Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Australian
Indigenous academics creating 'new rigour in thinking'
The Australian
In Canberra, Professor Anderson has been tasked with co-ordinating a review of the Council of Australian Governments' response to Closing the Gap targets for indigenous social and economic policy. His work will frame the national agenda for the next ...

The West Australian
WA Police roll out new look uniforms
The West Australian
“During NAIDOC week, we're going to have about 2100 of these uniforms distributed to police officers who will wear them, and they're going to wear them in recognition of Aboriginal culture,” Mr O'Callaghan said. Officers will wear the shirts with new ...

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ABC Online
Chanel's $2000 boomerang sparks complaints and confusion from Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
The National Museum of Australia describes boomerangs as playing "an important role in Aboriginal culture as objects of work and leisure", but following the arrival of Europeans in Australia they became popular as a souvenir by the late 19th century.
Chanel's $2000 boomerang criticised for 'humiliating' Indigenous Australian cultureThe Guardian
Chanel Has Been Accused of Cultural Appropriation Over a $1500 BoomerangTIME
Chanel's £1100 boomerang branded 'a new level of ignorance' for appropriating Aboriginal cultureTelegraph.co.uk
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SBS
Meet Dr Anthony Murray, who is set to become Australia's first Indigenous orthopaedic surgeon
SBS
Last year, David became Australia's first Indigenous general surgeon. Now Anthony is an orthopaedic registrar, and on his way to becoming the country's first Indigenous orthopaedic surgeon. "As much as it is a badge of honour, it's also kind of sad ...

Coffs Coast Advocate
Help protect Australia's Aboriginal languages
Coffs Coast Advocate
COFFS Harbour MP Andrew Fraser has urged the the community to help develop an Aboriginal languages legislation to help protect them in the future. Mr Fraser said NSW plans to be the first state in Australia to pass the legislation. "The NSW Government ...

Chinchilla News
No indigenous Australian has been here, until now
Chinchilla News
Yet more than two centuries after colonisation and 50 years since Aboriginal people won full citizenship there is still one profession that no indigenous person has ever gotten into, one job that no indigenous Australian has ever had. That is, until now.

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NEWS.com.au
First indigenous orthopedic surgeon Anthony Murray makes history
NEWS.com.au
THIS is Australia in 2017. Possibly the most multicultural and egalitarian nation on earth.

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Southeast Asia Globe
Made in Cambodia, designed by Aboriginal artists in Australia
Southeast Asia Globe
The printed designs are drawn from ochre paintings found in the rock formations strewn across a stone plateau that rises dramatically from the northern floodplains of Arnhem Land – a 97,000-square-kilometre area of Aboriginal-owned lands in Australia's ...

The Guardian
Chanel's $2000 boomerang criticised for 'humiliating' Indigenous Australian culture
The Guardian
Chanel has been denounced on social media for appropriating Indigenous Australian culture by producing a $2,000 boomerang derided as the ultimate in useless status symbols. The wood and resin item is priced at A$1,930 in the luxury haute couture ...

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Mandurah Mail
International production to put a new spin on Indigenous dance | WATCH
Mandurah Mail
A collaboration between acclaimed Italian theatre company TPO, Australian director Jason Cross and a range of diverse Indigenous artists, Saltbush aims to open children's experience of Indigenous culture and land directly through traditional customs.

The Australian
Elton John to auction indigenous artwork through Bonhams, Sydney
The Australian
The canvas will be auctioned on June 25 in a sale of 68 lots of Australian and Aboriginal artvalued at $1.6 million to $2.2m. “It's represented a great investment over 20 years, from $40,000 to $150,000, that's more than kept pace with inflation, and I ...

1967 did not change indigenous lives: CEO
The Australian
This could include an elected parliamentary body enshrined in the Constitution, overseeing laws affecting indigenous Australians. Mr Gordon cited Liberal MP and constitutional lawyer Julian Leeser as saying such a proposal “sits most comfortably with ...

teleSUR English
Indigenous Women in Australia Are Being Imprisoned at an Alarming Rate: Report
teleSUR English
A new report has shed light on the alarming rate at which the Indigenous women are being incarcerated in Australia, raising concern over the "immeasurable harm" caused by the situation and urging authorities to put an end to "cycles of disadvantage ...
Indigenous women in jail risen 250 per centSky News Australia
Imprisonment rates for Australia's Aboriginal women skyrocketDaily Sabah
Soaring female Indigenous imprisonment rate obstructing Closing the Gap targets, says reportThe Guardian
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The Guardian
Aboriginal women prisoner rates skyrocket
The Australian
Aboriginal women make up about 34 per cent of the female prison population but only two per cent of Australia's adult female population. Former prisoner turned advocate Vickie Roach spent many years in and out of the courts, children's homes and jails ...
Soaring female Indigenous imprisonment rate obstructing Closing the Gap targets, says reportThe Guardian
'Tough on crime' doesn't work and is destroying Indigenous women and familiesThe Guardian

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Herald Sun
Andrew Bolt: Bans, division are the new racism
Herald Sun
Aborigines play whites as the crowd barracks by skin colour. But last weekend, the NRL also held an “indigenous round” with Aboriginal and Australian flags and two anthems — the real one meant to unite us, and a rewritten one to appeal to Aborigines.

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Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
The historic and Wild Australia exhibition
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
ARCHIBALD Meston's name is hard to avoid when exploring the lives of Aboriginal people in Queensland, according to one of the curators of the new exhibition at the Grafton Regional Gallery, Michael Arid. In the 1890's, Meston started the 'Wild ...

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SBS
Eurovision 2017: Isaiah Firebrace and Anja Nissen light up grand final
SBS
He is the first Aboriginal male to represent Australia at Eurovision in the country's third bid for glory at the contest. Fellow Australian Anja Nissen also performed, representing Denmark. Nissen, a 21-year-old from the Blue Mountains, sang the ...

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The Advertiser
Kyam Maher rediscovering his roots
The Advertiser
Now Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Minister among a swag of portfolios, Mr Maher swiftly emphasises that his early life was blessed compared to those of indigenous children throughout Australia. Kyam Maher with his wife Carmel and sons Marley ...

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ABC Online
Perth's Berndt Museum seeks proper home for collection stashed away in cardboard boxes
ABC Online
Tucked away at the back of a car park, underneath a gallery in a Perth university, sits a museum most West Australians would not even know existed. It houses what is believed to be one of the most culturally significant collections of Indigenous ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Indigenous netball camp first of its kind
dailytelegraph.com.au
From July 7-9, the athletes will be coached, mentored and supported by some of the best in the game netball, including former Aboriginal Diamonds representatives Marcia Ella-Duncan OAM, Sharon Finnan-White OAM, and Australian Diamonds Coach Lisa ...

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