Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Cosgrove praises NT Aboriginal WWII hero - News.com.au
NEWS.com.au
The first prisoner of war captured on Australian soil wasn't apprehended by a soldier, but a young Aboriginal man on a remote Northern Territory island.

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Cosgrove praises NT Aboriginal WWII hero
The Australian
Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove has recognised the efforts of indigenous people in defending the nation when Japanese planes bombed Darwin during WWII. He said the Tiwi Islands community, north of Darwin, has enormous significance in Australian ...

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The Guardian
More meaningful actions needed
Shepparton News
There is increasing frustration that previous landmark reports such as the Royal Commission in to Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the Bringing Them Home Report and Reconciliation: Australia's Challenge: the final report of the Council for Aboriginal ...
Indigenous incarceration: turning the tide on colonisation's cruel third actThe Guardian
Pemulwuy Project takes big strides forwardPRWire (press release)

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Cosgrove praises NT Aboriginal WWII hero
9news.com.au
The first prisoner of war captured on Australian soil wasn't apprehended by a soldier, but a young Aboriginal man on a remote Northern Territory island. Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove has recognised the efforts of indigenous people in defending ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
Local Aborigines Back SA Windfarm
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Despite massive controversy in Canberra about the benefits of renewable energy and its effect on statewide blackouts in South Australia, the irony has emerged that Parliament House's lights are actually going to be powered in future by the wind blowing ...

The Australian
Memorial for Aboriginal tracker Tommy Windich unveiled in Esperance, WA
The Australian
Today [Monday] in the West Australian coastal town, a memorial to Windich will be unveiled to restore the Aboriginal man's place in history. He was revered by John Forrest, the state's future first premier who included Windich in formal expedition ...

The Stringer
Prison to wellbeing to education and work – transforming lives
The Stringer
However the narrative of human misery and suffering is worst in Western Australia where Aboriginal adults are incarcerated at close to the world's highest incarceration rate – 2nd highest at 3,745 per 100,000. Western Australia enjoys the nation's ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
My art. My culture. Our country.
SBS
From sound healing with didgeridoo to art therapy for disabled people, Aboriginal art is proving a powerful tool for helping Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians heal from disease and trauma. Here are four incredible ways Aboriginal art is being ...
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Otago Daily Times
Australia's aboriginal policies
Otago Daily Times
Only the "civilised" aboriginals — that is, those within the borders of civilisation — who are estimated to number 13,000, come under the supervision of the "protectors", as the Government officials who have charge of this work are called. There is ...

Program Manager
ArtsHub (subscription)
ANKA services Indigenous artists and supports 50 Aboriginal owned community Art Centres located across its one million square kilometer regions in Northern Australia. ANKA works on behalf of its members to promote, resource, educate and protect the ...

The Advertiser
Aboriginal dance performance Our Corka Bubs just for babies
The Advertiser
Its creator, renowned South Australian Aboriginal choreographer Gina Rings, said Our Corka Bubs, drew its inspiration from Ngarrindjeri storytelling, by incorporating traditional instruments including the didgeridoo, as well as the Ngarrindjeri language.

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SBS
Giving kids a fighting chance in rural Australia
SBS
The men secured a $5000 grant from the NSW Police Aboriginal Unit enabling them to buy boxing gloves, focus pads and wrist tape and to launch the program in the rural NSW town of Tingha, 100km north of Armidale. The program has had overwhelming ...

CBC.ca
Australia: Stopping the fake indigenous art flood – when does cultural appropriation become theft?
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Head into any souvenir shop and chances are you'll be able to pick yourself up a nice piece of rip-off indigenous art. The 'Aboriginal Style' souvenir was probably mass-produced in China. Is this a problem? Australia's indigenous art community says yes.
Indigenous school attendance could be the most important gapThe Australian
'It's exploiting culture': Australia mulls bill to ban sale of fake Indigenous artCBC.ca

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Indigenous school attendance could be the most important gap
The Australian
However, there has been some success as 58 per cent of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders living in major cities are employed. More significantly, there is no employment gap between indigenous Australians and non-indigenous Australians who have a ...

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ABC Online
World's first wind farm towers featuring Indigenous art unveiled in South Australia's mid-north
ABC Online
Art on the side of Australia's iconic grain silos has taken the world by storm in recent years — but it is not just regional grain infrastructure that are being transformed into artistic canvases. The world's first wind farm towers featuring ...

Northern Star
Andy Saunders brings race, family and life into comedy
Northern Star
"Every time I am on stage I try to bring a perspective of who I am: a middle aged man, a father and a husband, or an Aboriginal person living in Australia. "I'll try to spin stories about my life to have a funny positive outcome, so that people feel ...

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The West Australian
Push for lessons on Aboriginals' true history
The West Australian
Paulina Motlop, who last month took the helm of the Aboriginal Education Teaching and Learning Directorate, said few people were fully aware of the traumatic history of Aboriginal people in Australia. “So you've got people saying 'come on, let's get ...

ABC Online
Man accused of stealing from vulnerable, Indigenous people seeks bail to study law
ABC Online
Prosecutor Naomi Loudon told the court that after being blocked from entering Aboriginal communities, Anni had taken to "hanging around" car parks in Darwin, Katherine and Mataranka, and in public places where Aboriginal people are known to camp, ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
The gap grows wider for remote communities struggling with severe overcrowding
The Sydney Morning Herald
In 2006, the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous rights described the housing situation in remote Aboriginal communities in Australia as a "humanitarian tragedy". In 2007, the Little Children are Sacred report, which led to the Northern Territory ...

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Perth Now
We can't use the 'ancient history' excuse. It's not over
Perth Now
We need to remember that only about 25 per cent of the Aboriginal people in Australia are struggling, and the statistics for Torres Strait Islanders show that they have been less affected by colonisation. But those who are battling with social problems ...