Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The West Australian
Ear program puts focus on Aboriginal kids
The West Australian
WACHS will also work alongside the Telethon Kids Institute, Rural Health West and the University of Western Australia during the program. WACHS Goldfields regional director Geraldine Ennis said early intervention and education surrounding ear disease ...

ABC News
NT Government announces first Cabinet reshuffle, Gunner passes on police, Aboriginal portfolios
ABC News
Michael Gunner — Chief Minister, Minister for Children, Minister for Treaty, Minister for Trade & Major Projects, Minister for Northern Australia, Minister for Children; Nicole Manison — Deputy Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Police, Fire ...

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The Guardian
Two men jailed for three years for hit-and-run of 14-year-old Aboriginal boy
The Guardian
Two men have been jailed for three years in Western Australia for knocking a 14-year-old Aboriginal boy off his bicycle and leaving him to crawl home with a broken leg, in a case with similarities to the death of Kalgoorlie teenager Elijah Doughty ...

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ABC News
Australia's first Indigenous ophthalmologist enjoys intricate nature of 'elegant' eye surgery
ABC News
There are few areas of medicine more specialised than eye surgery, but it is in that field — which is also highly competitive — that Kristopher Rallah-Baker has made history. Dr Rallah-Baker has become Australia's first Aboriginal ophthalmologist ...

The Guardian
All children in detention in the Northern Territory are indigenous
The Guardian
All children currently in detention in the Northern Territory are Aboriginal, according to data from the families department, prompting calls for reform of the justice system. In response to questioning at an NT Estimates hearing late last week, the ...

Daily Telegraph
There are some familiar faces in Survivor Australia this year
Daily Telegraph
I've had to deal with a lot of stereotyping over my life and I always try and break the mould.” “I want to win the money to set my family up long term and I want to show Australia what so many of my family members and friends know about Aboriginal ...

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The Conversation AU
Getting a heart check early can prevent heart attack and stroke in Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
Most heart attacks and strokes can be prevented with appropriate treatment. Yet heart disease, including heart attacks, causes 13% of deaths among Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and is a major contributor to the gap in life ...
The concentration camps of Turnbull and TrumpIndependent Australia

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The Conversation AU
Victoria's treaty with Indigenous peoples must address vexed questions of sovereignty
The Conversation AU
The Victorian parliament has become the first in Australia to pass legislation to begin treaty negotiations with Indigenous peoples. It follows the Northern Territory government making a similar commitment, though not through legislation, and the New ...

The Australian
Getting a line on Marree Man
The Australian
Marree, population 150, sits at the junction of the Oodnadatta and Birdsville tracks in the remote upper north of South Australia, east of one of Australia's great mysteries: the “Marree Man”, a 4.2km-long reproduction of a giant Aboriginal figure ...

ABC News
Australia's citizenship program should focus on Indigenous introduction, Darwin linguistics teacher says
ABC News
As Ganesh Koramannil passed through Sydney Central train station in 2004, a man approached and asked him for $2. It was an interaction he would have long forgotten, except the man was the first Indigenous Australian Mr Koramannil had ever met.

ABC News
Marching off the mission: Aboriginal girls who took it to white Australia and won
ABC News
It is 1962 in Brisbane and a group of teenage girls sit on an airport fence, brimming with excitement. Their mouths are wide with joy and their polished white shoes gleam in the sun, as they wait for their first plane ride. Many had never before been ...

ABC News
'It's not third world, but it's close': The town of Darlngunaya on the Fitzroy River, where the taps run dry
ABC News
Because of the land tenure — the site is held by the Aboriginal Lands Trust and leased to residents — the WA government says it is not responsible for ensuring a safe and consistent water supply, a situation Greens MP Robin Chapple said was ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
'Not soft on crime': push for specialist indigenous court
The Sydney Morning Herald
The state's barristers and police are pushing the NSW government to urgently fund a specific indigenous court in a bid to lower the "spiralling number" of Aboriginal people in jail. In a significant move, the NSW Bar Association and and the Police ...

The Guardian
Indigenous voices have never been more important to Australian literature
The Guardian
Even in those seven years since, I have seen changes in the Australian literary landscape. Significant programs have fostered a new generation of Aboriginal voices over the past few decades: the David Unaipon award, for instance, which has been running ...

ABC News
Indigenous community fights to preserve language that gave Australia the word 'kangaroo'
ABC News
An Indigenous language that has survived for more than 50,000 years and gave Australia the word "kangaroo" is fighting to stay alive amid fears the number of fluent speakers is dwindling. Guugu-Yimidhirr is the mother tongue of people in Hope Vale on ...

ABC News
Workshops share traditional knowledge of 'cultural burns' as fire management
ABC News
Mr Steffensen works with a group called the Firesticks Alliance, an Indigenous organisation that runs programs with communities across Australia to build recognition of cultural fire management, and to reintroduce it onto lands owned and run by ...

ABC News
'Eerily similar' suspected Indigenous murder cases go cold as police explain away the truth
ABC News
And yet 10 years later, a different Aboriginal family is reeling from police mistakes that were "eerily similar" to the Raggett case. This is the real life Mystery Road, where Indigenous deaths are explained away by those who are supposed to find the ...

ABC News
Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a long, 'untold history' that's been captured through art
ABC News
This year marks 200 years since the first Chinese migrant arrived in Australia back in 1818, yet the historical connections between Chinese and Indigenous people have largely gone unrecorded.

Courier Mail
'Code of silence' on sexual abuse of children tearing apart Aboriginal communities
Courier Mail
... interviews with News Corp, Aboriginal women have revealed the high cost of this silence, which is tearing apart their communities; most recently highlighted by the alleged rapes of young Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory and Western ...
THE REAL RAPE CRISIS THE LEFT WON'T TOUCHHerald Sun (blog)

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NT News
NT Government's National Indigenous Art Gallery plan dividing proponents and opponents down the Centre
NT News
“It will cement Alice Springs' reputation as the Inland Capital of Australia and the Red Centre as the heart of Aboriginal art in Australia and the rightful home for a National Aboriginal Art Gallery,” she said. But the Government's plan to build this ...

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