Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

SBS
Australian movie 'The Nightingale' favourite to win at Venice film festival
SBS
A stirring story of revenge and friendship involving an Irish convict woman and an Aboriginal tracker in colonial Tasmania has been hailed the favourite to win the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival. 'The Nightingale' by Australian Jennifer Kent ...
Venice 2018 Review: THE NIGHTINGALE Sings Out In Dark RageScreenAnarchy (blog)

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RACGP
Lend me your ear: New program targets hearing problems in NT children
RACGP
According to data supplied by the NT Government, 90% of Aboriginal children in the territory under the age of three have an ear disease. Most of them will experience hearing loss that can affect early brain development and can ultimately lead to ...

EducationHQ Australia
Bush settings boost wellbeing in Aboriginal students
EducationHQ Australia
“Presently, schooling in Australia tends towards separating Aboriginal children's academic learning from their identity as Aboriginal children. The curriculum operates in a way that fundamentally overlooks the Aboriginal child's identity. We seek to ...

ABC News
Arnhem Land communities in mourning following death of three young people by suicide
ABC News
Suicide rates in the Northern Territory are the highest in Australia, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people twice as likely to die by suicide than non-Indigenous Territorians. The latest statistics put the number of suicides in the NT at ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
The Advertiser's Letters to the Editor, September 7, 2018
The Advertiser
THE proposed National Aboriginal Art and Cultures Gallery announced in the State Budget (“New Aboriginal Gallery in the frame for 2020”, The Advertiser, 5/9/18) has much merit but does nothing to answer the problem that the Art Gallery of South ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Cage of Ghosts review: Jon Rhodes' epitaph to artifacts of Aboriginal life
The Sydney Morning Herald
... is much more than an exhibition catalogue. Cage of Ghosts is a studious epitaph to the artifacts of Aboriginal life that we still have – the engravings, the carved trees, the ochre drawings hidden in caves and cliffs – and that have so far survived ...

The Australian
Andrew Forrest's jobs program goes directly to jail
The Australian
So far, 9000 indigenous Australians have been helped to find work through the federally funded VTEC program, based on the employment model of Mr Forrest's GenerationOne, an initiative of his charitable organisation, the Minderoo Foundation.

The Australian
Geoff Clark risks long jail term if fraud charges upheld
The Australian
Geoff Clark, once the most powerful Aboriginal man in Australia, is facing the prospect of a lengthy stint in jail after Victoria Police this week laid the first tranche of historical fraud charges related to the use of funds from an Aboriginal trust a ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
The Museum Race Hots Up
Aboriginal Art Directory News
The new gallery and public sculpture park is envisaged as "one of the most significant new arts initiatives of 21st-century Australia", providing a national focal point for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and cultures, as well as new spaces ...
Exhibition aims to build relationshipsThe Maitland Mercury

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The Islander
Goolagong opens indigenous tennis event
The Islander
In the same week John Millman gave Australian tennis a boost by defeating Roger Federer, former world No.1 Evonne Goolagong Cawley has opened the inaugural National Indigenous Tennis Carnival in Darwin. Goolagong Cawley welcomed some of the ...

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Yass Tribune
Goolagong opens indigenous tennis event
Yass Tribune
In the same week John Millman gave Australian tennis a boost by defeating Roger Federer, former world No.1 Evonne Goolagong Cawley has opened the inaugural National Indigenous Tennis Carnival in Darwin. Goolagong Cawley welcomed some of the ...

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ABC News
Leigh Creek Aboriginal group seeks to stop coal gas extraction after minister's approval
ABC News
An Aboriginal group has launched an 11th-hour bid to stop underground gas extraction at Leigh Creek in South Australia's far north. The Adnyamathanha people today applied for an injunction in South Australia's Supreme Court to halt plans to trial ...

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InDaily
Concern for 'disturbing' funding cuts to Aboriginal services
InDaily
South Australian Aboriginal leaders have warned “disturbing” measures announced in the State Budget – including ending a native title grant and a $6 million funding cut to the Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation bureaucracy – will result in further ...

Herald Sun
Aboriginal leader Geoff Clark charged with fraud
Herald Sun
The former head of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission will face a Warrnambool Court next month, according to court listings. Geoffrey Wayne Clark and Trudy Ann Clark were due to appear on October 1, along with Jeremy and Aaron Clark.
Geoff Clark claims charges politically motivatedWarrnambool Standard
Former ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark chargedNEWS.com.au

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ABC News
Aboriginal-owned bauxite mine creating job opportunities in Arnhem Land
ABC News
The Northern Territory's newest mine might be small, but it's creating some big opportunities for local employment. The Country Hour recently broadcast from the Gulkula Mine near Nhulunbuy, which is Australia's first Aboriginal-owned and operated ...

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ABC News
Portraits documenting generations of Aboriginal families returned to Central Australia
ABC News
Now eight portraits by the Archibald Prize winner have been returned to Central Australia and will be held by the Namatjira Legacy Trust at the Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre in Alice Springs. "He really admired them as people who could live in ...

National Indigenous Times
Appointment of Abbott as envoy 'disrespectful' says peak rep body
National Indigenous Times
The peak representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia says if new special envoy Tony Abbott wants their advice on Indigenous affairs he can pay for it. But the National Congress of Australia's First People's co ...

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Independent Australia
Australia's child suicide epidemic
Independent Australia
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander suicides comprise 7% of Australia's total suicides but shockingly 80% of Australia's child suicides aged 12 years and less are of Aboriginal children. I have often said the nation should weep at this harrowing ...

The Conversation AU
Speaking with: Author Anita Heiss on Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
The Conversation AU
Anita Heiss is one of the most prolific writers documenting Aboriginal experiences in Australia today through non-fiction, historical fiction, poetry and children's literature. Her memoir, Am I Black Enough for You?, was a finalist in the 2012 Human ...

NEWS.com.au
Unearthing Queensland's 'native police' camps gives us a window into colonial violence
NEWS.com.au
While staffed with non-Indigenous senior officers, the bulk of the force was made up of Aboriginal men and, sometimes, boys. We have been exploring the remote Queensland outback for traces of the base camps of the Native Mounted Police. There were ...