Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

SBS
Can racism ever be casual?
SBS
White people never have to deal with the follow up question 'but where are you *really* from?' in Australia, as though white people actually come from here anymore than any other non-Aboriginal group of people who have come to call Australia home in ...

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BuzzFeed News
AU WA: Protesters and Riot Police Stand Off Outside Kalgoorlie Courthouse5:25
Herald Sun
The Goldfields are among many Australian regions plagued by suicides and former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner Tom Calma has described remote indigenous suicide as an “epidemic” and called on a bipartisan approach ...
Kalgoorlie suicide: Woman takes her life at scene where teenager Elijah Doughty diedABC Online
'Funeral, after funeral, after funeral'NEWS.com.au
Relative Of Dead Aboriginal Teen Takes Her Own Life At Memorial SiteBuzzFeed News
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The Guardian
Gender inequality is a problem, say 69% of young Australian women
The Guardian
Young Australian women believe sexism to be preventing them from fulfilling their potential, a new report has found. Plan International Australia and Our Watch surveyed 600 girls and young women aged between 15 and 19 on their inexperiences of ...
Teenage Girls In Australia Feel A Greater Pressure To Have Sex Than Girls In Other CountriesJunkee

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ABC Message Stick
Australian Senate to consider supporting return of Aboriginal warrior's shield
ABC Message Stick
The Australian Senate is to consider joining with the NSW Parliament in calling for the return of an Aboriginal warrior's shield used during Cook's first landing in Australia. In 1770, two men of the Gweagal people, one known as Cooman and one unknown ...

Daily Mail
Former Miss Universe Renae Ayris said she's been spat on by Indigenous Australians in Perth
Daily Mail
Former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris has said her contact with Aboriginal people 'hasn't been pleasant' as she's been verbally abused and spat on in the past. The 26-year-old, who will appear on an SBS program to debunk the stereotypes ...
I was spat on by indigenous people in Perth: Renae AyrisThe West Australian

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Israel no model for Aboriginal people
Red Flag
Grant was attempting to highlight the resilience of Aboriginal identity in the aftermath of European colonisation. But this praise for Israel shockingly ignored the Palestinian people and the fact that, like Australia, Israel is a settler colonial ...

The West Australian
I was spat on by indigenous people in Perth: Renae Ayris
The West Australian
The 26-year-old said she wasn't educated about Aboriginal history and culture at school so thought this was the perfect opportunity to learn. “I don't think it's talked about enough at the moment or has been for years,” she said. “I know all my friends ...
Former Miss Universe Renae Ayris said she's been spat on by Indigenous Australians in PerthDaily Mail

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Societal cancers left to fester for too long
dailytelegraph.com.au
The issue of family violence in both the broader Australian community and among Aboriginal Australians has become politicised, just as the rate of Aboriginal incarceration is doomed to become because of a kneejerk decision to hold a royal commission ...

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The Guardian
Australia must act now to prevent a new Stolen Generation tragedy
The Guardian
It assumed, and the Australian people also assumed, that wholesale government sanctioned removal of Aboriginal children was our past and our future involved reconciling the consequences of this action and dealing with the harm it caused. We needed a ...

New Matilda
Not Just For Laughs: How Australian Satirists Are Undermining White Supremacist Patriarchy
New Matilda
Such men seem more upset by an invisible spear than the suicide of a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl. Such men perform more outrage at criticism of misogynistic “jokes” than the fact that each week in Australia, a woman is murdered by her intimate partner.

Welfare over culture: indigenous children have a right to safety
The Australian
Similar assertions have been made by the Aboriginal industry in response to the escalating crisis in indigenous child welfare. Such arguments risk perpetuating the gaps in social outcomes between the most disadvantaged indigenous Australians and other ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal man's story of Maralinga nuclear bomb survival told with virtual reality
ABC Online
In an unlikely collision of cultures, state-of-the-art 3D film technology is bringing an Aboriginal man's unique tale of nuclear bomb survival to audiences across Australia. In the 1950s Nyarri Morgan was a young man, walking and hunting in South ...
Collisions: part disaster movie, part travelogue, completely immersiveInDaily

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ABC Message Stick
Rare Menang artefacts return to Albany after 180 years
ABC Message Stick
After two years of negotiations between the Albany Heritage Reference Group Aboriginal Corporation (AHRGAC), Western Australian Museum and British Museum, the collection will be displayed at WA Museum Albany from November until April.

International Business Times UK
My Grandmother's Lingo: Australian TV develops interactive game to help save Aboriginal language
International Business Times UK
Australia's national public television network SBS is trying to help save a dying Aboriginal language by launching an interactive game experience on its website to help younger generations learn key phrases, as well as more about the culture of the ...

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The Canberra Times
Winnunga chief says Inanna's Aboriginal housing tenders should have gone to an Indigenous group
The Canberra Times
But their bid, which included managing the Indigenous Boarding House and Indigenous program previously run by Inanna, was rejected in favour of a consortium that included Toora Women's Inc and EveryMan Australia. While Ms Tongs congratulated the ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Winnunga chief says Inanna's Aboriginal housing tenders should have gone to an Indigenous group
The Sydney Morning Herald
But their bid, which included managing the Indigenous Boarding House and Indigenous program previously run by Inanna, was rejected in favour of a consortium that included Toora Women's Inc and EveryMan Australia. While Ms Tongs congratulated the ...
Winnunga chief says Inanna's Aboriginal housing tenders should ...The Canberra Times

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SBS
Were Indigenous Australians the world's first bakers?
SBS
“That puts Australian baking way beyond anything that's ever happened anywhere else in the world,” says author Bruce Pascoe. He's talking about 36,000-year-old grindstones discovered in New South Wales, used by Aboriginal Australians to turn seeds into ...

Gay News Network
Aboriginal leaders call for Turnbull to drop plebiscite - Gay News ...
Gay News Network
Indigenous leaders are calling for the PM to abandon his proposed plebiscite on marriage equality, suggesting it will also encourage hate speech when Aussies ...
Ditch plebiscite or hate will spread to Indigenous referendum ...The Sydney Morning Herald

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ABC Online
First Australian Indigenous-language video game offers new platform for ancient culture
ABC Online
The world's first Aboriginal Australian-language video game is being developed in a bid to preserve traditional language and culture. The endless runner game is titled Tjinari, meaning "someone always on the go" in the Western Desert language ...

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SBS
What is My Grandmother's Lingo?
SBS
My Grandmother's Lingo aims to once again put the spotlight on Aboriginal stories, Aboriginal poems and Aboriginal songs - the lifeblood of Australia's Indigenous culture. Centred around her work at the Ngukurr Language Centre and empowered by her ...

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