Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Guardian
Northern Territory town camps need $77m for urgent repairs
The Guardian
The Northern Territory government will invest $25m to upgrade town camps, starting with urgent repairs to housing and infrastructure, as part of its response to a review into the Indigenous communities. But the report found that $77.7m was needed just ...

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The Saturday Paper
Anita Heiss [ed] Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
The Saturday Paper
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia is a mosaic, its more than 50 tiles – short personal essays with unique patterns, shapes, colours and textures – coming together to form a powerful portrait of resilience. Some contributors, such as footballer Adam ...

Prince Charles has visited the remote Northern Territory town of Nhulunbuy but will it change anything for ...
NT News
Aboriginal Australians were first promised a treaty by Bob Hawke at the Barunga Festival, about 600km from Yirrkala as the crow flies, 30 years ago. After decades of government inaction and last year's failed attempt to see an indigenous voice ...

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The Australian
Light from the hill
The Australian
But it is in the pieces dealing with Aboriginal Australia that the author is most in command of his material. Hill spent years travelling through the living heart of the continent, reading the explorers, naturalists, outback crackpots, Lutheran ...

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The Advertiser
Aboriginal elders claim artefacts seized by police with baby remains have not been returned
The Advertiser
Ms McInness said she had spoken with Forensic Science South Australia on April 5, the day of the re-burial, and was advised that everything that was with the remains when delivered for examination had been returned with them. Following that ...

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Camden Advertiser
OPINION | Equality is fickle topic
Camden Advertiser
But that doesn't mean we can't acknowledge the historic fact that Immigrant Australia was built on the ruins of Aboriginal Australia. In other words, 230 short years of passion, horror and great achievement stands on a base of 40,000 years of ...

The Canberra Times
From remote Indigenous communities to the Australian Running Festival
The Canberra Times
... on the course, and see a live leaderboard showing the top five men and women, split times and expected finish times. "It puts a useful, interactive resource at the fingertips of the thousands of runners and their supporters, andputs a personal ...
Prince Charles has visited the remote Northern Territory town of Nhulunbuy but will it change anything for ...NT News

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Yahoo7 News
Aboriginal abuse victim throttles himself in Games protest
Yahoo7 News
Gold Coast, Australia, April 13, 2018 (AFP) - - An Aboriginal man whose abuse in custody shocked Australia tried to throttle himself in the back of a police van following angry protests at the Commonwealth Games on Friday. Police said Dylan Voller ...
Aboriginal communities shame colonialist Commonwealth GamesGreen Left Weekly
'Stolenwealth Games': Aboriginal Activists Continue Anit-Commonwealth Protest in AustraliateleSUR tv HTTPS (press release) (blog)

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Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal communities shame colonialist Commonwealth Games
Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal activists and supporters have been protesting in Bundjalung Country, also known as the Gold Coast, exposing the whitewashing Commonwealth Games. Continuing the legacy of actions against the Commonwealth Games in 1982, the “Freedom Camp” at ...

Community Newspaper Group
City of Perth funding to help boost Aboriginal tourism
Community Newspaper Group
The research revealed Aboriginal galleries and viewing of arts/crafts was the most common activity tourists took part in. City of Perth chief executive Martin Mileham said the pilot gave an insight into the Aboriginal tourism sector, including issues ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
From remote Indigenous communities to the Australian Running ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
At the start of this year, Catherine Ralph couldn't run more than a few hundred metres without stopping for a breather. But just a few short months later, the 15-year-old from a remote town in Kakadu National Park can run 5km in about 35 minutes, and ...
A culturally even healthcare system starts in the waiting room - The ...The Big Smoke Australia

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Eternity News
Final miracle brings Indigenous recording home
Eternity News
They come with considerable life and cross-cultural experience and great skill in this multi-voice recording effort. “However, as most missionaries will testify, working with Australian Aboriginal people is a new and different experience. They have ...

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The Conversation AU
In both schooling and sport, Australia has slowly come to recognise its Aboriginal talent pool
The Conversation AU
The year was 1979, not 1879, when Fr Eugene Perez, a Catholic priest in the Kimberleys, asserted that “his” Aborigines “correspond to the Palaeolithic age”, “primitives who remain dwarfed to the bare essentials of human existence”, “undeniably immature ...
Why does Indigenous success make some white Australians ... - ABCABC Online
'Stolenwealth Games': Aboriginal Activists Continue Anit-Commonwealth Protest in AustraliateleSUR tv HTTPS (press release) (blog)
A culturally even healthcare system starts in the waiting roomThe Big Smoke Australia
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InDaily
Alexis Wright wins Stella Prize for epic Aboriginal story
InDaily
His life spanned the latter years of the White Australia policy, when Aboriginal people were still legally part of the nation's fauna, to the tumultuous period in Aboriginal politics following the Intervention, until his death in 2015. This is not a ...

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ABC Online
Gurrumul Yunupingu's final album released with documentary a year after death
ABC Online
In Yolngu lore the name, image and voice of the recently departed is retired from all public use. Yet such is the importance of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's work — and the desire to preserve his legacy — that clan leaders have made a rare exception ...
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's legacy: why his music didn't stopThe Sydney Morning Herald
Gurrumul producer Michael Hohnen on his final album: “He wanted to make a game changer, which would reach a ...The Music Network

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ABC Online
Dingo Flour logo reclaimed as Aboriginal artists remember past struggle
ABC Online
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised this article may contain images of people who are deceased. In the mid-20th century, Nita Williams' family was one of hundreds working for rations on remote pastoral stations in Western ...

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A culturally even healthcare system starts in the waiting room
The Big Smoke Australia
Unfortunately, it's not something most people are mindful of, but the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA), along with a number of other leading health groups and medical practitioners, has shone a spotlight on the need for more viable and ...

Google News

Gurrumul Yunupingu's final album released with documentary a year after death
Radio Australia
"Too often Aboriginal Australians feel their culture is hijacked by another agenda, a balanda [whitefella] agenda, and distorted beyond recognition," he said. "We Yolngu live by our own unique balance of life, culture and land and we care for our ...

teleSUR tv HTTPS (press release) (blog)
'Stolenwealth Games': Aboriginal Activists Continue Anit-Commonwealth Protest in Australia
teleSUR tv HTTPS (press release) (blog)
Each time "Australia" has hosted the games thousands of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islanders, as well as other groups who have been oppressed by the crown, have united to resist colonial activity and authority.” On the first day of protests, during the ...

ABC Online
Commonwealth Games organisers accused of shunting Indigenous artists into obscurity
ABC Online
... to paint some boomerang souvenirs has exclusive rights to sell Indigenous art at the Games. The owner of Jabiru Boomerangs, John Palombo, refused to be formally interviewed but told ABC News those boomerangs are not for sale as Commonwealth Games ...
Athletes banned; protesters arrested at Commonwealth GamesNew Zealand Herald

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