Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Advocate
'Change the date': Aboriginal leaders on Australia Day debate
The Advocate
CHANGE THE DATE: Protesters gathered in Hobart in 2017 to campaign for the date of Australia Day to be changed. Picture: Supplied. Celebrating Australia Day on January 26 is like “rubbing salt in the wounds” of the Aboriginal community, Tasmanian ...

Warwick Thornton: 'I make films for us, as Australians'
ABC Online
Sweet Country is director and cinematographer Warwick Thornton's second feature film after 2009's award-winning Samson & Delilah. Already garnering rave reviews at festivals worldwide, the 1920s period western is inspired by a true story of an ...

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Eternity News
Aboriginal fellowship wants to revive theological college
Eternity News
... also in Sydney, about creating a support unit to help raise the academic level of Aboriginal students from a typical Year 10 level to degree level. “That's what's needed, but it's hard for colleges to get their head around that, we're finding, so ...

SBS
These giant bunya nuts are a key Indigenous food as well as snacks for dinosaurs
SBS
Each January at the Australian Botanic Garden in Sydney's Mount Annan, the bunya pine trees begin to drop their cones. If you don't think this is a big deal, you should know that they used to be dinosaur food millions of years ago - bunya pines have ...

Rolling Stone Australia
Inside Gurrumul's Bold, Final Album
Rolling Stone Australia
After 20 years of trying to translate the coded complexity of Aboriginal Australia for the ears of the world, Hohnen's master stoke for Djarrimirri was a meeting of traditional Yolngu songs and minimalist classical arrangement in the style of Philip ...

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Rolling Stone Australia
Inside Gurrumul's Bold, Final Album
Rolling Stone Australia
After 20 years of trying to translate the coded complexity of Aboriginal Australia for the ears of the world, Hohnen's master stoke for Djarrimirri was a meeting of traditional Yolngu songs and minimalist classical arrangement in the style of Philip ...

The Guardian
'Mob has always been there for me': Indigenous drag performers to lead Midsumma pride march
The Guardian
On 26 January, while the country celebrates, mourns or ignores Australia Day, Zac Collins-Widders will march through Melbourne in defence of his Aboriginality. Two days later, he will lead a second march at Midsumma festival in celebration of his ...

Herald Sun
A reason to change the date of Australia Day
Herald Sun
Isabel Lander and Zena Ross celebrate Australia Day Celebrations at Wagstaffe in NSW last year. (Pic: Mark Scott). Do they genuinely feel that the day Arthur Philip landed with his ships of convicts at Sydney Cove is the only proper option? I wonder ...

The West Australian
Pilbara community shows way with pilot projects
The West Australian
Mingullatharndo Aboriginal community was last month awarded $545,700 from the Federal Building Better Regions fund towards constructing its own solar power and battery storage facility and water filtration unit, which will provide 80 per cent of the ...

ABC Online
Remote Aboriginal residents plead for more police as governments tussle over funding
ABC Online
Residents in remote Northern Territory Aboriginal communities say the lack of a regular police presence is putting lives at risk as they call for more permanent officers. There are three permanent officers stationed in Papunya, about 240 kilometres ...

ABC Online
Australia Day dividing Australians and excluding Indigenous people, says Professor Chris Sarra
ABC Online
"Regrettably I don't think Australia Day, and what it represents, is a day that most people in the Aboriginal community want to celebrate," says Professor Chris Sarra, one of Malcolm Turnbull's key Indigenous advisors. "I say that mindful that you get ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Symbolism uncomfortable for many Australians
The Sydney Morning Herald
On January 21, 1788, when Arthur Phillip's advance party rowed in longboats through the Heads at the entrance to Sydney Harbour, he and his men were the first Europeans in all history to enter the waterway that Phillip described as the "finest harbour ...

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They were first, and they survived — we should listen
The Australian
Recognition of difference is a harder concept for some Australians to accept, as the often virulent opposition to land rights and later native title shows. Perhaps the government response to Uluru reflects this seemingly visceral response to assertions ...

The Australian
Women take indigenous treaty process to Supreme Court
The Australian
A notice posted online by the Narungga National Aboriginal Corporation Regional Authority states: “We are holding a further community meeting on January 20, 2018 for a final decision. We should have a final agreement ready for you to vote on.” But the ...
Aboriginal women seek legal stop to SA "treaty" processInDaily

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The Australian
'Tens of thousands' to join Australia Day activist WAR
The Australian
Greens leader Richard Di Natale will join the rally as it leaves Parliament House, as will Greens MP Lidia Thorpe, who has called for Australian and Aboriginal flags on government buildings to fly at half-mast that day. Ms Waulu said the group had ...

The Australian
Fraser minister critical of Turnbull's rejection of indigenous voice
The Australian
“It is bewildering to many involved in the first indigenous constitutional deliberative process since Australia's nationhood that a deeply complex and sophisticated pathway forward was rejected outright — not so much on very thinly veiled political ...

Daily Telegraph
Editorial: Talent trumps skin colour
Daily Telegraph
The richly deserved fame of any number of Aboriginal athletes, including Mundine himself, might stand as a rebuke to Mundine's claims. His own father, Tony Mundine, was one of the best-known and most feared fighters of the 1970s and early 1980s. Cathy ...

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SBS
'Disgraceful' Australia Day debate needs to stop: Warren Mundine
SBS
"It is a date I think that has overwhelming community support," the assistant minister told ABC radio on Tuesday. "This is effectively a Greens' publicity stunt on repeat." Greens leader Richard Di Natale says it's time Australia stops papering over an ...
Australia Day trolls target indigenous activist over date rowThe Australian
Aboriginal magistrate Sue Gordon opposes Australia Day date changeThe West Australian
Linda Burney warns Greens push to change Australia Day 'more divisive than helpful'The Guardian
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Hit 107
Central Coast Indigenous Rep Echoes Calls for Australia Day Date Change
Hit 107
The head of Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council has voiced his disappointment that some of our most senior politicians are opposed to changing the date of Australia Day. It comes as the Greens lead the charge to move the day of national ...

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The Australian
Indigenous leader labels debate over Australia Day 'disgraceful'
The Australian
Australia Day is a day to come together.” DEBATE WORTHY. Labor frontbencher Brendan O'Connor says debate over changing the date of Australia Day is “worthy”. Mr O'Connor noted that Labor policy was for Australia Day to remain on January 26, but said he ...
Aboriginal magistrate Sue Gordon opposes Australia Day date changeThe West Australian
'Disgraceful' Australia Day debate needs to stop: Warren MundineSBS
Linda Burney warns Greens push to change Australia Day 'more divisive than helpful'The Guardian
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