Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Local
Dumping Australia Day: Five years on, Flinders Island wants others to do the same
ABC Local
Remember when Fremantle council in Western Australia axed its Australia Day festivities and sparked a nation-wide debate? And remember when Flinders Island council canned its January 26 celebrations back in 2013? If the answer to that second question ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Hurricane D'Arcy Short blasts his way into national T20 selection mix
The Sydney Morning Herald
His heritage strikes a chord at Cricket Australia, where CA's indigenous engagement manager Paul Stewart has been working for four years to correct the historical abscess of the game's disconnect from Aboriginal people. Stewart's work is bearing fruit ...

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ABC Online
Vaccination campaign stepped up after fresh meningococcal W outbreak in Western Australia
ABC Online
Doctors are investigating the cause of a fresh outbreak of the life threatening W-strain of meningococcal disease among Aboriginal children, prompting a fresh vaccination campaign in outback Western Australia. The WA Country Health Service [WACHS] has ...

Gympie Times
Aboriginal Australia and the January 26 debate
Gympie Times
Simply because Australia Day, or Invasion Day if you will, has become a useful time of national reflection, which would not occur at any other time of year. As well as promoting our liberal heritage, cultural diversity and origins, the national day ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Living off Aboriginal disadvantage: NT public servants' immoral rip-off
The Sydney Morning Herald
A well-researched Aboriginal complaint about how they, and Australian taxpayers, are ripped off by the Northern Territory government deserves particular attention in the months ahead, if only because changes to the way the GST dollar is carved up among ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
ACT among the worst for removing Aboriginal children from families
The Sydney Morning Herald
Twenty years ago, white Australia was shocked, even if only momentarily, to learn from the Bringing them home report on the stolen generations that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children represented, from a population base of just 3 per cent ...

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Living off Aboriginal disadvantage: NT public servants' immoral rip-off
WAtoday
A well-researched Aboriginal complaint about how they, and Australian taxpayers, are ripped off by the Northern Territory government deserves particular attention in the months ahead, if only because changes to the way the GST dollar is carved up among ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Review: Songlines, Tracking the Seven Sisters at the National Museum of Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
Martu painter Nyanjilpayi Chapman. Photo: Sita McAlpine_National Museum of Australia. In traditional Aboriginal life there was no equivalent to the western sense of time. The Creation stories of the Tjukurrpa (previously referred to as the Dreaming ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Director Warwick Thornton's film Sweet Country is a bold new take on the Western
The Sydney Morning Herald
Thornton is not your conventional filmmaker. For a start, he grew up "drinking and rooting" as a teenager in Alice Springs before a job with the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association's (CAAMA) video unit that led to film school then ...

Ten Eyewitness News
BigBash League heads to the Northern Territory
Ten Eyewitness News
Alice Springs will host the Northern Territory's first ever BBL and WBBL games next week, as the Adelaide Strikers and Perth Scorchers take part in historic matches. Traeger Park will play host to the men's game on January 13, while the women take to ...

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National Indigenous Times
Treaty supporters to march on Jan 26
National Indigenous Times
Aboriginal people and supporters from across Australia are expected to descend on Sydney on January 26 for what is being described as a history-making march, three decades after the 1988 Long March that drew a crowd rivalling Vietnam War demonstrations ...

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National Indigenous Times
'We don't even have a plan': Solonec
National Indigenous Times
In October last year, Australia was voted onto the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the first time – for a three-year term. On the face of it, this presents great opportunities for the advancement of human rights in Australia, including ...
Be Forgiving, Not Offended on Australia Day, Says Indigenous CouncilorThe Epoch Times
Photos show Aboriginals shackled in chainsLockport Press

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It's an F-minus for Indigenous rights
National Indigenous Times
The Northern Territory came bottom of the class, while New South Wales also flunked, but Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory got top marks. They're the results by Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, which assessed each state on a ...

National Indigenous Times
Harley has sights set on beauty crown
National Indigenous Times
“At Miss Gay & Miss Transsexual Australia International 2018, I will be bringing a bit of burlesque and cabaret to my performance and promoting awareness for violence against Aboriginal women and the idea that drag is about creating an illusion that is ...

The Guardian
Tropical Cyclone Joyce fails to intensify off Western Australian coast
The Guardian
Residents in the Western Australian tourist town of Broome have been spared the worst after Tropical Cyclone Joyce failed to intensify to a category three system and headed down the Kimberley coast. A yellow alert had been in place for the town since ...
Cops' Cyclone Joyce plea: don't get drunkThe Australian
Cyclone Joyce fails to intensify off Western Australian coastSBS
Cyclone Joyce puts Broome residents on alertNEWS.com.au
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PerthNow
Rangers rediscover tiny rock wallaby on Kimberley coast
WAtoday
Isolated sub-species of nabarlek also existed in parts of the Northern Territory, although they have also not been recorded for many years, and the species has a national conservation status of "endangered". The nabarlek program is run with the World ...
Nabarlek: Uunguu Rangers rediscover Kimberley's rarest rock wallaby on mainlandThe Australian
Nabarlek rock wallaby poo found, not extinct from Australian mainlandPerthNow

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PerthNow
Nabarlek: Uunguu Rangers rediscover Kimberley's rarest rock wallaby on mainland
The Australian
Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation's Uunguu Rangers have been collecting rock wallaby scats, or “waadi”, as part of a project with WWF-Australia and funded by Lotterywest. In 2016 a healthy nabarlek population was confirmed on an offshore island ...
Nabarlek rock wallaby poo found, not extinct from Australian mainlandPerthNow

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Top, bottom of Australia make best places to visit list
Gippsland Times
As well as giving special mention to the 2017 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, The New York Times made note of all of the scenic tours available to visitors: "Exclusive access tours to Aboriginal Homelands of Kakadu National Park and Arnhem Land, expands ...

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Traveller
The Top End and Tasmania make The New York Times' top '52 Places to Go in 2018'
Traveller
Tasmania is honoured on the list for its oysters, sparkling wines and 'booming culinary scene'. Photo: Andrew Balcombe / Alamy Stock Photo. The Top End's small cities, including Darwin, Palmerston, and Katherine, are also given a notable mention. Where ...

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The West Australian
Cops' Cyclone Joyce plea: don't get drunk
The Australian
is about to cross the West Australian coast as a Category 1. Joyce neared land sooner than the Bureau of Meteorology expected last night and was just south of the Aboriginal community of Bidyadanga — population 100 — and north of Wallal Downs ...
Tropical Cyclone Joyce: parts of WA on red alert over 'threat to lives and homes'The Guardian
North West on red alert for Cyclone JoyceThe West Australian
Cyclone Joyce puts Broome residents on alertNEWS.com.au

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