Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

National Indigenous Times
UN envoy urges Australia to speed up treaty
National Indigenous Times
The push for Constitutional change and a treaty in Australia has been backed in a United Nations report. The report to the UN Human Rights Council this month followed the March visit to Australia by its Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous ...

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National Indigenous Times
10-year-olds in Oz prisons 'deeply troubling': UN
National Indigenous Times
Meanwhile, Ms Tauli-Corpuz said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were 24 times more likely to be detained than other children in Australia. “In some detention facilities, such as in the Northern Territory and in the Cleveland Youth ...

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Kids bagging a good deal for nature
EducationHQ Australia
The class cast a wide net for ideas, taking inspiration from Indigenous cultures – including Maori and Aboriginal Australian carrying solutions – to create bags from plant-based materials, as well as experimenting with environmentally-friendly plastics ...

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The West Australian
Pilbara leaders to call on Treaty with State Govt
The West Australian
Debate about the implementation of a cashless welfare card is heating up in the Pilbara, as the trial prepares to roll out in Kalgoorlie and other regions across Australia. The card will likely be a hot topic at this week's Yule River bush meeting ...

ABC Online
Graduation day for first Indigenous Australian to complete archaeology PhD
ABC Online
The first Indigenous Australian to complete a PhD in archaeology will graduate from Flinders University in Adelaide today. Ngarrindjeri man Dr Christopher Wilson has developed new archaeological evidence of Ngarrindjeri occupation in the Lower Murray ...

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Labor want recognition of Aboriginal country at state parliament to bring WA in line with Australia
The West Australian
State Parliament could soon start each day with a recognition of Aboriginal country under a push by Labor, bringing WA into line with the rest of Australia. Under the proposal being investigated by the Procedures and Privileges parliamentary committee ...

ABC Online
Indigenous archives provide window into hidden heritage of thousands of Australians
ABC Online
Lost in Australia's vast archive collection are records of Indigenous people, places and languages, once not seen as valuable enough to bother documenting — but now the forgotten stories are being unravelled. John Morseu is a Torres Strait Islander ...
'National shame': Push for courts to consider Aboriginal background in sentencingThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Sydney Morning Herald
'National shame': Push for courts to consider Aboriginal background in sentencing
The Sydney Morning Herald
Attorney-General George Brandis announced an inquiry last year into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander incarceration rates, headed by the Australian Law Reform Commission. In its submission to the inquiry, the NSW Bar Association sets out a series ...

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Forbes Advocate
Western NSW Local Health District launches its first Reconciliation Action Plan.
Forbes Advocate
A RAP document released by the health district at a forum on Thursday has multiple and wide-ranging targets that form part of its “commitment to improving Aboriginal health”. Reconciliation Australia has provided the framework for the health district's ...

ABC Online
Word 'massacre' approved by council to describe Waterloo Bay clifftop killing of Aboriginals
ABC Online
A regional council has voted to keep the word "massacre" on a memorial plaque marking the site of a 19th-century killing of Aboriginal people on South Australia's western Eyre Peninsula. But the plaque will not include the term "large" in its ...

The Age
Push to make flu vaccine free for children after Rosie's tragic death
The Age
A plan to make the influenza vaccine free for children is being considered by health authorities after the tragic death of an eight-year-old girl in Melbourne's outer-east. Rosie Andersen had been sick with the flu for a number of days before she ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Three Promises Kept Clinton Pryor Walking Across Australia
Huffington Post Australia
Originally started to raise awareness of the forced closure of indigenous communities, Pryor's walk opened his eyes to a raft of problems that weren't being covered on the news. "There's so much that needs to be done here to improve this country," said ...

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The Conversation AU
Excluding Indigenous youth from schools may severely increase their risk of incarceration
The Conversation AU
Many Indigenous children, particularly boys aged 10 to 17 years, are receiving lengthy suspensions from schools throughout Australia. Even more concerning is the over-representation of young Indigenous males incarcerated in Australia's juvenile ...

ABC Online
From Antarctica to the Vatican, remote Indigenous community sends crosses to the world
ABC Online
Catholic crosses hand-painted by women in a remote Northern Territory Indigenous community are gaining popularity across the world, being sold in places as far away as Antarctica and the Vatican. The women work on the crosses in the traditional ...

Morning Headlines
Business News
Aboriginal residents in the troubled town of Roebourne are falling behind the rest of Australia, and particularly behind other Aboriginal Australians, at a rate that defies huge spending programs by state and commonwealth governments, an unpublished ...

ABC Online
An athlete who couldn't outrun his past
ABC Online
His story was unique, but his death is recorded as just one of the dozens of young Aboriginal people who take their own lives in Australia each year. From 2011 to 2015, of the 317 Australian children who ended their lives, 85 were Indigenous. That is 9 ...

ABC Online
Dr G Yunupingu, renowned Indigenous musician, to be farewelled at state memorial in Darwin
ABC Online
Yorta Yorta soprano and Dean of Indigenous performance at the Victorian College of the Arts, Deborah Cheetham, said Dr G Yunupingu's music changed the landscape for Indigenous artists. "[He] ignited a fire for Aboriginal Australians that singing in ...

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The Independent
$53m spent but gap widens in troubled town of Roebourne
The Australian
Aboriginal residents in the troubled town of Roebourne are falling behind the rest of Australia, and particularly behind other Aboriginal Australians, at a rate that defies huge spending programs by state and commonwealth governments, an unpublished ...
Town of the damned: the Australian town with 'staggering' child sex abuse rateNEWS.com.au
Australian town gripped by paedophile epidemic with '90% of school-age children sexually abused'The Independent

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The Australian
Tracks divide locals, outrage experts
The Australian
“The middens there are unlike anything anywhere else in Australia — incredibly important Aboriginal sites that are several thousand years old, and they want to open them to vandals.” The three tracks were closed in 2012 after damage to middens, dunes ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Advance Australia Fair translated into Ngunawal for the first time, sung at Parliament House
The Sydney Morning Herald
Ngunawal elder Mr Bell, who was assisted with the translation by Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies linguist Doug Marmion, is seeking the intellectual property rights for the translation, which he then hopes to share ...