Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Brisbane Times
Two out of three children in detention in Queensland are Indigenous
Brisbane Times
Youth Minister Di Farmer said the Palaszczuk government was deeply concerned about the rates of Indigenous youths in detention and was actively addressing the issue. "We have established a Youth Justice First Nations Action Board, the first of its kind ...

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Daily Telegraph
Indigenous disadvantage is driven by a lack of participation in the Australian economy
Daily Telegraph
Business isn't something that Australians normally 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 ...

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The Mercury
TasWeekend: New Year's dreaming returns
The Mercury
The headline act will be the uniting of two Aboriginal peoples from opposite sides of the country, to perform their own versions of the Devil Devil dance, a traditional dance that exists in tribes throughout Australia. Tasmania's pakana kanaplila ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Sol Bellear, one of the most influential national Aboriginal leaders of his generation
The Sydney Morning Herald
When a wide-eyed Sol Bellear visited Harlem, New York City, for the first time he broke into a sprint to escape a rain shower. "Stop running," one of his hosts from the Black Panther Party yelled at him. "Do you want to get yourself shot?" Bellear ...

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The Stringer
It is now time for a royal commission into Australia's world record high rate of child removals
The Stringer
However despite the tragic disproportionate rate of Aboriginal child removals, the high rate of child removals hits White and Brown children and families too, not just Black. Australia has to be brought to account for its high rate of child removals ...

ABC Online
Doctor had to plead for boy with lung problems to be moved out of mouldy rental house
ABC Online
Lawyers said the case highlighted the need for minimum standards for rental properties to protect people's health and safety. Ms Balhas said she first noticed mould spots in 2011, six months after she moved in. She said a housing officer with her ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Ashes 2017/18: Numbers up for Cricket Australia's Indigenous teams milestones
The Sydney Morning Herald
Cricket Australia has commissioned a project to assign cap numbers for every player who has represented the national Indigenous male and female teams. The initiative is part of the celebrations commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 1868 tour of ...

The Guardian
Beyond Batman: how Indigenous superheroes are turning comics inside out
The Guardian
In 1988, while Australia was disingenuously promising a treaty to placate the First Peoples protesting against bicentenary celebrations, an Aboriginal character called Gateway appeared in the comic Uncanny Xmen #229. The mutant superhero Wolverine was ...

Aboriginal Education Teacher
EducationHQ Australia
The Aboriginal Education Teacher's role would primarily focus on liaising with the Aboriginal community and promoting Aboriginal perspectives within the school. The teacher will be responsible to the school principal and liaise closely with the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Forget the 'disruption' fad, why not just 'better' government and public service?
The Sydney Morning Herald
But it says something that the NBN is at the top of his list, or that he can number among the APS achievements the collapse of a movement towards constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians, or the quality advice received by government over ...

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Pursuit
Connecting to country through architecture
Pursuit
Place is important to Indigenous people and yet there are only a handful of Aboriginal architects in Australia. Jeffa Greenaway is working to change that. Share selection to: There are many Indigenous heroes who have paved the way, opening the door for ...

ABC Online
Indigenous work-for-the-dole scheme 'cannot and should not continue', Senate committee report warns
ABC Online
"People on income support in remote Australia were being fined for not showing up to hygiene classes and 3D printing training, it is farcical." Most of the approximately 15,000 people required to undertake CDP activities are Aboriginal or Torres Strait ...

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A new Vatican publication showcases Australia's Indigenous culture
mnnews.today
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Chairperson, Professor Michael McDaniel, said the process taken to reconnect these cultural forms with their communities is particularly significant. “Through the ...

ArtsHub
What next for Australia's creative sector?
ArtsHub
Corporate Australia is backing Aboriginal Australia more than the government is, and they reason why is that they see the value of having an Australian identity through Indigenous storytelling, and what impact that can bring,' said Page. Scully ...

The Conversation AU
Racist reporting still rife in Australian media
The Conversation AU
Half of all race-related opinion pieces in the Australian mainstream media are likely to contravene industry codes of conduct on racism. In research released this week, the Who Watches the Media report found that of 124 race-related opinion pieces ...

Turnbull 'selective with the facts' over indigenous recognition
The Australian
The proposal, contained in the convention's Uluru Statement from the Heart, has been the only real grassroots suggestion for meaningful constitutional reform but the Turnbull government ditched it without any consultation, arguing it would never gather ...

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Courier Mail
Letters to the Editor, December 15, 2017
Courier Mail
Successive federal governments have poured billions of taxpayer dollars into redressing these issues and alleviating the circumstances in which Aboriginal people live. It appears to have done little good and many ask where the money has gone. The ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal artists of Ernabella celebrate 50-year link with renowned Sturt craft workshop
ABC Online
Aboriginal woman and artist Atipalku Intjalki stands in a desert landscape at Ernabella Photo: Artist Atipalku Intjalki in the spectacular desert landscape at Ernabella, on APY Lands in South Australia. (Supplied: Alex Craig). "Elisabeth Nagel recalled ...

ABC Online
Proving the link between living on country and improved Indigenous health
ABC Online
ANU associate professor Dr Ray Lovett said the pilot studies in communities in Victoria, along the Murray Darling River, and central Australia already demonstrated better connections to country vastly improved the mental health of its Aboriginal ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Royal Commission's message to Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
The final sitting of the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse was packed to overflowing Thursday when Justice Peter McClellan walked into the room and ended with a standing ovation. Scores of survivors of sexual abuse ...
Royal Commission: Support workers pay tribute to 'remarkable' abuse survivorsThe Age

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