Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

SBS
Musicians bring Indigenous Australian composers' works to life
SBS
Musicians are performing original music from Indigenous composer Brenda Gifford who says the sound is based on the seasons from her home town of Wreck Bay. "It's that connection within me...it's that connection like when I go down to Wreck (Bay) it's ...

The Advertiser
Nick Ryan: What next after South Australia's big battery? How about rockets?
The Advertiser
Countless frustrated Christmas mornings tell us most people buy the toys but forget about the batteries but in South Australia we're doing it the other way around. We've got the bloody big battery, now we want to play with rocket ships. Some might ...

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The Guardian
300000 fines levied on participants in remote work-for-dole program
The Guardian
Participants in a work-for-the-dole program that overwhelmingly targets Indigenous people are 27 times more likely to be penalised by loss of income than those on another similar program, an analysis by the Australian National University has found. In ...

ABC Online
Welfare recipients in 'some of Australia's poorest communities' slapped with 300000 fines
ABC Online
Fines imposed on welfare recipients in a controversial work-for-the-dole scheme have soared to 300,000 in under two years, prompting renewed claims of poverty and hunger in Aboriginal communities.

The Australian
Greens' Kiwi senator Scott Ludlam exposed by barrister
The Australian
Mr Cameron, a former Aboriginal Legal Service lawyer and social justice advocate, told The Weekend Australian last night that he was not politically motivated when he applied three weeks ago to the NZ Department of Internal Affairs to search its ...
Greens senator Scott Ludlam forced to quit because of dual citizenshipThe Conversation AU

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The Australian
APY paints broader picture for War Memorial
The Australian
In the end, it's about the defence of our land — Australia.” The 5m-long painting, to be officially unveiled this year, was commissioned through South Australia's APY Art Centre Collective, in part in recognition of the roughly 1100 indigenous ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
The End of AAMU
Aboriginal Art Directory News
But Stijn Schoonderwoerd, General Director of the NMWC, said about this acquisition: “We are very proud and happy that the most important collection of Aboriginal art outside Australia is being entrusted to our care. This means we can immediately ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal artist Peter Mungkuri wins inaugural Hadley's Art Prize
ABC Online
A painting by Aboriginal artist Peter Mungkuri has taken out the inaugural Hadley's Art Prize, the world's richest landscape art prize. Mungkuri will take home ... The painting depicts his birth place in Fregon, in central Australia. "This is my story ...
South Australian indigenous artist Peter Mungkuri wins inaugural $100000 Hadley's Art PrizeThe Mercury

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AEC cuts will disempower the NT: Labor MP
The Australian
"Aboriginal people are already disadvantaged and under-represented," he said. "To take away their ability to vote in 2017 - 50 years after the 1967 referendum - is one more terrible example of the Turnbull government putting indigenous Australians last ...

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Broadsheet
Australia's Brave New World
Broadsheet
But scratch the surface and the tourism posters are propaganda pieces promoting Australia as a utopia for whites. The Depression was hitting hard. Indigenous-Australian cultures were being crushed. Some books were banned, including the satire from ...

NT program boosts Indigenous army recruits
EducationHQ Australia
Last year's graduates brought the number of indigenous Australians in defence to more than 500 for the first time since World War II. Numeracy lecturer Bruce Garnett says the change he's seen in the students is phenomenal. "You see these young people ...

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UQ News
Through the lens of the Wild Australia Show
UQ News
Was Meston's Wild Australia Show of the late nineteenth century a form of exploitation or a vital link between Indigenous Australians and the wider world? A new photographic exhibit, documenting the controversial troupe, is allowing people to decide ...

Huffington Post Australia
It's About Time We Opened Our Eyes To The Risk Of Blindness From Diabetes
Huffington Post Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are particularly at risk. Already they are three times more likely to be blind than other Australians and diabetic retinopathy is the third leading cause of vision loss and blindness amongst Indigenous ...

The Conversation AU
Friday essay: painting 'The Last Victorian Aborigines'
The Conversation AU
Although Australia has officially rejected the notion of blood quantum and genetic arithmetic, even today there is a popular and erroneous perception that it is possible to measure the proportion of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal ancestry through “blood”.

The Australian
Plan for indigenous to serve jail time at home
The Australian
A NSW Bar Association proposal for special indigenous courts has received a boost with new data on high incarceration rates, but the person behind that data, criminologist Don Weatherburn, said any revised system must come with adequate resourcing “to ...

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The Australian
NSW Bar pushes for indigenous court to cut incarceration
The Australian
Efforts to reduce the indigenous prison population since the 1993 report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody have failed, with the rate nationwide rising by 63 per cent since then. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians ...

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Aboriginal Art Directory News
YOU ARE HERE
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Presented by actress Miranda Tapsell, the TV series of films under the title of You Are Here explores the place of Indigenous people in Australia today. Included in the series are Warwick Thornton's We Don't Need a Map, Erica Glynn's In My Own Words, ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous people keen to be trained in filming interactions with police
The Guardian
Newhouse said more than 20 Indigenous communities across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, New South Wales and Queensland had requested training but were afraid of ramifications if they were identified. He said much of the training centred on ...
The Campaign To Help Aboriginal People Fight Police HarassmentHuffington Post Australia

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ABC Online
Indigenous youth suicide: Commissioner urges action amid worries 'children think no-one cares'
ABC Online
It's a story far more personal for Australia's first female Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar. Ms Oscar was at the inquest back in 2007, too. She was concerned about why so many young people were killing ...

Herald Sun
Darebin Council considering moving Australia Day citizenship ceremony
Herald Sun
The citizenship ceremony could be replaced by an event acknowledging indigenous Australian suffering on January 26. The survey, distributed to a council advisory committee, asks a range of questions in order “to broaden council's perspective and ...

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