Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The New Daily
Should we celebrate Australia Day? Debate over backlash builds
The New Daily
“It's a clarification of history, because celebrating the day the first gunshots ploughed our blood into the earth is horrific for Aboriginal people.” The Fremantle controversy has reignited debate on the appropriateness of Australia Day celebrations ...
Government threatens Fremantle Council's power after Australia Day change9news.com.au
Govt, Fremantle row over Australia DaySky News Australia
Federal Government threatens to revoke citizenship ceremonies from Fremantle CouncilDaily Mail
Junkee -Starts at 60
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Green Left Weekly
New study shows how Aboriginal people view white Australians
Green Left Weekly
As someone who lives in Darwin, surrounded by Aboriginal people speaking their own languages and inevitably confronted almost daily by the racist attitudes that abound in towns with high populations of Aboriginal people, reading the report is ...

Sky News Australia
Deported man makes Aboriginal descent claim - Sky News
Sky News Australia
A man deported to New Zealand over links to biker gangs now believes he has Aboriginal heritage.
AFL player Dustin Martin's bikie dad wants to return to Australia ...Daily Mail
Racism banned, except the legal kindHerald Sun (blog)

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Sky News Australia
Deported man makes Aboriginal descent claim
Sky News Australia
One of the most high-profile people deported under section 501 of the Immigration Act says he should be allowed back into Australia because he is of Aboriginal descent. Shane Martin, born in New Zealand, had his visa cancelled in March this year over ...

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NT News
Hey Dave, please piss off home
NT News
His views on Aboriginal Australia were as shocking as the fact that he's still deemed relevant enough to be invited on a reality TV program to begin with. I guess Hotdogs from Big Brother wasn't available. Here's one of his more disgusting comments ...

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The Guardian
Lack of progress on Aboriginal deaths in custody 'unforgivable'
The Guardian
... put into the commission, which ran from 1987 to 1991. “It's really unforgivable, I think, that we have seen the failure to commit to implementing the recommendations of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody,” she told Guardian ...

The Saturday Paper (subscription)
AB Original's 'Reclaim Australia'
The Saturday Paper (subscription)
Reclaim Australia by A. B. Original is the most exciting record released by an Australian artist this year. An incendiary album of agit-prop hip-hop, the beats slam hard and the raps slam even harder. This aggressive, uncompromising and brutally honest ...

The Australian
Windschuttle takes detour on Constitutional recognition for Aborigines
The Australian
Windschuttle's main thrust in The Break-Up of Australia is that the call for a reconciliation with the indigenous people through a national treaty and recognition of them in an amendment to the Constitution would be so difficult and risk so many bad ...

The Australian
Stan Grant's Quarterly Essay tackles the definition of Aboriginal Australia
The Australian
In his recent memoir Talking to My Country, indigenous journalist Stan Grant let fly with a barely contained fury, an anguished, laser-sharp attack on the forcible silencing of his people: names, languages, whole nations disappeared in a relatively ...

Perth Now
Is this free speech or hate speech?
Perth Now
His views on Aboriginal Australia were as shocking as the fact that he's still deemed relevant enough to be invited a reality TV program to begin with. Here's one of his more disgusting comments: “Frankly it (Aboriginal Australia) should have died out ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au (blog)
Is this free speech or hate speech?
dailytelegraph.com.au (blog)
His views on Aboriginal Australia were as shocking as the fact that he's still deemed relevant enough to be invited a reality TV program to begin with. Here's one of his more disgusting comments: “Frankly it (Aboriginal Australia) should have died out ...

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ABC Online
Remote work-for-the-dole scheme 'devastating Indigenous communities'
ABC Online
ANU researcher and co-author Dr Kirrily Jordan said financial penalties were being applied unfairly and an example of this could be found in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in Western Australia. "The rental arrears across the whole lands, across 12 communities ...

WAtoday
Turnbull government warns Fremantle council to move back its Australia day celebrations
WAtoday
"I haven't met an Aboriginal person who didn't support the decision and the Aboriginal elders spoke to thousands of people in their families and they didn't agree with the fireworks on Australia Day. "It's a clarification of history, because ...
'Freo council needs to pull its head in'Perth Now
Australia Day: government could block Fremantle from moving citizenship ceremonyThe Guardian

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The New Daily
Government threat to Freo's Australia Day plan
The New Daily
City of Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettit has previously argued the Australia Day celebrations had negative connotations for Aboriginal people, marking “the start of much of their dispossession”. Mr Morton, who is the Liberal Member for Tangney, said it was ...
Turnbull government warns Fremantle council to move back its Australia day celebrationsWAtoday
'Freo council needs to pull its head in'Perth Now
Australia Day: government could block Fremantle from moving citizenship ceremonyThe Guardian

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Wayside Chapel in Bondi defends destroying Aboriginal mural; Threat of boycott raised over 'insult'
Radio Australia
... Beliefs:ALL Australia:NSW:Bondi 2026 Australia:NSW:ALL wayside, chapel, bondi, mural, aboriginal, indigenous, removed, painted ABC By Michelle Brown Sydney's Wayside Chapel says a mural depicting well-known Aboriginal activists was painted over ...

ABC Online
Turnbull government warns Fremantle council to move back its Australia day celebrations
The Sydney Morning Herald
"I haven't met an Aboriginal person who didn't support the decision and the Aboriginal elders spoke to thousands of people in their families and they didn't agree with the fireworks on Australia Day. "It's a clarification of history, because ...
Fremantle Australia Day fireworks: Federal Government threatens to revoke supportABC Online

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SBS
Offensive 'white Christmas' display sparks calls for Golliwog boycott in Australia
SBS
He wants to see the opinions and feelings of Aboriginal Australians valued, and is saddened by the fact that certain people “still perpetuate this myth that [the Golliwog] is a harmless little doll, and portray us as being overly sensitive because we ...
'Golliwog' collector slams decision to pull dollByron Shire News
Toowoomba accused by activists of being Australia's most racist city after chemist shop displayNew Zealand Herald

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The Sydney Morning Herald
'We're moving backwards': Women of the Year finalist Linda Burney on Aboriginal affairs
The Sydney Morning Herald
The state of Aboriginal affairs in Australia and what feels to be a moving backwards towards a much more paternalistic approach. And I'm very engaged in the Recognise movement, which is not just about Aboriginal people, it's about all Australians. I'm ...

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'We're moving backwards': Women of the Year finalist Linda Burney on Aboriginal affairs
The Age
The state of Aboriginal affairs in Australia and what feels to be a moving backwards towards a much more paternalistic approach. And I'm very engaged in the Recognise movement, which is not just about Aboriginal people, it's about all Australians. I'm ...

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Perth Now
Aboriginal job targets set for WA
Perth Now
Child protection minister Andrea Mitchell said the government consulted with WA's 274 remote Aboriginal communities about reforming services and education and economic opportunities were major themes. Regional development minister Terry Redman ...

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