Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Mercury
Hobart Lord Mayor Sue Hickey says council will continue campaign to change date of Australia Day
The Mercury
“Every year there are public rallies, with people protesting against the current legislated date for Australia Day because Aboriginal people view it as invasion day. “In Melbourne this year, 50,000 people — both indigenous and non-indigenous — protested.

The West Australian
Activist in Referendum showcase
The West Australian
The life of an Aboriginal activist and women's rights champion from the Pilbara has been put on display at the State Library of Western Australia as part of an exhibition remembering the 1967 Referendum. The Right Wrongs: 1967 Referendum — The WA ...

WAtoday
Family 'gambled away' funeral money for WA girl who killed herself
WAtoday
The older sister grew up in Kalumburu, which on a map looks like an exotic, coastal location at the top of Australia. But it was a predatory environment where 13 per cent of the men were convicted child sex offenders among others who had not been caught.

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Inquest uncovers horrors of Kimberley life
NEWS.com.au
WA Government child protection worker Rosalee Webb was talking about a 13-year-old Aboriginal girl who killed herself in 2013 in Kalumburu, the northern-most human settlement in WA. Ms Webb, a psychologist, has seen a lot in a career spent in ...

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ABC Online
How Indigenous rangers worked with police to ease tensions in Kalgoorlie during Elijah Doughty trial
ABC Online
And walking through the crowd, a link between members of what has been called one of Australia's most divided communities, were the Goldfields Land and Sea Council's (GLSC) Rangers: young Aboriginal men who put their hand up to help keep the peace.

ABC Online
Why the remote APY Lands dominate the Australian art scene
ABC Online
The centre of Australia's contemporary art scene isn't the wharves of Sydney Harbour or an alleyway in Melbourne: it's a handful of tiny art centres in remote Indigenous communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of South ...

ABC Online
Australia Day: Hobart Mayor lashes 'pale, male and stale' councillors over date change vote
ABC Online
... over their 60s … certainly I don't think local government is as representative as I'd like it to be with some of the modern thinking around such issues as marriage equality and changing to be more inclusive for Australia Day and Aboriginal people ...

The West Australian
Councils join to forge reconciliation plan
The West Australian
The partnership's steering committee suggested that a regional plan could reduce duplication of consultation with indigenous groups in the Bunbury Geographe Region as they are spread across local government boundaries and therefore result in a more ...

Justice 'grossly unequal' for Aboriginal people: judge
National Indigenous Times
The Chief Justice of Western Australia — a state where Aboriginal people are imprisoned at a higher rate than anywhere else in Australia — says there's no doubt Aboriginal people are disadvantaged within the justice system. Chief Justice Wayne Martin ...

National Indigenous Times
Kris keeps his eye on the prize
National Indigenous Times
Dr Kris Rallah Baker surgery at Royal Darwin Hospital. Dr Baker is Australian's first indigenous eye doctor set to become an opthlamologist next year. As a straight 'A' student in high school, Kris Rallah-Baker wisely chose to ignore the people who ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
When the Sky Fell: Legacies of the 1967 Referendum
ArtsHub (subscription)
The topic was the removal of two clauses within the Australian Constitution that were discriminatory towards Indigenous Australians. One, I believe, was about members of this ancient culture no longer being classed as fauna. Did I say this was only ...

National Indigenous Times
Grassroots dissent derails referendum report
National Indigenous Times
The Referendum Council's final report recommended the Australian Constitution be amended to allow for a representative body that gives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander First Nations people a voice to the Federal Parliament. It also recommended ...

Crikey (registration)
Indigenous clan takes land council to court over $29m in claimed losses from Muckaty Station debacle
Crikey (registration)
Old wounds will be re-opened in the Federal Court after disgruntled Aboriginal Australians filed an action against the Northern Land Council for allegedly losing them large sums of money after canning the Muckaty Station nuclear waste dump proposal.

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The Australian
North Korea able to launch nuclear strike on Australia as early as 2018
The Australian
In July 4, Mr Kim launched his country's first missile with the range to strike the US state of Alaska and northern Australia. The US intelligence assessment shows that the US now believes North Korea is closer than previously thought to having the ...

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ABC Online
Dr G Yunupingu: Australia's most prominent Indigenous musician dies aged 46
ABC Online
Australia's most prominent Indigenous music artist Dr G Yunupingu has died aged 46 and is being mourned by family and friends as a "genius and wonderful human being". The singer — from the remote community of Galiwin'ku on Elcho Island, 500 ...
Singer Yunupingu dies aged 46The Australian
Iconic Aboriginal singer Dr G Yunupingu dies aged 46NEWS.com.au
Indigenous musician G Yunupingu dies aged 46: 'Voice of a generation'The Sydney Morning Herald

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The Australian
Singer Yunupingu dies aged 46
The Australian
World famous blind Aboriginal singer Dr G. Yunupingu passed away in Darwin yesterday. The Australian has confirmed Dr Yunupingu ... “Dr G. Yunpingu is remembered today as one of the most important figures in Australian music history, blind from birth ...
Iconic Aboriginal singer Dr G Yunupingu dies aged 46NEWS.com.au

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The Australian
No one has done more for indigenous Australians than the mining industry
The Australian
Across the public, private and community sectors, no one has done more to advance a better future and self-determination for indigenous Australians than the mining industry, and to lead the transition from highly adversarial relationships to one of ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Record number of Indigenous artists in Wynne landscape art prize
The Sydney Morning Herald
Outnumbering the canvasses of wildflowers, wattles, bush gums and domestic gardens, all finalists in Australia's oldest art prize, are the dusky Indigenous motifs of Australia's desert country. A record 15 finalists – more than a third – selected for ...

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NEWS.com.au
Jack Wilson's budgie smugglers almost eclipsed the Ninja Warrior finale
NEWS.com.au
As 21 contestants battled it out to take home the title of champion on Channel Nine's Ninja Warrior, Australia yelled and grimaced in front of television screen as athletes tried to make it through three stages of the brutal course. And then viewers ...
'I'm proud of my culture': Australia's first Indigenous Ninja Warrior Jack Wilson explains why he competes wearing ...Daily Mail

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ABC Online
Aboriginal leader Stephen Goldsmith remembered as fighter for Indigenous culture
ABC Online
The Kaurna language saying translates to "our hearts are heavy" and that is how Rob Amery, the head of linguistics at the University of Adelaide, has described the death of prominent South Australian Indigenous leader Stephen Gadlabarti Goldsmith.