Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The New Daily
Racism highest for indigenous Australians
NEWS.com.au
While a significant proportion of all respondents had experienced discrimination, about two thirds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders reported being called names and being treated with a lack of trust and respect. About half of the respondents ...
Racism highest for indigenous Australians: surveyThe New Daily

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ABC Online
The missing kids of the 'second stolen generation'
ABC Online
On the pristine coast of Arnhem land, Maningrida is a community living with heartbreak and shame. Families say they feel powerless in their fight against the Department of Territory Families, which is removing Aboriginal children at a rate almost 10 ...

The Advertiser
Idiots vandalising ancient Aboriginal rock art in Flinders Ranges
The Advertiser
Sacred Canyon, 19km from Wilpena Pound, holds a “journal” of Aboriginal history in its rock engravings, but have been graffiti attacks over recent years. Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association chief executive Vince Coulthard said that for nearly ...

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The West Australian
Communities action outlined
The West Australian
WA Labor sees enormous value to all of Western Australia of Aboriginal people continuing to practice culture and protect connections to country that have been developed over thousands of years. We support tenure reform to ensure that Aboriginal people ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS ART GALLERY FOR ALICE SPRINGS?
Aboriginal Art Directory News
The relatively new Northern Territory Labor Government's $50 million election commitment to build an is a major step closer with the announcement of two prominent Aboriginal Central Australians as Co-Chairs for the project's Steering Committee.

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ABC Online
WA election: Aboriginal candidates for both major parties in first for WA seat of Kimberley
ABC Online
... Ms Farrer said the poll would break new ground for Indigenous populations in Western Australia's far north. "It's sad that we have to compete against each other ... because there is only one seat," she said. Remote Aboriginal residents will be ...

Google News

Review: Australian documentary tracks racism issues
Brisbane Times
Off the back of two seasons of First Contact, in which he brought together white and Aboriginal Australia, the five-time Gold Logie winner is headlining SBS' "Face Up To Racism" week of special programming with the eye-opening documentary Is Australia ...

Courier Mail
Aboriginal elders call for unity over Gold Coast Commonwealth Games
Courier Mail
Gold Coast Commonwealth Games Corporation chief Mark Peters said organisers had been extremely sensitive to Aboriginal culture in developing Borobi as a mascot. “Early in the Games planning cycle, to ensure appropriate consultation on indigenous ...

SBS
SA child protection bill slammed
SBS
It's a bill designed to fix a system in crisis, but South Australia's proposed new child protection laws has plenty of critics. Senior lawyers, Aboriginal advocates and the Australian Medical Association are among them. The Child and Young People ...

The Northern Daily Leader
Celebrate Australia Day
The Northern Daily Leader
However, in recent years, efforts have been made to include all Australians, and in 2013, the Australian flag and Aboriginal flag were raised together on the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the first time on Australia Day. “Australia Day is a time to come ...

The Guardian
Treaty with Aboriginal people could bring change in school curriculum
The Guardian
Hutchins said it was important the representative body had a clear mandate to act on behalf of all Aboriginal Victorians to avoid a situation such as the one seen in Western Australia, where a $1.3bn Indigenous land use agreement between the state ...

Broadsheet
Stories Worth Telling
Broadsheet
Confronting the many guises Indigenous people are made to wear in Australia, Bindi Cole Chocka and Tony Albert use masks in their photography to express ideas around identity. Vernon Ah Kee brings attention to Aboriginal deaths in custody through his ...

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ABC Online
Tasmania on track to get Aboriginal reconciliation council, but not all are happy
ABC Online
Aboriginal elder Rodney Dillon said a Tasmanian-based reconciliation council would help address the challenges Aboriginal Australians faced. He said education, health and justice should be top of the agenda for Tasmania's first reconciliation council.

ABC Online
'Crisis of violence in Aboriginal families' must stop, judge says in sentencing man for murder
ABC Online
She said she was mindful of the growing number of Aboriginal offenders in custody, but had to balance that against the serious nature of the crime. Justice Kelly said Aboriginal people now represented approximately 25 per cent of South Australia's ...
Teenager jailed over SA girlfriend murder9news.com.au

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What is the most corrupt state in Australia?
Crikey (registration)
Oh, and that the NT should be a full-blown state with control over Aboriginal land and with a full contingent of 12 senators. Groans aplenty at that one. You get the drift. My punch bowl moment — that the NT is the most corrupt jurisdiction in the ...

Paste Magazine
Australian Aboriginal Art Is Having a Radical Moment
Paste Magazine
The Australian Aboriginal art market is reportedly worth almost $200 million. Although the contemporary art movement on the continent is a century old, it wasn't until the late 1980s that Aboriginal women were invited to paint for the Australian art ...
Contemporary Aboriginal Art Exhibit Opens at SAMARivard Report
Of Country and Culture Opens at San Antonio Museum of ArtSan Antonio Magazine

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How a quest for the past found a living present
Pursuit
Like Spencer's 1899 book, The Native Tribes of Central Australia, this work was co-written with Francis James Gillen, the Alice Springs postmaster with whom he had travelled in 1896 and 1901-02 to visit Aboriginal communities. Their work formed a ...

ABC Online
Julalikari corporation under special administration after community criticism
ABC Online
One of Australia's largest Indigenous corporations has been put under special administration after ongoing community concern that it has failed to deliver services in the Northern Territory's Barkly region. The Julalikari Council Aboriginal Corporation ...

Western Advocate
OPINION: Marie Sullivan talks about the importance of International Women's Day
Western Advocate
It took until 2016 for the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives, when Linda Burney won the federal seat of Barton in the 2016 federal election. She was also the first Aboriginal graduate from the Mitchell ...

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ABC Online
Closing the Gap: Teenager driven to improve educational outcomes of Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
For Aboriginal teenager Tarni Rigney, looking at the education outcomes for Indigenous Australians is distressing. "If you look at the literacy and numeracy rates at the moment for Aboriginal children, it's really shocking," she said. "More money needs ...