Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
Remote Aboriginal school launches horsemanship program to re-engage students
ABC Online
In one of the most disadvantaged local government areas in the country, a school has launched a unique program using horses to boost attendance and create job opportunities. The remote Aboriginal community of Doomadgee, 500 kilometres north of Mount ...

frieze.com
Did Damien Hirst Rip Off Aboriginal Australian Artists's Work?
frieze.com
Damien Hirst's 'Veil Paintings' works – recently on show at Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles (ranging from USD$500,000 to $1.7 million) – have come under fire for their similarity to the work of female Aboriginal artists, including Emily Kame Kngwarreye ...

South Coast Register
Waminda's collaboration with Cancer Australia
South Coast Register
Waminda's senior regional manager Krissy Falzon and a number of the Nowra based organisation's health workers played a role in producing a new health publication. POSITIVE steps are being taken to reduce the shocking rate of gynaecological cancers ...

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South Coast Register
Waminda's in collaboration with Cancer Australia
South Coast Register
Waminda's senior regional manager Krissy Falzon and a number of the Nowra based organisation's health workers played a role in producing a new health publication. POSITIVE steps are being taken to reduce the shocking rate of gynaecological cancers ...

UNSW Newsroom
Opinion Treaty with our 'first nations' will provide a framework of responsibility
UNSW Newsroom
This has been no empty promise. The government has committed almost $30 million to see the process through. Last week the Victorian parliament began debate on a law that will advance the treaty process by setting down guiding principles and recognising ...

CHOICE
Is your Indigenous souvenir the real deal?
CHOICE
It's estimated that millions of dollars will be spent on souvenirs during the Commonwealth Games, with the Arts Law Centre of Australia saying 80% of Aboriginal-style souvenirs in tourist shops are 'fake' or 'inauthentic'. Queensland Fair Trading says ...

Particle
Preserving Aboriginal language with technology ​
Particle
Tyson Mowarin is a 2018 Western Australia Australian of the Year nominee from Roebourne in Ngarluma country in WA's Pilbara region. He's pulling more than his weight in the fight for Indigenous languages. He has a vision to educate all Australians ...

The Conversation AU
The Commonwealth Games are an opportunity to face up to the history of colonialism
The Conversation AU
Many do not realise they pass a boulder inscribed with the Aboriginal flag and a statement about the remains buried beneath. This site of recreation and picnicking was the centre of protests held throughout the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Sport has long ...
Anti-drone guns and jets deployed in Gold Coast security blitzReuters
BC-COM--Commonwealth Games RoundupThe Daily Nonpareil

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The Mercury
Time for Tasmania's history to reflect the truth about our Aboriginal past
The Mercury
What had happened to Aboriginal people and who was to blame? The answers were disturbing. Australia is still searching for a way to deal with its past. These questions are not new. The indelible stain referred to by Reynolds was first raised by George ...

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The Guardian
Fear and harassment in Kalgoorlie: Indigenous youth report alarming alienation
The Guardian
At an Indigenous youth summit in Kalgoorlie-Boulder on 6 October last year, a 10-year-old boy brought his expensive mountain bike on stage. He wasn't showing off. The bike was part of a story, one of dozens shared in a federally funded study about life ...

Inquiry launched into how Perth prisoner gave birth alone in jail cell
The Guardian
Morgan said he became aware of the incident the morning after the woman gave birth and had sent a list of 20 questions to the department. “I think it is wrong that any woman should be giving birth in a prison cell by herself,” he told Guardian ...

The Australian
Cost of keeping a child in residential care hits $670ka year
The Australian
The annual $670,142-per-child cost of residential care is 79 per cent higher than the national average and 14 times higher than the $48,005 spent on children in foster and kinship care, according to figures released by South Australia's Guardian for ...

Daily Telegraph
Hospitals to be equipped with culturally appropriate waiting rooms for indigenous patients
Daily Telegraph
“I was born in a segregated hospital and a lot of Aboriginal people were up until the late 1960s. If we can make it feel more comfortable that's fine but then we need to work on the real issues of how do we integrate them into the full hospital system ...
Emergency departments are being told to build designated waiting rooms with Aboriginal art for indigenous patients.Daily Mail

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NEWS.com.au
The Australian crisis we can't ignore
NEWS.com.au
Territory Families took only five child sex abuse victims into care between 2012-13 and 2015-16 despite substantiating 232 cases, reports The Australian. Despite reports and royal commissions, neither Labor nor Liberal governments have delivered ...

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ArtsHub
Review: Stephanie Tisdell – Identity Steft
ArtsHub
Unafraid to jump from confronting to funny, she addresses the huge gap in life expectancy between communities before gleefully sharing the real meanings of certain Aboriginal-named Australian cultural identities. Also brushing up against the very ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal children need loving, safe and culturally appropriate homes
ABC Online
Recent arguments about the removal of Indigenous children from their families fail to appreciate the complexity of the issue. Reducing the debate to oversimplified understandings of the factors that contribute to the devastating disparity in outcomes ...

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Treaty with our 'first nations' will give us framework of responsibility
The Australian
Western Australia has made the most progress. Liberal premier Colin Barnett led the way in 2015 by signing the first treaty between a state government and indigenous peoples. In exchange for surrendering native title rights and interests, the Noongar ...

The Australian
How did we let this happen?
The Australian
There is no reason it should have happened, especially not in a first-world country like Australia, but it has: indigenous communities in the country's north are in the grip of wholly treatable sexually transmitted diseases. In the case of syphilis, it ...

The republic is an Aboriginal issue  The Monthly

The Mercury
TasWeekend: Confronting display of unfinished business | The ...
The Mercury
TWO weeks ago, the magazine many of us grew up with had this message for its millions of readers around the world. For decades, our coverage was racist. To rise above our past, we must acknowledge it, wrote National Geographiceditor-in-chief Susan ...

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