Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Australian
Bid to banish child-killing 'disease of poverty'
The Australian
The End RHD campaign, flagged by experts in Darwin in February, will be rolled out in communities with high concentrations of disease by Aboriginal medical services in Queensland, the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia and Perth ...

The Aboriginal language taught more than Spanish in NSW schools
The Sydney Morning Herald
Junior school students at St Andrew's Cathedral College are already well beyond those stages in their lessons in Wiradjuri, one of Australia's largest Aboriginal languages, and recently sang in it when Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove visited the ...

The Age
An Indigenous day has much merit
The Age
In proposing a new national day to recognise and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is advancing a valuable discussion for Australia. The perennial, and often divisive, debate about the date of ...

SBS
Australia needs to deal with hard truth on racism: Indigenous commissioner June Oscar
SBS
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner June Oscar said racism is "alive and kicking" and needs to be confronted for the country to move forward. Speaking on ABC TV, Dr Oscar said she disagreed with remarks by newly appointed ...

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
State codifies 'white privilege' slur for bureaucrats
The Australian
Government departments in South Australia have been criticised for seemingly forcing bureaucrats to acknowledge “white privilege” in Aboriginal cultural awareness training. Conservative crossbench senator Cory Bernardi told The Australian that public ...
Unpacking 'is Australia a racist country?'IndigenousX (press release) (blog)

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IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
Unpacking 'is Australia a racist country?'
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
'You're being too sensitive'. 'I didn't mean it that way – you're taking it out of context!'. 'They can't be racist, they are a lovely person!'. 'I can't be racist – I have an Aboriginal friend!'. 'I can't be racist, I've never even met an Aboriginal ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Bushfire threatening Aboriginal community in WA's north downgraded
The Sydney Morning Herald
Homes and lives are no longer under threat in the state's north after firefighters were able to contain a raging bushfire burning near a remote Aboriginal community on Sunday morning. The fire started near Looma in Camballin, and was reported to the ...
Lives, homes under threat as bushfire rages in WA's northThe Canberra Times

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ABC News
'Racism is alive and kicking': Indigenous commissioner challenges new race appointee's stance
ABC News
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner June Oscar has declared that racism in Australia is "alive and it's kicking" in response to comments by the nation's newly appointed race discrimination commissioner that Australia is ...

ABC Message Stick
Aboriginal and African rangers swap stories in fight to protect endangered wildlife
ABC Message Stick
These are the difficult questions African wildlife ranger Joseph Kotoke contemplated as he weighed up the differences between his job back home and the challenges faced by Aboriginal rangers in Australia. "I'm really scared of snakes, I'd prefer ...

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Aboriginal and African rangers swap stories in fight to protect endangered wildlife
ABC Message Stick
These are the difficult questions African wildlife ranger Joseph Kotoke contemplated as he weighed up the differences between his job back home and the challenges faced by Aboriginal rangers in Australia. "I'm really scared of snakes, I'd prefer ...

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ABC News
Poisonous snakes and gun-toting poachers are par for the course for wildlife rangers
ABC News
These are the difficult questions African wildlife ranger Joseph Kotoke contemplated as he weighed up the differences between his job back home and the challenges faced by Aboriginal rangers in Australia. "I'm really scared of snakes, I'd prefer ...

ABC News
WA government red tape blocks progress for award-winning irrigation system at Mowanjum Aboriginal Station
ABC News
An Aboriginal community in Western Australia's Kimberley region has said attempts to make its cattle station profitable and create jobs are being stymied by state government red tape. The Mowanjum Aboriginal Corporation near Derby was recognised for ...

The Australian
Bourke acts to keep Aboriginal young people out of prison
The Australian
In March the Australian Law Reform Commission singled out justice reinvestment as a key strategy to reduce the nation's shameful rates of indigenous incarceration. Its inquiry was led by Aboriginal judge Matthew Myers. University of Canberra chancellor ...

NT News
Sydney events this week: Colour run, Festival of You and more
NT News
Carriageworks has curated a showcase of more than 30 artists to celebrate the culture of southeastern Aboriginal Australia. The exhibit includes weaving, literature, ceramics, carving, photographer, painting, shellwork and textiles. It's happening ...

Freda Glynn, indigenous pioneer, a complex, elusive woman
The Australian
Freda Glynn is best known as one of the co-founders of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, an organisation launched in 1980 that enabled indigenous radio, music, video and filmmaking to develop and brought them into the spotlight. When ...

The Advertiser
Author Ashley Mallett's new book tells how a group of Aboriginal boys survived and thrived at St Francis boys' home
The Advertiser
That was in 2012 and Mallett had just finished his book on the 1868 tour of England by an Aboriginal cricket team called The Black Lords of Summer. The new book has been a labour of love and has taken Mallett all over Australia trying to track down the ...

The Canberra Times
One thing you can bet on as Opera House and Racing NSW face off
The Canberra Times
The fact we paid for it out of our own pockets, rather than via taxes, is one of the many reasons Australians feel ownership over it, and protective about what gets projected onto its 1,056,006 white tiles. For many, not just Aboriginal Australians ...

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cricket.com.au
Doggett has tools to build rare legacy
cricket.com.au
While more than 600 men and women have worn the national uniform in Test cricket, only two of Indigenous Australian heritage – Faith Thomas and Jason Gillespie, both also fast bowlers – are among that number. Doggett, who along with his brother ...

ABC News
Scott Morrison promises to get Indigenous council input on Tony Abbott's education overhaul proposal
ABC News
The Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council has received a commitment from Scott Morrison that Tony Abbott's proposal to overhaul the Indigenous education system would first be put to the Indigenous council for consultation. Mr Morrison met with ...

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Now To Love
Meghan and Harry: Here's what the Duke and Duchess will be up to in Australia
ABC News
... public during a walk to Government House, the official residence of Victorian Governor Linda Dessau, where they'll meet young Victorian leaders; Stopping at a social enterprise cafe which provides leadership and training for young Indigenous ...
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan's Australia Tour: Dates, Cities & DetailsNow To Love
Meghan and Harry's Australian tour itinerary has been released9Travel
Palace releases Prince Harry and Meghan's full royal Australian itineraryStarts at 60

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