Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC News
Kimberley family speaks about teenage girl's suicide so she doesn't become 'another nameless statistic'
ABC News
The sparsely populated land famed for its natural beauty has some of the world's worst youth suicide rates, according to a 2016 report published in the Medical Journal of Australia. The report also predicted suicide rates for Aboriginal people in ...

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NEWS.com.au
Lauren Southern's provocative personality has always been there
NEWS.com.au
Activists spread the word about the protest against the alt-right YouTube star through social media, encouraging people to “go and yell” at “rodents” Southern and fellow speaker Stefan Molyneux on their “hate speech tour” of Australia. It comes after ...

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The Australian
Solar power offers new jobs in Pilbara projects
The Australian
A Pilbara Aboriginal traditional owner group whose lands cover one-third of Western Australia's land mass hopes to develop its own solar power projects in an area designated one of the four best global spots for large-scale solar power. The Yamatji ...

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The Australian
Uncle Tom a slur meant to keep indigenous Australians online
The Australian
In the 1950s, my father was paid an “Aboriginal allowance”, not a full salary, and couldn't afford a mortgage. He approached his union, which helped him secure equal pay. Because he was Aboriginal, no bank would lend him money. He borrowed from a ...
Rita Panahi: Warren Mundine deserves better from the LeftHerald Sun

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Brag Magazine
Trevor Noah under fire for controversial past remarks about Indigenous women
Brag Magazine
There's a growing call for Trevor Noah's upcoming tour of Australia to be boycotted after a clip featuring the comedian's insensitive, racist, and sexist comments towards Indigenous women surfaced on Twitter. Over the weekend, a clip from Trevor Noah's ...

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
Australia is not a multicultural country
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
In this context, concepts of Aboriginal self-determination seem not only implausible, but reckless and dangerous – the social equivalent of giving a monkey a gun. And since it was not so long ago that Indigenous people in Australia were framed as ...

ABC News
The influence of black American music on Australian Indigenous musicians
ABC News
When Indigenous jazz and blues singer Georgia Lee approached the microphone to sing Strange Fruit at the Sydney Town Hall in 1948, she was uncharacteristically nervous. The song, about the lynchings of black men in the American Deep South, was first ...

ABC News
Salon in remote Indigenous community gives more than just hair cuts
ABC News
At the washbasin of the first ever hair salon to open in the remote Aboriginal community of Santa Teresa in Central Australia, owner and hairdresser Kim Marshall is showing her newest student the proper technique to blow-dry hair. "So far I've learnt ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Where trees rain from the sky so tiger quolls might roam again
The Sydney Morning Herald
Far, too, from the terror of wars large and small, little planes are being used to “bomb” 400 hectares of Aboriginal land that sits on a volcanic lava flow known as Budj Bim, in remote south-west Victoria. ... Many native Australian trees require fire ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous playwright Nakkiah Lui could be Australia's next David Williamson
The Sydney Morning Herald
The first recipient of The Dreaming Award from the Australia Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Arts Board, Lui was also the first to win the Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright's Award. In 2013, her first play at Sydney's Belvoir ...

The Australian
Art brings good fortune, but also damage to APY Lands
The Australian
An explosion of international interest in the work of artists from South Australia's remote indigenous lands has delivered an economic boon of non-welfare money while fuelling social problems as disputes driven by jealousy and gambling lead to violence ...

University News: The University of Western Australia
Dingoes may provide clues to understanding how Australia evolved
University News: The University of Western Australia
A more precise date for the arrival of dingoes in Australia is important as it answers questions about the relationship between dingoes and Aboriginal people and the dingoes' possible contribution to the extinction of animals such as the Tasmanian ...
Dingo's arrival led to thylacine and devil extinctionsThe Australian

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The Guardian
'Finally the prime minister is here': Turnbull to visit Tennant Creek
The Guardian
... Australia reported local residents and traditional owners in Tennant Creek had urged Turnbull to visit, following their long-running struggle with social issues, a number of traumatic deaths, and poor services. Turnbull sent his minister for ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Some people in government wish we had died out, says Anita Heiss
The Sydney Morning Herald
Remarkably, debate over what happened to Indigenous Australians when this country was settled by Europeans continues to this day. Statistics on the Reconciliation Australia website show one in three Australians don't recognise the Stolen Generations.

The Beijinger (blog)
Rare Australian Aboriginal Bark Paintings on Exhibit in Beijing
The Beijinger (blog)
The origin of the practice of painting on bark cannot be determined, but all the patterns, according to Mathew Trinca, the director of the National Museum of Australia, are handed down through generations, tracing back to cultural relics from when ...

InDaily
Aboriginal women working for cultural connection in child protection system
InDaily
When she approached Western Australian child protection authorities, she was placed in a children's home. With the help of local politicians, Moyle's mother successfully advocated for her return to her Aboriginal family in South Australia when she was ...

Brisbane Times
'I think there are members of the current government who wish that we had died out,' says Indigenous writer Anita Heiss
Brisbane Times
Remarkably, debate over what happened to Indigenous Australians when this country was settled by Europeans continues to this day. Statistics on the Reconciliation Australia website show one in three Australians don't recognise the Stolen Generations.

The Australian
We cannot ignore the effects of colonisation on indigenous communities
The Australian
As in any country or society, opinions will always vary, but as the national organisation to prevent violence against all Australian women and their children, it is Our Watch's responsibility to listen to and make central these voices. We can't solve a ...
COLONISATION DIDN'T BASH THESE WOMENHerald Sun (blog)
Blind Justice? Not in our experience.IndigenousX (press release) (blog)

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Inside Film
Catriona McKenzie on the 'brain cracking' Boori Monty Pryor and 'The Wrong Kind of Black'
Inside Film
“Australia has to wake up. We as a nation have not been able to engage with Aboriginal Australia, and that has to shift. This is just one story of millions of stories that are waiting to be told about the impact of white colonial Australia on ...

ArtsHub
Review: Tony Albert – Visible, Queensland Art Gallery
ArtsHub
Conceptually, it extends Albert's premise for this exhibition, which questions how we have visualised Aboriginal Australia as mere self-serving décor and thuggish lads, and while the aesthetic may have changed, he asks, has the intention also changed?