAJA YALIRRA/DANCING FORWARDSCarriageworks, May 3041/2 starsReviewed by Jill Sykes This program of three remarkable solos by associate artists from Marrugeku is bold and thought-provoking, sensitive and good to watch. It’s one to remember and revisit in your mind’s eye, notonly for the visual content but the meaning behind it. Broome's Marrugeku is an intercultural company concerned with research as well asentertainment, the title of this presentation also being that of a continuing research project. Its focus on Indigenous knowledge systems is apparent in performance and the printed p...

This striking performance of three solos is heartfelt and very moving.

Kristina Keneally will become the shadow home affairs minister and Jim Chalmers will be shadow treasurer.

As a descendant of a renowned stained glass artist, Judith Nelson is used to being asked questions about her family history. John Radecki designed the decal for a number of Sydney and regional churches and buildings, and Ms Nelson has given many talks on her famous connections. But learning she had convict links on the other side was a surprise. "There was a big emphasis in my family on the Polish side and I wondered why the other part wasn't being spoken about," she said. Ms Nelson only recently discovered her great-great-grandfather and great-uncle, John and Francis Feltis, came to Goulbu...

Australian netball legend Liz Ellis has made a huge call on the national anthem, amid a State of Origin boy...

Spike Lee has backed Indigenous Australian athletes who boycott the national anthem, with the director saying "more power to them."