Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
ASIC targets traders exploiting Aboriginal communities through dodgy credit practices
ABC Online
The court found that the owner of Nobby's Mintabie General Store in South Australia's APY Lands engaged in unconscionable and unlicensed conduct. 'Book up' is an informal credit used in many remote Aboriginal communities, that allows people to buy ...

ABC Online
APY Lands shame: Shop took $1 million from Aborigines
The Advertiser
In a statement, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission said store owner Lindsay Gordon Kobelt's practices were “exploitative”, that he used the credit system to control his customers and what they bought, and to bind them to him and his ...
ASIC targets traders exploiting Aboriginal communities through dodgy credit practicesABC Online
Court lashes Mintabie store's unlicensed 'book-up' loansThe Australian

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New Matilda
South Australian Citizens' Jury Rejects International Nuclear Waste Dump Plan
New Matilda
Friends of the Earth Australia said: “The Premier said he will respect the views of Aboriginal Traditional Owners and it is clear that an overwhelming majority of Traditional Owners are opposed to the high-level nuclear waste dump plan. The Citizens ...

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SBS
Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ago?
SBS
Although it doesn't exist in mainstream Australia, trachoma persists in remote Aboriginal communities that still lack safe washing facilities and have notoriously poor and chronically overcrowded housing. Young children with constant eye and nose ...

No race-based uni support, says senator
NEWS.com.au
The NSW senator during a debate on support for indigenous students on Thursday said the disadvantage suffered by Aboriginal Australians continued to be "Australia's greatest policy failure" but throwing money at the problem was not the answer.

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ABC Online
Family from remote WA town travel to Canberra for launch of Indigenous suicide report
ABC Online
At the time, suicide was the fifth leading cause of death among Aboriginal people, twice as high as non-Aboriginal people in Australia. Late last year, a number of young people suicided in the northern WA Goldfields town of Leonora, including Norma ...

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Daily Mail
Aboriginal community vows to cut tourist access to Australia's Uluru ...
Daily Mail
Mutitjulu, a remote indigenous community in the Northern Territory has threatened to close Uluru if their people continue to be neglected by the government as ...
We'll close Uluru: Indigenous community – EchonetdailyEchonetdaily

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Australian satellite dish gets Aboriginal makeover
Newshub
Picture a satellite dish - it's huge, it's white, and it looks the same as every other dish, right? Not this one. A dish in the Australian outback has had not just its technology updated, but its appearance - giving any would-be visitors to Earth a ...

The Conversation AU
Australia failing to safeguard cultural connections for Aboriginal ...
The Conversation AU
New reports show a widespread lack of care for the cultural needs of many of the 19000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection and ...
Crisis for kids 'our top rights concern' - The AustralianThe Australian

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The Australian
Indigenous kids in care to triple in 20 years
The Australian
Victoria is performing best across a range of measures, the report finds, including investment in early intervention, access to early childhood education and Aboriginal families being involved in decision making around child welfare. Western Australia ...

Crisis for kids 'our top rights concern'
The Australian
Protesters campaigning against the high number of indigenous children taken into state care in Western Australia say that is a far more pressing human rights issue for the Aboriginal Legal Service than preparing complaints about the Bill Leak cartoon ...

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Courier Mail
Revealed: The SA Australians of the Year
Courier Mail
A proud Narrunga Kaurna woman, Patricia Buckskin's passion for Aboriginal education began in 1972, when she was appointed to Mansfield Park Primary School as its first Aboriginal teacher aide. In 1987, she was appointed as the first Aboriginal state ...

The Australian
Islamic preacher Junaid Thorne 'not obliged to be loyal to Australia'
The Australian
Asked why two teenagers would want to carry out an attack in Australia, Mr Thorne, a part-Aboriginal man born in Perth and raised in Saudi Arabia, said Muslims can feel targeted by foreign military intervention in predominantly Muslim countries. “As ...

The Advertiser
Revealed: The SA Australians of the Year
The Advertiser
A proud Narrunga Kaurna woman, Patricia Buckskin's passion for Aboriginal education began in 1972, when she was appointed to Mansfield Park Primary School as its first Aboriginal teacher aide. In 1987, she was appointed as the first Aboriginal state ...
Dementia advocate is SA Aust of the YearSky News Australia

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ABC Local
Dementia advocate Kate Swaffer announced as SA Australian of the Year
ABC Local
Award organisers said she was a strong advocate for education and drove the development of the first culturally-based education award in Australia and was instrumental in setting up the Kaurna Plains Aboriginal School, the first public Aboriginal ...

Sky News Australia
Dementia advocate is SA Aust of the Year
Sky News Australia
Aboriginal education leader Patricia Buckskin was named SA Senior Australian of the year at the awards ceremony at Adelaide Oval on Tuesday night. Ms Buckskin, 67, drove the development of the first culturally-based education award in Australia and was ...

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The Advertiser
Jet-setters donate $100k to SA Museum
The Advertiser
AN art-loving jetset couple is so puzzled by contemporary Aboriginal art they are pouring $100,000 into research at the South Australian Museum. Ever since Cillin Perera and Giuliana Picco fell in love with Aboriginal art they have devoured every bit ...

The Stringer
Who'd believe Australian towns and communities at 600 times the national suicide rate?
The Stringer
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 ...

Mashable
Indigenous Australians are calling for new, more inclusive tech hub
Mashable
Two Indigenous Australians are hoping to change that. Leigh Harris and Julie-Ann Lambourne want to create technology hubs, led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, to help share digital skills with communities in the northern city of ...

The Advertiser
SA Australian of the Year finalists
The Advertiser
A proud Narrunga Kaurna woman, Patricia Buckskin's lifelong passion for Aboriginal education was sparked in 1972, when she was appointed to Mansfield Park Primary School as its first Aboriginal teacher aide. In 1987 she was appointed the first ...

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