Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

WAtoday
Aboriginal leader Warren Mundine labels Freo fireworks snub 'a silly mistake'
WAtoday
One of Australia's most influential Aboriginal leaders has labelled the City of Fremantle's decision to scrap their Australia Day fireworks a "silly mistake", as neighbouring council the City of Cockburn considers hosting its own event. The council, on ...
Freemantle Australia Day Fireworks Cancelled: How Aussies Are ReactingAussie Network News
Indigenous MP slams Freo fireworks banPerth Now
Fremantle Council Have Cancelled Their Australia Day FireworksJunkee

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Press TV
Indigenous prisoner found dead in Australia's Darwin prison
Press TV
An aboriginal prisoner has died in a detention center in the Australian Northern Territory city of Darwin, amid calls for a probe into reports about torture and mistreatment of indigenous people behind bars in the country. According to a spokesman for ...
Indigenous inmate dies in Darwin Correctional Centre - ABC News ...ABC Online

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New Matilda
Fremantle Cans Oz Day Fireworks After Aboriginal Consultations. You Can Guess The Reaction
New Matilda
... local Aboriginal people in Fremantle,” Pettit said. “For them there was a real sense that Australia Day is not a day of celebration for everybody, in fact, for them it is a day of sadness and in many ways, a day that marks the start of much of ...
WA council dumps Australia Day fireworks9news.com.au
Australia Day fireworks axe slammed by indigenous MP Ben Wyatt - The West AustralianThe West Australian
City of Fremantle cancels Australia Day fireworksCommunity Newspaper Group

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WAtoday
Fremantle cancels 'culturally insensitive' Australia Day fireworks
WAtoday
"For many Aboriginal Australians it is indeed a day of sadness and dispossession. "This does not just refer to indigenous involvement but the involvement of many other Australians who feel increasingly uncomfortable with the date and what it represents.".
Freo axes Aussie Day fireworks to lift indigenous involvementThe West Australian
Fremantle cancels Australia Day fireworksPerth Now
WA council dumps Australia Day fireworks9news.com.au
Daily Mail -New Matilda -ABC Online
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The Guardian
CLP candidate won't support plans to 'normalise' Darwin Aboriginal community
The Guardian
The Northern Territory government's long-running plans to “normalise” an Aboriginal community in Darwin – turning it into a regular subdivided suburb – are facing a setback, after the Country Liberal party candidate said he didn't support the policy ...

ABC Online
Former Indigenous Don Dale detainee calls for cultural exchange
ABC Online
"It'd be good if the rest of Australia could be more involved with some of the great things happening in Aboriginal Australia, especially for them to see some of the kids out in the middle of the desert country and their culture and how they're living ...

artnet News
Marina Abramović Apologizes for Controversial Comments About Aboriginal Australians The artist's fans remain ...
artnet News
My choice to include in my unfinished memoir manuscript the passage from my 1979 diary that used such terrible language to describe my first impressions of Aboriginal peers in the Western Australian desert is one of these regrets. My heart has been ...
Marina Abramovic Issues Second Statement on Racist Diary Entry, Keeps DiggingFlavorwire
Sarah Jane Norman responds to Marina Abramovic - AWAYE! - ABC ...ABC Online
Marina Abramovic Issues Second Apology For Comparing ... - ArtlystArtLyst

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ABC Online
Timber Creek Aboriginal custodians win historic $3.3 million payout for native title rights loss
ABC Online
Mr Scott said the traditional owners from across Australia were watching the Timber Creek case and he expected it would trigger several other compensation claims, some which could be valued at billions of dollars. "There's only about four or five ...
Test case 'could push native title land claims past $1bn'The Australian
States facing billions in compensation after native title claimThe Australian Financial Review

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Aboriginal jail rates increase by 50 per cent
The Canberra Times
The imprisonment rate for Aboriginal Australians has increased by an alarming 52 per cent over a decade. But Indigenous people are missing out on rehabilitation programs that could help them avoid returning to jail because they are not being locked up ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal jail rates increase by 50 per cent
The Sydney Morning Herald
The imprisonment rate for Aboriginal Australians has increased by an alarming 52 per cent over a decade. But Indigenous people are missing out on rehabilitation programs that could help them avoid returning to jail because they are not being locked up ...

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ABC Online
Calls for tech companies to add Australia's Indigenous flags to emoji lineup
ABC Online
A Noongar man from Perth says a petition he started pushing for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to be turned into emojis has had a strong response. Derek Nannup said he got the idea when he saw a string of international flag emojis on ...

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The Australian
$6bn a year fails to help Aborigines, says CIS report
The Australian
It documents massive duplication of services, with Roebourne in Western Australia having 67 local service providers and more than 400 state and federal funded programs for a population of 1150; Toomelah in NSW has more than 70 service providers for a ...

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Aljazeera.com
Enterprise draws on art to help Australia's Aboriginals
Aljazeera.com
Blak Markets in Bare island is an indigenous outfit that sells the works of aboriginal artists from across the country, both online and at events. "I think it would've been difficult for me to find employment anywhere else," Little told Al Jazeera. "I ...

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The Monthly (subscription)
Indigenous players face racism: Eddie Betts
Sky News Australia
AFL aboriginal advisory Committee chair Paul Briggs said there was no debate as to the intent. 'While speculation and debate will occur around the motivation of such behaviour, it is clearly an unambiguous racist act, something most fair-minded ...
Australia, we are terrible at talking about racismThe Monthly (subscription)
Port fan who threw banana at Eddie Betts during Showdown 41 banned 'indefinitely' by Port AdelaideHerald Sun
Shaun Burgoyne calls for further education following incidentPort Adelaide
The Advertiser -TripleM Sydney
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NEWS.com.au
Marree Man makes a comeback
NEWS.com.au
But South Australia's iconic Marree Man is about to be brought back from the brink. The 4km long ... The group collaborated with the Arabana Aboriginal Corporation, and compiled imaging data to ensure they were retracing the original. “Then it came to, ...
Giant Marree Man artwork in South Australia makes a comeback in ...9news.com.au
Marree Man restored as outback tourist attraction in far north SA - ABCABC Online
Marree Man makes bold desert returnThe Advertiser
The Guardian
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NEWS.com.au
'Do black deaths matter?'
NEWS.com.au
He says “Black Lives Matter” overseas, but Australia is “not at a point where we can fully accept that”. The Project host used Friday night's editorial to tackle the huge number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders being locked up in Australian ...

ABC Online
Wave Hill 50th anniversary: Thousands join walk-off re-enactment to mark land rights protest
ABC Online
In 1966, 200 Gurindji stockmen and house servants walked off Wave Hill station in protest against poor treatment of Aboriginal Australians. It was a movement that resulted in a portion of Gurindji land being handed back to traditional owners nine years ...
Lingiari celebrated at anniversary9news.com.au
Wave Hill walk off honouredNT News

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Anglicannews
Aboriginal Anglicans welcome youth detention abuse review
Anglicannews
[ACNS, by Gavin Drake] Australia's national body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anglicans has welcomed the establishment of a Royal Commission to investigate abuse in a Northern Territory youth detention centre. The abuse of children at the ...

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NT Aboriginals 'most policed' in Australia
NEWS.com.au
The Central and Northern Land Councils held a full joint meeting at Kalkarindji in central Australia on Thursday and several members told both Chief Minister Adam Giles and Opposition Leader Michael Gunner that ever since the 2007 intervention they had ...

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NT Aborigines 'most policed' in Australia
9news.com.au
Indigenous people in the Northern Territory are the most policed in the country, a land council representative said. The Central and Northern Land Councils held a full joint meeting at Kalkarindji in central Australia on Thursday and several members ...

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