Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

SBS
10 things you might not know about the Aboriginal Flag
SBS
Harold Thomas said the red was to represent the ochre colour of the earth (focusing on the relationship that Aboriginal people have with the land), the yellow to represent the sun (the giver of life) and the black to represent the Aboriginal people of ...
Indigenous Australia's flag first flownAustralian Geographic (blog)

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Australian Geographic (blog)
Indigenous Australia's flag first flown
Australian Geographic (blog)
ON 12 JULY, 1971, a new flag flew proudly over Australia as the red, yellow and black Aboriginal flag was hoisted in Adelaide's Victoria Square for NAIDOC day (National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee day). Designed earlier that year, ...

Adventist Review
75% of One Aboriginal Community Is Baptized in Remote Australia
Adventist Review
Remote communities in the Northern Territory are being reached for the first time, with local pastors overjoyed about how God is working through them to win souls. The Mungkarta Aboriginal community, located 45 miles (75 kilometers) south of the ...

ABC Local
Native American students explore Aboriginal cultures with Sydney's Eora College in study tour
ABC Local
The students, who are being hosted by Sydney TAFE's Eora College, will learn about the Indigenous cultures of Australia, learn local languages and explore Aboriginal cultural sites. "There is nothing like coming here and receiving first hand about ...

Pro Bono Australia
Aboriginal Employment Reaches Significant Milestone in NT
Pro Bono Australia
Chief Minister and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Adam Giles announced during NAIDOC Week that more than 10 per cent of territory public servants are now Aboriginal. Diversity Council Australia CEO, Lisa Annese, said it was a “huge step forward”. “The ...

Radioactive Waste and the Nuclear War on Australia's Aboriginal People
Truth-Out
From 1998-2004, the Australian federal government tried -- but failed -- to impose a national nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land in South Australia. Then the government tried to impose a dump on Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory, but that ...

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The Guardian
We Indigenous people are stronger than we believe, and smarter than we know
The Guardian
Your work honours Aboriginal Australia and Torres Strait Islander Australia and the teaching profession. And I salute you for this. For as long as I can remember, thanks to my mum and my dad, I've always known that being Aboriginal was awesome. That I ...

ABC Online
The future of WA's 35 Aboriginal town reserves in the spotlight
ABC Online
Town-based reserves are Aboriginal communities that formed around townships around the middle of the 20th century, as Aboriginal families were displaced from their bush homes and moved off cattle stations. In Western Australia, they are clustered on ...

Huffington Post Australia
Aboriginal Storytelling In Fashion: Meet Designer Lyn-Al Young
Huffington Post Australia
"I can be a young Aboriginal woman using my culture in a respectful way to achieve whatever I put my mind to for the next generation to come." Lyn-Al Young will be exhibiting four of her eveningwear pieces at Westfield Doncaster until Sunday July 10 as ...

The Australian
Jenayah Elliott makes history as first Aboriginal in US pageant
The Australian
“Last summer holidays I was trying on school ball gowns at the local dress shop and the lady said 'Would you be interested in joining Miss Teen Galaxy Australia pageant?' By the time I'd got the paperwork done and found a sponsor, it was 10 days to go ...

ABC Online
Australia struggling to improve the placement of Indigenous children in care
ABC Online
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (the Principle) asks Indigenous children to be placed with relatives first, then within their community, and failing that, in other Indigenous care. However, according to the ...

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NEW ABORIGINAL PARTNERSHIPS UNIT FOR STATE'S PRIMARY INDUSTRIES::
Invest in Australia
It will also become a central point of contact within PIRSA, supporting staff to identify and pursue new opportunities for Aboriginal South Australians to participate in primary industries and economic development. Several new projects that include new ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Australians unfairly jailed due to racism in legal system – research
The Guardian
The primary recommendation of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody was 'that imprisonment for Aboriginal people should be an option of last resort', according to Indigenous legal affairs expert Dr Stephen Gray. Photograph: Lloyd Jones ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Australia, it's time. Open your eyes to reason
dailytelegraph.com.au
Fred was leading the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program for the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists, and I, a naïve 23 year old orthoptist, was by his side. As we drove into remote communities and set up eye camps, Aboriginal liaison ...
NAIDOC Week: Aboriginal groups to be given more say over South Australian policy decisionsABC Online
Aboriginal football heritage celebrated with NAIDOC roundMandurah Mail
Damien Loizou on issues confronting Aboriginal peopleStar Weekly
Planeta.com -My Sunshine Coast (press release) -ABC Local
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ABC Online
Meet Linda Burney, the first Indigenous woman elected to House of Reps
ABC Online
Will you be able to help Indigenous Australians? "It's going to be amazing when the Parliament returns. We will have three Aboriginal people in Labor caucus - myself, Pat Dodson and Malarndirri McCarthy from the Northern Territory. "They're all ...
Recognition on agenda for new MPwaateanews.com

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ABC Online
developing employment opportunities proving essential for Aboriginal people
ABC Online
Leroy Wilkinson is a Biripi man and the manager of Newcastle's Aboriginal Employment Strategy, a non-profit recruitment agency for Indigenous people. He said that while there were challenges, he had seen businesses becoming increasingly prepared to ...

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NAIDOC week: teaching Aboriginal art in schools across Australia
ABC Local
"We have run it form South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and all throughout Queensland, in communities and in public schools and private schools." Mr Saunders and his wife Christine travel across Australia teaching Aboriginal art to students ...

Surviving Mesothelioma
Australian Aboriginals Have World's Highest Mesothelioma Rate
Surviving Mesothelioma
australia The Aboriginal people of Western Australia have the highest per capita incidence of malignant mesothelioma in the world according to a new article in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Health. A now-closed asbestos mine may be to blame.
Indigenous West Australians have highest death rate for asbestos-related disease: studyABC Online
Wittenoom's indigenous legacy: the world's worst mesothelioma rateScience Network Western Australia

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Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair 10th Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2016! The event showcases the contemporary fine art of over sixty Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community owned and operated Art Centres. The fair is held in Darwin, ...

Business Insider Australia
Thousands of Aboriginal children have no official identity
Business Insider Australia
Nearly one in five Aboriginal children aged under 16 years in Western Australia had an unregistered birth and are likely to have no official identity. Researchers linked records from the WA Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages to births recorded in ...
No identity: 1 in 5 Aboriginal births unregistered in western AustraliaScience Codex

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