Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Sydney Morning Herald
Recognition for a life less than ordinary
The Sydney Morning Herald
Next week Noel Tovey, Australia's first male ballet dancer of Indigenous heritage, will be inducted into the Australian Dance Awards Hall of Fame – one award it's surprising the legendary performer hasn't already notched up. The pioneering dancer ...

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SBS
Crazy sh*t: name of Melbourne winery has people in hysterics
SBS
Their website claims that the words mean 'black swan' in the local Aboriginal dialect – Wurundjeri. NITV's enquires to the Wurundjeri Tribe Land Council confirmed that the words Goona Warra do in fact mean what Celeste and her friends thought. “It ...

Noosa News
Noosa set to bid for acclaimed Aboriginal art works
Noosa News
She said the people of Noosa will love these artworks ranging from $80 upwards created by some Australia's most popular Indigenous talents. "Our auction in Noosa on Sunday 24th September at Sofitel Resort in Hastings St will be featuring rising star ...

The Canberra Times
Reconciliation Day is a fair swap for Family and Community Day
The Canberra Times
Canberra's first Reconciliation Day will fall on Monday, May 28, 2018, 51 years after the historic referendum that amended the constitution to allow the Federal Government to pass laws relating to indigenous Australians. The historic vote, supported by ...

Recognition for a life less than ordinary
Brisbane Times
Next week Noel Tovey, Australia's first male ballet dancer of Indigenous heritage, will be inducted into the Australian Dance Awards Hall of Fame – one award it's surprising the legendary performer hasn't already notched up. The pioneering dancer ...

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The Australian
Songlines exhibition to bring Seven Sisters story alive
The Australian
The Canberra exhibition marks the culmination of seven years' work by curators, scholars and elders and artists from remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory to preserve this ancient oral story ...

The Australian
Non-jail rehab programs key to cut incarceration: IPA's Bushnell
The Australian
Governments should consider moving indigenous Australians in regional areas who commit crimes to larger towns and cities to undertake non-prison punishments to cut back on soaring incarceration rates, according to a report by the Institute of Public ...

SBS
Third Melbourne Council votes to ditch Australia Day celebrations
SBS
He was one of two Aboriginal Elders who opened with opposing remarks, one supporting and the other against January 26 celebrations. "How dare you actually take away Australia Day?" Mr Hunter said. "We are all Australians here. To take those things ...
Melbourne's Moreland City Council votes to scrap Australia Day celebrationsABC Online
'Like celebrating the Nazi Holocaust': Backlash as Moreland City Council dumps Australia DayThe Age
Another town scraps Australia Day, drawing government ireYahoo7 News
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The Canberra Times
Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters at the National Museum of Australia
The Canberra Times
As curators of their country and holders of their country's stories, the Aboriginal artists and traditional owners made up the museum's community curatorium, which directed the Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters exhibition – a major output of the ...
Tracking the Seven Sisters: An epic songlines narrative brought to life at the National MuseumABC Online

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The Conversation AU
We can use AFL to boost school attendance and improve mental health in Indigenous communities
The Conversation AU
Our report, After the Siren: The community benefits of Indigenous participation in Australia Rules Football found Indigenous children who participate in AFL have better physical and mental health than those who don't. Children who played football were ...

The Canberra Times
Tracking the Seven Sisters: An epic songlines narrative brought to life at the National Museum
ABC Online
Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters is a collaboration with Aboriginal elders who are custodians of the story. It will open tomorrow at the National Museum of Australia. "It wasn't a museum idea, it was an Anangu idea," said Margo Neale, the museum's ...
Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters at the National Museum of AustraliaThe Canberra Times

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SBS
Indigenous psychologists; a rare, but vital, kind of health worker
SBS
Indigenous Australians have over 200 years of trauma compounded throughout the generations, making it both unsurprising and devastating that we have a mental health crisis in Aboriginal communities throughout the country. Children as young as ...
Shackled by the neck, chained together and guarded by white men holding rifles: Shocking photographs show the ...Daily Mail

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The Australian
Australian Politics Live: Energy costs, same-sex marriage and media reform on agenda
The Australian
“Australia Day, 26 January, is a recognition of our shared history and the Turnbull Government, along with the vast majority of Australians, indigenous and non-indigenous, fully support Australia Day remaining on January 26. “Ratepayers of Moreland ...

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Herald Sun
Moreland Council Australia Day decision: Councillors vote to dump national day
Herald Sun
“Australia Day, 26 January, is a recognition of our shared history and the Turnbull government, along with the vast majority of Australians, indigenous and non-indigenous, fully support Australia Day remaining on January 26,” Mr Hawke said. Councillors ...

The Border Mail
Dual Olympian Nova Peris speaks at NSW Local Government Aboriginal Network Conference in Albury
The Border Mail
ALTERING Australia's constitution can wait, but facing historical injustice can't, Indigenous campaigner and dual Olympian Nova Peris said during a visit to Albury. Speaking at the NSW Local Government Aboriginal Network Conference, Ms Peris said ...

The Sun
Haunting pics showing Australian aboriginals shackled and chained around the neck expose the brutal treatment of ...
The Sun
HAUNTING photographs reveal the disturbing abuse of aboriginal people less than a century ago — a reminder of the dark past of oppression they suffered at the hands of the white population. Indigenous Australian men and boys are cruelly shackled ...

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ABC Online
Melbourne's Moreland City Council votes to scrap Australia Day celebrations
ABC Online
"I also think that it's an opportunity with the Aboriginal welcome on that day for the oldest Australians to inform the newest Australians of the plight and the difficulties that day has for them and their history," added Cr John Kavanagh. Vocal ...
Moreland City Council keeps citizenship ceremony, dumps Australia DayThe Age

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The Age
Moreland City Council keeps citizenship ceremony, dumps Australia Day
The Age
A third Melbourne council has voted to dump Australia Day out of respect for Aboriginal people months after councillors rejected a motion to move citizenship ceremonies from January 26. Moreland City Council, at a meeting on Wednesday night, voted to ...
Moreland Council Australia Day decision: Councillors vote to dump national dayHerald Sun

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ABC Online
Sydney raid seizes alleged Tasmanian Aboriginal artefacts offered for sale online
ABC Online
Tasmanian authorities have seized more than 150 alleged Aboriginal artefacts being offered for sale online from Sydney. Last Thursday, a raid was conducted on a Sydney property by officers from Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water ...

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'Smacks of racism': Greens slam former Liberal MP over Facebook video
Brisbane Times
The Australian Greens have condemned Perth lord mayor hopeful Michael Sutherland in the wake of what they call a "racist" campaign video he posted to Facebook on Monday night. The former Liberal MP was roundly criticised on Tuesday by many who ...

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