Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The West Australian
Art shines at the markets
The West Australian
Flight: Aboriginal Perspectives from the Sky showcases a series of works by artists in Aboriginal art centres and independent artists from all over regional Australia including Spinifex Hill Studio and Martumili Artists. The artworks explore ...

New York Times
4000 Kilometers, 10 Months: One Australian's March for Indigenous Rights
New York Times
PRINCES HIGHWAY, Australia — Clinton Pryor had already walked 4,780 kilometers, or nearly 3,000 miles, by the time I met up with him Thursday morning on a country road between Sydney and Melbourne. Mr. Pryor, an Aboriginal activist from Australia's ...

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Catholic Leader
Northern Australia's first missionary priest remembered 170 years later
Catholic Leader
About 170 years ago, Fr Confalonieri, lived amongst the aboriginal people at Port Essington a military garrison on the remote Coburg Peninsular, now part of the Northern Territory. As Northern Australia's first Catholic missionary, Fr Confalonieri ...

The Australian
Time for action on indigenous recognition, says Fred Chaney
The Australian
Achieving indigenous constitutional recognition, not endlessly discussing how the current proposals were arrived at, should be the task at hand, former Liberal party deputy leader and Fraser government Aboriginal affairs minister Fred Chaney says ...

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Aboriginal representation needs greater clarity
The Australian
Graham Richardson was wrong when he said indigenous Australians had “demanded” to have “representation in the federal parliament”, an idea Richardson described as “plain crazy” to put to a referendum (“Spouting feel-good fluff is no proof of foreman ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Review: National Gallery of Australia's Defying Empire mixes art and activism
The Sydney Morning Herald
It's no surprise there's a militant edge to the National Gallery of Australia's third National Indigenous Art Triennial, Defying Empire, which celebrates the 1967 referendum. The vast majority of Indigenous artists today may be making works that ...

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Blayney Chronicle
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian than European
Blayney Chronicle
One point two per cent of Australians speak Vietnamese, and another 1.2 per cent Cantonese. The Census recorded 300 different languages, including indigenous languages. A record 2.8 per cent of Australians identified themselves as Aboriginal or Torres ...

BuzzFeed News
16 Photos That Show The Strength And Spirit Of Australia's Aboriginal People
BuzzFeed News
Each year the Garma Festival brings together Aboriginal people, political leaders and businessmen in Arnhem Land, in the north-east corner of the Northern Territory, to celebrate the world's oldest surviving culture and discuss the economic issues ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Charity and University Partner to Improve Indigenous Health Outcomes
Pro Bono Australia
In a world first, the Australian model will also consider the preconception environment and incorporate Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander knowledge and leadership. In a joint statement Save the Children and the University of Melbourne said the ...

InDaily
Local govt should stay out of debate I started, says councillor
InDaily
As InDaily revealed last week, South Ward councillor Alex Antic has submitted a motion for tomorrow night's meeting, urging the council to publicly advocate a position on the date of Australia Day. Indigenous activists have labelled January 26 ...

The Guardian
Australia better at tackling natural disasters than helping Indigenous people, CEO says
The Guardian
Governments are better at tackling natural disasters than longer-term problems in remote Indigenous communities, the head of Mental Health Australia has said. The Arnhem Land community of Galiwin'ku was devastated by two cyclones just four weeks apart ...

SBS
What's the deal with wild foods?
SBS
While these wild and native ingredients have only come to the fore in Australia in recent years, Indigenous Australians' traditional knowledge of native edible flora and fauna is vast, stretching back tens of thousands of years. “Being Aboriginal ...

Indigenous Australia faces 'tsunami' of kidney disease
ABC Online
Following the death of the acclaimed Indigenous musician Dr G Yunupingu from renal failure, east Arnhem Aboriginal health organisations are calling on the federal and territory governments to match their own funding to fight the problem. At the Garma ...

Win: Tickets to Bangarra's New Production Plus Dinner at ARIA
Broadsheet
Sydney's Bangarra Dance Theatre is one of Australia's top performing arts companies, combining 40,000 years of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture with contemporary dance. The company, now in its 28th year, will on August 25 bring to the ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
On the move: the latest appointments and resignations
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Turnbull Government has appointed Vicki Coltman, Sarah Davies and Fiona Jose to the Council of the National Museum of Australia (NMA) on a part-time basis for three year terms. Coltman is a Director and Deputy Chair of the Art Gallery of Ballarat ...

Spouting feel-good fluff is no proof of foreman material
The Australian
There are differing factions in Aboriginal Australia that advocate either taking what you can get now or pushing the envelope way beyond what is possible. At any large gathering of like-minded people, there is always a tendency to reach for what cannot ...

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State praises AIEF, but can't find the cash to support it
The Australian
The AIEF has been meeting with the state government for the past 12 months in the hope of securing the funding, but received a letter from the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, Mark Furner, in May that said: “Given the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Government could end HIV transmission in Australia with just $32ma year
The Sydney Morning Herald
The rate of HIV notification in 2015 among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples was more than double the rate in the Australian‑born non‑Indigenous population. At the end of 2015, an estimated 25,313 people were living with HIV in Australia ...

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ABC Online
Garma: Kidney failure that killed Dr G Yunupingu highlights huge problem for Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
The death of Arnhem Land musician Dr G Yunupingu at 46 years of age should highlight the crippling impacts kidney failure is having on Indigenous Australians, health experts and advocates have warned. As well as Dr G Yunupingu's death, land rights ...

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Aboriginal culture at centre of journey
The West Australian
Fiona McLennan so firmly believes Aboriginal culture should be taught by indigenous elders as part of the Australian school curriculum she has embarked on an open-ended journey to further the cause. The Margaret River woman and her nine-year-old son, ...