Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Herald Sun
How Australia celebrated the bicentenary in 1988
Herald Sun
At the same time, an estimated 40,000 people marched through the streets of Sydney, with protests in other cities, demanding land rights for Aboriginal people. The Uniting Church urged Australians to boycott bicentennial events unless indigenous rights ...

The Guardian
Morning mail: US threatens Iran with 'strongest sanctions in history'
The Guardian
Women are still living in “a climate of fear and vigilance” more than three decades since Australia introduced the Sex Discrimination Act, gender researcher Prof Catharine Lumby says. Her comments follow the release of a report by Plan ... Victoria's ...

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ABC Online
Queensland Government launches lawsuit against Kingvale Station owners over Cape York land clearing
ABC Online
The Queensland Government has launched legal action against the owner of a Cape York cattle station at the centre of a land-clearing controversy for allegedly breaching an obligation to care for Indigenous heritage. The owner of Kingvale Station on the ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Greens MP Lidia Thorpe says she may oppose treaty legislation
The Guardian
she told Guardian Australia. “We are a patient people, it's taken us 200 years to get this far.” The legislation, titled the Advancing the treaty process with Aboriginal Victorians bill 2018, sets out the process for establishing an Aboriginal ...

Research reveals boat journey of the first Australians
The Australian
It can now be revealed that they were skilled navigators who executed a carefully planned voyage to Australia, island hopping in a group of 100-200 individuals whose genetic imprint has been left in the Aboriginal inhabitants of northern Australia. So ...

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WAtoday
New 24-hour legal hotline aimed at reducing WA deaths in custody
WAtoday
A 24-hour on-call legal service that will check the welfare of all Aboriginal people taken into police custody will be operational in Western Australia before the end of this year. The Custody Notification Service is a key recommendation from the ...
WA legal hotline to reduce custody deathsNEWS.com.au
Black deaths in custody rally demands justiceRed Flag

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Carlton Football Club
Indigenous guernsey unveiled
Carlton Football Club
“The canoe tree is an important symbol for Aboriginal groups. It was used for transport, hunting and trade and provided many resources for Indigenous Australians, including the boomerang, which also features in the monogram,” Young said. “Each winding ...

Aboriginal settlement in Australia was planned migration: study  The Sydney Morning Herald

Aboriginal settlement in Australia was no accident but the result of large-scale migration by skilled maritime explorers, research shows. Experts have made the ...

Pursuit
Life on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert
Pursuit
Mulan is one of the smallest and most remote Aboriginal communities in Australia. About 100 to 150 Walmajarri people live here, close to the expansive, salty Lake Paruku (Lake Gregory on many maps) and many hours of driving on treacherous dirt roads to ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Clay Stories brings Indigenous arts communities vividly to life
The Sydney Morning Herald
Clay Stories: Contemporary Indigenous Ceramics from Remote Australia. Various artists. Strathnairn Arts. Until July 1. We are indeed privileged in Canberra at the present time to be able to enjoy two exhibitions by Indigenous artists. At Craft ACT ...

Gippsland Times
Chris Sarra, Andrea Mason spearhead Malcolm Turnbull's bid to reboot Indigenous policy
Gippsland Times
The Turnbull Government has moved to transform its relationship with Indigenous Australia by announcing a new advisory group that includes Aboriginal educator Chris Sarra. In a bid to rebuild trust, the Prime Minister has opted for a two-stage process ...

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The Guardian
Aboriginal astronomy can teach us about the link between sky and land
The Guardian
If you've had any form of state education in Australia, I'm sure you must have heard an Indigenous dreamtime story at least once in your life. Maybe it was Tiddalick the Frog, or maybe even the Rainbow Serpent. These stories you may have heard as a ...
Crime rates drop but Indigenous people being jailed more than everRed Flag

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Red Flag
Crime rates drop but Indigenous people being jailed more than ever
Red Flag
Throughout Australia, crime rates have decreased, but the incarceration rate –particularly of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders – has increased dramatically. Despite making up only 3 percent of the population, Indigenous people are 28 percent of ...
Uprooted: how an Aboriginal woman stopped being MāoriStuff.co.nz

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Red Flag
Another life lost in WA's criminal injustice system
Red Flag
A single Facebook post on 7 May, among a sea of local news articles, was the only acknowledgement of a young Indigenous man's sudden death days earlier in the West Kimberley Regional Prison, near Derby in north-west Western Australia.

Herald Sun
The tragic life and death of Aussie rules founder Tom Wills
Herald Sun
HE was the father of Australian Rules Football, a fluent speaker of an aboriginal dialect, a cricketing great and a one-time resident of Kew Lunatic Asylum. The varied and colourful life of Tom Wills was shortened by tragedy and survived by the game he ...
Picture the past: Pioneering figure of our gamesGeelong Advertiser

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The New Daily
Aboriginal settlement in Australia 'no accident': study
The New Daily
Aboriginal settlement in Australia was no accident but the result of large-scale migration by skilled maritime explorers, research shows. Experts have made the finding using wind and ocean current modelling, similar to that deployed in the search for ...
Aboriginal settlement in Australia was 'no accident'SBS
How to get to Australia … more than 50000 years agoThe Conversation AU

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SBS
Aboriginal settlement in Australia was 'no accident'
SBS
"There's always been a lot of speculation about how Aboriginal people made it to Australia and a lot of people have argued that people might have made it here by accident," study co-author and James Cook University archaeology Professor Sean Ulm told ...
How to get to Australia … more than 50000 years agoThe Conversation AU

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The Conversation AU
How to get to Australia … more than 50000 years ago
The Conversation AU
Over just the past few years, new archaeological findings have revealed the lives of early Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory's Kakadu potentially as early as 65,000 years ago, from the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia ...
MH370-style computer modelling reveals skilled sailors led 'large-scale' migration to Australia 50000 years ago9news.com.au

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal settlement in Australia was planned migration: study
The Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne: Aboriginal settlement in Australia was no accident but the result of large-scale migration by skilled maritime explorers, research shows. Experts have made the finding using wind and ocean current modelling, similar to that deployed in the ...

Aboriginal settlement in Oz 'no accident'
SBS
"There's always been a lot of speculation about how Aboriginal people made it to Australia and a lot of people have argued that people might have made it here by accident," study co-author and James Cook University archaeology Professor Sean Ulm told ...