Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

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Ancient Egyptian visitors to Australia or miner's mishap? Riddle of the rainforest coin
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"But how an Aboriginal person got the coin is again interesting, it's either going to have come through from Papua New Guinea and traded through the Torres Strait or traded through another part of Australia," he said. "But again, what would an ...

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The Australian
Protesters hope to bridge indigenous gap
The Australian
Protesters have marched across one of Australia's most iconic landmarks, calling for the Aboriginal flag to be flown there permanently. Kamilaroi woman Cheree Toka started a campaign to raise the indigenous flag on the Sydney Harbour Bridge 365 days a ...

Top doc supports Uluru indigenous reforms
The Australian
The new president of Australia's peak medical body has thrown his support behind aspirations for indigenous reform put forward at Uluru last year. Tony Bartone, elected to lead the Australian Medical Association last week, said the Uluru Statement from ...

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Indigenous cricketers to honour 1868 XI
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The 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England is an incredible story of hardship, race relations and colonial attitudes. Arguably even more remarkable is how few Australians now know the tale of the nation's first sporting team to tour overseas, 150 ...
Cricket prodigy Brock Larance to pad up for historic Indigenous tourThe Macleay Argus

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Stolen Generation elders travel across the country for symbolic footy match
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Five Aboriginal elders from the Kimberley in Western Australia are travelling more than 3,000 kilometres to open the Fremantle vs. Collingwood football match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. Their symbolic journey is part of an event that ...

The Guardian
Deadly Questions: ask Aboriginal champions anything about being Indigenous
The Guardian
“This is an opportunity for any Australian to ask that question and say the thing that they are too scared to ask, or too afraid to ask,” he told Guardian Australia. “Not every Aboriginal person will agree with this and neither should they have to ...
Victoria launches campaign in support of indigenous treatyThe Australian

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Life in Irons: Brisbane's convict stories highlight role of Aboriginal people in penal colony
ABC News
"These seven long years I've been serving now and seven long more have to stay, all for bashing a block down our alley and taking his ticker away." The song may be about Botany Bay, but Brisbane did not escape the tide of convicts transported to ...

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American 'love affair' with Australian Indigenous art brings artists together for a US exhibition
ABC News
Two American philanthropists, a museum director and nine female artists have come together to showcase Australian Aboriginal art in Washington DC. The show has just opened at the Phillips Collection museum in the United States capital where artist ...

In the spirit of getting the ball rolling, Noel Pearson offers this 'Declaration of Australia and the Australian People'
The Australian
And whereas Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the First Nations of the Australian continent and its islands, possessed under ancient laws and customs, according to the reckoning of culture, from the Creation, according to the common law ...

Symbolic indigenous recognition for all of us
The Australian
We stand on the cusp of bringing these three parts of our national story together … with constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. This reconciliation will make a more complete commonwealth. The following year, Julian Leeser, now Liberal ...

The Australian
Victoria launches campaign in support of indigenous treaty
The Australian
The five-time Paralympian had to apply for an honorary British passport to attend his first Paralympics, in Rome in 1960, because Aboriginal people were not able to apply for an Australian one. He said a lot has changed since then, but a treaty would ...

The Australian
Noel Pearson's stories from the heart of Australia
The Australian
The indigenous leader's proposed declaration is specific in recognising “ancient indigenous heritage” as the foundation of Australia, followed by “British institutions” that built upon it and the “gift of multicultural migration”. Referring to ...

The Australian
Hieu Van Le's story: one thread in Australia's rich tapestry
The Australian
“At the end of Noel's oration, he outlined his vision for a Declaration of Australia, which focused on the 'three stories that make Australia': our ancient indigenous heritage, British institutions, and an enduring gift of multiculturalism brought ...

The Advertiser
AFL Indigenous Round highlights the best and worst of the social problems facing our native Australians
The Advertiser
SO it is the AFL's indigenous round. It's a celebration of the contribution that indigenous players have made to Australian football. Great names, great memories. The AFL trot them out: Farmer, Cable, Nicholls, Winmar, Rioli, Long, McLeod although they ...
Indigenous pride at Mt Gravatt Vultures AFC ahead of Saturday Aussie rules gameCourier Mail
MATT CUNNINGHAM: Time for the NT to have its own AFL teamNT News

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Australian football's celebration of indigenous culture this weekend is a reminder of how much work remains to be ...
The Advertiser
But — as Goodes has pointed out — any celebration of Aboriginal culture in Australian football must also bring change in Australia. The terraces — a fair sample of Australia today — are far from free of the racism and small-minded tone that ...

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Deadly Questions: ask Aboriginal champions anything about being Indigenous  The Guardian

The Victorian government has launched a new website that will allow non-Indigenous people to ask questions of and about Aboriginal people in an attempt to ...

Architecture AU
Indigenous stories to be told in new 'sound pavilion' at Barangaroo
Architecture AU
Architect Kevin O'Brien, principal at BVN, has designed of a freshly completed pavilion that will be used to present a suite of aural works by Aboriginal artists on the history and future of Sydney's Barangaroo Reserve. The Blak Box, commissioned by ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal poets voice their stories of life, culture and history in music-backed performance
ABC Online
Mr Taylor was sent to New Norcia, in Western Australia's Wheatbelt, in the 1950s when he was five years old. When he finally ran away as a teenager, he did turn to drink. "When I got out of there, all I wanted to do was drink myself to death but that ...

Indigenous cricketers to honour 1868 XI
SBS
The 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England is an incredible story of hardship, race relations and colonial attitudes. Arguably even more remarkable is how few Australians now know the tale of the nation's first sporting team to tour overseas, 150 ...

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Eora Nation 79: Should every place in Australia be given Aboriginal name?
ABC Online
Two mountains in Qld have reverted to traditional names. Hobart has been offered an indigenous name during this National Reconciliation Week. How about us? Why can't we in Sydney/NSW have dual naming everywhere? Luke Pearson the founder of ...

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