Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

2GB
'We've chucked out money willy-nilly': Warren Mudine slams 'untargeted' indigenous spending
2GB
Mudine will be joining a NSW government advisory body tasked with overcoming indigenous disadvantage. He hopes to direct conversation away from tokenistic, virtue signalling debates around Australia Day and get back to what actually Advances ...

PS News
Indigenous land petition finds new home
PS News
The National Archives of Australia has formally presented a copy of the historic 1972 'Larrakia petition' in which 1,000 signatories appealed to Queen Elizabeth to help the Aboriginal people of Australia gain land rights and political representation ...

Business News
Executive ordered to repay Aboriginal corporation
Business News
The former executive officer of a Western Australian Aboriginal corporation has been ordered to pay more than $430,000 in compensation and penalties after he borrowed money from the non-profit entity that he couldn't repay. Ashley James Taylor took ...

The West Australian
Exhibition provides Aboriginal perspective
The West Australian
The exhibition which featured at the William Grundt Memorial Library is a collaboration between the State Library of Western Australia and the Minderoo Foundation. From Another View project co-ordinator Tui Raven said the exhibit reflected what it was ...

Aboriginal corporation exec plundered cash
NT News
Ashley James Taylor took $211,612 from Geraldton-based Murchison Region Aboriginal Corporation between 2011 and 2015 without approval from the directors, and only repaid $29,085. Federal Court of Australia Justice Michael Barker said Taylor's ...

Lithgow Mercury
Roxsanne Van-Veen competes in Aboriginal XI tour
Lithgow Mercury
The Aboriginal XI tour recognises the group of men as the nation's first ever sports team to tour overseas, beginning Australia's international sporting legacy. “To retrace the footsteps of 1868 tour is like a dream come true,” Van-Veen told the ...

Aboriginal corporation exec plundered cash
The Australian
In the Federal Court of Australia on Thursday, Taylor was ordered to pay the corporation the remaining $182,527 and its court costs, and was also fined $250,000 and disqualified from managing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations for seven ...

Aboriginal corporation exec plundered cash
9news.com.au
The former executive officer of a West Australian Aboriginal corporation has been ordered to pay more than $430,000 in compensation and penalties after he borrowed money from the non-profit entity that he couldn't repay. Ashley James Taylor took ...

The Guardian
Pru Goward rejects call to appoint Aboriginal child and family commissioner
The Guardian
The peak body for Aboriginal organisations working in the system, the Aboriginal Child, Family and Community Care State Secretariat, or AbSec, told Guardian Australia an Aboriginal child and family commissioner could direct investment in child and ...

Katherine Times
Rare Arnhem Land Bark Paintings on Show in Beijing
Katherine Times
“This delicate and beautiful collection of Arnhem Land bark paintings is one of Australia's great cultural treasures and the National Museum of Australia is delighted to share them with Chinese audiences,” said National Museum director, Dr Mathew Trinca.

ABC News
The real Aboriginal 'Dreamtime' to be highlighted in Dream Mine Time art exhibition
ABC News
When white anthropologists began studying Aboriginal culture, they came up with the term "Dreamtime" to describe the mythology and history of Indigenous Australians. But they couldn't have been more wrong. What they were trying to define is too complex ...

The Conversation AU
How flexischools could help close the gap in Indigenous education
The Conversation AU
This year marked the tenth year of the Australian government reporting on targets made to close the educational gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian students. The report card showed some slow gains, but overall it was another national ...

ABC Message Stick
Aboriginal bark paintings described as among Australia's 'greatest treasures' bound for Beijing
ABC Message Stick
A decades-old bark painting of an ancient saltwater crocodile in Arnhem Land will make an historic journey to China next month. This intricately painted — and very carefully preserved — mystic creature is known as a "totemic crocodile" and was ...

The Australian
Marathon China tour a “cultural diplomacy milestone'
The Australian
A history-making exhibition of Aboriginal bark paintings and objects from Arnhem Land — most of which have never left Australia — will soon tour mainland China and Taiwan, in what is being hailed as a “cultural diplomacy milestone''. First stop on ...

The Advertiser
Scrapped indigenous treaty negotiations cost SA taxpayers $1.8 million
The Advertiser
Mr Maher initially pledged $4.4 million over five years to create treaties with dozens of indigenous groups in SA. He told The Advertiser that the treaty process was the “most significant piece of Aboriginal affairs reform South Australia has embarked on”.
Just one week away from making historyNational Indigenous Times
Victorian parliament votes for treaty — but still no sovereigntyGreen Left Weekly

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Independent Australia
Maimed but not dead: Is an Aboriginal rose a rose by any other name?
Independent Australia
I stated last week in conversations that I see Aboriginal words as a gift — not meaning that we are freely giving them to mainstream Australia for their unbridled use, but rather that, in the face of continual assimilation policies, ranging from ...

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The Guardian
Accused Bourke Street driver James Gargasoulas believes he is 'the messiah', jury told
ABC News
The accused Bourke Street driver believes he is the "second coming of Christ" and deliberately drove into people to try to stop police pursuing him so he could "contact Aboriginal royalty", a jury has been told. James Gargasoulas is facing a special ...
Bourke Street driver Dimitrious Gargasoulas believes he is 'messiah'The Guardian

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National Indigenous Times
Just one week away from making history
National Indigenous Times
Mr Wyatt said a $1.3 billion agreement between the WA Government and the South-West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council — currently before the National Native Title Tribunal for approval — was seen by many as Australia's first Indigenous treaty.

cricket.com.au
Christian leads Aboriginal XI to final win
cricket.com.au
In a double-header at Trent Bridge, the men's Aboriginal XI claimed their fifth victory of the tour while the women's XI were unable to finish on a winning note, losing to a star-studded ECB Academy team. Taking on the Nottinghamshire team he will soon ...

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The West Australian
Virgin Australia's Tinamirakuna recognises environmental restoration
The West Australian
Virgin Australia has acknowledged environmental restoration in Tasmania by keeping with tradition and naming its new Boeing 737 after a body of water. As a mark of respect for the traditional landowners, the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre was consulted as ...