Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Voice of America
Australia Investigates Fake Aboriginal Art
Voice of America
A parliamentary inquiry in Australia is investigating fake Aboriginal art and craft. The committee has heard from campaigners in Western Australia that up to 90 per cent of Indigenous art sold in souvenir shops was fake and imported from overseas ...

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The New Daily
High antioxidants, vitamins: The Australian bush tucker diet you should try
The New Daily
Former chef and chair of the Australian Native Food and Botanicals board Amanda Garner says she would like to see more native ingredients incorporated into Australian dining. “It's a treasure trove of new discoveries and with each new product, to us ...

Unaipon became a man of note when it was tough being born Aboriginal
Courier Mail
Unaipon would not live to see that, but it was men and women like him who did so much to advance the cause of indigenous Australians through stormy times. He was born in a bark hut as one of the Ngarrindjeri people on the banks of Lake Alexandrina in ...

The Guardian
NT camp water still contaminated two weeks after alert
The Guardian
The use of lead pipes ended around the 1930s, but lead solder was used on some pipes and fittings in Australia until about 1989. The department of housing and community and community development told Guardian Australia that “generally” the reticulation ...

ABC Local
Visits to Indigenous inmates from elders could change lives, advocates say
ABC Local
Aboriginal elders are hoping the rest of the country will soon take note of the benefits that come from their visits to Indigenous prison inmates. Marius (Pirrawayingi) Puruntatameri, from the Tiwi Islands, and Mildred Inkamala co-founded the Elders ...

ABC Online
'They call us Australians': Vanuatu descendants of Indigenous Australians search for long lost family
ABC Online
David Abel, a former Vanuatu MP and a descendent of a Pacific Islander blackbirded to Australia, has long been an advocate for better recognition of that dark chapter in Australia's history. He and his brother, Chief Richard David Fandanumata, a member ...

ABC Online
Refugees who fled conflict find solace in Victorian Indigenous cultural ceremony
ABC Online
Dozens of refugees in Victoria's south-west have discovered parallels between Aboriginal culture and their own, after taking part in an ancient Indigenous ceremony. Refugees from South Sudan, Burma and Iran climbed up to the top of Wurdi Yawang or Big ...

Fireworks to return to Fremantle for culturally inclusive WA Day
PerthNow
AFTERr axing Australia Day fireworks out of sensitivity to indigenous people, Fremantle will host a pyrotechnics display in its culturally inclusive WA Day celebrations. The Fremantle Harbour Traders Group yesterday announced the two-day Celebrate WA ...

Google News

The Australian
Indigenous treaty back on NT's agenda
The Australian
A draft agreement paving the way for treaties with Aboriginal groups in the Northern Territory would commit the Gunner government to recognising that Australia was improperly settled and its First Peoples need recompense for “deep injustice (and ...

The Saturday Paper
William Crighton's 'Empire'
The Saturday Paper
William Crighton delivers the year's best album, Australian or international, with the charged rock and heartfelt lyrics of Empire. By Dave Faulkner. William Crighton's 'Empire'. William Crighton performing at Bluesfest. Credit: Renae Saxby. Empire ...

Cosmos
The Dreamtime, science and narratives of Indigenous Australia
Cosmos
Scientific and Indigenous knowledge systems have often been in conflict. In my view, too much is made of these conflicts; they have a lot in common. For example, Indigenous knowledge typically takes the form of a narrative, usually a spoken story about ...

NT News
Humbled and overwhelmed, David Warner wants to win respect back from a sceptical Australian public
NT News
“It's great to be back home in Australia. I have had some time away to come to terms with everything and now it's time to get back into it,” wrote Smith, pictured with his fiancee Dani. “The amount of emails and letters I have received has been ...

WAtoday
Parliamentary inquiry to recommend referendum allowing MPs be dual citizens
WAtoday
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said Senator Reynolds had "pointed to a real problem in the constitution" that wouldn't be included if the document was being drafted today. "But I have to say that when it comes to updating our constitution, my first ...

ArtsHub
Expressions of Interest for National Aboriginal Art Gallery Reference Group
ArtsHub
The Gallery will showcase and celebrate a globally significant, Australia-wide art collection from the world's oldest continuous culture, which will be brought together under one roof. Expressions of interest are now called for membership of a new ...

ABC Online
Keeping Indigenous foster kids connected to culture and country at camp
ABC Online
In January Australia's Aboriginal children's commissioner declared a rise in the number of children being removed from Indigenous communities a "national disaster". Michelle Kelley said she was confident the camps, along with ongoing support from FACS ...

ArtsHub
Expressions of Interest for National Aboriginal Art
ArtsHub
The Gallery will showcase and celebrate a globally significant, Australia-wide art collection from the world's oldest continuous culture, which will be brought together under one roof. Expressions of interest are now called for membership of a new ...

WAtoday
Don't they get it? Those once mocked are having the last laugh
WAtoday
Australia's best contemporary comedy is being produced by women, gay men and Aboriginal Australians - I'm thinking of comedians like Becky Lucas and Tom Ballard, and writers like Nakkiah Lui, Ben Law and Kate McCartney and Kate McClennan (the pair ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Don't they get it? Those once mocked are having the last laugh
The Sydney Morning Herald
Did you hear the one about the welfare-bludging Aboriginal family who moved in next door to the millionaire? It's a scream. They claimed the property as a sacred site and then used their government payments to buy themselves a car and a boat. They ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous group launches nation's first private carbon trading fund
The Sydney Morning Herald
An indigenous group has launched a new carbon fund that will support social and cultural causes, calling it the 'boutique restaurant' option to the government's cheaper 'McDonald's' offsets. The Reducing Carbon Building Communities fund (RCBC), backed ...

The Conversation AU
The Dreamtime, science and narratives of Indigenous Australia
The Conversation AU
But Australia is very different. Here, human remains are very old, and many are recovered from very hot environments. While ancient DNA studies have played an important role in informing understanding of the evolution of our species worldwide, little ...