Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Gold Coast Bulletin
TasWeekend: Your guide to the week's best events
Gold Coast Bulletin
This one-man whirlwind is coming to Jokers to share tales of growing up, marriage and the challenges of life as an Aboriginal Australian family man. Since winning the national Deadly Funny title in 2008, Kropinyeri has spent the past decade touring ...

ABC Online
The Field Revisited: National Gallery of Victoria's groundbreaking 1968 exhibition of abstract art is re-staged
ABC Online
This paralleled broader changes in Australia, which a year earlier had passed the referendum on Aboriginal voting rights, and four years later would elect Gough Whitlam as prime minister. "Australia becomes an Aboriginal place, a multicultural place ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
What's on in Sydney: May 20 to 26
The Sydney Morning Herald
ART Christian Thompson: Ritual Intimacy (until July 14) is the first major survey exhibition of the Aboriginal Australian contemporary artist spanning his work over the last 15 years across photography, video,sculpture, performance and sound. 10am-5pm ...

Great Southern Weekender (press release)
New chapter written
Great Southern Weekender (press release)
By Chris Thomson | posted on May 18, 2018. IN A short chapter for a national anthology titled Growing up Aboriginal in Australia, dual cultural woman Carol Pettersen gives a deeply personal account of what it is like to be on the receiving end of ...

Herald Sun
As he brings Mystery Road to ABC TV, Aaron Pedersen reflects on his long road to recognition
Herald Sun
The Los Angeles Times review of the Australian noir thriller was positive — about our country's “famed interior”, the “tough justice-seeker” at its core and Sen's “slow roast technique”. .... And that means including indigenous Australians in the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Fairfax photos of the week - May 17, 2018
The Sydney Morning Herald
Ubuntu, African children's choir touring Australia. Patience Nalugo was a little girl in the second grade at school in Kampala, Uganda when her father died of cancer. She soon learnt singing was the best way to deal with her sadness, and at the age of ...

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WAtoday
Fairfax photos of the week - May 17, 2018
WAtoday
Ubuntu, African children's choir touring Australia. Patience Nalugo was a little girl in ... Victorian Aboriginal Clan Elders meet at Parliament House to provide guidance and claim their seat at the table of the state governments Treaty process. Clan ...

Architecture and Design
Indigenous designers to showcase their talents in Melbourne's Federation Square
Architecture and Design
Blak Design Matters will open at the Koorie Heritage Trust, Federation Square on Friday 20 July and stay open until Sunday 30 September 2018 showcasing leading Indigenous designers from across Australia, while also exploring what is Indigenous design ...

The North West Star
New exhibit explores local Aboriginal history
The North West Star
Conceived by controversial entrepreneur Archibald Meston, the original historical Wild Australia Show toured in 1892- 1893 to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and featured a choreographed troupe of 27 Aboriginal people recruited from the frontier in ...

The North West Star
New exhibit explores local Aboriginal history
The North West Star
Conceived by controversial entrepreneur Archibald Meston, the original historical Wild Australia Show toured in 1892- 1893 to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and featured a choreographed troupe of 27 Aboriginal people recruited from the frontier in ...

The West Australian
Queensland band in town for Settlers gig
The West Australian
The three-piece band infuses electronic, reggae and house, with elements of Aboriginal Australian and African sounds to create their captivating melodies. Stu Boga Fergie is the vocalist, keys, didgeridoo player and the man behind the electronic sounds ...

Blue Mountains Gazette
Maralinga and Australian art at Lewers gallery
Blue Mountains Gazette
“It is surprising how few people are aware that atomic bombs were exploded in Australia, and how little they know about the dislocation of Aboriginal people, the exposure of Australian servicemen and the contamination of the land,” said J. D. Mittmann, ...

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Blue Mountains Gazette
Maralinga and Australian art at Lewers gallery
Blue Mountains Gazette
“It is surprising how few people are aware that atomic bombs were exploded in Australia, and how little they know about the dislocation of Aboriginal people, the exposure of Australian servicemen and the contamination of the land,” said J. D. Mittmann, ...

The Weekly Times
Wild dogs become bolder, what's their next attack?
The Weekly Times
Aboriginal Australians adopted dingoes as hunting companions and for warmth at night, even as food, thousands of years ago. Hybrid bush dogs of the Centre boast degrees of dingo parentage, but nonetheless make stout pets. Dingoes will no doubt remain ...

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The Guardian
We must return all our landmarks to their Indigenous names
The Guardian
However, it is also a welcome gesture of recognition from broader non-Indigenous Australia that so much more needs to be done to acknowledge and reconcile the present nation's short, violent past with this continent's long and enduring First Nations ...
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The Australian
Indigenous storytelling takes centre stage
The Australian
Purcell's run of success is also a reminder, if any were needed, of the vibrancy of indigenous storytelling on the Australian stage. In recent months we've seen no shortage of remarkable productions, from Nathan Maynard's The Season to Ursula Yovich's ...

The Australian
Indigenous language key to economic growth
The Australian
English has changed the linguistic landscape of indigenous Australia profoundly. Of the 300 languages that were spoken at first contact, only 18 remain strong. Somewhat belatedly, but hearteningly, the eastern states are forging ahead in recognising ...

The Australian
Mining companies recognise need to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
The Australian
There could hardly be a tighter nexus between people and land than that held by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians – which is why the big mining companies began recognising more than 20 years ago they had to work with it, not fight it.

The Australian
Envoys for Oz
The Australian
As one of Australia's first indigenous diplomats, the then 22-year-old had yet to take up his first overseas posting when he was put on the Royal Visits detail for the 1982 Commonwealth Games. It was a seminal time for Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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The Australian
Leila Smith, Lowitja Institute
The Australian
There is a difference between ANU and Cambridge, but it's more about a difference between studying in Australia and studying outside Australia. At Cambridge, it was the first time I wasn't seen as “the Aboriginal student”. My classmates, teachers and ...

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