Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC News
From the mission to Italy: The tragic story of two Indigenous boys stolen by a monk
ABC News
In June 1849, a military formation charged through the streets of Paris. Mounted guns rumbled past, horses shied and pawed the ground — and, from a balcony above, two Australian Aboriginal boys offered to enter the fray and step between the sparring ...

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Southern Cross
Bombers to house Indigenous hall of fame
Southern Cross
"The football club and a lot of the pioneering work of 'Sheeds' in the '90s has got a really strong relationship with Indigenous Australia," Campbell said. "The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sports hall of fame has got a rich history and it's ...

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IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
New report highlights ripple effects of the Stolen Generations
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
This compares to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the same age group – who are already at a disadvantage. Almost three-quarters (73%) of the Stolen Generations live in New South Wales, Western Australia, and Queensland (30%, 22% ...
Extent of Stolen Generation's woes exposed in new reportSBS

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New York Times
Indigenous Australians Use Tech to Expose Police Abuse
New York Times
Activists in Australia say such videos of police officers abusing Indigenous Australians are an important way to expose systemic brutality, and they have begun teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people how to use technology to protect their ...

The Australian
Protocol aims to close cancer gap
The Australian
The Australian-first “Optimal Care Pathway for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with cancer” includes a detailed series of printed resources to be distributed throughout the health system aimed at practitioners and patients. It works from ...
BWM Dentsu Group launches Reconciliation Action Plan for the creative and media sectorMuMbrella

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The Australian
Gap is widest for the Stolen Generations
The Australian
Stolen Generations members are 3.3 times as likely to have been in jail in the past five years than other indigenous Australians of the same age, 1.8 times as likely to rely on welfare as their main income, 1.7 times as likely to have experienced ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
The Wrong Skin series has given Julie Buck a voice
The Sydney Morning Herald
Having grown up in the Kimberley, the podcast series brings to the wider world the unabashed, blatant and unquestioned power that some men have wielded to the detriment of Aboriginal women and children. I have long advocated against the physical and ...

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ABC News
'Glue ear' project to fight hearing loss and improve outcomes for Aboriginal children
ABC News
Dr Kong was Australia's first Indigenous ear, nose and throat surgeon, in a Western sense — he points to Aboriginal Ngangkari healers who would perform some procedures as his forebears. He said the long-term impacts on children with hearing ...
You can't learn if you can't hear - focus on ear healthKatherine Times

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MuMbrella
BWM Dentsu Group launches Reconciliation Action Plan for the creative and media sector
MuMbrella
BWM Dentsu Group's RAP framework will help to review and enhance existing relationships, respect and trust between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and Non-Indigenous Australians, through a series of tangible, long-term commitments.

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ABC News
Bag searches and death threats: When unconscious bias becomes something sinister
ABC News
Ms Piota has had no complaints about the police but as an Indigenous woman who did not grow up in her mother's country she has an outsider's perspective on the question of unconscious bias. She said when she first moved to Australia, Aboriginal people ...

ABC Local
Fox traps laid by Aboriginal Land Council hope to protect last 12 NSW breeding pairs of beach stone-curlew
ABC Local
Just how do you outfox a fox, especially if it's to save endangered wildlife? While a fox famously outsmarted a group of upset farmers in the Roald Dahl classic Fantastic Mr Fox, at Fingal Head south of the Gold Coast, landowners and the local council ...

The Cairns Post
Cape York students to unite for annual music camp
The Cairns Post
They will be joined by students from the Aboriginal Centre of Performing Arts (ACPA) who will focus on the choirs. The CYMP is presented by QMF in association with Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy and Department of Education and Training.

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Assisting indigenous Australians no extra burden: QSuper
Investment Magazine
Providing more flexible arrangements to help indigenous people access their super was not an “extra impost” on super funds Lyn Melcer, head of technical advice at QSuper, told the Hayne royal commission. Research shows a retirement wealth gap between ...

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NSW Indigenous Coalition Reunites to Push Change for Aboriginal People
Pro Bono Australia
“The beauty of CAPO is it's the seven largest Aboriginal organisations in NSW, and our membership therefore covers so many more Aboriginal people, more than any other organisation can do on their own,” Chenery said. While CAPO first launched in 2007, ...

New public art in Sydney to honour Australia's Indigenous community
Architecture and Design
A major artwork is being planned in Sydney by city authorities to celebrate and honour the First Peoples of Australia. Announced recently by governor David Hurley and lord mayor Clover Moore, the proposed 6-metre tall artwork, bara by Aboriginal artist ...

Aboriginal Health Council commits funds to mental health training
SafeToWork
Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (AHCWA) has allocated $1 million of funding to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal communities. Communities that are set to receive mental health training by the end of 2019 include the mining ...

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B&T
BWM Dentsu Group Launches Reconciliation Action Plan To Address Industry Inequality
B&T
BWM Dentsu Group's RAP framework will help to review and enhance existing relationships, respect and trust between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians, through a series of tangible, long-term commitments.

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On the move: the latest appointments and resignations
ArtsHub
Stokes has worked for the Australia Council for the Arts as a Project Officer for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board (ATSIA). He has also been Production Assistant on Living Black on SBS TV; Content Division Manager at National ...

The Australian
Gunybi Ganambarr wins top prize at Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
The Australian
“If you look across contemporary practice in Australia and internationally, people are always working with teams of people to help realise a vision, and so indigenous practitioners are now doing the same, and I think that's really exciting because it ...

Aljazeera.com
Can Aboriginal ecotourism save communities as companies eye land?
Aljazeera.com
Broome, Australia - Bart Pigram leads a group of tourists through a mangrove thicket, telling stories and discussing the landscape. The group is a mix of Australian and international visitors, all having travelled significant distances to be here in ...