Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Child removal rates
Save The Children Australia
... said: “As a leading child rights organisation, Save the Children supports the Family Matters campaign, and calls for action by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) to address the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

NT Royal Commission
Save The Children Australia
Save the Children Northern Territory state manager Craig Kelly said: “The report calls for urgent action to address the over-representation of Aboriginal children in the criminal justice system in the Northern Territory, where Aboriginal children are ...

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The Age
Colony a celebration of the Indigenous voice
The Age
The exhibition is subtitled Australia 1770-1861/ Frontier wars but the theme is not uniquely the hostility between colonists and colonised; though it does not shy away from painful truths, reprisals, theft, massacres, prejudice and the continuing ...

EducationHQ Australia
Head of Campus - Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy - Hope Vale Campus
EducationHQ Australia
The Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy ('The Academy') is a partnership between the Department of Education and Good to Great Schools Australia, showcasing their comprehensive 5C education reform model. The Academy operates two campuses ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
ACT Greens want Tent Embassy to be a recognised national institution
The Sydney Morning Herald
The ACT Greens have called for the Aboriginal Tent Embassy to become an "interim national institution," but said it would operate differently to other institutions such as the National Gallery of Australia and the Australian War Memorial. The Tent ...

ArtsHub
Why Captain Cook remains a contested national symbol
ArtsHub
These include the development of digital heritage resources and exhibitions at the National Maritime Museum, National Library, AIATSIS and the National Museum of Australia, as well as support for training “Indigenous cultural heritage professionals in ...

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ABC Online
Two Queensland mountains to be renamed to rid them of racist connotations
ABC Online
They were concerned the mountains' names had possible links to the Jim Crow racial segregation laws in the United States and a police officer named Frederick Wheeler, who was involved in Aboriginal massacres in the 1860s and 70s. Mount Jim Crow and ...

Architecture and Design
Indigenous communities are reworking urban planning, but planners need to accept their history
Architecture and Design
Nearly 80 percent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia live in urban areas but cities often exclude and marginalise them. Urban planning and policy have been central to this, and the harms can be seen in key moments and ...
Every child has the right to be safe. Will you speak up with me?The Guardian

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The Adelaide Review
Book Extract: So much still pending
The Adelaide Review
What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? Acclaimed singer Deborah Cheetham is one of a number of prominent Indigenous people to answer that question for the new Black Inc. anthology Growing up Aboriginal in Australia (edited by Anita Heiss), ...

Radio Australia
Indigenous women's textiles headed for world stage with Paris exhibition
Radio Australia
The Bábbarra Women's Centre is one of a number of remote Indigenous art centres drawing attention beyond Australia and Ms Marawarr said she was looking forward to sharing stories of her home to audiences far removed from it. "To tell a story when the ...

Daily Telegraph
Koojay Corroboree marks two milestones in Aboriginal history
Daily Telegraph
The referendum paved the way for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to be counted in the census while the 1992 Mabo decision by the High Court of Australia recognised Aboriginal native title of the lands of Australia. The theme for #NRW2018 ...

The Conversation UK
Australia's stolen wages: one woman's quest for compensation
The Conversation UK
Bigali Hanlon is a Yindjibarndi woman born in 1940 at Mulga Downs in Western Australia. At the age of six, she was taken from her mother and sent to live in a church-run hostel for “fair-skinned” indigenous children. She lived there until she was 13 ...

The Age
Aboriginal elders say government is talking treaty with wrong people
The Age
New South Australian Liberal Premier Steven Marshall put that state's treaty talks on hold late last month. The gathering of elders was organised by Victorian Greens MP Lidia Thorpe, State Parliament's only Aboriginal MP, who is seeking to amend the ...

ABC Online
Morris Stuart, the charismatic choir director bringing Central Australia's sacred sounds to the world
ABC Online
"She had a great aunt who actually said to her that she was committing the greatest crime that a white woman could commit by getting married to one of these black men who was just like 'our Aborigines'." But Morris and Barbara stood fast and, in 1967 ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
How Captain Cook became a contested national symbol
The Sydney Morning Herald
These include the development of digital heritage resources and exhibitions at the National Maritime Museum, National Library, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the National Museum of Australia, as well as ...

ABC Online
High-school sports mentoring program kicks goals for Indigenous students
ABC Online
High school students in South Australia's south-east are proving football has a place in the classroom. Teenager Denzel Wilson has always wished he had more opportunities to talk about his culture at school. "We should do it more. There should be more ...

ABC Online
Indigenous flag designer says idea to police the authenticity of Aboriginal art is 'repugnant'
ABC Online
The ANKA submission called on Federal Government to change the Australian Consumer Law, to "ban the distribution and sale of unauthentic Aboriginal-style objects in Australia at all levels of the supply chain". It also wanted recognition that ...

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ABC Online
How two unlikely South Americans transformed an indigenous art centre
ABC Online
But as someone "from the wrong side of the tracks", she found it hard to advance in Chile and emigrated to Australia. Cecilia, meanwhile, studied art administration and in 2001 was offered her "dream job" — managing an Aboriginal art centre in the ...

ABC Local
Blackfella Beef brand concept has potential to unite Indigenous cattle producers
ABC Local
The idea of Blackfella Beef was developed by the Wangan Jagalingou and Western Kangoulu Indigenous groups and has garnered financial support from Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) and the University of Southern Queensland. The next step is to ...

ABC Online
Broome artist exposes Australia's dark chapters of history with photographic series
ABC Online
This dark and hidden story of Aboriginal blackbirding in Broome and Roebourne in Western Australia is one of several little-known stories explored by artist Michael Jalaru Torres in the eight photographs in his exhibition Scar III, showing in Sydney as ...