Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

SBS
Indigenous Australia bears the brunt of the HIV epidemic
SBS
SBS World News Radio: Rates of HIV transmission amongst Indigenous Australians continue to rise, with new figures showing the rate of HIV notification among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is now more than double the non-Indigenous rate.

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Aboriginal employment targets for WA
The West Australian
Aboriginal employment targets in the public sector have been announced for regional areas of Western Australia and are expected to create several hundred jobs. The mandatory targets are regionally specific, depending on the Indigenous population of ...

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SBS
Fact check: How big a problem is ice use among Indigenous Australians?
SBS
Across Australia, around 2.3 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 15 years and over report using methamphetamines in the past year. This is similar to the general population rate of 2.1 per cent. Methamphetamine use in remote ...

Huffington Post Australia
'What's he worried that I'm going to see?' David Oldfield denied access to WA prison
NEWS.com.au
“Frankly it (Aboriginal Australia) should have died out like the stone age,” Oldfield said early on in the first episode. “Aboriginality is just unnecessary. It's not really in the best interests of Aboriginal people. It's not good for Aborigines to ...
SBS's 'First Contact' Sent Well-Known Aussies Into Aboriginal Australia. Here's What They LearnedHuffington Post Australia
Trapped in Australia's 'invisible prison'Courier Mail
'I'm scared of Aboriginal people': First Contact reveals prejudicesThe New Daily
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The Guardian
Seeing Ms Dhu footage: how photographs can argue for human ...
The Guardian
In revealing what Ms Dhu suffered in a Western Australian police cell, her family hope the graphic proof will arouse public opinion.

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The Sydney Morning Herald
The message all Australians should take from Indigenous culture
The Sydney Morning Herald
He was convinced that as a nation, Australia could derive nothing from embracing, supporting or saving Aboriginal culture. He scoffed at programs to save local languages, stating that no young blackfella was going to increase his chances of landing a ...

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Gold Coast Bulletin
Inside Coast theme park 'new world'
Gold Coast Bulletin
A performance based on the arrival of Captain Cook to Australia, featuring a replica of the HMS Endeavour, will also be staged at the riverside park where the chairman also plans to build an “Aboriginal Cultural Village” and a small Australian wildlife ...

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The New Daily
'I'm scared of Aboriginal people': First Contact reveals prejudices
The New Daily
A number of contestants, including Imbruglia, admitted to having a less-than-impressive knowledge of Australia's first people, while Ayris admitted her only contact with Aboriginals had been negative. “I'm scared of Aboriginal people,” the Perth native ...
David Oldfield and Tom Ballard clash in Elliot1:15NEWS.com.au
I Didn't Want The Indigenous Women I Met To Hear My Racist CommentsHuffington Post Australia
First Contact: when Indigenous Australia becomes entertainment, everyone losesThe Guardian
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Beef Central
Aboriginal Land Trust seeks operator with a difference for Kimberley's Lake Gregory
Beef Central
A SUB-LEASE on Lake Gregory Station is being offered by the Aboriginal Land Trust (ALT) in a move which is set to test the waters for a new model of land management in Western Australia's Kimberley region. A spokesperson for Western Australia's ...

Happy (press release) (registration) (blog)
Aboriginal protesters rally outside Radio 6PR over racism claims
WAtoday
An angry mob of Aboriginal protesters rallied outside Radio 6PR on Wednesday over allegations the broadcaster was being racist over the Fremantle council's decision to move Australia Day back two days. Around 10 Aboriginal people, including ...
The Aboriginal elders of Fremantle speak out on Australia Day changeHappy (press release) (registration) (blog)
Spare a thought for those with little to celebrate on Australia DayThe West Australian

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Independent Australia
Australia's shame: Some communities have 600 times the national suicide rate
Independent Australia
The Inuit peoples of Greenland, the Guarani peoples of South America and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples of the Australian continent endure the world's highest suicide rates. However, when we disaggregate to regions, towns and ...

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To Australia's shame, some of our towns and communities have 600 times the national suicide rate
Independent Australia
The Inuit peoples of Greenland, the Guarani peoples of South America and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples of the Australian continent endure the world's highest suicide rates. However, when we disaggregate to regions, towns and ...

Happy (press release) (registration) (blog)
The Aboriginal elders of Fremantle speak out on Australia Day ...
Happy (press release) (registration) (blog)
After media backlash against the City of Freemantle's decision to move Australia Day, grassroots Aboriginal elders have been forced to quell some rumours.
Spare a thought for those with little to celebrate on Australia Da - NewsThe West Australian

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SBS
How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia's highway network
SBS
The next time you're driving down a country road in outback Australia, consider there's a good chance that very route was originally mapped out by Aboriginal people perhaps thousands of years before Europeans came to Australia. And like today, they ...

Courier Mail
Trapped in Australia's 'invisible prison'
Courier Mail
When you say that you're are an Aboriginal person from Australia the overwhelming response of warmness and value from people overseas is at a higher rate of what we have here in Australia.” “Wherever we walk and whatever we do, through all of our eyes, ...
'I'm scared of Aboriginal people': First Contact reveals prejudicesThe New Daily
David Oldfield and Tom Ballard clash in Elliot1:15NEWS.com.au
I Didn't Want The Indigenous Women I Met To Hear My Racist CommentsHuffington Post Australia
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Herald Sun
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Herald Sun
When you say that you're are an Aboriginal person from Australia the overwhelming response of warmness and value from people overseas is at a higher rate of what we have here in Australia.” “Wherever we walk and whatever we do, through all of our eyes, ...

A Plus
Aboriginal Australians Shed Light On Their Slew Of Experiences With Racism And Oppression
A Plus
The Age of Exploration was perhaps a baby step towards modern-day globalization, but it was the beginning of a devastating few centuries for indigenous populations whose land was "discovered" and whose populations were treated as inferior and ...

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Happy (press release) (registration) (blog)
Spare a thought for those with little to celebrate on Australia Day
The West Australian
The argument some Aboriginal people are making goes something like this: “We don't want the nation to stop celebrating Australia Day, we would just like you to recognise that the arrival of the First Fleet is not something we celebrate. It actually ...
The Aboriginal elders of Fremantle speak out on Australia Day changeHappy (press release) (registration) (blog)

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Perth Now
'This makes me wish I wasn't Australian'
Perth Now
The show also contained some shocking admissions from others involved including Natalie Imbruglia who said she had never “had a conversation with an Aboriginal person” and Nicki Wendt admitting she had had racist thoughts about indigenous people.

dailytelegraph.com.au
First Contact: David Oldfield and Aboriginal elder clash 1:43
dailytelegraph.com.au
I felt a duty to immerse myself in this situation and to try and grapple with my own questions of white guilt about Aboriginal Australia. David Oldfield comes across as the most divisive of the six celebrities. Most of the days on this show, David ...