Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

BBC News
Australia's youth justice scandal stirs race controversy
BBC News
But this is only one scene in a terrible catalogue of videos shown on Australian television's Four Corners programme, providing a shocking insight into the treatment of children, many of them Aboriginal, behind bars in one of the wealthiest countries ...
No responsible adult relative for bail purposes 'is not uncommon'The Australian
Closing the Census Gap - why every white Territorian should register as "Indigenous"Crikey (registration) (blog)
APSC launches Indigenous employment serviceThe Mandarin (registration)

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The Guardian
I'm an Aboriginal father. I don't want my kids to see racist garbage in the media
The Guardian
He believes that he is trying to help Australia have a “difficult conversation”. Judging from the cartoon and from his lame defence of it, I guess that difficult conversation is about how Aboriginal fathers are all drunks and the myriad reasons why ...

Green Left Weekly
Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusion
Green Left Weekly
Unfortunately, however, these reforms largely failed to make substantive change in Aboriginal water rights or to engage Aboriginal people effectively. Today Aboriginal Australians have land rights and/or native title rights over 30% of the Australian ...
Australia paper criticised for 'racist' Aboriginal cartoonTelegraph.co.uk
'Racist' cartoon stokes debate over treatment of Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Bill Leak cartoon: divided reaction to Aboriginal depictionThe Australian
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The Guardian
The truth hurts – Harold Thomas wins award with Aboriginal art that ...
The Guardian
New work from the artist behind the Aboriginal flag takes out the 33rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in Darwin.
Darwin artist Harold Thomas wins National Aboriginal and Torres ...ABC Online
Flag designer triumphs at Telstra awards - The West Australian - NewsThe West Australian
Harold Thomas wins $50,000 Indigenous art award with stolen ...The Sydney Morning Herald
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ABC Online
Darwin artist Harold Thomas wins National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
ABC Online
Tribal Abductions, a large-scale acrylic piece, depicts the removal by white authorities of Aboriginal children from a mother who is fighting to keep them. Mr Thomas, a Luritja and Wambai man who is also known for his 1971 design of the Australian ...
Activist roots inform Telstra winThe West Australian
Harold Thomas wins $50000 Indigenous art award with stolen generations paintingThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
NT has not dropped legal action against Aboriginal boys teargassed ...
The Guardian
Chief minister Adam Giles said the government would drop suit for $360000 in damages, but it has not done so.
How the Northern Territory failed | The Saturday PaperThe Saturday Paper (subscription)

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ABC Online
Bill Leak cartoon in The Australian an attack on Aboriginal people, Indigenous leader says
ABC Online
A political cartoon portraying an Aboriginal man with a beer can and not remembering his son's name is an "attack" on Indigenous Australians, a community leader says. The cartoon by Bill Leak was published by The Australian newspaper on Thursday, ...
The Australian defends Bill Leak's 'racist' cartoonThe Sydney Morning Herald
Outcry, complaints over 'ugly', 'insulting' cartoon in The Australian.SBS
Australia 'will be divided on race' by referendum on constitutional recognitionThe Australian
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ABC Online
Bill Leak cartoon in The Australian an attack on Aboriginal people, Indigenous leader says
ABC Online
The cartoon by Bill Leak was published by The Australian newspaper on Thursday, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day. Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency chief executive Muriel Bamblett said it depicted Aboriginal people as "not ...
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion condemns 'racist' Bill Leak cartoonThe Sydney Morning Herald
Australia paper criticised for 'racist' Aboriginal cartoonTelegraph.co.uk
Outcry, complaints over 'ugly', 'insulting' cartoon in The Australian.SBS
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The Australian
Australia 'will be divided on race' by referendum on constitutional recognition
The Australian
The expert panel of the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples recommended the insertion of a new section recognising “the continent and its islands now known as Australia” were “first ...

Independent Australia
Suicide of 15 year old Aboriginal boy in Don Dale a result of NT punitive culture
Independent Australia
AT DON Dale juvenile detention centre, a 15-year-old orphaned Aboriginal boy took his life only days after being locked up for committing $90 worth of “crimes”. How many Australians know about Johnny Warramarrba? Johnny's mother died when he was a ...
UN blasts Australia over NT detention abuseNEWS.com.au
NT Detention Center Update: UN Slams Australia Over Mistreating ChildrenAussie Network News

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Teargassing of Indigenous Youth in Australian Detention System Reeks of Colonialism
Truth-Out
Activists display a sign decrying the murders of Aboriginal Australians in prison at an Invasion Day march and rally in Brisbane, Australia, on January 26, 2007. (Photo: David Jackmanson). Last week, shocking footage depicting security personnel in a ...

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The Guardian
UN asked to investigate use of restraints on intellectually disabled Aboriginal man
The Guardian
The United Nations has been asked to investigate the use of restraints on an intellectually disabled Aboriginal man 17 times in the past four years. Malcolm Morton, 25, was found unfit to plead to a murder charge in 2012 over the stabbing death of his ...

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ABC Online
Noel Pearson: Royal commission won't fix problems facing Indigenous Australia
ABC Online
A royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody was held 25 years ago and Mr Pearson says like that one, this one will not address the forces driving Aboriginal people into incarceration in the first place. "We can't allow our outrage to be selective.
Interview: Noel Pearson, Indigenous Leader and lawyerABC Message Stick
Noel Pearson: Indigenous people need to take responsibility over youth incarcerationThe Guardian

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The Conversation AU
The Aboriginal football ethic: where the rules get flexible
The Conversation AU
In making this claim, Blainey suggested the sport was the outcome of Anglo-Australian cultural innovations. In raising the prospect of an Aboriginal football ethic, we question this assertion and ask who is really taking this indigenous sport forward ...

ABC Online
Northern Territory prison's treatment of intellectually disabled - ABC
ABC Online
The United Nations Human Rights Council is being asked to investigate the case of an intellectually disabled Aboriginal man who has been repeatedly strapped ...
UN asked to investigate use of restraints on intellectually disabled ...The Guardian

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ABC Message Stick
Interview: Noel Pearson, Indigenous Leader and lawyer
ABC Message Stick
At the Garma Festival on the weekend, he slammed Australia's "selective outrage": while we're filled with grief over the images from the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, he says, we remain unmoved by the structural disadvantage that still sees ...
Teargassing of Indigenous Youth in Australian Detention System Reeks of ColonialismTruth-Out

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New Matilda
Servant Or Slave: Stunning New Documentary Exposes Australia's Stolen Wages History
New Matilda
The Indigenous filmmakers introduce us to five Aboriginal women, now grandmothers, who describe their own childhoods without knowing family. Stolen as small children by Australian governments, they were raised by institutions, deprived of the love of ...

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The Conversation AU
Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusion
The Conversation AU
Aboriginal people have an essential stake in the future of northern Australia … Aboriginal people must be front and centre in planning processes for the north. This is a fundamental gap in the national discourse about northern development … I'm not ...
Calls for two Aboriginal co-commissionersSky News Australia
Australia's youth detention facilities under the spotlightNEWS.com.au
Australians protest over government's lax reaction to abuse of Aboriginal teen detaineesRT
International Business Times UK
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ThinkProgress
Thousands In Australia Protest After Videos Showing Prison Abuse Of Aboriginal Teens Surface
ThinkProgress
Thousands of people protested for the rights of indigenous people in major cities across Australia, after video surfaced showing the abuse of Aboriginal teens at the juvenile detention center Don Dale in the country's Northern Territory. The video ...
Australia bows to aboriginal pleas in youth crime probeAnadolu Agency
New heads appointed to Australian child prisoner abuse inquiryDeutsche Welle
Minister says royal commission will deliver 'real results'The Sydney Morning Herald
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The principle of unity is at stake
The Australian
The attacks which destroyed Brian Martin's ability to conduct the NT Royal Commission, and the Pearson and Shorten demands for a treaty linked to the constitutional referendum represent a declaration of Aboriginal war on the tradition of a unitary ...

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