Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

dailytelegraph.com.au
'This country is racist': TV moment will shock us
dailytelegraph.com.au
Many condemned the show and “white privilege” shown by Mr Oldfield, with artist Brendon Marczan saying “makes me wish I wasn't Australian”. Others noted the “irony” of David Oldfield saying he had “sensitive” skin and blasted him for being “disrespectful”.

Huffington Post Australia
'Aboriginal Australia should have died'
Courier Mail
The views of the former One Nation politician were always going to be controversial but we didn't know how extreme until now. “Frankly it (Aboriginal Australia) should have died out like the stone age,” Oldfield says early on. “Aboriginality is just ...
SBS's 'First Contact' Sent Well-Known Aussies Into Aboriginal Australia. Here's What They LearnedHuffington Post Australia
First Contact 2016 on SBS: The TV moment that shocked AustraliaNEWS.com.au
Trapped in Australia's 'invisible prison'The Mercury
SBS -The West Australian -The New Daily
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Huffington Post Australia
'Aboriginal Australia should have died out'
NEWS.com.au
Six celebrities — talent judge Ian 'Dicko Dickson', ex One Nation politician David Oldfield, singer Natalie Imbruglia, comedian Tom Ballard, actor Nicki Wendt and former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris — spent 28 days visiting remote Aboriginal ...
SBS's 'First Contact' Sent Well-Known Aussies Into Aboriginal Australia. Here's What They LearnedHuffington Post Australia
Well-known Aussies in the heart of Aboriginal affairsThe West Australian
First Contact show sees David Oldfield weep with Aboriginal elder ...dailytelegraph.com.au
The New Daily -Gold Coast Bulletin -9news.com.au
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The Advertiser
Whatever you call it, Australia Day is our most divisive day
The Advertiser
Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day. Whatever you call it, January 26 is either seen as a day for non-indigenous Australians to celebrate the founding of Australia or for Aboriginal people to mourn dispossession and slaughter. Australia is ...
Pauline Hanson Says There Is 'No Definition To An Aboriginal'Huffington Post Australia
#DefineAboriginal: Pauline Hanson's 'no definition to Aboriginal' comment sparks sharing of racism storiesABC Online
Pauline Hanson questions 'Aboriginal' definition, praised by Noel PearsonThe New Daily
Sky News Australia -Herald Sun (blog) -Mashable
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SBS
Racism is a reality, not just reality TV
SBS
First Contact shines a light on this deep divide by taking a group of non-Indigenous people, from different walks of life and with strong and varied opinions, and immersing them into Aboriginal Australia for the first time. It will reveal Aboriginal ...

SBS
You say 'kangaroo', I say 'rock wallaby': Children's Ground offers new approach to Indigenous education
SBS
First Contact (season 2) airs on 29 November, 30 November and 1 December 2016 at 8:30pm on SBS. Across 28 Days, six well-known Aussies take an epic journey into Aboriginal Australia. Watch the trailer here, and catch-up on episodes after the program ...

ABC Online
#DefineAboriginal: Pauline Hanson's 'no definition to Aboriginal' comment sparks sharing of racism stories
ABC Online
Indigenous people have shared their personal stories of racism on social media, after One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson said there was no definition of Aboriginal in an interview on the Bolt Report. "What defines an Aboriginal?" Senator Hanson told ...
Whatever you call it, Australia Day is our most divisive dayThe Advertiser
Pauline Hanson Says There Is 'No Definition To An Aboriginal'Huffington Post Australia
Pauline Hanson questions 'Aboriginal' definition, praised by Noel PearsonThe New Daily
Sky News Australia -Herald Sun (blog) -Mashable
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WAtoday
Aboriginal elders 'break silence' on Fremantle Australia Day saga
WAtoday
The Aboriginal elders that led the charge to have the Australia Day fireworks canned in Fremantle and celebrate the day two days later have finally had their say on the saga. Respected elder Robert Eggington said the group of elders were never silent ...

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Huffington Post Australia
SBS's 'First Contact' Sent Well-Known Aussies Into Aboriginal Australia. Here's What They Learned
Huffington Post Australia
It's hard to wrap your head around the fact that, in 2016, a television network has sent six high-profile Australians to the outback to meet their nation's first people. But once you learn that 6 in 10 Australians have actually had little or no contact ...
First Contact 2016 on SBS: Tensions flare on journey into Aboriginal AustraliaNEWS.com.au
Well-known Aussies in the heart of Aboriginal affairsThe West Australian
Indigenous culture 'should've died out'dailytelegraph.com.au
The New Daily -Courier Mail -9news.com.au
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Independent Australia
Let's not celebrate the 'rape of the soul' of Aboriginal Australia
Independent Australia
Australia's oppression of Indigenous Australians continues under the guise of national pride, writes John Passant. A SPECTRE is haunting Australia — the spectre of genocide, or as Raymond Evans and Bill Thorpe more appropriately call it, "indigenocide".

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The Conversation AU
Seeing Ms Dhu: how photographs argue for human rights
The Conversation AU
In Australia, as many Aboriginal people have argued, such imagery may disempower their subjects, showing them as abject, distant or less-than-human. For example, one of the most effective critiques of Aboriginal treatment during the 1950s was a film ...

Gizmodo Australia
Inside Brisbane's Indigenous Startup Program
Gizmodo Australia
"Now Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander entrepreneurs will have their own accelerator to turn to for such support. The support will also include world-class entrepreneur programs from Australia's leading corporate accelerator, Slingshot and will ...

Google News

Aboriginal communities embrace technology, but they have unique cyber safety challenges
The Conversation AU
Empowering people to use applications such as internet banking could also help overcome the kind of exploitation revealed through the “book up” theft in Mintabie, South Australia, in which A$1 million was stolen from local Aboriginal people's bank ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Prescription for a healthy Australia: Cut salt levels, save thousands of lives
The Sydney Morning Herald
The AHPC wants to reduce the 12.8 per cent of Australians who smoke to 5 per cent by 2025 through mass media campaigns, and campaigns with messages specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders communities. These could be paid for with tobacco ...

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BBC News
Australia domestic violence: Aboriginal dancers highlight problem
BBC News
Aboriginal dancers travelled across Australia to highlight the "horrifying" levels of domestic violence in Outback indigenous communities. Dancers from the Rirratjingu clan, carrying clap sticks and spears, their faces painted white, performed outside ...
Aborigines dance outside Australia's parliament to say 'No More' to domestic violenceInternational Business Times UK
Aborigines fight violence outside Australia's ParliamentJakarta Post
Aborigines outside Australia's Parliament protest violenceDaily Mail

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Herald Sun
Hanson can empower indigenous Australia
Herald Sun
Lewis Kooloika rides his bike through the dusty streets of Aurukun, a remote aboriginal community 800 kilometres north west of Cairns on Cape York. Picture: Brendan Radke. THAT indigenous Australians can find great champions on the far Right can be ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Pauline Hanson Says There Is 'No Definition To An Aboriginal'
Huffington Post Australia
... Aboriginal you can be classified as an Aboriginal.' One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson believes there is no definition to determine whether a person is an Aborigine, claiming people who marry Indigenous Australians can then be classified as an ...
Hanson says there is no Aboriginal definitionSky News Australia

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NEWS.com.au
First Contact 2016 on SBS: Tensions flare on journey into Aboriginal Australia
NEWS.com.au
Dicko said he hoped the series would make other Australians have an honest conversation with themselves about how they feel and judge Aboriginal Australia. Feeling proud he got to see the real black Australia, Dicko said he was also forced to see his ...
Indigenous culture 'should've died out'dailytelegraph.com.au
First Contact: One Nation's David Oldfield shocks and appalls in TV appearanceThe New Daily

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Herald Sun
First Contact 2016 on SBS: Tensions flare on journey into Aboriginal Australia
Herald Sun
The show, which is back for its second season, sees six well known Australians plunged into a 28-day journey into the heart of Aboriginal Australia. Nicki Wendt at West Kimberley Regional Prison. Picture: David Dare Parker. There is plenty of fighting ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Prescription for a healthy Australia: Cut salt levels, save thousands of lives
The Sydney Morning Herald
The AHPC wants to reduce the 12.8 per cent of Australians who smoke to 5 per cent by 2025 through mass media campaigns, and campaigns with messages specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders communities. These could be paid for with tobacco ...

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