Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Advertiser
Aboriginal elders want inquiry after man's life support turned off at RAH before father could arrive from APY Lands
The Advertiser
ABORIGINAL elders from South Australia's Far North are demanding an investigation into the “unauthorised” removal of life support from one of their community at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. APY Council of Elders spokesman George Kenmore says ...

The Age
Tracking down and recording Australia's first languages a life's work
The Age
In the stores of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in Canberra sit precious recordings of Victorian Aboriginal songs and language. They were taped on the machines of the 1960s by linguist-ethnographer Luise Hercus.

ABC News
Peter Macdonald, heart transplant pioneer, helping close the Indigenous life-expectancy gap
ABC News
"They are seriously disadvantaged and, as you know, we've got this awful gap in life expectancy between the Aboriginal community and non-Indigenous Australians. "What I do coming out here won't solve this problem but at least it's something. It's an ...

UNSW Newsroom
Champions of Indigenous recognition to feature in Mason Conversation
UNSW Newsroom
“The 2018 Mason Conversation is the opportunity to hear from these two inspiring Aboriginal women from different generations and backgrounds, about this landmark process in Australian law and politics, and the personal journey that brought them to be ...

ABC News
Unpaid domestic violence leave comes into effect across Australia
ABC News
In Alice Springs, the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress (CAAC) has offered employees paid domestic violence leave since December 2017. General manager of health services Tracey Brand said the new legislation fell short of what she thought would ...
New work change to affect millions of AussiesQueensland Times

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The Conversation AU
'Digital land rights': co-designing technologies with Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
For the last 248 years, Indigenous Australians have experienced disruption and disadvantage as a result of colonisation. Now with the advent of the internet, the same structures that keep Indigenous people marginalised and isolated in the real world ...

The Weekly Times
Australian Native Food and Botanicals: Amanda Garner raising interest in native foods
The Weekly Times
One couple who have pledged to put Aboriginal communities before their own profit is Gayle and Mike Quarmby, of indigenous plant, fruit and vegetable business Outback Pride in South Australia's Reedy Creek, 100km west of the Victorian border.

The Australian
Dismantling ATSIC probably a mistake, says Amanda Vanstone
The Australian
The committee examined earlier examples of indigenous advisory bodies as well as current ones, such as the Murdi Paaki Regional Authority in western NSW, the Torres Strait Regional Authority, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples and others.

ABC News
Indigenous Land Corporation to hand FNQ cattle stations back to traditional owners without cattle
ABC News
... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people to acquire land and manage assets. It runs 6 million hectares of cattle country across more than a dozen properties in far north Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia with around 78,000 ...

The Guardian
Indigenous voice idea has strong support – but no firm direction
The Guardian
It also recommended that Australia commit to a process of agreement-making and truth telling. Malcolm Turnbull rejected the voice idea, calling it undemocratic, but it has the support of Labor, the Greens and Australia's peak legal, community, and ...
Why the Law Council backs an Indigenous voice to ParliamentInDaily
First Nations Voice would 'inevitably' improve lives, says expertThe Mandarin

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Moree Champion
Noeline Briggs-Smith's achievements recognised in nomination for Australian of the Year
Moree Champion
Aunty Noeline Briggs Smith OAM has stood at the vanguard of social change for most of her life, as she has constantly fought to make a positive difference in the local Aboriginal community. While the achievements of the stalwart are well known in Moree ...

Moree Champion
Noeline Briggs-Smith's achievements recognised in nomination for Australian of the Year
Moree Champion
Aunty Noeline Briggs Smith OAM has stood at the vanguard of social change for most of her life, as she has constantly fought to make a positive difference in the local Aboriginal community. While the achievements of the stalwart are well known in Moree ...

InDaily
Why the Law Council backs an Indigenous voice to Parliament
InDaily
It is an unenviable position – determining the “how” behind what will undoubtedly be the most significant step toward the self-determination of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia since voting rights were instilled in 1962 and ...

ABC News
Banking royal commission: Indigenous Australians face barriers to accessing superannuation
ABC News
Financial counsellor Alan Gray goes the extra mile to assist some of his clients. He travels from his Broome base to remote Aboriginal communities in WA's Dampier Peninsula. Two of the communities he works in are more than 200 kilometres up a dirt road ...

Daily Telegraph
Model Samantha Harris wished she had an indigenous role model to look up to when she was young
Daily Telegraph
Being one of only a small number of Aboriginal celebrities in Australia, the 26-year-old beauty is often asked to throw her support behind indigenous charities, initiatives and events — the latest being a new cultural awareness program instigated at ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous playwright: Australian theatre is "whitesplaining" stories
The Sydney Morning Herald
But instead of revelling in the standing ovation on Friday night and the warm reviews over the weekend, Indigenous playwright H. Lawrence Sumner was upset about the latest example of what he called "whitesplaining" Aboriginal stories in Australian theatre.
The Long Forgotten DreamAboriginal Art Directory News
The Long Forgotten Dream review – play prods old wounds of colonisationThe Guardian

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SBS
Tennis - Indigenous breakthrough a matter of time, says Goolagong-Cawley
SBS
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Nearly half a century after Evonne Goolagong-Cawley became the first Aboriginal Australian to win a grand slam title at the 1971 French Open, the nation still waits for another indigenous talent to emerge and claim the game's ...
Tennis Australia takes significant step to promote sportBusiness Standard

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Eurosport.com AU
Indigenous breakthrough a matter of time, says Goolagong-Cawley
Eurosport.com AU
MELBOURNE, July 30 (Reuters) - Nearly half a century after Evonne Goolagong-Cawley became the first Aboriginal Australian to win a grand slam title at the 1971 French Open, the nation still waits for another indigenous talent to emerge and claim the ...

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Indigenous voice idea has strong support – but no firm direction  The Guardian

A parliamentary committee established to examine the proposals of the Uluru statement has heard there is strong support for the concept of an Indigenous voice ...

Indigenous voice idea has strong support – but no firm direction  The Guardian

A parliamentary committee established to examine the proposals of the Uluru statement has heard there is strong support for the concept of an Indigenous voice ...