Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Sydney Morning Herald
Inner west council first Sydney council to debate ditching Australia Day celebrations
The Sydney Morning Herald
Inner west council mayor Darcy Byrne wants council to stick with its Australia Day event, but says it should be a day commemoration not celebration. Photo: Edwina Pickles. Mayoral minutes are the first items debated at council meetings. As part of an ...

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Brisbane Times
Inner west council first Sydney council to debate ditching Australia Day celebrations
Brisbane Times
Last year, the Turnbull government stripped Melbourne's Yarra and Darebin councils of their powers to hold citizenship ceremonies after they voted to cease holding ceremonies on Australia Day. Cr Byrne instead wants the council to "consult with the ...

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Daily Telegraph
Premier Gladys Berejiklian rejects plan to fly Aboriginal flag on harbour bridge year-round
Daily Telegraph
Mr Foley yesterday called on Ms Berejiklian to meet with Cheree Toka, the woman who has launched a petition which now has 75,000 signatures calling for the government to fly the Aboriginal flag every day. “Flying the flag of our First Peoples alongside ...
Berejiklian won't budge on permanent spot for Indigenous flag on Harbour BridgeSBS

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ABC Online
Suspected organised crime group leaders face drug trafficking charges in WA
ABC Online
Two men are facing drug trafficking charges after an eight-month investigation targeting the movement of drugs between Perth and the Midwest and Pilbara regions in Western Australia. The suspected organised crime group Naala Moort was allegedly ...

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Teaching English to Indigenous Australian students
ABC Online
For a number of Indigenous Australian students, Australian English is a new language that they learn in high school. Tanith Margetson is a teacher at Tennant Creek High School in the Northern Territory, where 85 per cent of the students are Indigenous ...

National Indigenous Times
Australia Day debate now on COAG agenda
National Indigenous Times
Aboriginal leaders are poised to ask all tiers of government to formally change the date of Australia Day before next year. Tasmanian lawyer and Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell said the issue of Australia Day being celebrated on January 26 — the ...

The Guardian
Closing the Gap: 10 years on, are we any closer?
SBS
The pressure is on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as he delivers the 10th Closing the Gap report to Parliament next week. It's an annual update on how the federal government is progressing in reducing the significant disadvantage faced by Indigenous ...
Coalition urged to prioritise Indigenous-run services in Closing the Gap programThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Australian prisoners with disabilities subjected to harrowing abuse, report finds
The Guardian
A detailed Human Rights Watch investigation of 14 prisons in Western Australia and Queensland has delivered a scathing assessment of Australia's treatment of prisoners with disabilities, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The report ...
Jails failing prisoners with disabilitiesIllawarra Mercury
Calls to scrap scheme that paid sex offenders to care for prisoners with disabilitiesSBS
Australia: Prisoners with Disabilities Neglected, AbusedHuman Rights Watch
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The Guardian
Coalition urged to prioritise Indigenous-run services in Closing the Gap program
The Guardian
Victoria will push the federal government to commit to preferencing Indigenous community-controlled service providers under the redesigned Closing the Gap program when ministers meet ahead of the Council of Australian Governments meeting on Friday ...
Closing the Gap: 10 years on, are we any closer?SBS

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SBS
Why are Aboriginal women in Australia hit with racism and sexual threats for sharing their views?
SBS
The incident was the latest in a string of graphic sexual violence and death threats Ms Thorpe received after calling for Australian flags to be flown at half-mast on January 26. “I wasn't shocked. I was more disturbed a little, I think, by the level ...

InDaily
Labor 'not doing enough' for Aboriginal housing
InDaily
“Labor's response is very descriptive, but we need action because the old ways are clearly not working.” The Labor reply, signed by the party's “Stakeholder Response Team”, revealed the number of Aboriginal employees in the state's public sector ...

New York Times
In Australia, Arsonists May Have Wings
New York Times
DARWIN, Australia — When the dry season spreads over the tropical savannas of Australia's Northern Territories, rangers start watching for the so-called firehawks: flocks of black kites, whistling kites and brown falcons that hunt near bushfires ...

The West Australian
On-country work strengthens sense of belonging
The West Australian
One of Australia's more unusual native birds incubates eggs in a huge mound of earth and decaying leaf litter which decomposes, generating heat to keep the eggs warm. A group of Nanda women and children recently helped collect scientific data on ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Calls to Overhaul NDIS to Better Accommodate Indigenous Australians
Pro Bono Australia
A First Peoples advocacy group has called for an overhaul of the National Disability Insurance Scheme to better accommodate Indigenous people, after a study found ill-health and disability were driving psychological distress in older Indigenous ...
CANBERRA OBSERVED The left's appetite for change can't be satisfiedNews Weekly

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ABC Online
Figure skater Harley Windsor becomes Australia's first Indigenous Winter Olympic athlete
ABC Online
From Rooty Hill in Western Sydney to Pyeongchang, South Korea, Harley Windsor has completed a history-making journey to the Winter Olympics. The 21-year-old figure skater will become Australia's first Indigenous athlete to compete at the Winter Games ...

ABC Local
Victoria says 'no' to changing Anzac Day to include Aboriginal people killed in 'frontier wars'
ABC Local
The Victorian Government says there will be no changes to expand Anzac Day commemorations to include Aboriginal people who were killed by white settlers, despite conducting a survey on the issue. The Premier's department quizzed more than 500 people ...

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The Guardian
Tasmanian election campaign ad revives lost Indigenous language
The Guardian
If you have not heard spoken palawa kani, you are not alone. Few have. Among Tasmanians, at least, that is about to change. In an Australian first, a TV advertising campaign by activists has been produced in a revived Aboriginal tongue. Tasmanians will ...

Herald Sun
State government asks if Anzac Day should recognise Aborigines attacked by early settlers
Herald Sun
The survey detailed in the government report the Social Value of Commemorative Events says “(T) he period between 1790 and 1930 where Aboriginal Australians defended their lands, kinships and customs from European invasion/settlement should be ...

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cricket.com.au
Short joins group of Indigenous pioneers
cricket.com.au
For decades, pioneering fast bowler Thomas was the only Aboriginal, male or female, to have played for Australia, having played her one and only Test in 1958. But after Gillespie burst onto the scene in the men's game in the 1990s and forged an ...

Daily Telegraph
Foley under fire over flag furore
Daily Telegraph
STATE Treasurer Dominic Perrottet says all Australians should be united under one flag as he lashed Labor's promise to give the Aboriginal colours equal status on the Sydney Harbour Bridge as “virtue signalling”. Labor leader Luke Foley yesterday ...
Labor pledges to fly Aboriginal flag permanently on Sydney Harbour BridgeThe Australian
Push to fly Aboriginal flag on Sydney Harbour BridgeNEWS.com.au
Foley to give Aboriginal flag equal status if elected Premier9news.com.au
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