Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
Woman behind watershed non-sniffable fuel rollout in Central Australia honoured 10 years on
ABC Online
It is the 10-year anniversary since the roll out of non-sniffable Opal fuel in Central Australia and the APY lands, and the woman who led the fight against petrol sniffing has reflected on her triumphant campaign directed at the Federal Government. For ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Charles Perkins anniversary should make universities double down
The Sydney Morning Herald
Graduating with a bachelor of arts, he became the first Aboriginal man in Australia to graduate with a university degree. Given the known potential of education to help people overcome other disadvantage, 50 years on it's worth reflecting, taking stock ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal Australians, Pacific Islanders carry DNA of unknown human species, research analysis suggests
ABC Online
People from Papua New Guinea and north-east Australia carry small amounts of DNA of an unidentified, extinct human species, a new research analysis has suggested. Key points: Statistical geneticist carried out research analysis on percentages of ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal Australians, Pacific Islanders carry DNA of unknown human species, research analysis suggests
ABC Online
People from Papua New Guinea and north-east Australia carry small amounts of DNA of an unidentified, extinct human species, a new research analysis has suggested. Key points: Statistical geneticist carried out research analysis on percentages of ...
Weird News 2016: Scientists Discover Modern Community Keeping 'Unknown Human Species'Health Aim

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ABC Online
Aboriginal Australians, Pacific Islanders carry DNA of unknown human species, research analysis suggests
ABC Online
People from Papua New Guinea and north-east Australia carry small amounts of DNA of an unidentified, extinct human species, a new research analysis has suggested. Key points: Statistical geneticist carried out research analysis on percentages of ...

Financial Times
Care crisis revealed among Australia's aboriginal children
Financial Times
The report reflects a growing child protection crisis in Australia, where aboriginal children are 10 times as likely as non-indigenous peers to be placed in state care. Its publication follows an outcry over the treatment of an indigenous youth held in ...
Victorian inquiry to address rise in Indigenous children in child protection servicesRadio Australia
Aboriginal children in care 'isolated from family and culture', says Victoria reportThe Guardian

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ABC Local
Dubbo students speak about Songlines at NAIDOC debating challenge
ABC Local
"It's a significant theme and something that's very important to the Aboriginal people of Australia ... because it's their history, it's their past. "Unlike Western culture where history is merely a set of bullet points and events, it's the stories ...

ABC Online
AFL push for more Indigenous umpires
ABC Online
Mr Wauchope believes the dearth of Indigenous umpires has had an impact on how Aboriginal people think about the game. "They don't see other Aboriginals doing it, they think in their head 'that's not my thing because that is their thing, the white ...

ABC Online
Sophie Collombet murder: Benjamin Milward jailed for life for raping, killing French student in Brisbane
ABC Online
He said the family had been "completely overwhelmed" by the support and warmth shown by the Australian people, particularly those in Brisbane. "This is why they've wanted to come to Australia, all together as a family, so they could collectively say ...

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Indigenous arts take centre stage in Wesley Enoch's first Sydney Festival
The Sydney Morning Herald
A concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of Australia's 1967 Indigenous rights referendum and Aboriginal language classes are among the highlights of the 2017 Sydney Festival, which will also feature concerts by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and PJ ...

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Moon Rock Aboriginal site in Sydney shows long association with astronomy and Dreamtime stories
The Sydney Morning Herald
"It's just fabulous that we are standing here at such an amazing site less than 15 kilometres from the CBD of Australia's largest city," said Nathan Moran, chief executive of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, which owns the 5.8-hectare site.

Rhodes Scholar Rebecca Richards aims to improve SA Museum Aboriginal collection
ABC Online
Australia's first Aboriginal Rhodes Scholar says being selected for the South Australian Museum Pathways cadet program has taken her full circle in life. Rebecca Richards, 29, grew up among the Adnyamathanha and Barngarla people of South Australia's ...

ABC Online
Rottnest Island: Black prison to white playground
ABC Online
The inmates buried here were among almost 4,000 men and boys from all across Western Australia imprisoned in the Aboriginal-only Rottnest Island Prison between 1838 and 1931. When the first white settlers came sailing up the Derbarl Yerrigan, or Swan ...

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Business Insider Australia
Some Australians are furious with a new lamb ad for diversity, saying it's 'racist' and offensive to white people
Business Insider Australia
“It's easy to associate the Australian aboriginal with only eating kangaroo but with this current social need for 'integration' in Australia, this advert falls horribly short. “I found this advertisement offensive in the racist manner it portrays a ...

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ABC Online
Australia Day award change: venue shortage forces shift not Aboriginal sensitivities
ABC Online
A Tasmanian mayor says his council is shifting the date of its Australia Day awards because of a venue shortage rather than Aboriginal sensitivities. Kingborough Council has voted five to four to move the ceremony from January 26 to earlier in the ...

Honi Soit
Andy Mason visited the Muurrbay Aboriginal Language & Culture Co-operative.
Honi Soit
Founded in 1986 in the old mission church hall, using contributions from the pensions of local elders who were concerned about the declining use of their language, Muurrbay has become a model for Aboriginal language revitalisation across Australia.

The Stringer
Dhu, Morrison, Ward, Mandijarra, Briscoe, Doomadgee did not have to die
The Stringer
Yawuru Elder, Senator Pat Dodson recently accused the Australian nation of racism though by sleight of hand, “you cannot claim amnesia” when referring to the quarter century old recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in ...

Australians should be standing up for dissenters
The Australian
However, Bill Leak's concerns — and ours — is with the higher percentage of Aboriginal child incarceration and damage from parental alcohol and drug abuse, the kids on the streets all night and low school attendance, the drugs and alcohol awash in ...

Phys.Org
Revealing the science of Aboriginal fermentation
Phys.Org
A cider gum (Eucalyptus gunnii) in central Tasmania. Cider gum produces a sugar-rich sap. Credit: John Reid, Redbeard Bakery, Victoria. Wine researchers at the University of Adelaide are investigating the traditional practices of Australian Aboriginal ...

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Aboriginal Astronomy
ABC Message Stick
Scientists think they may have found the world's oldest astronomical map right here in Australia. The sacred Aboriginal site is believed to have been made to map the position of the sun, moon and stars in the sky. And studies suggest it might be old ...