Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

New Matilda
A Toxic Mix: Welfare Reform And The Mob In Remote Australia
New Matilda
Rome (Canberra) continues to fiddle while Black Australia burns. Professor Jon Altman weighs in on the ongoing disasters of government policy that have a tight grip on remote living Indigenous people. In the last month I participated in two workshops.

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ArtsHub
Auditions for 2019 - Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts
ArtsHub
The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA) invites Australia's next generation of stage, screen and recording stars to audition this September for a coveted place in one of the centre's nationally accredited courses starting in February 2019.

Audtions for 2019 - Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts
ArtsHub
The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA) invites Australia's next generation of stage, screen and recording stars to audition this September for a coveted place in one of the centre's nationally accredited courses starting in February 2019.

The Guardian
Greens demand Scott Morrison tackle high rate of Aboriginal deaths in custody
The Guardian
It comes after Guardian Australia's Deaths Inside investigation found 407 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody since the end of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991. The Greens have said they ...

Triple M
Vision Australia and Mildura Base Hospital AHU join forces
Triple M
Vision Australia have announced a partnership with Mildura Base Hospital Aboriginal Health Unit. The organisations are working to ensure better access to eye care specialists and support for the local Indigenous community. An orthoptist is available ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald
JK Rowling leads condemnation of Australian artist's 'racist' cartoon of Serena Williams
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Australian, the Herald Sun's News Corp stablemate, was involved in a similar controversy in 2016 over a cartoon by Bill Leak depicticting a thick-lipped Aboriginal child being held by the collar by a policeman. In that cartoon the child's father ...
Serena Williams Cartoon 'Not About Race,' Artist Says. Experts Strongly Disagree.New York Times

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ABC News
Drag mentorship brings Indigenous drag queens to Broken Heel festival
ABC News
A new generation of Indigenous drag queens is being mentored by the country's best in a program launched this year by Australia's only outback drag festival, Broken Heel. This year's three-day festival, a celebration of drag culture, saw record crowds ...

NEWS.com.au
'Racism … hate … comes from that lack of education', student tells Q&A
NEWS.com.au
Fellow panellist Dylan Storer agreed, drawing from experiences at a majority indigenous school in a small community in the Kimberleys in Western Australia. “We had eight weeks of that term focused on the American civil rights movement, in the last two ...

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The Australian
Ex-ATSIC chief Geoff Clark and family could face more than 80 fraud charges
The Australian
A high-stakes fraud case against Geoff Clark will allege serious criminal conduct stretching back to his time as chairman of the powerful Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, formerly the peak governing body for indigenous Australia. In ...

Daily Telegraph
Critics of Abbott's new role are wasting time
Daily Telegraph
Mr Abbott in 2006 with Charlie Antjipalya, chairman of the Watarru Aboriginal community signing for a new swimming pool, on Pitjantjatjara lands in Central Australia. Compassion, competence, and character are what should qualify a person for a role in ...

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The Adelaide Review
Win a double pass to Kimberley Foundation Australia's 20th anniversary lecture
The Adelaide Review
The Aboriginal rock art of Australia and the story it tells traces the history of global human migration. Revealing this story is the essence of our mission. It is Australia's story. By unlocking the archives of the paleo environment and researching ...

Women Love Tech (press release) (blog)
Tribute PaidTo Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander In Business
Women Love Tech (press release) (blog)
The Australian Government continues to exert efforts to encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander In Businesswomen to maximise their potential and increase the number of women joining the business industry. Michelle Evans, MURRA Program ...

The Guardian
Indigenous women in custody more likely than men to have died where policy not followed
The Guardian
... as male prisoners to have not received appropriate medical care and 50% more likely to have died in circumstances where procedures were not followed. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are the fastest growing prison population in Australia.

The Conversation AU
A new way to recognise an Indigenous nation in Australia
The Conversation AU
After years of debate, the process for achieving constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians has reached a crossroads. More than a year has gone by since the Uluru Statement from the Heart, when Indigenous peoples rejected symbolic ...

Australian Ageing Agenda
Aged care system must prepare for Stolen Generations
Australian Ageing Agenda
Australia's aged care sector needs to start preparing for the specific needs of the Stolen Generations as they enter the system over the next five years, the head of the Healing Foundation says. The Healing foundation is a national Aboriginal and ...

SBS
Indigenous MP Linda Burney slams 'joke' Tony Abbott envoy appointment
SBS
The Indigenous MP is scathing about the former prime minister's new role as details emerge about what the job entails. "This is just a joke. They are making it up as they go along with Tony Abbott as the special envoy for Indigenous Australians," Ms ...

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The Music Network
Business mentors announced for Central Australia's Bush Bands
The Music Network
Northern Territory's peak music association MusicNT announced the mentors for its Bush Bands program. It selects indigenous musicians from remote communities across Central Australia and gives them the chance to hone in their musical and performance ...

The North West Star
Chern'ee Sutton painting on display at Royal Australian Mint
The North West Star
After collecting over 6000 fingerprints from athletes and dignitaries during the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, a locally-born indigenous artist's painting has gone on display for the first time at the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra. Chern'ee ...

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MuMbrella
Media watchdog's finding on Sunrise's Indigenous adoption segment is justified
MuMbrella
While “censorship” is a label that is often used by the media in response to criticism, actual censorship in Australia by government or media watchdogs is thankfully rare to nonexistent. Other issue such as defamation law are greater sources of censorship.

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ABC News
Reconciling the dark history of slavery and murder in Australian pearling, points to a brighter future
ABC News
But he's also the descendent of the Bardi and Jawi, the Aboriginal people who live at the tip of the Dampier Peninsula where crystal clear oceans swirl over rugged rock and coral reef of Australia's north-west. Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...