Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir
ABC Online
The Central Australian Women's Choir are taking German hymns taught to their ancestors 140 years ago, but to Europe. Source: ABC News | Duration: 1min 56sec. Topics: indigenous-music, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, ...

Junkee
Watch This High School Student Open An NRL Game With A Stunning Indigenous National Anthem
Junkee
The NRL has kicked off this year's Indigenous round with a stunning rendition of Advance Australia Fair sung in an Indigenous language and backed by traditional Indigenous instruments. The anthem was sung by Rebecca Hatch, an Indigenous Australian ...
Year 12 student sings moving Indigenous national anthemYahoo Sports

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ABC Local
Bunya nuts: The Australian bush food that is growing in popularity
ABC Local
Queensland's bunya nut season has just finished but when the next nut fall occurs in 2021, Queensland artist Leeton Lee hopes more people treat them as a tasty bush food, not annoying garden waste.

The West Australian
West Coast Eagles trio aim to lift cultural appreciation
The West Australian
Lewis Jetta hails from a family that played a key role in an Aboriginal team that made a racism stand in the Wheatbelt town of Pingelly in 1967. Family members from the Pingelly Tigers, like Jetta, still flourish in the AFL. Willie Rioli is part of ...

The Australian
Charles Dickens's unexpected role in Australian cricket's expansion
The Australian
He saw an advantage in coaching indigenous cricketers and he became the captain-coach of the 1868 Aboriginal Australian Cricket Tour of England. He had long envisioned making big money from the Aboriginals' ability to throw boomerangs and spears ...

The Australian
Meanjin AZ: Fine Fiction, 1980 to Now, short stories that reveal us
The Australian
It isn't only Aboriginal Australia that narrates its ambivalence towards mainstream white culture in this collection. Lily Brett's Malka, from 1989, immerses us in the Jewish enclaves of Melbourne at a moment in which the children of Holocaust ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Dicey Topics: Linda Burney talks about death, politics and religion
The Sydney Morning Herald
The three things that motivated me to stand at the 2003 NSW state election [at which Burney became the first Aboriginal to serve in the NSW Parliament] were the same things that motivate me now: my Aboriginality; the fact I'm a woman; the pursuit of ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Remembering the tragedy of the Black War
The Sydney Morning Herald
Senior Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Australia FranchescaCubillo said the exhibition The national picture: the art of Tasmania's Black War was "very important for us to have". The exhibition, three years in the making, brings ...

EducationHQ Australia
Aboriginal culture is 'everybody's business' principal says
EducationHQ Australia
“In all of that time, I have known that reconciliation is a critical issue for all Australians, and so I've had it as one of my areas that I wanted to grow in the school,” Hawes explains. “[Students are] in primary school for seven years, and each year ...

ABC Online
Captain Cook is a contested national symbol, so why spend more money on him?
ABC Online
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 ...

The Guardian
Tom E Lewis: actor, singer and songwriter dies suddenly
The Guardian
Lewis shot to fame at a young age playing the handsome, compelling lead in Fred Schepisi's 1978 film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and appeared in dozens of Australian films and series over his long career, including the miniseries, A Town Like Alice ...
Indigenous actor Tom E Lewis dies aged 59The Australian

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The Guardian
'Blatantly discriminatory': changes to remote work-for-dole scheme criticised
The Guardian
“Equal pay for equal work is a core tenet of Australian society. The federal government must eliminate the blatantly discriminatory requirement, which sees people in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities forced to work more hours for ...

ABC Online
Colonial art exhibition 'sheds new light' on Tasmania's brutal Black War
ABC Online
The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania's Black War is a newly-assembled collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints that examine British settlers' representations of Tasmanian Aboriginal people at the time. The exhibition, which opened ...

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The Guardian
WHO urged to act to eliminate ancient virus HTLV-1 found in Australia
ABC Online
T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 — or HTLV-1 — is an ancient blood-borne virus, which has been detected at extremely high rates in Aboriginal communities in Australia. The virus, considered to be a distant relative of HIV, does not affect all ...
Time to eradicate HTLV-1, World Health Organisation is warnedThe Guardian
HIV's Ancient Cousin, HTLV-1, Surging Through Indigenous Australian CommunitiesContagionlive.com
Global Virus Network Issues Open Letter to WHO On Potent Human Carcinogen - Human T Cell Leukemia Virus-1Business Wire (press release)

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The Guardian
Time to eradicate HTLV-1, World Health Organisation is warned
The Guardian
HTLV-1 affects roughly 20 million people but a lack of awareness and testing mean there could be many more. Guardian Australia has revealed that in five Aboriginal communities around Alice Springs, an estimated 45% of adults tested have the virus, a ...
WHO urged to act to eliminate ancient virus HTLV-1 found in AustraliaABC Online
HIV's Ancient Cousin, HTLV-1, Surging Through Indigenous Australian CommunitiesContagionlive.com
Global Virus Network Issues Open Letter to WHO On Potent Human Carcinogen - Human T Cell Leukemia Virus-1Business Wire (press release)
Brinkwire (press release)
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The Conversation AU
How Captain Cook became a contested national symbol
The Conversation AU
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 ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Once a reluctant role model, Inglis now wears heart on his sleeve
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Round has become far more than a buzzword for the NRL. Its First Nation players take the week to heart, using it as an expression of their family and culture and helping to raise awareness for the issues at the heart of many of Australia's ...

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Daily Telegraph
Indigenous national anthem moves NRL players and fans at Leichhardt Oval
Daily Telegraph
Rebecca Hatch, an HSC student from Campbelltown Performing Arts High School, received praise for her unique performance that used traditional indigenous words and instruments to the tune of the national anthem. Hatch then continued with the English ...

Australia expanding Aboriginal land rights
Cyprus Mail
Recognition of land rights for an Aboriginal group in Adelaide after an 18-year legal battle could spur more Australian cities to acknowledge such claims and make urban spaces more inclusive of indigenous communities, an analyst said. A land use deal ...

SBS
'Tears of joy': Indigenous descendants from Vanuatu begin family search
SBS
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following article contains images of deceased persons. Chief Richard David Fandanumata has travelled to Australia from Vanuatu to see the land his great-grandfather came from.