Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Australian
Aboriginal leader Yami Lester dies
The Australian
He joined the Aboriginal Advancement League in Adelaide, fighting to gain recognition for the British atomic tests in South Australia, and an acknowledgment for the estimated 1800 Aboriginal people affected. His work lead to the McClelland Royal ...
Aboriginal leader Yami Lester dies at 75 - The Sydney Morning HeraldThe Sydney Morning Herald
Yami Lester: Aboriginal activist, elder and nuclear campaigner dies ...ABC Online
Yankunytjatjara elder and Maralinga nuclear test survivor Yami Lester OAM passes away, aged 75The Advertiser

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You Are Here: Indigenous television that tells it like it is
The New Daily
She uses her film to call for a full version of Australian history to be taught in all schools – reflecting the fact that 36,000 years ago, indigenous people were making bread, building houses and dams. “I'm not an expert in Australian history but this ...

The Advertiser
Liberal leader Steven Marshall reveals his plans to help Aboriginal communities in the APY Lands
The Advertiser
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher last year announced the State Government would begin treaty discussions with Aboriginal South Australians as the next step towards reconciliation. But Mr Marshall, who has vowed to become the first SA Premier to ...

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9news.com.au
Harold Holt's friend sheds light on mystery disappearance 50 years ago
9news.com.au
It was a summer's day in 1967, when a Prime Minister went for a swim, and vanished. Harold Holt, a keen swimmer, and spear fisherman ventured into the waters off Victoria's Cheviot Beach, at the back of Portsea on the Mornington Peninsula. Today, those ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal leader Yami Lester dies at 75 - The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
Yami Lester, who was left blind by the Maralinga atomic tests and went on to become a tireless campaigner for Aboriginal rights, has died aged 75.

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ABC Online
SA Aboriginal leader Yami Lester dies
NEWS.com.au
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 1800 Aboriginal people affected. His work lead to the McClelland Royal Commission in ...
Yami Lester: Aboriginal activist, elder and nuclear campaigner dies aged 75ABC Online
Yankunytjatjara elder and Maralinga nuclear test survivor Yami Lester OAM passes away, aged 75The Advertiser

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ABC Online
Yami Lester: Aboriginal activist, elder and nuclear campaigner dies aged 75
ABC Online
Mr Lester suffered vision impairment after being blinded by a nuclear test bomb that blew though his homelands in the far north of South Australia during the 1950s. He spent his early years working on pastoral properties across South Australia, until ...

NT News
Kakadu artefacts discovery rewriting the history books
NT News
Professor Jacobs said the discovery set a new minimum age for evidence of human habitation of Australia, although debate would probably still continue. “It's not over, there will be a new debate,” she said. While Aboriginal habitation had now been ...

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'Aboriginal Australia' at JCOGS on Sunday
Stowe Today
“Aboriginal Australia,” an interactive slide show and natural history display, will be presented Sunday, July 30, at 4 p.m. at the Jewish Community of Greater Stowe. Denise Ashman Krause will introduce guests to images and insights she gleaned from ...

The Roar
Why the Wallabies' Indigenous jersey should be permanent
The Roar
Beale's reaction demonstrates the huge symbolic meaning of the jersey, not only to our Indigenous people, but to all patriotic Australians who recognise the crimes committed against Australia's Indigenous population since European colonisation. Anyone ...

The Australian
Turnbull handed report on indigenous recognition
The Australian
The Business Council of Australia, the major corporate-indigenous secondment program Jawun — which involves some of the biggest corporations and a range of governments — the NSW Aboriginal Land Council and the National Congress of Australia's ...

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The Australian
Holmes a Court shares indigenous art trove in Sung Into Being
The Australian
Bulunbulun's work demonstrates the connection between north Australian indigenous people and the Macassan traders of Indonesia. “There were people coming back and forth to Australia from Indonesia for thousands of years,” Holmes a Court said.

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Indigenous voice ideal option for constitutional change
The Australian
The Referendum Council's two simple recommendations this week break the impasse presented by previous reports on recognition of indigenous Australians. The report identifies a single proposition that can be guided through the narrow window of ...

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The Mercury
Talking Point: Address our past for a better future
The Mercury
Ponder constitutional recognition at both the State and Federal level, the AFL's Dreamtime round and our national increasing pride in Aboriginal culture, art, music, dance, all of which arguably underpins our developing “Brand Australia”. Why else ...

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From little things
The Australian
The pair had earlier dropped by the office of Magabala Books, Australia's oldest independent indigenous publisher, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Among the numerous children's and adult titles on display in the office's light ...

The Australian
Forever beginning
The Australian
The story unfolds in the here and now, unlike That Deadman Dance, set in early-19th-century Western Australia, or one of its predecessors, Benang, which focuses on the decades of forced removal of indigenous children, the people we now know as the ...

The Advertiser
The epic tale of a WWI Indigenous Anzac and his captor
The Advertiser
An estimated 1500 Aborigines served on the Western Front in the Australian Imperial Force in WWI, but Roland turned out to be of special interest to the Germans. Some of his story has been told by the SA Museum in an exhibition Aboriginal Anzacs: From ...

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ABC Online
Waterloo Bay 'massacre' debate rages as Aboriginal community looks for 'closure'
ABC Online
For the past 170 years, an Aboriginal community in regional South Australia has been handing down the story of the "Waterloo Bay massacre". "Our history is an oral history, it's not written down," Wirangu elder Jack Johncock said. "In 1849, people were ...

National Geographic Australia
Aboriginal Artefacts sold Illegally in Hobart
National Geographic Australia
A member of Tasmania's Indigenous community reported the illegal trade after the artefacts were being offered for sale on the internet. Luke Bond, Chief enforcement officer from the Natural and Cultural Heritage Division found 38 potential indigenous ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Man Found Not Guilty Of Manslaughter Of WA Aboriginal Teenager
Huffington Post Australia
On Friday, the Western Australian Supreme Court in Perth found the accused not guilty of the manslaughter charge, but guilty of dangerous driving occasioning death following a four-day trial and more than six hours of jury deliberation. The verdict ...
Driver not guilty of Indigenous teen Elijah Doughty's manslaughterSBS
Three years' jail for Elijah's lifeThe Australian
Elijah Doughty trial: Man jailed for three years over death of Kalgoorlie teenagerABC Online
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