Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Sky News Australia
Australia's first Indigenous mine opens in NT - Sky News
Sky News Australia
The first Aboriginal owned and operated mine in Australia has opened in Northeast Arnhem Land.

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Dead heart: the booming trade in fake Indigenous art
The Sydney Morning Herald
Now, just four months out from the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, industry sources say there's so much fake stuff flooding Australia that genuine Indigenous products are being priced out of the market. Politicians have joined with ...

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ABC Local
Aboriginal culture taught to Murray Bridge primary school students through art
ABC Local
Ms Rigney is a Ngarrindjeri elder and artist who has found her latest creative inspiration in a classroom at Murray Bridge in South Australia's Murraylands. She has been working at St Joseph's primary school for the past 18 months as part of an artist ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal rights activist Solomon Bellear remembered at state funeral in Redfern Park
The Sydney Morning Herald
The daughter of the late Sol Bellear, Tamara Bollear-Mayers, is consoled while marching to the state funeral of the Aboriginal activist. Photo: James Brickwood. Each and every persona of the late Solomon "Sol" Bellear was remembered on Saturday, when ...
Sol Bellear remembered as giant at state funeralThe Australian
Sol Bellear's state funeral held in SydneySky News Australia

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The Australian
Sol Bellear remembered as giant at state funeral
The Australian
Pat Turner, chief executive of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, described Bellear as a “giant of a man who made a giant contribution to self-determination for our people right throughout the land”, one who would now ...

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The Australian
The Dystopia in the Desert: Australia's Remotest Aboriginal communities
The Australian
It is a mark of Australia's lack of serious attention to questions about remote Aboriginal life that this book has been ignored while headlines have been devoted to the elusive dream of indigenous constitutional recognition. For Purtill, the realm of ...

NEWS.com.au
'Racist' heath system failing NT indigenous kidney patients, says leading Darwin specialist
NEWS.com.au
... or Alice Springs, will have around a 15 per cent chance, so 85 per cent less chance, of getting a kidney transplant even though they're the same age, same gender, same illness profile,” he said. Dr Lawton said the inequality was a result of ...

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NT News
Kidney transplants: Aboriginal Australians disadvantaged | NT News
NT News
A “RACIST” health system means Aboriginal Territorians are missing out on kidney transplants to non-indigenous residents who are favoured, a leading specialist says. Menzies School of Health Research senior fellow and doctor Paul Lawton said while a ...

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ABC Online
Australian Indigenous collection among the most visited exhibitions at the Vatican
ABC Online
Father Mapelli is the director at the Vatican Ethnological Museum and is in Australia this week to launch a book about the Vatican's Indigenous Australian collection. In an effort to learn about the origins of the artefacts, Father Mapelli travelled to ...

ABC Online
Albert Namatjira painting gifted to Alice Springs Aboriginal dialysis centre to raise funds for nurses' wages
ABC Online
A rare Albert Namatjira painting has been donated to an Alice Springs Aboriginal renal dialysis centre, which hopes to use funds from its sale to ensure more patients can be treated closer to home. The donation was made by the Ngurratjuta Aboriginal ...

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SBS
Love and Education: Connecting keys to Indigenous culture
SBS
It is known that from the early 19th century Greek migrants had a special relationship with Indigenous Australians. Many great human stories have erupted in the media through the years. How difficult is to connect the Greek and Indigenous culture? 'The ...

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Herald Sun
Literary great Peter Carey tackles questions about what it means to be a white Australian
Herald Sun
When Bachhuber discovers his heritage is not what he had been led to believe, it opens the way for Carey to bring up his examination of what it means to be white in Australia then and to take that into the context, now. Stan Grant was asked to read the ...

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The Australian
Australian fiction: Aborigines' treatment a moral bind for white Australians
The Australian
In his famous Redfern speech, Paul Keating talked about the necessity of imagination and empathy to help heal some of the wounds inflicted on Aboriginal Australia. Yet our avoidance is utilitarian and our empathy too frequently abstracted into totemic ...

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ABC Online
Who identifies as a person of colour in Australia?
ABC Online
As an Aboriginal person who has been actively involved in issues of language and terminology, much of the conversation seemed oddly familiar. Aboriginal, Aborigines, Indigenous, First Nations, First Peoples, First Nations Peoples, First Australians ...

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The Australian
Aboriginal justice activist, sportsman Sol Bellear dies
The Australian
He was deeply involved in the land rights marches and Tent Embassy movement of the 1970s, and was awarded an Order of Australia in 1999 for services to the Aboriginal community. Bellear was also passionate about rugby league, playing grade football for ...
Sol Bellear, 'relentless fighter' for Aboriginal rights, dies in SydneyABC Local

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The Adelaide Review
Transforming the South Australian Museum
The Adelaide Review
A proposed new site to store, promote and share the South Australian Museum's Aboriginal collections would help define Adelaide as a year-round destination for national and international visitors interested in Aboriginal art and culture. Museums are ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous children in care could 'triple in 20 years' if nothing done, advocacy group warns
ABC Online
"We're talking about massive numbers of Aboriginal children who are growing up disconnected from their families, from their communities and culture and the systems that they're growing up in aren't producing better outcomes." It has been 20 years since ...

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ABC Online
Why Aboriginal Australians are still having their wages 'stolen' 50 years after the Wave Hill Walk-off
ABC Online
It's 2017 and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are again fighting against the systemic denial of fair pay for work. When people talk about stolen wages — the slavery-like system that saw Aboriginal people denied any or equal pay for hard ...

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Herald Sun
Edward Tudor recognised for helping Aboriginal students from across nation
Herald Sun
Mr Tudor said it was the decision by Richmond Football Club chiefs to provide a space for the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School that helped seal the deal. But other supporters say it's the tireless commitment from the executive director that ...

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The Guardian
Australia could face UN criticism over dismissal of Indigenous voice to parliament
The Guardian
The National Congress co-chair, Rod Little, travelled to Geneva along with representatives from the Human Rights Law Centre and other organisations this week to brief members of the committee. “The Australian government's relationship with Aboriginal ...

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