Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
Census 2016: Indigenous population could have been undercounted again
ABC Online
The PES found in 2011 that the census left out 17.2 per cent of the Indigenous population, and 11.5 per cent in 2006. Professor Taylor said the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) needed to look closely at the issue. "It's happened many times before ...
Census 2016: what's changed for Indigenous Australians?The Conversation AU
Australia flies indigenous flags above its oldest public officeReuters
Population growing, language shrinking: census - National ...National Indigenous Times
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WAtoday
Bereavement traumatises Aboriginal youths: WA inquest
WAtoday
An inquest into a disturbing cluster of suicides by Aboriginal youths in Western Australia's far north will hear how bereavement stress is causing indigenous children to despair. Of the 13 cases between November 2012 and March last year, five were ...

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The Guardian
Ex NT minister grilled over 'anecdotal' Indigenous underage ...
The Guardian
John Elferink tells royal commission elders should take stand against widespread child marriage but concedes he does not have evidence to back up claims.
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The Stawell Times-News
Region's Indigenous community set to benefit from dramatic cash injection
The Stawell Times-News
Budja Budja Aboriginal Corporation chief executive Tim Chatfield said the money would enable improved outcomes for the Indigenous community in the region. “It is definitely a big win for Aboriginal Australians and their communities in the Wimmera ...

ABC Online
Royal commission: John Elferink wanted certain Aboriginal cultural practices outlawed as child abuse
ABC Online
Peggy Dwyer from the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency said the last relevant prosecution of an arranged marriage occurred "well over a decade ago" and accused Mr Elferink of recklessly demonising Indigenous communities. Mr Elferink said there ...
Indigenous kids abused for culture: Ex MPNEWS.com.au
Ex NT minister grilled over 'anecdotal' Indigenous underage marriage claimsThe Guardian

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National Indigenous Times
Suicide, youth and the wisdom of an Elder
National Indigenous Times
In Australia we are losing our young people to suicide at frightening and increasing rates. Suicide represents the leading cause of death for our young people, and disturbingly — though not surprisingly in this country – Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

The Conversation AU
Census 2016: what's changed for Indigenous Australians?
The Conversation AU
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a complicated history with the Australian census. Until the 1967 referendum, the question about Indigenous status was used mainly to exclude the Indigenous population from official population statistics ...
Census 2016: indigenous people return to pre-settlement numbersThe Australian
Census 2016: Australia hits 'tipping point' as Melbourne is set to overtake SydneyThe Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian than EuropeanArmidale Express
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ABC Online
Indigenous art: Pormpuraaw artists turn ghost nets into world-renowned pieces
ABC Online
Thousands are found in Cape York and the wider northern Australia area. Brought in on northern currents, many are discarded by illegal fishers. Artist Sid Bruce Shortjoe hoped the community's art raises awareness about the damage the nets do to the ...

The Guardian
Class is the new black: The dangers of an obsession with the 'Aboriginal middle class'
ABC Online
One has to wonder why most Australians are so deeply uncomfortable with telling the truth about their class position, and yet so insistent that Indigenous Australians are just like them. In fact, nearly half of the Australian population maintain that ...
Work for the dole racially discriminatory in remote areas, inquiry toldThe Guardian

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ABC Online
Diamonds are not forever: Indigenous communities grapple with end of the mining boom
ABC Online
As Australia's resources boom wanes, several Indigenous communities that were once promised prosperity have been left grappling with a legacy of endemic poverty and questions about how mining money has been spent. For the traditional land owners ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Opera House sails to light up every sunset with Indigenous art
The Sydney Morning Herald
The late Scottish Aboriginal artist Lin Onus hoped his art would create "some sort of bridge" between Indigenous and European cultures, yet it is ...

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Bereavement traumatises Aboriginal youths
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An inquest into a disturbing cluster of suicides by Aboriginal youths in Western Australia's far north will hear how bereavement stress is causing indigenous children to despair. Of the 13 cases between November 2012 and March last year, five were ...

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The Australian
Dancer, pilot, lawyer: indigenous children have life targets
The Australian
In the early 1990s I was involved in career workshops for indigenous students from Year 6 upwards across South Australia, western NSW and Victoria. In 1994 we worked with about 1200 students in a specifically interactive program. We found that ...

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Census 2016: indigenous people return to pre-settlement numbers
The Australian
Overall indigenous Australians remain significantly younger than non-indigenous ones. In 2006 the median age was 20, rising to 21 in 2011 and 23 last year. The median age for non-indigenous Australians in 2016 was 38. More than half — 53 per cent ...

Daily Mail
Local council demands government change Australia's national anthem because references to 'colonisation and white ...
Daily Mail
A town council will appeal to the government to change the countries national anthem because the current song doesn't include Indigenous Australians. Lake Macquarie Council says references to the 'colonisation and white settlement' excludes Aboriginal ...

ABC Online
Indigenous art pioneer Peter Fannin dies in Alice Springs
ABC Online
Tributes are flowing in for Peter Fannin, a local Central Australian botanist, Indigenous art pioneer, and philanthropist who died in Alice Springs aged 86. Along with the late Geoffrey Bardon, Mr Fannin was instrumental in the birth of the Western ...

The Westender
Major exhibition by Indigenous artist at Griffith Uni
The Westender
A major exhibition celebrating the work of Bidjara artist Christian Thompson opens at Griffith University Art Gallery next month. One of Australia's leading contemporary artists, Thompson made history as one of the first two Aboriginal Australians ...

SBS
Census 2016: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population growing
SBS
The first results of the 2016 Census of Population and Housing, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today, show Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples represent 2.8 per cent of the population, up from 2.5 per cent in 2011, and 2.3 ...

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Armidale Express
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian than European
Armidale Express
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
Census: Australians are older, ethnically diverse and losing their religionThe New Daily
Fewer Australians identify with religionSky News Australia
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ABC Online
Jimmy Chi: Bran Nue Dae playwright, award-winning Indigenous 'WA treasure' dies
ABC Online
Indigenous playwright Jimmy Chi, who penned acclaimed Australian play Bran Nue Dae which was later turned into a major motion picture, has died. Chi passed away in Broome hospital yesterday afternoon aged 69. His sister, Maxine, told the ABC he ...
Bran Nue Dae playwright and Broome legend passes awaySBS
Bran Nue Dae playwright dies, aged 69Daily Review
Bran Nue Dae's award-winning playwright dies aged 69 in BroomeThe Guardian
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