Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

National Indigenous Times
Cultural festival 'helps open people's eyes'
National Indigenous Times
The Parrtijima festival lit up Alice Springs last week with breathtaking art by Aboriginal artists from central Australia. Parrtijima — A Festival in Light transformed Alice Springs Desert Park into an outdoor gallery of light and sound over 10 nights ...

National Indigenous Times
Straight-talking women unite to boost skills
National Indigenous Times
Aboriginal women will travel from across Western Australia's Kimberley to Broome next week to gain community activism skills at the region's first Straight Talk event. Former senator, Olympic gold medallist and Straight Talk trailblazer Nova Peris ...

Yahoo7 News
Strategy for indigenous men's health
Yahoo7 News
Losing his nephew to the same preventable disease that afflicts so many Aboriginal Australians galvanised Ken Wyatt to make indigenous men's health a "top priority" of his political agenda. The federal indigenous health minister says his nephew was a ...

National Indigenous Times
Tarnanthi palette rich in colour, diversity
National Indigenous Times
Indigenous artists will travel from Australia's most north-easterly point in the Torres Strait and from its far south in Tasmania for the country's biggest celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture next month. The Tarnanthi ...

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Business Insider Australia
A gay Aboriginal actor's portrait, from an ABC TV series, just won the people's choice at the Archibald Prize
Business Insider Australia
Comedian turned painter Anh Do, best known for the ABC TV series Anh's Brush with Fame, has won the People's Choice award at the Archibald Prize with a portrait featured on the TV series Indigenous actor, Jack Charles. More than 15,000 visitors to the ...

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ArtsHub
Community, country and sector: fighting for change
ArtsHub
On 12 May 2014, the Australia Council for the Arts – and the broader Australian arts sector – reeled in shock as then Minister for the Arts George Brandis announced he had reallocated $104.8 million over four years from the Australia Council's budget ...

The Australian
Indigenous leaders blame Canberra's inertia for Uluru Statement delay
The Australian
“The Voice is unsurprising as a reform idea, given the inertness of the parliament to indigenous rights and consequently an indifference to one of the most significant statements issued by the first peoples to the Australian people.” She will describe ...

ABC Online
Midnight Oil: Aboriginal elder demands apology from Peter Garrett over McArthur River Mine diversion
ABC Online
An Aboriginal elder from the Northern Territory is demanding an apology from former federal environment minister Peter Garrett as Midnight Oil kicks off its first Australian tour in 15 years. In 2009, Mr Garrett allowed mining giant Glencore to divert ...

WAtoday
'White-hot fury': Pensioner pays for WA mum-of-five who was jailed over unpaid fines
WAtoday
A Melbourne pensioner who paid more than $3000 to release an indigenous Western Australian mother from prison felt "white-hot fury" reading about her unpaid fines. The mother-of-five had called police for help during a family violence incident but they ...
EXCLUSIVE: Melbourne pensioner reveals why he paid jailed WA mum's finesSBS

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Daily Review
Aboriginal graffiti artists in the spotlight in new series
Daily Review
Colour Theory: Underground will profile four Indigenous graffiti artists working across Australia's capital cities, using country and culture to inspire their contemporary urban art. The series sees acclaimed artist and host Tony Albert travel across ...

ABC Online
Indigenous women less likely to survive breast cancer than others due to delayed diagnosis
ABC Online
Aboriginal women are less likely to survive breast cancer than non-indigenous women which has prompted a new social media campaign to try to increase early detection. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Australian women yet Indigenous ...

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InDaily
First Nations in focus at Adelaide Film Festival
InDaily
The period western from Warwick Thornton – the first Indigenous Australian director with a film in competition at Venice – claimed the Biennale's Special Jury Prize and the Venice Critic's award for Best Film. Days later, the spiritual epic took home ...

ABC Online
Koori Rugby League Knockout ends with Newcastle Yowies claiming victory
ABC Online
The Koori Rugby League Knockout has been a four-day celebration of Aboriginal talent, family and culture, and this year it is the Newcastle Yowies who get to take home the illustrious title of grand champions. The annual carnival, now in its 37th year ...

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Shepparton News
Parity for all is work in progress
Shepparton News
This year, when delivering the Dungala Kaiela Oration from the margins to the mainstream: indigenous recovery in rural Australia in Shepparton, Professor Marcia Langton said Greater Shepparton had an opportunity to close the gap and reach equality ...

NT News
NT meningococcal outbreak may spread to the Top End
NT News
There have been 18 confirmed cases of the deadly disease so far this year, mainly in Aboriginal children from Central Australian, Barkly and Katherine communities. There were only three cases in 2016, according to the NT Centre for Disease Control.

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The Guardian
Indigenous entrepreneurship is all around us
The Guardian
Trade and tourism for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island culture is now a big proponent in Australia. This brings many international markets to our doorstep. Partnerships are being formed across the world: New Zealand, Canada, the USA and other ...

The West Australian
Region needs Aboriginal tourism boost
The West Australian
Mr Williams said there were not enough Aboriginal people working in the Great Southern region tourism industry which was why many local and international tourists were drawn to other parts of Australia to gain authentic local indigenous experience.

Daily Telegraph
Two Sydney schoolkids with their eyes on Hollywood
Daily Telegraph
Miah has appeared in two Australian films: The Sapphires in 2012, playing Jessica Mauboy's character Julie as a child, and now in the newly-released Australia Day, playing runaway Aboriginal teenager April Tucker. Miah also has a string of television ...

Bellingen Courier Sun
Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians
Bellingen Courier Sun
Dementia expert Kylie Radford, who led the research published in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, says she hopes the study could go some way to explaining why the rate of dementia in Australia's Indigenous population is three to four ...

The Australian
Another door opens for student Enoch Mailangi
The Australian
An initiative of youth arts advocate Artology, with collaboration from ABC Indigenous and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, RAW received written entries from budding screenwriters, poets and visual artists. Artology is planning to run ...