Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Age
The brutal images that have defined 2016 for Indigenous Australia
The Age
Brutal images of Aboriginal women and children being mistreated in custody are a defining feature of 2016. From Dylan Voller and the young detainees of Don Dale to Ms Dhu, Australians have been forced to reckon with the cruel reality of Australia's ...

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Carbonated.tv (blog)
Aboriginal Woman Brutal Death In Custody Exposes Australia's Shame
Carbonated.tv (blog)
An aboriginal woman's brutal slaying in prison has exposed the racial divide in one of the world's most developed and “happiest” countries in the world: Australia. The video above is CCTV footage of how the woman, currently identified only as Ms Dhu ...
[ December 21, 2016 ] Ms Dhu's family consider action after appalling jail death NEWSNational Indigenous Times
'How you can do that to anybody?' Indigenous MPs calls for sackings over Dhu deathSBS

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ABC Online
Indigenous doctors graduate, but thousands more needed
ABC Online
Department of Health figures show only 261 out of the 85,510 medical practitioners employed in Australia in 2014 identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. Reaching parity with their non-Indigenous counterparts would require approximately 2 ...

Vale Paul Pholeros AM, 1953–2016
Architecture AU
Housing for Health: Towards a Healthy Living Environment for Aboriginal Australia (1993) by Paul Pholeros, Stephan Rainow and Paul Torzillo (of Healthabitat). Throughout these times, on behalf of Indigenous Australia, Paul battled government at state ...

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National Indigenous Times
[ December 21, 2016 ] Mansell draws new boundaries for Aboriginal state BOOKS
National Indigenous Times
Central Australia could become a seventh, Aboriginal State taking in land from the Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland under a plan put forward by Tasmanian lawyer and veteran activist Michael Mansell. In a new book, ...
The Stolen Generation: Most blemished chapter in Australian historyLankaweb

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National Indigenous Times
[ December 21, 2016 ] The Australia Day debate; Us and Them OPINION
National Indigenous Times
The council is clear-eyed about the implications of the day to “all Australians”. It says: “Aboriginal Australians have continued to feel excluded from what has long been a British pioneering settler celebration, symbolised by the raising of the Union ...

National Indigenous Times
[ December 21, 2016 ] White Australia has lost its 'moral compass', says Anderson NEWS
National Indigenous Times
Lowitja Institute chair Pat Anderson, an Alyawarre woman who replaced Pat Dodson at the council's helm, said she was at a loss to explain the hostility and racism towards Aboriginal people in modern-day Australia. “It's like there is no moral compass ...

National Indigenous Times
[ December 21, 2016 ] White Australia has lost its 'moral compass', says Anderson NEWS
National Indigenous Times
Lowitja Institute chair Pat Anderson, an Alyawarre woman who replaced Pat Dodson at the council's helm, said she was at a loss to explain the hostility and racism towards Aboriginal people in modern-day Australia. “It's like there is no moral compass ...
The Stolen Generation: Most blemished chapter in Australian historyLankaweb

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The Age
It's way too early to write off Aboriginal reconciliation
The Age
Sections of the media writing off the outcome of consultations around constitutional recognition, after the first of 12 discussions among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in Hobart just over a week ago, are selling the nation short ...

ABC Online
SACE results: Salisbury High School punches above weight to celebrate Year 12 marks
ABC Online
A record 15,003 South Australians achieved their South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) in 2016, which included every Year 12 student at Salisbury High School. Jaylon Newchurch said he "couldn't believe" his tertiary entrance ranking score of ...

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The Conversation AU
Will treaties with Indigenous Australians overtake constitutional recognition?
The Conversation AU
In Western Australia, the Liberal government signed the largest and most-comprehensive agreement to settle Aboriginal interests in land in Australian history with the Noongar people in 2015. The agreement involves 30,000 Noongar people and covers ...

Sci-News.com
Researchers Obtain First Reliable Radiocarbon Dates for Australian Aboriginal Rock Art
Sci-News.com
“Indigenous Australian rock art is very interesting, it is believed to be among the most ancient in the world but it is one of the least dated,” said Dr. Vladimir Levchenko, a researcher at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation ...

SBS
'Prosecute these inhumane people', calls for action against police after Dhu inquest
SBS
Ms Dhu's lawyer and family also weren't satisfied by the report, despite the coroner recommending no one should be jailed for the non-payment of fines in the future. Western Australia continues to have the highest Aboriginal imprisonment rate in Australia.

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The Japan Times
Aboriginal woman's slaying exposes Australia's racial divide
The Japan Times
YAMBA, AUSTRALIA – The life was long drained from Lynette Daley by the time the cops rolled up to the lonely beach where her naked body lay. Her blood was everywhere: between her legs and on the remains of the recently burned mattress partly hidden ...
Aboriginal woman's brutal slaying sheds light on Australia's continuing racial divideChicago Tribune

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The Sydney Morning Herald
HEALS program gives Aboriginal children access to surgery, therapy for hearing loss
The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal families, even in Australia's capital cities, struggled to access care, and waiting lists for speech therapists and surgery stretched into years, said Darryl Wright, the chief executive at Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation in Campbelltown. "I ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
HEALS program gives Aboriginal children access to surgery, therapy for hearing loss
The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal families, even in Australia's capital cities, struggled to access care, and waiting lists for speech therapists and surgery stretched into years, said Darryl Wright, the chief executive at Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation in Campbelltown. "I ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Black comedy by broke, bogus state
dailytelegraph.com.au
South Australian Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher has said he expects initial negotiations with the Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association, Far West Coast Aboriginal Corporation and Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority to be followed up by ...

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The Age
Aboriginal cricket legends win pride of place at the MCG, 150 years on
The Age
Cricket Australia will dedicate the Test to the memory of Australia's first Aboriginal cricket team, which played 150 years ago an MCC team at the MCG on Boxing Day, 1866. Photo: supplied. Her great-great grandfather was James "Jimmy Mosquito" Couzens​ ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal cricket legends win pride of place at the MCG, 150 years on
The Sydney Morning Herald
Cricket Australia will dedicate the Test to the memory of Australia's first Aboriginal cricket team, which played 150 years ago an MCC team at the MCG on Boxing Day, 1866. Photo: supplied. Her great-great grandfather was James "Jimmy Mosquito" Couzens​ ...

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Aboriginal cricket legends win pride of place at the MCG, 150 years on
WAtoday
Cricket Australia will dedicate the Test to the memory of Australia's first Aboriginal cricket team, which played 150 years ago an MCC team at the MCG on Boxing Day, 1866. Photo: supplied. Her great-great grandfather was James "Jimmy Mosquito" Couzens​ ...

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