Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Australian Financial Review
Aboriginal groups paid to burn land to cut carbon emissions
The Australian Financial Review
But since 2015, the federal government has paid indigenous groups, including the Pormpuraaw Aboriginal Shire Council in North Queensland, to burn excess vegetation on their land, all in the name of reducing Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.

Partnership formed between Maori and Aboriginal Australians
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The National Maori Authority, Nga Ngaru and one of Australia's oldest and largest Aboriginal service organisations, Babana Aboriginal, have today embarked on a strategic relationship with the signing of a memorandum of understanding that will lead to a ...

Chinchilla News
First Contact season two: seeing reality in black and white
Chinchilla News
... Nation politician David Oldfield, comedian Tom Ballard, former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris and actress Nicki Wendt, Dickson will confront their own deeply entrenched preconceptions and the realities of what it's like to be an Aboriginal ...

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The Conversation AU
Long before Europeans, traders came here from the north and art tells the story
The Conversation AU
It was the reliability of these winds that enabled regular journeys, and it was on Australian beaches that the first point of contact with Aboriginal Australians and those from other continents began. Earlier than the Dutch, the English, and the French ...

Brisbane Times
Did First Contact producers deliberately cast David Oldfield as the villain?
Brisbane Times
Actor Nicki Wendt and former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris both hail from Perth, and both had similarly negative experiences with Aborigines there, and a desire to get beyond them. "They sit and drink goon in the park, and I've had them come up ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Did First Contact producers deliberately cast David Oldfield as the villain?
The Sydney Morning Herald
Actor Nicki Wendt and former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris both hail from Perth, and both had similarly negative experiences with Aborigines there, and a desire to get beyond them. "They sit and drink goon in the park, and I've had them come up ...

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The Age
Did First Contact producers deliberately cast David Oldfield as the villain?
The Age
Actor Nicki Wendt and former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris both hail from Perth, and both had similarly negative experiences with Aborigines there, and a desire to get beyond them. "They sit and drink goon in the park, and I've had them come up ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Kimberley aboriginal art goes under the hammer
The Australian Financial Review
He helped put Aboriginal art on the world map by establishing the Australian Exhibition Centre in Chicago and exhibiting art across the US, Canada and Europe. Kimberley Art closed in 2006, and part of its stock went as cultural gifts to institutions ...

The Advertiser
Dizzy, Thomas into bat for indigenous cricket
The Advertiser
Thomas, the first Aboriginal woman to represent Australia in any sport, recalls having “pretty handy yorkers” in her repertoire and says she “can't wait” to be at the MCG this Boxing Day for the start of the two-year commemoration. Gillespie said the ...

The Australian
ABC, SBS, Guardian and Fairfax racist, says Maurice Newman
The Australian
Former ABC chairman Maurice Newman has backed Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson's claim that the organisation is racist, going a step further by accusing the other national public broadcaster, SBS, and commercial outlets Fairfax Media, The Guardian, and ...
Noel Pearson's attack on 'racist ABC' unjustifiedThe New Daily

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ABC Online
Application to put Broome on Aboriginal heritage register being reconsidered
ABC Online
The revelation Broome is being considered for inclusion on Western Australia's Aboriginal heritage register has taken many people in the Kimberley town by surprise. An original application was knocked back by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs' (DAA) ...

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Research Officer
The Conversation AU
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is ranked amongst the top Australian universities and a member of the prestigious Group of Eight research-intensive universities ranked among the top 100 universities in the world. The Centre for Aboriginal ...

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The Guardian
Let's honour the invisible work of Aboriginal women tackling domestic violence
The Guardian
The fact is Indigenous people – as a new Guardian Australia series launching this week shows – are doing plenty. The work being done in Redfern is replicated in communities across the country. And not just by women. Many community-based projects are ...
Q&A: Nakkiah Lui Says We Shouldn't 'Paint Broad Brush Strokes' On Indigenous Domestic Violence VictimsHuffington Post Australia

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The Guardian
'You stupid, disappointing Aboriginal girl'
Perth Now
Queensland Australian Labor Party frontbencher Terri Butler MP said “that Aboriginal women are 34 times more likely to be hospitalised because of family violence than non-Aboriginal women does not mean violence is somehow quarantined to Aboriginal ...
Q&A recap: panellists clash over race, Bill Leak cartoon and 18CThe Guardian
Q&A recap: Panel goes to war for final episode of the yearThe Sydney Morning Herald
Q&A: MP Terri Butler slammed for smearing QUT studentsThe Australian
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The Australian
Hysterical? It's time to meet Noel Pearson in the battlefield of ideas
The Australian
Drunk and destitute? Barefoot and beaten? That's the argument being put by the man who many claim as Australia's greatest thinker, especially on Aboriginal affairs. Noel Pearson has an intelligence — and a grace, and an anger — that dwarfs that of ...

NEWS.com.au
'It's a scourge in our community'
NEWS.com.au
Queensland Australian Labor Party frontbencher Terri Butler MP said “that Aboriginal women are 34 times more likely to be hospitalised because of family violence than non-Aboriginal women does not mean violence is somehow quarantined to Aboriginal ...
Aboriginal actress Nakkiah Lui clashes with commentator over 'racist' Bill Leak cartoonDaily Mail

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Daily Mail
Racist ABC eager for us to live in misery, says Noel Pearson
The Australian
Mr Pearson's searing assessment came at the launch of Troy Bramston's biography of Paul Keating, who made true reconciliation with the Aboriginal people, via Mabo and native title legislation a cornerstone of his prime ministership. Mr Pearson said ...
Noel Pearson lambasts 'racist' ABC at Paul Keating biography launch in SydneyThe Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson slams 'racist' ABC and claims broadcaster needs indigenous Australians 'locked up ...Daily Mail

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ABC Online
Facebook could help lower Indigenous smoking rates, Northern Territory health researchers say
ABC Online
Aboriginal people living in remote communities smoke at three times the rate of other Australians, according to research fellow Marita Hefler from the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin. Preliminary research into the role of Facebook in ...

Windschuttle cocks it up, alleging grand Aboriginal conspiracy
Crikey (registration)
Keith Windschuttle's latest contribution to the indigenous affairs policy debate is his new book, The Break-up of Australia: the real agenda behind Aboriginal recognition, published by Quadrant Books. (“Just what I wanted for Christmas, the new Keith ...

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WAtoday
Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest named WA Australian of the Year
WAtoday
"His highly-successful Fortescue Metals group is one of Australia's largest engagers of Aboriginal businesses and Aboriginal employees. Andrew publicly encourages 'honest failure' as key to any country's success, and humility as crucial to sustainable ...
19407550 - The West AustralianThe West Australian
Andrew Forrest named West Australian of the YearThe Australian
Andrew Forrest named WA Australian of the YearCommunity Newspaper Group

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