Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The West Australian
Urgent work needed to save Pilbara languages
The West Australian
Most of the 31 Pilbara Aboriginal languages are in varying states of decline, with some already extinct or on the brink of extinction. IBN Group chairwoman Lorraine Injie said while translation services were readily available for foreign languages in ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal woman jailed for unpaid fines after she sought police help
The Guardian
An Indigenous woman in Perth has been jailed for 14 days for unpaid fines, 10 months after a coronial inquiry recommended the Western Australian government abolish the practice. The 35-year-old Noongar woman was arrested on a warrant of commitment ...

The Guardian
Indigenous groups renew call for target to reduce incarceration
The Guardian
The letter, obtained by Guardian Australia, places significant emphasis on ensuring the targets are owned “jointly” by federal and state governments, and Indigenous Australians. The letter shows a “high level discussion paper” has been developed for ...

The Australian Financial Review
Kerry Stokes builds his cattle empire in Western Australia's far north
The Australian Financial Review
Seven Group Holdings owner Kerry Stokes is set to increase the size of his privately owned cattle empire in Western Australia's Kimberley region to more than one million hectares in a deal involving a cash-strapped Aboriginal corporation. The deal ...

NT News
Darwin shop named Australia's best fish and chips
NT News
Judges chose the humble marina-side eatery from hundreds of competitors nationwide, announcing Frying Nemo as Australia's best at an awards ceremony in Sydney last night. The shop, which specialises in wild caught and Australian seafood, took out the ...

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Community Newspaper Group
Girrawheen Girls Academy helps Aboriginal girls get empowered
Community Newspaper Group
“It'd be great to see more academies around Australia to increase the levels of young Aboriginal girls being able to have the opportunity to gain graduation, have good experiences through school, see more go through university and get amazing careers.”.

NEWS.com.au
Protesters storm council meeting over Australia Day change
NEWS.com.au
The wellbeing of indigenous Australians has made headlines a few times lately, after a three Melbourne councils opted to change the date from January 26. I'm a well-educated Australian, but I've never considered myself to be particularly well-versed on ...
Indigenous photography - complex, contemporary, surprising and freshArtsHub UK (subscription)

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Central Western Daily
Latest data reveals suicide rates in regional areas twice that of capital cities
Central Western Daily
“We also need to be looking at increasing expenditure for those living in rural and regional Australia where suicide rates have been twice as high than in capital cities, yet the expenditure in services per head is half as much,” he said. The national ...

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Herald Sun
Australia Day: Port Phillip could become fourth Melbourne council to scrap celebrations
Herald Sun
The motion seeks to consult with “elders of the Yalukut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung, other local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and local indigenous organisations” but does not specify whether the wider community will also be ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Indigenous photography - complex, contemporary, surprising and fresh
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is currently staging the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) touring exhibition Resolution: new Indigenous photomedia. It celebrates some of the most significant work made by Indigenous photographers, video and ...

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InDaily
Could karkalla become the next superfood?
InDaily
Motlop told InDaily that the Indigenous-owned Something Wild Australia currently picks about 200kg a week along the Coorong, where it also harvests other native greens such as native rosemary, samphire and sea blight. It supplies the karkalla to around ...

Cootamundra Herald
Fay Moseley gets behind NSW Aboriginal Land Council's treaty campaign
Cootamundra Herald
A survivor of the infamous Cootamundra Girls' Home has welcomed fresh calls for a treaty with Australia's Indigenous people. Fay Moseley was just 10 years old when she was taken from her family and said while a treaty wouldn't heal all wounds, it would ...

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The Border Mail
Fay Moseley gets behind NSW Aboriginal Land Council's treaty campaign
The Border Mail
A survivor of the infamous Cootamundra Girls' Home has welcomed fresh calls for a treaty with Australia's Indigenous people. Fay Moseley was just 10 years old when she was taken from her family and said while a treaty wouldn't heal all wounds, it would ...

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The Irrigator
Fay Moseley gets behind NSW Aboriginal Land Council's treaty campaign
The Irrigator
A survivor of the infamous Cootamundra Girls' Home has welcomed fresh calls for a treaty with Australia's Indigenous people. Fay Moseley was just 10 years old when she was taken from her family and said while a treaty wouldn't heal all wounds, it would ...

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NEWS.com.au
RUSH HOUR: Thousands evacuated as Vanuatu volcano threatens to blow
NEWS.com.au
A third Melbourne Council has voted to drop all references to January 26 as Australia Day out of respect for Aboriginal people. However, Moreland City Council last night stopped short of cancelling its official Australia Day citizenship ceremony. One ...

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Katherine Times
Painkillers and meth drive surge in Australian drug deaths
Katherine Times
The ABS also released data about Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, showing it increased by 19 per cent - or 128,500 people - in the five years to June 2016. That's more than double the 8 per cent increase for the non ...
The 10 deadly things we need to check forDaily Liberal

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Cosmos
Climate, not dingoes, killed the thylacine on mainland Australia
Cosmos
Climate variability, not the dingo or Aboriginal impacts, is probably the main cause of the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger on the Australian mainland, according to new genetics research. The study, published in the Journal of Biogeography, could ...

Suicide main cause of death for Aust youth
The Australian
Suicide rates have fallen but it remains the leading cause of death among young Australians. ... Mr Woodward says he is dismayed that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide rates remain twice as high as the general population. "We need ...

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Mirage News
Australia's Indigenous population grows faster than non-Indigenous population: statistics
Xinhua
CANBERRA, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Australia's Indigenous population is growing twice as fast as the nation's non-Indigenous population, while Australia's first people now make up 3.3 percent of all Aussies, according to new figures released by the ...
Maclean students connecting to countryClarence Valley Daily Examiner

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ABC Online
The Aboriginal communities smiling again (and saving millions)
ABC Online
He's part of a public health revolution that's costing less and delivering far more to Aboriginal dental patients. The van travels through rural towns — including Mr Talbot's hometown of Boggabilla — to fit patients with the dentures they desperately ...