Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Sydney Morning Herald
Barrie Dexter: diplomat and pioneer in Aboriginal affairs
The Sydney Morning Herald
On Christmas Day in 2016, Barrie Dexter, known affectionately as Bunt, sat at the head of the table surrounded by many generations of his family. This was typical of such gatherings. Although frail at 94, he enchanted those around him, engaging each ...

The Big Smoke Australia
Australia slowly comes to recognise Aboriginal talent pool in sport and school
The Big Smoke Australia
A decade earlier, my book, Aborigines and Education, had analysed Aboriginal schooling opportunities and progress: there were nine Aboriginal people at university in 1969. By 2014, between 30,000 and 35,000 had a degree. Sport, too, has changed ...

Newcastle Herald
Serving Country Exhibition
Newcastle Herald
The Serving Country portrait exhibition at Newcastle Region Library will feature more than 200 photos and stories covering a century of service by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, who will also be acknowledged at the annual War Memorial Grove ...

Barrie Dexter: diplomat and pioneer in Aboriginal affairs
The Sydney Morning Herald
On Christmas Day in 2016, Barrie Dexter, known affectionately as Bunt, sat at the head of the table surrounded by many generations of his family. This was typical of such gatherings. Although frail at 94, he enchanted those around him, engaging each ...

The Australian
Indigenous Anzac book: Alfred's War, by Rachel bin Salleh
The Australian
The book's afterword notes that “at the beginning of WWI, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were prohibited from enlisting in the armed forces on the grounds of their race''. However, in 1917 “half-castes'' or Aborigines who had “lived with ...

Campbelltown Macarthur Advertiser
Ghosts players head to UK on indigenous tour
Campbelltown Macarthur Advertiser
The Campbelltown-Camden Ghosts has produced five representatives who will jet across the globe to represent the Australian Indigenous cricket team in the UK in June. The tour is an historic moment for our cricketers. The visit commemorates the 150th ...

Wollondilly Advertiser
Ghosts players head to UK on indigenous tour
Wollondilly Advertiser
The Campbelltown-Camden Ghosts has produced five representatives who will jet across the globe to represent the Australian Indigenous cricket team in the UK in June. The tour is an historic moment for our cricketers. The visit commemorates the 150th ...

ABC Message Stick
Indigenous mining town residents demand blood tests after lead found in water
ABC Message Stick
... Republicans 'disappointed' PM didn't oppose Charles becoming figurehead · McGowan says she wanted to expose Weinstein as rapist on billboard · The blind, deaf photographer opening exhibitions around the world · Teens on the run after deadly hit-and ...

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The Stringer
Abominably, more than 100000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have been to jail
The Stringer
More than 500,000 Australians have been to prison. One in 50 Australians have been to prison. However, of the 500,000, more than 100,000 are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders; First Nations persons. Up to 120,000 have been to prison. With more ...

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The Australian
Indigenous adviser Ah See blasts Turnbull for snub of Uluru Statement
The Australian
Roy Ah See, a member of Mr Turnbull's Indigenous Advisory Council, chairman of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council and a signatory to the Uluru declaration, also called for “full and just reparations for dispossession” and proper negotiation over treaties ...

NT News
New anthology shares diverse range of experiences in growing up Aboriginal in Australia
NT News
That is the question posed by award-winning author Anita Heiss in an anthology published this week. In her attempts to showcase a diverse range of voices and experiences, Ms Heiss has collected 52 accounts from a range of well-known authors, activists ...

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New anthology shares diverse range of experiences in growing up Aboriginal in Australia
PerthNow
That is the question posed by award-winning author Anita Heiss in an anthology published this week. In her attempts to showcase a diverse range of voices and experiences, Ms Heiss has collected 52 accounts from a range of well-known authors, activists ...

ABC Online
How an Aboriginal women's choir ended up in Germany, singing Lutheran church songs in the languages of Australia's ...
ABC Online
In remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, Baroque hymns introduced and translated by German missionaries in the 1870s have helped preserve local languages. A new documentary, Song Keepers, follows the Central Australian Aboriginal ...
The Song Keepers: ancient German hymns find new life in Australian outbackThe Guardian

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ABC Local
Northern Territory Police deny 'institutional racism' to blame for failed murder investigation
ABC Local
... a non-Indigenous woman who was killed by her husband in Darwin in 2013. He said there were about double the number of detectives in that investigation, and nine police media releases, compared to just one in Ms Green's case. "I thought in my mind ...

Australians needing disability help rises
NEWS.com.au
However, despite having a much younger age profile, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had a higher need for assistance. The number of indigenous people requiring support in 2016 was 6.7 per cent compared with 5.3 cent of their non-indigenous ...

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The Guardian
The Song Keepers: ancient German hymns find new life in Australian outback
The Guardian
Through intimate interviews with Nipper and the choir's senior “boss-lady”, Daphne Puntjina, as well as others, Sen's film goes beyond the linearity and wide-eyed wonder of the choir's trip to reveal the nuances of identity, cultural practice and lore ...

TIMES NEWS GROUP (press release) (blog)
Lorne to host major Aboriginal conference
TIMES NEWS GROUP (press release) (blog)
VICTORIA will showcase its thriving Aboriginal tourism industry to the nation when it hosts the Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference (AITC) in Lorne later this year. The annual major conference will come to Victoria for the first time. AITC will ...
Perth selected to host third World Indigenous Tourism Summit in April 2020Community Newspaper Group

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9news.com.au
Australians needing disability help rises
9news.com.au
Overall, the census found Australian women were more likely to seek support, largely due to higher rates of diseases associated with disability in females aged over 75. Young men aged five to 19 were almost twice as likely as women to receive ...

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ABC Online
Prison overcrowding prompts push to abolish mandatory sentencing in the Northern Territory
ABC Online
The Northern Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) said the problem had led to bed shortages in Darwin. "Prisoners are sleeping on the floor, they're sleeping on mattresses, they're sleeping outside," criminal law section manager Beth Wild said ...

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ABC Local
Mock court sessions help Indigenous offenders understand how justice system works
ABC Local
Imagine being in a foreign country where you cannot speak the language, then being arrested and tried in court for something you cannot understand, and being thrown into prison hundreds of kilometres away from your family. That is still the experience ...