Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

New policy chips away at WA contracts
National Indigenous Times
Western Australia is moving to increase the economic participation of Aboriginal people in the state with its first Aboriginal Procurement Policy. WA Finance and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt, who became Australia's first Indigenous treasurer ...

National Indigenous Times
Solid finish for Ayers Rock grads
National Indigenous Times
Twenty-two Indigenous trainees and 12 leaders have graduated from a training academy at the award-winning Ayers Rock Resort. The owner of the resort, government entity Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia, said the National Indigenous Training Academy ...

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National Indigenous Times
2017: the year that was for Indig Oz
National Indigenous Times
Tauli-Corpuz points to “astounding” rates of imprisonment for Indigenous people, says Australia has failed to respect the right to self-determination of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and has slashed funding to vital Indigenous programs and ...

National Indigenous Times
Rhoda has NYE Welcome covered
National Indigenous Times
“This is a story that shows all of Australia is Aboriginal land, and that Sydney is the gateway to Aboriginal Australia,” Ms Roberts said. “Sydney has always been a very special place – it was one of the first contact points for First Nations peoples ...

National Indigenous Times
We're all about this Aboriginal Alice
National Indigenous Times
The audience is asked to play judge on Australia's colonial past in this stage production. Broken Glass. Performed on location at St Bartholomew's Church and Cemetery in Blacktown, this installation and performance illuminates the rituals of death and ...

National Indigenous Times
Congress head earns doctorate honours
National Indigenous Times
National Congress of Australia's First Peoples co-chair Jackie Huggins has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Central Queensland University. CQU Chancellor John Abbott said Dr Huggins was a good example for university staff, students and guests. He ...

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ABC Online
Sydney Airport to house 28 First Nations flags as part of a new public art installation
ABC Online
From 2018, international visitors to the area — specifically, the T1 International terminal of Sydney Airport — will be greeted by 28 flags representing the original Aboriginal nations, as imagined by Kamilaroi artist Archie Moore. Moore's work ...

Aboriginal businesses to get WA contracts
The Australian
Bali accused taken to hospital · Indonesian Police take 34-year-old Australian man, Isaac Emmanuel Roberts to hospital Sam Buckingham-Jones. An Australian accountant who stood as a candidate for the Liberal Democrats has been arrested in Bali on drug ...

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SBS
Buy Indigenous this Christmas
SBS
Faebella made international headlines after being crowned this year's winner of the inaugural Pitch@Palace Australia, a start-up business competition which was founded by The Duke of York, HRH Prince Andrew. Culture has always played a large part in ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Scott Boland embracing his Indigenous background
The Sydney Morning Herald
Next year marks the 150-year anniversary of the famous Aboriginal team cricket tour of England, the first Australian team to do so. To mark the occasion, CA are sending men's and women's Indigenous teams back to the UK. Both Boland brothers want to be ...

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ABC Local
SACE results: Record number of Year 12 students complete Certificate of Education
ABC Local
A record 15,175 Year 12 students have completed their South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) this year, the board has revealed. The proportion of students who successfully completed SACE is also at a record 97.3 per cent, compared to 91.6 per ...
Year 12 students to learn end of year results available through SACE website on TuesdayThe Advertiser

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Big Think (blog)
Blood on the Map: Charting Australia's Colonial-Era Massacres
Big Think (blog)
It's hard to argue with a map. These two examples of documentary cartography, shocking though they are, may finally spell the end for Australia's History Wars. For decades, historians, politicians and just about everyone else with strong opinions on ...

Death rate spikes as legal drug use grows
The Australian
Tasmania recorded the highest levels of non-medical pharmaceutical use at 5.6 per cent, according to the report, followed by South Australia (5.5 per cent). The issue was greater in remote areas and among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

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The Hindu
Woman through the ages
The Hindu
What does one get when Indigenous Australian, Indian and Non-residential Indian (NRI) women meet on the same platform to share experiences and folklore? A surprisingly prominent common thread, if performance artiste Priya Srinivasan and Chennai-based ...

Illawarra Mercury
2018 Australian of the Year contenders reveal the objects that mean most to them
Illawarra Mercury
Dr Tracy Westerman, Indigenous mental health advocate, Australian of the Year 2018, Western Australia. "My mother Mavis Westerman was granted this certificate by attending Port Hedland court in 1964," her citation reads. "To be eligible, you had to ...

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The Northern Daily Leader
2018 Australian of the Year contenders reveal the objects that mean most to them
The Northern Daily Leader
"To be eligible, you had to prove you had served ties with your Aboriginal family, were free of disease, could speak English and were 'civilised' in your behaviour." NRL star Johnathan Thurston, Queensland 's 2018 Australian of the Year, provided ...

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cricket.com.au
CA tips its cap to Indigenous pioneers
cricket.com.au
Cricket Australia will assign individual cap numbers to every man and woman to have played for its national Indigenous teams, including the pioneering group of players who embarked on a historic tour of England almost 150 years ago. Players who ...

Daily Telegraph
Australia's first indigenous protest album by Vic Simms named in 110 Best Australian Albums collection
Daily Telegraph
His debut album, The Loner, first released in 1973, has been named in The 110 Best Australian Albums: The Ultimate List of Australia's Best and Most Influential Music of All Time, a compendium of the best rock and pop albums of the past 50 years ...

Community Newspaper Group
Chris Ugle credits Ngalla Maya with helping transform his life
Community Newspaper Group
Where the incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders was predominately of males, in 2016 in excess of 10 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates were females. – Nationally, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth aged ...

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ABC Online
Petrol sales restricted to $20 in NT's Papunya community during festive season
ABC Online
Community leaders in a remote Aboriginal community in Central Australia have limited the sale of petrol over Christmas to stop people leaving town and bringing in alcohol. Residents of the community of Papunya, 240 kilometres north-west of Alice ...