Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Local
Documentary sheds light on robbing of Indigenous remains 'in the name of science'
ABC Local
Grave robbing is the notorious practice of raiding burial grounds for items to sell on the black market. It's not the label typically applied to archaeologists, who often encounter ransacked graves themselves during expeditions. The Australian ...

Friday essay: popular music's search for the sacred in a secular world
The Conversation AU
And in relation to our joint life in Australia, racially and spiritually, Aboriginal people today are addressing the present Prime Minister, asking that he hear their claims to sovereignty and deep, historical, sacred relations to culture, country and ...

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ABC News
Tony Abbott deserves a chance in his Indigenous envoy role, not personal attacks
ABC News
If ever there was a job for all Australians to join together, this is it. It is therefore somewhat surprising that critics have wasted no time engaging in personal attacks on Mr Abbott. NT Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ken Vowles was reported to have ...

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ArtsHub
TARNANTHI Art Fair offers an ethical way to buy art
ArtsHub
TARNANTHI Art Fair returns to Adelaide this October, providing a rare chance to purchase works of art directly from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and art centres. Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia, in partnership with BHP ...

ABC News
Banking royal commission: funeral insurer blasted at inquiry targets kids at Koori Knockout
ABC News
The Financial Rights Legal Centre runs 'Mob Strong, Debt Help', a free advice service for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia. Mr Holden said prospective customers should ask providers how much they would pay in premiums ...

SBS
New suicide statistics 'paint a bleak picture'
SBS
New figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show suicide has increased by 21 per cent in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community over the past decade. Professor Pat Dudgeon from the University of Western Australia's ...

Northern Star
Aboriginal congress praises controversial Oz Day decision
Northern Star
BYRON Shire Council's decision to change the date of their Australia Day event from January 26 to the evening before in 2019 has been praised by the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (Congress). The decision led to considerable criticism ...
Trialling an Indigenous voice before a referendum is like forcing us to auditionThe Guardian

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Art Guide Australia
Podcast: Glenn Iseger-Pilkington on being a conduit
Art Guide Australia
Nowadays, he's the lead consultant at Gee Consultancy, where he works with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and arts workers. In this latest Art Guide podcast, Iseger-Pilkington, a Yamatji Nyoongar man from Western Australia with Dutch and ...

SBS
ACCC challenges Birubi Art over 'fake' didgeridoos
SBS
Australia's consumer watchdog took action against Birubi Art Pty Ltd, a “souvenirs and Aboriginal art” wholesaler based in Queensland, claiming it sold 18,000 products that were made in Indonesia between 2014 and 2017. Five types of items were ...

Indigenous tourism entrepreneurs look to advance opportunities at Lorne conference
Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
Having seeded many Indigenous entrepreneurs across Australia over its 13 year history, the 2018 Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference (AITC) is to be hosted on Eastern Maar country on the Great Ocean Road, home of the Gadubanud people. Set to be ...

ABC News
Indigenous communities slapped with more fines under Government work-for-the-dole scheme, data shows
ABC News
Disturbing new data reveals the impact Australia's flagship remote employment program is having on Indigenous people across the country, prompting claims it is worsening poverty in communities.

SBS
ACCC challenges Birubi Art over 'fake' digeridoos
SBS
Australia's consumer watchdog took action against Birubi Art Pty Ltd, a “souvenirs and Aboriginal art” wholesaler based in Queensland, claiming it sold 18,000 products that were made in Indonesia between 2014 and 2017. Five types of items were ...

ABC News
Aboriginal rangers, CSIRO surveying endangered sawfish and shark species in Top End river
ABC News
Sawfish are extinct in 40 per cent of the countries they once populated but they still exist in healthy populations in tropical Australia, even if their numbers have declined massively since the 1960s — mainly due to commercial fishing, CSIRO ...

ArtsHub
Tarnanthi Art Fair
ArtsHub
The TARNANTHI Art Fair presents the work of over 40 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art centres from across Australia, where art lovers and collectors can buy works of art direct from artists. Buy something for your home, family or friends, and ...

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RACGP
Latest report shows continued positive results for Australian breast screening program
RACGP
This year's Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's (AIHW) BreastScreen Australia monitoring report, released during Breast Cancer Awareness month, shows continued positive results from the screening program, which has helped diagnose a ...

The Guardian
Songs for Peace: how Roebourne is turning the page on tragedy
The Guardian
To build goodwill, and to bolster community, on Saturday – the weekend anniversary of Pat's death – Big hART and the local Indigenous community launched the inaugural Songs for Peace next door to a memorial that was opened for him last year. “We will ...

The Guardian
Indigenous council seeks 'clarity' on Tony Abbott's envoy role
The Guardian
Ah See said there was a need to “future-proof” Aboriginal affairs by establishing a voice to parliament in the constitution “as a matter of priority” so that it could not be dismantled by the government of the day. He also reiterated his views about ...

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ABC Life
How living in regional Australia can do wonders for your career
ABC Life
We found three Australians from Wagga Wagga in NSW, Katherine in the NT, and Dodges Ferry in south-east Tasmania, who have found success in their work. They say technology, regional grants and work-life balance play a part, and they share the career ...

Pro Bono Australia
Buy a Dress, Buy Empowerment
Pro Bono Australia
“I moved to Darwin after graduating uni to work as lawyer for the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, and we were going out to remote communities a lot,” McGowan tells Pro Bono News. “I fell in love with the textiles being printed out in the ...

The Guardian
WA Indigenous community tries to rid water supply of unsafe level of uranium
The Guardian
An Aboriginal community in Western Australia is trying to raise money to fix its water supply, which contains unsafe levels of uranium. Buttah Windee is a community of four houses about 3km from Meekatharra, a mining town that's name means “place of ...