Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Perth Now
Drugs focus at Aboriginal suicide inquest
Perth Now
The court was also told about a 12-year-old girl who spent the first 11 years of her life at the Oombulgurri Aboriginal Community, which was so dysfunctional it was closed in 2011. The girl, believed to be a possible victim of sexual abuse, began ...

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The Conversation AU
Census 2016 reveals Australia is becoming much more diverse – but can we trust the data?
The Conversation AU
The 2016 Census reveals that Australia is becoming much more diverse – in language, country of birth, Indigenous status, and religion. In the 2011 Census, 69.8% of people reported being born in Australia. This declined over the past five years to 66.7%.
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 EuropeanThe Border Mail
Census: Australians are older, ethnically diverse and losing their religionThe New Daily
Business Insider Australia -Armidale Express -NEWS.com.au
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: Australia hits 'tipping point' as Melbourne is set to overtake Sydney
The Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne is set to overtake Sydney as Australia's most populous city; for the first time in history the majority of us born overseas are from Asia not Europe; and there has been a 40 per cent surge in the number of people declaring themselves in a ...
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian than EuropeanThe Islander
The 2016 Census: Australia at a glanceBusiness Insider Australia
Census data declared 'fit for purpose' but doubts remain over accuracySBS
Sky News Australia -Gizmodo Australia
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ABC Online
Barker College agrees to launch Aboriginal academy for girls in Utopia homelands
ABC Online
The 1955 Australian film Jedda told the story of a young Aboriginal girl separated from her family and raised by a white woman, taught European ways and forbidden to learn her own culture. Now, the woman who played Jedda hopes to reverse that by ...

ABC Online
Through American eyes
ABC Online
It has been 50 years since Australia's Indigenous people won the right to be counted in the national census and to be covered by federal laws, 25 years since the High Court provided a way for them to reclaim land that colonisers stole. But many of ...

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New York Times
Australia Through American Eyes - The New York Times
New York Times
A New York Times correspondent who covers race in the United States encounters a young indigenous population defying stereotypes.

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The Australian
Decade sees 46.7 per cent jump in indigenous school students
The Australian
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has projected that the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 14 and under will increase from 240,620 in 2011 to between 285,200 and 315,200 in 2026, equating to an increase of between 19 per ...

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Families go hungry under CDP: advocates
NEWS.com.au
The government is revamping its controversial Community Development Programme, which covers about 35,000 people, mostly from Aboriginal communities. The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency and the Human Rights Law Centre have ...

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The West Australian
No improvement from fed funds to NT: Gooda
The West Australian
The massive amount of money put into the Northern Territory under the federal government's controversial intervention has not led to significant improvement for Aboriginal people, a royal commissioner says. Commissioner Mick Gooda says there is a ...
Australian Northern Territory Aborigines' Livelihood Still Poor Despite FundingSputnik International

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The Guardian
NT intervention seen as 'act of war' on Aboriginal people, Nova Peris says
The Guardian
Peris, Australia's first female Aboriginal federal parliamentarian, said the intervention was “partly about a land grab under the guise of other things that demonised us all as a race of First Nations people”. “[It] was seen by many, particularly those ...
Intervention seen as 'act of war': Peris9news.com.au
Ten years on, it's time we learned the lessons from the failed Northern Territory InterventionThe Conversation AU

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Mandurah Mail
Aboriginal conservation training program plants seeds of success
Mandurah Mail
The Chevron Aboriginal Conservation Training Program, a partnership between Chevron Australia and Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA) which began in 2014, celebrated the graduation of three participants in total from the 12-week program designed ...

The West Australian
Inquest into Aboriginal youth suicide in Western Australia starts today
The West Australian
The latest major inquiry into suicides of young Aboriginal people in WA has begun, with an inquest to spend months investigating the hanging deaths of 13 indigenous youth in the Kimberley — the youngest just 10 years old. The opening of the mass ...
Details of Aboriginal youth suicides 'heart-wrenching, Coroner warnsPerth Now
Inquest into 13 Kimberley youth suicidesNEWS.com.au
Inquest into high rate of suicide in Indigenous communities in WA's northABC Online

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The Conversation AU
Intervention seen as 'act of war': Peris
The Australian
Ms Peris, Australia's first female Aboriginal federal parliamentarian, said the intervention was "partly about a land grab under the guise of other things that demonised us all as a race of First Nations people". "(It) was seen by many, particularly ...
Ten years on, it's time we learned the lessons from the failed Northern Territory InterventionThe Conversation AU

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ABC Online
Inquest into WA Aboriginal youth suicides
NEWS.com.au
... of the evidence will be disturbing and heartbreaking. Readers seeking support and information about suicide prevention can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14. MensLine Australia 1300 78 99 78.Local Aboriginal Medical Service available from www.vibe.com.au.
Inquest into high rate of suicide in Indigenous communities in WA's northABC Online

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ABC Online
World's longest beanie, in honour of Cathy Freeman, in the works at Alice Springs Beanie Festival
ABC Online
Australia's Red Centre is awash with a record number of head accessory enthusiasts for the annual Beanie Festival, now in its 21st year. 'Chief beanieologist' Jo Nixon presides over the four-day festival that showcases colourful beanies made in ...

Bega District News
'Hell no': government rejects push for revamp of Advance Australia Fair national anthem
Bega District News
The government has poured cold water on a push for a revamped national anthem that would delete words considered offensive by some Aboriginal Australians and introduce a third verse paying tribute to the Dreamtime and Indigenous history before ...

ABC Online
Northern Territory Indigenous rangers upskilling to save injured wildlife
ABC Online
Nelson, who's training to become a wildlife rescuer, is here to take the injured bird to the vet for an urgent check-up. So far he's only handled small reptiles and a pet cockatoo. Dealing with Australia's largest bird of prey is a whole new level ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Turkish label Les Benjamins accused of misusing Indigenous symbols in Paris collection
The Sydney Morning Herald
"I was highly curious about Asia Pacific and wanted to discover the history of Australia and New Zealand ... Aboriginals, Islanders, and Maori people are the natives and their cultures, traditions and rituals are rich in culture. I take on the ...

Aboriginal press photographer reveals work
9news.com.au
Intimate images capturing more than 50 years of Australian history have gone on show at a Sydney exhibition dedicated to Aboriginal photographer Mervyn Bishop. The free display, entitled Mervyn Bishop, opens at the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW) in The ...

Smithsonian
A Guided Tour of Australia's Blue Mountains Follows Ancient Aboriginal Songlines
Smithsonian
It's ancient, estimated to be at least 7,000 years old, and represents the baby Rainbow Serpent—a creator god, one of the key figures in Aboriginal Australian beliefs. Each Aboriginal clan envisions these gods in a different form, and the wallaby is ...