Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Mercury
Waving the flag for right reasons?
The Mercury
Last August, Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt announced that for Aboriginal Australians, January 26 is “a day of sadness and dispossession”. He was proud to see his council support change and said he hoped to see “a wave of change across the nation that ...

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Australians are becoming more patriotic
The Advertiser
Last August, Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt announced that for Aboriginal Australians, January 26 is “a day of sadness and dispossession”. He was proud to see his council support change and said he hoped to see “a wave of change across the nation that ...

Gold Coast Bulletin
Waving the flag for right reasons?
Gold Coast Bulletin
Last August, Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt announced that for Aboriginal Australians, January 26 is “a day of sadness and dispossession”. He was proud to see his council support change and said he hoped to see “a wave of change across the nation that ...

Courier Mail
Waving the flag for right reasons?
Courier Mail
Last August, Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt announced that for Aboriginal Australians, January 26 is “a day of sadness and dispossession”. He was proud to see his council support change and said he hoped to see “a wave of change across the nation that ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Waving the flag for right reasons?
dailytelegraph.com.au
Last August, Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt announced that for Aboriginal Australians, January 26 is “a day of sadness and dispossession”. He was proud to see his council support change and said he hoped to see “a wave of change across the nation that ...

International Business Times AU
Aboriginal culture centre in WA condemns photo of beheaded goannas, sends message to Indigenous hunters
International Business Times AU
An Aboriginal culture centre in remote Western Australia has condemned a photo posted on social media showing a pile of dead goannas. The post has sparked fear of animal cruelty and a clear message to Indigenous hunters to respect native animals.

'Not an animal or a plant': Putting a human face to 1967 Referendum
SBS
His show also explores specific events in recent Australian history, most notably the 2004 Palm Island riots and the scale of injustice this brought to the community. He says there has been a dramatic shift in the way the Australia sees Aboriginal ...

TravelersToday
Indigenous Artists Are Not Happy That Australia Is Selling Fake Aboriginal Souvenirs
TravelersToday
An astonishingly 80 percent of marketers in Australia was found out to be selling fake items. Sullivan and her team discovered thousands of arts and crafts that has the Aboriginal signature style to it but learned that it was created from different ...
Bob Katter declares war on “fake” indigenous artworkThe Cairns Post
Katter plans legislation to stop sale of fake Indigenous artABC Online

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ABC Online
Budj Bim Cultural Landscape: Ancient Aboriginal site a step closer to UNESCO World Heritage status
ABC Online
The Federal Government has submitted a nomination for the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape at Lake Condah to be included on Australia's World Heritage Tentative List. If the nomination is successful, Budj Bim would be the Australia's 20th World Heritage ...

ABC Online
Australia Day and the Enduring Power of White Supremacy
ABC Online
Thus the new Parliament of Australia dedicated its earliest energies to enacting white supremacy in law: excluding Aboriginal people from voting in the new nation, restricting immigration and forcibly expelling thousands of Pacific Islander labourers ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Vale to artist who saw Aboriginal Australia with Holocaust eyes
ArtsHub (subscription)
The article reported a court hearing in Oodnadatta over a station manager who had chained his Aboriginal workers to a tree. Aborigines was Bergner's last painting in Australia of the subject, and the echoes of Nazi concentration camps in his portrayal ...

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Courier Mail
Stop PC bleating about January 26
Courier Mail
The move was made following discussions with some members of the Aboriginal community who saw Australia Day as celebrating the invasion of their lands. The “whatever you do, don't mention Australia Day” virus has now spread to the east coast and ...

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New Matilda
The National Hoax: How Did Queensland Ever Fall For Australia Day?
New Matilda
There is something absurd about celebrating Australia Day on January 26th. It's even crazier in this important year when there is intense national debate about Treaties, Sovereignty and how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people want to be ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
More than $100000 raised to reinstate Australia Day billboard with Muslim girls, but not all are happy
The Sydney Morning Herald
It took just a matter of hours for a crowdfunding project launched on Wednesday to reach $100,000, surpassing its original goal of $50,000 to fund a campaign for racial and religious tolerance. The campaign was started after a billboard advertising an ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Vale Yosl Bergner- artist who saw Aboriginal Australia with ...
ArtsHub (subscription)
Yosl Bergner spent only 11 years of a long life in Australia but his understanding of the Indigenous tragedy made him an important Australian painter.

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The Guardian
Key Wyatt: new minister to tackle how Indigenous health funding used
The Guardian
He said he and the other Indigenous members of parliament held their positions on merit and that sent “a very strong message to young Aboriginal Australians that their hopes and aspirations can be achieved in many arenas”. “The ministerial appointment ...

The West Australian
Australia Day opposition 'hurts our people': Isaacs
The West Australian
In a speech to be delivered in Newman on January 26, the ambassador and former chairman of Australia Day WA council will urge Aboriginal people to “get past the hurts of the past”. Dr Isaacs said the solution was to make Australia Day more of a ...

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Community Newspaper Group
Ken Wyatt named as first Aboriginal minister
The Australian
Mr Wyatt said yesterday that his promotion meant he was now able to drive forward changes to improve outcomes for indigenous and older Australians on his own authority. Outlining the approach he would take to the job, Mr Wyatt said he hoped to better ...
Ken Wyatt becomes first Indigenous minister under Malcolm Turnbull's reshuffleABC Online

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Green grubs in Australia Day attack
dailytelegraph.com.au
In a Facebook post, Left Renewal incited its growing band of supporters to take part in “seven days of resistance in the lead up to Invasion Day” — an event organised by a group calling itself the “Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance”. “Australia ...
Far-left Greens group condemns Australia DayDaily Mail

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South China Morning Post
Ken Wyatt becomes first Indigenous minister under Malcolm Turnbull's reshuffle
ABC Online
He said he did not believe Indigenous health challenges were intractable and called for a wider approach to health care services. "I think we've got to look at how the whole of the health sector throws its weight behind the health of Aboriginal people ...
Conservative MP Ken Wyatt is Australia's first Aboriginal ministerSouth China Morning Post
Malcolm Turnbull gives nod to conservatives with Sukkar promotionThe Australian Financial Review
Australia PM Turnbull names new health minister, first indigenous minister in Cabinet tweakThe Straits Times
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