Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

InDaily
Podcast: Paralympic great and aspiring politician Matthew Cowdrey
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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ABC Online
Tarnanthi Aboriginal art festival shines light on Maralinga's nuclear legacy
ABC Online
The installation includes 550 timber "kulata" or spears that hang from the ceiling of the South Australian Art Gallery. They were carved in the remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, where the so-called "black mist" swept over in the 1950s ...
Stan Grant compares Indigenous cultural sites to the Sistine ChapelThe Guardian

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The Conversation AU
Friday essay: the cultural meanings of wild horses
The Conversation AU
In both of those countries, as in Australia, there is a unique history of horse interactions with Indigenous communities. The great Native American horse cultures are well known and extraordinary, as Indians had no introduction to equestrian skills ...

Sky News Australia
Far-right protesters storm Melboure council
Sky News Australia
In September, the Moreland council voted to scrap all references to January 26 as Australia Day out of respect for Aboriginal people, but the protesters say they had 'no right' to do so. 'This is the death of Australia Day and the council have no right ...

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Vogue Australia
Inside the world of South Australia's Indigenous contemporary artists
Vogue Australia
Fielding is one of dozens of artists from the APY Lands who will exhibit at Tarnanthi, the biennial Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, which will showcase more than 1,000 Indigenous artists at the Art Gallery of South ...
Outback cattle station couple rise to the challenge in South Australia's APY landsABC Online

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The Adelaide Review
Experiencing Ngurra
The Adelaide Review
Curator Glenn Iseger-Pilkington believes the exhibition Ngurra will challenge visitors to think about where the Aboriginal art we see on gallery walls originates and the worlds Indigenous Australians navigate. “It's an invitation from Ngaanyatjarra ...

Huffington Post Australia
The Federal Government Is Urging The States To Take On A 'Life Saving' Custodial Notification Service
Huffington Post Australia
The Federal Government is urging Australia's States and Territories to fully adopt a Custodial Notification Service (CNS) to help stop indigenous deaths in custody, amid fears the potentially life-saving proposal is being ignored a year after it was ...

The Australian
PM urged to revive indigenous constitutional recognition agenda
The Australian
Mr Mansell said it would be critical to convince Australians the proposed treaty body was not seeking to impose an “Aboriginal tax”, but it would nonetheless need to further formalise compensation paid for historical dispossessions. This would include ...

ABC Online
Sydney Dance Rites contest celebrates 'classics' of traditional Indigenous culture
ABC Online
But for Indigenous societies, encoding information in this way has allowed for the faithful recreation of knowledge relating to the physical and spiritual world, allowing it to be maintained and enhanced across millennia. Koomurri, a 25-year-old dance ...

Far-right group storms Victorian council
The Australian
In September, the Moreland council voted to scrap all references to January 26 as Australia Day out of respect for Aboriginal people, but the protesters say they had "no right" to do so. "This is the death of Australia Day and the council have no right ...

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ABC Online
'Forgotten' Indigenous digger recognised half a century on
ABC Online
One of the first Indigenous men to enlist for World War I will today be recognised with full military honours, more than 50 years after he was buried in an unmarked grave. A grave dedication service will be held today in Charters Towers for Charles ...

Principal Education Advisor, Indigenous English as an Additional Language
EducationHQ Australia
Strengthen curriculum leaders, designated coaches and teachers' knowledge of the IEAL/D frameworks as they relate to the Australian Curriculum by focusing professional development on student learning, effective teaching strategies and how to ...

SBS
Kirby, Triggs damn Kafkaesque refugee laws
SBS
The two described Australia's approach to asylum seekers as akin to the treatment of Aboriginal people in decades past and urged fellow lawyers to lend their skills to RACS in the fight against the policies. Mr Kirby recalled representing a group of ...

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An indigenous focus on startups
http://www.innovationaus.com/
The Queensland government believes it's on the right the track to helping reduce the disadvantage gap among Indigenous Australians. But Kamilaroi man Dean Foley – the founder of Australia's first ever Indigenous Startup Weekend and Indigenous startup ...

ABC Online
NSW introduces nation's first laws to recognise and revive Indigenous languages
ABC Online
Hundreds gathered outside NSW Parliament in Sydney on Wednesday to usher in an historic piece of legislation — the Aboriginal Languages Bill. As part of the new legislation, the State Government said it would appoint an independent panel of Aboriginal ...
Aboriginal jail hotline ignored by statesThe Australian

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Mandurah Mail
Three Summers Mandurah premiere to raise funds at gala event
Mandurah Mail
... Summers team are looking forward to supporting two great local charities and the region in which the film was shot, with proceeds from the event going to Foundation for Indigenous Sustainable Health (FISH) and the Lord's Taverners Australia Peel ...

RETURN OF MUNGO MAN
Aboriginal Art Directory News
This invitation from the Elders has gone out to Indigenous communities across the country, and extends to all Australians, as well. Mungo Man was first discovered in 1974 by geophysicist Jim Bowler working on the shoreline of an ancient Ice Age lake in ...

Aboriginal jail hotline ignored by states
The Australian
Western Australia has begun negotiations to introduce the service after the government copped criticism over the controversial death in custody of 22-year-old Aboriginal woman Ms Dhu in 2014. Gerry Georgatos, suicide prevention researcher with the ...

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Million-dollar boost for groundbreaking maternity program
UQ News
The project, led by The University of Queensland's Professor Sue Kildea and researchers from the University of Sydney and the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health, will implement Birthing on Country in two sites with a view to an Australia-wide roll out.

The Conversation AU
New research reveals the origin of Australia's extinct flightless giants, the mihirung birds
The Conversation AU
Australia's living flightless birds - the emu and close relative the cassowary - once roamed alongside much larger birds that resembled dinosaurs. These huge creatures are known as mihirungs, based on the Aboriginal term for “giant bird”. The mihirungs ...

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