Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The West Australian
NAIDOC celebrations lined up
The West Australian
“The 2017 community concert is set to be the biggest yet, featuring some of the best indigenous musicians from Australia alongside a number of our extremely talented local artists,” he said. The Shire of Ashburton also has an array of NAIDOC events ...
Celebrate NAIDOC Week with Aboriginal Artists at the NGA's 'Defying Empire'The RiotACT
NAIDOC: Jessie Lloyd on mission to reclaim Indigenous cultural heritage through songABC Online
Australia begins week-long event to celebrate Aboriginal cultureXinhua
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ABC Online
NAIDOC Week: What are kids today learning about Tasmania's Aboriginal history?
ABC Online
The gumnuts symbolise Aboriginal people, the buttons, white colonists. At the start of the lesson, the Year 5/6 Austins Ferry class was broken into groups that represented Tasmanian Aboriginal nations and were asked to draw on paper what they might ...

ABC Online
Uncle Ossie Cruse: One of Australia's last 'great Aboriginal patriarchs'
ABC Online
If you visit Eden in the far south of New South Wales and ask who the most recognisable figure in town is, chances are they will tell you, "Uncle Ossie". "I just remember that first vision of seeing him, in his signature hat, and his incredible warmth ...

ABC Online
NAIDOC Week: The remarkable Mrs Smith, protector and friend to the Boandik people
ABC Online
Ms Smith's 1880 book The Boandik tribe of South Australian Aborigines delivered a fascinating insight into the culture clash that existed at the time. In the foreword, she passionately wrote about how the "once numerous and powerful tribe of south-east ...

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ABC Online
Coming together for NAIDOC Week celebrations
Teacher Magazine
Classroom teacher Jo Kelly created a separate timetable for the day. 'The teachers in each year level are rotating with one another … doing different activities based on Aboriginal culture – from the history to the art, through to Aboriginal ...
NAIDOC: Jessie Lloyd on mission to reclaim Indigenous cultural heritage through songABC Online
Naidoc Week sends strong message about importance of languagesThe Cairns Post
Naidoc awards: Dianne Ryder, Ollie George and Patty Mills among winnersThe Guardian
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The Australian
Gina Williams dazzles with her halftime performance in Noongar at the football in Western Australia
The Australian
Gina Williams sang an Australian classic in an ancient Aboriginal language at the footy yesterday, and the crowd thanked her with long and loud applause. Fremantle Football Club invited Williams to perform her Noongar translation of The Church's 1988 ...

ABC Online
Alice Springs art exhibition pays tribute to Aboriginal stockmen of Central Australia and their hats
ABC Online
A new art exhibition in Central Australia is paying tribute to Aboriginal stockmen of the Northern Territory, and their attire. Titled 'A Man and his Hat', artist Betty Davies said she was inspired by many of the older Indigenous bushmen often seen ...

ABC Online
NAIDOC Week: Language software developed in Newcastle helps save indigenous languages
ABC Online
The software database incorporates text, photos, video, and audio elements to help educate its users in indigenous words and definitions. It is being used to help preserve more than 50 different languages from Indigenous Australian tribes, as well as ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous girls missing school during their periods: the state of hygiene in remote Australia
The Conversation AU
The report on remote communities in mainland Australia, conducted by the University of Queensland in partnership with WaterAid, has been released to coincide with NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) Week. We found ...

ABC Online
NAIDOC: Jessie Lloyd on mission to reclaim Indigenous cultural heritage through song
ABC Online
Unearthing songs from the settlements and missions where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people lived, her Mission Songs Project adds another dimension to Indigenous Australia's rich cultural history. From the late 1700s well into the 20th ...
Naidoc awards: Dianne Ryder, Ollie George and Patty Mills among winnersThe Guardian
NBA champ Patty Mills wins NAIDOC awardThe West Australian
Indigenous youth get a taste of life in the forceSBS
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ABC Online
Closing the Gap: Queensland's positive Indigenous health model eyed for national rollout
ABC Online
The IUIH has become arguably the most innovative and responsive ACCHO in the country and it is no coincidence that the region it serves is the fastest growing Indigenous population in Australia, with some 65,000 people. More Indigenous people live in ...
Indigenous youth get a taste of life in the forceSBS
NBA champ Patty Mills wins NAIDOC awardThe West Australian
Naidoc awards: Dianne Ryder, Ollie George and Patty Mills among winnersThe Guardian
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The West Australian
NBA champ Patty Mills wins NAIDOC award
The West Australian
NBA champion and fan favourite Patty Mills has been honoured for his work in promoting Australia's indigenous cultures. The three-time Olympic basketballer was named person of the year at the National NAIDOC Awards ceremony in Cairns on Saturday ...
Indigenous youth get a taste of life in the forceSBS
Naidoc awards: Dianne Ryder, Ollie George and Patty Mills among winnersThe Guardian
Our Languages Matter: NAIDOC Week 2017Planeta.com

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From remote desert to Harbour City: Blak Markets at Barangaroo for Naidoc week
Brisbane Times
They were teenagers before they knew that there were non-Indigenous people living in Australia. Septuagenarians now, the women from the desert have come to Sydney to sell their unique art. Mary Pan, Tjungkaya Tapaya and Iluwanti Ken are artists from ...

Courier Mail
Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival keeps Dreamtime traditions alive
Courier Mail
Cape York artist and elder Sid Bruce Shortjoe says there is a huge appetite for indigenous Australian art and culture overseas. The tribal lawman takes washed-up ghost nets and weaves them into the skeletons of powerful totems – the crocodile, shark, ...

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ABC Online
Claiming Aboriginality: Have Tasmania's Indigenous services been 'swamped with white people'?
ABC Online
"Unfortunately, some government departments and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, they [still] want documentation. "We went into it with much enthusiasm thinking things would change and we would fall in line with the rests of the states in Australia.".

The RiotACT
'Defying Empire' in NAIDOC Week
The RiotACT
NAIDOC Week is celebrated around Australia each July, acknowledging the history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Special events occur not just in the Indigenous communities but also in increasing numbers of ...

SBS
Indigenous youth get a taste of life in the force
SBS
State employment minister Wade Noonan said he hoped the traineeship program would also help fight Indigenous unemployment, hovering around 14 per cent in Victoria and 18 per cent, Australia-wide. "Statistically, we actually understand that our ...
Australia's Aborigines deliver PM a roadmap to constitutional recognitionBusiness Insider

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ABC Online
Just being Aboriginal doesn't make me an activist
ABC Online
Aboriginal activists often face sustained animosity — Australia doesn't want to see Aboriginal people as David, or itself as Goliath. That would turn the image of the beloved Aussie underdog on its head, reframing it in light of theft, murder and ...

ABC Online
Mervyn Bishop blazed trail as Australia's first Aboriginal press photographer
ABC Online
Mervyn Bishop's iconic 1975 photo of Gough Whitlam pouring red earth into Gurindji leader Vincent Lingiari's hand in the aftermath of the Wave Hill strike only exists because Bishop insisted on a reshoot. "The first version didn't look good. It was ...

The Australian
Papunya's hidden art comes in from desert
The Australian
“The efflorescence of imagery that struck in the hothouse conditions of the Men's Painting Room will not be repeated, for these works were created at the moment when the epic songlines that connect Aboriginal Australia were unveiled,” Kean writes.