Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Conversation AU
Monumental errors: how Australia can fix its racist colonial statues
The Conversation AU
Indigenous communities have confronted such challenges before. And they have acted with courage, wisdom and generosity. In Fremantle, Western Australia, a monument that celebrated the racism that mars Australia's past has today become a symbol of ...

and more »

Yahoo7 News
We should celebrate Aboriginal contribution to our early history
The Australian
Geoffrey Blainey makes a cogent case for reclaiming history in the context of changing the Captain Cook statue and moves against Australia Day (“Let's reclaim history instead of distorting it”, 26/8). He is right to say that Aborigines should celebrate ...
Vandals deface Hyde Park statues in Australia Day protestBrisbane Times
Australian PM slams 'Stalinist' critics of colonial statuesYahoo7 News
Stan Grant lashes Hyde Park statue vandalsNewcastle Herald
Daily Mail -dailytelegraph.com.au
all 113 news articles »

The Australian
Territory call for 'day of observance' to recognise frontier violence
The Australian
The man tagged slogans including “change the date” and “no pride in genocide” across the statues, earning a harsh rebuke even from ABC indigenous affairs editor Stan Grant, who said Australia cannot build a national story for everyone “by illegally ...

and more »

9news.com.au
Adelaide council to vote on moving Australia Day commemorations to another date
9news.com.au
9NEWS can reveal the Marion Council will become the first in South Australia to vote on moving Australia Day celebrations as a show of respect to Indigenous Australians. It follows similar moves interstate but the controversial topic is dividing locals ...

ABC Online
NT Chief Minister urges 'new way forward' on Australia Day - ABC
ABC Online
Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner will write to the Australia Day Council urging a "new way forward" on Australia Day celebrations.
NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner says Australia Day must 'evolve ...NT News
Territory call for 'day of observance' to recognise frontier violenceThe Australian
Australia Day 'a date of mourning' and needs change, NT chief ...The Guardian

all 4 news articles »

Independent Australia
Voices of reason call for immediate end to NT Intervention
Independent Australia
Hundreds of eminent Australians will tomorrow in Melbourne add their support to Indigenous Elders' calls to end the NT Intervention. 'Is the Federal Government deaf to voices of reason?' asks Jeff McMullen. WITH OFFICIAL FIGURES now showing that the ...

and more »

NT News
NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner says Australia Day must 'evolve'
NT News
He said a national day of observance should commemorate the frontier wars and schools should teach about the “displacement, the trauma, disease and the massacres” of Aboriginal Australians, Mr Gunner said yesterday. Chief Minister Michael Gunner ...

and more »

The Australian
Texas beach town devastated by Harvey
The Australian
So close, yet so agonisingly far · New Zealand v Australia - The Rugby Championship Wayne Smith. The Wallabies put up a fight most believed was beyond them before their heartbreaking defeat to the All Blacks.

and more »Google News

The Australian
Thousands take part in Bridge to Brisbane
The Australian
New Zealand v Australia - The Rugby Championship Wayne Smith. The Wallabies suffer a heartbreaking defeat to the All Blacks who raise the Bledisloe Cup for the 15th successive time, after putting up a fight most believed was beyond them.

and more »

The Australian
Daria Gavrilova wins first WTA title downing Dominika Cibulkova at Connecticut Open
The Australian
New Zealand v Australia - The Rugby Championship Wayne Smith. The Wallabies suffer a heartbreaking defeat to the All Blacks who raise the Bledisloe Cup for the 15th successive time, after putting up a fight most believed was beyond them.

and more »

ABC Online
Indigenous fashion: Duo draws on connections to country for major show
ABC Online
Inside a cramped loungeroom in suburban Cairns, two women are nervously preparing for their first major fashion shows. The first is just days away at the prestigious Melbourne Fashion Week. They will then go on to represent Australia at the World ...

The Advertiser
Stolen Generation compensation scheme comes under fire
The Advertiser
ABORIGINAL people from South Australia's Stolen Generations have been given advance $5000 payments because of fears they will die before receiving their full compensation entitlement. Stolen Generations Reparation Scheme independent assessor ...

and more »

Herald Sun
Anthony Pratt: 'I want to give away $1 billion' to help Australians
Herald Sun
Australian organisations set to benefit include The Royal Children's Hospital, The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and The Prince's Trust Australia which funds services to support Aboriginal welfare, veterans affairs and urban renewal projects.

The Australian
Stan Grant slams 'disgraceful' statue vandals
The Australian
ABC indigenous affairs editor Stan Grant has slammed the vandals responsible for defacing Hyde Park statues, saying their “disgusting criminal behaviour” dishonoured indigenous Australians. Grant, who sparked fierce public debate earlier in the week ...

The Age
Call to remove statue of John Batman, 'founder of Melbourne', over role in Indigenous killings
The Age
Prominent Australian artist Ben Quilty has called for John Batman's statue to be removed from Melbourne's CBD, describing him as a mass murderer who "makes the American Confederates look friendly". The Archibald Prize-winning painter took to social ...

and more »

The Sydney Morning Herald
Vandals deface Hyde Park statues in Australia Day protest
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous journalist Stan Grant has slammed the defacement of a number of statues in Hyde Park overnight as appalling and disgraceful. Between 2.25am and 3.15am on Saturday, the statues of former NSW Governor Lachlan Macquarie and Captain Cook ...
Captain Cook statue sparks debate about whether it should be removedNEWS.com.au
'Its appalling, disgraceful': Stan Grant lashes Hyde Park statue vandalsNewcastle Herald
Hunt on for vandals after iconic Captain Cook statue among those defaced in Sydney's Hyde ParkThe West Australian
Montreal Gazette -Business Insider -Daily Mail -ABC Online
all 66 news articles »

The Cairns Post
Kiwi finds calling at FNQ indigenous tourism icon
The Cairns Post
HEAR the one about the Kiwi chef who ended up running a leading Australian indigenous tourism company in Far North Queensland? Bryce Madgwick's journey to becoming general manager of Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park differs from that of the ...

and more »

Aboriginal massacres DID happen
Eternity News
The terrible reality of the violent death of Aboriginal people, on the frontier of Australia's pastoral invasion of Aboriginal lands, is a part of Australia's past which needs to be named for what it was. Yet there are those who would 'whitewash' this ...

Gold Coast Bulletin
ABC Aboriginal TV presenter Stan Grant cooks up a recipe for turmoil
Gold Coast Bulletin
This week, however, Stan Grant, the well-paid ABC Aboriginal television presenter, imported a dangerous American obsession which can only exacerbate racial tensions in Australia. Grant, in an article published on the ABC website and in subsequent media ...

and more »

The Australian
Yolngu art's US dreaming
The Australian
Skerritt says there is “a lot more interest (in the US) in Aboriginal art than there is in non-Aboriginal Australian art”. While some smaller US galleries have begun probing the canon more deeply, so far larger institutions have preferred surveys ...

and more »