Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
Youth detention 'will only make matters worse', grandmother says
ABC Online
He is calling on the Territory Government to provide the courts with more places and programs to send young offenders, in order to help them learn how to change their behaviour. "The Northern Territory doesn't have the non-custodial sentencing options ...

The Guardian
Indigenous man granted $1.3m compensation for wrongful conviction
The Guardian
An Indigenous man who spent almost five years in jail after being wrongfully accused of killing a non-Indigenous man in Broome in 2010 has been granted $1.3m in compensation from the Western Australian government. Gene Gibson, a Pintupi man from the ...
Wrongly convicted WA man gets $1.5m compoThe Australian

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The Transcontinental
Pika Wiya respond to deadly outbreak
The Transcontinental
A recent outbreak of the deadly meningoccocal disease in remote South Australian communities has prompted health authorities to take action. Pika Wiya Health Service will be offering free meningococcal vaccines for young Aboriginal people aged between ...

Wauchope Gazette
Move for Aboriginal flag to fly on Anzac Day | poll
Wauchope Gazette
Should the Aboriginal flag be flown alongside the Australian and New Zealand flags at Anzac Day services in Port Macquarie? Port Macquarie RSL Sub-branch president Greg Laird has ruled out the call but that has raised the ire of the chair of the Mid ...

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ABC Online
Coles supermarket under fire as Kununurra teens allegedly refused entry, asked for ID
ABC Online
Related Story: Aboriginal-owned hotels in court over racial discrimination claims. A Coles supermarket in Western Australia has been accused of refusing entry to minors and demanding identification. Thirteen-year-old Amos Lippitt and his cousin were ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Review: The Song Keepers fails to hit right note
The Sydney Morning Herald
FILM THE SONG KEEPERS ☆½ (Unrated) Selected cinemas (87 minutes). It seems cruel to criticise a film that so plainly wants to be loved, but Naina Sen's The Song Keepers is one of the weakest Australian documentaries to score a big-screen release in a ...

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The Adelaide Review
Book Review: Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia
The Adelaide Review
Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia is an eye-opening read that delves into the archaeological discoveries that have proven the staggering depth of Australia's human history. One of the great disappointments of modern Australia is the lack ...

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National Indigenous Times
Wreaths would 'heal a hurt country'
National Indigenous Times
Aboriginal people who died in the so-called 'frontier wars' of colonisation should be formally recognised in Anzac Day proceedings, according to the organisers of an annual march to honour them. Activist Michael Anderson, the last surviving founder of ...

National Indigenous Times
Bold book reveals Indigenous war sacrifice
National Indigenous Times
Irwin's story is one of hundreds recorded in Serving Our Country, the first detailed history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander soldiers at war. The book is the result of five years of research by top academics including Professor Mick Dodson ...
Naomi Woods selected for historic Indigenous cricket tour of UKSouth Coast Register

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National Indigenous Times
Doco gives fresh voice to trailblazing choir
National Indigenous Times
Australia's answer to the Buena Vista Social Club – the enigmatic ensemble of Cuban musicians whose international tour in the late '90s inspired an acclaimed documentary – is set to be released nationally on April 19. The Song Keepers, which premiered ...
Review: The Song Keepers fails to hit right noteThe Sydney Morning Herald

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South Coast Register
Naomi Woods selected for historic Indigenous cricket tour of UK
South Coast Register
A NUMBER of the best male and female Indigenous cricketers in New South Wales, including West Cambewarra's Naomi Woods, have been selected for a historic tour of the United Kingdom in June to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1868 pioneers. This ...

Camden Haven Courier
Will it fly? Push for Aboriginal flag to fly on Anzac Day | poll
Camden Haven Courier
Should the Aboriginal flag be flown alongside the Australian and New Zealand flags at Anzac Day services in Port Macquarie? Port Macquarie RSL Sub-branch president Greg Laird has ruled out the call but that has raised the ire of the chair of the Mid ...

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Echonetdaily
Politics in the Pub talks peace on Anzac Day
Echonetdaily
'Henry Reynolds is a pioneering historian, one of Australia's leading authorities on the history of Aboriginal people. Henry revealed history from an Aboriginal perspective when he published The Other Side of the Frontier in 1981. He has been a ...

Port Macquarie News
Will it fly? Push for Aboriginal flag to fly on Anzac Day | poll
Port Macquarie News
... appropriate that in recognition of reconciliation and moving forward together, that the Aboriginal flag be flown as part of the Anzac Day commemorative activities in Port Macquarie." Mr Donovan said the Aboriginal and the Torres Strait Islander ...

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The Australian
Alexis Wright's Stella-winning Tracker nurtured at UWS
The Australian
Ms Wright was a distinguished fellow at Western Sydney University when she wrote the quasi-biography about the legendary Aboriginal visionary, thinker and activist Leigh Bruce “Tracker” Tilmouth. She was based at the university's Writing and Society ...

The Weekly Times
Australian property names: All manor of strange names
The Weekly Times
Interestingly — and ironically, given the bitter animosity between the settlers and the Aboriginal owners they displaced — the settlers often adopted the place names the local indigenous people used. Quite often these revolved around the Aboriginal ...

NEWS.com.au
Anzac Day play to tell World War 1 story of Aboriginal digger Roland Carter and German ethnologist Leonhard Adam
NEWS.com.au
THE story of the first Ngarrindjeri man to join the Australian Imperial Forces during World War I and his friendship with a German ethnologist will be told in a play reading on Anzac Day. Louise Nunn. The AdvertiserApril 17, 201810:15pm. Aunty Lorraine ...

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The Advertiser
Anzac Day play to tell World War 1 story of Aboriginal digger Roland Carter and German ethnologist Leonhard Adam
The Advertiser
Leonhard Adam, German ethnologist and friend to Ngarrindjeri Digger Roland Carter. While captive, Mr Carter met Leonhard Adam, who was employed to research the cultures of Germany's ethnic prisoners. The men became friends but went their separate ways ...

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Aljazeera.com
Lost in a flawed system: Australia's 'stolen' children
Aljazeera.com
The experience of having her four children, including her 15-month-old son, removed from her care by authorities over a seven-year period, is still painfully raw for Helen Eason, an indigenous Australian woman. "They take your young from you and you ...

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Indigenous and Remote Health Conference
The Stringer
Seven million Australians live in rural and remote Australia. There are also 1,000 remote communities, the majority with few or no services. Australians living rural and remote have shorter lives, with more than half of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait ...