Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
In a strange uncanny Australia, how do we know we belong?
ABC Online
Picnic at Hanging Rock and Palace of Memories are each a meditation on what scholars Ken Gelder and Jane Jacobs have dubbed "Uncanny Australia". In their book published in the late 1990s, they posed questions about how "Aboriginal sacredness ...

Perth Now
When the Sky Fell – Legacies of the 1967 Referendum at PICA
Perth Now
The result is a diverse series exploring the legacy of the referendum which is often held up as a landmark moment in Indigenous rights in Australia. Perth-based artist Sharyn Egan's work, The Nullians, is featuring in the exhibition. She has spent the ...

Reuters
Australia's Aborigines deliver PM a roadmap to constitutional recognition
Reuters
Australia's constitution currently makes no reference to the indigenous population and aboriginal leaders have struggled for generations to gain recognition for past injustices since European colonization in the 1700s. The government only issued a ...
PM handed final report on Indigenous recognitionSBS
Indigenous recognition: Representative body must be 'frank and fearless', Law Council saysABC Online
Turnbull to receive ultimatum on indigenous recognitionThe Australian
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Australia's Aborigines deliver PM a roadmap to constitutional recognition
Daily Mail
MELBOURNE, June 30 (Reuters) - Australia's aboriginal leaders delivered a report to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday recommending the indigenous population be recognised in the constitution as the country's first people, with a history dating ...

The Guardian
Indigenous constitutional recognition faces tough battle post Uluru
The Guardian
The Uluru statement contained a contention and two proposals: that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people never ceded sovereignty over what is now Australia; that Indigenous people should be given a constitutionally enshrined voice to parliament ...
PM handed final report on Indigenous recognitionSBS
Indigenous recognition: Representative body must be 'frank and fearless', Law Council saysABC Online
Turnbull to receive ultimatum on indigenous recognitionThe Australian
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The Guardian
College made millions by tricking Indigenous people, court finds
The Guardian
A vocational training college made tens of millions of dollars by tricking disadvantaged and Indigenous communities into signing up to expensive diploma courses, a court has found. Unique International College used a misleading and unlawful scheme to ...
Sydney college found guilty of scamming students into accepting costly loansABC Online

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Newcastle Herald
ADVERTISING FEATURE: Celebration of culture
Newcastle Herald
NAIDOC celebrations are held around Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Local community celebrations are encouraged and often organised by communities, government ...
Celebrating First Australians this NAIDOC WeekMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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SBS
PM handed final report on Indigenous recognition
SBS
The prime minister and opposition leader are set to receive the final report suggesting a pathway to recognising indigenous Australians in the constitution. The Referendum Council, a group set up in 2015 to advise Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten on a ...
Indigenous recognition: Representative body must be 'frank and fearless', Law Council saysABC Online
Turnbull to receive ultimatum on indigenous recognitionThe Australian
Referendum Council to give political leaders ultimatum on indigenous constitutional recognitionNEWS.com.au

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The Conversation AU
Friday essay: how the Men's Painting Room at Papunya transformed Australian art
The Conversation AU
The 220 early Papunya boards held at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory are the most extensive collection of paintings from the critical juncture when contemporary Aboriginal art first emerged. When examined as a group they provide ...

ABC Online
Indigenous recognition: Representative body must be 'frank and fearless', Law Council says
ABC Online
Any new Indigenous body giving advice to Federal Parliament must be set up to be "frank and fearless", the Law Council of Australia says. The government-appointed Referendum Council will deliver a major report today, recommending its preferred ...
Turnbull to receive ultimatum on indigenous recognitionThe Australian

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Turnbull to receive ultimatum on indigenous recognition
The Australian
Mr Turnbull and Mr Shorten have consistently said any referendum question must have the support of indigenous Australia, and Referendum Council co-chairman Mark Leibler has said he would not support recommending a course of action “unless it's got ...

The Guardian
It's a long walk for Indigenous justice. That's why I'm crossing Australia one step at a time
The Guardian
I started this journey walking from Perth to find the truth and find a new way for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Australia. For the past 50 years our people have been fighting for rights, but it's like it has just gone down the drain too many ...

The Guardian
Stolen generation member slams controversial lesson
NEWS.com.au
Distressed children weren't told for five hours that it was only a role play about a part of Australian indigenous history, and that they would be able to go home to their families. Some children were so frightened they reportedly burst into tears ...
School's stolen generations lesson that traumatised children is criticised by parentsThe Guardian
Outrage over private school's 'emotional abuse'The Educator

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SHOOTING THE MESSENGER ON ABORIGINAL CHILD ABUSE
Herald Sun (blog)
But he was challenged over his motives for raising the issues, with counsel for the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Association Peggy Dwyer accusing him of trying to demonise Aboriginal communities. 'You are prepared to make a statement to this ...

The Independent
Sydney Opera House lit up with Aboriginal Australian art projection to celebrate world's oldest living culture
The Independent
Sydney Opera House is to be illuminated with a projection of indigenous art every evening for a year, as part of a range of cultural displays to mark a historic anniversary for Aborigines in Australia. The light show, which will run for seven minutes ...
Census 2016: Indigenous population could have been undercounted againABC Online
Census 2016: what's changed for Indigenous Australians?The Conversation AU
Population growing, language shrinking: census - National ...National Indigenous Times
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Community Newspaper Group
Mandurah, Pinjarra trainees graduate from Chevron conservation training program
Community Newspaper Group
The program is a partnership between Chevron Australia and Conservation Volunteers Australia. Conservation Volunteers Australia works in collaboration with Whatjuk Elders and the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council to address identified gaps in ...

The West Australian
Trauma echoes down generations of lost Aboriginal lives
The West Australian
The plight of the little children was especially pathetic and for many of these the future appears bleak ... in this context the very high suicide rates for young Kimberley Aboriginal persons were readily explicable.” This was one of the many damning ...

Bendigo Advertiser
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian than European
Bendigo Advertiser
One point two per cent of Australians speak Vietnamese, and another 1.2 per cent Cantonese. The Census recorded 300 different languages, including indigenous languages. A record 2.8 per cent of Australians identified themselves as Aboriginal or Torres ...
Census 2016: Australia hits 'tipping point' as Melbourne is set to overtake SydneyThe Sydney Morning Herald
The 2016 Census: Australia at a glanceBusiness Insider Australia
Australia census: Five takeaways from a changing countryBBC News
Western Advocate
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ArtsHub (subscription)
Why we need context in Indigenous art
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Symposium is part of Desert Mob, a unique gathering of artists, artworks and audiences focused around Aboriginal art centres of Central Australia. Desert Mob also includes an exhibition, a marketplace and a number of satellite events in Alice ...

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The Advertiser
Karina Lester: Aboriginal people do not want a nuclear waste dump in South Australia
The Advertiser
Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara, Kokatha, Adnyamathanha and other Aboriginal people of South Australia have been fighting this nuclear problem now for decades, since my father heard a British official falsely claiming that Anangu had been consulted on ...

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