Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Daily Liberal
Exhibition remembers those who served
Daily Liberal
An exhibition detailing the contribution of Indigenous Australians to Australia's armed forces is set to open at the Western Plains Cultural Centre on Saturday, October 28. More than 100,000 people have experienced the Shrine of Remembrance's touring ...
Progress on pause: the potential of the Service Learning in Indigenous Communities initiativeHoni Soit

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Progress on pause: the potential of the Service Learning in Indigenous Communities initiative
Honi Soit
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians were locked out of tertiary education until just a few decades ago — Charles Perkins was the University of Sydney's first Aboriginal graduate in 1966 — but they had been the research subjects of so ...

The Conversation AU
Census data shows just how bad we've been at closing inequality gaps
The Conversation AU
One of the targets of the Closing the Gap strategy (which is slated to undergo a “sweeping overhaul”) is to “halve the gap in employment outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a decade (by 2018).” But the latest census data ...

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ABC Online
Stargazing tours share traditional Indigenous stories in Queensland's Gulf
ABC Online
Aside from marking a change in season and offering directions in the dark of night, the stars have long been used by Aboriginal Australians for storytelling — and those stories are now being shared. On Australia's largest aggregate salt pans in ...

Deutsche Welle
Aboriginal woman's remains return to Aust
NEWS.com.au
The return of their ancestors' mortal remains is of immense importance to the Aboriginal people, said Australian ambassador Lynette Wood on Tuesday in Hanover. The woman's descendants had designed a cloth with handprints and messages for her return ...
German museum returns remains of indigenous Australian womanDeutsche Welle

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Deutsche Welle
Aboriginal woman's remains return to Aust
The Australian
The return of their ancestors' mortal remains is of immense importance to the Aboriginal people, said Australian ambassador Lynette Wood on Tuesday in Hanover. The woman's descendants had designed a cloth with handprints and messages for her return ...
German museum returns remains of indigenous Australian womanDeutsche Welle

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Indigenous dismay over political silence on Uluru statement
The Australian
Her address will come on the heels of Cape York lawyer Noel Pearson furiously lashing out at white Australia's failure “to take responsibility for your country” on the issue. “I'm angry about the intransigence and the lack of responsibility taken ...

Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Four Rocky players to line up with Indigenous Allstars
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
The championships start on Friday and have attracted some of Australia and New Zealand's best darts players, who will vie for a share of the $60,000 in prizemoney. It has been a big year for the local quartet, who were also part of the first all ...

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The Advocate
Treaty before Closing the Gap changes: Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre
The Advocate
Before making changes to the national Closing the Gap strategy, the federal government should pursue a treaty with Australia's first peoples, the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre says. On Monday, the Council of Australian Governments' Indigenous Affairs ...

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Daily Telegraph
Wallabies' indigenous jersey set to stay after nation embraces popular strip
Daily Telegraph
The indigenous jersey championed by Kurtley Beale is set to stay. Sales of the jersey have gone gangbusters and numerous high profile athletes, such as Matt Giteau and Anthony Mundine, called for the Wallabies to adopt the jersey permanently. It is ...

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Law Council backs indigenous voice vote
The Australian
The Law Council has long held that the country's founding document should formally recognise the distinct identities of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and their unique status as Australia's first peoples. "The Referendum Council's work in ...

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Law Council backs Aboriginal referendum
NEWS.com.au
... treaty-making mechanism and a reconciliation commission. "We are now calling for genuine commitment from all federal parliamentarians to implement the Referendum Council's recommendations swiftly," Law Council of Australia President Fiona McLeod ...

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The Stringer
Every child is our child – Australia's abomination, a crisis among children
The Stringer
Educators and leaders in their field presented about their good works with predominately Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. But I felt a sense of emptiness for the far too many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who do not ...

ABC Online
Australia Day: Councils to be banned from changing the date if Liberals win SA election
ABC Online
Councils would be banned from changing the date they use to celebrate Australia Day in South Australia, the State Liberals have declared, if they win government in March. SA Opposition Leader Steven Marshall, who is also the spokesperson for Aboriginal ...

The Mercury
Hobart to officially support change of Australia Day date
The Mercury
Ald Marti Zucco said it was worrying the council could fund a protest and agreed with Ald Philip Cocker there were bigger issues for the Aboriginal community. “I went to the Australia Day conference in Adelaide, there were some very important speakers ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous leaders angry about Government's 'lack of responsibility' to address constitution issue
ABC Online
... Statement, which arose from six months of consultations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. "I'm angry about the intransigence. And the lack of responsibility," he said. "I'm angry that our people are constantly seeking the sentiment ...

Katherine Times
More Aboriginal Australians finishing school
Katherine Times
The census results show that the highest Year 12 completion rates in 2016 were in the Australian Capital Territory (57 per cent) and Queensland (42 per cent) while the Northern Territory had the lowest proportion (22 per cent). The number of Aboriginal ...

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Rugby's indigenous recognition a step in the right direction
The Australian
As a Maori from across the ditch, I was most impressed by the Australian Rugby Union's integration of Aboriginal culture into the Wallabies-All Blacks game on Saturday night. There seems to be a genuine and growing commitment to working with some of ...

The Advertiser
SA Liberals would force local councils to celebrate Australia Day on January 26 if they won government
The Advertiser
Councillor Bruce Hull had argued that January 26 was the wrong day to celebrate Australia Day because it marked the British invasion of Aboriginal land. Interstate, the Yarra and Darebin councils in Victoria in August voted to scrap their Australia Day ...

The Advertiser
Caleb Bond: Stopping Aboriginal violence is a conversation we must have as Australians
The Advertiser
Keith Woodford, the husband of Gayle Woodford who was lured from her home and brutally raped and murdered by Aboriginal man Dudley Davey while working in the APY lands, yesterday called for more police in the Outback. It is one of the great shames of ...