Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
Mining millions to lift traditional Aboriginal landowners out of 'poverty', says Ngadju elder
ABC Online
Twenty-five years since the High Court's landmark Mabo decision, traditional landowners in one of Western Australia's biggest mining regions are finally starting to see the benefits of native title. The resources wealth of WA's Goldfields, which ...

InDaily
Millions of Australians frozen out of the justice system
InDaily
Regional, remote and rural (RRR) Australia is home to a broad cross-section of people, from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote communities, to farmers and primary producers, to the other diverse and significant regional populations ...

The Australian
Pilbara-wide ban on full-strength alcohol sales in the offing
The Australian
Non-Aboriginal people are big drinkers in the Pilbara, too — The Australian saw dozens of white residents loading multiple cartons of full-strength beer, cider and pre-mixed drinks into their four-wheel drives. The irony that Roebourne is poised to ...
Town of the damned: the Australian town with 'staggering' child sex abuse rateNEWS.com.au

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Herald Sun
Self-loathing Left is playing with fire over Australia Day
Herald Sun
She explained: “What happened to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from that date was a holocaust.” It beggars belief that a city councillor could seriously liken the Nazis' efforts to physically wipe out all Jews — slaughtering six ...

SBS
Australian Citizenship Day: Thousands welcomed in ceremonies around the country
SBS
Last week a third Melbourne council voted to drop all references of January 26 as Australia Day out of respect for Aboriginal people. Moreland City Council will continue to hold its official citizenship ceremony on January 26, and says the government ...

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NEWS.com.au
Town of the damned: the Australian town with 'staggering' child sex abuse rate
NEWS.com.au
The Pilbara, with vast mining resources and sparsely populated Aboriginal towns, covers 500,000 square kilometres stretching from the Indian Ocean to Central Australia. Roebourne, where the streets are lined with brick and stone colonial buildings, has ...

The Australian
Bushfire alert for WA Aboriginal community
The Australian
A bushfire is threatening a remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia. “You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive. There is a threat to lives and homes,” Emergency WA has advised residents of the Egret Aboriginal community in ...
Bushfire emergency warning issued as blaze threatens Kimberley Aboriginal communityABC Online
Bushfire emergency alert for WA Aboriginal communityWAtoday

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ABC Online
Australians 'just starting to wake up' to historical South Sea Islander slavery: Jeff McMullen
ABC Online
The majority of these indentured labourers were brought to Australia to work on Queensland's sugarcane plantations. "It's very similar to the amnesia we have about the early period of Aboriginal history that happened after European settlement," the ...

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Indigenous fashion winning international and local fans as artists push for proper payment
ABC Online
The bright, bold and distinctly Australian designs of Indigenous fashion have always captured attention, but they are now proving to be a lucrative industry — with record sales and major fashion houses looking to collaborate on luxury collections ...

Advance Australia Fair translated into Ngunawal for the first time, sung at Parliament House
Brisbane Times
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 ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia Day review: Politics smothers the life out of drama
The Sydney Morning Herald
Everybody here has a message to deliver. The Indigenous girl, April Tucker (Miah Madden), is supposed to embody the many ways in which Aboriginal children are betrayed by the system. Brown's Terry Friedman typifies traditional white Australia as a ...

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Green Left Weekly
Moreland council to drop references to January 26 as Australia Day
Green Left Weekly
Moreland City Council took a big step forward on September 13 when it voted to drop all references to January 26 as Australia Day out of respect for Aboriginal people. But it stopped short of cancelling its official Australia Day citizenship ceremony ...

WAtoday
Football benefits Indigenous communities long after the siren
WAtoday
A recent report by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre – After the Siren: The community benefits of Indigenous participation in Australian Rules Football – has highlighted the physical health, mental well being and community connectedness benefits ...

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The Australian
'Money holes' around Roebourne swallow kids' future
The Australian
It's phenomenal.” If it happened in a Perth suburb, he said, “there'd be more noise (but) because it's an Aboriginal community and they are Aboriginal children we're not as outraged by it”. O'Callaghan's successor, the former head of the Australian ...

NEWS.com.au
We need to start planning now, for a growing and vibrant South Australia, Deloitte's Andrew Culley says
NEWS.com.au
For those of us who are not Aboriginal South Australians, the traditional custodians of this state for more than 50,000 years, we are here because of a choice made in places like Calabria, on the Peloponnese peninsula or in the Mekong River delta. Of ...

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Courier Mail
Mike Ahern's startling claims: Joh Bjelke-Petersen thought AIDS was Aborigines' punishment
Courier Mail
FORMER premier Mike Ahern has revealed some of the state's darkest secrets including how Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen wanted Aborigines infected with AIDS to be left to die and how authorities knew the state's biggest mass murderer convicted of torching the ...

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The Australian
Declaration of Australia: three epic strands in a grand narrative
The Australian
First, it recommended a referendum be held to provide in the Australian Constitution for a representative body that gives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander First Nations a voice to the parliament in relation to their affairs. Second, it recommended ...

Community Newspaper Group
Decision on City of Cockburn's Australia Day activities still in the air
Community Newspaper Group
A motion put forward by Councillor Chamonix Terblanche for the City to continue its Australia Day events was lost, with councillors voting 5-4 to wait for an Aboriginal Reference Group Consultation Report to be received in November. Cr Terblanche, who ...

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Community Newspaper Group
Decision on City of Cockburn's Australia Day activities still in the air
Community Newspaper Group
A motion put forward by Councillor Chamonix Terblanche for the City to continue its Australia Day events was lost, with councillors voting 5-4 to wait for an Aboriginal Reference Group Consultation Report to be received in November. Cr Terblanche, who ...

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The RiotACT
ACT to hold Australia's first Reconciliation Day holiday next May
The RiotACT
The introduction of a Reconciliation Day public holiday marks the first time in Australia that an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander focused public holiday has been established. The move follows the passing of the Holidays (Reconciliation Day ...
Reconciliation Day is a fair swap for Family and Community DayThe Canberra Times

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