Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Aboriginal Art Directory News
Mawurndjul Makes Headlines in DC
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Smee has certainly reviewed Australian Indigenous art shows before at US galleries and museums. But I sense that his report from Australia is part of a serious reawakening of interest in Aboriginal art generally across America, vastly helped by the ...

The Adelaide Review
Tandanya's new era: 'We can make this something that will be here forever'
The Adelaide Review
The new CEO is keenly aware of the need to represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait people from across the country, as well as the need to focus on South Australian groups, particularly the Kaurna people, the traditional owners of the land on which the ...

ABC News
'Very racist' golliwog dolls removed from Royal Adelaide Show arts and crafts display
ABC News
Photos of the dolls were shared on Facebook by Indigenous community group Deadly Yarning from South Australian Aboriginal Communities. One of the group's administrators Janette Milera said the toys were "very racist", adding it was even more hurtful ...
Royal Adelaide Show removes golliwog dolls after social media backlashNEWS.com.au

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The Advertiser
State Budget 2018: $60m for Aboriginal Art and Cultures Gallery on site of old RAH
The Advertiser
Mr Marshall revealed direct Budget funding for the Aboriginal art gallery would include $60 million set aside for construction and $200,000 for a study to define the project's scope and overall vision in consultation with communities, the SA Museum and ...

The Mercury
Spring brings fresh debate on changing the date of Australia Day
The Mercury
“The wattle is symbolic of the love and connection all Australians have with this country.” The campaigners said January 26 should remain a national holiday but be marked as a day of national reconciliation to commemorate Australia's Aboriginal and ...

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ABC News
Warragamba Dam wall proposal could flood Aboriginal cultural sites, elders say
ABC News
Kazan Brown's eyes well up when she talks about the Gungalook waterhole. Its significance for her as a Gundungurra traditional owner is deeply personal and spiritual. Her family used to live here, and the stories from the land date back thousands of years.

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Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
Agreement prompts potential World Heritage listing for Burrup Peninsula ancient Aboriginal site
Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
A landmark agreement looking to a World Heritage listing of the Burrup Peninsula's ancient rock art has been signed by the Western Australian Government and the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation. Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan, Government ...

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SBS
Family still searching for Indigenous digger's lost medals
SBS
What is remarkable is that at the time, Australia didn't even consider him a citizen because he was Aboriginal. In his monumental official history of the war, Charles Bean noted the actions of “Australian half-caste” Private Irwin. It is the historian ...

The Big Smoke Australia
Deep Time Dreaming – Billy Griffiths on Indigenous Australia
The Big Smoke Australia
But this line of thinking – which seeks to devalue, discredit and dehumanise the Australia's Indigenous population – is far from a relic of some bygone era. Today the spectres of racism and white supremacy can still be observed in the continued loss of ...

The Guardian
Death in custody: inquest begins but family still clueless about evidence
The Guardian
Since the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991, all deaths in custody must be investigated as a possible homicide in the first instance, and subjected to a mandatory public inquest. The court is expected to examine the decision to ...

The Independent
How chef Jock Zonfrillo is helping bring back Australia's indigenous food culture
The Independent
He was told there were no interesting indigenous ingredients in Australia. But Jock Zonfrillo found the only aboriginal people he could in Sydney, who confirmed what he knew: it wasn't true. It took 17 years to learn about the oldest surviving culture ...

ABC News
Arnhem Land children suffer world's highest known rates of rheumatic heart disease
ABC News
There are fears for about 400 other children in the community who were not part of the study. The Northern Territory's only paediatric cardiologist, Bo Remenyi, said up to 100 Indigenous children with rheumatic heart disease die each year in Australia.

The Guardian
Police said HN was 'good as gold' to be in custody, three days later he was dead
The Guardian
“It is most unfortunate that the deceased was an innocent man who died in police custody,” Hope said. HN is one of 147 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to die in custody in Australia since 2008, according to an investigation by Guardian ...

Pro Bono Australia
Peak Aboriginal Body Call For Collaboration With Abbott
Pro Bono Australia
SNAICC invited Morrison, Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion, and Abbott to meet with them and other key indigenous bodies such as the National Congress of Australia's First People (NCAP), to discuss how the Federal Government would support ...

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ABC News
Copwatch app launched in Dubbo amid claims of hardline policing against Aboriginal kids
ABC News
A legal advocacy group has launched a mobile app in Dubbo to target alleged police harassment of Indigenous people in the city. Copwatch includes a recording function that allows users to automatically alert selected contacts, such as a friend or ...

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ArtsHub
2018 AWGIES find real Australia
ArtsHub
Inadequately described sometimes as an Aboriginal Western, it has a lean structure with a minimum of mechanical feels, and is wonderful to watch. Indigenous writer Steven McGregor wrote for Redfern Now, including the telemovie, and the Mystery Road ...

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WAtoday
Remote housing feud descends to insults
WAtoday
An ugly feud between the West Australian and federal governments over remote Aboriginal housing funding is becoming increasingly bitter and shows no sign of ending soon. WA received $1.16 billion under the 10-year National Partnerships Agreement on ...

ABC News
SANFL women's league player, sister of Travis Varcoe, dies in Adelaide hospital after clash
ABC News
The ABC has not named the Aboriginal woman or used her image out of respect for cultural practices. Varcoe's sister was playing in a grand final for Angle Vale Football Club in the SA Women's Football League on Sunday when she was injured during the ...

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ABC Local
New education program integrates Aboriginal culture into teaching maths and science
ABC Local
A group of passionate educators are taking Aboriginal students from the classroom to the campfire to spark a love of science, technology and maths. Demand is high for spots in a new, hands-on initiative that takes the form of overnight camps, where ...

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ABC Message Stick
Aboriginal ancestors laid to rest on Kaurna land as fight to return remains continues
ABC Message Stick
After spending more than a century on foreign land, the remains of two Aboriginal elders have returned home and been reburied in the sand dunes at Tennyson Beach in South Australia. The remains were returned by overseas institutions to the Kaurna ...