Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

News from Tulane
Major touring exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art debuts at Tulane
News from Tulane
30, is drawn from the collection of Dennis and Debra Scholl, considered the most important private holding of Aboriginal Australian contemporary art in America. A major catalogue accompanies the exhibition and features essays by leading experts in the ...

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Wasp nests help to unlock secrets of WA's Aboriginal rock art
ABC Message Stick
Researchers have used wasp nests that are thousands of years old to date Aboriginal paintings in Western Australia's remote north-west Kimberley region. After a three-year-long project, archaeologists have dated what they say "may be the longest, most ...

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UVA Student, Director Attend Rare Aboriginal Art 'Makarrata' in Australia
University of Virginia
Sydney Collins' four years studying art history at the University of Virginia culminated in an Australian Aboriginal ceremony that few in the art world have been privileged to witness. Collins, who interned and later worked at UVA's Kluge-Ruhe ...

University of Virginia
UVA Student, Director Attend Rare Aboriginal Art 'Makarrata' in Australia
University of Virginia
Sydney Collins' four years studying art history at the University of Virginia culminated in an Australian Aboriginal ceremony that few in the art world have been privileged to witness. Collins, who interned and later worked at UVA's Kluge-Ruhe ...

Co.Exist
This Man Is Walking Across Australia To Get The Prime Minister To Acknowledge Aboriginal Rights
Co.Exist
In Australia, at the end of the earth, Clinton Pryor sees the end of his people: Aborigines. Which is why he's marching into the Australian capital, Canberra, to try to get a meeting with the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Here's the tricky part: To ...

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BBC News
Aboriginal MP Linda Burney makes landmark speech
BBC News
Australia's first female Aboriginal MP has given her maiden speech in the House of Representatives and spoken about the discrimination she suffered as a child. Labor MP Linda Burney, who will represent the New South Wales seat of Barton, said she was ...

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Business Insider Australia
Linda Burney, Australia's first federal female Aboriginal MP, just delivered her moving maiden speech
Business Insider Australia
Last month Linda Burney made political history once again, becoming the first Aboriginal women elected to the Australian parliament. The MP for Barton is now Labor's shadow minister for human services. Some 13 years ago, Burney became the first ...
'I will not be stereotyped': Aboriginal MPSBS
Linda Burney Says She Won't Be Stereotyped Or Pigeon-Holed In Maiden SpeechHuffington Post Australia
Australia's 45th Parliament: Meet the record breakersABC Online

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WAtoday
Far-right threatens Freo with 'rain of s--t' over Australia Day fireworks ban
WAtoday
A video has emerged of a far-right activist threatening to bring "a rain of s--t" to Fremantle unless the city's council restores Australia Day fireworks cancelled after being deemed 'culturally insensitive.' Fremantle councillors voted to scrap the ...

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Whiteface highlights racial 'double standard' in Australia
Newshub
"I am a proud Aboriginal Australian black woman and I respect my culture, my people and my Aboriginal Australian history, my belief is the only way to move forward is to allow people in and educate them on our painful history and why we are the ...

Stereotyping a barrier to Aboriginal advancement
The Australian
The Close the Gap campaign confirms that compared with the general population, Aboriginal people die 10 years younger, lose people from suicide at twice the national rate and, despite comprising 3 per cent of Australia's population, our people make up ...

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RT
Kalgoorlie on edge as crowds gather at court to confront man accused of killing boy
The West Australian
Picture Danella Bevis/The West Australian. Police were pelted with rocks and glass bottles. In a statement released this afternoon, police said they would maintain a strong visible presence in the community and were working closely with Aboriginal elders.
Smashed courthouse, cop cars: Aboriginal boy's death sparks rampage in Australia (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)RT
Racial tensions erupt in Australia after man charged over killing of aboriginal teenExpress.co.uk
Kalgoorlie Court has windows smashed by protesters after death of Aboriginal boyDaily Mail
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RT
Smashed courthouse, cop cars: Aboriginal boy's death sparks rampage in Australia (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)
RT
Riot police were deployed to a protest over the death of a 14-year-old Aboriginal boy, where demonstrators smashed the windows of police cars and tried to force their way into the courthouse where the man accused of causing the death was due to appear.
Kalgoorlie on edge as crowds gather at court to confront man accused of killing boyThe West Australian
Kalgoorlie Court has windows smashed by protesters after death of Aboriginal boyDaily Mail
Kalgoorlie protest: Arrests made, officer injured in violent riot over teen's deathABC Online
International Business Times UK -Perth Now -NEWS.com.au
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Express.co.uk
Racial tensions erupt in Australia after man charged over killing of aboriginal teen
Express.co.uk
At around 8.55am, police were called to a vehicle crash near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia – around 330 miles inland from Perth – where the body of the teenager named locally as Elijah Doughty – was found. Today, a 55-year-old was due to appear at ...

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Daily Mail
Kalgoorlie Court has windows smashed by protesters after death of Aboriginal boy
Daily Mail
People smashed windows and jumped on police cars at a West Australian courthouse after a protest over the death of a local teenager turned violent. Mark William Donnelly, 55, was due to appear at a court in Kalgoorlie, east of Perth, charged with the ...
Kalgoorlie protest: Arrests made, officer injured in violent riot over teen's deathABC Online
Teen's death: Accused brought to PerthPerth Now
Racial tension grows in Kalgoorlie, WA, after 14-year-old's deathNEWS.com.au
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Yahoo7 News
Aboriginal mum posts daughter's 'whiteface' photos, slams 'double standards' in Australia's race debates
Yahoo7 News
She said it was important to continue to explain the painful history of Aboriginal people following European settlement in Australia but that it must be done without divisive double standards. The Nic Naitunui controversy was the second racially ...
Aboriginal mum from Cairns paints daughter's face white in Facebook postDaily Mail

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Atlanta Black Star
Home featured Julieka Dhu, Australian Aboriginal Woman Was Dragged Like a 'Dead Kangaroo' and...
Atlanta Black Star
In February, Carol Roe, grandmother of Julieka Dhu, organised a rally outside the In February, Carol Roe, grandmother of Julieka Dhu, organized a rally outside the parliament in Perth, four months after the government pledged to reduce the number of ...

The Conversation AU
How big a problem is ice use among Indigenous Australians?
The Conversation AU
Sarah J MacLean receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She has received funding in the past from the University of Melbourne to investigate methamphetamine use in Aboriginal communities, and is currently funded by La Trobe University to ...

Perth Now
Abbott to volunteer in remote WA community
Perth Now
TONY Abbott will spend a week living and volunteering in a remote Aboriginal community in WA next month. The former Prime Minister is continuing his tradition of spending a week a year in Aboriginal Australia with a five-day visit in September. “I ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal people feel pressured to lose values, culture to be successful, study says
ABC Online
A new report suggests Aboriginal people are facing enormous pressure to lose their traditional culture in order to be successful in Australia. Larrakia Nation, which represents the Larrakia people of the Darwin region, teamed up with the Universities ...

NEWS.com.au
'Political correctness gone mad'
NEWS.com.au
For many Aboriginal Australians it is indeed a day of sadness and dispossession,” Fremantle mayor Brad Pettitt said. “This does not just refer to indigenous involvement but the involvement of many other Australians who feel increasingly uncomfortable ...
Aboriginal leader Warren Mundine labels Freo fireworks snub 'a silly ...WAtoday
Fireworks ban risks a backlash - The West AustralianThe West Australian
Warren Mundine slams cancellations of Fremantle Australia Day fireworksDaily Mail
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