Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The West Australian
Fracking and Aboriginal heritage opinions
The West Australian
Striking a fair and balanced solution to WA's long-contested heritage management system will create more certainty, serving to benefit all heritage stakeholders in Western Australia, including industry. Aboriginal heritage and culture must be properly ...

The Australian Financial Review
Local and international buyers vie for prized Aboriginal art
The Australian Financial Review
He shrugs off the past few years' malaise in the Aboriginal art market – which saw a shakeout amid the recession, helped along by Australia's introduction of artist resale rights legislation and changes in rules governing art held by superannuation funds.

Closing the gap on child removal
Save The Children Australia
Save the Children is working to shift this trend, both through our work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in community, and through our role as a key partner on the Family Matters: Strong Communities. Strong Culture. Stronger Children ...

ABC Online
Universities set goals to attract more Indigenous students in Australian-first
ABC Online
If enrolment targets are met, an estimated 6,500 extra Indigenous students could be studying for degrees by 2020, Universities Australia said. University of South Australia dean of Aboriginal engagement and strategic projects Professor Peter Buckskin ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous interpreter shortage 'adding to high incarceration rates' for Aboriginal people
ABC Online
For many people living in Central Australia, English is their second, third or sometimes fourth language, even for children. Aboriginal interpreter Rose Lester said that fact, along with the shockingly high incarceration rate, was why more funding for ...

Medical Xpress
Be bold, but be prepared to bend, Ken Wyatt implores Aboriginal Australia on constitutional recognition
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australians should think big, but be willing to compromise to ensure the referendum to recognise them in the constitution wins overwhelming support, the country's most senior Aboriginal politician, Ken Wyatt, has urged. The Aged Care and ...
Improving mental health screening for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pregnant women and new mumsMedical Xpress
Closing the gap more than a dream at Mount Lawley High SchoolEducationHQ Australia

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Universities aim to dramatically increase indigenous enrolments
Brisbane Times
The late Dr Margaret Williams-Weir, the first recorded Aboriginal person to enrol in a university course in Australia, with Indigenous students and staff (from left) Genevieve Grieves, Kate Rendell, Lilly Brown and Clinton Benjamin, at Melbourne ...

The Australian
Namatjira copyright deal 'unjust': seller
The Australian
He added that the copyright sale came about after the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service approached him about $30,000-$50,000 in royalties that had accumulated for years in Namatjira's estate, but had not been distributed to the artist's ...

United Nations slams Australia's efforts on indigenous domestic violence
The West Australian
A United Nations official has criticised Australia's efforts to address domestic violence in remote indigenous communities and the practice of removing Aboriginal children from their families. UN special rapporteur on violence against women Dubravka ...

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Pauline Hanson's second maiden speech mirrors her first, substituting Muslims for Aborigines and Asians
Bunbury Mail
In 1996 Pauline Hanson made her entry to parliament felt with an incendiary speech which declared Aboriginal Australians were given unfair advantages compared to non-Indigenous Australians - or "mainstream Australians" as she called them - and ...

ABC Online
Syphilis outbreak in NT 'massive', doctors urge awareness in remote communities
ABC Online
"There has been a syphilis outbreak across the north of Australia," Professor James Ward, head of Infectious Diseases Research Program for Aboriginal Health at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, said. "There are lots of efforts ...

ABC Online
Indigenous treaty commissioner Roger Thomas appointed in South Australia
ABC Online
South Australia's independent treaty commissioner will be senior Aboriginal community leader Roger Thomas, who will draft a proposed framework after negotiations with Indigenous communities.

SBS
COMMENT: Racism stems from power, control, inequity, and greed - not our identity
SBS
As Aboriginal people we are told by everyone else who we are and how we are supposed to behave. We are told by media, mainstream Australia, government, by other Aboriginal people and by elders. Interestingly, my identity as Mithaka is not similarly ...

National Indigenous Times
Snapper captures Islamic spirit in a different light
National Indigenous Times
NITV is celebrating Race Week by collaborating with leading Australian photographer, Stuart Miller, to present a photo essay of portraits of Indigenous Australian Muslims. The concept stemmed from a thought-provoking quote from boxing legend Anthony ...

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SBS
Is Australia racist? Here are the 10 stunning stats
SBS
31.6% of respondents claimed to have 'negative' feelings towards Muslim Australians, 22.4% claimed to have 'negative' feelings towards Middle-‐Eastern Australians while only 9% had negative feelings towards Aboriginal Australians. 36.4% believe the ...

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The West Australian
Gift aims to give more back
The West Australian
Despite being a member of one of Australia's best-known metal bands, in Leonora people would know him better if you called him “Dave's son”. His father, Dave Goddard, is well-known for his research and consulting work bridging the gapbetween Aboriginal ...

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SBS
In Pictures: Muslim, Aboriginal and outspoken
SBS
The National Census reported that 1,140 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians identify as Muslim. This figure has grown significantly in the last 15 years, almost doubling that of what was recorded in 2001. While Muslim conversion and ...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led solutions key to closing the gapMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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Burrup Peninsula Aboriginal rock art could be given World Heritage status
WAtoday
One of Australia's most significant heritage sites – the Burrup Peninsula Aboriginal rock art in the state's north west – could soon be given World Heritage status. WA Premier Colin Barnett, who was in the Pilbara region on Monday, is calling for the ...

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SBS
Here's how every Australian can weave Indigenous culture into their identity
SBS
Indigenous people only make up just over two per cent of the population, meaning for Aboriginal material culture to be more present in the national identity of Australia, a huge number of non-Aboriginal people will need to engage with, celebrate and ...
The Power of song: Musician Jessie Lloyd has collected a treasure trove of Indigenous folk musicABC Online

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ABC Online
The Dutch Diaspora in Western Australia
ABC Online
... off the coast of Western Australia in the 16th and 17th centuries - with at least 100 sailors making it to shore. What happened to them? Dr Nonja Peters from Curtin University explains there's strong evidence they were looked after by local ...

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