Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Huffington Post Australia
Drop In Genital Warts Among Indigenous Youth Shows Vaccine Is Working
Huffington Post Australia
New findings, released in the Medical Journal of Australia on Monday, have shown a similar affirming case for the country's indigenous population. The proportion of Aboriginal women under 21 years of age diagnosed with genital warts decreased by 96.1% ...
Closing the gap a long way shortNewcastle Herald

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Daily Mail
'I want to show the world the beauty of my heritage': Meet the Indigenous model who will leave Australia for the ...
Daily Mail
Instead, she will be fighting to become the first Aboriginal woman to win the Annual World Supermodel Pageant in China. 'I want to show the world the beauty of my heritage,' Ms Bayles told Daily Mail Australia of her modelling ambitions. 'I want to be ...

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The West Australian
Footy forward sets sights on Miss Universe Australia
The West Australian
On the field she is a force to be reckoned with as a forward in the WA Women's Football League. But Sharni-Leigh Kittow has her sights set on another major goal — becoming the first indigenous Miss Universe Australia. The 23-year-old Swan Districts ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia for the visitor – and not just your usual fare
The Sydney Morning Herald
We'd fly to Alice Springs and drive the back road to Uluru, the monolithic metaphor to the astonishing resilience of Aboriginal Australia. No other place on the continent stayed with me as it has, and in few other places are the wishes of the ...

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Courier Mail
Is 'Australia's Stonehenge' near Mullumbimby where civilisation began or historical hoax?
Courier Mail
He'd been poking around Aboriginal mythology and language for years, and wrote all about it in an article published by The Age in Melbourne in March 1938, a year before the story of the mounds was delivered to him. Slater theorised: “The Australian ...

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Reuters
Why Indigenous Australia will reject a minimalist referendum question
The Sydney Morning Herald
If the politicians have cooked up a "done deal" for mere minimalism on constitutional recognition, Aboriginal people will say no. Substantive reform, or nothing at all. That was the clear message relayed at the Victorian dialogue in Melbourne this weekend.
Australia again denounced for treatment of Aborigines as UN investigatesReuters
Indigenous leaders play hardball on recognitionThe Australian

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Brisbane Times
Truth for all beats sensitivity of a few
The Australian
Ballard opened discussion of Leak with an admission he had signed a letter to the editors of The Australian complaining about the cartoon in which an Aboriginal policeman accompanying an Aboriginal boy is asked by the boy's father: “What's his name then?
The three words that should be deleted from 18CBrisbane Times

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The Age
Indigenous Australia's 'line in sand' on recognition: substantial change or nothing
The Age
The nation's most senior Aboriginal politician, Aged Care and Indigenous Health Minister Ken Wyatt, recently urged those attending the dialogues to think big but be prepared to accept a judgment by political leaders on what is likely to secure passage ...

Indigenous Australia's 'line in the sand' on recognition
The Border Mail
Indigenous Australians have rejected a referendum that offers only minimal recognition in the constitution, insisting they will walk away unless more meaningful change is offered. They have challenged political leaders to discuss what is emerging as ...

Australia for the visitor – and not just your usual fare
The Canberra Times
We'd fly to Alice Springs and drive the back road to Uluru, the monolithic metaphor to the astonishing resilience of Aboriginal Australia. No other place on the continent stayed with me as it has, and in few other places are the wishes of the ...

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The Guardian
Rosie Batty shares experience of domestic violence with WA Indigenous community
The Guardian
The former Australian of the year Rosie Batty has spent several days in the remote north of Western Australia to share her own story of family violence with Aboriginal women, telling them: “We feel the same pain.” Batty's son, Luke, was murdered in ...

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The Canberra Times
'Crisis levels' of Indigenous children in out-of-home care in the ACT
The Canberra Times
The number of children in state care in the ACT has jumped 40 per cent and Canberra now has the second-highest rate of Indigenous children in care in the country. In its latest annual report on child protection for 2015-16, the Australian Institute of ...

SBS
Indigenous producers lead the way in new 360/VR technology
SBS
Australia's INDIGI LAB, NITV and Image Matrix have teamed up with the Māoriland Film Festival to host workshops and panel discussions that inspire the use the latest technology in Indigenous storytelling this past week. “You can feel the cultural and ...

ABC Online
RFDS to fly meningococcal vaccinations to Indigenous communities in remote SA
ABC Online
The hospital's Professor Helen Marshall said Aboriginal Australians were more at risk of catching meningococcal disease, although it was not clear why. "Whether it might be overcrowding, or less access to medical services to get diagnosis, and smoking ...

Tumut and Adelong Times
Planning underway for Aboriginal referendum anniversary celebrations
Tumut and Adelong Times
May 27 marks the 50th anniversary of the referendum which gave Aboriginal people the right to vote in Australia, and to be counted as Australian citizens. It's an important moment in history, and the Brungle-Tumut Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal remains in German museum to be returned to Australia
ABC Online
"The timing is subject to a number of factors including consultation with Australian Indigenous communities, agreement from the institutions for the unconditional return of the ancestors, and other international governance and legislative processes.".

The Stringer
Australians must hit the streets in a civil rights movement to end the mass incarceration
The Stringer
The mass incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be a civil rights issue, one of the pressing issues of our generation. The descendants of the First Peoples of this continent number a little over 700,000 but at least 80,000 have ...
Thousands to come together to say 'we can do better' to Close the GapMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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Thousands to come together to say 'we can do better' to Close the Gap
My Sunshine Coast (press release)
Tens of thousands of Australians are taking part in events on National Close the Gap Day to call for an end to the appalling health gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. More than 1000 events are set to take place around the ...

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Bill Leak: a policeman, a father, his son — and the brutal truth
The Australian
Report after report has found indigenous children in communities across Australia plagued by dysfunction, child abuse, family violence and addiction. Telling the truth can never be racist. So those who labelled the cartoon racist believe one of two ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
We're failing to protect indigenous children for fear of another Stolen Generation
dailytelegraph.com.au
It's the basis of Australia's child protection system and indigenous children have as much right to protection as any other. Of course children should know their culture and have the opportunity to be part of it. But that isn't more important than ...