Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

CHOICE
Community energy projects in Australia
CHOICE
... one of the first projects in the Solar Energy Transformation Program (SETuP), which is jointly funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and the Northern Territory government. While not a community-funded model, the local community ...

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4BC
Australia Day 'noise' distracting from bigger issues
4BC
Doctor Anthony Dillon, postdoctoral fellow at Australian Catholic University, has called Australia Day protesters a “noisy minority”. Dr Dillon, an Indigenous Australian, tells Chris Kenny protestors should be focusing on “far more important issues ...

ABC Online
The Ashes: Alastair Cook rediscovers Australia as Test greats fall in his wake
ABC Online
White Australia and Aboriginal invisibility were both being cast into the dustbin of history. Cowper's punishment of our former colonial masters perhaps epitomised the dawn of a new geo-strategic era. Though the Barmy Army rejoices in reminding us of ...

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The Advocate
Change a local act of reconciliation
The Advocate
This past year marked half-a-century since the 1967 referendum, which saw Australians vote overwhelming in favour of changes to constitutional references to Indigenous people. To a large degree, this was a symbolic act in that it demonstrated support ...

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Daily Telegraph
Anthony Dillon: Protest something that matters, not radio show countdowns on Australia Day
Daily Telegraph
But past experience has shown that Australia Day won't be without controversy. We can expect to see loud protesters marching in the street demanding that changes be made to the Australia Day celebrations. A few weeks ago, the radio station Triple J, an ...

The Advertiser
State election: Liberals pledge to appoint Aboriginal children's commissioner if it wins office
The Advertiser
Liberal child protection spokeswoman Rachel Sanderson told The Advertiser her party would appoint an Assistant Commissioner for Aboriginal Children if it wins the March state election. The new role, within the Office of the Commissioner for Children ...

Herald Sun
Take our Great 2017 Aussie Quiz and test your knowledge
Herald Sun
17 At the Rio 2016 Olympics, Australia's Kyle Chalmers won the 100m freestyle gold medal after being in which place at the 50m turn (a) third (b) fifth (c) seventh? 18 Australian landscape painter, Arthur Streeton, was a leading member of which art ...

SBS
Why is this Indigenous student learning Mandarin?
SBS
With the help of CareerTrackers, a not-for-profit organisation that assists Indigenous university students in securing internships, Clark started an internship with global law firm Dentons. He says speaking Mandarin has been helpful, as most of the ...

ABC Online
Cyclone Hilda brings destruction to Broome in northern WA, more wild weather to come
ABC Online
A tropical cyclone has brought down trees and powerlines in northern Western Australia, bringing damaging winds and heavy rainfall to the coastal tourist town of Broome and nearby Aboriginal communities. Category one Cyclone Hilda passed within 16 ...

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ABC Local
Cyclone Hilda hits WA mainland, Broome lashed with 100kmph winds
ABC Local
A tropical low has developed into Cyclone Hilda off the northern Western Australian coast, bringing down trees and lashing the tourist town of Broome with 100 kilometre-per-hour winds as it tracks along the Kimberley coast. The Bureau of Meteorology ...

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Brisbane Times
Sydney Festival's Bayala: How we all speak some Darug
Brisbane Times
Mahboob and Professor Jakelin Troy, Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research at the University of Sydney, are planning ambitious research with indigenous communities from Asia, Europe, South America and Australia to explore the ...

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The Canberra Times
Federal government accused of 'retribution' against Aboriginal Tent Embassy
The Canberra Times
On Tuesday the place of protest, which officially began on Australia Day 1972, was unusually quiet. Two portable toilets remained beside a small pile of garbage. In the coming weeks, the tent embassy hopes to raise money for portable showers. While the ...

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The Australian
Name cleared in Commonwealth Games mascot koala blue
The Australian
Wesley Aird, a member of the local Yugambeh clan — and a former indigenous adviser to John Howard — launched legal action over the use and trademark of the mascot for the Games in April. Despite months of consultation with Yugambeh representatives ...

Herald Sun
Nyunggai Warren Mundine: Indigenous business is key to better life
Herald Sun
Business isn't something Australians associate with indigenous people. It's usually disadvantage, welfare, remote communities with “no jobs” and disparity. The disparity is real and exists for one reason: too many indigenous people don't participate in ...

The Canberra Times
Why all art lovers should come to Canberra in summer 2017
The Canberra Times
4) Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, National Museum of Australia (closes February 25, 2018) is an exceptional exhibition that brings to life one of the grand ancestral tales of Aboriginal Australia. Through a combination of high-tech wizardry and ...

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The West Australian
The hidden secrets of Rottnest Island revealed
The West Australian
But it has been only in the past decade or so that the heritage value of these underground tunnels, buildings and wells — most of them unseen by typical island holidaymakers — has been realised and appreciated. And thoughts are now turning to how ...

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The Australian
ABC's Nightlife quiz a guilty pleasure
The Australian
And I'd love to say thank you to Heather from Western Australia. I went to the post office, and there's a lovely card and a beautiful letter from Heather wishing me all the best, and she says, 'I do love listening to you, Emily'.” We know what Heather ...

Google News

"I want to see a Black Diamond"
Netball Scoop
Seventeen years ago the Sydney Olympics were held, smart phones didn't exist, the average house price in Australia was $135,000, and Kim Ravaillion was 7 years old. It was also the last time an Aboriginal woman represented the Australian Diamonds ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
NAPLAN: 87 per cent of NSW Indigenous students need to resit tests
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous year 9 students in NSW had lower rates of participation in NAPLAN TESTING THIS YEAR than non-Indigenous students. Photo: Jason South. Only 12.7 per cent of Aboriginal year 9 students got a band 8 or above in this year's NAPLAN writing test ...

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The Advertiser
Hieu Van Le: South Australians should be more aware of the important role of our regional communities
The Advertiser
I was truly moved standing at the Breakaways Conservation Park in Cooper Pedy, an Aboriginal sacred land. To me it was a magic place with a powerful sense of spirituality! I was in awe in many sacred places of the local Aboriginal people in the ...

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