Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

SBS
Indigenous Australians most harassed in the workplace: study
SBS
Thirty-eight per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian workers experienced discrimination or harassment over the past year, a survey by non-profit organisation Diversity Council Australia has found. Indigenous people only comprise 2 ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Push to rename electorate after trailblazer for Indigenous Australian rights
The Sydney Morning Herald
"As a proud Indigenous woman who lives in this electorate I think changing its name to Cooper in honour of the great William Cooper is a wonderful idea," she said. "Everyone should know about this remarkable civil rights campaigner who was amongst the ...

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ABC Online
Mungo Man welcomed back to country in dance and song
ABC Online
Five Indigenous dance groups from different parts of the country came to perform, each representing a star in the southern cross, or the points of the compass. From the north, the Yolngu nation from Galiwinku, Elcho Island and Nhulunbuy in the Norther ...

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An Aboriginal painting just set a new Australian record for a female artist
Business Insider Australia
A work the late Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye has set a new record for a work by an Australian female painter. Earth's Creation 1, a large work from the Utopia artist, painted in 1994, sold for nearly double the price paid for it 10 years ago ...
Record sale of artwork by Indigenous woman Emily Kngwarreye highlights gender gapABC Online

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Rottnest Island's Aboriginal prisoners are Australia's forgotten patriots, elder says
ABC Online
It is time for Australia to face the truth about hundreds of Aboriginal prisoners who died on Rottnest Island in the 19th century and are buried in unmarked graves, a leading Aboriginal academic says. WARNING: This story contains images of Aboriginal ...

Business Insider Australia
Aboriginal art $2.1m auction breaks record
NEWS.com.au
"The brokering of this stunning painting with my colleagues at Cooee has been one of the highlights of my forty year career in the auction industry. This sale will go a long way to breathing life back into the Aboriginal art market. Aboriginal art is ...
An Aboriginal painting just set a new Australian record for a female artistBusiness Insider Australia
Record sale of artwork by Indigenous woman Emily Kngwarreye highlights gender gapABC Online

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SBS
Study shows Aboriginal Australians were aiding the spread of plants thousands of years ago
SBS
A new study has revealed Australian Aboriginal groups helped the spread of edible plants by hand long before Europeans arrived. The research on rainforest tree Castanospermum australe or black bean, reveals through DNA testing that isolated populations ...

ABC Online
Peter Carey steers new novel A Long Way from Home into Australia's Aboriginal past
ABC Online
Acclaimed writer Peter Carey says he previously avoided writing about Australia's Aboriginal past, fearing that it was not his place to speak about race. The cover of Peter Carey's A Long Way From Home. Photo: Peter Carey's A Long Way From Home ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australians travelling 1000 kilometres for kidney dialysis: report
The Sydney Morning Herald
Gumatj clan ceremonial leaders and Mutitjulu elders at the First Nations National Convention at the Mutitjulu community near Uluru in May. A new report into Aboriginal health has found that some elders miss important community ceremonies because they ...

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ABC Online
Historic photos reunited with Indigenous Australians hoping to find a familiar face
ABC Online
A small group is gathered around a photo book in the remote north of Western Australia, Kimberley locals — young and old — searching for familiar faces. The images are from an archive of historic photographs from museums around the world, some going ...

The Conversation AU
With a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, Australia must fix its record on Indigenous rights
The Conversation AU
One would assume the Human Rights Council seat means Australia will lead on issues of human rights domestically, including in the area of Indigenous rights (one of the five pillars of Australia's bid) and self-determination. However, as the UN Human ...

The Guardian
Funding of Indigenous-run groups plummeted over past nine years
The Guardian
The proportion of funding that goes directly to Indigenous-run organisations has fallen over the past nine years, while funding to other organisations that is earmarked as Indigenous spending has increased by one third. Australian governments spent an ...
Progress on pause: the potential of the Service Learning in Indigenous Communities initiativeHoni Soit

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Courier Mail
Malcolm Turnbull risks war with Labor and indigenous groups after rejecting Referendum Council's 'radical' blueprint
Courier Mail
The PM is now moving to personally salvage indigenous Constitutional recognition and prefers a less ambitious proposal, such as simply putting to referendum that the Constitution be changed to acknowledge indigenous Australians. Labor Senator Pat ...

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The Australian
Blot on $5.4bn indigenous housing program
The Australian
“In contrast, we are focused on delivering value for money from any investment in housing and will carefully consider these recommendations of the review, and work with First Australians living in remote Australia, states and territories on future ...

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Australian Jewish News
Standing up for the Aboriginal community
Australian Jewish News
Thursday night was a watershed in Australian Jewish and Aboriginal relations. Genocide Perspectives V was launched by Tanya Plibersek, Geoffrey Robertson QC and Mark Tedeschi at the Sydney Jewish Museum in Sydney. The collection of writings was a ...

SBS
'Incredible mystery': The Indigenous soldiers of the Light Horse Brigade
SBS
"And one of the things that is very interesting is that the Light Horse had the highest number of Indigenous soldiers in any regiment within the ADF in World War One." At the outbreak of the war, Private Lingwoodock was among 1000 Indigenous ...

ArtsHub
TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art
ArtsHub
Core to TARNANTHI is the Art Gallery of South Australia's (AGSA) – shall we call it “the keynote exhibition”? – the one making the big statement and laying the legacy pathway. It presented over 40 new commissions, and yet managed to avoid that art ...

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SBS
Dodson fears shelving of indigenous plan
SBS
Now that Australia had a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council it had an even greater responsibility to progress reconciliation, Senator Dodson said. "Indigenous people are very frustrated. Our issues and concerns go to the heart of the ...

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Dodson fears shelving of indigenous plan
The Australian
"Indigenous people are very frustrated. Our issues and concerns go to the heart of the nation as well, they are not just about Aboriginal people - this is about Australia's identity and Australia's reputation internationally." It added to the ...

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ArtsHub
Next Matriarch
ArtsHub
... reserved in curating a show of Aboriginal artists, said that that it was vital to throw light on this political space – a space Moulton has been looking at for some time as the Senior Curator, South Eastern Australia Aboriginal Collections at ...

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