Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Community control in work for dole rejig
The Australian
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion on Thursday launched a discussion paper for the review of the coalition's controversial Community Development Program. Following heavy criticism, the government in May promised to develop a new model in ...

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Noosa News
Indigenous recognition is overdue, Australia must act now
Noosa News
A GREAT many of us who do not have indigenous heritage feel a gnawing discomfort when discussing issues that pertain to Australia's first nation people. We worry what we say might be rude, or insensitive or - worse - culturally offensive. And those in ...

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Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Indigenous recognition is overdue, Australia must act now
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
A GREAT many of us who do not have indigenous heritage feel a gnawing discomfort when discussing issues that pertain to Australia's first nation people. We worry what we say might be rude, or insensitive or - worse - culturally offensive. And those in ...

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The Sunshine Coast Daily
Indigenous recognition is overdue, Australia must act now
The Sunshine Coast Daily
A GREAT many of us who do not have indigenous heritage feel a gnawing discomfort when discussing issues that pertain to Australia's first nation people. We worry what we say might be rude, or insensitive or - worse - culturally offensive. And those in ...

The South Burnett Times
Indigenous recognition is overdue, Australia must act now
The South Burnett Times
A GREAT many of us who do not have indigenous heritage feel a gnawing discomfort when discussing issues that pertain to Australia's first nation people. We worry what we say might be rude, or insensitive or - worse - culturally offensive. And those in ...

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Northern Star
Indigenous recognition is overdue, Australia must act now
Northern Star
A GREAT many of us who do not have indigenous heritage feel a gnawing discomfort when discussing issues that pertain to Australia's first nation people. We worry what we say might be rude, or insensitive or - worse - culturally offensive. And those in ...

ABC Online
Racism likely at play in low Indigenous kidney transplants, AMA says
ABC Online
"It's certainly not fair, and we, myself and several colleagues, have called — and will continue to call — for fairness as part of our system of allocating the scarce resource of kidney donations," he said. Kidney specialist, Professor Steve Chadban ...

Courier Mail
Indigenous recognition long overdue
Courier Mail
Indigenous Australians are at a serious disadvantage in health, education and employment. Among other things, they have the highest incarcerations rates of any First Nation people on the planet. Their children are disproportionately taken from their ...

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The Australian
Ballet meets indigenous dance in Milngia, Milky Way — River of Stars
The Australian
He arrived in Perth in 2013 with his French ballerina wife Sandy Delasalle and son Matteo to take up the leadership of Australia's oldest ballet company. One of the first people he met in Perth was Northern Territory choreographer Gary Lang, born in ...

The Australian
Art as activism: giving feminism a platform from which to challenge
The Australian
Female assertion is always excellent, and the vulval oval has been celebrated in times and cultures as various as ancient Australian Aboriginal rock carvings and modern Italian feminist street marches. But the claim that “central core imagery” was ...

The West Australian
Job cuts part of education reshuffle in SW
The West Australian
“The department recently changed Aboriginal education support services to focus on improved teaching and learning for Aboriginal students – in a culturally appropriate way. “The new services are led by our most senior Aboriginal people in public ...

The Advertiser
Premier Jay Weatherill backs SA Museum in an argument over staff and displays
The Advertiser
Mr Weatherill disputed the museum was reducing space for the Australian Aboriginal and Pacific Cultures collections and staff. However, Professor Joost Daalder and Mrs Truus Daalder, who wrote to the Premier in November, said they remained aghast the ...

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National Indigenous Times
'Rising levels of racism' concern UN
National Indigenous Times
Pic: Australian Human Rights Commission. The United Nations says it is concerned at rising levels of racism, discrimination and xenophobia in Australia and that Indigenous people, migrants and refugees are bearing the brunt of racist hate speech and ...

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National Indigenous Times
$23m capital injection for WA community
National Indigenous Times
One of Australia's most remote Aboriginal communities, Tjuntjuntjara in Western Australia's Great Victoria Desert, is to get a $23.8 million capital injection in the form of major capital works and essential services, WA Housing Minister Peter Tinley ...

National Indigenous Times
Traditional languages bring Pop to life
National Indigenous Times
Language speakers and custodians from across the state travelled to Sydney to record the audio books. “My Weekend with Pop is us recognising communities still speak language and there is a lot of amazing work happening around language revitalisation ...

ABC Online
Organ transplant system 'tipped towards non-Indigenous patients'
ABC Online
Dr Paul Lawton, a specialist at the Menzies School of Health Research, said Australian kidney specialists were "well meaning" but that structural racism had led to unacceptably low transplant rates for Aboriginal patients. He said Australia's system ...
New Vatican publication highlights Indigenous art, cultureCatholic Outlook (press release) (blog)

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Central Australian men's council creates rulebook for remote Aboriginal residents visiting Alice Springs town camps
ABC Online
Learning to drink without fighting, not camping at sacred sites, and respecting other people's wives and sisters are just some of the rules set out by a group of Central Australian men working to reduce anti-social behaviour and crime. The Tangentyere ...

Catholic Outlook (press release) (blog)
New Vatican publication highlights Indigenous art, culture
Catholic Outlook (press release) (blog)
When people think of the Vatican Museums, minds turn to Michelangelo and Raphael. But a new book celebrates the prominent place of Indigenous Australian art and culture on display at the much-visited attraction. Australia – The Vatican Museums ...

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Nurse stood down for racist social media rant, employment lawyer says breaches are common
ABC Online
"Such a person, because of the professional duty that they have, has a duty of care for everybody, and that includes black kids as well as non-black kids." Mr Farrer, herself an Gija woman, said being drunk was no excuse for the comments. She said ...

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ABC Online
Step up man, you're a representative of a proud Indigenous culture
ABC Local
Every day I wake up and know the last name I carry represents a whole lineage of people who have come before me. I am proud to be from an ancient culture. It is time to step up and be a positive role model for the next generation. Maybe one day we will ...
From turtle hunting to a future Aboriginal PM, 10 young Indigenous people share their dreamsABC Online

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