Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Broadsheet
New Australian Documentary Twelve Years in the Making
Broadsheet
I've since come across many Aboriginal kids that have the same questions. Who am I? Where do I come from? What is my culture? Is my culture dead and gone? I believe this is a very important film for the education of not just mainstream Australia but ...

and more »

ABC Online
How Katherine Hospital, once Australia's worst for Indigenous health, became one of the best
ABC Online
Katherine Hospital in the Northern Territory has gone from one of the worst facilities in the country when it comes to Indigenous health care to one of the best. Their secret: engaging with Indigenous patients and supporting doctors. When physician ...

Australia's version of Boyhood shows an Aboriginal boy's journey to manhood
Daily Advertiser
But Australia's version of the Oscar-winning film Boyhood, the documentary Zach's Ceremony, tackles a very different story from that Texan drama. It centres on Zach Doomadgee, an Aboriginal city kid whose sometimes troubled life takes on new meaning ...

Forbes Advocate
Australia's version of Boyhood shows an Aboriginal boy's journey to ...
Forbes Advocate
ARTS/NEWS: Alec Doomadgee and his son Zach who feature in the documentary Zach's Ceremony, which opens next week. It follows Zach over 10 years as he ...

and more »

The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's version of Boyhood shows an Aboriginal boy's journey to manhood
The Sydney Morning Herald
It was shot over 10 years as a boy grows up – facing all the dramas of the teenage years – from the age of six to 16. But Australia's version of the Oscar-winning film Boyhood, the documentary Zach's Ceremony, tackles a very different story from that ...

and more »

The Stringer
Half of Western Australia's Aboriginal population will soon be without native title rights
The Stringer
Eighty thousand Aboriginal people make up Western Australia but half will soon be without any native title rights. The Australian Labor Party has got in the way of a rare opportunity to repair and improve native title rights and bargaining powers. The ...

NEWS.com.au
'Unparalleled' number of dinosaur tracks found in Australia
NEWS.com.au
It was almost lost, with the Western Australian government in 2008 selecting the area as the preferred site for a massive liquid natural gas processing precinct. Alarmed, the region's traditional Aboriginal custodians, the Goolarabooloo people ...
Largest-Known Dinosaur Footprint Discovered in Western AustraliaSmithsonian
Kimberley fossil tracks are Australia's 'Jurassic Park'BBC News
'Australia's Jurassic Park': World's biggest dinosaur footprint unearthed in WAYahoo7 News
Christian Science Monitor -Discover Magazine (blog) -ScienceAlert
all 67 news articles »

Huffington Post Australia
We Said Sorry, But We Didn't Right The Wrongs Of The Past
Huffington Post Australia
In June 2016, a census released by the Productivity Commission revealed that more than 15,000 Indigenous children in Australia are living in out-of-home care. Many of those children were removed from their families and placed into the care of strangers.

The Conversation AU
Dark tourism, Aboriginal imprisonment and the 'prison tree' that wasn't
The Conversation AU
In addition, the Derby tree was used by Indigenous people as an ossuary – a place for keeping bones. Ancestral remains were commonly stolen and illegally exported outside Australia until the late 1940s, causing considerable suffering to Indigenous ...

Blacktown Sun
Act invites racism on Harmony Day
Blacktown Sun
Aboriginal Australians are twice as likely as non-Aboriginals to report having been insulted on the basis of their cultural background. The changes favour those who are least exposed to racism, and they enhance the exposure of those enduring the ...

and more »

ABC Online
Little J and Big Cuz, Australia's first animated show to feature Aboriginals, offers 'relatable' characters for ...
ABC Online
The new TV show Little J and Big Cuz is the first animated kids show to feature Indigenous Australians and their culture. Award-winning Aboriginal actress Deborah Mailman voices the character Big Cuz in the show, and said the benefit was the diverse ...

SBS
'Unparalleled' number of dinosaur tracks found in Australia's own 'Jurassic Park'
SBS
Aboriginal Australians have developed and are bound by highly complex belief systems - known as the Dreamtime - that interconnect the land, spirituality, law, social life and care of the environment. A songline is one of the paths across the land which ...

and more »

The West Australian
Dennis Jetta - a life well lived
The West Australian
Dennis, who was appointed a national evangelist at the Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship of Australia earlier this month, said he would remain committed to helping inmates and their families. “As a chaplain you can't do much on the inside but you can ...

SBS
Octopus attacks and Indigenous harvests: the delicious history of oysters in Australia
SBS
Arrive at a fancy function in Sydney, and a tray of freshly shucked, plump oysters will travel past your nose in no time. These days it's delicious fare often washed down with a glass of bubbly, but Australian history of oysters stretches back much ...

Insidethegames.biz (blog)
Australian Aboriginal skater on brink of making Winter Olympic history
Insidethegames.biz (blog)
"Harley is the first and only Aboriginal person that's ever been to ice skating," his mother said. "[He's] brought home a medal for Australia and it took an Aboriginal person. When he goes to the Olympics he'll be the first ever Aboriginal person to ...

and more »

ABC Online
It's a black and white thing
ABC Online
Tracey Moffatt is the first Aboriginal artist to solely represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. But 20 years ago, three Aboriginal women - Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie and Judy Watson - led the way in a group exhibition curated by Hetti ...

ABC Online
Closing the Gap: PM overturns Government's opposition to target Indigenous imprisonment
ABC Online
Despite making up just 3 per cent of the general population, about a quarter of Australia's prison population is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The Greens, Labor, the Australian Medical Association, lawyers and other groups have long urged the ...

and more »

ABC Online
Closing the Gap: PM overturns Government's opposition to target Indigenous imprisonment
ABC Online
Despite making up just 3 per cent of the general population, about a quarter of Australia's prison population is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The Greens, Labor, the Australian Medical Association, lawyers and other groups have long urged the ...

and more »

The Guardian
18C changes: Aboriginal Legal Service was not allowed to offer views
The Guardian
The Aboriginal Legal Service (Australian Capital Territory/New South Wales) was not allowed to speak to a Senate committee examining the Turnbull government's bill designed to improve free speech by watering down race hate laws. The managing lawyer ...

and more »

The Canberra Times
David Marr on Pauline Hanson's political dalliance with John Howard
The Canberra Times
I was just armed with the knowledge from talking to countless other Australians over the years, people who were also fed up with the whole Aboriginal issue and the waste of taxpayers' dollars." Her ignorance had this advantage: she came to politics ...

and more »Google News