Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous People Worse Off 20 Years After the Bringing Them Home Report
Pro Bono Australia
It has been two decades since the landmark Bringing Them Home report shone a light on the stolen generation and paved the way for reconciliation, but Indigenous leaders, child welfare agencies and human right organisations say Indigenous Australians, ...

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous players didn't invent Australian rules but did make it their own
The Conversation AU
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 ...

Caring comes naturally to Indigenous Australians
The Westender
During National Reconciliation Week, 28 May to 3 June, Mr Jim Toohey, President of Carers Queensland, is calling on the media to acknowledge the enormous contribution made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians who care for another ...

The Australian
Action on jobs opens the doors at ABC
The Australian
ABC boss Michelle Guthrie was questioned about the ABC's policy of reserving certain jobs for indigenous Australians during a lengthy Senate estimates session last night, during which she also revealed her annual salary was about $900,000. One Nation ...

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Fremantle Dockers
Aboriginal culture - Australia's collective treasure
Fremantle Dockers
Freo's number one ticket holder and respected Indigenous elder Richard Walley presented the 2017 Indigenous jumper to the playing group on Tuesday morning. Walley spoke to the players and coaches about what the jumper represented, but also touched ...

BBC News
Recognition crucial to Aboriginal survival
The Australian
Referendum Council co-chair Pat Anderson says much is at stake, and leaders must find middle ground to bring Aboriginal Australia out of disadvantage. "It's not going to be easy," she told reporters at Uluru. "We have to pull it off this time. I think ...
Timeline of Australia indigenous politicsNEWS.com.au
Australian indigenous leaders meet for historic summitBBC News
Aboriginal Australians meet at sacred Uluru to discuss first chance of recognitionReuters
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Fremantle Dockers
Recognition crucial to Aboriginal survival
NEWS.com.au
Referendum Council co-chair Pat Anderson says much is at stake, and leaders must find middle ground to bring Aboriginal Australia out of disadvantage. "It's not going to be easy," she told reporters at Uluru. "We have to pull it off this time. I think ...
Aboriginal culture - Australia's collective treasureFremantle Dockers
Aboriginal Australians dance in traditional dress at UluruDaily Mail
Australian indigenous leaders meet for historic summitBBC News
The Australian -Port Macquarie News
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The West Australian
Walk tour offers insights into Aboriginal culture
The West Australian
Bush Ghoodhu Wongutha Tours, headed by tour operator and Wongutha leader Linden Brownley, offers an opportunity to better understand local Aboriginal culture and history while walking from the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Visitor Centre to the Museum of the ...

Reuters UK
Aboriginal Australians meet at sacred Uluru to discuss first chance of recognition
Reuters UK
Performers from East Arnhem Land dance during the opening ceremony for the National Indigenous Constitutional Convention, a three day conference designed to come up with a consensus response on how indigenous people should be recognised in ...

Why doesn't Australia have an indigenous treaty?  BBC.com

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 ...

Timeline of Australia indigenous politics
NEWS.com.au
1997 - The Bringing Them Home Report on the forced removal of indigenous children recommends an apology and repatriations to people affected. 1998 - The first National Sorry Day on May 26 acknowledges the harm that Australia's policies inflicted on ...

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Sky News Australia
Aboriginal survival 'rests on recognition'
Sky News Australia
The survival of indigenous Australians depends on whether leaders can map a path to bold reform and recognition, the co-chair of the Referendum Council says. Hundreds of Aboriginal delegates are in Central Australia this week to hammer out what ...
What does 'recognition' for Indigenous Australians actually look like?The Sydney Morning Herald
Australian indigenous leaders meet for historic summitBBC News
'Go and light a fire in the nation': Uluru gathering aims to map a path to recognitionThe Guardian
The West Australian
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The West Australian
'Go and light a fire in the nation': Uluru gathering aims to map a path to recognition
The Guardian
On the eastern side of Uluru, in the Anangu community of Mutitjulu, more than 200 delegates from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities throughout Australia gathered to mark the start a historic meeting that aims to shape the future of the ...
First Nations summit starts in UluruThe West Australian

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The RiotACT
'Defying Empire': The 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial
The RiotACT
This important new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum and the 'yes' vote in support of removing two references in the constitution that discriminated against Aboriginal and Torres ...

Atlas Obscura
Aboriginal Carving of a Whale
Atlas Obscura
Aboriginal carvings in the area were first chronicled and mapped back in 1899, and it's known that other, smaller figures were etched nearby. Unfortunately they were either lost during the original construction of the Coal Loader, or were covered in ...

Happy
Meet Baker Boy: the 20-year-old Aboriginal Australian rapping in his mother language
Happy
Danzel Baker is a 20-year-old Australian performer, sending some positive vibes to Indigenous Australian communities and we're sure, the music world. Baker has already released Cloud 9, a track featuring him rapping in the Yolngu Matha language; a ...

ABC Online
Shepparton mural 'another milestone' for recognition of Indigenous leaders
ABC Online
Hundreds of people packed an alley in the city for the official launch of the project, which coincides with this week's 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum to recognise Indigenous people as citizens of Australia. Descendants of both men were ...

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Gizmodo Australia
Australian Scientists Just Uncovered 50000 Year Old Proof Of Aboriginal Occupation
Gizmodo Australia
The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians and Papua New Guineans diverged from Eurasian populations around 72,000 years ago according to a new DNA analysis of 83 Indigenous Australians from the Wongatha Nation in the North-Eastern Goldfields of ...

From picket line to party room: Aboriginal leadership since 1967 referendum
The Sydney Morning Herald
On Saturday, we will commemorate 50 years since Australia's resounding "yes" vote in the 1967 referendum. A vote that enabled Aboriginal people to be counted in the census and gave the Parliament of Australia power to enact laws, for better or for ...