Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Daily Telegraph
Indigenous star Samantha Harris lashes out at trolls
Daily Telegraph
The model's comments have been well received online. “Beautiful inside and out and a great inspiration to young Australians,” another wrote. As the second Aboriginal woman to grace the cover of Vogue magazine, this isn't the first time Harris has ...
'Hurtful and racist': Aussie top model targets Instagram trollsNorthern Star

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NEWS.com.au
Indigenous star Samantha Harris lashes out at trolls
NEWS.com.au
“Australia is such a multicultural country, why don't we celebrate that?” she remarked. Harris married her long-term partner, Luke Hunt, in a secret intimate ceremony in March 2014. Harris and Hunt opted to keep the ceremony secret out of respect ...
'Hurtful and racist': Aussie top model targets Instagram trollsNorthern Star

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Northern Star
'Hurtful and racist': Aussie top model targets Instagram trolls
Northern Star
"I would love to see more diversity on the catwalks and in campaigns because Australia itself is such a multicultural country, why don't we celebrate that," Harris told AAP. "Indigenous Fashion Week happened last year,' she said in an interview with ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Warwick Thornton thrilled as outback western Sweet Country given standing ovation
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sound recordist David Tranter, a friend since they grew up together on the same street in Alice Springs then both trained at the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, told him on set one day that he had a story for a film. "I occasionally ...

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ABC Online
'Burrmalala': Indigenous cyclone knowledge shared in Arnhem Land film
ABC Online
A film about Yolngu knowledge of cyclones, or Burrmalala, has been launched in Arnhem Land in preparation for the coming cyclone season. In Wata Burrmalala — Cyclone Culture, residents from Ramingining and Milingimbi communities talk about how ...

The Canberra Times
'Dramatic' Aboriginal apprehension numbers require urgent action
The Canberra Times
Mr Stanhope, an adviser at the Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Centre, also called on the government to reintroduce an Aboriginal justice centre. "I think it stunning [...] that Canberra, the most prosperous city in Australia, has currently the ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous anti-nuclear activist tells of her personal work with Nobel Prize-winning ICAN
ABC Online
"It's not a happy story, it's quite a sad and tragic story, but ICAN has certainly been a wonderful platform for us Anangu and Aboriginal people of Australia to really talk up strongly about what happened to us back in those days," she said. When she ...

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ABC Online
How teen-mum-turned-lawyer Haley Allan turned her life around and helped hundreds do the same
ABC Online
... often overwhelmed support services in the region. The Kimberley has some of the most appalling statistics around family violence in Australia, with Aboriginal women the most likely to endure years of abuse and most likely to be murdered by their ...

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Townsville Bulletin
Social justice trailblazer laid to rest
Townsville Bulletin
Following her death, Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said Dr Scott contributed immeasurably to reconciliation in Australia. Dr Scott is the first indigenous woman to receive a Queensland state funeral. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk paid ...

The Australian
Journey to the heart
The Australian
Of Afghan, Irish, English and Aboriginal heritage, Cumpston is a widely collected landscape photographer and curator, yet she first worked professionally with images in an undeniably unglamorous setting: the South Australian policedepartment. There ...

The Australian
Remembering Beersheba's heroes, the Aborigines willing to die for their country
The Australian
It's difficult to believe that the AIF did not know that Stacey was indigenous and the enlisting officer would certainly have known that Aboriginal Australians were not, as a rule, permitted to serve their country. Did Jack lie about his parentage, or ...

The West Australian
Elder encourages career in the military
The West Australian
Mr Taylor's comments came ahead of this week's visit by indigenous defence force members who were in Geraldton to encourage Aboriginal people to join the Australian armed forces. Mr Taylor said he had had a long and interesting career since joining the ...

SBS
Queensland police investigating after officer allegedly grabs Indigenous schoolgirl
SBS
The video shows a police officer confronting a group of Indigenous teenagers and their parents at Murgon, about 250km north-west of Brisbane, in Queensland. The officer is seen grabbing two young Indigenous females from the group - one reported to SBS ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous activist Evelyn Scott hailed as key freedom fighter at state funeral in Townsville
ABC Online
... the human race." Dr Scott was renowned as a leading figure in the decade-long Indigenous campaign to change the constitution. The 1967 referendum was a turning point where Australians voted to include Indigenous people in the census for the first time.

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The Australian
Federal Court decision clears path for Gunyangara township lease
The Australian
The leasing plan, first revealed by The Australian in 2015, was supposed to pioneer a new form of tenure simplification, under which Aboriginal land trusts would lease to Aboriginal corporations instead of to a government entity, as has been done before.

The North West Star
Indigenous women less likely to survive breast cancer
The North West Star
Cancer Australia CEO Helen Zorbas said the video had been produced to put vital knowledge about the importance of breast awareness and early detection of breast cancer in the hands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and communities.

The West Australian
Coles boost Kwinana indigenous workforce
The West Australian
“It is great to have 12 new indigenous recruits join our stores at Kwinana and surrounding suburbs. “There are currently more than 395 indigenous team members in Western Australia and I look forward to this number growing.” All participants that ...

The Australian Financial Review
True Leaders 2017: Marcia Langton maintains the rage
The Australian Financial Review
Langton, a descendant of the Yiman and Bidjara nations of Queensland and the foundation chair and professor in Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, has made a habit of calling out inconvenient truths for those who have imagined ...

InDaily
After the Apology is vital viewing
InDaily
She's an author, filmmaker, radio presenter, legal academic and political advocate. Along with producer Michaela Perske, Behrendt received the Indigenous Feature Documentary Initiative from Screen Australia, Adelaide Film Festival, KOJO and the ...

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Evelyn Scott farewelled at state funeral
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She was involved in the referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in 1967. Before the legislative change Aboriginal people were treated as minors under the protection of the federal government and had no legal rights. Dr Scott's family said in a ...