Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
Pilbara's Indigenous leaders say no to cashless welfare card at annual Yule River meeting
ABC Online
Aboriginal community leaders from Western Australia's Pilbara have voted to "strongly oppose" the introduction of the cashless welfare card. The decision was made at the annual Yule River meeting which brings together Indigenous leaders from across the ...

The Guardian
From the margins to the mainstream | Pursuit by The University of ...
Pursuit
Professor Marcia Langton from the University of Melbourne on Indigenous activism, the positive impact of land rights and the Australia Day debate.
Indigenous communities need to be part of the solution. Top-down ...The Guardian
Overhauled health service could become country's best | St Marys ...St Marys-Mt Druitt Star

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The Cairns Post
Aboriginal leader Dr Evelyn Scott remembered as remarkable woman
The Cairns Post
Also in 2001 she was appointed an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday honours. The Scott and Backo family said in a statement yesterday that “her other greatest joy, outside of fishing and political ...

The Guardian
Indigenous communities need to be part of the solution. Top-down measures don't work
The Guardian
Because of the previous government's opposition, Australia could not become a signatory, but the Labor government stated their intention to reset relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and to build trust in order to work together ...
Greater Western Aboriginal Health Service could become Australia's best, says Darren Ah SeeSt Marys-Mt Druitt Star

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Political plan to 'put the bulldozer' through Aboriginal reserve
The Australian
The allegations gained momentum after officials from the West Australian government's remote reform unit visited Roebourne in June last year to talk to indigenous residents about issues including the future of the town reserve of Cheeditha, former WA ...

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The Australian
Evelyn Scott: tributes flow for reconciliation trailblazer
The Australian
“As we continue to discuss further recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, we should remember the work of Dr Scott in bringing indigenous and non-indigenous Australian's closer to reconciliation,” Senator Dodson said. One of ...

The Canberra Times
Author Anita Heiss delivers University of Canberra Ngunnawal lecture
The Canberra Times
Award-winning Indigenous author Anita Heiss has called on Australia's universities to commit to nurturing young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to help close the widening literacy gap. The educational outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres ...

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The West Australian
Population, income fare well in Census
The West Australian
In terms of ancestry, 30.2 per cent areAustralian, while 22.1 per cent are English, 9.2 per cent Australian Aboriginal, 5.8 per cent Irish and 5.3 per cent Scottish. One in five Broome residents does volunteer work through an organisation or group ...

"Trailblazing" Indigenous rights activist Dr Evelyn Scott dies
ABC Online
Indigenous activist Dr Evelyn Scott - who was one of the lead campaigners behind the 1967 constitutional referendum - has died. The 81 year old is being remembered as a trailblazer who changed Australia. She lobbied for the inclusion of Indigenous ...

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The Australian
Evelyn Scott: Indigenous activist dies in Queensland
The Australian
Ms Scott was awarded two honourary doctorates in 2000 and 2001, as well as being awarded an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2001 following her stewardship of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation from 1997 to 2000.
Dr Evelyn Scott, Indigenous rights activist and 'trailblazer', dies aged 81ABC Online
Community in mourning after activist and leader Dr Eveleyn Scott passes awaySBS
Indigenous activist Evelyn Scott diesNEWS.com.au

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ABC Online
Dr Evelyn Scott, Indigenous rights activist and 'trailblazer', dies aged 81
ABC Online
Among the towering figures of Australia's Aboriginal and Islander communities, Dr Evelyn Scott AO, stood proud and tall. The Indigenous educator and social justice campaigner has died in far north Queensland aged 81, and is being remembered as a ...
Community in mourning after activist and leader Dr Eveleyn Scott passes awaySBS
Evelyn Scott: Indigenous activist dies in QueenslandThe Australian
Indigenous activist Evelyn Scott diesNEWS.com.au

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Gizmodo Australia
Meet The Indigenous Digital Excellence Awards Finalist Creating Change In The Sustainable STEM Space
Gizmodo Australia
IDX is continuing an 80,000 year tradition of innovation that has been practiced by Indigenous people and communities across Australia. What Indigenous innovators are doing today is combining the sophistication of traditional knowledge with 21st ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Jail numbers point to a wider malaise
The Sydney Morning Herald
The disproportionate representation of Aboriginal people in our jails is a symptom of a wider disconnect, which no court process can fix. Jails may mean one thing for Australia's non-Indigenous population and something quite different for its first people.

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Deirdre McCloskey explains what makes Australia great
The Australian
The quaint idea that the intellectual property of Australia, how we came to be the superb country that we are, was somehow created by Aborigines, Anglos and (mostly) European postwar settlers misrepresents the truth. It is tantamount to theft. Had ...

WIRED
Geneticists Trace an Australian Migration with Aboriginal Artifacts
WIRED
So far, Cooper and Tobler have published an analysis of the mitochondrial DNA from 111 samples taken from three Aboriginal communities—representing families that the Australian government and missionaries had moved from homelands all across the ...

Architecture AU
Design competition for new Adelaide contemporary art gallery forthcoming
Architecture AU
“As its name suggests, Adelaide Contemporary encompasses contemporary art,” he said. “But more than that, it is about a contemporary attitude to art, education and entertainment – one that encompasses Aboriginal Australia and the state's collection.

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The Sydney Morning Herald
London's Tate Modern takes possession of iconic Australian art
The Sydney Morning Herald
London: Captain Cook fades into the background, replaced by bold indigenous colours in a new work displayed at London's Tate Modern, part of a program to bring Australian art into the international limelight. On Tuesday, the Tate unveiled Gordon ...

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Kim Scott wants to reclaim Aboriginal stories and languages
ABC Local
He also studies indigenous languages and is equally as passionate in teaching us about the languages used in Australia before white colonisation and the rich way of describing the world and empowerment that comes from indigenous language and stories.

National Indigenous Times
Incarceration solutions lie within communities
National Indigenous Times
Aboriginal people make up 27 percent of Australia's adult prison population, despite representing only three percent of the nation's total population, the ALS said. “Our people say laws are too punitive and that there aren't enough community-based ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia Day review: 'A full vision of the hell of Australian race relations'
The Sydney Morning Herald
The day dawns hot on this particular Australia Day in the northern capital, but we are off at pace. An Aboriginal teenage girl runs from something, her head stained with blood; a young dark-skinned man runs from two white youths, in another suburb; a ...
MOVIE REVIEW: Crackingly paced but runs out of puffMackay Daily Mercury

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