Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Conversation AU
How Anzac Day came to occupy a sacred place in Australians' hearts
The Conversation AU
According to the chest-beating nationalism that accompanied and justified this imperial jostling, war was the truest test of the character of men and nations. Australians felt especially keenly their lack of bloody initiation (the frontier wars with ...
Anzac Day Dawn Service guideThe Australian

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ABC Online
Anzac Day: Indigenous soldiers thought 'when we got back we'd be treated differently'
ABC Online
Anzac Day: Indigenous soldiers thought 'when we got back we'd be treated differently'. Often shunned by an Australian society that did not recognise their service, today Indigenous veterans will lead the national Anzac Day march for the first time.
Reshaping Digital Innovation for Indigenous CommunitiesPro Bono Australia
The midwives breaking the cycle of distrustIllawarra Mercury

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Call for a La Perouse memorial to honour Aboriginal soldiers in historical and modern conflicts
dailytelegraph.com.au
Douglas Grant was an Aboriginal Australian soldier who served in WWI. He was adopted by the Grant family and grew up in Annandale but moved to La Perouse in later life. Picture: Leichhardt library local history. After the war, Private Grant, who lived ...

Courier Mail
Indigenous parliament 'a solution'
Courier Mail
Indigenous Australia is finalising its stand on the proposed referendum as a series of meetings wind up before a national convention at Uluru at the end of next month, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum on indigenous rights.

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Look To The Stars
Nick Cave Supports Australian Aboriginal Elders To Create Suicide Prevention App
Look To The Stars
This is a community-led and community empowering initiative, with indigenous elders providing all of the app's content. They have partnered with an expert team to develop the app and roll it out across the whole of Aboriginal Australia. You can see a ...

Tone Deaf
Nick Cave throws support behind suicide prevention app for Aboriginal communities
Tone Deaf
Nick Cave has thrown his support behind a suicide prevention app for indigenous people of Australia. The Warlpiri community of Lajamanu in the Australian Tanami desert are crowdfunding the app which could provide hope for communities in need.

Tone Deaf
Nick Cave throws support behind suicide prevention app for Aboriginal communities
Tone Deaf
Nick Cave has thrown his support behind a suicide prevention app for indigenous people of Australia. The Warlpiri community of Lajamanu in the Australian Tanami desert are crowdfunding the app which could provide hope for communities in need.

ABC Online
The World Today - National park on Fraser Island renamed K'gari 24 ...
ABC Local
THOMAS ORITI: The national park that spans almost all of Queensland's Fraser Island has been re-named K'gari, recognising the name used by the traditional ...
Fraser Island's national park renamed K'gari, meaning paradise - ABCABC Online
National park renamed to recognise Butchulla People | Fraser Coast ...Fraser Coast Chronicle

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EducationHQ Australia
Indigenous kids' desert ride honours vets
EducationHQ Australia
The Arrarnta Tribe Ride for Pride commemorates the role of Aboriginal diggers and the brumbies they used in the Light Horse Infantry during the 1914-1918 conflict. Ntaria School student Sheila Rubuntja, 15, has been sleeping under the stars and camping ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous Anzacs: Letters home from Aboriginal WWI diggers reveal humour, sadness
ABC Online
Letters from Aboriginal men who served Australia during the First World War are extremely rare. But as the history of Aboriginal military service during the Great War is given greater attention, their firsthand accounts illustrate better than anything ...

The Australian
Can Artificial Intelligence help close the indigenous healthcare gap?
The Australian
Improving the health and welfare of indigenous Australians has been a longstanding challenge for our nation. Earlier this year, the government's ninth annual Closing the Gap report showed only one of the seven targets will be met this year. And unless ...

Echonetdaily
Indigenous campus model 'irresponsible'
Echonetdaily
Professor Rigney – who was the 2011 National Aboriginal Scholar of the Year and has worked in Aboriginal education for more than 20 years – said 83.9 per cent of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) students were enrolled in public ...

The Guardian
Black diggers are hailed on Anzac Day. But the Indigenous 'Great War' was in Australia
The Guardian
I've visited many massacre sites in Australia. But usually I've been in the company of a local Indigenous custodian, someone who rubbed their scent on my face and hands and chanted to warn the spirits that this white man comes in peace. While it feels ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
'Terrified they will take their babies': Aboriginal midwives break cycle of distrust in health services
The Sydney Morning Herald
"Having Indigenous midwives sends the message that this is a culturally safe environment and ultimately women will be more likely to access that service," she said. There are roughly 230 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander midwives in Australia, the ...

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Push for Prime Minister's public servants to move to Alice Springs
Southern Cross
Mike Reed, Chairman of the NT branch of Regional Development Australia, Northern Territory, says the indigenous programs and services being pursued by the federal government are failing, and that PM&C might have better luck if more of its people were ...

Courier Mail
One Nation is calling the tune
Courier Mail
... major parties remains as potent as it was back then when she first sat as an Independent in the Lower House as the Member for Oxley, having been disendorsed by the Liberals for expressing what were regarded as racist views about Aboriginal ...

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The Quietus
Nick Cave Supports Indigenous Anti-Suicide App
The Quietus
Nick Cave has expressed his support for the crowdfunding of a suicide prevention app for indigenous people in Australia, encouraging people to "[fight] for lives of young Aboriginal people and [show] Aboriginal Australia we believe in them". Started by ...

SBS
Eurovision: Isaiah Firebrace hoping to inspire young Indigenous Australians
SBS
"I think he will do Australia proud - and I think he is a great ambassador for all young Australians, but particularly Indigenous Australians looking for a role model - I think he's a brilliant role model." The Eurovision Song Contest will be broadcast ...

The Conversation AU
Myths about musculoskeletal pain and Aboriginal Australians prevent high quality care
The Conversation AU
Musculoskeletal pain (such as low back pain, osteoarthritis, neck, knee and shoulder pain) is the number one cause of disability in Australia and affects 28% of Australians. It is one of nine national priorities in health. Some 20% of Aboriginal ...

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The Australian
Indigenous translations too late for reform
The Australian
The Referendum Council discussion paper, derided in Senate estimates hearings by West Australian Liberal Dean Smith as representing poor value at $30,000, or “$3300 per page”, has been used as the foundation document for indigenous meetings on the ...