Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Flinders News
Celebrate Australia Day
The Flinders News
However, In recent years, efforts have been made to include all Australians, and in 2013, the Australian flag and Aboriginal flag were raised together on the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the first time on Australia Day. “Australia Day is a time to come ...

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South China Morning Post
Conservative MP Ken Wyatt is Australia's first Aboriginal minister
South China Morning Post
Australia on Wednesday appointed its first indigenous minister, a former labourer who has credited education for his rise from humble beginnings in a country where Aborigines remain among the most disadvantaged. Ken Wyatt became Minister for Aged ...
Ken Wyatt becomes first Indigenous minister under Malcolm Turnbull's reshuffleABC Online
Australia PM Turnbull names new health minister, first indigenous minister in Cabinet tweakThe Straits Times
Aborigine promoted in Australian Cabinet reshuffleSalon

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The Conversation AU
Celebrating the songs of Australia's civil rights movement
The Conversation AU
Fifty years ago this May, Australians went to the polls and in overwhelming numbers, voted Yes to remove two discriminatory references in the constitution. The changes allowed the federal government make laws affecting Aboriginal people and include the ...

SBS
Ken Wyatt becomes first Indigenous federal minister after Turnbull reshuffle
SBS
It makes Mr Wyatt not only the first Aboriginal Australian elected to the House of Representatives and first to the frontbench; now, he will be the first to lead a major portfolio. "As an Indigenous Australian, it's an incredible privilege to serve the ...

NEWS.com.au
Australia names first indigenous minister
Yahoo7 News
Sydney (AFP) - Australia on Wednesday appointed its first indigenous minister, a former labourer who has credited education for his rise from humble beginnings in a country where Aborigines remain among the most disadvantaged. Ken Wyatt became ...
Australia PM Turnbull names new health minister, first indigenous minister in Cabinet tweakThe Straits Times
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mnnews.today
Internationally renowned Aboriginal artist Uncle Richard Campbell for Project Compassion 2017
mnnews.today
Running each year throughout Lent, Project Compassion is Caritas Australia's annual fundraising and awareness-raising appeal. It links thousands of Australians to the women, children and men most vulnerable to poverty and injustice, who are rich in the ...

Border Chronicle
Celebrate Australia Day
Border Chronicle
However, In recent years, efforts have been made to include all Australians, and in 2013, the Australian flag and Aboriginal flag were raised together on the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the first time on Australia Day. “Australia Day is a time to come ...

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ABC Online
1967 referendum concert: 50th anniversary event celebrates the power of music
ABC Online
The concert, 1967: Music In The Key Of Yes, was a tribute to songs of the civil rights movement, reinterpreted by some of Australia's leading Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander artists. Singer-songwriter David Leha, who performs under the name ...

Barossa & Light Herald
Celebrate Australia Day
Barossa & Light Herald
However, In recent years, efforts have been made to include all Australians, and in 2013, the Australian flag and Aboriginal flag were raised together on the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the first time on Australia Day. “Australia Day is a time to come ...

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RT
Australia Day Muslim themed billboard removed after threats
RT
The Muslim themed billboard in Melbourne is not the only controversy surrounding Australia Day this year. The national holiday is also a contentious issue among Aboriginal Australians, who regard it as a celebration of their conquest and subjugation.

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Aboriginal Murder Mystery: What Killed Kaakutja?
National Geographic Australia
Header image: Nicknamed Kaakutja, meaning “older brother,” this skeleton of an Aboriginal man (right) rested for some 800 years near a southern Australian riverbank before being found in 2014. Scientists determined Kaakutja died from a blow to the head ...

ABC Online
Fight for compensation over land Aboriginal war veteran Herbert Lovett was refused
ABC Online
An Aboriginal man whose father served in both world wars is suing the Victorian Government for millions of dollars in compensation, alleging his father's historical request for a soldier settlement block was knocked back on the grounds of race.

Forbes Advocate
Let's ride: bike safety workshop for Aboriginal kids
Forbes Advocate
Pump up your tyres and dust off your seats, as Cycling Australia will be a hosting a number of free Aboriginal Bicycle Safety Programs across the region over the next two weeks. Using Cycling Australia's successful Let's Ride program, these three-hour ...

ABC Online
No picnic at Hanging Rock: Campaign to recognise Aboriginal past rather than 'white myth'
ABC Online
A campaign has been launched to highlight the significance of Indigenous history at Victoria's Hanging Rock, rather than Australia's obsession with a fictional story about missing girls. Miranda Must Go is the controversial catch-cry of a campaign that ...
Picnic at Hanging Rock unsettles on stage as it did on film - reviewTelegraph.co.uk

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ABC Online
Indigenous arts community lobby Government to make it illegal to sell fake Aboriginal-style souvenirs
ABC Online
Gabrielle Sullivan, chief executive of Indigenous Art Code, has been collecting dozens of mementos and trinkets during an investigation into fake Aboriginal-style souvenirs over the past six months. "These items are extremely popular … marketed as ...

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Perth Now
'You can't go forward always looking back'
Perth Now
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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EXPERIENCE AUSTRALIA DAY 2017 AT BARANGAROO RESERVE
PRWire (press release)
Australia Day in Barangaroo Reserve provides visitors with a unique chance to experience and learn about Sydney's Aboriginal heritage and Australia's shared history, combined with a full day of free family-friendly activities and entertainment. "If you ...

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ABC Online
Five reasons to love brush turkeys
ABC Online
Their egg incubation process — dumping them in a mound and abandoning them — is an extraordinarily primitive nesting behaviour, closer to a crocodile than a normal bird's. In many places in Australia brush turkeys are totems for Aboriginal people.

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SBS
Indigenous art collective hits back at lamb ad with satire
SBS
The former fish and chip shop owner expressed her displeasure to News Corp, saying she wasn't 'knocking' Aboriginal Australians and urged 'them' to see themselves as Australians. “It really is pretty sad, isn't it? It's bloody idiots out there, ratbags ...

ABC Online
Australia Day: Organisers promise huge celebrations to showcase Sydney
ABC Online
A free concert at the iconic Sydney Opera House will cap off a full day of Australia Day festivities in the Harbour City that organisers hope will rival the grandeur of New Year's Eve. Both the Australian and Aboriginal flags will be raised on the ...

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