Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Herald Sun
Rita Panahi: Social media contributing to a culture of outrage, intolerance and hatred
Herald Sun
Aboriginal activist Tarneen Onus-Williams was among the triggered brigade, tweeting: “Sunrise never fails to surprise me. The Stolen Generation was an act of genocide and war. Sunrise and MSM are just trying to build their case to further justify ...

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Naracoorte Herald
Celebration of first Aboriginal XI at Edenhope
Naracoorte Herald
The Edenhope Aboriginal Cricket Team Committee is organising a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first Aboriginal XI, as well as remembering those who followed in their footsteps in 1988. The celebration at Lake Wallace will consist of many ...

Naracoorte Herald
Celebration of first Aboriginal XI at Edenhope
Naracoorte Herald
The Edenhope Aboriginal Cricket Team Committee is organising a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first Aboriginal XI, as well as remembering those who followed in their footsteps in 1988. The celebration at Lake Wallace will consist of many ...

IT Brief Australia
Fujitsu Australia rolls out 12-month Reconciliation Action Plan
IT Brief Australia
Fujitsu Australia has reached another milestone in its 12-month Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), an initiative that promotes equality for Australia Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people. The RAP, launched at the company's Macquarie Park Head ...

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New Matilda
We Do Need To Be Concerned About Creating 'Another Stolen Generations'
New Matilda
The state intervenes often into the realm of family to ensure the protection of Australia's children, investigating 119,173 cases of suspected child abuse or neglect last financial year (2016-17). More than 36% of all Australian children living in care ...

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ABC Online
Think there are no homeless people in your area? Think again
ABC Online
... was the greatest contributor to the national increase in homelessness of nearly 5 per cent since the last census. Indigenous people represent 20 per cent of the homeless, and nearly three-quarters of those were living in severely crowded dwellings ...

The Australian
Indigenous ABC comedy clip parodies white people
The Australian
Lui is an award-winning Aboriginal playwright who wrote the Sydney Theatre Company hit play Black is the New White, which has toured Australia and is returning for an encore season this year. “The clip, which is clearly satirical and humorous, has been ...

The Guardian
Senate inquiry to examine claims Indigenous suicide prevention funding misspent
The Guardian
Claims that funding for Indigenous suicide prevention programs is being spent on travel costs will be examined at Senate inquiry into rural and remote mental health services. The inquiry was approved in the Senate on Monday with backing from Labor and ...

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Fact check: Were Indigenous Australians classified under a flora and fauna act until the 1967 referendum?  ABC News

A regularly repeated claim is that Indigenous Australians were covered by a flora and fauna act, until the 1967 referendum. It's not true. RMIT ABC Fact Check ...

Riverine Herald
'It could diminish Aboriginality'
Riverine Herald
“Sadly indigenous returned servicemen were not treated as well when they returned to Australia, and didn't receive the same benefits as non-indigenous soldiers. “Once they took off those uniforms, they were nobodies. They weren't even allowed into RSLs ...

Eternity News
Indigenous prayer vigil held at site of first contact
Eternity News
The sign was amended in the 1990s, replacing the “birthplace of a nation” with “the birthplace of modern Australia”, as an attempt to recognise the Aboriginal people who were already here when Cook arrived. Yet, as historian Mark McKenna wrote in the ...

ABC Online
Drug dealers, rustlers and crocs — the life and dangerous times of tracker Barry Port
ABC Online
In his far north Queensland hometown of Coen, Barry Port is a living legend — even the town's public bar is named in his honour. The 74-year-old was the last Aboriginal tracker officially employed by an Australian police service. Mr Port hung up his ...

Australia's sacred Aboriginal sites: To climb or not to climb?
The Straits Times
Tourists climbing Uluru. Since 1992, a sign at the base of the sandstone rock From October next year, climbing on Uluru will be banned. Experts said the ban suggests a growing sensitivity towards Aboriginal history and may lead to changes at other ...

Voice of America
Australia to Export Celebrated Aboriginal Education Program to Africa
Voice of America
One of Australia's most successful Aboriginal mentoring projects is bringing its methods to South Africa and Uganda. The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, or AIME, began in 2005, serving just 25 Aboriginal children in Sydney. Since then, the ...

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BBC News
National Geographic apology: 'We were anticipated to be a dying race'
BBC News
Last Tuesday, US magazine National Geographic apologised for what it called decades of past racist coverage. Among some examples, editor Susan Goldberg cited a photo caption from 1916 that left her "speechless". Beneath photos of Aboriginal Australians ...

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ABC Online
Syphilis jumps to Western Australia; doctors say 'complacent' safe sex attitudes to blame
ABC Online
Some sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in Western Australia, with Aboriginal communities in the north hit particularly hard by a syphilis outbreak. Across the population, Syphilis has more than doubled the five-year average, up 112 per cent ...

The Guardian
So many Australian place names honour murderous white men and their violent acts
The Guardian
Willshire wrote books about his maltreatment (including killing) of Aboriginal men and sexual abuse of Indigenous women who were, he maintained, put on earth to satisfy the needs of white pioneering males. As you drive around this continent, stop and ...

Radio Australia
Indigenous work for the dole scheme 'failing abysmally', worsening poverty, Greens say
Radio Australia
Participants are being slapped with more penalties than every other Australian jobseeker combined, prompting claims it is worsening poverty and hunger in Aboriginal communities. The Government has conceded the Community Development Programme (CDP ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous work for the dole scheme 'failing abysmally', worsening poverty, Greens say
ABC Online
Participants are being slapped with more penalties than every other Australian jobseeker combined, prompting claims it is worsening poverty and hunger in Aboriginal communities. The Government has conceded the Community Development Programme (CDP ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Whitefella dreaming: it's time to discover our reconciled republic
The Sydney Morning Herald
After nearly 230 years of living with Indigenous Australians, has it not too been altered? Now that the Indigenous cultures that were thought to be destined for extinction have emerged to demand their rightful place in the Commonwealth, and in light of ...

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