Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Sydney Morning Herald
'We do have an ancient history in Australia as well': NESA flags HSC changes
The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal Australians have been recognised in the constitution for 50 years, but they have been largely invisible in school syllabuses. For the first time next year, HSC students will learn about pre-1788 Aboriginal history in the same way they are ...

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The Australian
Indigenous leaders call for treaty in Aboriginal reform
The Australian
Referendum Council Co-Chair Pat Anderson says Aboriginal Australians must have a say in the government policies, programs and legislation that affect them. “At the moment we're locked out, we're powerless and voiceless in our own land,” she said.
Twitter Launches Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Flag EmojisGizmodo Australia
The three biggest myths of the 1967 referendumABC Online
Indigenous leaders reject recognitionYahoo7 News
Financial Times -The Guardian
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The Inverell Times
Week to honour first Australians
The Inverell Times
NEXT week marks the beginning of Reconciliation Week in Australia – a week to celebrate and strengthen the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people and other Australians. To honour the occasion, two free community events will be ...

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Fox Sports
Indigenous Round, Nathan Drummond, mother, Leonie, Aboriginal history, AFL Round 10
Fox Sports
Leonie told the Tigers about how, back in 1938, William Cooper organised a “Day of Mourning'' – a protest by Aborigines (focused in central Sydney) — on Australia Day and the 150th anniversary of the First Fleet's landing. Contentious in some circles ...

ABC Online
Should the Aboriginal flag be flown during Anzac Day services?
ABC Online
The Australian Aboriginal flag could be flown at Anzac Day services in the future, pending the outcome of a protocol review by the Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL). RSLWA president Peter Aspinall placed flag protocol on the RSL national ...

ABC Online
Calls to extend alcohol sale ban to Aboriginal people at remote roadhouses in central Australia
ABC Online
More and more alcohol is being illegally trafficked into the Aboriginal communities of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Lands in central Australia, an area that is officially 'dry'. The NPY Women's Council wants to see sales of ...

ABC Online
Twitter Launches Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Flag Emojis
Gizmodo Australia
The move comes as Australians recognise the 50th anniversary of the landmark 1967 referendum, National Sorry Day, and celebrate the beginning of the AFL Indigenous round. This emoji is a global first for Twitter. "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
The three biggest myths of the 1967 referendumABC Online
Dozens of aboriginal Australians walk out of meeting on their futureArab News
Vital Voices Are Missing In The Discussion To Reduce Indigenous Suicide RatesHuffington Post Australia
The Guardian -MuMbrella -The Conversation AU
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Indigenous players didn't invent Australian rules - but they made it their own
InDaily
It would be wonderful if there was a connection between the Indigenous games of ball and football – like marngrook and pando – and the codified game now known as Australian rules. But, despite several attempts since the suggestion was first raised, no ...

Wollondilly Advertiser
Historic day for Indigenous Australians
Wollondilly Advertiser
On Saturday, it will be 50 years to the day since Aboriginals were officially “recognised” as Australian citizens. On May 27, 1967, Australia went to the polls for a referendum which would allow Aboriginal people to be counted in the census. The simple ...

ABC Online
Bringing Them Home: 20 years after report, Indigenous children worse off than before
ABC Online
Indigenous young people are being failed by Australia's child protection systems, a leading organisation has warned, amid fears "another stolen generation" is underway. Today marks two decades since the landmark Bringing Them Home report was tabled in ...
'Right wrongs, write Yes': what was the 1967 referendum all about?The Conversation AU
Uluru talks on constitutional recognition 'on track' despite walkoutThe Guardian

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ABC Online
'Right wrongs, write Yes': what was the 1967 referendum all about?
The Conversation AU
On May 27, 1967, campaigners for Aboriginal rights and status won the most-decisive referendum victory in Australian history. The referendum attracted more than 90% of voters in favour of deleting the two references to Aborigines in Australia's ...
Constitutional recognition summit: Thousands of Indigenous peoples to present decision todayABC Online
Delegates walk out of Constitutional recognition forum in protestSBS
Uluru talks on constitutional recognition 'on track' despite walkoutThe Guardian
Independent Australia
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Chevron told to reinstate worker sacked for Aboriginal slur
The Australian
The Fair Work Commission has ordered Chevron Australia to reinstate an operator sacked after referring to an Aboriginal woman as a “gin” in earshot of Aboriginal co-workers. Robert Solin was on a bus to Chevron's Gorgon project on Western Australia's ...

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The Australian
Living history in NGA's landmark indigenous survey
The Australian
Hill's work — featured in the National Gallery of Australia's historic indigenous survey, Defying Empire, which opens today — critiques the assimilation policies that tore asunder four generations of her family. From Balingup in Western Australia ...

Herald Sun
Tony Armstrong: Without football, I don't think indigenous Australians would be looked upon in a fair light
Herald Sun
FOOTBALL'S Sir Doug Nicholls Round is a significant time for our indigenous population, a time when we celebrate the feats of the current crop of players and also consider how sport, in particular football, has been used as a vehicle to begin to ...
Indigenous stars to light up AFL againESPN
Past players show their supportFremantle Dockers

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The Australian
Uluru referendum summit delegates stage walk out
The Australian
Dozens of delegates have walked out of the National indigenous Constitution Convention in Central Australia, claiming they have been silenced in discussions about Aboriginal recognition. More than 250 indigenous leaders from across the country have ...
Dozens of aboriginal Australians walk out of meeting on their futureReuters
Caring comes naturally to Indigenous AustraliansThe Westender
50 years' recognitionYass Tribune
The Guardian -Hawaiipublicradio
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The Australian
Family of Aboriginal man who died in custody questions CCTV gaps
The Australian
Ms Rule, a university student, has campaigned for Aboriginal prisoner rights since her brother's death, including organising a protest which shut down Adelaide streets on Australia Day. Earlier this year she interrupted the ABC's Q&A to call cartoonist ...

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Narooma News
National writers celebrate Aboriginal literature on the Far South Coast
Narooma News
On Saturday, July 1, some of Australia's leading Aboriginal authors will give presentations and readings from their work and take part in panel discussions. The Sunday program offers a range of two-hour workshop covering fiction writing, poetry ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Defying Empire: National Gallery of Australia's Indigenous Triennial reflects vivid living history
The Sydney Morning Herald
Part of Defying Empire, the National Gallery of Australia's third National Indigenous Triennial, the Sydney artist's work is one of many that address difficult issues, part of a living history that remains painfully recent and relevant for many of the ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal people do what we must to survive; 1967 didn't change that
ABC Online
Today things are different — not a lot different, but today you can survive in Australia with a black past. Everywhere you look in our family there is the black trace. In every family branch there is the contact, and yet the reflex for most is to ...

What did 1967 referendum achieve?
SBS
On May 27, more than 90 per cent of Australians voted to include Aboriginal people in the Census and allow the Commonwealth to create laws for them. Prior to the poll, most aspects of Aboriginal peoples' lives were controlled by state governments, and ...

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