Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Illawarra Mercury
First of its kind UOW lecture delivered during National Reconciliation Week
Illawarra Mercury
“We now know that Indigenous Australians are the longest continuing civilisation on earth. We didn't get here by accident. We actually got here by being very clever. “Why wouldn't we all want to celebrate it.” Prof Chandler's comments come smack in the ...

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Australian Academy of Science
Academy launches Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scientist Travelling Research Award
Australian Academy of Science
The Australian Academy of Science has launched an award to recognise research in the natural sciences by outstanding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander PhD students and early- and mid-career scientists. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sport brings out the best in people - Canberra needs to play the game
The Sydney Morning Herald
Last Friday I stood looking at a wonderful aboriginal painting by Gloria Tamerre Petyarre. She was born at Mosquito Bore in the Northern Territory and now lives in Alice Springs. Her painting is from the Western Australian Le Pley family collection and ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Boost recognition of Indigenous history to protect colonial statues: report
The Sydney Morning Herald
Hostility from the public is the greatest threat to Australia's historical monuments, and governments should better recognise Indigenous stories, including "courageous resistance" against European colonisation, a report into a series of attacks on ...

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Daily Liberal
Dubbo pair Ben Patterson and Brock Larance honoured to be part of 'surreal' Aboriginal XI tour
Daily Liberal
The men's squad is captained by Dan Christian and when promising duo D'Arcy Short and Brendan Doggett pulled out after being named in the Australia A squad, the Dubbo pair got the call. RELATED: – Playing for Australia against Pakistan juniors an ...

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ABC Online
Remote NT school reopens after Indigenous ceremony removes 'curse'
ABC Online
On Groote Eylandt, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Indigenous residents readily acknowledge the existence of curses. So when one was placed on Angurugu School, supposedly by a man after a fight with his wife, it closed for the next 13 days. But the 159 ...

Newcastle Herald
Former Toronto leg-spinner Jonte Pattison part of 150th anniversary tour of UK with Aboriginal cricket team
Newcastle Herald
As a teenager Jonte Pattison ventured into the senior ranks at Newcastle district club Toronto and this fortnight he will live out some of his boyhood dreams on a historic tour with the Australian Aboriginal cricket team to the United Kingdom. Not only ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal reconciliation and what we can learn from a French philosopher
ABC Online
What can a French historian and philosopher tell us about reconciliation between black and white in Australia? More than a century ago, when in Australia it was still widely presumed that Aboriginal people were a dying race, Ernest Renan was grappling ...

The West Australian
Indigenous mental health a vital focus for Pilbara NGOs
The West Australian
Pioneering Aboriginal psychologist and WA Australian of the Year winner Tracy Westerman visited Karratha last week to deliver specialised training in indigenous mental health to psychologists and social workers from across the region. Over a two-day ...

The Northern Daily Leader
More Aboriginal staff will empower the community: nurse
The Northern Daily Leader
“Understanding the true history of Australia allows non-Indigenous clinicians and health administrators to be aware of the background to our current situation, learn about their stereotypes, reflect on practices and build trust with Aboriginal and ...
ANU to make Indigenous learning historyPS News
New action plan is a step towards unity, social justiceNorthern Star

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The Australian
Reconciliation needs to be a two-way street
The Australian
It is National Reconciliation Week, that time of the year intended to build “positive, respectful relationships between the broader Australian community and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for the benefit of all Australians”. The ...
THE POWER OF NUN | Reconciliation has to move beyond saying sorryCentral Western Daily

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cricket.com.au
Players meet pollies ahead of historic tour
cricket.com.au
Dan Christian and Ash Gardner met Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Federal opposition leader Bill Shorten at Parliament House in Canberra before a week-long tour of England that will see them re-trace the steps of the famous 1868 Aboriginal ...

ABC Online
Rottnest Island 'tent land' closure an important day for Aboriginal people
ABC Online
It would be correct to say, moreover, that this is the largest mass burial site in Australia. The Act to Constitute Rottnest Island as a Legal Prison 1841 was designed to ensure that the "Aboriginal race… may be instructed in useful knowledge and ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous sides ready to re-trace steps of pioneers
The Sydney Morning Herald
She grew up in Sydney, and is now an Indigenous leader. But because of her mother's disjointed childhood, the star Australian all-rounder is still learning about her heritage. Gardner though, is part of history. Later this week she flies out to England ...

Geelong Advertiser
Graham “Polly” Farmer and Sir Doug Nicholls honoured with murals ahead of the Sir Doug Nicholls Indigenous Round
Geelong Advertiser
“Both Dad and Polly's work helped to improve the lives of indigenous Australians and will continue to do so in the future as we celebrate their legacy.” The Sir Doug Nicholls Round will continue to be celebrated through all matches of Round 11 ...

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ABC Online
Former Aboriginal prison on Rottnest Island closed for tourist lodging
ABC Online
Photo: The Quod, the Rottnest prison that was built by and housed Aboriginal prisoners. (720 ABC Perth: Emma Wynne). Aboriginal men were taken from all over Western Australia and imprisoned on the island from 1838 until 1904. Aboriginal heritage ...

ABC Local
Hobart should adopt dual Aboriginal name nipaluna passed on by leader Wurati, community says
ABC Local
Australia's second-oldest city was named after Colonial Secretary Lord Hobart. While the adoption of kunanyi for Mount Wellington has been embraced by the community, the suggestion to build a Truth and Reconciliation Art Park at Macquarie Point has ...
Will Hobart take on an Indigenous name?SBS

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ABC Message Stick
Last of Rabbit-Proof Fence sisters, whose trek home was made into famous film, dies
ABC Message Stick
At the time, Western Australia had a policy of removing children from Aboriginal parents and taking them into state care for "integration" into western society. Tens of thousands of Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families until ...

National Indigenous Times
Deadly virus sparks meeting in Alice
National Indigenous Times
Representatives of Aboriginal community-controlled health services in Central Australia, Alice Springs Hospital and key research groups will meet in August as an $8 million taskforce is launched to tackle the potentially deadly HTLV-1 virus in Australia.

ABC Online
'I was told I couldn't do it because I was Aboriginal': Erika Chapman-Burgess's journey to becoming a doctor
ABC Online
Life expectancy: Close the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation; Employment: Halve the gap in employment by 2018; Reading and writing: Halve the gap in reading and numeracy for Indigenous ...