Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Advocate
Infinite Possibility: Australian Aboriginal women's art reaches across the miles
The Advocate
So what is “Marking the Infinite,” an exhibition of art by contemporary Aboriginal Australian women, doing at the Newcomb Art Museum? "The exhibition underscores the museum's mission of mounting shows that recognize the contributions of women in the ...

The West Australian
Cartoon was not news to indigenous realists
The West Australian
n the days and weeks after The Australian newspaper published a cartoon that is now central to a debate about free speech, social media feeds were flooded with some gorgeous pictures. Using the hashtag #IndigenousDads, Aboriginal fathers and their ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
What you can do to improve your Indigenous representation
ArtsHub (subscription)
Warumilang, the ArtsReady Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander program, includes a traineeship that provides sustainable employment pathways for young Indigenous people. On the other side of the equation, ArtsReady offers cultural awareness training ...

The Australian
Police to learn from Bowraville murders: homicide chief
The Australian
“In terms of the general way we approach indigenous homicide, my personal view is the lesson from cases like Bowraville is very important, and it's not just NSW, it's the way we respond to murders across Australia,” Mr Willing said. Police are expected ...

Daily Mail
Aboriginal children terrorising NSW town Cowra after police shooting of accused thief
Daily Mail
Now the town is being terrorised by a mob of mostly Aboriginal children, believed to be as young as eight years old, who are raiding homes to steal jewellery, power tools and electronics, Daily Mail Australia can reveal. Handwritten notes have been ...

Herald Sun
Andrew Bolt on Bill Leak critics: Those supporting Charlie Hedbo free speech strangely quiet
Herald Sun
Leak is a gifted cartoonist with The Australian who in August reminded Australians of the shocking levels of child abuse in Aboriginal communities, with Aboriginal children 10 times more likely to need removing from dangerous parents. Bill Leak's ...

ABC Online
Foundation launches million-dollar plan to record Australia's songlines
ABC Online
To try to capture these languages before it becomes too late, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) has launched a foundation to record languages and songlines. Of more than 300 languages that existed ...

Star Observer
Australia's first openly gay Aboriginal MP delivers maiden speech
Star Observer
AUSTRALIA'S first openly gay Aboriginal member of parliament, Chansey Paech, has used his maiden speech to champion marriage equality and condemn homophobia in government. Speaking at the opening 13th parliament of the Northern Territory ...
I Am Young, I Am Gay, I Am Black: Australia's First Openly Gay Aboriginal Politician Enters ParliamentBuzzFeed News
'I am young, I am gay, I am black': 13th NT Parliament opens to ...ABC Online
'I am young, I am gay, I am black': 1st openly gay Indigenous MP's ...The Australian Women's Weekly
The Australian
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Golf Australia
Crawley, Fahey control Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander champs
Golf Australia
Stunning weather greeted participants of the 2016 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Championships at Nudgee Golf Club today. With the course in beautiful condition, a couple of Maroochy River Golf Club members took control of both the men's and ...

Golf Australia
Crawley, Fahey control Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander champs
Golf Australia
Stunning weather greeted participants of the 2016 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Championships at Nudgee Golf Club today. With the course in beautiful condition, a couple of Maroochy River Golf Club members took control of both the men's and ...

Brighton and Hove News
Australian Aboriginal remains begin long journey home
Birmingham Newsroom
A collection of Aboriginal remains discovered at the University of Birmingham and at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, were handed back to traditional custodians from Australia in a spiritual ceremony last week (14 October 2016). The ancestral remains ...
Cup made from aboriginal man's skull returned to Australia for burialBrighton and Hove News

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The Australian
Bill Leak cartoon: the war on free speech has just begun
The Australian
Free speech is always a first-order priority — because, without it, you can't truly discuss any of the others. Dalrymple's diagnosis — that political correctness is to thought as “sentimentality is to compassion” — applies surely to Australian ...
Je suis Bill Leak: where is the Left now?Herald Sun (blog)
Abbott tweets to re-open debate on 18cSky News Australia

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Deanna Schreiber nominated for NSW Senior Australian of the Year award
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
She is a finalist the NSW Senior Australian of the Year category. Mrs Schreiber was praised by the National Australia Day Council work her work with the with the Sutherland Shire Aboriginal community over the past four decades in the areas of health, ...

UQ News
Urgency demanded for Indigenous maternity services
UQ News
“We need a new maternity services plan, incorporating high level monitoring, otherwise Australia will not tackle emerging priorities and complete unfinished business from the last plan, particularly for Indigenous women in rural and remote communities.”.

NT Aboriginal boarding school in jeopardy
The Australian
Almost 300 Northern Territory children have rallied outside Parliament House demanding the government save Australia's largest Aboriginal boarding school. Darwin's Kormilda School, which has severe financial woes, is at risk of closing and wants ...

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NT Aboriginal boarding school in jeopardy
NEWS.com.au
Almost 300 Northern Territory children have rallied outside Parliament House demanding the government save Australia's largest Aboriginal boarding school. Darwin's Kormilda School, which has severe financial woes, is at risk of closing and wants ...

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SBS
NT Aboriginal boarding school in jeopardy
SBS
Almost 300 Northern Territory children have rallied outside Parliament House demanding the government save Australia's largest Aboriginal boarding school. Darwin's Kormilda School, which has severe financial woes, is at risk of closing and wants ...
Long asks PM to scrap Royal CommissionSky News Australia
AFL great Michael Long addresses a Kormilda College rally on the steps of NT Parliament House. PICTURE: Michael ...NEWS.com.au

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theMusic
Whitewashed 'Priscilla' Comes Under Fire For Dropping Sole Aboriginal Character
theMusic
The Australian theatre scene has often been criticised for under-representing Indigenous performers, but the decision by producers of the hit show Priscilla Queen of the Desert: the Musical to remove the sole Aboriginal character from the production's ...

New York Times
Kaakutja, Perhaps the First Known Boomerang Victim
New York Times
No one had ever seen trauma such as this in Australia's archaeological history, they said. They started reading into the ethnohistory of the Aboriginals and looking at cave paintings for clues. The literature directed them to two wooden weapons, the ...

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ABC Online
Casey Conway: Gay former NRL player and Indigenous model, becomes face of NT sexual health campaign
ABC Online
Casey Conway represents a triple-threat for organisers of the Northern Territory's latest sexual health campaign as a former national rugby league (NRL) player who is Aboriginal and gay. The Queenslander agreed to lend his face, and body, to a series ...

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