Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
Perth Airport's third runway clears hurdle, sparks immediate Noongar backlash
ABC Online
"However my ministerial responsibility to protect Aboriginal cultural heritage must take into account the broader interests of the whole state of Western Australia." The decision sparked an immediate backlash from some campaigners, with the South West ...

Google News

WA removed racial references, including the word 'Aboriginal', from birth certificates  The Guardian

WA registrar of births, deaths and marriages says staff removed all mentions of race in response to racial slurs on older certificates.

SBS
A DNA test says you've got Indigenous Australian ancestry; now what?
SBS
What Shaun didn't know at the time, and what the test revealed, was that his particular mitochondrial genome fell into a haplogroup (a grouping of similar mitochondrial genomes) called “S2”, which has only been observed in Aboriginal Australians.

The Guardian
WA removed racial references, including the word 'Aboriginal', from birth certificates
The Guardian
Authorities in Western Australia have confirmed that they have removed references to a person being “Aboriginal” from birth certificates. In a statement on Thursday, the WA registrar of births, deaths and marriages, Brett Burns, said that staff at the ...
'It's tampering with history': The word 'Aboriginal' is REMOVED from birth, marriage and death certificates after ...Daily Mail

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ABC Local
Focus: Discovering Australia's Indigenous culture
ABC Local
When you did discover Indigenous culture, how did that happen? Talking through the wonders of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture with Professor Marcia Langdon. Duration: 1hr. Broadcast: Wed 16 May 2018, 5:00pm ...

Swinburne University of Technology
Swinburne's Annual Research Impact Award - Marngo Designing Futures
Swinburne University of Technology
Swinburne's Annual Research Impact Award - Faculty of Health, Arts and Design was won by Dr Sam Edwards-Vandenhoek. Awarded for her project, Marngo Designing Futures, Dr Edwards-Vandenhoek continues her work with young Indigenous Australians ...

The West Australian
Regional events attract government funding
The West Australian
Mr Wallam said the garden will serve a dual purpose of honouring the children who were housed at the Roelands farm when it was used as a mission for Aboriginal children removed from families from across Western Australia, and also to honour those who ...

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Katherine Times
Call for more Indigenous women rangers
Katherine Times
A report to be launched today by Indigenous women rangers alongside Senator Jane Hume reveals the importance of Indigenous women ranger jobs and Indigenous Protected Areas in protecting Australian land and transforming lives in Aboriginal and ...

ABC Online
'Aboriginal' redacted from birth, death, marriage certificates after being deemed an offensive term
ABC Online
A West Australian bureaucrat has deemed the use of the term "Aboriginal" may be regarded as offensive and exercised a little-known power to redact it from birth, death and marriage certificates. This means historians, native title claim groups and ...

ABC Local
'Walking in their tracks': How Sydney's Aboriginal paths shaped the city
ABC Local
Many of Sydney's roads and side streets are based on the original tracks and pathways created by Aboriginal people before the First Fleet arrived in 1788, experts say. Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research at Sydney University ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous rangers: good for culture, conservation and wellbeing
The Sydney Morning Herald
healthier Australia for us all." The report states a recent national survey "found 55 per cent of Indigenous women cited no jobs in local area or line of work" or "no jobs at all" as a barrier to finding employment. In remote areas, this figure was 66 ...

The Australian
Archie Roach honoured by music industry charity Support Act
The Australian
Roach performed the song that brought him to Australian and world attention, Took the Children Away, a harrowing account of his own and many other indigenous Australians' experience as members of the Stolen Generations. Others, including Paul Kelly ...

ARNnet
Telstra rolls out SD-WAN to over 90 Rabobank branches across A/NZ
ARNnet
Telstra (ASX:TLS) has announced a deal with Rabobank Australia and New Zealand that will see the telco's software defined wire area networks (SD-WAN) solution deployed across the Tasman. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Rabobank is a financial ...

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National Indigenous Times
Govt, scientists round on deadly outback virus
National Indigenous Times
Indigenous Health Minister Ken Wyatt said the Federal Government was taking seriously the threat of a potentially deadly, sexually transmitted virus estimated to be carried by up to 10,000 people in Central Australia. Top international scientists have ...

National Indigenous Times
'Cowboy without a horse' takes aim again
National Indigenous Times
The Mystery Road TV series finds Pedersen in Western Australia's remote and majestic east Kimberley investigating the disappearance of two young farmhands from an outback cattle station. One of the boys is a local Aboriginal football hero and the other ...

National Indigenous Times
Basketball needs an Indigenous round
National Indigenous Times
Duggan put his suggestion to more than 160 of Australia's top basketball coaches at a gathering at the Australian Institute of Sport last week. He told NIT just as the AFL had its 'Dreamtime at the G' round and the NRL had Indigenous all-star games, he ...
Indigenous businesswomen could fix unemploymentGladstone Observer

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Australian Jewish News
Indigenous heirs of Beersheba Charge honoured
Australian Jewish News
THIRTEEN Australian Aborigines made history in Israel last October when taking part in the re-enactment of the pivotal Charge of Beersheba on its centenary in front of the Prime Ministers of Israel and Australia, on behalf of their Indigenous Digger ...

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National Indigenous Times
Murray-Darling plan still a winding path
National Indigenous Times
“The Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations welcomes the government's commitment to a package of funding and measures to improve outcomes for Aboriginal people in the basin,” MLDRIN acting chairman Grant Rigney said. “Unfortunately, cutting 605 ...

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FACT-CHECKING DEBORAH CHEETHAM
Herald Sun (blog)
More than that, it has nothing to do with anything. I used to justify the lyrics by saying that Australia was a young nation and the many injustices and errors of judgement around the treatment of Aboriginal Australians were a product of youth and ...

Reform child protection
Save The Children Australia
"Across Australia, more than 17,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are living in out-of-home care. This figure has doubled since 2008 when the Parliament of Australia apologised to the Stolen Generations. This is a national shame that ...