Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Australian
Chris Drage: the life, and tragic death, of a lost boy
The Australian
As a kid he was cheery and cheeky, growing into a champion athlete and a skilful junior footballer who could hold his own against much older boys and dreamt of following his indigenous heroes into the AFL. Yet by the time he was a teenager, Chris had ...

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The Australian
30 years, 30 great Australians
The Australian
The beginning of reconciliation with our Aboriginal communities is a process that will help lead to an Australia that is equitably diverse. Cultural diversity is one of our greatest strengths but it could not be said we are a truly mature country while ...

The New Daily
Anthem controversy: Little Harper Nielsen's plea for empathy shamed those who lack it most
The New Daily
She achieved something most adults do not care to even attempt, at least as regards the fate of Aboriginal Australia. She made an effort to understand and to share the feelings of others from whom she differed. Even worse, in the hard, pitiless eyes of ...

Neos Kosmos
Fading light
Neos Kosmos
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander suicides comprise seven per cent of Australia's total suicides but, shockingly, 80 per cent of Australia's child suicides aged 12 years and less are of Aboriginal children. I have often said “the nation should ...

The Conversation AU
Vincent Copley
The Conversation AU
Vincent (Vince) Copley is an Elder of the Ngadjuri people of South Australia. He was born in 1936 in Point Pearce, South Australia. Vince Copley has been an important advocate for the rights of Aboriginal people. He has spent all of his life working to ...

SBS (blog)
Indigenous community 'sits with' anthem schoolgirl
SBS (blog)
Indigenous people from around Australia, including high profile sports stars and TV personalities have banded together to support the Queensland schoolgirl who refused to stand for the national anthem last week. The nine-year-old Harper Nielsen ...
Girl, 9, called a brat over Australian national anthem protestThe Times
Australian lawmaker offers nine-year-old girl 'kick up the backside' for refusing to stand for national anthemNational Post
A Girl's Australian National Anthem Protest Has Led To Politicians Viciously Attacking HerBustle
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ABC News
The bush magistrate
ABC News
The question of access to the state's justice system by Aboriginal people pushed to its margins is not about to be solved overnight, not least by a single magistrate. Western Australia has the highest rate of Indigenous incarceration of any state or ...

The Conversation AU
Friday essay: who owns a family's story? Why it's time to lift the Berndt field notes embargo
The Conversation AU
In either 1942 or 1944, Berndt took the older Aboriginal man to visit the Aboriginal collection at the South Australian Museum. As they walked past the exhibits, Waria pointed out artefacts that were familiar. Berndt writes that at one point, Waria ...

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Red Flag
Crime scenes: Aboriginal deaths in custody continue
Red Flag
It is another indication, first among which is that the killing continues, of the disregard with which Aboriginal lives are held by the Australian state. At less than 3 percent of the Australian population, Indigenous adults are 13 times more likely to ...

The Economist
Australia's aboriginals try a novel approach to fighting crime
The Economist
“Back of Bourke” is Australian vernacular for the outback. The town faces the Darling River, about 800km north-west of Sydney in the state of New South Wales. About a third of its almost 3,000 people are aboriginals. Until recently, Bourke had one of ...

The Economist
In Australia's outback, aboriginal people try a novel approach to fighting crime
The Economist
“Back of Bourke” is Australian vernacular for the outback. The town faces the Darling River, about 800km north-west of Sydney in the state of New South Wales. About a third of its almost 3,000 people are aboriginals. Until recently, Bourke had one of ...

The Australian
Silence is golden but not when it's permanent
The Australian
In Australia, about 10 in every 10,000 births involves a child who will be diagnosed with a moderate or greater hearing loss in both ears. By the age of 17, another 23 children in 10,000 will acquire a hearing impairment. The indigenous are most at risk.

Northern Territory legal profession must act on juvenile injustice
The Australian
Aborigines in Australia are a beleaguered people. For the best part of 230 years, they have been the subject of dispossession, murder, gross abuse and unsuccessful attempts at genocide. Since 1788, the law has treated them as unworthy and subhuman.

The Australian
Black Rainbow reaches out to gay indigenous mob
The Australian
Dameyon Bonson had a light bulb moment a few years ago, while working in the fraught area of indigenous suicide in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. Why, he suddenly wondered while pondering the grim monotony of continuing deaths, was ...

Manning River Times
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Manning River Times
“All Australians have access now to a resource that teaches them about Indigenous Australia and also provides a great engagement tool for those Indigenous students who are disengaging with the education system and have fallen through the cracks, ...

The Guardian
Bowraville murders: court rejects bid to try man over Aboriginal children's deaths
The Guardian
The New South Wales government has lost its bid to bring a man to trial for murdering three Aboriginal children in Bowraville nearly 30 years ago. The 52-year-old, who can't be named for legal reasons, was previously acquitted at separate trials in ...
NSW Court of Appeal rules no trial for Bowraville accusedThe Australian
No retrial for the man acquitted over Bowraville child murdersNEWS.com.au

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InDaily
ON ART Podcast - Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits
InDaily
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. He has amassed a ...

Pro Bono Australia
Making Australia Safer – Really?
Pro Bono Australia
Safety is also a critical issue for Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are grossly over-represented in every measure of violence and imprisonment. The solutions are not just about enabling Indigenous people to play a ...

The Canberra Times
A decade after saying 'sorry', a new generation is struggling
The Canberra Times
Today is a milestone, and a day for some soul-searching. September 13 is the 11th anniversary of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, which the United Nations General Assembly resolved in 2007. Australia came late to the declaration ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
A decade after saying 'sorry', a new generation is struggling
The Sydney Morning Herald
Today is a milestone, and a day for some soul-searching. September 13 is the 11th anniversary of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, which the United Nations General Assembly resolved in 2007. Australia came late to the declaration ...