Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

dailytelegraph.com.au
Blacktown Aboriginal elder says council should still celebrate Australia Day on January 26
dailytelegraph.com.au
Last week, the council also voted unanimously to no longer hold citizenship ceremonies on January 26, which has also become known as Invasion Day among many indigenous Australians. Darebin Mayor Kim Le Cerf. Her council voted to make big changes ...

ABC Online
Rare white koala born at Australia Zoo seeks perfect name from Facebook fans
ABC Online
A rare white koala joey has been born at a Queensland zoo, and the search is now on for the right name. Australia Zoo, north of Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast, welcomed its first white koala joey this breeding season. The female is not albino — its ...

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Stan Grant on Australia's 'great silence'
ABC Online
As the US re-examines historical representations of the darker parts of its history in the wake of the violence at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Stan Grant, the ABC's Indigenous Editor is calling for what he describes as the “great ...

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ABC Online
Darebin council's Australia Day move provokes political backlash
ABC Online
Support the #changethedate campaign and initiate an ongoing conversation, in partnership with the Darebin Aboriginal Advisory Committee, to build better understanding with the broader Darebin community of Australia's history and the Aboriginal and ...
'Heart is pounding': Another Melbourne council scraps Australia DayThe Age
Darebin council votes to dump Australia DayHerald Sun
Former president of Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation hits back at Yarra Council over Australia Daydailytelegraph.com.au
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Yahoo7 News
'Changing Captain Cook statue could lead to riots': Sunrise debates calls to 'end historical lies'
Yahoo7 News
Indigenous broadcaster Stan Grant is calling for inaccuracies in Australia's history to end, starting with an inscription on a Captain Cook statue in Sydney's Hyde Park that reads: "Discovered this territory in 1770.” Mr Grant told The Australian ...

ABC Online
Copwatch program empowers Aboriginal communities to film interactions with police
ABC Online
Lawyers and Aboriginal justice advocate Shaun Harris, the uncle of Ms Dhu who died in custody in Western Australia, discussed tips on how and when to film authorities, things to do before sharing the footage on social media, and ways to protect it.

THE GIDDY POWER OF SAYING NO TO AUSTRALIA DAY
Herald Sun (blog)
Now Darebin council has banned Australia Day to placate locals who identify as Aboriginal. The pictures of the meeting suggest white colonisation actually brought over many of their own relatives. I am not legally free to speculate why they assert ...

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Education & Transitions
EducationHQ Australia
... such as Geraldine Atkinson (President, VAEAI), Professor Shane Hearn (Dean of Indigenous Research, University of Adelaide), Anton Shirripa (Teacher,Clontarf Aboriginal College) and Tristan Duggle (State Finalist Young Australian of the Year 2017).

Herald Sun
Darebin Council to vote on dumping Australia Day
Herald Sun
Councillors tonight voted to replace the ceremony with a “culturally appropriate event” that would be respectful to indigenous Australians. The council will drop all references to Australia Day, including renaming its Australia Day Awards the “Darebin ...

BBC News
How a school play about Aboriginal history set off a row
BBC News
It's one of the most sensitive topics of modern Australia: the country's past treatment of its indigenous peoples. And its capacity to divide non-indigenous Australians has again been thrust into the spotlight, this time because of a primary school ...

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Call to combat fetal alcohol syndrome
SBS
The findings, reported in the Journal of Development and Behavioural Pediatrics, were based on surveys of parents and teachers of primary school Aboriginal Australian children living in remote communities in Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia. Within ...

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The Australian
Call to end the 'great silence' on our indigenous history
The Australian
Hyde Park, the oldest public park in Australia, is operated by the Sydney City Council. A spokesman for the Lord Mayor said: “Any proposal would be referred to the City's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory panel for their consideration and ...

Don't abandon abused children
The Australian
The crisis confronting Aborigines and authorities in Western Australia, where the Coroner is investigating the suicides of 13 Aboriginal children and young people in the Kimberley, is no less severe. The problems are clear, the solutions far less so ...

Google News

As Charlottesville shows, if we celebrate multiculturalism, we must play down commemoration
The Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne's Yarra City Council voted two days after the Charlottesville tragedy no longer to celebrate Australia Day with a citizenship ceremony, but to hold a low-key smoking ceremony instead in solidarity with Indigenous Australians who regard ...

Daily Review
NGV's Brave New World reveals an Australia charged with idealism – and anxiety
Daily Review
This was a period in which art found new forms in Expressionism, Social Realism and Surrealism as artists reacted to the ideas of Communism, the urbanisation of Australia, a new interest in Indigenous Australia and the growing threat of Fascism in Europe.

NEWS.com.au
Australia won't see a total solar eclipse until 2028
NEWS.com.au
Before science, ravenous monsters were blamed for the disappearance of the sun and the ancient Chinese banged pots to frighten away sun-gobbling dragons and Aboriginal Australians got a medicine man to throw sacred stones and boomerangs at the evil ...

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Herald Sun
Darebin council votes to dump Australia Day
Herald Sun
Councillors tonight voted to replace the ceremony with a “culturally appropriate event” that would be respectful to indigenous Australians. The council will drop all references to Australia Day, including renaming its Australia Day Awards the “Darebin ...
This is how councils can lose their citizenship powersThe Border Mail
Second Melbourne council votes to cancel Australia Day ceremony and celebrationsThe Guardian

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The Macleay Argus
Ice use out of control in regional Australia
The Macleay Argus
He says there is a huge misconception that alcohol is the major issue for Indigenous Australia and that close to 100% of his clients are all ice users. “All too often we hear the same sad story,” Mr Wilson said. “It's tough for people to get off ice ...

Gizmodo Australia
World First: Kakadu National Park, As Seen From A Drone
Gizmodo Australia
Locations include the famous Yellow Waters Billabong at sunrise, the rugged escarpment of the towering Nourlangie Rock - a deeply spiritual site home to significant works of Aboriginal rock art more than 20,000 years old, the cascading waterfalls of ...

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ABC Online
NBL star Kevin White uses hoops to inspire Aboriginal youngsters in central Australia
ABC Online
He is exactly the kind of person to inspire Aboriginal youngsters in central Australia to lock onto a goal, and chase it. He has recently returned from a trip to Nyewente and Ltyentye Apurte Aboriginal communities with Charity Bounce — an organisation ...