Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Australian
WA communities reform head backs cashless welfare card
The Australian
The senior state government bureaucrat in charge of radical reform of remote communities and towns across Western Australia's north has endorsed the federal government's cashless debit card, rejecting a suggestion by the Aboriginal Legal Service that ...

The West Australian
Rangers fired up as protectors
The West Australian
Mr Hunter said Aboriginal people in the Kimberley and northern Australia were undertaking savanna carbon projects, which combined traditional burning methods with modern science. “This reduces the amount of greenhouse gas emissions released into the ...

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ABC Online
Albert Namatjira's family keeps copyright issue in spotlight, as Namatjira Project hits big screen
ABC Online
Gloria Pannka is the daughter of one of Namatjira's contemporaries and a follower of the Hermannsburg School. She said she wanted the royalty money returned to central Australia to help encourage younger generations to continue the unique painting style.

The Advertiser
Adelaide Lord Mayor Martin Haese championing efforts to bring unity over Australia Day ceremonies
The Advertiser
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community representative Ivan-Tiwu Copley put forward the motion and called for the council to meet the Australia Day Council of SA to add a protocol to better recognise the history of Aboriginal people before ...

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New York Times
Why a Melbourne City Council Rejected Australia Day
New York Times
FITZROY, Australia — Uncle Jack Charles, a well-known Australian Aboriginal actor, was born in 1943 under Australia's assimilation policy, which he said absorbed Aboriginal people into white society by removing children from their families. He grew up ...

Courier Mail
Changing date of Australia Day prompts debate
Courier Mail
... the suggestion was “political correctness gone mad”. Rankin federal Labor MP Jim Chalmers (ALP) said he was “not convinced we should change the date but I do recognise that the day can be painful for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

Eight-year-old kids hooked on drugs and grog, inquest told
The Australian
An inquest has been told of Aboriginal children as young as eight with cannabis and alcohol problems in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia as a senior bureaucrat revealed the new Labor government is poised to adopt the previous Liberal ...

The Advertiser
Adelaide Lord Mayor Martin Haese championing efforts to bring unity over Australia Day ceremonies in SA
The Advertiser
An Adelaide city council reconciliation committee on Wednesday voted in support of a move it believes will unite Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal South Australians on January 26. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community representative Ivan-Tiwu ...

ABC Online
Indigenous dialysis patients pushing for grassroots community health services
ABC Online
Aboriginal dialysis patients say too many people are dying a lonely death away from their families, because they cannot be treated at home. In remote parts of Australia, patients whose kidneys are failing often have to leave their home communities to ...
Elders, Altman call for apology, end to interventionNational Indigenous Times

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ABC Online
Prime Minister meets with Aboriginal man who walked from Perth to Parliament House
ABC Online
The man who walked for a year from Perth stood this morning in the Prime Minister's courtyard in Parliament House. But he walked out frustrated at their brief conversation. Clinton Pryor walked for a year across outback Australia to deliver a message ...
Pollies celebrate Clinton's long journeyNational Indigenous Times
Indigenous Activist Claims Prime Minister 'Disrespectful' During MeetingHuffington Post Australia
Clinton Pryor has tense meeting with PM after walking across AustraliaThe Guardian
BBC News -Sky News Australia -Pedestrian TV
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ABC Online
Prime Minister meets with Aboriginal man who walked from Perth to Parliament House
ABC Online
The man who walked for a year from Perth stood this morning in the Prime Minister's courtyard in Parliament House. But he walked out frustrated at their brief conversation. Clinton Pryor walked for a year across outback Australia to deliver a message ...
Pollies celebrate Clinton's long journeyNational Indigenous Times
Indigenous Activist Claims Prime Minister 'Disrespectful' During MeetingHuffington Post Australia
Clinton Pryor has tense meeting with PM after walking across AustraliaThe Guardian
Sky News Australia -Pedestrian TV -BuzzFeed News
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National Indigenous Times
Elders, Altman call for apology, end to intervention
National Indigenous Times
The decline of remote Aboriginal communities could leave vast tracks of Australia unpopulated and a security threat, one of Australia's leading authorities on remote communities has said. Professor Jon Altman, of Deakin University in Melbourne, said ...

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Shopping centres to promote Indigenous digital art
National Indigenous Times
Sea creatures and coral from the Great Barrier Reef and tropical rainforests captured in the artwork of NAIDOC artist of the year Elverina Johnson will be shared with shoppers across Australia. Ms Johnson's art will be shown on big digital screens at ...

Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Activist Claims Prime Minister 'Disrespectful' During Meeting
Huffington Post Australia
An Indigenous activist who undertook a year-long trek from Western Australia to Canberra has slammed the Prime Minister as "disrespectful" after a meeting on Wednesday. Clinton Pryor's walk -- from WA's Heirisson Island, through the Northern Territory, ...
Prime Minister meets with Aboriginal man who walked from Perth to ...ABC Online
Pollies celebrate Clinton's long journey - National Indigenous TimesNational Indigenous Times
Clinton Pryor has tense meeting with PM after walking across AustraliaThe Guardian
BBC News -Sky News Australia -Pedestrian TV
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National Indigenous Times
Pollies celebrate Clinton's long journey
National Indigenous Times
Federal politicians have met with spirit walker Clinton Pryor who travelled almost 6000 kilometres on foot from Perth to Canberra to see for himself how Aboriginal Australia was faring—and to try to find a new way. Mr Pryor, 27, arrived in Canberra on ...

National Indigenous Times
Pollies celebrate Clinton's long journey
National Indigenous Times
Federal politicians have met with spirit walker Clinton Pryor who travelled almost 6000 kilometres on foot from Perth to Canberra to see for himself how Aboriginal Australia was faring—and to try to find a new way. Mr Pryor, 27, arrived in Canberra on ...
Clinton Pryor meets MPs in Canberra after 6000km walk across AustraliaABC Local

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Elders, Altman call for apology, end to intervention
National Indigenous Times
The decline of remote Aboriginal communities could leave vast tracks of Australia unpopulated and a security threat, one of Australia's leading authorities on remote communities has said. Professor Jon Altman, of Deakin University in Melbourne, said ...

National Indigenous Times
Deafness leading to life of misery, say surgeons
National Indigenous Times
Loss of hearing could be playing a role in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children ending up in the juvenile justice system—and then hampering attempts for them to change their lives, according to Australia's peak body for surgeons. The Royal ...

The West Australian
Westralia, 'we're flying highhhhh'
The West Australian
Aboriginal elder Robert Isaacs said he favoured WA being called the Republic of Western Australia, having a president and providing the Aboriginal community with significant representation. Dr Isaacs said the flag could be the existing Aboriginal flag, ...

Councils fly flag for Australia Day Celebrations expected to continue as normal
Riverine Herald
''Council has a strong relationship with local Aboriginal groups across the shire,'' he said. Greater Bendigo mayor Margaret O'Rourke said the council did not have a position on changing the date for Australia Day celebrations and would not be ...

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