Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Mashable
Aboriginal light festival illuminates miles of desert in the Australian outback
Mashable
The first Aboriginal light festival of its kind in the world, Parrtjima, is back for another year. It's an annual, free, ten-night festival celebrating Arrernte (Central Australian) art and culture, held in Mparntwe (Alice Springs, Australia) from Sept ...

ABC Online
Noongar food takes off as chefs embrace Geraldton wax, bottlebrush and honey ants
ABC Online
It's an approach which is reaping rewards, with Wildflower regularly cited as one of Australia's best and most exciting restaurants. The Noongar people — one of the biggest Aboriginal cultural groups in Australia whose traditional lands are in WA's ...

ABC Online
Smoking rates among pregnant Indigenous women tackled in major research project
ABC Online
Many of those resources have been digitally focused. Phase two involved a pilot project using those resources, and was implemented in NSW, South Australia and Queensland. "We had trained all of the health providers at those services," Associate ...

Connections to indigenous cultural feed a broader role in the community
The Australian (blog)
Australia Council researcher Mandy Whitford says there is a strong relationship between cultural maintenance — such as speaking an indigenous language and involvement in cultural events — and rates of education and employment. “These findings show ...

The Australian
Rock art researcher Grahame Walsh got it wrong
The Australian
One of Australia's most controversial rock art researchers, Grahame Walsh, was wrong when he insisted that the extraordinary epochs of Kimberley rock art were unconnected and probably made by long-since disappeared Aboriginal peoples. Yet the late ...

When will Australia hear this?
The Australian
A report last week from a parliamentary inquiry into the hearing health of Australians revealed what those working in the field of ear health have known for decades. The prevalence of otitis media (middle ear) infections among Aboriginal and Torres ...

The West Australian
Players not just a commodity: New Fremantle Dockers board member
The West Australian
Professor Hayward was the 2008 National NAIDOC Aboriginal Person of the Year, was inducted into the WA Women's Hall of Fame in 2012 and is a Member of the Order of Australia. Former champion Australian swimmer Sam Riley, serving with Gold Coast, ...

SBS (blog)
This & That: 'Walkabout', 'Yolngu Boy'
SBS (blog)
David Gulpilil (OAM) is without a doubt Australia's most famous and prolific Indigenous performer. Now aged in his sixties, the Arnhem-raised Yolngu dancer and actor is famed for his grace, charisma and almost uncanny ability to dominate any film he ...

ABC Online
SSM: Cobargo shops fly the rainbow colours for posties after Australia Post flag ban
ABC Online
When Sydney couple David Wilson and Kyle Moser took over the post office license in Cobargo, a small country town on the NSW far south coast, they did not anticipate they would find themselves at the centre of the same-sex marriage debate. "We came ...

New Matilda
Killing Ground: An Aussie Horror Film That May Scare Us Into Breaking The Silence
New Matilda
Killing Ground's release coincided with the decision of two Melbourne councils to drop Australia Day ceremonies on January 26. Yarra City Council made the decision out of respect for Aboriginal Australians and because “of the depth of feeling about ...

ABC Online
Remote Aboriginal school takes out top science award never won outside Perth
ABC Online
A remote Aboriginal school in Western Australia has broken two, long-standing records by winning a state science award. The Science Teachers Association's (STAWA) Secondary School of the Year award — now in its 59th year — had never gone to an ...

Family responsibility key to rescuing town in crisis
The Australian
Statistics cannot relate the pain and trauma Roebourne's children endure, at a rate Australia has never seen. Nor have many developing countries. In the small town of about 1200, including about 1000 Aborigines, police have confirmed that 184 children ...

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The Australian
In search of an answer
The Australian
Australia, with its indigenous inhabitants, was of course here before Europeans arrived, so that Aboriginal Australians may well feel that their land was already known and did not need to be discovered. But if the usual narrative of discovery seems to ...

The Australian
'Miranda must go': push to end Hanging Rock's enduring myth
The Australian
Visitor numbers to Hanging Rock are likely to soar next year when Foxtel releases FremantleMedia Australia's reimagining of Lindsay's novel, which stars indigenous actress Madeleine Madden as one of the schoolgirls. The series has been sold to Amazon ...

Moral panic should be over Aboriginal kids' suicide rate, not SSM
The Australian (blog)
A study published by the Australian Psychological Society authored by Pat Dudgeon and Chris Holland points out that there are two sets of contexts in thinking about Aboriginal issues. One is the broad cultural and historical context, the other is the ...

The Australian
Indigenous prize sparks business awards review
The Australian
The case has prompted the head of the art industry self-regulatory body, the Indigenous Art Code, to call upon federal Small Business Minister Michael McCormack, who endorses the Australian Small Business Champion Awards, to sever his ties. Indigenous ...

The Australian
Grand master lost to history: Namatjira's legacy stifled by deal
The Australian
In the 1940s and early 50s, Australia could not get enough of Aboriginal landscape painter Albert Namatjira. The former cameleer and initiated Aranda man from central Australia was the subject of three documentaries, his exhibitions sold out regularly ...

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Junkee
'Pretty For An Aboriginal' Is Australia's Most Charming And Radical New Podcast
Junkee
Pretty For An Aboriginal is totally unlike anything that's been unleashed on the Australian media so far. A space where two black women can talk to each other and share their experience with the public is fairly unprecedented in our media landscape ...

Letters to the editor
Port Lincoln Times
The idea that these Aboriginal 'tribes' had distinct boundaries is another questionable concept perpetuated since European contact. Apart from the map of tribal boundaries drawn up to accompany Norman Tindale's 1974 book Aboriginal Tribes of Australia ...

Head of Aboriginal Education
EducationHQ Australia
Haileybury is one of the leading schools in the Asia-Pacific region with campuses and education programs at Keysborough, Brighton, Berwick, City (Melbourne) and China. The School has enrolments exceeding 4,000. The School is acclaimed for its ...

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