Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Australian
Aboriginal people failed by 'expensive gesture' treaties
The Australian
The Northern Territory Labor government and the Territory's four land councils signed a treaty memorandum of understanding in Barunga on Friday, marking the 30-year anniversary of Bob Hawke's unfulfilled promise of a treaty with indigenous Australians.
Historic Laws Bring Indigenous Treaty in Australia One Step CloserVoice of America
Aust must reset indigenous ties: Shorten9news.com.au
Shorten backs calls for Indigenous voice in parliamentSBS

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The Border Mail
NSW Opposition would rename Queens Birthday long weekend
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mr Foley said he has also committed to negotiating a treaty between the government of NSW and the state's Aboriginal people. Last week, the Victorian lower house voted in favour of negotiating Australia's first Aboriginal treaty. Treaties have already ...
NSW Labor would create indigenous holidayThe Border Mail
Labor has stated their intention to scrap Queen's Birthday public holidayDaily Mail

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Community Newspaper Group
Butler: Indigenous advocate Rishelle Hume appointed Member of the Order of Australia
Community Newspaper Group
BEING the granddaughter of respected Aboriginal elders inspired Rishelle Hume to be a voice and advocate for the Indigenous community. The Butler resident grew up with her grandparents, Noongar Whadjuk elders and founders of the Aboriginal Housing ...
NSW Opposition would rename Queens Birthday long weekendThe Sydney Morning Herald
Queen's birthday honours: Rishelle Hume, inspiring indigenous empowermentThe Australian

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SBS
Bill Shorten: What are people really afraid of?
The Australian
Bill Shorten insists giving Aboriginal people a voice to federal parliament won't result in people's backyards and clotheslines being subject to land rights claims. ... Mr Shorten said all Australians should be aiming to pull themselves up by their ...
Aust must reset indigenous ties: Shorten9news.com.au
Shorten backs calls for Indigenous voice in parliamentSBS

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Queensland Country Life
Exhibit commemorates 180th anniversary of Myall Creek massacre2 days, 21 hours ago
Queensland Country Life
The exhibition will feature new artworks by leading Aboriginal Australian contemporary artists including Robert Andrew, Fiona Foley, Laurie Nielsen and Judy Watson and is being curated by leading Indigenous curator Bianca Beetson. Ms Beetson said the ...

ABC News
Myall Creek Memorial a symbol of reconciliation as descendants of victims and perpetrators gather
ABC News
The Myall Creek massacre remains one of the darkest events in Australia's colonial history. In 1838, white stockmen hunted and murdered 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at Myall Creek in New South Wales. Seven stockmen were hanged for the ...

ABC News
Business and sharing culture go hand in hand for young Indigenous entrepreneur Téa Devow
ABC News
There's a broad market for the products which are designed to share Indigenous culture with non-Indigenous Australians and tourists. "Being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander means a lot to me and it's really cool that I can embrace that," Téa said.

The Canberra Times
Aboriginal legal group lobbies to raise age of criminal responsibility
The Canberra Times
The Aboriginal Legal Service has called on ACT Attorney-General Gordon Ramsay to raise Canberra's age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years old. Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows Aboriginal children in the ACT between 10 and 14 years ...

Eternity News
The battle Australians don't want to remember
Eternity News
He's not saying we shouldn't commemorate Gallipoli, of course. He's just drawing a big red circle around our nation's collective hypocrisy when it comes to commemorating the loss of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives in Australia's own ...

The Guardian
The inflatable screen taking Indigenous film back to the Top End
The Guardian
He more recently starred in a critically acclaimed Aboriginal King Lear titled The Shadow King, was a regular on the Melbourne theatre scene, and toured Australia and the globe with his jazz duo Lewis & Young. Yet too often his work, and that of other ...

The Guardian
Historic Northern Territory treaty agreement means 'the old way is finished'
The Guardian
The Institute of Aboriginal and Islander Studies (AIATSIS) helped curate the exhibition. The chief executive of AIATSIS, Craig Ritchie, told Guardian Australia: “The Barunga statement is an enduring declaration of the power of Aboriginal peoples ...

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BBC News
Stumped
BBC News
150 years ago, 13 Aboriginal cricketers became the first sporting side from Australia to embark on a tour overeseas when they travelled to England. Greg de Moore has spent years researching the history of Aboriginal cricket and he believes the ...

NT News
Treaty: Why has it taken so long?
NT News
Addressing the crowd after that meeting, Hawke said it wasn't until a treaty was in place that “we will have an Australia within which the Aboriginal and the non-Aboriginal Australia will be able to live together truly in peace and in dignity”. People ...

ABC News
SA Government decides not to go ahead with Aboriginal treaties
ABC News
The South Australian Government has scrapped a process to negotiate treaties with the state's Aboriginal nations. It comes on the same day the Northern Territory pledged to work towards a treaty with its Indigenous peoples. Premier Steven Marshall said ...
NT signs historic Barunga agreement to begin Indigenous treaty talksThe Guardian
Aboriginal treaties: Australian states at 'beginning of journey' - BBC ...BBC News
NT a step closer to an indigenous treaty9news.com.au

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The Guardian
Aboriginal man sues over three months' solitary in adult prison when he was 16
The Guardian
In January Guardian Australia reported that a teenager in Western Australia had been held in solitary confinement for more than 10 months. In 2017, a court in Victoria heard that children transferred to an adult prison following riots at Parkville ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney University academics label Ramsay Centre 'European supremacism'
The Sydney Morning Herald
More than 100 academics have signed an open letter opposing the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation's involvement with Sydney University, saying the institution was not a "training institute for a future political cadre". Sydney University is in ...

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Aboriginal treaties: Australian states at 'beginning of journey'  BBC News

Australian states have taken steps towards the nation's first treaties with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Australia is the only Commonwealth ...

West Coast Sentinel
Ceduna invited to comment on Aboriginal strategy
West Coast Sentinel
The Department for Education is developing the new strategy in an effort to improve learning outcomes for Aboriginal students and young people across South Australia as well as improve attendance and retention rates and provide training to ensure ...

The Guardian
NT signs historic Barunga agreement to begin Indigenous treaty talks
The Guardian
The Labor senator Pat Dodson, in Barunga to reboot bipartisan talks on an Indigenous voice to parliament and constitutional recognition, told Guardian Australia: “I was sitting in the dust 30 years ago at Barunga, helping to craft the words that went ...
Victorian Parliament to vote on first indigenous treatyBest in Australia

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The Guardian (blog)
Australia's frontier war killings still conveniently escape official memory
The Guardian (blog)
“For Aboriginal people - and non-Aboriginal people – rather than a site to avoid it now has become a place of healing, a totally different energy. Myall Creek does not exist in a vacuum. It is prominent in Australian consciousness because it was the ...
Massacre remembered through exhibition and promised museumArtsHub

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