Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Telegraph.co.uk
Prince Philip was not being racist with 'spears' remark, says indigenous Australian performer
Telegraph.co.uk
An indigenous performer who met Prince Philip during a royal visit to Australia in 2002 has defended him against accusations of racism, saying he was taken out of context. The Duke of Edinburgh raised eyebrows during the trip to Cairns 16 years ago ...

Business Insider Australia
One of the new Qantas Dreamliners is covering in a painting by one of Australia's most famous Indigenous artists
Business Insider Australia
Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of Australia's acclaimed painters. One of her works Earth's Creation 1, painted in 1994, set a new record for a work by an Australian female painter went it sold at auction last year for $2.1 million. Born ...

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The Australian
Campfire masterpiece
The Australian
Early in the morning of August 28, 1901, almost at the mid-point of their expedition across the heartland of Australia, celebrated scientist Walter Baldwin Spencer and his friend and colleague Francis Gillen set off on a most unusual side trip, picking ...

ABC Online
Sixth infant dies from syphilis outbreak in northern Queensland
ABC Online
The latest death occurred in northern Queensland in January. The sexually transmitted infection can be passed from a mother to her baby during pregnancy. Congenital syphilis can cause miscarriages and stillbirths, or problems with a baby's brain, blood ...

Talking Aged Care
Hearing warning as increased risks of dementia and depression highlighted
Talking Aged Care
On World Hearing Day, held on 3 March, which marks the end of Hearing Awareness Week, Australians are asked to 'hear the future and prepare for it', by committing to ear health for life. Responsible for Australia's hearing services program, Minister ...

ArtsHub
SA Libs push for national Aboriginal Arts Centre
ArtsHub
The proposed gallery would build on assets already established in Adelaide, including Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute and the iconic biennial Festival of Indigenous Art, Tarnanthi, led by the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA ...

The West Australian
New market to unlock potential
The West Australian
Bunbury tourism operator Troy Bennell of Ngalang Wongi Aboriginal Cultural Tours said “big things are happening” in terms of local Aboriginal tourism offerings. “This is creating opportunity and it is all a part of telling Bunbury's story,” he said ...

Australian Aviation
Indigenous-painted Qantas 787 'Yam Dreaming' arrives in Alice Springs
Australian Aviation
Qantas Boeing 787-9 VH-ZND "Yam Dreaming" is welcomed to Australia Qantas Boeing 787-9 VH-ZND “Yam Dreaming” is welcomed to Australia at Alice Springs Airport. (Qantas/James Morgan). Clear skies and Australia's rugged outback have greeted the arrival ...
First pics – Qantas VH-ZND Emily Kame Kngwarreye lands at Alice Springs.Crikey (blog)

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ABC Online
Why are Indigenous boys' academies better funded than girls' programs?
ABC Online
Using AFL and rugby league to encourage Aboriginal boys to attend school, its members boast an 80 per cent school attendance rate. But with the program proving such a success, it begs the question — what about Indigenous girls? WA Treasurer Ben Wyatt ...

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Crikey (blog)
First pics – Qantas VH-ZND Emily Kame Kngwarreye lands at Alice Springs.
Crikey (blog)
Her paintings influenced a change in the direction of Australian Aboriginal art from the use of traditional iconography to an open abstract landscape. Emily learnt ancestral stories, song cycles, traditional body paint markings for women's dancing ...

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The Stringer
There has never been a close the prison gap campaign
The Stringer
Today there are laws against racial discrimination in Australia but systemic racism continues. Aboriginal children are removed from their families at much higher rates than non-Aboriginal children. If this is a reflection of poverty, psychosocial ...

Manning River Times
Kidney Health Week Australia takes place from March 5-11
Manning River Times
Tragically, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are twice as likely to have indicators of chronic kidney disease and four times more likely to die from it than the general population. “Almost 20 percent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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Will remote indigenous settlements in future be condemned as apartheid?
The Australian
Probably some settlements are quite viable but many are clearly dysfunctional and we have compromised the educational and social development of several generations of indigenous Australians by allowing them to exist in the name of culture. They will ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Australian National University researchers discover lost literary treasure trove
The Sydney Morning Herald
Many of the works are uniquely Australian, feature mostly male authors and range in subject from bushrangers, cricket and shipwrecks to the early days of Botany Bay. "The Australian stories that stand out for me are the ones that represent Aboriginal ...

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NT News
Allegations of students being 'abandoned' at Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
NT News
Batchelor Institute is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education provider offering entry level VET certificates through to PhDs. It has been operating in the Territory, in several forms, since the late 1960s — when it was a small annex of ...

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Katherine Times
Taste test for NT bush foods industry
Katherine Times
“Our involvement in events such as this will help grow the bush foods industry, bringing economic and social benefits to regions such as Central Australia and the Barkly. It also complements the appointment of a Bush Foods Development Officer in my ...

Radioinfo
The colourful, fabulous, and sometimes turbulent history of the Sydney Mardi Gras
Cosmopolitan
In 1980, following a successful — but very cold — Mardi Gras, it was agreed that the event would be moved from winter to summer. This helped to distance the event from being purely a political demonstration, and established it as a celebration of the ...
Parade detailsThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Katherine Times
'Syllable soup': MP urges rethink of Aboriginal name plan
Katherine Times
“I'm all for recognising Australia's Aboriginal heritage, so I've got no problem with the names themselves. “The point was in the instance of Kimberley Johnston's tragic death that first responders struggled to get to the location because her brother ...

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The Conversation AU
The VR film Carriberrie is a vital face-to-face experience of threatened Indigenous culture
The Conversation AU
Virtual reality technology is making it far easier to connect with remote Indigenous Australians. Carriberrie, a mesmerising 360-degree, live-action documentary film showing at the Australian Museum in March, illustrates how well immersive technology ...

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Andrew Hastie urges local governments to reconsider Aboriginal names if they're a 'syllable soup' after Dwellingup death
Bendigo Advertiser
“I'm all for recognising Australia's Aboriginal heritage, so I've got no problem with the names themselves. “The point was in the instance of Kimberley Johnston's tragic death that first responders struggled to get to the location because her brother ...

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