Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Echonetdaily
Indigenous runners get chance to compete in New York Marathon
Echonetdaily
Unfortunately for a lot of people they never get to really ignite this fire,' Layne Brown, a member of last year's IMP said. 'In New York last November I felt so normal; like I was meant to be here at this very moment in time and that running marathons ...

South Coast Register
Shoalhaven athletes to create history with New Zealand tour
South Coast Register
SEVEN of the Shoalhaven's top athletes have been selected in the two Australian indigenous representative football teams, consisting of 18 men and 18 women players, which will travel to Auckland, New Zealand on a historic tour. Wreck Bay trio Lewis ...

Broadsheet
A Voyage Through the Centre of Australia, from a Tree Stump
Broadsheet
Your guides through this eclectic journey are two dancers: Waangenga Blanco of Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia's acclaimed Indigenous performing arts company, and New Yorker Khalif Diouf, who you may know by his rap moniker Le1f, with a score by ...

Tasmania Examiner
Reconciliation Council of Tasmania sets out agenda
Tasmania Examiner
“Some of the key issues we need to look at are education and employment for Aboriginal communities in Tasmania,” she said. “We have a very low rate of children going through to university or even to college. “We need to be looking at how to support ...

Eureka Street
Best of 2017: Indigenous rights 50 years after the referendum
Eureka Street
In the face of historically low levels of Indigenous representation within Australian parliaments, the Indigenous caucus between Commonwealth, State and Territory Labor representatives points to some progress. Front page of Abo Call newspaper What it ...

Eureka Street
Best of 2017: ATSI custody needs action not just inquiry
Eureka Street
In 1991, the year of the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC), Indigenous Australians comprised 14 per cent of the Australian prison population. In 2016, it was 27 per cent. Yet Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Remote Work-for-the-Dole Program Under Fire for Excessive Penalties
Pro Bono Australia
The data also showed that 7,868 eight-week, non-payment penalties were handed out during the June quarter to CDP participants. The CDP came under heavy scrutiny at a senate inquiry, with concerns voiced around unrealistic participation expectations and ...

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The West Australian
Vaccinations urged for high-risk age group
The West Australian
According to the WA Country Health Service, the three cases, all of serogroup W of the disease, indicate a much higher than usual attack rate in the Kalgoorlie-Boulder population. WA Country Health Service Goldfields public health physician Clare ...

The West Australian
Ministers in housing fund war of words
The West Australian
WA Housing Minister Peter Tinley released a statement last month saying the Coalition Government had “turned its back” on the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Housing, with WA facing a funding shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars. He ...

National Geographic Australia
Why These Birds Carry Flames In Their Beaks
National Geographic Australia
Australia is no stranger to fire: The hardy landscape is adapted to blazes, enduring many thanks to humans and lightning. But Australia's Aboriginal peoples have long identified a third cause: birds. In interviews, observations, and ceremonies dating ...
If Australian animals don't poison you or eat you, they'll BURN DOWN YOUR HOUSEThe Register
Australian Birds "Intentionally" Light Their Prey on FireInverse
The only animal that can control fire witnessed in AustraliaInternational Business Times UK

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Community Newspaper Group
Town of Bassendean to host 14th Australia Day fireworks event
Community Newspaper Group
Simulcast on 98five Sonshine FM, it will be the 14th fireworks event at Ashfield Reserve in Bassendean. Families are encouraged to bring a picnic from 5pm but there will also be food vans. Media personality Michelle White will host the event and there ...

Inverse
Why These Birds Carry Flames In Their Beaks
National Geographic
The black kite (pictured, an animal at Madagascar's Tsimbazaza Zoo) is one of the birds thought to spread fire in Australia. Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark. By Michael Greshko. PUBLISHED January 8, 2018. Australia is no ...
Australian Birds "Intentionally" Light Their Prey on FireInverse
The only animal that can control fire witnessed in AustraliaInternational Business Times UK

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The West Australian
Australia Day opportunity to focus on good: elder
The West Australian
In light of several local government councils opting to change the Australia Day date, Dr Isaacs believes the nation should stand by the current date, at least until an appropriate inclusive alternative is found. “Some might say that it is not a day ...

SBS
From sleeping rough to international acclaim: Celebrating the birth of a music legend
SBS
The couple had two sons, turned their lives around and went on to foster and raise an extended family of homeless children, while their musical partnership took them onto stages across Australia and the world over. He recorded his first record ...

The Register
If Australian animals don't poison you or eat you, they'll BURN DOWN YOUR HOUSE
The Register
Already replete with sharks, crocodiles, snakes and poisonous jellyfish galore, Australia may also be home to arsonist birds that spread fire so they can feed on animals as they flee. The belief that birds like the Whistling Kite, Black Kite and Brown ...

Daily Mail
Shopping centre under fire after security guard tells kids 'Aboriginal children aren't allowed in after 6pm' before ...
Daily Mail
A shopping centre is investigating a complaint after some children were refused entry by a security guard because they were 'Murri'. A mother shared a post on social media saying her son and nephews were stopping at Vincent Market Place in Townsville ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Primitive & Pop: Keith Haring's Australia: 1984, by Andrew Montana
The Sydney Morning Herald
Buckley also organised for a documentary film to be made of Haring's visit to Australia, as well as accommodation, parties and meetings with artists and the art bureaucracy in Melbourne and Sydney. In Melbourne, Haring expressed an interest in ...

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ABC Online
Forgotten legacy of Aboriginal stockwomen becomes subject of PhD research
ABC Online
Pushing 60, Maudie Moore was still chasing scrub bulls on horseback — a testament to her reputation as one of the best 'stockmen' you could find around the 1950s in Western Australia. Ms Moore is just one of the women whose stories feature in a thesis ...

The Australian
African youth violence the outcome of failed diversity policies
The Australian
Labor accuses the federal Liberal government of playing politics with African crime in Victoria. But Labor has played politics with ethnicity for decades. The result is a booming industry that trades in a culture of complaint and blame-shifting. The ...

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SBS
Global vision: One company's mission to make affordable glasses
SBS
Melanie Gould, the Aboriginal health coordinator for Sydney North Primary Health Network, says access to such services is often a barrier. "They're not going to the doctor, the hospital, to get the checks and then it's not being identified," she said ...

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