Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Australian
Indigenous voice to parliament 'can't fail', says Tickner
The Australian
Australia's longest-serving Aboriginal affairs minister has warned that efforts to establish a proposed advisory “voice” for parliament “absolutely must not be allowed to fail” if the gap on indigenous disadvantage is to be closed. Robert Tickner, in ...

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The Canberra Times
Morrison's selfish arrogance on climate change
The Canberra Times
And where's the "exclusively" Aboriginal in all Australians saying sorry for how our first people have been treated? Do those who are sorry have no part? What's only Aboriginal, rather than for everyone, in Harmony Day? Are only Aboriginals reconciled ...

The Australian
Common Ground leads Rona Glynn-McDonald to family tradition
The Australian
Glynn-McDonald is a Kaytetye woman, a granddaughter of Freda Glynn, co-founder of the pioneering Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, and her filmmaking ties include her parents, Warwick Thornton and Penny McDonald, and her brother ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Eating disorders, youth and Indigenous mental illness priorities of $125m government mission
The Sydney Morning Herald
“More than three-quarters of mental health problems begin before the age of 25, that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders experience higher levels of certain mental illness and higher rates of suicide deaths than other Australians, and that eating ...

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InDaily
ON ART Podcast - Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits
InDaily
South Australian Robert McFarlane has worked behind a camera for more than 50 years. He makes images that transport his audience into cinematic and captivating visual spaces and has photographed on the street, on set and within Aboriginal Australia.

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Australian Ageing Agenda
Opinion: Royal Commission will not be about exceptional cases
Australian Ageing Agenda
“The key is to be found in the hearts and minds of all Australians. It lies in the recognition of the Aboriginal people as a distinct people, the indigenous people of Australia who were cruelly dispossessed of their land and until recent times denied ...

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Aboriginal museum has been forced to close its doors
ABC Local
Australia's first Aboriginal museum housing artefacts and artworks from Aboriginal communities across the country has been forced to close its doors. The cultural centre in the Victorian town of Shepparton sites a lack of state and federal funding as ...

ABC Local
Aboriginal museum has been forced to close its doors
ABC Local
Australia's first Aboriginal museum housing artefacts and artworks from Aboriginal communities across the country has been forced to close its doors. The cultural centre in the Victorian town of Shepparton sites a lack of state and federal funding as ...

The Guardian
Unique community policing sees crime rates plunge in Bourke
The Guardian
... and family violence, and the highest rate of juvenile convictions in NSW. The Maranguka project is a local initiative, the largest of its kind in Australia, based on redirecting the resources spent on policing and punishment to projects that help ...

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PRI
Australia returned Uluru to Aboriginals 34 years ago. They're only just now banning tourists form climbing the ...
PRI
However, most of these slots are currently filled by Indigenous people from around Australia, fewer from the local community, according to the ILC. Butler is saddened when he visits Mutitjulu, the local community right at the foot of Uluru. He used to ...

The Age
Sydney Opera House: Advertising diminishes cultural value of an icon
The Age
The member for Cook, Scott Morrison, is being disingenuous in advocating a separate Indigenous Day for Aboriginal Australians. If Labor has its way in the next Parliament we will have our republic by the time Bill Shorten has ended his term as prime ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Immigration secrecy, paranoia, suspicion and hostility needs to stop
The Sydney Morning Herald
It's a sign of the times that the government's wrongful detention and attempt to deport an Australian has gone barely noticed. The Immigration department released Daniel Love from detention at the end of September when it realised the Indigenous man ...

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Daily Telegraph
Plan to save historic Aboriginal church at La Perouse
Daily Telegraph
The church, the mother church of the United Aborigines Mission, from which the mission spread to all parts of Australia, was originally built at Frenchman's Beach in 1894. It was moved to its present location at the corner of Elaroo Ave and Adina Ave, ...

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Eternity News
New $50 note keeps face of evangelist David Unaipon and the little Raukkan Church
Eternity News
A new $50 banknote will enter circulation next week, retaining the face of David Unaipon, and an image of the Raukkan Church, which sits at the heart of the small Aboriginal community of Raukkan where Unaipon was born, on the banks of South Australia's ...

Indigenous Urban Design 'Not Just a Moral Choice but a Profitable One'
The Urban Developer
Conversations around cities and urban landscape can take cues from Australia's first people and the oldest continuous culture on the planet. There's untapped economic and social potential that exists by embracing Indigenous perspectives within our ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
An Indigenous day has much merit
The Sydney Morning Herald
The perennial, and often divisive, debate about the date of Australia Day will continue. But that should be pushed to one side when it comes to weighing up whether there should be a day to celebrate the culture and history of Australia's Indigenous ...
Indigenous people with disability have a double disadvantage and the NDIS can't handle thatThe Conversation AU
The internet has brought teenage suicide to island communitiesThe Guardian

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The Canberra Times
As housing fight intensifies, 12000 West Australians wait in limbo
The Canberra Times
Preventable third-world diseases such as rheumatic fever are rife in the 165 communities housing about 21 per cent of WA's Aboriginal population (you can explore their names, locations and rough population estimates by clicking on the map below).

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The Sydney Morning Herald
As housing fight intensifies, 12000 West Australians wait in limbo
The Sydney Morning Herald
Preventable third-world diseases such as rheumatic fever are rife in the 165 communities housing about 21 per cent of WA's Aboriginal population (you can explore their names, locations and rough population estimates by clicking on the map below).

SBS
New $50 banknote to aid the blind through updated features
SBS
The portraits on the note remain the same with Australia's first published Aboriginal author and inventor David Unaipon and the first female member of an Australian parliament Edith Cowan. All new banknotes, released by the RBA, will have a series of ...

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ABC Message Stick
Suicide intervention program trains Aboriginal communities to 'ask the question'
ABC Message Stick
Aboriginal adults are more than twice as likely than non-Indigenous Australians to commit suicide. It is the biggest killer of Indigenous children, accounting for 40 per cent of all deaths of Aboriginal youth. Robyn Martin knows the pain caused by suicide.