Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Independent Australia
Not 'Closing the Gap': Nigel Scullion and Indigenous funding failure
Independent Australia
In the current financial year, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet listed on its website an allocation of $3,864,000 from the Indigenous Advancement Strategy funding to the National Australia Day Council (NADC), commencing on 1 July 2017.

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Sydney City News
Silent march for Aboriginal deaths in custody
Sydney City News
Between 1979 and 2011, there were 32 deaths in custody in the Northern Territory, 24 of which were Indigenous people. Northern Territory has the highest incarceration rate of Indigenous people in Australia, with 97 per cent of juvenile detainees and 82 ...

Herald Sun
Moreland Council is set to dump Australia Day, survey reveals
Herald Sun
It would also see the council join a national campaign to change the date of Australia Day and create awareness in the community about the campaign and the historical significance of January 26 to Australia's indigenous community. In June Cr Ratnam's ...

Eternity News
A hero to Aborigines, Jews and Christians
Eternity News
The sacred turf was the Australian Hall (which miraculously still stands in Elizabeth Street, Sydney) where on January 26, 1938, “a day of mourning and protest” was held for Aborigines and persons of aboriginal blood. It was the first combined ...

Daily Telegraph
Bungarribee Park: New zoo approved for Western Sydney
Daily Telegraph
“No other zoo in Australia offers an embedded Aboriginal heritage program of this kind. “ The attraction is expected to create a $45 million boon for the NSW economy by attracting around 745,000 visitors a year. The project is not expected to be ...

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Perth academics lash The West Australian for publishing 'attack' on Aboriginal people
WAtoday
A group of Curtin University academics have lashed out at The West Australian newspaper for publishing an alleged "vicious attack on Aboriginal people". Around 25 Curtin academics signed a letter addressed to the newspaper's editor Brett McCarthy, and ...

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Washington Post
Nicholas Reece: It's healthy for people to have a greater say
Herald Sun
Some momentous issues have been resolved through a direct national vote: conscription (1916 and 1917), federal power over social services and pensions (1946), including Aboriginal Australians in the census (1967), the adoption of Advance Australia Fair ...
Australians to soon post ballots in gay marriage surveyWashington Post

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NEWS.com.au
Video emerges of a Darwin tour operator spraying a hose towards an indigenous man
NEWS.com.au
Jocky Gaibaral said he had been sprayed with a hose before. Source: News Corp Australia. Another post read: “Living and operating on stolen land, using our culture for profit while treating our mob like animals. Disgusting behaviour this owner and ...
'Shocked and upset': Chief Minister blasts footage of Aboriginal man sprayed on Darwin street9news.com.au
Aboriginal man hosed away on the street by local tour operators in Darwin | Welcome To CountryCountry

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The Guardian
Indigenous groups decry Tasmania off-road vehicle plan: 'this is destruction'
The Guardian
An area of coastline dubbed the Western Tasmanian Aboriginal Cultural Landscape received national heritage protection in 2010 and has been described as “one of the richest and most significant Aboriginal cultural heritage landscapes present in Australia”.

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ABC Online
Aboriginal foster parents needed desperately to provide support for NSW Indigenous foster kids
ABC Online
There is an urgent need for more Aboriginal foster carers in New South Wales with numbers of Indigenous kids placed with First Nations families set to decrease, the peak body for Aboriginal children in the state says. More than 6,000 Aboriginal and ...

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BuzzFeed News
United Nations Indigenous Expert Says Australia Needs To Get Serious On Lowering Black Jailing Rates
BuzzFeed News
The UN special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz released her report into Australia at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. It is based on her visit to numerous Aboriginal communities across Australia from ...

9news.com.au
'Ashamed to be Australian': Hose sprayed towards Aboriginal man outside Darwin tourist business
9news.com.au
Video of an elderly Aboriginal man apparently being hosed off the footpath outside a Darwin tourism operator's store has caused outcry on Facebook. A young woman who was on holiday in the Northern Territory capital recorded the incident and sent it to ...
Darwin tour operator filmed spraying hose towards Aboriginal manSBS
Worker filmed spraying hose at Aboriginal manSky News Australia
Darwin man filmed hosing at elderly Aboriginal man outside shopYahoo7 News

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WAtoday
Former Liberal MP Michael Sutherland labelled racist over bid to tackle anti-social behaviour at Wellington square.
The West Australian
Australian Legal Service WA chief executive Dennis Eggington told 6PR he was concerned over Mr Sutherland's campaign issues. “It seems to be all connecting Aboriginal people, the statues, for instance, Australia Day and now the unruly people,” he said.
Perth Lord Mayor candidate Michael Sutherland takes aim at AboriginalsWAtoday

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MuMbrella
BuzzFeed launches new podcast, 'Pretty for an Aboriginal'
MuMbrella
BuzzFeed is proud to introduce Pretty For An Aboriginal — the new podcast hosted by Nakkiah Lui and Miranda Tapsell that's set to rock traditional perceptions of Indigenous Australia and challenge rigid mindsets of what women of colour can and cannot do.

Aboriginal activists form new organisation
Honi Soit
Activists argue the program is discriminatory against Aboriginal people and will fail to close the employment gap between Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Led by Aboriginal unionists and supported by the Australia Council of Trade Unions ...

Huffington Post Australia
Before We Get A Seat On The UN, We Need To Help People Much Closer To Home
Huffington Post Australia
These reports call time and time again for better resourcing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and services, and for Indigenous Australians to be directly involved in decisions about matters that affect them -- to respect the right ...
Deputy Vice Chancellor suddenly stood down from the UniversityHoni Soit

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SBS
Darwin tour operator filmed spraying hose towards Aboriginal man
SBS
A video showing a Darwin tour operator employee hosing a pathway next to an Aboriginal man sitting on the street has emerged online. The video was taken by a passer by who sent the clip to website Welcome to Country, the site reported. “The old man was ...
Worker filmed spraying hose at Aboriginal manSky News Australia

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Courier Mail
Same-sex marriage street march part of a proud tradition of people power
Courier Mail
The White Australia policy was only just being dismantled, and Aboriginal Australians only just recognised in the Census (1967). Thousands showed up to rally in numerous states for same-sex marriage at the weekend. (Pic: Annette Dew). We were not even ...

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NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal artists make 'Spaghetti Western' film to screen at Tarnanthi indigenous art festival
NEWS.com.au
In the camp at Welbourn Hill station they taught horse riding techniques to the younger men and shared personal stories of life working as stockmen in remote Central Australia from the 1940s to 1960s. Described as an “Indulkana Spaghetti Western ...
Bigger is Better at This Year's TarnanthiBroadsheet

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SBS
What the locals told me: 'Indigenous minority taking over', 'Time for Gov to intervene again'
SBS
Over the past few years I've got to travel around Australia reporting on Indigenous issues and meeting Indigenous people from all walks of life. There were people with different connections to their family and their culture, with different skin colours ...

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