Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Transcontinental
Clinton Pryor's Walk for Justice comes through Port Augusta
The Transcontinental
and 'Always was, and always will be Aboriginal land!' It left Clinton speechless, and thankful for all the help and support he's received from Port Augusta. “Yeah, it was amazing to see the community backing me up in this walk I did over the bridge ...

The Guardian
BBC apologises for misleading documentary on 'drunken' Aboriginal community
The Guardian
The BBC has apologised for a “misleading” documentary on an Aboriginal community in regional Australia, after angry residents accused presenter Reggie Yates and the crew of unethical behaviour. Yates and the independent production company, Sundog ...

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous public servants finally get a pay rise
The Canberra Times
Australia's lowest-paid public servants have finally had a win on pay with some Aboriginal Hotels Limited workers scoring wage rises of $9000 a year. But the tens of thousands of public servants still embroiled in the the bitter three-year dispute with ...

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The Guardian
Funding to two Indigenous sexual health programs cut without consultation
The Guardian
The Northern Territory Aids and Hepatitis Council's Aboriginal Sexual Health program, and the Queensland Aids Council's 2 Spirits program have run for more than 20 years addressing the disproportionately high rate of sexually transmitted infections ...

ABC Online
Constitutional recognition: 'Politicians' model' faces rejection by Indigenous Australia
ABC Online
Indigenous Australians are rejecting the "elite", "politicians' model" for changing the constitution, according to a key member of the referendum council that has met with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people around the country. Instead, they ...

SBS
Film about Indigenous Australia before Europeans 'shutdown', says Minchin
SBS
A film about pre-European Australia featuring Indigenous music and themes to be directed by comedian Tim Minchin has been “shutdown”, according to a statement released by Minchin on his website. “The animated film to which I've dedicated the last 4 ...

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The Advertiser
Half of Aboriginal students who make it to Year 12 not finishing SACE
The Advertiser
“However, we must acknowledge the significant proportion of Aboriginal students who are not actively working towards achieving their SACE,” the new strategy document says. The Advertiser revealed in December that around a third of all public high ...

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Half of Aboriginal students who make it to Year 12 not finishing SACE
NEWS.com.au
The SACE Board's new five-year strategy for Aboriginal education was launched yesterday at a forum for principals and other school leaders. Numbers of indigenous students completing the SACE have more than doubled from 144 in 2011 to a record 322 ...

Google News

How racism works in Australia
Red Flag
“Is Australia racist?” A good question, and also the title of the first show in SBS's “Face Up to Racism” week at the end of February. The answer is a resounding yes. In addition to the original anti-Aboriginal racism, Australian racism has at various ...

Steps toward a united nation
Shepparton News
○Almost half (46 per cent) of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians experienced at least one form of racial prejudice in the six months prior to the survey — compared to 39 per cent in 2014 — with verbal abuse the most common form of ...

Research Fellow
The Conversation AU
This position will be located with the Rural Clinical School of WA (RCSWA) and Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Inc, Broome Western Australia (WA). We are seeking a skilled health researcher to contribute to the development of this exciting new ...

The West Australian
Indigenous leaders call for treaty
The West Australian
“The treaty is not a land grab by Aboriginal people but a recognition of our customs, law and culture,” he said. “It's unfinished business. In Canada, in New Zealand, and in other places there are treaties with First Nations people. Australia is the ...
Linda Burney: Diversifying Australia's political systemCNN

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The Australian
Stan Grant urges ABC to show more Aboriginal success stories
The Australian
Grant also backed Noel Pearson's recent attack on the “soft bigotry of low expectations” in ABC coverage of indigenous Australia, saying it was “important to provide a different context, a bit more nuance, to try to represent the diversity of the ...

CNN
Linda Burney: Diversifying Australia's political system
CNN
She was one of the first Aboriginal graduates of her university, one of the country's first Aboriginal teachers, the first Aboriginal person to serve in the New South Wales Parliament, and the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the House of ...

CNN
A brief history of Aboriginal Australians
CNN
Photos: A brief history of Aboriginal Australians. This photo of European settlers surrounded by Aboriginals is believed to be the earliest photograph taken in Australia. Hide Caption. 5 of 9. European colonization<a href="http://www ...

The Advertiser
Remains of World War I digger Miller Mack to return to the Coorong after 98 years
The Advertiser
His reburial has been made possible by a $2500 State Government grant to the Aboriginal Veterans of South Australia, will include a special service with full military honours. Veterans Affairs Minister Martin Hamilton-Smith said Private Mack was a true ...

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The Guardian
Gentrification or marginalisation? Indigenous residents split over Redfern plan
The Guardian
The suburb's historic Block – the first urban Indigenous land rights claim in Australia – has been earmarked for a dramatic new extension to an already contentious development, which some residents say will hasten the gentrification of a suburb with a ...

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ABC Online
'Aboriginalia' and the politics of Aboriginal kitsch
ABC Online
But after a display of Aboriginal motifs and emblems in David Jones, prompted by a scientific expedition to Central Australia in 1940, Aboriginalia was taken up with gusto for use as homewares and souvenirs in the rapidly expanding tourism market.

Voice of America
Aboriginal Trans-women to Debut at Sydney's Gay Mardi Gras
Voice of America
About 30 transgender women from the islands off the coast of Australia's Northern Territory will march Saturday for the first time with thousands of other participants in outfits colored with glow-in-the-dark paint emblazoned with traditional patterns ...
The remote Aussie islands with the highest transgender population in the countryNEWS.com.au
Mardi Gras revellers gather in Sydney to celebrate LGBTIQ rightsABC Online
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras: Rain won't stop the annual paradedailytelegraph.com.au
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The Guardian
Reuniting Indigenous 'sticks' with their stories: the museum on a mission to give back
The Guardian
The legacy of Tindale and his vast ethnographic collection – including hair samples, face casts, drawings and family trees – with which he “mapped” Aboriginal Australia – looms large here. “I didn't know him and I don't call him 'Tinny' because I feel ...