Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ArtsHub
The rise and rise of Indigenous ceramics
ArtsHub
Yhonnie Scarce has been named the recipient of Shepparton Art Museum's $20,000 Indigenous Ceramic Award (ICA), regarded as the most prestigious national award for Indigenous ceramics in Australia, and one that pushes perceptions of the field.

The Guardian
States failing to take up lifesaving phone service for Indigenous prisoners
The Guardian
Western Australia and the Northern Territory have agreed to create the custody notification service (CNS), a 24-hour legal advice and RU OK phone line for Aboriginal people taken into police custody. New South Wales, which has had the service since ...
'National Shame': 147 Indigenous Deaths in Australian CustodyteleSUR tv HTTPS (press release) (blog)
Almost 150 Indigenous Australians Die In Custody In Country Since 2008 - ReportsUrduPoint News

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The Australian
APY Lands general manager insists he's not going anywhere
The Australian
The general manager of South Australia's self-governed Aboriginal lands is refusing to vacate his position, setting the scene for a return to the infighting that led to several inquiries and the suspension of federal funding. Richard King, the general ...

The Australian
Leah Purcell credits indigenous unit of Screen Australia for helping her career
The Australian
Purcell is one of many actors and filmmakers whose work has been supported by the indigenous department of Screen Australia, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this month. Since 1993 more than 160 titles — features, television series and ...

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Indigenous  ABC Online

The Guardian
'National shame': 147 Indigenous people die in custody in Australia in a decade
The Guardian
Australia's shocking treatment of Indigenous people has been laid bare with the publication of new figures by the Guardian showing 147 Indigenous people – some of them children – have died in custody in the past 10 years. Opposition parties have ...

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NEWS.com.au
First male Aboriginal magistrate for WA
NEWS.com.au
Mr Maclean worked for the Aboriginal Legal Service from 1998 to 2001, joined the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in February 2007 and became a full-time ordinary member of the State Administrative Tribunal in 2015. Former Aboriginal Legal ...

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First male Aboriginal magistrate for WA
The Australian
Experienced lawyer David Maclean has become the first indigenous man to be appointed a magistrate in Western Australia, following in the footsteps of Sue Gordon. Mr Maclean worked for the Aboriginal Legal Service from 1998 to 2001, joined the Office of ...

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RACGP
Ochre Day celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander male health
RACGP
'If we are to truly transform the health status of our First Australians, we need every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander man to take responsibility and be proud of themselves and their heritage – proud of the oldest continuous culture on Earth ...

The 147 dead: terrible toll of Indigenous deaths in custody spurs calls for reform  The Guardian

Exclusive: Guardian investigation of a decade of Indigenous deaths prompts calls for independent detention monitor.

'National shame': 147 Indigenous people die in custody in Australia in a decade  The Guardian

Australia's shocking treatment of Indigenous people has been laid bare with the publication of new figures by the Guardian showing 147 Indigenous people ...

Deaths inside: every Indigenous death in custody since 2008 tracked – interactive  The Guardian

More than 400 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody since the end of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991.

Art Guide Australia
Islamic Museum of Australia showcases Australian Muslim Artists
Art Guide Australia
Racquel Austin-Abdullah's installation You Left Something Behind (Wangkumara Woman), 2014, also uses textiles to share a perspective that doesn't receive as much attention in the general scheme of the Australian Muslim experience: that of the ...

The Guardian
World Heritage listing of Burrup Peninsula rock art edges closer with nomination process starting
ABC News
A landmark agreement over a future World Heritage listing of the Burrup Peninsula's ancient rock art has been ratified by the Western Australian Government and the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation. The WA Premier, state ministers, Indigenous ...
Explainer: why the rock art of Murujuga deserves World Heritage statusThe Conversation AU
Ball rolling on Burrup Peninsula rock-art listingThe Australian
Burrup peninsula rock art: Western Australia to seek world heritage listingThe Guardian
The West Australian -WAtoday
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The Guardian
Morning mail: Aboriginal leaders call for review of deaths in custody
The Guardian
Aboriginal leaders have called for an immediate review of the “absolutely unacceptable” numbers of Indigenous deaths in custody, following the launch of Guardian Australia's Deaths Inside project which tracks all such deaths since 2008 – 147 of them.

ABC News
Being born in a remote leprosy institution just the beginning of life's challenges for health pioneer
ABC News
Introduced through European settlement, leprosy had spread rapidly among Aboriginal people in Australia's north. Doctors raised the alarm about 147 new cases in the mid-1930s, and many of these were detained at the Kimberley's regional hospital in ...

ABC News
After 'whitesplaining' row, Indigenous theatre voices back calls for national company
ABC News
A few weeks ago, accusations that Australian theatre is hijacking Indigenous stories and "whitesplaining" them for the audience rippled through the industry. They were made by Indigenous playwright H Lawrence Sumner after the launch of his play, The ...

The Guardian
We examined every Indigenous death in custody since 2008. This is why
The Guardian
From May 2018, the reporting team has been reading every coronial finding relating to an Indigenous death in custody from 2008 onwards in Australia, and following up reports of cases that are still awaiting inquest. For the years 2010-2015, we ...

The Guardian
Deaths inside
The Guardian
Guardian Australia's reporting team has spent months collecting and analysing all available coronial data and other sources to build this searchable database. “Deaths inside” tracks every known Indigenous death in custody in every jurisdiction from ...

The Guardian
The 147 dead: terrible toll of Indigenous deaths in custody spurs calls for reform
The Guardian
Aboriginal leaders have called for an immediate review of the “absolutely unacceptable” numbers of Indigenous deaths in custody and are demanding Australia develop an independent system for monitoring them as a priority. The social justice commissioner ...