Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Canberra woman Mikaela Jade wins national award for rock art app
The Sydney Morning Herald
("Veuve" is French for widow.) Mikaela, who has been working on Indigital Storytelling for six years, mostly recently collaborating with Microsoft to use the content on its mixed reality device, HoloLens, felt the award was further validation of her ...

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UNSW Newsroom
UNSW student wins prestigious Indigenous law scholarship
UNSW Newsroom
On Tuesday, the UNSW Sydney student was awarded the Law Council of Australia's 2018 John Koowarta Reconciliation Law Scholarship. The prestigious award is the only national scholarship dedicated to helping Indigenous law students achieve their ambition ...

9news.com.au
Redress exclusion idea racist inquiry told
9news.com.au
But Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency representative Megan Van Den Berg told a Senate committee sitting in Melbourne that meant survivors who made applications for redress would be judged on whether they were deserving or undeserving. "These ...
Redress exclusion is racist: inquirySBS

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The North West Star
Kalkadoon woman to speak at business conference
The North West Star
A Cloncurry businesswoman is one of the keynote speakers at the first national Indigenous Women in Business conference this May. The Strong Women, Strong Business conference will draw together more than 120 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women ...

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The Australian
The truth and children just swept under the carpet
The Australian
I have heard the ongoing complaints made (mostly by privileged urban Aboriginal Australians) about the 2007 intervention. Those who complained loudest were far removed from the actual circumstances, which were laid bare in the Little Children are ...

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Aboriginal Art Directory News
Competing National Aboriginal Art Galleries
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Opposition Leader Steven Marshall said the gallery would be of international significance and would attract visitors to Adelaide. The proposed gallery would build on assets already established in Adelaide, including Tandanya National Aboriginal ...

The Australian
Aboriginal children's sexual health a national tragedy
The Australian
Oh, you hadn't heard? Yes, there's an epidemic in Queensland, and in some cases, infants born to mothers with syphilis are dying. Labor senator Patrick Dodson has been quoted as saying the national response was inadequate. “Something's not working here ...

Red Flag
Australian apartheid, even in death
Red Flag
At Fitzroy Crossing in northern Western Australia, for example, the persistence of Australian racism even in death meant that until the 1990s there were in effect two cemeteries: the Fitzroy Crossing Pioneer (i.e. white) Cemetery, and largely unmarked ...

ABC Online
Melbourne Dreaming app makes understanding city's rich Aboriginal history easier
ABC Online
Mr Ritchie said Aboriginal stories could often be overlooked as something that happened in the past or in faraway parts of Australia. "When most people think about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia, they think of it either as something ...

Newcastle Herald
A meteor flashes across the sky of Newcastle
Newcastle Herald
Aboriginal people saw an emu shape in the stars. Image: Curnow/Glasper. Who were the first astronomers? “As Australia has the oldest continuous culture on Earth, the first Australians were very likely to have also been the first astronomers ...

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The Conversation AU
Three charts on: the changing status of Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
A new dataset has shed fresh light on the changing socioeconomic status of Indigenous Australians. It shows that what appears to be slow progress or steady outcomes for the whole population may be masking worsening results. This stems from how the ...

The West Australian
Vic Aboriginal lung cancer deaths high
The West Australian
The Victorian Cancer Registry data prompted a call from Cancer Council Victoria to urge the state's indigenous population who smoke to get support and quit, to reduce cancer risk. "Lung cancer accounts for more than one-in-four cancer deaths in ...

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Vic Aboriginal lung cancer deaths high
The Australian
The Victorian Cancer Registry data prompted a call from Cancer Council Victoria to urge the state's indigenous population who smoke to get support and quit, to reduce cancer risk. "Lung cancer accounts for more than one-in-four cancer deaths in ...

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Radio Australia
Does Broome host Australia's most remote Mardi Gras?
Radio Australia
Mr Waina is from Kalumburu — one of the most isolated Aboriginal communities in Australia. It has a population of about 500, no mobile reception, and for months of the year the only way in and out is by plane. "There is no mobile reception; there was ...

The Guardian
Morning mail: lobbying forced backdown over land clearing
The Guardian
“The commonwealth's National Heritage List has finally recognised a symbolic part of central Melbourne where the bones of many Indigenous elders lay buried,” writes Paul Daley. “For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, the incorporation ...

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Vision Christian Media
'Going the Distance' – Mark Short
Vision Christian Media
The Bush Church Aid Society of Australia has a heart for people living in remote and regional Australia. We are committed to going the distance to reach Australia for Christ. What a privilege it is to share in God's mission to the world He loves! At ...

The Guardian (blog)
Pressure builds for a national keeping place for Indigenous remains
The Guardian (blog)
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians the incorporation into the list of the Melbourne Domain Parkland and Memorial Precinct (including the Kings Domain Resting Place where the elders are buried) represents long overdue official ...
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Indigenous child removal puts burden of care on relatives
The Australian
Children found to be living in unsafe homes in Western Australia are more likely than ever to be placed in the care of a close relative, an economical shift that satisfies the policy aim of keeping indigenous children connected to family but one that ...

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The Australian
Tourism concerns if sacred mountain sites declared off limits
The Australian
South Australian Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher did not respond to requests for comment. Opposition environment spokesman David Speirs said the Liberal Party “supports the right for people to access the (St Mary Peak) summit”. Access to the ...

Crikey (blog)
Essential documents from Aboriginal Australia: 7 – the 2008 Yuendumu Petition
Crikey (blog)
Supporti-ki karlipa wangkami, tala manu nyiya kanti-kanti yungungurlu ngalpa yinyi nyampurla ngurungka. Nyampurla Yurntumu-rla panu karlipa madarni nyiya-ningki-jarra ngula karliparla yulkami. Madarni karlipa jana Mt Theo program, kurdu kurdu kurlangu ...

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