Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Architecture AU
SA budget sets out plans for old Royal Adelaide Hospital site sans Adelaide Contemporary
Architecture AU
A National Aboriginal Art and Cultures Gallery will be built at the site of the old Royal Adelaide Hospital in place of the previously mooted Adelaide Contemporary gallery, with more than $60 million promised to the project in the 2018-19 South ...
A look across the border at our gallery rivalAlice Springs News Online

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ARTnews
'Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia' at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
ARTnews
Today's show: “Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia” is on view at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., through Sunday, September 9. The group exhibition, which draws from the collection of Debra and Dennis ...

ABC News
Fact check: Do Sudanese people account for only 1 per cent of crimes committed in Victoria?
ABC News
In 2017, there were 208 Sudanese-born prisoners in Australia — 0.5 per cent of the total. Consultant criminologist and Melbourne University lecturer Dr Karen Gelb referred to statistical comparisons made between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in ...

ABC News
Indigenous art at Maningrida's Djomi Museum the most significant community collection in nation
ABC News
In a small building in one of the most northern, remote parts of Australia, lies the most significant community collection of Indigenous art in the country. The decades-old bark paintings, which independent experts describe as priceless, were recently ...

The Australian
Closing the Gap: reconciling a policy mess
The Australian
Academic Marcia Langton has called the appointment a “punch in the guts to indigenous Australia”, and it has been described by others as being more about solving Scott Morrison's political problems than black Australia's lived ones. The Prime Minister ...

The Australian
Tony Abbott challenged to support indigenous 'bush university'
The Australian
A remote Northern Territory Aboriginal community that was at the heart of Tony Abbott's 2013 declaration that he would be a “prime minister for indigenous affairs” has challenged him to back its comprehensive plan for educational reform in his new role ...
Indigenous advisory body demands answers from PM Scott Morrison on Tony Abbott appointmentABC News
Indigenous council wary of new Abbott roleNEWS.com.au

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ABC News
Yatala prison inquest hears officer who restrained prisoner had 'no memory' of what happened
ABC News
A correctional officer who helped restrain an Aboriginal prisoner who died three days later has told a coronial inquest he has "no memory" of what happened but woke up "lying across him". Wayne Fella Morrison died in hospital after being restrained by ...

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The Age
Halt sale of Crown land until Aboriginal treaty is signed: Greens MP
The Age
The Greens want the Victorian government to freeze the sale of hundreds of hectares of government-owned land earmarked for private development until treaties have been signed with traditional owners. Greens MP and Aboriginal Affairs spokeswoman Lidia ...

ABC News
Indigenous advisory body demands answers from PM Scott Morrison on Tony Abbott appointment
ABC News
The Prime Minister's hand-picked Indigenous advisory council has written to Scott Morrison demanding a meeting and an explanation on the appointment of Tony Abbott as special envoy for Aboriginal affairs.

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)
Pharmacists to be embedded in Aboriginal health
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)
James Cook University, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) have joined forces to explore this potential by way of a project which will aim to embed pharmacists in 22 ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Molly the Weet-Bix pig drives Indigenous reading campaign
The Sydney Morning Herald
In the Binjari community of northern Australia, a domesticated pig by the name of Molly has inspired one of nine new children's books written and illustrated by Binjari women in their first language, Kriol, the largest contemporary Aboriginal language ...

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South Coast Register
Booderee elder: teens, they are our future, let's invest in them
South Coast Register
The 2018 round of grants will see a variety of programs and initiatives receive much-needed financial support from the Coca-Cola Australia Foundation; from creative writing programs and funding for at-risk youth, to support for young refugees and ...

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NEWS.com.au
Seven breaches code over Sunrise segment on indigenous children
NEWS.com.au
“Any media organisation that took their duty to report the facts seriously would be focusing on this systematic disadvantage instead of broadcasting throwbacks to the White Australia policy. “The real test for ACMA now is what safeguards they make sure ...
Broadcast Watchdog Slams 'Sunrise' For That Cooked Stolen Generation PanelPedestrian TV
Surprise! Turns Out That Racist 'Sunrise' Segment Broke A Whole Bunch Of RulesJunkee

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The Weekly Times
Growcom project set to build horticulture knowledge in indigenous businesses.
The Weekly Times
Growcom's innovation coach Steve Tiley and members of the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia joined Mr Canavan in Townsville last week where he announced $4 million worth of research projects to create jobs in Northern ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sunrise pinged over controversial 'stolen generation' segment
The Sydney Morning Herald
The panel also featured Prue MacSween, who said a "fabricated PC outlook" was preventing white Australians from adopting Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander children. The conservative commentator - who last year said she was tempted to "run over" ...
Broadcast Watchdog Slams 'Sunrise' For That Cooked Stolen Generation PanelPedestrian TV

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NT News
SA steps up in race for national Aboriginal art gallery
NT News
WHILE the Northern Territory continues to dither over the location for a national Aboriginal art gallery for Alice Springs, South Australia is looking to usurp us as the nation's home of indigenous art. SA Liberal Premier Steven Marshall has pledged ...
National Aboriginal Art Gallery: National Reference Group AppointedMirage News

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Alice Springs News Online
Gallery: national reference group appointed
Alice Springs News Online
•Ms Helen Martin – Chair of the Northern Territory Aboriginal Tourism Advisory Council, originally from Irlpme, an environ of Alice Springs. •Mr Frank Howarth – past National President of Museums Galleries Australia and former director of the ...

Mirage News
National Aboriginal Art Gallery: National Reference Group Appointed
Mirage News
Built in the heart of Australia, the National Aboriginal Art Gallery will become a globally significant institution that celebrates Aboriginal art and culture and create jobs and economic opportunities. This is a project that will capture the hearts ...

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
10 questions I get from non-Indigenous students
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
I find that this question is generally connected with an attempt to give British colonisation credit for any and all technological/scientific advancements in the past two centuries, as though Indigenous Australia was not already trading and ...

10 questions I get from non-Indigenous students  IndigenousX

I have been working as an academic for a couple of years now, and have found that every semester many of my students bring in to the course any number of ...