Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The West Australian
Indigenous path paved with gold
The West Australian
Not so long ago it was a rarity to see indigenous people in Australian film and television, and it was even rarer to see them accurately represented. Thanks in part to the establishment 25 years ago of Screen Australia's indigenous department, stories ...

The Guardian
Naidoc Week 2018 kicks off with Melbourne march – in pictures
The Guardian
Friday's gathering in the Victorian capital heralds the start of Naidoc Week, which runs this year from 8-15 July. Events are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

Women's Agenda
Blonde, fair-skinned and Aboriginal? One woman's mission to strengthen understanding between Indigenous and non ...
Women's Agenda
Naidoc Week 2018: Because of Her, We Can. Australia is fortunate to have the oldest continuing cultures on earth. For Rona Glynn-McDonald, a Kaytetye woman raised in Alice Springs, this knowledge is a source of great strength and pride. It also served ...
'We're leading the way': Access to justice for Aboriginal womenThe Canberra Times
Fear of loss and false promises: dodgy insurance tactics used on Indigenous peopleThe Guardian
NAIDOC Week puts Tasmanian women in the spotlightTasmania Examiner
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The Cairns Post
'Gammon' has plenty of uses in Australia but it's come back into vogue in the UK
The Cairns Post
The word's origins are a bit opaque, but it seems to have been Victorian English slang meaning “pretend” that died a quick death in Britain but survived among Aboriginal Australians. It is also the name for a beloved cut of preserved pork in the UK ...

Google News

THE RISE OF SENTIMENTALITY, DEATH OF REASON
Herald Sun (blog)
Last Thursday this newspaper revealed the latest aberration at ANU, where all new staff are being required to take a cultural awareness course that specifically endorses a treaty with Aboriginal Australians. Many lawyers and conservatives will have ...

ArtsHub
The Spectacle of Aboriginal Frontier War Memorial Research
ArtsHub
Djon Mundine, the conceptual creator behind The Aboriginal Memorial (1987) also spoke from the audience. This Aboriginal Memorial comprises of 200 hollow log coffins located at the entry to the National Gallery of Australia and is on permanent ...

The Conversation AU
The Murri Book Club and the politics of reading for Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
Although the 2018 Closing the Gap report on Indigenous disadvantage highlighted the importance of literacy for Indigenous Australians, progress remains slow. But, while reading is widely considered an unmitigated good and a marker of prestige, it is ...

The Women's Game
Faith Thomas: First Indigenous Australian to play test cricket
The Women's Game
Faith grew up in Colebrook mission in Quorn in South Australia's Flinders Ranges. "Had I not been in Colebrook, I would never have got the opportunities I did have so I consider myself not stolen but chosen," she said. Growing up, Faith would play ...

NEWS.com.au
Indigenous historian Bruce Pascoe says we've got our story all wrong
NEWS.com.au
Mr Pascoe says the settlers' journals show Australia was a far more fertile land when they first landed than it is today and the vast area of the country we now consider an inhospitable desert was, in fact, meticulously and successfully managed by ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Warriors emerge from Patty Mills' Shadows
The Sydney Morning Herald
Club president and ACT Australian of the year Dion Devow is aiming to bring indigenous and non-indigenous communities together and he sees basketball as the perfect avenue to do so, with age groups from under 10s to under 19s in action. The Warriors ...

ABC News
Just three years out of university, Erin Eade became this school's first Aboriginal principal
ABC News
Erin Eade is Mogo Public School's first Aboriginal principal. The tiny primary school on the NSW south coast has 37 enrolled students, with about 79 per cent identifying as Aboriginal. "Being a leader of Mogo Public School is something I hold in high ...

ABC News
Aboriginal family photos showcase culture and landscape of central Australia
ABC News
Portrait photographer Milly Hooper captures striking images of Indigenous families in the stunning natural surrounds of central Australia. The self-taught mother of four started her business after realising that few Aboriginal people were using ...

Northern Star
Have your say on Australia Day date
Northern Star
"I am a proud Aboriginal and Australian so January 26 is a sad and hard day for me. It's Invasion Day and a day of mourning. I can't celebrate it. This shows not only the social but personal divide the day has. As I am both Aboriginal and Australian, I ...

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The Guardian
What's on in Canberra during NAIDOC Week
The Canberra Times
Canberrans will have plenty of opportunities to experience and learn more about Aboriginal culture as Australia comes together to celebrate NAIDOC week. NAIDOC week is held annually in July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of ...
Fear of loss and false promises: dodgy insurance tactics used on ...The Guardian
NAIDOC Week puts Tasmanian women in the spotlightTasmania Examiner
NAIDOC Week 2018 – Because of Her, We Can!Insights News

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The Canberra Times
'We're leading the way': Access to justice for Aboriginal women
The Canberra Times
An access to justice program in the ACT led by Aboriginal women for Aboriginal women is one of the first of its kind in Australia. The Mulleun Mura program run through the Women's Legal Centre was launched in Canberra on Friday after 14 months of ...
Fear of loss and false promises: dodgy insurance tactics used on ...The Guardian
Funeral insurer may face criminal chargesKatherine Times

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Leave the flag up: calls to keep Aboriginal flag on Harbour Bridge
The Sydney Morning Herald
NAIDOC week is one of four times each year the Aboriginal flag flies in place of the NSW flag on the bridge, where it is displayed in equal prominence to the Australia flag on the opposing arc. Opposition leader Luke Foley has taken aim at the expense, ...

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Aboriginal family photos showcase culture and landscape of central Australia  ABC News

Portrait photographer Milly Hooper captures striking images of Indigenous families in the stunning natural surrounds of central Australia.

ABC News
Cultural genocide or a great economic opportunity? Nuclear waste facility divides traditional owners
ABC News
Some Aboriginal elders have slammed the Federal Government's selection process for a nuclear waste facility in South Australia, saying it lacks cultural respect, but others have welcomed the facility as a great job opportunity. The Senate's Economic ...

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The Guardian
Fear of loss and false promises: dodgy insurance tactics used on Indigenous people
The Guardian
Over another week of scandalous revelations, the royal commission heard Indigenous Australians with poor financial literacy are routinely targeted with sales pitches for valueless insurance, sold faulty cars at usurious interest rates and wrongly ...

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ABC News
Interpreter trial ensures hospitals are no longer places where Aboriginal people 'go to die'
ABC News
Many Aboriginal people feel like hospital is a place where they "go to die" but a groundbreaking trial is underway to change that. Interpreters have been introduced at hospitals in Western Australia's far north to improve patients' relationships with ...