Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

National Indigenous Times
Indigenous leaders urge Australians to get behind Uluru Statement proposal
SBS
“Then there's been some commentary from the Aboriginal politicians and some of the Aboriginal leadership, but on the whole we need this to be a really dedicated position that Australia needs to take up. “We believe that all Australians are mature ...
Grassroots dissent derails referendum reportNational Indigenous Times

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South Coast Register
First Koori Justice of Peace
South Coast Register
TRAILBLAZER: Justice of the Peace head Leo Brown and Australia's first Indigenous Justice of the Peace, Wreck Bay's Bob Brown upon his appointment in 1954, a leader of the local Aboriginal community. Picture: Shoalhaven Historical Society. See your ad ...

ABC Online
Indigenous groups worry 'Voice to Parliament' referendum proposal will be watered down
ABC Online
... this has been a collective voice, it's been a very large voice from all around Australia," she said. "And it wasn't just about being recognised, it was really about a real structural reform." A working group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

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ABC Online
Storylines archive at State Library of WA offers a way to find photos of Indigenous family members
ABC Online
"It's pretty magical." That's how Damien Webb, Indigenous liaison officer at the State Library of Western Australia, describes his work. Mr Webb runs the Storylines project, which is dedicated to helping Aboriginal people find historic photographs of ...

Artitja Fine Arts born from love of Aboriginal art
Community Newspaper Group
From there Artitja Fine Arts was born, an exhibition space dedicated to breaking down cultural barriers by introducing local art lovers to the work of some of Australia's most remote Aboriginal artists and art centres. “My true introduction to ...

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The Canberra Times
'Patronising, paternalistic': Aboriginal group blasts ACT government contracts
The Canberra Times
The housing contract to manage an Indigenous boarding house and Indigenous supported accommodation went to Every Man Australia, a group focused on men's issues which has teamed up with Toora, a women's service. Ms Tongs said the contract was ...

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The Australian
More politicians may be caught up in citizenship bungle: Di Natale
The Australian
Half a dozen MPs have been unable to provide The Australian with documentation proving they renounced their dual citizenship or took “reasonable steps” to do so after the Greens' former co-deputy leaders Larissa Waters and Scott Ludlam were forced to ...

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BuzzFeed News
Sentence in Aboriginal Teen's Death Is Too Lenient, Protesters in Australia Say
New York Times
SYDNEY, Australia — Shouting “shame,” protesters on Monday held demonstrations across Australia to express their anger over what they said was a lenient sentence in the death of a 14-year-old Aboriginal boy. Outside the Supreme Court of New South ...
Rallies across the country call for justice for Elijah DoughtySBS
AB Original's Powerful Splendour Set Pays Tribute To Elijah DoughtyHuffington Post Australia
Hundreds protest Elijah Doughty sentenceThe Australian
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The Australian
Senior leaders call for indigenous advisory body
The Australian
“The aim of such a body should be to represent and give voice to the First Nations of Australia in their contemporary form. It should represent, as Dr Galarrwuy Yunupingu has appropriately described, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in a ...
5 Indigenous Shows Breaking Ground On Australian TV Right NowJunkee

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ABC Online
Fitzroy's Indigenous heritage honoured in Charcoal Lane mural by Robert Young
ABC Online
"To be able to do a mural like this, it's just a great opportunity for people to initiate the questions or initiate the thought behind, 'Oh why is there an Aboriginal mural here?'" The mural references the cultural connections Fitzroy has to Australia ...

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The West Australian
RSL reaffirms Aboriginal flag stance
The West Australian
The Aboriginal flag will not fly at Albany's Anzac Day services next year after the Returned Services League of Australia reviewed its flag policy. It comes after RSLWA president Peter Aspinall placed the flag protocol review on the national RSL agenda ...

BuzzFeed News
Rallies across the country call for justice for Elijah Doughty
SBS
"The verdict “reduced (Elijah's) death to an offence under the Road Traffic Act," she said.“It seems to be open season for vigilantes in Western Australia.” She questioned why no Indigenous people had been on the jury. Labor MP Linda Burney also spoke ...
AB Original's Powerful Splendour Set Pays Tribute To Elijah DoughtyHuffington Post Australia
Hundreds protest Elijah Doughty sentenceNEWS.com.au
Is The Life Of An Aboriginal Child Worth Three Years? National Protests Call For Justice For ElijahBuzzFeed News
Independent Australia -New Matilda
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Sky News Australia
AB Original's Powerful Splendour Set Pays Tribute To Elijah Doughty
Huffington Post Australia
Australian rappers A.B. Original used their set at Splendour In The Grass to issue an emotional, incendiary call for justice for indigenous people, leading the crowd in chants and tributes while dedicating their set to Kalgoorlie teenager Elijah Doughty.
Rallies across the country call for justice for Elijah DoughtySBS
The Killing Fields: How We Failed Elijah Doughty, And Countless OthersNew Matilda
Elijah Doughty's death was murderIndependent Australia
The Australian -Sky News Australia -ABC Online
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ABC Online
Sacred Aboriginal objects returned to Central Australia, century after collected by museums
ABC Online
More than two dozen sacred objects have been returned to Indigenous people in Alice Springs, a century after they were removed. The 26 items ended up in museums in Victoria where many of them were on public display, contrary to Arrente law, until the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Survival of Aboriginal Australians should be a cause for national pride
The Sydney Morning Herald
Science has rewritten the history of Australia – of humans, even – by proving that Aboriginal people have lived here at least 65,000 years. That's 18,000 years longer than previously known and exceeds even outlying expectations by 5000 years.
Australian state hands 470 houses to Aboriginal peopleXinhua

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Survival of Aboriginal Australians should be a cause for national pride
The Sydney Morning Herald
Science has rewritten the history of Australia – of humans, even – by proving that Aboriginal people have lived here at least 65,000 years. That's 18,000 years longer than previously known and exceeds even outlying expectations by 5000 years.

The Australian
The Queen & Zak Grieve: Dan Box probes conviction in new series
The Australian
Today the newspaper announces it has commissioned a six-part documentary investigation by national crime reporter Dan Box, part of the team that won two Walkley awards for its investigation of the murders of three Aboriginal children who disappeared ...

The Australian
Indigenous MPs urged to stop 'agenda of failure'
The Australian
Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten have been warned they risk failure on indigenous constitutional recognition unless Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander politicians stop “pushing an agenda” at odds with last week's Referendum Council recommendations.

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Herald Sun
Yarra Council told Aboriginal laneway name too 'bogan' for locals
Herald Sun
More than 100 people objected; many claimed the name was too hard to pronounce and spell, and could cause confusion for emergency services because of similar names throughout Australia. Ballarat council later short-listed three non-indigenous names.

The Guardian
Yami Lester: tributes follow death of Aboriginal elder and Maralinga activist
The Guardian
He joined the Aboriginal Advancement League in Adelaide, fighting to gain recognition for the British atomic tests in South Australia, and an acknowledgement for the 1,800 Aboriginal people affected. His work lead to the McClelland royal commission in ...
Yankunytjatjara elder Yami Lester dies age 75 after life spent shining light on repercussions of British nuclear ...NT News

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