Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Sydney Morning Herald
Australian students go backwards in maths, reading and science: report
The Sydney Morning Herald
Only 50 per cent of Aboriginal students met the baseline in maths, down from 60 per cent in 2009. In science, 57 per cent of Aboriginal students reached the baseline in 2015, down from 65 per cent in 2009, and 59 per cent of students reached the ...

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The Age
Australian students go backwards in maths, reading and science: report
The Age
Only 50 per cent of Aboriginal students met the baseline in maths, down from 60 per cent in 2009. In science, 57 per cent of Aboriginal students reached the baseline in 2015, down from 65 per cent in 2009, and 59 per cent of students reached the ...

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The Guardian
Report revealing Australia's educational decline a 'real worry', says Birmingham
The Guardian
The rate of parents reading to their two-year-olds at least once a week has stayed static, although there was an encouraging lift among Indigenous families. The education minister, Simon Birmingham, said the concerning figures underscore what the ...
Mental illness among Australian children rises, immunisation rates fallThe Australian

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ABC Online
Fifty skeletons still boxed up after being exhumed from eroding cemetery in Fitzroy Crossing
ABC Online
A photo of a digger searching for human remains at Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia's far Photo: A digger searches for human remains outside the Pioneer Cemetery. (Supplied: Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre). It is thought as many as 20 ...

ABC Online
Dry creek bed reveals rare Aboriginal artefacts
ABC Online
Dry creek bed reveals rare Aboriginal artefacts in north-east South Australia. ABC North and West. By Khama Reid. Posted February 24, 2018 10:29:09. A man with dark facial hair, a cap, and an AC/DC shirt Photo: Ranger Jason Litherland with one of the ...

TasWeekend: Time to deliver a perfect pitch, bro
The Mercury
Maori is taught in all New Zealand schools, city streets have dual names and Maori phrases such as the greeting “kia ora” have become part of New Zealand English. In Australia, a common argument against teaching Aboriginal language in schools is the ...

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Shepparton News
Aboriginal vision to the fore
Shepparton News
Both Yorta Yorta elders made their marks in the form of activism, government and midwifery. Aunty Tucker was one of Australia's first female Aboriginal rights activists and spent her childhood at the Cummeragunja and Monnacullah missions, but was taken ...

Turnbull and Shorten quibble over the 'vibe' on indigenous identity
The Australian
During last week's Closing the Gap address, Mr Turnbull pleaded with Labor to pass the long-delayed enabling legislation “to apply greater rigour to assessing what works and why” in indigenous affairs spending. The government says the standoff could go ...

The West Australian
Super Pit operator hits diversity milestone
The West Australian
“We've increased our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce to around 4 per cent, which is about double from what we were a couple of years ago,” he said. “We've had more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders take apprenticeships onsite last ...

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Brisbane Times
Sir Doug Nicholls round to start in Alice Springs
AFL.com.au
The round 10 match, to be played at TIO Traeger Park on Sunday, May 27, will mark the start of a week-long celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and their contributions to Australian Football. Speaking at Desert Park in Alice ...
Melbourne hopes for greater dee-light from Sir Doug Nicholls roundThe Age

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The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous Business Australia performance bond a 'game changer' for builders
The Australian Financial Review
"The near unanimous feedback we have heard from indigenous construction firms is that they can't grow their businesses and put on more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tradies and apprentices because the up-front costs of performance bonds lock ...

The Weekly Times
First XI Indigenous team a hit, 150 years on
The Weekly Times
As Mr Friend describes it, such well-recorded accounts of positive, warm early interactions between Aboriginal people and Europeans in Australia are, sadly, not as common as “horrible accounts of violence”. “It is an important part of Australian ...

ABC Online
Alleged rape of toddler among more than 700 NT child sexual offence cases in five years, police say
ABC Online
Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation chair Ross Jakamarra Williams, who is also a traditional owner of Tennant Creek, said local police and government agencies had failed the community for years. "The Department (of Territory Families) employees do ...
Nigel Scullion calls for transparency as alleged rape of Tennant Creek toddler investigatedThe Guardian
Crime in the Outback: 'This town has a problem with sexual assault on children'NEWS.com.au
Forgotten Outback town: The tiny Australian community gripped by crimeNew Zealand Herald
The Epoch Times
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The Advertiser
Four historic Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka boomerangs discovered at Innamincka Regional Reserve
The Advertiser
While culturally priceless, Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources spokesman Tony Magor said the objects were of no commercial value. National Park ranger Katheryn Litherland in the creek bed in the background is where the artefacts ...

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ABC Online
C-STEP program aims to train more South Australian Indigenous prison officers
ABC Online
From the Raukkan/Ngarrindjeri people of the south-eastern part of the state, the 23-year-old is keen to make a positive contribution within her Indigenous community and hopes a pioneering program will help. The Correctional Services Training and ...

Central Western Daily
THE POWER OF NUN: Decade on from apology, it's time to start healing
Central Western Daily
TIME TO TRY HARDER: Australia needs to take seriously the challenges of the national apology and translate the words into actions. Photo: FILE PHOTO. The national apology to the Indigenous people of Australia by the then prime minister Kevin Rudd ...

The Advertiser
Four ancient Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka boomarangs discovered at Innamincka Regional Reserve
The Advertiser
Picture: Erik Dahl The boomerangs are believed to have been used by ancestors of the Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka people. Picture: Erik Dahl. “Aboriginal artefacts are protected in South Australia and cannot be removed without proper permission,” he said ...

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The Australian
Shareena Clanton Q&A appearance: The Mocker's take
The Australian
“I'm really tired of non-indigenous peoples making commentaries about indigenous Australia — yourself included,” she said, pointing at Frydenberg's face. You might think Jones should have remonstrated with Clanton and insisted on Frydenberg being ...

The Guardian
Nigel Scullion calls for transparency as alleged rape of Tennant Creek toddler investigated
The Guardian
The reality is the vast majority of Indigenous families love and care for their children, raising them in healthy and happy homes, connected to their land and their culture.” The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner, June ...
Two-Year-Old Girl Placed in Induced Coma After Alleged Sexual AssaultThe Epoch Times

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New Matilda
BEHIND BARS PART 4: Australia's Shocking Cruelty To Aboriginal People With Disabilities: Overcrowding, No Medical ...
New Matilda
The abuse of Aboriginal prisoners with disabilities in Australian jails is confronting, and ongoing. In Part 4 of this special 5-part series for New Matilda, Michael Brull looks at the conditions prisoners are forced to live in, exposed in a report ...