Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ArtsHub
Sydney Film Festival 2018 - Dendy Awards, and Documentary too
ArtsHub
A young Aboriginal man must help his disabled brother escape from their abusive life in a remote Australian Aboriginal community. Tangles and Knots - written and directed by Renée Marie Petropoulos, produced by Janet Brown, and Yingna Lu for Short ...

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The Canberra Times
ACT treaty needed to right past wrongs made against Indigenous people
The Canberra Times
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia are calling for these rights to be recognised and guaranteed through a treaty or a makarrata. The response of successive national governments, of both persuasion, over the last 30 years to ...

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ACT treaty needed to right past wrongs made against Indigenous people
The Sydney Morning Herald
In response to the aspiration of Aboriginal people across Australia for formal recognition of their sovereign rights and rightful place in their own country, progressive governments in South Australia and Victoria, followed by the Northern Territory ...

The Advertiser
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, former SA man, antislavery reformer and Aboriginal rights campaigner honoured with ...
The Advertiser
THE long forgotten Buxton name, associated with fighting slavery in England and for Aboriginal rights in South Australia, is being celebrated in a new $160,000 monument unveiled in the UK this month. It is the bicentenary of the year Sir Thomas Fowell ...

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Livemint
Encounters with the Aboriginal art of Australia
Livemint
If legend is to be believed, Yirrikapayi, an ancestor from Australia's Tiwi Islands, metamorphosed into a crocodile after being stabbed in the back with a spear. As he dived into the sea, the barbs formed by the weapon were transformed magically into ...

The RiotACT
Leading Indigenous Artists present Free Community Workshops
The RiotACT
During the July school holidays, Melbourne's ILBIJERRI Theatre Company will be offering a series of free community workshops in collaboration with Tuggeranong Arts Centre. ILBIJERRI is one of Australia's leading theatre companies creating innovative ...

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9news.com.au
Bali's fake 'Made in Australia' boomerangs and didgeridoos robbing artists of a living
9news.com.au
The boomerang and didgeridoo are iconic, highly sought after symbols of Australia's indigenous culture. Handcrafting these artefacts is a tradition that stretches back more than 40,000 years and remains one of the largest sources of independent income ...

ABC News
A stunning part of the Kimberley is back in Aboriginal hands
ABC News
Unspoilt beaches, brilliant blue skies, and saltwater lagoons with glimpses of whales and dugongs. Welcome to the gateway to the Kimberley in remote Western Australia — one of Australia's best kept secrets. If this is your idea of paradise then you ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
What's on in Sydney: June 17-23
The Sydney Morning Herald
DANCE Bangarra's new work Dark Emu (until July 14) draws on Bruce Pascoe's award-winning non-fiction book of the same name, to question the "hunter-gatherer" image of pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. 7.30pm, Sydney Opera House, $91-$109, ...

Aljazeera.com
Australia's Lost Generation: Battling Aboriginal Suicide
Aljazeera.com
Young Aborigines are four times more likely to commit suicide than non-indigenous Australians. Experts and Aboriginal elders believe a variety of reasons drive Aboriginal youth to suicide, including a disconnection from traditional culture and land. In ...

The Guardian
New programs helping to reduce number of children in out-of-home care
The Guardian
Guardian Australia has seen government estimates for 2017-18. Based on partial year data extracted on 5 June, 886 fewer children were taken into care compared with last year. But Aboriginal children are a higher percentage of the intake. For this year ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Facelift for National Film and Sound Archive building
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mr Müller said a move to a vacant site on the Acton peninsula - near the National Museum of Australia and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Studies - would put the archive in a precinct frequented by visitors. He said such ...

St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
Caringbah South's Jason Ardler recognised for support of Indigenous causes
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
He also conceived and led the introduction of the NSW Aboriginal Languages Act 2017, the first legislation in Australia to recognise the significance of Aboriginal languages to Aboriginal culture and identity, as well as the broader cultural heritage ...

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
No better time for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to be in business
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
Fast forward to 2018 and the Australian Federal Government has reported over $1 billion in spend with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses since July 2015; and the Business Council of Australia (BCA) members have reported over $2 billion in ...

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Facelift for National Film and Sound Archive building
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mr Müller said a move to a vacant site on the Acton peninsula - near the National Museum of Australia and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Studies - would put the archive in a precinct frequented by visitors. He said such ...

The Times
D'Arcy Short following in footsteps of Australia's first Aboriginal cricket tourists
The Times
Whether D'Arcy Short makes his one-day international debut in Cardiff tomorrow, or is made to wait a little longer, his next step up the international ladder will represent more than just another inexperienced player coming into this Australia team ...

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The Guardian
Australian artist buries himself under busy road for three days
The Guardian
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) CEO Heather Sculthorpe told the ABC, “If they have any interest in telling the Aboriginal story then they should have put it out there for Aboriginal people to do it. “We have a lot of great storytellers and some old ...

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NT News
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull responds to front page criticism: Announces plans to visit NT over child protection ...
NT News
Founder of North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency Natalie Hunter, who has been working in child protection in the NT for 18 years, said Mr Turnbull was out of touch. “Look at what he has done. He has cut back on lots of areas when it comes to ...

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The Conversation AU
Friday essay: Dark Emu and the blindness of Australian agriculture
The Conversation AU
The key contention in Pascoe's book is that the whole distinction between the farming colonist and the hunter-gatherer indigene is based on a radical, and frankly self-serving, misunderstanding of the way that the Indigenous peoples of Australia lived ...

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous treaties are meaningless without addressing the issue of sovereignty
The Conversation AU
The major debate is whether, at the national level, there should be a single treaty, or treaties with each Indigenous nation. A template that could be used across Australia by each Indigenous nation (or a cluster of them) in such negotiations, would ...