Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The West Australian
A-G orders Aboriginal trust probe
The West Australian
The WA Attorney-General has taken the unusual step of ordering a wide-ranging inquiry into the management of an Aboriginal trust with claims to large areas of mineral rich land in the Pilbara. John Quigley has appointed Deputy State Counsel Alan Sefton ...
Inquiry into WA Aboriginal trustThe Australian

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The Australian
APY child protection jobs unfilled after nine years
The Australian
“There is no greater need anywhere in South Australia yet critical child protection positions remain unfilled for years on end. This abysmal situation needs to rectified as a matter of urgency,'' she said. The Australian reported last September that ...

The Guardian (blog)
Sovereignty never ceded: how two Indigenous elders changed Canberra's big day
The Guardian (blog)
That, of course, gives us a window on to the white stereotyping of Indigenous people at a time when Australia believed it was – due to massacres, disease and assimilationism – witnessing the “vanishment of the race”. And it is instructive, almost 90 ...

ABC Online
Why Niggerhead Rock and Suicide Bay need Tasmanian Aboriginal names
ABC Online
Suicide Bay and Victory Hill are Tasmanian places with bloody histories and the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) wants them replaced with Aboriginal words in the spirit of reconciliation. The TAC has chosen 11 new names in palawa kani, the revived ...

The Guardian
Wild Australia: reliving the shocking story of Indigenous slave-performers
The Guardian
Dancer Jack Sheppard, whose relatives were among 27 Indigenous Australians who performed in the Wild Australia tour Sheppard is recreating for Yirramboi festival. Photograph: Supplied. While the show enjoyed huge success, it seemed the appalling ...

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The Australian
Why Marcia Ella-Duncan wishes she wasn't a role model anymore
The Australian
The most recent national survey data, from 2008, revealed that 13 per cent of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander girls under 14 played netball, only slightly less than the 16 per cent of males who played rugby league or Australian football. And state ...

ABC Online
Don't call them disadvantaged: Successful Australians redefining what it is to be Indigenous
ABC Online
I was at the International Convention Centre in Sydney. Before me was a room full of some of the most successful people in Australia and they were Indigenous. Yes, Indigenous. I looked out and there was Kyle Vander Kuyp, an Olympic hurdler. In the ...

First Nations curators headed to Venice Biennale
The Border Mail
Australia has had a presence at the event since 1954, with esteemed artists including Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd having works showcased throughout the past 60 years. Moffatt will this year become the first Indigenous Australian to have a solo exhibit ...

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First Nations curators headed to Venice Biennale
Blue Mountains Gazette
Australia has had a presence at the event since 1954, with esteemed artists including Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd having works showcased throughout the past 60 years. Moffatt will this year become the first Indigenous Australian to have a solo exhibit ...

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The Australian
Prince Philip's history with Australia
The Australian
Knighted by then prime minister Tony Abbott in 2015, the Duke of Edinburgh played an unwitting role in Mr Abbott's downfall. Prince Philip had served Australia with distinction, Mr Abbott said in 2015, noting the royal was patron of more than 800 ...
Prince Philip's controversial gaffesNEWS.com.au
Duke of Edinburgh: Most famous clangers down the yearsSTV News
Prince Philip steps down: Six of his most memorable gaffesThe Week UK

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Community Newspaper Group
Western Australian of the Year finalist Walleystack helping kids find identity
Community Newspaper Group
WESTERN Australian of the Year finalist Noongar singer-songwriter Phil Walleystack devotes much of his time to helping disengaged children. “It doesn't matter whether you're Aboriginal or not, children need to talk about their identity, find out where ...

Indigenous curators off to Biennale
The Australian
Adding to the excitement, for the first time, the Australian pavilion in the Venice Giardini will be represented solely by an Aboriginal artist. Tracey Moffatt will represent the nation with My Horizon, MCA director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor said. For Ms ...
Two First Nations Curators From MCA Australia chosen for Venice BiennalePRWire (press release)

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Chooky Dancers are in da House
Perth Now
“It's a great entry point for people who don't necessarily know how or haven't previously engaged with indigenous Australia and its stories and culture.” The indigenous performance troupe Djuki Mala, The Chooky Dancers. Picture: Sean Young. In June ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Aborigines seek compensation from Australian police for racism in landmark £23 million case
Telegraph.co.uk
Several hundred Aborigines on a remote island in Australia are seeking compensation for the racist actions of the police in a landmark £23 million class action that has been likened to Germany's reparations to Holocaust victims. In an unusual move, ...

ABC Local
Wife fears husband will become Australia's next Indigenous death in custody
ABC Local
However, Indigenous imprisonment rates have continued to rise every year and now make up 27 per cent of the prisoner population, despite being only 2 per cent of Australia's population. From 1991 to 2016 there were 343 Australian Indigenous deaths in ...

University of Virginia
Bringing Aboriginal Art to America
University of Virginia
One artist-in-residence at the University of Virginia's Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection speculated that even Australian students do not often have as much access to Australian Aboriginal art and artists as UVA students do. “Hearing that from an ...

University of Virginia
Bringing Aboriginal Art to America
University of Virginia
One artist-in-residence at the University of Virginia's Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection speculated that even Australian students do not often have as much access to Australian Aboriginal art and artists as UVA students do. “Hearing that from an ...

Frist Center Presents "Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection"
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 2, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection, an exhibition that explores the flourishing of indigenous Australian ...

The Australian
Aboriginal disadvantage turned on its head in Nakkiah Lui's new play
The Australian
Her stage work includes Blaque Showgirls, which premiered at Melbourne's Malthouse last year — an Aboriginal reimagining of the 1995 so-bad-it's-just-bad sexploitation film Showgirls; and the autobiographical Kill the Messenger (Sydney's Belvoir 2015 ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Anger over indigenous plan
dailytelegraph.com.au
The claims come after the Association of Heads of independent Schools of Australia called for more government funding for private schools to establish satellite programs for indigenous students across the state – similar to the campus developed by ...