Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC News
Banking royal commission: Predatory practices, exploitation of Indigenous Australians revealed
ABC News
But this week, we heard how deductions and fees costing just a few dollars are taking food out of the mouths of some of Australia's most vulnerable people. Take the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund (ACBF). With that name, you'd understandably think it ...
Funeral insurer may face criminal charges9news.com.au
Women front Melbourne Aboriginal marchThe West Australian
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Arnhem Land artist John Mawurndjul celebrated in his first major Australian survey
ABC News
That same year, Mawurndjul's work showed in New York and Chicago as part of the exhibition Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia. At home, his painting of Ngalyod won the Telstra Indigenous Art Award. It would have been a heady time for an artist ...

Green Left Weekly
Gurrumul and Indigenous languages offer windows into Australia's past and present
Green Left Weekly
There's a scene towards the end of the film Gurrumul, directed by Paul Daniel Williams screening in cinemas now, that stays with me. Set in a record store, somewhere in the United States, we hear innocuous guitar strumming in the background as people ...

ABC News
Kids are keeping Aboriginal languages alive — and learning just how different they are
ABC News
Ms Pope is project officer at First Languages Australia (FLA), which works to ensure the survival of Australia's traditional languages in the future. She's overseeing a national competition that invites schools to work with their local Indigenous ...

The Conversation AU
Fifty years ago, at Lake Mungo, the true scale of Aboriginal Australians' epic story was revealed
The Conversation AU
This month marks the golden jubilee of a watershed event in the history of this nation that should cause all Australians to pause and reflect. On July 15, 1968, while searching for clues to past climates and ancient landscapes on land under the joint ...

The Conversation AU
Time to honour a historical legend: 50 years since the discovery of Mungo Lady
The Conversation AU
Aboriginal people were being heard. For me it was the beginning of a journey to explore the geological legacy of climatic change in our ice age landscapes, the ancient dunes, lakes and rivers. I had recently joined the Australian National University ...

CGTN (press release)
Stories painted on bark: Aboriginal art from Australia on display in Beijing
CGTN (press release)
Delicate and rare bark paintings from the National Museum of Australia's signature collection are headlining an unprecedented exhibition of Arnhem Land artworks at the National Museum of China. The curator hopes Chinese viewers will be fascinated by ...

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The Guardian
Banking inquiry: insurance company boss says worker acted 'unconscionably'
The Guardian
On offer for the company's top performers were a $300 gift card, a “Pacific Pearl” Sunshine Coast cruise, a $6,000 Vespa scooter and Sunshine Coast cruise. It was about the same time that the number of Aboriginal people signed up to funeral plans leapt ...

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ABC News (blog)
Royal commission hears how it takes four months to open an ANZ bank account
ABC News (blog)
It took two Aboriginal customers from a community 90 minutes' drive from Katherine several visits and four months to open a basic, fee-free ANZ transaction account, the royal commission hears. The commission heard from a social worker with Save the ...

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Fifty years ago, at Lake Mungo, the true scale of Aboriginal Australians' epic story was revealed  The Conversation AU

On the golden jubilee of the discovery of Mungo Lady's 40000-year-old remains, we can reflect on Aboriginal Australia's vast history, which predates the arrival ...

Fifty years ago, at Lake Mungo, the true scale of Aboriginal Australians' epic story was revealed  The Conversation AU

On the golden jubilee of the discovery of Mungo Lady's 40000-year-old remains, we can reflect on Aboriginal Australia's vast history, which predates the arrival ...

The Australian
ANU indigenous treaty edict casts doubt over 'academic freedom ...
The Australian
The Australian National University is demanding all new staff undertake cultural awareness training that endorses a treaty with indigenous Australians, calling ...

ABC News
Super Netball celebrates Aboriginal culture with inaugural Indigenous round
ABC News
In the past we've seen clubs such as the Adelaide Thunderbirds and West Coast Fever wear Indigenous style dresses — but this is the first time there will be an official round with Australia's first nations designs on the outfits of all teams involved ...

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ABC Local
Funeral insurance company targeted Indigenous Australians
ABC Local
The banking Royal Commission is in Darwin for the current round of hearings and has heard testimony about the behaviour and policies of funeral insurance companies in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia. The exploitative ...

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The Guardian
Mick Dodson urges PM to reconsider 'shameful' rejection of voice to parliament
The Guardian
He said in any renewed talks between Indigenous people and the government, the various proposals put forward with the objective of correcting the injustices imposed on Australia's Indigenous people throughout the history of white settlement “ought to ...

Pro Bono Australia
Next-Gen Indigenous Leader Addresses UN Human Rights Council
Pro Bono Australia
Across Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children made up more than 50 per cent of the children locked away in youth prisons, figures showed. Belinda Lowe, Indigenous rights campaigner at Amnesty International, said the criminal justice ...

ABC News
Nation's first free meningococcal B vaccination program to be funded in South Australia
ABC News
The State Government announced it would be rolled out from October, with vaccinations to be provided by GPs, local government immunisation clinics, Aboriginal Health Services, Child and Family Health Services and Country Health SA. The targeted ...

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ABC News
Indigenous leaders gather for First Nations summit at Old Parliament House in Canberra
ABC News
Indigenous leaders and thinkers from around the world are in Canberra for the Australian National University's First Nations Governance Forum. They share a history and a journey. Indigenous peoples are 5 per cent of the world's population but represent ...

The Guardian
Head of insurer accused of ripping off Indigenous families had 'no qualifications'
The Guardian
... followed a training manual script that was displayed at the hearing. Howden said the company did not directly target Indigenous people for funeral plans but statistics showed the number of Indigenous Australians on its books had soared in recent years.
Financial sharks targeted Indigenous Australians: Royal CommissionNine
Banking royal commission hears how funeral insurance targets Indigenous customersABC News (blog)
Funeral insurer targeting Indigenous Australians ignored court ordersThe Sydney Morning Herald
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Funeral insurer targeting Indigenous Australians ignored court orders
The Sydney Morning Herald
A funeral insurer that heavily targets Indigenous Australian customers failed to include a disclaimer in some of its advertising that it was not an Aboriginal organisation, breaching Federal Court orders, and has still not acted on 2015 recommendations ...
Banking royal commission hears how funeral insurance targets Indigenous customersABC News (blog)
Banking inquiry told Indigenous people exploited by insurance companiesThe Guardian
Royal commission hears how finance companies exploit Aboriginal peopleNEWS.com.au

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