Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Australian
Burke and Wills descendants speak out on plans to alter monument
The Australian
Calls to recognise the indigenous Australians who explored the continent before Burke and Wills's 1860 expedition and the Aboriginal guides who helped the pair on their journey come as the latest Newspoll revealed 58 per cent of Australians don't want ...

J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
Diller Teen Fellows work with Aboriginal community
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
Here they made new friends, learnt about Jewish Communities in other countries, developing their connection to Israel and Zionism, to world Jewry and indeed their identity as Australian Jews. The whole seminar knew who the Australians were, with their ...

Armidale Express
Aboriginal language celebrated at A Day on the Dale
Armidale Express
ABORIGINAL people were the first people in history to traverse unknown territory in Asia and Australia, a University of Copenhagen study has shown. And, on Friday, descendants of the oldest surviving culture on Earth marched through Armidale in a ...

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Lithgow Mercury
Lithgow's Mayor will not change Australia Day
Lithgow Mercury
Mayor Lesslie said all residents can be acknowledged in Australia Day celebrations, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents. “Yes. They're Australian. And Australia Day is for all Australians. We do celebrate Aboriginal people's ...

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The West Australian
Noongar man Clinton Pryor walks from Perth to Canberra to raise awareness of indigenous issues
The West Australian
Over the past year he met with Aboriginal elders and community leaders across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria and NSW. His walk included trekking through the Gibson Desert for two weeks in summer, where he had to ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Rewriting our history is not the way to go
The Sydney Morning Herald
Clearly, he did not "discover" Australia. He charted its east coast, and, it might be said, picked the eyes out of the country for his colonial masters. Legitimately, Grant can claim that his Aboriginal ancestors "discovered" Australia 65,000 years ago ...
Rex Jory: Leave our history, and our statues, aloneThe Advertiser

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SBS
Clinton Pryor finishes year-long walk for Aboriginal justice
SBS
The 27-year-old walked almost 6000km across the country for Aboriginal rights, arriving in Canberra on Sunday morning with a crowd of supporters from across Australia. He set out on September 8, 2016 and has since taken seven million steps and gone ...
Clinton Pryor arrives in Canberra after walking from Western AustraliaThe Canberra Times

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The Canberra Times
Clinton Pryor arrives in Canberra after walking from Western Australia
The Canberra Times
Wajuk, Balardung, Kija and Yulparitja man Clinton Pryor who walked across Australia from Perth, approaches the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen. He met with Indigenous groups along the way, including in Kalgoorlie where he attended ...
Indigenous man finishes walk for justiceThe Australian

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous man finishes walk for justice
The Australian
The 27-year-old walked almost 6000km across the country for Aboriginal rights, arriving in Canberra on Sunday morning with a crowd of supporters from across Australia. He set out on September 8, 2016 and has since taken seven million steps and gone ...
Clinton Pryor arrives in Canberra after walking from Western AustraliaThe Canberra Times

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J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
Holocaust survivor to address Aboriginal event
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
Almost all breakthroughs for Aboriginal people can be traced back to that day.On September 7, 2017, William Cooper's last remaining grandchild will walk into that famous meeting place – the now perfectly restored Australian Hall, to explain how he is ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Risk of dementia three times higher for Indigenous Australians abused or part of Stolen Generations
The Sydney Morning Herald
Like his seven surviving siblings, 76-year-old Claude Timbery is sharp and enjoying life with no sign of dementia. Other than a "pair of dicky knees", he has few health problems and enjoys the weekly "yarn up" at the local Aboriginal community centre.

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Risk of dementia three times higher for Indigenous Australians abused or part of stolen generation
Bega District News
Dementia expert Dr Kylie Radford, who led the research published in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, says she hopes the study could go some way to explaining why the rate of dementia in Australia's Indigenous population is three to ...

ABC Online
Who is Really Airbrushing the Past? Genocide, Slavery and the Return of the Colonial Repressed
ABC Online
Little could they have imagined that their observation would hold almost 170 years later in Australia where conservative pundits and politicians, including the prime minister himself, are flinging the epithet of "Stalinism" at local government councils ...

The Northern Daily Leader
Should Sydney celebrate 'perfect gentleman' who ordered massacres of Indigenous people?
The Northern Daily Leader
"When Australia matures and comes to terms with its brutal colonial history and its treatment of Indigenous people then everyone will see how offensive it is," she said. "If you think about Germany for a moment - you won't see monuments of Hitler, for ...

SBS
Seven million steps: Indigenous man Clinton Pryor walks from Perth to Canberra
SBS
An Indigenous man who has spent a year walking almost 6,000 kilometres from Perth to Canberra to raise awareness of Aboriginal rights will finally arrive in the nation's capital. Clinton Pryor will descend on Canberra on Sunday, a year after setting ...
Walking for justice: Clinton Pryor reaches end of 5800km journeyThe Canberra Times

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The Age
Benjamin Law: Australia's literacy rate is shocking - and potentially dangerous
The Age
Some years back, an OECD study surveyed Australians aged between 15 and 74 and rated them on their literacy skills. The results were shocking: 43.7 per cent had below-proficiency-level literacy. If you're young and Indigenous, the chances of you ...

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SBS
Walking for justice: Clinton Pryor reaches end of 5800km journey
The Canberra Times
Since September last year, Clinton Pryor hasn't stopped in his quest in walking across the country for justice for Indigenous people across Australia. On Sunday he reaches the end of his journey when he arrives in Canberra after nearly 12 months on the ...
Seven million steps: Indigenous man Clinton Pryor walks from Perth to CanberraSBS

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Hyde Park statue damage shows a reality that Australia must confront
The Sydney Morning Herald
We don't know what battles were fought between the various clans in Australia in the tens of thousands of years before the British invasion but the evidence we have suggests that Aboriginal people were much like the rest of us. People don't need ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Benjamin Law: Australia's literacy rate is shocking - and potentially dangerous
The Sydney Morning Herald
Some years back, an OECD study surveyed Australians aged between 15 and 74 and rated them on their literacy skills. The results were shocking: 43.7 per cent had below-proficiency-level literacy. If you're young and Indigenous, the chances of you ...

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Herald Sun (blog)
NEW SPECCIE OUT NOW
Herald Sun (blog)
It is ironic that [Stan] Grant is drawing attention to the ultimate 'symbolic' issue in indigenous affairs – the future of statues honouring explorers, governors and settlers – at a time when the Western Australian coroner is conducting an inquiry into ...