Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Call for SA Aboriginal kids commissioner
The Australian
South Australia should have a children's commissioner specifically focused on the state's Aboriginal kids, the head of welfare group Anglicare SA says. CEO Peter Sandeman says the passing of legislation last week to establish a commissioner for ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal communities struggle with world's highest rheumatic heart disease rates
ABC Online
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is completely preventable, but children in Australian Aboriginal communities still have the highest rate in the world. Six years ago, 12-year-old Paddy Cahill told his parents he did not want to go to school because his ...

TheBull.com.au
Australian Ethical members help choose recipients for $260K in community grants
TheBull.com.au
Founder and CEO of ELP, Laura Egan, said; “We're thrilled to have the Ethical Super community join us in fostering grassroots enterprise in remote Australia! The Aboriginal communities we partner with are bursting to share their stories and their ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
On the move: latest appointments and resignations
ArtsHub (subscription)
Six architects have been shortlisted to deliver a new Masterplan for Boyd's iconic south coast property at Bundanon. Indigenous remains returned to Australia. The UK is relinquishing the remains of 13 Aboriginal Australians which will be handed over in ...

Australia's status as a bastion of free speech is in peril
The Australian
Returning to Australia from Malaysia some years ago shortly after being threatened with a charge of sedition over my reporting as a foreign correspondent, I felt a sense of relief that I was back in a county where freedom of the press prevailed. But it ...

Courier Mail
Cartoon persecution is just not funny
Courier Mail
He sent it off to The Australian. The next day, Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, who earns around 300 grand, got up, saw the cartoon, and posted it on Facebook, urging Aboriginal Australians to complain to the Human Rights ...

New Matilda
The Silver Lining When Bill Leak Wins His Racial Discrimination Case
New Matilda
You win some, you lose some. And New Matilda editor Chris Graham thinks Aboriginal Australia is about to lose small, but ultimately win big. In case you've been living under a rock, cartoonist for The Australian newspaper, Bill Leak is being taken to ...

FOOD Magazine - Australia
Revealing the science of Aboriginal fermentation
FOOD Magazine - Australia
Wine researchers at the University of Adelaide are investigating the traditional practices of Australian Aboriginal people in producing fermented beverages and foods. Although referred to in early European texts, little is known about the processes ...

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WAtoday
Celebrations mark 400 years since Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog landed in WA
WAtoday
White settlement and the declaration of Terra Nullus followed and effectively erased Aboriginal history in Australia from the public consciousness, until recent years when movements to revise and widen understanding of the nation's heritage began. Ms ...

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The Australian
Separation, not integration, will result from recognition
The Australian
Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders see themselves as “first peoples” whose ancestral status gives them ownership and jurisdiction over Aboriginal land. They do not regard the existing Australian nation as their true country. They describe the ...

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Herald Sun
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre applauds Kingborough Council's Australia Day date shift bid
Herald Sun
Flinders Island Council has celebrated Australia Day on an alternative date for several years. “This issue is not going to go away,” Ms Sculthorpe said. “To have an official change will require the Commonwealth to do it, but they are not in a hurry to ...

The Mercury
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre applauds Kingborough Council's Australia Day date shift bid
The Mercury
Flinders Island Council has celebrated Australia Day on an alternative date for several years. “This issue is not going to go away,” Ms Sculthorpe said. “To have an official change will require the Commonwealth to do it, but they are not in a hurry to ...

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The Australian
18C debate: Media needs freedom to cover all indigenous affairs
The Australian
Even worse, Cronin admits that for a time the impact of section 18C meant he considered having West Australian Newspapers abandon its coverage of Aboriginal affairs. Cronin's view has been informed by his struggle to defend a cartoon by Paul Zanetti ...

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Perth Now
From cosy cove to super city
Perth Now
She said while Unknown Land specifically referred to the “European eyes” viewing Australia for the first time, the exhibition acknowledged the Aboriginals who owned and lived on the land before settlement. Painted in 1850 by Edmund Henderson, who was ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous designers show their fashions on Adelaide catwalk
ABC Online
Through textiles and design, the ancient culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has hit the catwalk in Adelaide. Several Indigenous fashion designers have created collections which are part of this year's Adelaide Fashion Festival. Elisa ...

Queerty
Australia's First Gay Aboriginal Politician Makes Impassioned Case For Marriage Equality
Queerty
It's insane, but somehow Australia doesn't yet have marriage equality — and they might not for many more years, due to an acute lack of political leadership. Now, the country's first openly gay Aboriginal legislator is expressing his (entirely ...

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The Mercury
Council considers Australia Day shift
The Mercury
“We've got to be sensitive to our Aboriginal ancestors, but at the same time Australia was established on January 26. “We need to be inclusive and take into consideration all aspects. “At the end of the day we are one and it's one Australian people ...

Armidale Express
Studies show diversity in Aboriginal peoples
Armidale Express
"The genetic diversity among Aboriginal Australians is amazing,” co-author Dr Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, from the Universities of Copenhagen and Bern said. "Because the continent has been populated for such a long time, we find groups from south-western ...

ABC Online
Boxing Day 1866 Aboriginal team v MCC remembered 150 years on at MCG
ABC Online
They were there as Cricket Australia announced measures to help celebrate the 1866 Boxing Day Test when its 2016 version rolls around this year. On the same ground, but in a very different world, 150 years ago, a team of Aboriginal men took on the ...
Australia's Boxing Day Test to honour 1866 Aboriginal XITheSportsCampus.com
Artwork to mark Boxing Day celebrations | cricket.com.aucricket.com.au
Boxing Day Test honours indigenous playersSBS

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Artwork to mark Boxing Day celebrations
cricket.com.au
Australia's cricketers will sport a piece of artwork on their playing shirts during the Boxing Day Test this year as part of commemorations for the landmark match between an Aboriginal XI and the Melbourne Cricket Club 150 years ago. Cricket Australia ...