Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Sydney Morning Herald
It's not acceptable that remote Australia still struggles with scabies
The Sydney Morning Herald
The day my immune system kicked in was 14 days after I'd examined an old Aboriginal man at Royal Darwin Hospital. I'd never seen crusted scabies before. I'd been taught at Sydney University that it no longer existed in Australia so I stopped listening.

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Daily Advertiser
Keith Wheeler's Wheeler's Wisdom | OPINION, February 6, 2017
Daily Advertiser
There is no good reason to change the “Australia Day” date. The date does not disrespect Aboriginal Australians. I'm offended too, by anyone who refuses to stand for the National Anthem. It demonstrates a lack of education. However, when I was going ...

The Advertiser
Police exhumed Indigenous baby's remains without speaking to elders, administrator says
ABC Local
The removal of bones from an Aboriginal baby's grave on a sacred site should be investigated by the South Australian coroner, according to the administrator covering the area involved. The director of administration in the APY Lands, Rex Tjami, said ...
Remains of Aboriginal infant, who died after 1950s Maralinga atomic tests, exhumed from burial caveThe Advertiser

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Cosmos
The passions of Aboriginal astronomy guide, Willy Stevens
Cosmos
Willy Stevens grew up knowing little about his ancestral Australian Aboriginal culture. Born a Muruwari man in New South Wales, he was adopted into a Kamilaroi family. But when at the age of 17 he met his biological mother, she regaled him with ...

The Advertiser
Remains of Aboriginal infant, who died after 1950s Maralinga atomic tests, exhumed from burial cave
The Advertiser
The State Government has agreed to fund the reburial of the skeletal remains of the child — which a respected Aboriginal elder says died following the Maralinga atomic testing more than 50 years ago. Coroner Mark Johns has ordered a comprehensive ...
Police exhumed Indigenous baby's remains without speaking to elders, administrator saysABC Local

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Herald Sun
City of Yarra to debate whether to dump Australia Day celebrations
Herald Sun
AN inner city council may consider dumping Australia Day celebrations because they could offend Aborigines. City of Yarra Greens mayor Amanda Stone says January 26 marks the arrival of white settlers and the start of the dispossession of indigenous ...

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Wanderlust
Searching the Songlines - discovering hiking trails, aboriginal culture and wildlife in Northern Australia
Wanderlust
The red hot dust blew around us. I'd been driving for two hours in the company of Sammy Wilson, an Aboriginal man whose clan name was Uluru. This made him one of the traditional owners of the rock of the same name, Australia's best-known landmark, ...

SBS
Upcoming supermodel Lala to jet off China for the 2017 World Supermodel Pageant
SBS
Everybody has a dream, and for last year's Aboriginal Model Search winner Lala Bayles, it's to represent Aboriginal Australia in the modeling industry. She's now one step closer to achieveing her goal and has recently been selected to represent ...

Western Advocate
OPINION: News from Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre
Western Advocate
Saltbush, which centres on two friends as they cross Australia on foot, is an interactive journey through the culture and landscape of Aboriginal Australia, celebrated through live dance, music, song and stories. Children are invited to explore, play ...

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Open Democracy
Skin deep: reproducing aboriginal women in colonial Australia
Open Democracy
So when Europeans came to Australia, it was already in their mouths as meaning a racialised child. What is really interesting is the way in which this Portuguese-derived word became useful to aboriginal people themselves, when they needed to ...

SBS
Why Indigenous art is such big business internationally
SBS
As with the history and culture of Australian Indigenous communities, Aboriginal art has also been passed on for thousands of years. "For a lot of communities it's something that's been handed down for generations," Art director and collector Simon ...

Huffington Post
Advance Australia White
Huffington Post
“I can't stand for something that's racist. Advance Australia Fair, when it's really Advance Australia White.” Said Anthony Mundine, ahead of his fight against arch-enemy Danny Green. Mundine is Aboriginal Green is White Australian.
Anthony Mundine sticks by protest, won't enter ring until after anthem is playedESPN

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Gizmodo Australia
This WWII Booklet Helped Soldiers Translate From American To Australian
Gizmodo Australia
The book refers to the "70,000 or so primitive 'Abos'" in the country, a highly offensive term for Aboriginal Australians. And there's no shortage of racism against the Japanese (widely referred to as "Japs" in the US) who were, of course, the ...
The White House spokesman keeps mispronouncing the Australian prime minister's nameBusiness Insider Australia

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ABC Online
Abbott government bungled Indigenous funding overhaul, major report finds
ABC Online
The Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) moved thousands of existing agreements into five broad funding streams overseen by the Prime Minister's Department. A report from independent watchdog, the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO), said the ...
Tony Abbott's Indigenous Advancement Strategy below standard, audit findsThe Australian
$10m for 'robust, independent evaluation' of Indigenous policyThe Mandarin (registration)

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Anti-Australia Day rant from Cairns officer's Facebook page included threats to burn and spit on flag
The Cairns Post
The controversial post laments the lack of recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on Australia Day and said their history was neglected. It said soldiers were honoured on Anzac and Remembrance Days, but Australia Day is “overlooked”.

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End of indigenous council 'gives nation a chance to re-engage'
The Australian
However, National Congress of Australia's First Peoples co-chair Rod Little said the suspension offered a chance to re-engage with the peak body, whose funding was eliminated in last year's budget. “Congress is, and will be, a much ... Labor's ...

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ABC Online
Bid to raise $1 million for giant Christian cross in Central Australia
ABC Online
The Christian organisation behind plans to build a giant illuminated cross atop a hill in remote Central Australia wants to raise a further $1 million for the project. Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner has ruled out contributing money to ...

Townsville Bulletin
Activists fan race war
Townsville Bulletin
THE biggest shame about the reconciliation movement is that Aboriginal activists – not white people – are the most divisive force at play. As the dust settles on another year of Invasion Day/Australia Day, it seems that just when some headway in race ...
'We need to choose our battles': Newman reacts to Mundine's anthem snubCentral Western Daily

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The Australian
If Australia Day is illegitimate, so are we
The Australian
In 1788 Australia was not controlled by a single Aboriginal nation. It is as near as inevitable as anything in history could be that in the 18th or 19th century Australia would be colonised by one of the European powers. British colonialism was vastly ...

Section 18C: a bad law that finds racism where there is none
The Australian
The Racial Discrimination Act's 18C treats us Aboriginal Australians as infants who can't speak or stand up for ourselves. It treats non-Aboriginal people as if they have no right to hold an opinion about anything that relates to us, especially the ...