Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal Learner of the Year award winner has big dreams in the building industry.
NEWS.com.au
In South Australia the theme for 2018 Adult Learners Week explored the positive impact lifelong learning has on people's lives. Mr Bell's introduction to the building industry came through his mentor and through his studies he has become passionate ...

The Advertiser
Aboriginal Learner of the Year award winner has big dreams in the building industry.
The Advertiser
CRAIGMORE'S Donald Bell, 29, has been named Aboriginal Learner of the Year in South Australia's 2018 Adult Learners Week Awards. Mr Bell has been recognised for his study in his building apprenticeship with Eastern Building Group. After his mentor ...

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The Big Smoke Australia
Advance Australia Fair – or not?
The Big Smoke Australia
In recent times, Australia's first peoples have expressed concern, indeed dismay, over some of the lyrics. For example the phrase “young and free” is not embraced by Aboriginal Australians for obvious reasons. They have lived on this continent for over ...

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RACGP
Medical history: Leprosy is a terror of the past. Right?
RACGP
The disease remained relatively rare in Australia until the late 1800s. It mainly afflicted Chinese immigrants, from where it spread to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and then became more common in the white community, as ...

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Bega District News
Giiyong Festival the first of its kind in Yuin Nation
Bega District News
Also, she recommended the “incredible” talk panel featuring co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples Jackie Huggins as well as Uncle Noel Butler's traditional cooking demonstration and tasting, and the women's dance ceremony by ...

The Guardian
Morning mail: Australia's lax lobbying regime laid bare
The Guardian
As part of Victoria's treaty push, Australians were encouraged to ask anything they had ever wanted to know about Aboriginal people. Now, a group of prominent Indigenous Victorians has answered them. Of the questions submitted by 2,600 Victorians, 19% ...

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ABC News
Learning how to tame Australia's 'wild, crazy, untrusting' desert brumbies
ABC News
Ian Conway, the owner and manager of Kings Creek Station, said many Aboriginal people in the area were opposed to culling — they see it as horses being destroyed for no reason. "When the cull was on they really didn't want them shot, and they ...

The Guardian
Indigenous campaign's Deadly Questions revealed as Victoria pushes for treaty
The Guardian
“[They have asked] how our quality of life is going in Australia because they actually want to know. It's odd to me that some people have gone through their life without actually having a conversation with an Aboriginal person, but apparently they exist.”.
Vic project spurs indigenous treaty debateSBS

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Vic project spurs indigenous treaty debate
SBS
Looking back on her own schooling, she knows most people's education about indigenous Australia is limited. "We never got to hear about our mob doing great things and achieving things," Ms Lee said. The Victorian parliament passed legislation in June ...

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Pursuit
Truth telling at Garma
Pursuit
“We aim to build a reconciliation culture for all Australians, supporting Indigenous development and contributing to the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.” Djawa Yunupingu is deputy chair of the Yothu Yindi Foundation. He is a ...

SBS
Doctors urged to quiz pregnant women about drinking habits
SBS
Australia's first ever prevalence study of FASD, conducted in an Aboriginal community in Western Australia in 2012, found a prevalence rate of 12 per cent among children. Critics of the study have noted its high-risk population and small sample size ...

The Guardian
'I just want answers': Mr Yeeda's death in custody and the health warnings that failed to save him
The Guardian
The Miriuwung and Gajerrong man had rheumatic heart disease, a preventable condition that affects 400 people in the Kimberley and about 6,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia. Before he was jailed he received regular ...

ABC News
Australia facing an 'epidemic of child abuse and neglect', according to experts
ABC News
"Previously estimates would have been around 10 per cent of children being the subject of re-reports," she said. "We've actually found that 90 per cent of those children are the subject of re-reports." The results on the study of Aboriginal families is ...

ABC News
WA remote community offers money for feral cat killing to protect native Australian bilby
ABC News
The desert community in the heart of Western Australia has experienced a spike in the number of the pests in recent years, according to Kate Crossing from the Kiwirrkurra Indigenous Protection Agency. "Over the last four years that we've been recording ...

New Matilda
Aboriginal Leaders Make Statements From The Heart. Liberal Leaders Make Statements From White Supremacy.
New Matilda
Reading the words of Aboriginal and Liberal leaders side by side, it's hard to deny that white supremacy has long been at the helm of Australian government. In May 2017, over 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders gathered at the First ...

The Australian
Voyages of discovery changed the world forever
The Australian
Cook was a man of the Enlightenment but his interactions with Aboriginal Australians, Maori and Pacific Islanders were not always enlightened. This clash of cultures should be front and centre of any account of Cook's expeditions. He did not strictly ...

The Australian
The Missing Man, by Peter Rees: RAAF war pilot grounded by prejudice
The Australian
But Waters got through the rigorous training and in late 1944 became the “first and only known indigenous Australian” to fly RAAF fighter aircraft. Returning home after completing this training, Waters and his brother George, who had joined the army ...

The Australian
The Fierce Country: Stephen Orr on Australia's unsettled heart
The Australian
Those stories begin with conflict between European and Aboriginal Australians. The first cluster ranges from lieutenant governor George Arthur's “Black Line” of 1830 in Van Diemen's Land, a failed roundup of Aborigines that nevertheless did not long ...

The Canberra Times
Call for an 'Abbott-proof fence'
The Canberra Times
Recently when delivering some wood for the perpetual camp-fire at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy I asked one of the caretakers if they were expecting a visit from Tony Abbott, in his role of the government's Indigenous affairs envoy. The reply was an ...

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The Australian
Armed with history
The Australian
The former journalist says he sees himself as part of a new group of Australian artists using their voices to speak out about injustices against the Aboriginal community. “We have the ability as indigenous people to vocally express and articulate where ...

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