Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Tasmania Examiner
Australia to commemorate tenth anniversary of national apology
Tasmania Examiner
In the lead up to last month's Australia Day celebrations, the Social Research Centre conducted a survey where people were asked to nominate 10 historic events that have had the greatest impact on the country. After last year's same-sex marriage ...
Awkward question Australians must askNorthern Star
Did this seminal moment in Australia's history change anything?NEWS.com.au
New call for Indigenous reparation scheme to resolve 'national tragedy'SBS

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The Australian
Did this seminal moment in Australia's history change anything?
NEWS.com.au
... Therese Rein and Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin. It was a warm reception shorn of formal folderol, which underlined the importance the Rudd Government attached to the statement delivered later. And it was a historic occasion that nearly ...
Government might legislate indigenous 'voice'The Australian
Awkward question Australians must askToowoomba Chronicle

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SBS
New call for Indigenous reparation scheme to resolve 'national tragedy'
SBS
The apology and reparation scheme, including financial compensation, were key recommendations in the 2007 'Bringing Them Home' report which found between one in 10 and one in three indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families over a ...
New call for indigenous reparation schemeArarat Advertiser

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SBS
New call for indigenous reparation scheme
SBS
Annual progress reports on the strategy's seven targets to close the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in terms of health, education and employment have shown just one is on track to be met. The lack of progress sparked Mr Turnbull ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Spirits unsettled: the apology to the stolen generations 10 years on
The Sydney Morning Herald
What exists is our people's spiritual world. Our existence as Aboriginal people is not a memory bank, it is a spirit. We carry the spirits of our ancestors. Our connection is before time began and so is the trauma of what's been happening since 1788 ...

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SBS
Australia's Windsor ready to fly Aboriginal flag
SBS
While the Aboriginal flag of red, yellow and black is recognised officially in Australia, Windsor could risk the ire of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) which frowns on athletes making acts of "propaganda" at the Games. Raised with eight half ...
Olympics: Australia's Windsor ready to fly Aboriginal flagReuters
Windsor calls on skaters to get educatedYahoo7 Sport

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New Jersey Herald
Harley Windsor Is Making History as Australia's First Indigenous Winter Olympian. Here's What to Know About Him
TIME
Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya and Harley Windsor of Australia perform their routine in the Gala exhibition during the ISU Junior & Senior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final at Nippon Gaishi Hall on December 10, 2017 in Nagoya, Japan. Atsushi Tomura - ISU ...
Australia's indigenous Winter Olympian inspired by FreemanNew Jersey Herald

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Lunch with Megan Davis: Indigenous reconciliation in Australia is about 'making Aboriginal people white Australians'
The Sydney Morning Herald
Megan Davis, expert member of the UN Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People (EMRIP) and the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a UN body, knows what is going to happen in Canberra on Monday, when Malcolm Turnbull ...
Closing the gap on Indigenous health: this is our national shame, but it can be fixedABC Online

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Lunch with Megan Davis: Indigenous reconciliation in Australia is about 'making Aboriginal people white Australians'
The Sydney Morning Herald
Megan Davis, expert member of the UN Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People (EMRIP) and the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a UN body, knows what is going to happen in Canberra on Monday, when Malcolm Turnbull ...
Podcast: Recording Australia's threatened indigenous languagesInDaily
Rudd to fight watered down Closing the GapNewcastle Herald
Australia's Aboriginal life expectancy gap widensBorneo Bulletin Online
My Sunshine Coast (press release)
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Closing the gap, or closing the book on Aboriginal poverty?
The Sydney Morning Herald
Gough Whitlam, in 1972, promised that all Aboriginal Australians would be decently housed within 10 years. A ridiculous, irresponsible, perhaps impossible promise? Around that time, it was generally estimated that building 40,000 dwellings would do the ...

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ABC Online
Equine therapy can help Aboriginal university students, says researcher
ABC Online
A Sunshine Coast researcher wants to replicate a successful equine therapy program being used in America to improve the retention rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students in Australia. Dr Bindi Bennett, from the University of ...

My Sunshine Coast (press release)
Rudd to fight watered down Closing the Gap
Western Advocate
Former PM Kevin Rudd says he will fight any attempts to water down the Closing the Gap strategy. Former prime minister Kevin Rudd says he'll fight any attempt to water down the Closing the Gap strategy for indigenous Australians. Days before the 10th ...
Failure to close the gap is proof of need for Indigenous voiceMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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ABC Local
Change the date: Darwin City Council flags axing Australia Day
ABC Local
Last month, the Indigenous Affairs Minister and Senator for the Northern Territory Nigel Scullion said not a single Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person had approached him about changing the date of Australia Day. Senator Scullion said many ...
Could This Be The First Sydney Council To Ditch Australia Day?Junkee

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Junkee
Could This Be The First Sydney Council To Ditch Australia Day?
Junkee
Sydney's Inner West Council could be the first local government in Australia's largest city to ditch Australia Day festivities if a Greens motion calling for the change is successful next week. Greens councillor Tom Kiat is moving a motion at the next ...
Change the date: Darwin City Council flags axing Australia DayABC Local

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InDaily
Podcast: Recording Australia's threatened indigenous languages
InDaily
“In Australia, it is Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities that are struggling most with maintaining their languages. “These are communities that didn't give up their language because they wanted to, but because they've been at ...

SBS
Rudd to fight watered down Closing the Gap - SBS
SBS
Kevin Rudd, speaking ahead of the 10th anniversary of his apology to indigenous Australians, says more needs to be done to close the gap for Aboriginal people.

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Daily Mail
'Filthy black humans who inhabit Australia': Urban Dictionary - the Wikipedia of slang words - forced to delete vile ...
Daily Mail
Urban Dictionary has been forced to delete racist definitions of what an Aboriginal person is. The website, which features user-submitted definitions for slang words, was home to a string of vile, and abusive descriptions of what an Aboriginal person ...

The Guardian
Closing the Gap: Turnbull rejects claims government has abandoned strategy
The Guardian
The campaign, which was the push behind the formation of the Closing the Gap strategy 10 years ago, held its annual breakfast in Canberra on Thursday. It said the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians had widened in ...
Closing the gap on Indigenous health: this is our national shame, but it can be fixedABC Online
Labor slams 'hopeless' government for 'abandoning' Closing the GapSBS
Turnbull's early exit fuels fury over failure to close indigenous gapThe Australian
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SBS
Figure skating - Aboriginal Windsor breaks ice in Pyeongchang
SBS
... homeland and during Friday's opening ceremony, he will march in the front row of Australia's delegation with chef de mission Ian Chesterman and four-times Olympian snowboarder Holly Crawford. "It's absolutely an honour to be able to do that, a ...
Australia's indigenous Winter Olympian inspired by FreemanUSA TODAY

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Daily Mail
Australia's pyramids? Mysterious sand mounds once thought to be bird nests found to be Aboriginal GRAVES - built ...
Daily Mail
Sand mounds once thought to be abandoned bird nests are actually the graves of indigenous Australians that could date back to before Egypt's pyramids were built. A research project in western Cape York at the northern tip of Queensland has confirmed ...