Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Most Australian Indigenous languages came from just one place, research claims
The Guardian
Albert river near Burketown on the Gulf of Carpentaria. Burketown is the origin point for 90% of Australia's Indigenous languages, according to one study. Photograph: Auscape/UIG via Getty Images. Most Indigenous languages in Australia likely ...

Business Insider Australia
Homelessness is increasing in Australia as housing costs rise
Business Insider Australia
Numbers from the 2016 census released today show homelessness increasing in Australia despite strong economic growth, with young people, migrants and the elderly most vulnerable. The Australian Bureau of Statistics says the total number of homeless ...
Homelessness in Australia up 14% in five years, ABS saysThe Guardian
'An international embarrassment': More than 116000 Australians now homelessNine
Census reveals rising rate of homelessness in AustraliaMirage News

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Techly
Try not to vomit as 'Sunrise' discusses the merits of Australia's Stolen Generations
Techly
It all started early Wednesday morning when federal Assistant Minister for Children, David Gillespie, announced his intention to make it easier for white families to adopt Aboriginal children, citing “rape, assault and neglect” in Indigenous ...

Pilbara pair in women's hall of fame
The West Australian
Fresh from being crowned WA's Australian of the Year in November, trailblazing psychologist and Njamal woman Dr Tracy Westerman joined Ms Howlett in being inducted into the WA Hall of Fame. Dr Westerman founded Indigenous Psychological Services in 1998 ...

New Matilda
No Joke: Capitalism, Australian Identity and The Threat to Unity
New Matilda
Each year, Australia Day ushers in the political calendar. And each year, the polity is more divided. A lot of people seem to feel left out of the party. And it isn't only Indigenous Australians, writes Mike Dowson. A Barkindji man, from Darling River ...

Investment Magazine
Big Super Day Out will grow in 2018
Investment Magazine
In its third year of running the Indigenous community outreach program, First Nations Foundation is quadrupling its efforts. Is your fund involved yet? All the speakers and chairs at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) 2018 will be ...

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Atlas Obscura
Climate Change May Have Helped Spread a Language Family Across Australia
Atlas Obscura
On the map of Australia's indigenous language types, Pama-Nyungan languages stretch expansively across the country, dipping down into the hollows of Western Australia and Victoria, and reaching high up into the furthest cranny of Queensland, to the ...

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Daily Mail
The origin of Australia's largest family of Aboriginal languages: New research reveals Pama-Nyungan arose 6000 ...
Daily Mail
For places like Australia, the linguistic record, though incomplete, has more even coverage across the continent than the archaeological record does. At European settlement, there were about 300 Pama-Nyungan languages. Because there are at least some ...
Climate Change May Have Helped Spread a Language Family Across AustraliaAtlas Obscura

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Honi Soit
Could USyd be its own country?
Honi Soit
Czech libertarian and founder of 'Liberland,' Vit Jedlicka, invoked terra nullius when claiming a disputed three-square-mile section of the Croatia-Serbia border. Australia's history with these colonial notions of what constitute a nation is surely ...

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Gold Coast Bulletin
Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy leader applying for mining permit
Gold Coast Bulletin
“Each time 'Australia' has hosted the games thousands of Aboriginal, Torres Straight islanders as well as other groups who have been oppressed by the crown have united to resist colonial activity and authority,” the Stolenwealth Games Protest Facebook ...

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The origins of Pama-Nyungan, Australia's largest family of Aboriginal languages
Phys.Org
These include the Yolŋu languages of Arnhem Land and Arrernte in Central Australia. Yet others (such as Kaurna around Adelaide) are undergoing a renaissance, gaining speakers within their communities. Finally, though not the focus of our study, there ...

Quitting for good
PRWire (press release)
Whilst Australia on the whole is leading the way in terms of low prevalence of tobacco usage, with only around 13 per cent of adults smoking, the country's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population remains disproportionately affected by smoking ...

World Socialist Web Site
Sweet Country: Bitter truths about Aboriginal dispossession in Australia
World Socialist Web Site
Samson and Delilah (2009), Warwick Thornton's first dramatic feature, announced the arrival of a talented filmmaker, committed to exposing some of the realities of the lives of Aboriginal Australians. The critically acclaimed work about two indigenous ...

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ABC Online
Adoptions for more Indigenous children should be an option, Minister says
ABC Online
In most states, a majority of those children are placed within the Indigenous community or with relatives, but in Tasmania and the Northern Territory more Aboriginal children are living in non-Indigenous homes. "What I said is that if there's a non ...
Abused Indigenous children need safe homes, not derailed debate, says peak bodyThe Guardian
'So many mistruths': Sunrise cops heat over Aboriginal adoption ...The Sydney Morning Herald
'Sunrise' Actually Called For A Return To the Stolen GenerationsJunkee
The Australian -Courier Mail
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ABC Online
Abused Indigenous children need safe homes, not derailed debate, says peak body
The Guardian
Revived arguments about the removal of Indigenous children from their families are just the latest instalment of a “narrow debate” bringing Australia closer to another Northern Territory-style intervention, an Indigenous peak body has said. The ...
Some Politicians And Commentators Are Basically Calling For Another Stolen GenerationJunkee
Adoptions for more Indigenous children should be an option, Minister saysABC Online
Adoption not a stolen generation: Mundine9news.com.au

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Katherine Times
New chapter of Indigenous history told through food
Katherine Times
The undocumented colonial history of Indigenous food on Cape York Peninsula in north Queensland is about to unfold under a new, three-year study led by Flinders University. Picture: supplied. The undocumented colonial history of Indigenous food on Cape ...

Newsweek
National Geographic admits 'racist' decades-long coverage
SBS
"Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless, like a 1916 story about Australia. Underneath photos of two Aboriginal people, the caption reads: "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human ...
'National Geographic' Reckons With Its Past: 'For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist'KACU
National Geographic Publicly Admits 'Appalling' Racism in Stories on Africa, Australia and ElsewhereNewsweek

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SBS
'Our coverage was racist': National Geographic admits bias against Indigenous people
SBS
"Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless, like a 1916 story about Australia. Underneath photos of two Aboriginal people, the caption reads: "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human ...
'National Geographic' Reckons With Its Past: 'For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist'KACU

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The Advertiser
We're failing women in prison. We need to act now
The Advertiser
“By far the majority of all women (in prison), and Aboriginal women more so than non-Aboriginal women, have been abused either sexually, physically, mentally or all of the above, and these are the pathways to jail,” said Professor Baldry. The trauma ...

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The West Australian
Meet Lynette Narkle, and join in her journey
The West Australian
In 2004, she forged the role of Indigenous programs officer at Screenwest to increase the engagement of emerging Indigenous filmmakers, in what Lynette described as “exciting times”. “That culminated in Aboriginal people directing and writing for ...