Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Sydney Morning Herald
If you think Australia has a racism problem, you're the racist
The Sydney Morning Herald
But, lest you think such a general assertion might be spurious, or at least open to conjecture, consider the evidence Macdonald offered to back it up: two senior ministers in the government are not "white Australian males", and also, the Aboriginal ...

UQ News
UQ learns to share and grow from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories
UQ News
“National Reconciliation Week promotes and argues for reconciliation and the strengthening of relationships between Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australians,” Professor Fredericks said. “I can think of no better place to ...
Rock painting at KICE for Reconciliation WeekThe Islander

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Government News
NSW Government boosts Aboriginal procurement
Government News
Three per cent of the NSW Government's goods and services contracts will be offered to Aboriginal owned businesses under the state's new Aboriginal Procurement Policy, which the government says will support 1,000 Aboriginal jobs a year over three years ...

Vogue Australia (blog)
Why the Northern Territory should be on your travel bucket list
Vogue Australia (blog)
Having just returned from a week-long hiking adventure along the infamous 223 kilometre Larapinta Trail, I feel a renewed sense of awe and inspiration for, and deeper understanding of, our ancient indigenous culture–the oldest culture in the world–and ...

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The Conversation AU
Friday essay: William Ricketts Sanctuary is a racist anachronism but can it foster empathy?
The Conversation AU
In September 2003, an article in The Age reported the miserable conditions a group of Central Australian Aboriginal artists were enduring while housed in Victoria's Dandenong Ranges on the outskirts of Melbourne. Cold, hungry, ill and isolated, the ...

ABC Online
Virus afflicting thousands of Indigenous Australians to receive 'rapid action', Health Minister Greg Hunt signals
ABC Online
The Federal Government will establish a new $8 million taskforce of doctors, Aboriginal health organisations and all levels of government, focused on HTLV-1, or human T-cell lymphotrophic virus type 1. There is currently no strategy in Australia to ...

The Guardian
Fighting to be heard in the child protection system: 'I felt like I was alone all the time'
The Guardian
Barbara is a pseudonym – Guardian Australia cannot use her real name for privacy reasons. “My four youngest have been in care for six years,” she says. “They were placed outside of the family with a non-Aboriginal carer and that's caused major problems ...

The Guardian
A numbers game: Indigenous children in care and the threat of another stolen generation
The Guardian
A Family and Community Services spokesman told Guardian Australia the department would not rule out adoption of Aboriginal children. “Open adoption for Aboriginal children is possible under the legislation, when it is preferable to any other care order ...

The Canberra Times
Don't treat our first Reconciliation Day as just another day off work
The Canberra Times
Australians generally, and Canberrans particularly, live in a lucky country. But our modern history begins with dispossessing Indigenous Australians. On May 28, the ACT will hold Reconciliation Day, becoming the first state or territory to specifically ...

ABC Online
SA Maritime Museum unveils woven whale sculpture inspired by French explorer
ABC Online
Dr Paterson said it was exciting for the museum to tell the story of Kondoli and the relationship between Ngarrindjeri, South Australia and France. "It's one of a few projects that the museum's been working on over the last few years — to tell more ...

The West Australian
Historic trek exhibit pops up in key places
The West Australian
A pop-up exhibition featuring a re-imagining of John Forrest's 1874 trek from Geraldton to Adelaide through Aboriginal perspectives will be in Wiluna today. State Library of Western Australia project co-ordinator Tui Raven said the exhibit was being ...

ABC Online
Meghan Markle and why 'mixed race' matters
ABC Online
People are read as African American, Aboriginal, or Asian because of the social construct of race. That makes race real to us. It's possible for me as an Okinawan (Japanese) Australian to talk about how society categorises me according to my race ...

The Conversation AU
Meghan Markle and why being 'mixed race' matters in Australia
The Conversation AU
People are read as African American, Aboriginal, or Asian because of the social construct of race. That makes race real to us. It's possible for me as an Okinawan (Japanese) Australian to talk about how society categorises me according to my race ...

Great Lakes Advocate
Singing with the Song Keepers – when the desert meets the sea
Great Lakes Advocate
The Big Sing in the Desert is a four-day singing workshop which welcomes singers from across Australia at Ross River Resort near Alice Springs. Now in its eighth year, the Big Sing is a unique opportunity for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal singers to ...

NEWS.com.au
Nearly half of NSW men aged 33 have had unlawful run-in
NEWS.com.au
The study also found a “surprisingly high” proportion of NSW residents born in 1984 had also served time behind bars — 4.1 per cent of all men were locked up, while 0.5 per cent of women and 13.2 per cent of Aboriginal Australians spent time in the cells.

ABC Online
LNP senator Ian Macdonald says racism in Australia is isolated, questions role of discrimination commissioner
ABC Online
Ian Macdonald says from what he has seen racism is isolated in Australia, asks if there is evidence that disproves this; The question comes as Federal Government considers who will replace as Tim Soutphommasane Race Discrimination Commissioner; Public ...

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ABC Online
Senator questions whether racism exists
NEWS.com.au
"I might live in a bubble perhaps, but I find it very difficult to find any but very rare cases of racism in Australia," Senator Macdonald said during a committee hearing in Canberra on Thursday. "I mean, in this building, we have two senior ministers ...
LNP senator Ian Macdonald says racism in Australia is isolated, questions role of discrimination commissionerABC Online

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ABC Online
Indigenous girls and women have hope but need help, says social justice chief June Oscar
ABC Online
Next month, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians will celebrate NAIDOC week — with the theme Because of Her We Can. It's because of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar AO that Indigenous women ...

Pursuit
It's time to 'big note' Indigenous health leaders
Pursuit
Indigenous leadership is also demonstrated more formally in Australia. Pat Anderson AO from the Lowitja Institute and June Oscar AO, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, are both examples of strong leadership - giving ...

SpiceNews
Australia's oldest Indigenous tourism business welcomes new GM
SpiceNews
A female Traditional Owner will be at the helm of one of Australia's oldest Aboriginal tourism businesses following the appointment of Djabugay descendant Shirley Hollingsworth as Tjapukai General Manager. Tjapukai Board Chair Michael Nemarich ...