Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
Bush Bands Bash draws huge crowds for Indigenous music concert in Central Australia
ABC Online
More than 2,000 people flocked to a concert in Alice Springs on Sunday night to see the best Indigenous bands from across the Northern Territory. The Bush Bands Bash is the culmination of a week-long workshop, where Indigenous groups refine their acts ...

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ABC Online
Scientists tracing ancient Aboriginal fire practices on remote Tasmanian island unearth fresh timelines
ABC Online
The findings by a joint project involving the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) and scientists could provide insight into how people adapted to changing climates. The TAC invited fire ecologist David Bowman and Australian National University natural ...

ACS (registration)
Indigenous charities get a boost
ACS (registration)
“One of the biggest things holding back charities and social enterprises in Australia from addressing health, social and environmental challenges is a lack of IT capability and capacity,” she said. Iles said this was amplified for Indigenous organisations.

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.

ABC Online
Bendigo foster parents support new Victorian Aboriginal Guardianship program
ABC Online
... have been foster parents for just over two years but, for the past six months, the couple have been dealing with a local Aboriginal organisation under the new Section 18 Rural Pilot or Aboriginal Guardianship program — the first of its kind in ...

Councils are right to ditch Australia Day
Red Flag
The decision by two Melbourne councils to stop referring to 26 January as Australia Day and to replace their usual citizenship ceremony with an event to mark the “loss of Indigenous culture” has prompted a swift conservative backlash. Representatives ...
Australia Day stays on dateBayside News

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Port Macquarie News
Member for Port Macquarie Leslie Williams wants Australia Day celebrations to remain
Port Macquarie News
Our local Aboriginal community, with the strength of its elders, have played a prominent part in Australia Day activities and events in recent years. Their participation furthers reconciliation and our understanding of our history, and to make changes ...

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Camden Haven Courier
Member for Port Macquarie Leslie Williams wants Australia Day celebrations to remain
Camden Haven Courier
Our local Aboriginal community, with the strength of its elders, have played a prominent part in Australia Day activities and events in recent years. Their participation furthers reconciliation and our understanding of our history, and to make changes ...

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New Matilda
To Close The Gap, Australia Must Address The 'Coloniser In The Room'
New Matilda
Life expectancy is still on average 10 years lower for an Indigenous Australian compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. A person of Aboriginal descent is more than three times as likely to have diabetes and four times as likely to have chronic ...

The Advertiser
Aboriginal leader Malcolm 'Tiger' McKenzie pushing for nuclear waste dump built near his home in the Flinders Ranges
The Advertiser
Some local Aboriginal people are strongly opposed to the storage of radioactive waste in the district but Mr McKenzie said the project would create jobs for indigenous people. “This is modern Australia now, we've got to part of it — native title doesn ...

ABC Online
Arnhem Land rangers blending traditional and high-tech methods to earn carbon credits
ABC Online
Here in this remote pocket of Arnhem Land, Warddeken rangers are doing what Aboriginal people have done for thousands of years, but are now combining traditional knowledge of fire management with new technology to protect the landscape. Through this ...

The Advertiser
Adelaide DNA study shows first Australians came together in today's SA 2000 years after their arrival
The Advertiser
This is just one of the astounding findings that has emerged from a groundbreaking study into Aboriginal DNA being carried out by the University of Adelaide and the South Australian Museum. The research also backs up Aboriginal beliefs that the ...

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cricket.com.au
Dizzy: I'd love to work with Indigenous XI
cricket.com.au
He's worked in distant locales such as Zimbabwe and Yorkshire, and now current Papua New Guinea coach Jason Gillespie says he would love to do something a little closer to home by helping out Australia's National Indigenous squad during his coaching ...

ABC Online
Bid to reopen Tarkine four-wheel drive tracks angers Aboriginal, green groups
ABC Online
Conservationists and Aboriginal groups say they will be fighting to stop a fresh bid to reopen four-wheel drive tracks in Tasmania's Tarkine region. The Tasmanian Government is pushing ahead with plans to re-open controversial tracks on the state's ...
Tarkine tracks move sparks backlashThe Mercury

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No plans to change date
Riverine Herald
Benalla Rural City Council has no plans to jump on the Australia Day ''change the date'' bandwagon and members of the local Aboriginal community think that is the right decision. Chris Thorne, who was the first Aboriginal person to win Benalla citizen ...

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No plans to change date
Shepparton News
Benalla Rural City Council has no plans to jump on the Australia Day ''change the date'' bandwagon and members of the local Aboriginal community think that is the right decision. Chris Thorne, who was the first Aboriginal person to win Benalla citizen ...

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Sky News Australia
Aboriginal groups put forward job scheme
Sky News Australia
The Northern Territory plan comes after new West Australian treasurer Ben Wyatt was accused of 'declaring war' on country areas after announcing a major restructure of Royalties for Regions but he denies the program is 'dead'. Australia's first ...
Royalties for Regions fund due for a financial rethink: WyattNEWS.com.au

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The Advertiser
The Advertiser, Letters to the Editor, September 9
The Advertiser
Our Lord Mayor Martin Haese sees this as a way to bring both indigenous and other Australians together on this issue (The Advertiser, 7/9/17). The council has supported the motion put forward by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ivan-Tiwu Copley to ...

The Australian
We're all dual citizens – sometimes treble or quadruple
The Australian
Even an Aboriginal Australian descended from ancestors with an unbroken history on this land stretching back 700 centuries has many identities. Yes, he or she is an Australian citizen, a designation belatedly conceded following a referendum conducted ...

New York Times
From Australia's 'Stolen Generation' to Celebrated Poet - The New ...
New York Times
Ali Cobby Eckermann was taken away from her Aboriginal family at birth. Having fought her demons, she will soon pick up a literary award at Yale.

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