Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Telegraph.co.uk
Copyright restored to poor family of Australian Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira
Telegraph.co.uk
The impoverished family of Australia's most famous Aboriginal artist, Albert Namatjira, has been given copyright to his works after years of fruitless campaigning triggered the intervention of a philanthropist. Namatjira's vibrant water colours are ...
Copyright restored to Albert Namatjira family in AustraliaDeutsche Welle

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Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Council offers to dump Australia Day ceremonies
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
The move was in response to a failed Greens proposal to allow an indigenous advisory committee to decide "how or if council should engage with this day (January 26)". That proposal had the potential to see Australia Day celebrations dumped, following ...
'Why would immigrants have an Aboriginal attachment?': Sunrise co-host Andrew O'Keefe slams Sydney council's plan ...Daily Mail

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ABC Online
Memories fade, but Aboriginal elders on mission to identify historic Noonkanbah protestors
ABC Online
The pioneers of the Aboriginal land rights movement in the Kimberley are working off a faded photograph to try to identify people who took part in the Noonkanbah land rights protests, which galvanised Indigenous resistance in the region almost 40 years ...

NEWS.com.au
Australia Day citizenship ceremonies: Inner West Council offers NAIDOC Week alternative
NEWS.com.au
AFTER flirting with the idea of becoming the first NSW council to scrub Australia Day celebrations, the Inner West has instead become the first in the country to offer citizenship ceremonies in NAIDOC Week as an alternative to January 26. The move was ...

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Australia Day citizenship ceremonies: Inner West Council offers NAIDOC Week alternative
Daily Telegraph
The resolution, passed at the October 12 meeting, committed to “holding a citizenship ceremony during NAIDOC week, and that we focus the theme of that ceremony upon Aboriginal history and culture”. “If you do it well and tastefully it could be a really ...

Reuters
Copyright restored to poor family of Australian Aboriginal artist
Reuters
An undated photo released on October 14, 2017 shows family members watching Australia's most famous Aboriginal artist, Albert Namatjira, sitting on a rock as he paints. Pastor S.O. Gross-courtesy of the Strehlow Research Centre/Handout via REUTERS.

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Daily Telegraph
Kurtley Beale the driving force behind Wallabies' ground-breaking indigenous jersey
Daily Telegraph
Both national songs are sung with verses in English and in indigenous languages, and regardless of their backgrounds, players and fans belt it all out with pride. Australia doesn't have a multilingual anthem but next week in Brisbane, the Wallabies ...

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ABC Online
Meningococcal outbreak worries families in Central Australia
ABC Online
Grandmother of three Vanessa Smith isn't taking any chances with her 12-month-old grandson Mattio, or her six-year-old granddaughter Rexena. "You would rather get the injection now than have them in Alice Springs Hospital waking up with limbs missing ...

ABC Online
Indigenous turtle nesting camp inspires next generation of marine leaders
ABC Online
Rangers from the Carpentaria Land Council Aboriginal Corporation run what they describe as one of Australia's most remote turtle nesting camps, based 60 kilometres east of the Northern Territory border on Gunnamulla beach. They record species types, ...

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Sky & Telescope
Aboriginal Australians Observed Red Giant Stars' Variability
Sky & Telescope
Australian Aborigines probably observed the cyclical changes in the brightness of pulsating red giant stars such as Antares, Betelgeuse, and Aldebaran. They integrated their observations into their oral traditions — cultural narratives that served as ...

The Australian
Namatjira landscapes: copyright breakthrough opens way for wider audience
The Australian
(This new body represents the interests of the artist's descendants and their broader community in central Australia.) Namatjira, the first indigenous painter to work in a western tradition, died in 1959 in tragic circumstances, and is still arguably ...

The Canberra Times
The Seven Sisters songline: the precious lessons behind a bawdy tale
The Canberra Times
Traditional owners gather at Cave Hill with National Museum of Australia staff. Photo: Wolter Peeters. Today, Douglas speaks of Tjukurpa, a term that refers to the creation period and its echoes in the present, in terms of religion, law and identity ...

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The Australian
Troubled Cape York school's results plunge
The Australian
Aurukun, 2400km north of Brisbane, was a proving site for Direct Instruction teaching of indigenous children. Good to Great Schools Australia, which operates Mr Pearson's Cape York Aboriginal Academy, ran the program in partnership with the state ...

The Mercury
Hobart City Council ready to say it's time to move Australia Day
The Mercury
In April, the council agreed to review its events on January 26, with the priority to consider changing the date of the Australia Day citizenship ceremony in Hobart. The review suggested the council could provide event support for the Tasmanian ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal satirical film Never Stop Riding inspired by stockmen and spaghetti westerns
ABC Online
The film provides a glimpse of some of the personalities of those who live in South Australia's remote APY Lands. It's got all the elements of a classic, from 'wanted' signs and a hostile standoff to a shootout. Mr Mungkari said the community had a lot ...
Aboriginal art fair links artists with buyersInDaily
Stan Grant compares Indigenous cultural sites to the Sistine ChapelThe Guardian

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The West Australian
'Tackle problems before they get bigger'
The West Australian
Dion Meredith was Kalgoorlie- Boulder's first and, to date, only Aboriginal councillor, and he remains as passionate about the issues facing the town today as he was in 1997 when he ran. When he returned to his hometown from Geelong last November, Dion ...

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Aboriginal Australians Observed Red Giant Stars' Variability  Sky & Telescope

Oral accounts by Aboriginal Australians show that they included references to the variability of red giants Antares, Betelgeuse, and Aldebaran.

Broadsheet
The Voice of Indigenous Fashion Design Gets Louder - Broadsheet
Broadsheet
Earlier this year, Chanel made headlines for its $2000 boomerang. The fashion label was criticised for disrespecting Indigenous Australians and for partaking in ...

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Indigenous people challenge the 'lost knowledge' of Australian bureaucracy
Crikey
Try this: “I don't care if you're racist,” declared one Indigenous professor invited by the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) to an event jointly hosted by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Yes, I heard the sudden ...

InDaily
Aboriginal art fair links artists with buyers
InDaily
Tarnanthi has grown to be Australia's largest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture festival, featuring more than 1000 artists from across the country. Highlights from this year's festival include a collection of sea creature sculptures ...

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