Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

No identity: 1 in 5 Aboriginal births unregistered in western Australia
Science Codex
The high number of unregistered births suggests Aboriginal families face major barriers registering the birth of newborns. In Western Australia, parents must lodge the necessary forms with the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages within 60 days of ...

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ABC Online
Vanessa Russ: the first Aboriginal head of the Berndt Museum
ABC Online
The Berndt Museum was established by the late anthropologists Catherine and Ronald Berndt forty years ago. The museum holds one of the most significant collections of Australian indigenous art and cultural materials in the world, with many pieces from ...

Australia Network News
Western Australia Invisible Children: No Birth Certificates For Aboriginal Children?
Australia Network News
Nearly one in five Aboriginal children below the age of 16 in Western Australia have no official identity because their births are not registered, according to a study published by The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. About 4,628 ...
No identity: One in five Aboriginal births unregistered in western AustraliaScience Daily
One in five aboriginal children in Western Australia has no birth recordDaily Mail
Invisible children: research shows up to one in five Aboriginal newborns aren't registeredThe Conversation AU
Huffington Post Australia -SBS -WAtoday
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Māori Television
Linda Burney first Aboriginal woman in Australia's federal Parliament
Māori Television
Labor candidate, Linda Burney, has made history after becoming the first female Aboriginal MP in federal Parliament. Burney defeated Liberal MP Nickolas Varvaris, winning a seat for the centre-left Labor party in Australia's parliamentary lower house.

ABC Online
NAIDOC Week: Aboriginal groups to be given more say over South Australian policy decisions
ABC Online
Aboriginal people in South Australia will have more say over their future under an Australian-first agreement, the State Government has said. Three Aboriginal organisations have been recognised as South Australia's first Aboriginal Regional Authorities.
Songlines: The living narrative of AustraliaPlaneta.com
Healthy NAIDOC WeekThe Maitland Mercury

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The Conversation AU
No identity: One in five Aboriginal births unregistered in western Australia
Science Daily
The high number of unregistered births suggests Aboriginal families face major barriers registering the birth of newborns. In Western Australia, parents must lodge the necessary forms with the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages within 60 days of ...
One in five aboriginal children in Western Australia has no birth recordDaily Mail
Invisible children: research shows up to one in five Aboriginal newborns aren't registeredThe Conversation AU
No Birth Certificate: 1 In 5 Aboriginal Babies In WA Are UnregisteredHuffington Post Australia
WAtoday -The Guardian
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ABC Online
Berndt Museum curator calls for space to display collection of Aboriginal art
ABC Online
The Berndt Museum at the University of Western Australia (UWA) has one of the most culturally significant collections of Aboriginal art and objects in the world. But right now those objects are packed away in storage boxes and containers in rooms at ...

ABC Online
Australian Story: David Batty is one of the Bush Mechanics mob
ABC Online
David joined it to make videos and train young Aboriginal filmmakers. He got a call from the Warlpiri mob asking him to come out and make a show like Sesame Street in their own language. Creating Manyu Wana, he met Francis "Jupurrula" Kelly. One of the ...

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The Daily Star
No identity: 1 in 5 Aboriginal births unregistered in western Australia University of Sydney
EurekAlert (press release)
Nearly one in five Aboriginal children aged less than 16 years old in Western Australia had unregistered births according to new research that means thousands of Aboriginal children are likely to have no official identity. Published today in The ...
One in five aboriginal children in Western Australia has no birth recordDaily Mail
Many Aboriginal children have no identitySBS

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Thomson Reuters Foundation
One in five aboriginal children in Western Australia has no birth record
Thomson Reuters Foundation
LONDON, July 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly one in five aboriginal children born in Western Australia has no birth documents with most unregistered children born to teenage mothers and facing further social disadvantage later in life, research ...
No identity: 1 in 5 Aboriginal births unregistered in western AustraliaScience Codex
Thousands of Aboriginal children have no official identityBusiness Insider Australia

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ABC Online
Assigned birthday brings mixed emotions for Stolen Generations
ABC Online
Aboriginal people across Australia have celebrated their assigned birthday, a date that brings mixed emotions for members of the Stolen Generations. Through much of the 20th century, Aboriginal people were given the birth date of July 1 by authorities, ...

The West Australian
Australia's first Aboriginal ballerina has life of wonder
The West Australian
There were about 10 cottages with about 10 or 11 Aboriginal children in them from all over WA,” she said. “We had care of a house mother and it was very institutional. We were under assimilation, that was the idea of Sister Kate's originally — that we ...

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The West Australian
Australia's first Aboriginal ballerina - The West Australian
The West Australian
There were about 10 cottages with about 10 or 11 Aboriginal children in them from all over WA,” she said. “We had care of a house mother and it was very institutional. We were under assimilation, that was the idea of Sister Kate's originally — that we ...

The West Australian
Celebrating storylines of WA's First People
The West Australian
“The collections tell stories about the early colonisation and settlement of Western Australia and the impacts of this on Aboriginal people,” she said. “It is an area of our history that has traditionally been told from a European perspective but is ...

Center for Research on Globalization
Radioactive Waste and the “Nuclear War” against Australia's Aboriginal people
Center for Research on Globalization
Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s, writes Jim Green. The same attitudes persist today with plans to dump over half a million tonnes of high and intermediate ...

Business Insider Australia
Australia looks set to get its first federal female Aboriginal MP
Business Insider Australia
Labor politician Linda Burney, who became the first Aboriginal person in the New South Wales parliament, looks set to make history again tonight as the first female Aboriginal woman in the lower house. The former MP for Canterbury resigned earlier this ...
Linda Burney to become first female Indigenous MP in Australia's historySBS
Linda Burney declares Barton win to become the first indigenous woman in House of RepresentativesNEWS.com.au
[ July 2, 2016 ] Burney packs her bags for Canberra after historic poll win NEWSNational Indigenous Times
dailytelegraph.com.au
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Aljazeera.com
Why is Australia's parliament so white?
Aljazeera.com
"Political parties might get Aboriginal people in there, but it is just window-dressing," he added. Mansell advocates that Australia adopt something similar to the system in New Zealand, where there are seven dedicated parliamentary seats for the ...

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The Ecologist
Radioactive waste and the nuclear war on Australia's Aboriginal people
The Ecologist
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 also ...

ABC Online
Changes to Tasmania's Aboriginal identity test labelled outrageous
ABC Online
The change has been slammed by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre's (TAC) head, Heather Sculthorpe. "This is an outrageous attack on the Aboriginal community," she said. "You're going to have a whole bunch of Aborigines with no Aboriginal ancestry.

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Next prime minister needs a new direction for Indigenous affairs
The Sydney Morning Herald
He stated his commitment to deliver a new future for Indigenous Australians, and that he would "honour that commitment not by delivering to Indigenous Australians, but by working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and their communities ...

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