Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

dailytelegraph.com.au
We can't use the 'ancient history' excuse. It's not over
dailytelegraph.com.au
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 ...

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Courier Mail
We can't use the 'ancient history' excuse. It's not over
Courier Mail
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 ...

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ABC Online
Fashion show held for first time in Kiwirrkurra, Australia's most remote Aboriginal community
ABC Online
The most remote Aboriginal community in Australia is helping young people grow through the power of fashion. Kiwirrkurra, 1,200km east of Port Hedland in Western Australia and 850km west of Alice Springs, recently held its first fashion parade, with ...

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Newsport
Billy 'not surprised' at shocking Closing the Gap findings
Newsport
This is not the time to fog what Australia said it would achieve, and reduce incarceration of Aboriginals in correctional facilities, and reduce the underlying causes of why such a large number of Indigenous children are being removed from their families.

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Aboriginal sex abuse victims compensated
NEWS.com.au
Former child residents who suffered years of abuse at a Northern Territory Aboriginal children's home have become the first group in Australia to win compensation from the federal government following evidence at the sex abuse royal commission.

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Aboriginal sex abuse victims compensated
The Australian
Former child residents who suffered years of abuse at a Northern Territory Aboriginal children's home have become the first group in Australia to win compensation from the federal government following evidence at the sex abuse royal commission.

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ArtsHub (subscription)
'Reading Australia' and Magabala Books team up to bring ...
the AU review (blog)
In recent weeks, all across Australia, teachers and children have headed back into the classroom and jumped into the new school year. Classrooms have been ...
Indigenous creatives oppose Productivity Commission advice ...ArtsHub (subscription)
Ask Izzy Apps Expands to Help Indigenous HomelessPro Bono Australia
Jessica Mauboy, Briggs Lead Indigenous Artists' Attack On Proposed Changes To Aus Copyright LawstheMusic

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ABC Online
Witchetty grub DNA sheds light on Indigenous bush food eaten for thousands of years
ABC Online
For the past three years, Mr Bilney, a Kokatha-Wirangu man from the Nullarbor Plain region of South Australia, has visited communities across the country to collect larvae. With help from Aboriginal community members, he has collected more than 200 ...

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A nod to Australia! The Bold And The Beautiful stars perform an Aboriginal dance during wedding reception scene ...
Daily Mail
And it seems The Bold And The Beautiful is making sure to include as much Australian culture into its Down Under episodes as possible, with the cast performing an Aboriginal dance on Wednesday. While filming a wedding reception scene on Sydney's ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Indigenous creatives oppose Productivity Commission advice
ArtsHub (subscription)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and creators have a right to receive fair payment for their work. ... reproducing their works. We call on the Australian Government and parliament to rule out these proposed changes from the Productivity ...

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ABC Online
From office administrator to award winning Indigenous film producer
ABC Online
"I believe that as an Aboriginal person, we should be telling our own stories, and I think as an Aboriginal person I can relate to the people that are telling the stories that I'm producing," she said. Despite Australia's history of limited roles for ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal mothers in WA jails discuss domestic violence in lives, as study finds 'culture of fighting'
ABC Online
"There was no way I was going to stand back and let a man flog me, so I gave just as much as he tried to give." Those were the words of Leonie, the pseudonym for one of 84 Aboriginal mothers in West Australian jails who were interviewed for a new ...

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Aljazeera.com
Australia failing to improve Aboriginal lives
Aljazeera.com
Australia is failing to close the child mortality and life expectancy gap between its indigenous and non-indigenous population, with the healthcare and education divide also widening, according to a new report. Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders ...
Anthony Dillon: No easy answers in effort to close the gapdailytelegraph.com.au
Aboriginal custody inquiry means little without actionEureka Street (registration)
Australia misses targets to improve Aboriginal livesMedical Xpress
ABC Online -Pro Bono Australia -The New Daily
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The West Australian
Anthony Dillon: No easy answers in effort to close the gap
dailytelegraph.com.au
If we fail to act now, the next generation will be blaming us for yet another lost generation of Aboriginal Australians. That will not just be a loss for Aboriginal Australians, it will be a loss for all Australians. How much has Australia already lost ...
Australia misses targets to improve Aboriginal livesMedical Xpress
Kevin Rudd warns of a new “stolen generation”The West Australian
Tony Abbott 'disappointed' with Malcolm Turnbull not spending time in Indigenous communitiesABC Online
Pro Bono Australia -The New Daily -Sky News Australia
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Aljazeera.com
Indigenous Leader Blames Revolving Door Of Bureaucrats For Failure To Close The Gap
Huffington Post Australia
That's a sad reflection on Australia as a very rich nation in terms of Aboriginal people - we are the sickest and the poorest, and the least housed, job-wise... Every social statistic in our country is with Aboriginal people at the lowest ebb," Huggins ...
Australia failing to improve Aboriginal livesAljazeera.com
Increasing numbers of Aboriginal children in state care an 'indictment on families': CredlinYahoo7 News
Australia misses targets to improve Aboriginal livesMedical Xpress
ABC Online -The Guardian
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ABC Online
RSL club attacked by ACT MLA Bec Cody over tiles showing Aboriginal men in toilets
ABC Online
They are a disgrace to themselves, a disgrace to the veterans they claim to represent and a disgrace to Australia. "Does the Sussex Inlet RSL think it appropriate that patrons embrace Aboriginal culture in the toilet block?" Ms Cody urged the national ...
Labor's Bec Cody blasts Sussex Inlet RSL Club as a disgrace for having Aboriginal kitsch tiles in the men's urinalThe Canberra Times

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Aljazeera.com
Closing the Gap: A little window of hope amid the bleak picture for Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
"The data tells us there is no employment gap, no employment gap between Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians with a university degree." That line buried towards the end of the Prime Minister's recent Closing the Gap speech in ...
Australia failing to improve Aboriginal livesAljazeera.com
The gap isn't closing – latest report reveals few gainsNational Indigenous Times
Australia failing in six out of seven target areas to improve indigenous disadvantageNEWS.com.au
Huffington Post Australia -Yahoo7 News -The Australian
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Eureka Street (registration)
Australia misses targets to improve Aboriginal lives
Medical Xpress
Aborigines—who make up about three percent of the total national population of 24 million—are among the most disadvantaged Australians. Apart from lifting high school completion rates, all other targets including child mortality, life expectancy ...
Aboriginal custody inquiry means little without actionEureka Street (registration)
Anthony Dillon: No easy answers in effort to close the gapdailytelegraph.com.au
Closing the Gap: A little window of hope amid the bleak picture for Indigenous AustraliansABC Online
Pro Bono Australia -The New Daily -Sky News Australia
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ABC Online
Labor's Bec Cody blasts Sussex Inlet RSL Club as a disgrace for having Aboriginal kitsch tiles in the men's urinal
The Canberra Times
ACT Labor politician Bec Cody has blasted the Sussex Inlet RSL Club a "disgrace" to itself, to veterans and to Australia for tiles in the men's urinal depicting Aboriginal men. Ms Cody used the adjournment debate in the ACT parliament to call on the ...
RSL club attacked by ACT MLA Bec Cody over tiles showing Aboriginal men in toiletsABC Online

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ABC Online
Closing the gap: Australia is failing on Indigenous disadvantage goals
ABC Online
... only a gain of 0.8 years for men and 0.1 for women — a fraction of what is needed. The mortality rate (the number of deaths per 100,000 people in a year) for Aboriginal people is 1.7 times that of the Australian population, and that hasn't changed ...
Australia misses targets to improve Aboriginal livesMedical Xpress
Aboriginal custody inquiry means little without actionEureka Street (registration)
Kevin Rudd warns of a new “stolen generation”The West Australian
Sky News Australia -The New Daily -NEWS.com.au
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