Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Guardian
'Whitesplaining' and lip service: six Indigenous theatremakers critique the industry
The Guardian
As a public spat, it covered pretty much all the bases – race, gender, freedom of speech and the political divide – offering a good opportunity to take stock of the Indigenous theatre landscape as a whole. Guardian Australia asked six practitioners ...

ABC News
Garma: Government urged to repair relations with Indigenous communities
ABC News
"There are elements of the public service that have been very frank that this is a real area of difficulty for them." Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies chief executive Craig Ritchie said he understood many ...
Garma festival: Indigenous sovereignty would be a 'gift for all Australians''The Guardian

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The Guardian
Garma festival: Indigenous sovereignty would be a 'gift for all Australians''
The Guardian
The annual Garma festival in northeast Arnhem Land opened for the 20th year on Friday with attendees told that Indigenous sovereignty would be a “gift for all the Australian people”. At a ceremonial welcome at the Gulkula grounds on Gumatj country ...
Garma: Government urged to repair relations with Indigenous communitiesABC News
Garma festival: Australians need to recognise colonisation was wrong, says activistSBS

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The Australian
Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, War, Defence and Citizenship
The Australian
When Charles Bean wrote his 12-volume official history of Australia's involvement in World War I, he made a passing reference to just one Aboriginal Digger, a private who was highly decorated in the epic battle of Mont St Quentin on August 31, 1918 ...

The Australian
Art goes on for accused painter Tiger Yaltangki
The Australian
Yaltangki is also being promoted as part of a Victorian government initiative in a Yalingwa series exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art at Melbourne's Southbank, spruiked as “an exploration of everyday life and experiences of ...

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The Australian
At-risk animals on menu for Aboriginal elder
The Australian
Galarrwuy Yunupingu has praised Captain Cook and Arthur Phillip before demanding Aborigines be allowed to eat endangered native species and pledging to ask governments to hand Australia back. The Gumatj leader spoke at the opening of the 20th ...

Yunupingu calls out government over land
NEWS.com.au
The Dilak Authority representing the Yolngu people had agreed this week to tell the government Australia's colonisation was wrong and it endorsed last year's Uluru statement calling for an Aboriginal voice in parliament through an independent ...

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Herald Sun (blog)
DODSON'S RECKLESS WARNING
Herald Sun (blog)
Simmering anger in indigenous Australia over a failure to make good for past wrongs could easily turn into organised armed resistance, Aboriginal academic Mick Dodson has warned. In launching a new thriller by former journalist and political staffer ...

ArtsHub
Review: Which Way Home, Seymour Centre
ArtsHub
Which Way Home opened back in 2016 bang smack in the middle of the debate sparked by a Bill Leak cartoon published in The Australian which depicted Aboriginal fathers as drunk neglectful parents of criminal children. The cartoon caused a furore and ...

The Adelaide Review
The 'great Australian silence' 50 years on
The Adelaide Review
I remember my dad describing how he also “hadn't been told” about Australia's Aboriginal history when Reynolds' book came out. And a colleague and friend recently recounted visiting Myall Creek as part of a Sunday school picnic in the 1980s: no-one ...

ABC News
Queensland's Indigenous students close gap on completing Year 12
ABC News
Queensland Education Minister Grace Grace said the results were the best across Australia for Year 12 completion by students from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background. "That is closing the gap — it is a fantastic achievement and one ...

The Roar
Rugby Australia and Adam Goodes should create a dance to rival the Haka
The Roar
It's not too late. It's not over the top. And it's not just so the Wallabies have a response to the All Blacks' haka. The Wallabies should perform an Aboriginal dance before Test matches because Australia's Indigenous heritage needs to be not just ...

The Conversation AU
Friday essay: the 'great Australian silence' 50 years on
The Conversation AU
I remember my dad describing how he also “hadn't been told” about Australia's Aboriginal history when Reynolds' book came out. And a colleague and friend recently recounted visiting Myall Creek as part of a Sunday school picnic in the 1980s: no-one ...

ABC Local
Indigenous group takes anti-Adani fight to the United Nations claiming human rights violation
ABC Local
Traditional owners fighting Adani's proposed Carmichael mine in Queensland have urged the United Nations to urgently intervene by formally censuring Australia at a meeting in Geneva this month. United States-based lawyers acting for the Wangan and ...

Planeta.com
Australia Aboriginal Links
Planeta.com
The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) began operations in 1980 and was the first Aboriginal group to be allocated a broadcasting license. The Aboriginal people of Central Australia own CAAMA through an association regulated ...

Herald Sun
In pictures: Policing in the '60s
Herald Sun
IT was the decade of the Beaumont children mystery, the Wanda Beach murders, 'The Mutilator' and the disappearance of Harold Holt — plus perhaps the strangest siege in Australian history, when a police commissioner organised a wedding and acted as ...

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Inside Film
Screen Australia's Indigenous department invests $1.5 million
Inside Film
Hunter Page-Lochard (left) and Leah Purcell (right) are among the funding recipients. As Screen Australia's Indigenous department celebrates its 25th anniversary, it has announced $1.5 million in special funding across short films, web series and ...

ABC News
Aboriginal map of Lake Eyre Basin, an area twice the size of France, released after 12 years in the making
ABC News
An Aboriginal map detailing significant cultural information has been released for the Lake Eyre Basin, which spans 1.2 million square kilometres across inland Australia — almost one-sixth of the country. The map, which took 12 years to make, features ...

The Australian
'Unsatisfied anger' could become armed struggle, says Mick Dodson
The Australian
Simmering anger in indigenous Australia over a failure to make good for past wrongs could easily turn into organised armed resistance, Aboriginal academic Mick Dodson has warned. In launching a new thriller by former journalist and political staffer ...