Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC News
Indigenous community starts evening curfew to tackle youth crime
ABC News
A remote Indigenous community that was "running out of options" to control youth crime has brought in a nightly curfew for children and teenagers. The curfew in the central Queensland community of Woorabinda starts from between 8:30pm and 9:00pm every ...

The Guardian
'Not a soft-on-crime option': NSW debates plan for Indigenous sentencing court
The Guardian
“I'm very concerned that Labor's bill would empower a court to allow offenders guilty of offences like child sex offences and sexual assault to serve their sentences at home,” a spokesman told Guardian Australia. “In the meantime, the government's ...

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Mongabay.com
Fracking threatens Aboriginal land rights in Western Australia
Mongabay.com
The colors of northwestern Australia are profound. In the build-up to the wet season, the deep shades of bloodwood trees (Corymbia spp.) and red-tailed black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus banksii) take on an extra vibrancy. This place is called Yulleroo ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
'Worlds apart': What happened when the outback came to Lakemba
The Sydney Morning Herald
She arrived in Australia aged 15 and is now principal of Belmore Boys' High, where 80 per cent of the students are Muslim. Her friend Fiona Kelly is a Barkindji/Ngiyampaa woman, who grew up in Menindee, ... So this week Ms Kelly bought the Aboriginal ...

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Closing the Gap strategy for Indigenous health has 'all but unravelled', doctors say  The Guardian

Exclusive: Australian Medical Association says stubborn 'institutional racism' still challenges Aboriginal health.

Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Indigenous Rocky filmmaker awarded top industry fellowship
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
NITV Channel Manager Tanya Orman said: "The world is in an unprecedented golden era of television and Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people enrich it with an inimitable touch. Kaylene's appointment represents not only an exciting new ...

Mondaq News Alerts
Australia: Update on constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians
Mondaq News Alerts
The issue of constitutional recognition remains unresolved. Where is it up to? With the 20 year anniversary of the Bringing Them Home Report in 2017, and subsequent enquiries, the rights of Indigenous Australians have been at the forefront of politics ...
Tony Abbott's lament that prayer needs a greater role ignores a history of Christian invasionThe Guardian
Homelessness issues among indigenous peoples under spotlightMāori Television
Statutory review of Adoption Act tabled in ParliamentMirage News

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Alice Springs News Online
Now $90m earmarked for Aboriginal gallery
Alice Springs News Online
He wrote: “Mr Schutenko doesn't seem to have been reading the Territory's Arts Minister's views on her preference for Alice Springs as 'the heart of Australia, (where) the National Aboriginal Art Gallery (for which only $50m has so far been allocated ...

Bicycling Australia
Brian Mansell: The One And Only
Bicycling Australia
Bicycling Australia is saddened to report the passing of national cycling legend Brian Mansell, the first Indigenous Australian to become a State cycling champion and first Indigenous Australian to medal at the National Championships. During 2017 ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Confluence: Unique collaboration on show at John Curtin Gallery
The Sydney Morning Herald
... of Australia's interior desert country. Her latest ceramic forms include suites of Devil's Marbles, inspired by the striking rock formations in the Karlu Karlu/Devil's Marbles Conservation Reserve, a significant Aboriginal sacred site in Australia ...

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RACGP
Closing the gap in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander eye health
RACGP
Rates of blindness in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults are six times higher than non-Indigenous Australians and, although 94% of vision loss is preventable or treatable, 35% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults have never had an ...

The Conversation AU
Colonial Australia was surprisingly concerned about Aboriginal deaths in custody
The Conversation AU
When the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody's report was tabled in 1991, it was not the first official inquiry into this tragic phenomenon. The disproportionately high rate of mortality among Aboriginal convicts in colonial New South ...

Pursuit
Working together to close the gap on oral health
Pursuit
“But I also want to make sure that we produce a workforce that cares about the gap in Indigenous oral health and wants to do something about it. “And really mainstreaming Aboriginal culture and knowledge in Australia, making it a celebrated part of how ...

Google News

Pro Bono Australia
Peak Indigenous Bodies Plead For Close the Gap Involvement
Pro Bono Australia
Ngarra Murray, Oxfam Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples program national manager, told Pro Bono News Oxfam were also supporting calls for a formal partnership. “When Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are included and ...

ABC News
Kakadu plum plan aims to take a bite out of lucrative global medicine industry
ABC News
"With Australian natural healthcare and agriproducts enjoying an international reputation for their quality and clean, green image, enabling the development of a local industry with Indigenous wellbeing and medicinal plants at its base represents huge ...

ABC News
Kakadu plum plan aims to take a bite out of lucrative global medicine industry
ABC News
"With Australian natural healthcare and agriproducts enjoying an international reputation for their quality and clean, green image, enabling the development of a local industry with Indigenous wellbeing and medicinal plants at its base represents huge ...

The Conversation AU
Getting clean drinking water into remote Indigenous communities means overcoming city thinking
The Conversation AU
Many people in Australia do not have access to safe drinking water. It's particularly difficult in Indigenous communities because they are small, remote and challenged by additional issues to secure essential power and water services. To make sure ...

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The Australian
Monash sets target for more indigenous students
The Australian
... and Professor Elston thought the first two were probably the most important: growing indigenous student numbers and developing content and curriculums that help strengthen ongoing conversations between indigenous and non-indigenous Australia.

Colonial Australia was surprisingly concerned about Aboriginal deaths in custody  The Conversation AU

The 1991 Royal Commission into deaths in custody was preceded by an 1850 inquiry, which recommended that Aboriginal people be released should their ...

Colonial Australia was surprisingly concerned about Aboriginal deaths in custody  The Conversation AU

The 1991 Royal Commission into deaths in custody was preceded by an 1850 inquiry, which recommended that Aboriginal people be released should their ...