Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

HeritageDaily
Unprecedented study of Aboriginal Australians points to one shared Out of Africa migration for modern humans
HeritageDaily
Researchers sequenced the complete genetic information of 83 Aboriginal Australians, as well as 25 Papuans from New Guinea, to produce a host of significant new findings about the origins of modern human populations. Their work is published alongside ...

ABC Online
WA Aboriginal heritage law amendments to be deferred as Government faces time constraints
ABC Online
Contentious changes to Western Australia's Aboriginal heritage laws have been put on the backburner, with the Government admitting they would not make it through State Parliament prior to next year's election. But Aboriginal Affairs Minister Peter ...
[ September 27, 2016 ] WA could face class action over 'slavery' claims NEWSNational Indigenous Times

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Australian Geographic
How oral cultures memorise so much information
Australian Geographic
Aboriginal elders explained to her how they encode knowledge in song, dance, story and place. This led to a theory that may revolutionise archaeology. It has long been known that the human brain has evolved to associate memory with place, referred to ...

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Crikey (registration)
The space between the boxes: how white Australia 'remembers' Aboriginal Australia
Crikey (registration)
The space between the boxes: how white Australia 'remembers' Aboriginal Australia. Every now and then, the real experiences of indigenous Australians disrupts our idea of things, but not nearly often enough, writes NT artist Therese Ritchie.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Oxfam report highlights native title woes in Western Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
Oxfam Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's Program manager Justin McCaul said the Kimberley was the only region in a highly-developed nation represented in the report. He said Australia was in many ways less supportive of Indigenous ...
[ September 27, 2016 ] Report slams 'undermining' of native title rights in WA NATIVE TITLENational Indigenous Times

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WAtoday
Oxfam report highlights native title woes in Western Australia
WAtoday
Oxfam Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's Program manager Justin McCaul said the Kimberley was the only region in a highly-developed nation represented in the report. He said Australia was in many ways less supportive of Indigenous ...
Oxfam report notes WA native title woes9news.com.au

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Rudd's lost plan for a national museum of Indigenous Australians
The Sydney Morning Herald
Behind the scenes, the then prime minister instructed bureaucrats in 2009 to begin discussions for a landmark museum dedicated to Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, to be built in Canberra's parliamentary triangle on the shores of Lake ...

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The Australian
Aboriginal inmate's death sparks calls for independent probe
The Australian
“Aboriginal South Australians face an incarceration rate 13 times higher than the rest of the population ... governments at all levels have consistently failed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. South Australia needs to stand up as a ...
Aboriginal inmate dies after South Australian jail incidentSBS
Aboriginal Inmate 'Brain-Dead' After Yatala Jail IncidentHuffington Post Australia
Aboriginal inmate 'left braindead' after brawl with guards at SA prisonThe Guardian
The Advertiser -ABC Online -Sky News Australia
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Genetic Literacy Project
DNA study reveals Aboriginal Australians as oldest civilization on Earth
Genetic Literacy Project
A new genomic study has revealed that Aboriginal Australians are the oldest known civilization on Earth, with ancestries stretching back roughly 75,000 years. In a study published in the journal Nature[,]…a group of international researchers ...

Oxfam report notes WA native title woes
NEWS.com.au
Oxfam Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's Program manager Justin McCaul says the Kimberley is the only region in a highly developed nation represented in the report and in some ways Australia is less supportive of indigenous land ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Ms Dhu's death in custody: The shocking footage that Australia needs to see
The Sydney Morning Herald
Dragged from her cell. Handcuffed and paralysed. Hauled, dying, into the back of a police truck. This week Australia may be confronted, yet again, with images and footage of the justice system failing Aboriginal people, with devastating results. Ms Dhu ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
The real gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health in Australia: it's worse than you think
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mental and substance use disorders accounted for 19 per cent of the total disease disease burden suffered by both male and female Aboriginal people. Injuries including suicide were the second-biggest factor for men (19 per cent), while for women it was ...

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Eureka Street (registration)
Aboriginal art installation quickens ancient footprints
Eureka Street (registration)
Australians know that 'stories begin on ground level, with footsteps', as suggested by French Jesuit Michel de Certeau in The Practice of Everyday Life. Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones' sculpture Our tales encompass everything from tender ...

SBS
Aboriginal inmate dies after South Australian jail incident
SBS
An Indigenous inmate has died after an altercation involving prison guards at a South Australian jail. Police say the 29-year-old man, who can't be named for cultural reasons, died early on Monday morning at the Royal Adelaide Hospital where he had ...

SBS
Aboriginal inmate dies after South Australian jail incident
SBS
Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 25 years ago, which was conducted to combat an over-representation, there have been nearly 370 more, according to the Australian Institute of Criminology. Thirty-one of them have occurred in ...
Aboriginal Inmate 'Brain-Dead' After Yatala Jail IncidentHuffington Post Australia
Inmate involved in Yatala fight diesThe Advertiser
Yatala prison brawl and Correction's handling investigation needs oversight, lawyer saysABC Online
The Guardian -Sky News Australia -Daily Mail
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Griffith University experts solve mystery of Aboriginal bones
The Australian
Jon Olley, who worked on the project alongside Richard Wright, Australia's leading forensic archeologist, consultant archeologist Doug Williams and bio-archeologist Jamie Swift, said Griffith University's optically stimulated luminescence dating ...

ABC Online
Smartphone app could replace traditional atrial fibrillation detection in outback Australia
ABC Online
... one third of all strokes in Australia. A pilot program run by the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Sydney is trialling the technology in far western New South Wales to create the first snapshot of atrial fibrillation rates in ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Aboriginal Inmate 'Brain-Dead' After Yatala Jail Incident
Huffington Post Australia
There could be national protests after claims a young Aboriginal inmate has been left "left brain-dead" following a brawl with prison guards at a South Australian ...
Aboriginal inmate 'left braindead' after brawl with guards at SA prisonThe Guardian
Aboriginal inmate left 'brain-dead': familySky News Australia
Aboriginal inmate Wayne Morrison 'left brain dead' after violent clash with prison guards in Adelaide prisonDaily Mail
ABC Online -NEWS.com.au
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The Guardian
Aboriginal inmate 'left braindead' after brawl with guards at SA prison
The Guardian
An Aboriginal inmate has been left braindead after an altercation with guards at a South Australian prison, his family says. Twenty-nine-year-old Wayne Morrison allegedly attacked five prison guards at Yatala Labour prison on Friday while he waiting ...
Aboriginal Inmate 'Brain-Dead' After Yatala Jail IncidentHuffington Post Australia
Aboriginal inmate left 'brain-dead': familySky News Australia
Prisoner critical and five guards injured during 'critical incident' at Adelaide's Yatala PrisonNEWS.com.au
ABC Online
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ABC Online
SA Aboriginal community of Scotdesco turns to saltbush farming to create remote jobs
ABC Online
The Aboriginal community of Scotdesco on South Australia's west coast, has pinned its hopes on farming to overcome shockingly high levels of unemployment. Robert Larking's office spans 25,000 acres on the edge of the Nullarbor, where he manages the ...