Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

BuzzFeed News
Meet The Aboriginal Women Who Want Australia To Take Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Seriously
BuzzFeed News
But despite years spent tipping in their own money to support Aboriginal people affected by Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in daily life, education and employment, as well as undertaking FASD training, they have been continually knocked back ...

9news.com.au
HSC students asked to apologise to Aboriginal poet over 'online abuse'
9news.com.au
The spokesman also congratulated Ms van Neerven for having a poem chosen to be featured on an HSC exam. First Nations Australia Writers Network – a literary group for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors and publishers – said it “condemns” the ...

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SBS
'But where are you really from?' No, you don't have the right to ask this question
SBS
To be 'othered' as an Aboriginal woman in Australia takes it to another level. Much more than the interaction, the behavioural gestures of intrigue and disbelief, you are not only questioning me of my identity. You are questioning my family, my elders ...

Irish Times
Irish played part in atrocities against Aboriginal people - Australian MP
Irish Times
The first Aboriginal woman to be elected to Australia's House of Representatives has said that it must be acknowledged that the Irish were among the colonists who committed atrocities against Aboriginal people. Linda Burney MP, speaking days after ...

ArtsHub
The $1 Namatjira Copyright deal – how it happened
ArtsHub
An Arrernte man from Central Australia, Namatjira is recognised as Australia's greatest Indigenous painter and the first to work in the western tradition. He is best known for his watercolour paintings of the outback, and created about 2000 artworks ...

The RiotACT
Taking back the narrative
The RiotACT
Aboriginal culture is the oldest living culture in the world today. Buried tools and pigments recently found at Madjedbebe, a rock shelter in northern Australia, tell a history of Aboriginal occupation in Australia which began 65,000 years ago. Yet so ...

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Herald Sun
Australia Day: council ignores call to dump citizenship ceremonies
Herald Sun
Far-Right protesters stormed a Moreland council meeting recently over the Australia Day issue. Picture: Emma Hastings. “The Aboriginal community itself is divided on this issue — even within our own municipality there are varying views among ...

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NEWS.com.au
Australia Day: council ignores call to dump citizenship ceremonies
NEWS.com.au
The group was also disappointed four councillors who attended the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia in Darwin were absent from the meeting. “At least now we know that Aboriginal people and their rights are not a strategic priority ...

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The West Australian
Centre to host Q&A
The West Australian
“We are proud to support the important work of our national charity partner Foundation for Indigenous Sustainable Health and the local work of the Lord's Taverners Australia Peel Branch. Aboriginal elder and Foundation for Indigenous Sustainable Health ...

NEWS.com.au
Disease outbreak: The deadly virus killing dozens of Australian kids each year
NEWS.com.au
Last week, the 27th case of the W strain of the deadly disease was confirmed for 2017 in Central Australian indigenous communities. There were only three cases in 2016. The majority of those affected were Aboriginal kids younger than 10. The NT ...
NT baby death from meningococcal was rapidSBS

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ABC Online
Six WA schoolkids headed to Antarctica after winning icebreaker competition
ABC Online
They came up with the name 'Nuyina', which means 'southern lights' in palawa kani, the language of Tasmanian Aboriginal people, after studying Antarctica as part of a science extension program. Ahead of next ... Tanika Van Schelven, 11, said the group ...

ABC Online
HSC students attacking Mango poem by Indigenous writer Ellen Van Neerven urged to apologise
ABC Online
"We like works from Australian writers and this one happened to be Indigenous which is a great thing." NESA is standing by van Neerven and have extended their full support. "We also want to congratulate her for being selected and having a piece in the ...
High school students abuse queer Indigenous writer after her poem was in their examGay Star News

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Indigenous prisoner numbers to jump
Yahoo7 News
By 2025 one in two Australian prisoners will be Aboriginal unless generational disadvantage is addressed now, a prison reform expert warns. Indigenous Australians currently make up about a quarter of the national prison population despite comprising ...

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Herald Sun
Australia Day: Whittlesea Council ignores call to dump citizenship ceremonies
Herald Sun
“What ensued on the night has left many within the group and the wider Aboriginal community shocked,” Mr Morrison said. “Whittlesea Council has historically listened to the voices of WRG and I am bitterly ... Cr Lalios instead opted to vote for a ...

Huffington Post Australia
Australia Appointed To UN Human Rights Council Despite Shaky Record
Huffington Post Australia
But just three months ago, the U.N.'s Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights slammed Australia's progress on human rights for its own Indigenous population. In its July report 'Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of ...

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SBS
NT meningococcal baby died in 12 hours
SBS
... 2017 in central Australian indigenous communities. There were only three cases in 2016. The majority of those affected were Aboriginal kids younger than 10. The NT government has mounted a large-scale immunisation campaign in the affected regions ...

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ABC Online
NT baby death from meningococcal was rapid
SBS
... a current and unprecedented outbreak of meningococcal W strain in central Australia. Last week, the 27th case of the W strain of the deadly disease was confirmed for 2017 in central Australian indigenous communities. There were only three cases in ...
Child at Darwin childcare centre dies from meningococcal diseaseABC Online

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Sky News Australia
Meningococcal death prompts investigation
Sky News Australia
Last week the 25th case of the W strain of the deadly disease was confirmed in the central Australian indigenous communities of Barkly and Katherine. All of those affected had been Aboriginal people while 19 of the recorded were kids younger than 10.

Community Newspaper Group
Town of Victoria Park Aboriginal Engagement Strategy Group member says Town missed a chance to be a trailblazer ...
Community Newspaper Group
DYLAN Collard hopes discussions with the Town of Victoria Park about Australia Day will lead to the council being trailblazers. The Town of Victoria Park Aboriginal Engagement Strategy Group member and East Victoria Park resident said the Town missed ...

The Guardian
The artists painting their Indigenous songlines to stay healthy and strong
The Guardian
Twenty-four stallholders, representing Indigenous arts centres from around Australia, have brought their best work to Adelaide to sell in the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute. The art fair is part of the Tarnanthi festival of ...