Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
NT Stolen Generations 'feel like the last people in Australia' to get Commonwealth compensation
ABC Online
Ms Cummings was kept in a police cell until other Aboriginal children from the area were picked up, and she eventually ended up at the Croker Island mission. She's one of 150 Stolen Generations members still alive in the NT who have sent letters to ...

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Mission Australia residential care worker Jane Peach in award honour
Herald Sun
White Rock resident Jane Peach has won Mission Australia's CEO Celebrate award for her social work with indigenous youths. Picture: BRENDAN RADKE. A WHITE Rock grandmother has been recognised for outstanding service to her employer and the ...

Toowoomba Chronicle
AUSTRALIA DAY BAN IS ALL MEI, MEI, MEI
Herald Sun (blog)
The ostensible catalyst for this was the Aboriginal Community Consultation Report: The January 26 Project. Commissioned by the council, it involved an online survey of 88 indigenous participants as to their views of Australia Day. Not surprisingly, a ...
PAUL MURRAY: Leave Australia Day aloneToowoomba Chronicle
Yarra City Council's Australia Day policy is not a surpriseThe Sydney Morning Herald
Second Melbourne council to vote on ending Australia Day citizenship ceremoniesThe Guardian
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The Advertiser
South Australia pre-WWI, its privilege and poverty, openness and oppression, examined in papers from History SA
The Advertiser
Its subtitle was “An Act to make provision for the Better Protection and Control of the Aboriginal and Half-caste Inhabitants of the State of South Australia”. “One of the things about the 1911 Act is it really gave the chief protector sweeping power ...

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ABC Online
The 'life school' helping Indigenous teenage mums kick drugs and ...
ABC Online
Only 62 per cent of Indigenous girls on Cape York graduate high school, and it is even harder to finish when you fall pregnant. But one boarding school is ...

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The Guardian
'We are begging for housing': the crisis in Indigenous communities
The Guardian
The community, which is 90% Indigenous, is one of many to be dealing with overcrowding. A Guardian Australia analysis of census data, using the variables of average household size and persons per bedroom as indicators, suggests improvements in the ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal women empowering schoolgirls in Central Australia to fight domestic violence
ABC Online
Sitting under the shade of a gum tree in a dry river bed in Central Australia, senior Aboriginal women are working to empower a group of schoolgirls in the fight against domestic violence. Central Australia has one of the highest rates of domestic ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Yarra Mayor: This is why we unrecognised Australia Day
The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal Australians often talk about connection to land. Not only does the City of Yarra contain many ancient connections for the Wurundjeri people around the Yarra River itself, but our urban landscape is the birthplace of many modern Aboriginal ...
PAUL MURRAY: Leave Australia Day aloneToowoomba Chronicle
Don't Just Change The Date Of Australia Day...Get Rid Of It All TogetherBuzzFeed News

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ABC Online
Traffic fines could come out of welfare cheques in WA bid to reduce 'scandalous' rate of Indigenous incarceration
ABC Online
In some remote areas, almost half of Indigenous inmates are behind bars for unpaid traffic fines. WA Attorney-General John Quigley said he had been discussing the idea with Federal Social Services Minister Christian Porter. "[It would be] a modest ...

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Mackay Daily Mercury
PAUL MURRAY: Leave Australia Day alone
Mackay Daily Mercury
Yarra City Council, in a very lefty part of Melbourne, voted to stop marking the day because they think it's a day of sadness for the Indigenous community. They claimed the locals wanted it, but didn't try that hard to really find out what they thought ...
Don't Just Change The Date Of Australia Day...Get Rid Of It All TogetherBuzzFeed News

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Toowoomba Chronicle
PAUL MURRAY: Leave Australia Day alone
Toowoomba Chronicle
Yarra City Council, in a very lefty part of Melbourne, voted to stop marking the day because they think it's a day of sadness for the Indigenous community. They claimed the locals wanted it, but didn't try that hard to really find out what they thought ...
Don't Just Change The Date Of Australia Day...Get Rid Of It All TogetherBuzzFeed News

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ABC Online
We should celebrate Australia Day, just not on January 26
ABC Online
It's understandable that some Australians' backs are put up by the suggestion that by celebrating Australia Day on January 26, they are celebrating invasion, dispossession and genocide. These Australians will think, that's not what Australia Day means ...

Gold Coast Bulletin
Political idiocy: Abolishing Australia Day to demolishing statues of Confederate leaders
Gold Coast Bulletin
The Council effectively abolished Australia Day, and sought to replace it with an event “marking the loss of indigenous culture” — on the grounds that Australia Day constitutes an insult to Aborigines. Malcolm Turnbull, quite rightly, responded by ...
Do Hunter councils support changes to Australia Day?Newcastle Herald
Tom Elliott: Reality a rare visitor to Yarra councilHerald Sun
Australia Day: Greens' Adam Bandt offers to hold Yarra citizenship ceremonies to help out councilABC Online
The West Australian -Daily Mail
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The Australian
Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, National Museum of Australia
The Australian
The Seven Sisters project was born in Canberra in 2010, when a small group of indigenous elders met art centre managers, museum staff and Australian National University academics to discuss applying for a joint Australian Research Council grant.

ABC Online
America tears down its racist history, we ignore ours
ABC Online
Across Australia there are monuments to those who drove Aboriginal people from their lands. There are reminders of frontier battles that are still not taught in our schools. There is still no place on our War Memorial wall of remembrance for those ...

Herald Sun
Darebin Council to vote on dumping Australia Day
Herald Sun
The council will bring forward a debate on whether to dump its citizenship ceremonies from Australia Day out of respect to Aboriginal Australians, according to an urgent motion posted online on Friday afternoon. One of the options councillors will ...
Do Hunter councils support changes to Australia Day?Newcastle Herald
Australia Day: Greens' Adam Bandt offers to hold Yarra citizenship ceremonies to help out councilABC Online
Govt and mayor yet to hold Aust Day talksThe West Australian

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Chief Executive Officer
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Aboriginal Art Centre Hub WA (AACHWA) is the peak body for Aboriginal art centres in Western Australia. AACHWA promotes the value of Aboriginal art centres to a broad range of stakeholders and advances the skills of organisations and individuals ...

SBS
Same-sex marriage postal vote: Remote Indigenous towns will get phone or online option
SBS
The option will only be available to specific groups of voters, including those travelling overseas, those living in remote communities, including Aboriginal town camps, and those with “certain disabilities”. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS ...

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Newcastle Herald
Do Hunter councils support changes to Australia Day?
Newcastle Herald
We naturally review our Australia Day events each year and this issue is certainly something worth discussing with our Aboriginal Strategic Committee and community, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal. It is important that we listen carefully to the ...
Tom Elliott: Reality a rare visitor to Yarra councilHerald Sun
Australia Day: Greens' Adam Bandt offers to hold Yarra citizenship ceremonies to help out councilABC Online
Govt and mayor yet to hold Aust Day talksThe West Australian
Daily Mail
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The Conversation AU
Controlled experiments won't tell us which Indigenous health programs are working
The Conversation AU
These issues are particularly relevant to remote Australia and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, where high levels of illness and early death persist, and where what applies to the tightly controlled conditions of a laboratory rarely ...