Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Australian
A culture left behind
The Australian
Aboriginal children are rarely punished physically but are controlled psychologically. I recall when I was a little girl my female kin playing cards at Yuendumu. A Japangardi, one of my potential husbands, walked past. The women pretended he was coming ...

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The Australian
State stikes gold with New Museum for Western Australia
The Australian
In time, a translucent skin of glass and gold mesh will be wrapped around the upper floor. Interior lighting will see it glow at night; by day, the gold mesh will faintly glisten in a nod to the West Australian gold rush that enabled the first museum ...

Courier Mail
Bonita Mabo's wish was for a national public holiday – Mabo Day
Courier Mail
“There is nothing to fear or to lose in the recognition of historical truth, or the extension of social justice, or the deepening of Australian social democracy to include indigenous Australians.” “He (Eddie) is a hero,” Dr Bonita Mabo told this writer ...

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Mirage News
Call for Aboriginal tourism operators in Kings Park
Mirage News
Support for new or emerging Aboriginal businesses who wish to develop their businesses and submit an expression of interest is available from organisations such as WAITOC (Western Australian Indigenous Tourism Operators Council), the Small Business ...

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Hopes and fears: which way forward for an Indigenous voice to Australia's parliament?  The Guardian

Pat Dodson says Labor will realise the promise of the Uluru statement of the heart. But others fear a dead end.

The Conversation AU
Why Tony Abbott's appointment as Indigenous envoy was a diplomatic blunder and policy failure
The Conversation AU
Following substantial months-long consultations, Davis, as envoy of the people, delivered a message to the nation concerning the resetting of “inter-tribal” relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Australia. The Uluru Statement from ...

ArtsHub
ICYMI: A wrap of this week's arts news
ArtsHub
'Aboriginal peoples need to have a visible presence in Redfern. Our history should be on display for all people to learn and know about Aboriginal Australia and its history, before and after 1788. A modern keeping place will help serve this purpose.'.

The Transcontinental
Aboriginal Lands Trust workshop in Port Augusta
The Transcontinental
The Trust was formed after the establishment of the Aboriginal Lands Trust Act 1966, managing and controlling Aboriginal land in South Australia. The Trust holds title to 65 properties – comprising more than half a million hectares of land – on behalf ...

The Transcontinental
Aboriginal Lands Trust workshop in Port Augusta
The Transcontinental
The Trust was formed after the establishment of the Aboriginal Lands Trust Act 1966, managing and controlling Aboriginal land in South Australia. The Trust holds title to 65 properties – comprising more than half a million hectares of land – on behalf ...

Fox Sports
The NRL All Stars men's and women's jerseys have been revealed
Fox Sports
Each of the jerseys have been designed by local Aboriginal and Maori people in Australia and New Zealand. South Sydney five-eighth, Cody Walker, was joined by NRLW Brisbane Broncos star, Caitlin Moran, to reveal the Indigenous jerseys. Every Test, ODI ...
2019 All Stars jerseys revealedNRL.COM

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The Conversation CA
Lessons from New Zealand on the 'duty to consult' First Nations
The Conversation CA
The meaning of Indigenous nationhood as it relates to Crown sovereignty preoccupies many post-settler societies. In Australia, the state denies distinctive Indigenous nationhood. However, it has admitted that systematic Indigenous exclusion from ...

The Guardian
'It is not about money': Australia's largest native title settlement challenged again
The Guardian
The $1.3bn agreement was signed between the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council, which formally represents Noongar native title holders, and the Western Australian government in 2015. It was ruled invalid by the federal court in 2017 after a ...

The Conversation AU
How believers in 'white genocide' are spreading their hate-filled message in Australia
The Conversation AU
But how do Australia's white supremacists side-step Australia's 60,000 years of Indigenous history? For the believers in white genocide, the term “genocide” does not refer to the impact of European colonisation on Indigenous peoples because they claim ...

The West Australian
Nick Butterly: Fracking an ALP reality check
The West Australian
In 1980 Noonkanbah was the scene of one of Australia's seminal Aboriginal land rights clashes when WA Liberal premier Charles Court shamefully sought to force access to the area to allow American company AMEX to carry out oil drilling. When drillers ...

RACGP
Major life expectancy gap among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
RACGP
The new statistics also confirm the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians remains wide, with an overall gap of 8.6 years for men and 7.8 years for women, though that gap has narrowed ...

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The Economist
Why New Zealand's Maori do better than Australia's Aboriginals
The Economist
But it also reflects the Maori themselves. They are a tight-knit group compared with Australia's distinct indigenous “nations”. They formed a monarchy in order to unify against colonialists, and almost all speak the same language. Once near extinction ...

The Australian
In remote WA, a voice to parliament can make a noise
The Australian
Divina D'anna lives on the edge of the Indian Ocean more than 3000km from Canberra, and she pays attention to the decisions of federal politicians who cannot know what it is like to be Aboriginal in the remote northwest of Australia. But Ms D'anna, who ...

SBS
Indigenous youths aided to succeed in life through NRL School to Work program
SBS
The NRL School to Work program started in 2012 as part of the Australian Government's aim to close the gap for young Indigenous people by using the profile of the rugby league sporting code. Since 2012 more than 900 Indigenous students have gone ...

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NRL.COM
Walker keen to finally get own Indigenous All Stars jersey
NRL.COM
"KARI pride themselves on celebrating and growing awareness for the positive achievements of Indigenous Australia and there's no doubt that achievement and a celebration of culture will be on display when the All Stars matches are played next year ...

Life Tables for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians ...  Australian Bureau of Statistics