Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

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Hazel Hawke's Barunga gifts on display to celebrate historic statement's 30th anniversary
ABC Message Stick
The exhibition is a collaboration between Parliament House and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). "They're important because of their association with the Barunga Statement, which is an object of ...

National Indigenous Times
Kings Cross, kitsch and coming home
National Indigenous Times
It's something of a homecoming for the graduate of the Griffith University's Queensland College of Art and former Art Gallery of Queensland employee who is now considered one of Australia's brightest contemporary Indigenous artists. Not only is Albert ...

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National Indigenous Times
More stumbling blocks on treaty path
National Indigenous Times
The talks began after Victoria's only Aboriginal MP, the Greens' Lidia Thorpe, a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, said she could vote against the legislation if amendments recognising sovereignty weren't included. Ms Thorpe could not be contacted for ... The ...

ABC Online
Aussies accents differ from Canadian, American, British and Kiwi. Here's why
ABC Online
It's important to remember that the Aboriginal people had been using their own languages for thousands of years before the Europeans came to Australia, so English was a foreign language to them. The Aussie accent, as we know it today, started more than ...

ABC Online
Reconciliation Week: Confronting art puts all Australians on journey to better future
ABC Online
In the heart of our nation's capital lies some of Australia's most confronting works of art. Reconciliation Place was commissioned to enshrine Indigenous stories and artwork in the centre of Canberra's Parliamentary Triangle. The project worked closely ...
Community walks a pathway to reconciliationGriffith News (press release)

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ABC Local
Hobart to be offered new Aboriginal name in act of reconciliation
ABC Local
The Hobart City Council will today be offered a new Indigenous name for the Tasmanian capital in palawa kani, the revived Tasmanian Aboriginal language. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) will present the traditional name for Hobart to the council ...

Brinkwire (press release)
Martin Luther King's son says Australia should be 'embarrassed' by Indigenous treatment
Brinkwire (press release)
The son of legendary civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior has said Australia should be embarrassed of the way it treats Indigenous Australians. Speaking on a visit to Alice Springs, Martin Luther King III said Australia's Indigenous people ...

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Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Boosting indigenous educational outcomes
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
"This is concerning given we also know that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with a Bachelor degree have an employment rate comparable to that for non-Indigenous Australians with the same level of qualifications,” she said. "This forum is ...
Whitehaven Coal reaches out for local reconciliation weekNamoi Valley Independent
Teacher Aide (Identified) - Kingston State CollegeEducationHQ Australia
Professor TOM CALMA, Co-chair, Reconciliation Australia: The Five Dimensions of ReconciliationABC Local
Starts at 60 -The North West Star -Riverine Herald
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Adelaide Crows
Indigenous culture celebrated
Adelaide Crows
Located in the UniSA marquee in the Southern Plaza, those wishing to leave their mark on the piece of art can leave a hand print or inscribe one of the hundreds of Indigenous Australian language groups found across our country. Fans can also pick up a ...
Your club's indigenous jumper revealedAFL.com.au
Our 2018 Sir Doug Nicholls Round guernseyBrisbane Lions (press release) (blog)

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ABC Online
Martin Luther King's son says Australia should be 'embarrassed' by Indigenous treatment
ABC Online
The son of legendary civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior has said Australia should be embarrassed of the way it treats Indigenous Australians. Speaking on a visit to Alice Springs, Martin Luther King III said Australia's Indigenous people ...
Luther-King condemns Aboriginal treatmentThe Australian

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NEWS.com.au
Luther-King condemns Aboriginal treatment
NEWS.com.au
He says the Australian government has the resources and ability to work in partnership with Aboriginal communities but chooses not to. "That is wrong, that's unjust, that's unfair, that's ungodly." Mr King said something significant had to happen ...

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Pursuit
Bringing back languages from scraps of paper
Pursuit
The papers are important not only for a general understanding of the diversity of languages that have been part of Australia's heritage for thousands of years, but also for the people associated with those languages. Aboriginal communities can not only ...

Northern Star
Council asks: What does Australia Day mean to you?
Northern Star
In September 2017, Lismore City Council Council passed a resolution to consult with and inform the community about what January 26 means to the Aboriginal community and report back to Council within 12 months. Lismore mayor Isaac Smith said the ...

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AFL.com.au
Your club's indigenous jumper revealed
AFL.com.au
CLUBS will wear specially designed indigenous jumpers this weekend to celebrate Sir Doug Nicholls Round. Sir Doug was a talented sportsman who later became a much-loved Christian pastor and community leader. The round named in his honour ...
2018 Sir Doug Nicholls Round GuernseyBrisbane Lions (press release) (blog)

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The Northern Daily Leader
Whitehaven Coal reaches out for local reconciliation week
The Northern Daily Leader
Along with children and staff from Narrabri's Winanga-Li Aboriginal Child and Family Centre, company CEO Paul Flynn, Reconciliation Australia CEO Karen Mundine and Aboriginal Affairs NSW director of regional co-ordination Steven Gal launched the plan ...

SBS
Comment: Let's talk about real Australian food
SBS
The Aboriginal grains and tubers domesticated by Aboriginal people actually want to grow here because this is their home, they're Australian. Everything from overseas has to be mollycoddled; more water, more fertiliser, pesticides, less sun and yet it ...

SBS
'We meant no offence': Zoo apologises for using Maori dancers for Australian exhibit
SBS
"In including regional entertainment, we meant no offence and did not mean to imply that Maori are of the aboriginal Australian culture. We have tremendous respect for the peoples, wildlife, and culture of Australasia. Our apologies to anyone who might ...

SBS
'We meant no offence': US zoo apologises for using Maori dancers for Australian exhibit
SBS
"In including regional entertainment, we meant no offence and did not mean to imply that Maori are of the aboriginal Australian culture. We have tremendous respect for the peoples, wildlife, and culture of Australasia. Our apologies to anyone who might ...

The Conversation AU
Aboriginal art: is it a white thing?
The Conversation AU
Our research sought to unpack the relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous players in this lucrative industry by investigating three of the most successful organisations selling Indigenous art in Australia today (measured by dollar value of ...

ABC Online
Dark Mofo's underground 'monument' angers, insults Tasmanian Aboriginals
ABC Online
Called "Underneath the Bitumen the Artist", the work was designed to "memorialise the victims of 20th-century totalitarian violence", including "the genocidal violence of 19th-century British colonialism in Australia". Dark Mofo creative director Leigh ...
Letters to the Editor, May 29, 2018The Mercury
Australian Artist Simulates Colonial Dark Age from UndergroundAsharq Al-awsat English
Artist Mike Parr to be buried under a road for three days at Dark MofoThe Guardian

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