Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Reconciliation SA Apology Breakfast Celebrates Nine Years On
The Adelaide Review
Monday February 13 will mark 9 years since former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised publicly to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia, “for the pain, suffering and hurt” and for the injustices that they have experienced ...

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Pushing Miranda off Hanging Rock
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'And so in that impasse, rather than talking to Aboriginal people and demanding their history, I think white Australians should be looking at our own history and talking about our colonial past and thinking quite sincerely about what's happened there ...

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 ...

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How a child's exhumation has distressed Aboriginal elders
BBC News
The removal of a child's remains from a cave in South Australia has prompted calls for a coronial inquest, and government efforts to atone for culturally insensitive actions, reports Trevor Marshallsea. Long ago, according to a famous Aboriginal legend ...

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The Australian
June Oscar is new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
The Australian
In 2007 she successfully lobbied for a ban on full-strength takeaway alcohol in the West Australian pastoral town of Fitzroy Crossing, a community bedevilled by social ills, suicide, domestic violence and child neglect. In the years that followed, she ...
June Oscar named Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice CommissionerABC Online
Federal government name Indigenous activist June Oscar as new Social Justice CommissionerThe Sydney Morning Herald
Half of indigenous Aussies report racismSBS
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Fanny Cochrane Smith's Tasmanian Aboriginal songs and language preserved forever
ABC Online
Nearly 120 years after Tasmanian Aboriginal woman Fanny Cochrane Smith spoke these words into the bell of a gramophone, her recordings have been inducted into the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register. Fanny was born in 1834, in the ...

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June Oscar named Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
ABC Online
She also helped initiate Australia's first study into Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. "Ms Oscar will bring deep knowledge and experience in dealing with the problem of alcohol abuse in Indigenous communities, and strategies to mitigate the effect of ...
Australia Day: Greens outnumbered over moving dateThe Australian
Federal government name Indigenous activist June Oscar as new Social Justice CommissionerThe Sydney Morning Herald
Half of indigenous Aussies report racismSBS
Daily Mail -The Conversation AU
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The Guardian
Australia becoming 'a more racist country', survey finds
ABC Online
An increasing number of people think Australia is a racist country, according to a new survey. The biannual Australian Reconciliation Barometer measures attitudes towards race and perceptions of reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
June Oscar named Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissionerThe Guardian

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Bowraville murders: Man charged for second time over deaths of Aboriginal children
ABC Online
A man who has previously been tried and acquitted of the murders of two Aboriginal children at Bowraville, on the NSW mid-north coast in the early 1990s, has once again been charged with their murder. The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons ...
Bowraville murder suspect charged with the deaths of two Aboriginal children for the second time - 25 years after ...Daily Mail

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The Australian
Northern Territory mayor Lothar Siebert forced to give up second job
The Australian
In a letter dated February 2, sent to Mr Siebert on behalf of the Adjumarllarl Aboriginal Corporation and quoting from The Australian's report, David Narndal wrote: “No need to wait, sir, until you get back for your answer. The Adjumarllarl Aboriginal ...

The Australian
Australia Day: Greens outnumbered over moving date
The Australian
The Greens spokeswoman on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs, Rachel Siewert, accused the major parties of turning their backs on indigenous Australians. “This issue has been building momentum for years and a recent brave decision by ...
Federal government name Indigenous activist June Oscar as new Social Justice CommissionerThe Sydney Morning Herald
Half of indigenous Aussies report racismSBS
More Aborigines are experiencing racism - with 46 per cent claiming discrimination in the last six monthsDaily Mail
The Conversation AU -Xinhua
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The Stringer
The oppressed are blameless
The Stringer
How is it possible that remote non-Aboriginal Australia enjoys superior social infrastructure to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote homelands? Some say to me that in my writings and conference speaks that I go for the throat. Many urge me on ...
Indigenous All Stars need meaningful rivalsInside Sport

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Glass artist Mel George to spur on Aboriginal reconciliation through the arts and culture
dailytelegraph.com.au
“Participating in this course will help develop my knowledge and enable me to better contribute to one of Australia's most important challenges.” Of Aboriginal and Greek heritage, Ms George curates exhibitions that integrate traditional and ...

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Chris Sarra, Andrea Mason spearhead Malcolm Turnbull's bid to reboot Indigenous policy
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Turnbull Government has moved to transform its relationship with Indigenous Australia by announcing a new advisory group that includes Aboriginal educator Chris Sarra. In a bid to rebuild trust, the Prime Minister has opted for a two-stage process ...
Malcolm Turnbull unveils streamlined indigenous advisory councilThe Australian
Indigenous Advisory Council 'refreshed' with new membership - ABCABC Online

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Malcolm Turnbull unveils streamlined indigenous advisory council
The Australian
Other members are Winun Ngari Aboriginal Corporation CEO Susan Murphy and NSW Aboriginal Land Council chair Roy Ah See. Carry-over members from the previous 12-member council, which was established by Tony Abbott in 2013, are Baniyala ...
Indigenous Advisory Council 'refreshed' with new membershipABC Online
PM overhauls indigenous advisory councilSBS
Sarra, Mason big winners in advisory council 'refresh'National Indigenous Times

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'Mercy dash' airlifts vital supplies to feed remote WA Aboriginal community
ABC Online
Mr Smithies said he has had reports of more than one metre of water covering roads in areas closer to the WA and South Australia border which is unlikely to clear anytime soon. He said evacuating the entire community, which keeps a canoe in a storage ...

SBS
Indigenous supermodel set for international success
SBS
Everybody has a dream, and for last year's Aboriginal Model Search winner Lala Bayles, it's to represent Aboriginal Australia in the modelling industry. The Brisbane born babe is now one step closer to achieving her goal, and has recently been selected ...

Business News
Leaders lend voice to The Big Issue
Business News
He said giving people a chance to improve their circumstances by providing meaningful economic opportunities was the foundation of several Fortescue programs, which were aimed at ending the disparity between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Why the housing shortage exacerbates scabies in Indigenous communities
The Conversation AU
Scabies is a disease of antiquity, one of the scourges of those on the First Fleet but no longer known for most in Australian society. However, in the far remote Northern Territory, scabies infection remains endemic, and in some regions almost 70% of ...
It's not acceptable that remote Australia still struggles with scabiesThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Student Edge
"Real Australians Say Welcome" Artist Debuts His Latest Slogan: "Aboriginal Land"
Student Edge
Australia Day—and those #ChangetheDate rallies—may be over for another year, but artist Peter Drew is not waiting 12 months to continue the conversation. Peter Drew, the Adelaide artist behind the “Real Australians Say Welcome” campaign, has debuted ...