Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Eureka Street (registration)
Aboriginal custody inquiry means little without action
Eureka Street (registration)
In 1991, the year of the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC), Indigenous Australians comprised 14 per cent of the Australian prison population. In 2016, it was 27 per cent. Yet Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Greens urge Government to address 'shameful' Indigenous incarceration issueABC Online

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Eureka Street (registration)
Aboriginal custody inquiry means little without action
Eureka Street (registration)
In 1991, the year of the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC), Indigenous Australians comprised 14 per cent of the Australian prison population. In 2016, it was 27 per cent. Yet Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Greens urge Government to address 'shameful' Indigenous incarceration issueABC Online

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The West Australian
Kevin Rudd warns of a new “stolen generation”
The West Australian
Malcolm Turnbull will today lay out an agenda for his new indigenous advisory council as a report reveals insufficient progress in improving the lives of Aboriginal Australians. The Prime Minister is due to present the ninth Closing the Gap report to ...
Tony Abbott 'disappointed' with Malcolm Turnbull not spending time ...ABC Online
Indigenous report card to be handed downSBS
Day part of healing processShepparton News
The Australian -Sky News Australia -My Sunshine Coast (press release)
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Day part of healing process
Shepparton News
Through centuries of oppression and hardship, aboriginal Australians have managed to uphold the spirit of their rich culture and survival, which was marked at an annual breakfast yesterday. The event signified a day to acknowledge and apologise for the ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
New legislation on fake Indigenous art
ArtsHub (subscription)
It is reported that up to 80% of tourist shops and markets sell 'Aboriginal style' souvenirs, with some using products imported from Indonesia. Under Australia's Competition and Consumer laws it is not illegal for 'Aboriginal Style' imports to be sold ...

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ABC Online
Tony Abbott 'disappointed' with Malcolm Turnbull not spending time in Indigenous communities
ABC Online
"It is a little disappointing there is no annual governmental pilgrimage to remote Aboriginal Australia any more," Mr Abbott, the Member for Warringah, said. "I'm not trying to say somehow the whole world was transformed as a result of this. "But I ...
Abbott sad PM stopped indigenous tripsThe Australian

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Abbott sad PM stopped indigenous trips
Perth Now
"I think it is a little disappointing there is no annual governmental pilgrimage to remote Aboriginal Australia anymore," Mr Abbott told ABC radio. Mr Abbott visited Torres Strait and the northern tip of Queensland in 2015 and Nhulunbuy in the Northern ...

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SBS
Anniversary of sorry speech sees online call to action for Aboriginal child removals
SBS
But even during Rudd's speech, Aboriginal children were being forcibly taken from their families by welfare agencies in numbers far higher than any time in Australia's history. These numbers have increased dramatically since then, from approximately ...
Stolen Generations funding to support SA healing and community programsABC Online
Victories for Indigenous people are always short-lived. That's why we need a treaty – nowThe Guardian

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's 'most significant site' kept off UNESCO's World Heritage list
The Sydney Morning Herald
... site" and West Australian Premier Colin Barnett has said its listing on UNESCO's World Heritage list is "inevitable". Despite this, federal and state governments have failed to seek World Heritage listing for the Burrup Peninsula Aboriginal rock ...
CSIRO pulled out of Burrup Peninsula rock art studyWAtoday

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MP plans to curb fake Aboriginal art sales
The Australian
"If there be one thing that first Australians be allowed to keep and own it is their own culture." Mr Katter claimed up to 80 per cent of tourist shops and markets sold 'Aboriginal style' souvenirs, many of which were imported from overseas. He ...

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MP plans to curb fake Aboriginal art sales
NEWS.com.au
"If there be one thing that first Australians be allowed to keep and own it is their own culture." Mr Katter claimed up to 80 per cent of tourist shops and markets sold 'Aboriginal style' souvenirs, many of which were imported from overseas. He ...

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Central Western Daily
Letters to the Editor: If we want a celebration for all the date must change
Central Western Daily
Australia Day was set in 1935, well prior to the time the first Australian people were permitted to vote, participate in our democracy and indeed be counted in the Census. It was also a time when non-aboriginal Australia happily accepted the handed ...

MP plans to curb fake Aboriginal art sales
Yahoo7 News
"If there be one thing that first Australians be allowed to keep and own it is their own culture." Mr Katter claimed up to 80 per cent of tourist shops and markets sold 'Aboriginal style' souvenirs, many of which were imported from overseas. He ...

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MP plans to curb fake Aboriginal art sales
SBS
"If there be one thing that first Australians be allowed to keep and own it is their own culture." Mr Katter claimed up to 80 per cent of tourist shops and markets sold 'Aboriginal style' souvenirs, many of which were imported from overseas. He ...

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ABC Online
Greens urge Government to address 'shameful' Indigenous incarceration issue
ABC Online
But it does not include any targets around incarceration rates — despite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people making up a quarter of Australia's prison population. Greens' spokeswoman Rachel Siewert has written to Mr Turnbull calling for him ...

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The Guardian
Stolen generation survivors still suffering, says Uncle Jack Charles
The Guardian
The Indigenous actor Uncle Jack Charles says Australia is on the verge of creating “an island prison for the next generation of Aboriginal people” because of a failure to bring about redress for victims and survivors of the stolen generations and ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
CSIRO errors put 30000-year-old indigenous rock art at risk
The Sydney Morning Herald
Photo: Australian Geographic/Nick Rains. "The rock carvings are on the Burrup today to teach people ... Exactly the same as how a priest has to be trained, the Aboriginal people train their children to do exactly what they've been taught." The CSIRO ...

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WAtoday
Lunch with Shane Howard
WAtoday
I remember talking to people at the time about the injustice I saw towards Aboriginal Australia and people would glaze over. "The first time I heard Solid Rock on the radio I was driving to the Grampians; it was phasing in and out and it was an ...

The Australian
Qantas logo creator Gert Sellheim put Australia on tourism map
The Australian
Following his release, he applied for Australian citizenship and moved in 1947 to Sydney, where he continued his design work for clients such as Qantas. During this time he was particularly keen on using Aboriginal motifs, as in his prize-winning ...

ABC Online
Stranded Aboriginal community 'sleeping on street' as roads closed due to flooding
ABC Online
She has since spent more than a month at the Boulder Short Stay Facility, run by the Australian Red Cross as alcohol-free accommodation for Aboriginal itinerants. "We came to see the doctor and we can't go back because that road is blocked," Ms Walker ...