Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Age
Nova Peris defends her decision to quit politics: 'I am leaving on my terms'
The Guardian
With the opposition leader, Bill Shorten, at her side, Peris said she wanted to acknowledge the work of the Labor party “in trying to elevate and empower the lives of Aboriginal people”. Shorten said Peris was a “remarkable Australian” and the Labor ...
Election 2016: Nova Peris delivers passionate speech defending her decision to leave politicsABC Online
Labor senator Nova Peris a frontrunner for AFL's top Indigenous jobThe Age
Nova Peris delivers emotional speech about her retirement, saying 'Do not criticise me'NEWS.com.au
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The Guardian
Indigenous Australia is open for business – but we need investment to realise our potential
The Guardian
This is especially so in northern Australia where the Aboriginal populations, and their land holdings and assets, are significant. Some have called this Indigenous economic asset group the “sleeping giant”. But far from asleep, Indigenous people are ...
Saying sorry isn't enough for Indigenous childrenThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian (blog)
There are lots of ways to say sorry, but Indigenous Australians need a treaty now
The Guardian (blog)
For Indigenous people, Sorry Day remains an important moment of public mourning, an acknowledgment of the profound wrong of one policy of assimilationism – a malignant British colonial ideology that assumed black Australians were lower than ...
Anzac Square Diggers: Indigenous Australians' military memorial chosenBrisbane Times
Victoria takes historic step toward an Aboriginal treatyThe Age
Shorten: 'Systemic racism' in AustraliaCourier Mail
The Sydney Morning Herald -The Australian -Swinburne University of Technology
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Voice of America
Aboriginal Australians had Innovative Axe to Grind
Voice of America
Professor Sue O'Connor of the Australian National University, whose team excavated the piece, believes its significance lies in the understanding that early Aboriginal settlements were not as elementary as first thought. Professor Peter Hiscock of the ...

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Channel News Asia
Aboriginal Australians had innovative axe to grind
Channel News Asia
Professor Sue O'Connor of the Australian National University, whose team excavated the piece, believes its significance lies in the understanding that early Aboriginal settlements were not as elementary as first thought. Professor Peter Hiscock of the ...

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Aljazeera.com (blog)
No easy answers to Australia's Aboriginals debates
Aljazeera.com (blog)
I was ranting about the shocking disparity in Australia between indigenous (Aboriginal) people and everybody else. On average, Aboriginal Australians die 10 years younger than everybody else, I pointed out. They are far more likely to be jail; far less ...
Australia's first Indigenous women's cricket team testing themselves on tour in IndiaABC Message Stick

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The Advertiser
Tony Armstrong: Indigenous Round cause for celebration but Australia's First People still face many struggles
The Advertiser
As an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, you are more likely to be arrested, put in jail and die there than you were 25 years ago. Gerry Georgatos of the Human Rights Alliance in Perth has said that “Western Australia incarcerates the Aboriginal ...
Indigenous Round 2016: The women who have made an impact on Australian sportdailytelegraph.com.au
AFL Indigenous round remembers remarkable life of Aboriginal footballer Sir Douglas NichollsABC Online
Our 2016 Indigenous guernseyBrisbane Lions
Melbourne FC -Daily Mail -AFL.com.au
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Brisbane Times
Anzac Square Diggers: Indigenous Australians' military memorial chosen
Brisbane Times
The winning design for a long-overdue memorial for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander veterans has been chosen ahead of its construction in Brisbane's Anzac Square. The winning design, by John Smith Gumbula and Liam Hardy, was chosen by the ...
I didn't understand how special it was to be Aboriginal until I was 17The Guardian
Labor commits to National Taskforce on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Kidney DiseaseMy Sunshine Coast (press release)
LETTER: Working together to close the gapFraser Coast Chronicle

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Indigenous Round 2016: The women who have made an impact on Australian sport
dailytelegraph.com.au
With that in mind, Swoop decided to have a look at some of the female indigenous athletes who have left their mark on Australia's sports landscape. From trailblazers to Olympics heroes, Indigenous women have achieved great things in sport for decades.
AFL Indigenous round remembers remarkable life of Aboriginal footballer Sir Douglas NichollsABC Online
AFL launches Sir Doug Nicholls RoundMelbourne FC
Rio Tinto supports AFL indigenous programsAFL.com.au

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ABC Message Stick
Australia's first Indigenous women's cricket team testing themselves on tour in India
ABC Message Stick
The pre-match chatter and sound of cricket shoes on a new pitch may seem very routine - but for this group of women, these steps are a milestone in themselves. Australia's first all-Indigenous female cricket team to go on tour is on a 10-day visit to ...

Brisbane Times
Aboriginal woman blocked from Parliament House over flag on T-shirt
Brisbane Times
An Aboriginal woman felt "like dirt" as she was turned away from Queensland's Parliament House for wearing her people's flag on a T-shirt. Janine Kelly was blocked from the state's democratic centre on Tuesday morning as she tried to show her support ...

The Indian Express
For a bunch of indigenous Australia women, a landmark cricket tour
The Indian Express
Instead, they cuddled up to the less discriminatory realm of Australian football, rugby and athletics. And it wasn't until Jason Gillepsie made his debut in 1996 that a cricketer of indigenous origin represented Australia. At least, the first time a ...

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The Age
Labor senator Nova Peris a frontrunner for AFL's top Indigenous job
The Age
Olympic gold medallist and Labor senator Nova Peris has emerged as a frontrunner for the AFL's top Indigenous job, a development that could affect the ALP's federal election campaign and fast-track the competition's push to promote Aboriginal ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal elder and servicewoman Marjorie Tripp remembered
ABC Online
She was awarded an Officer in the Order of Australia honour in 2014 for distinguished service to Aboriginal men and women in the armed services. Ms Tripp joined the Navy at 17 when Aboriginal people were still not recognised as Australian citizens.

Ten Eyewitness News
Push to recognise Aboriginal people in the Constitution
Ten Eyewitness News
Former AFL star and Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes, has met with the State Government as it threw its support behind a push to recognise Aboriginal people in the Australian Constitution. South Australia signed on as a formal partner of the ...
Former AFL star and Australian of the Year Adam Goodes backs South Australia in joining Recognise campaignThe Advertiser
Goodes diplomatic on SA dump idea9news.com.au

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Mashable
How to unlock the traditional science of Indigenous Australians
Mashable
The divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is still undeniably wide, with Indigenous Australians consistently losing out in health, employment, incarceration, life expectancy and education. Given the disadvantages faced by Indigenous ...
WA Government urged to fix contaminated water supplies in remote Indigenous communitiesABC Online
Indigenous youth to benefit from WA grants9news.com.au

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The Advertiser
Former AFL star and Australian of the Year Adam Goodes backs South Australia in joining Recognise campaign
The Advertiser
Goodes said it was “an opportunity to rewrite that document in a couple of areas and acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people so in another 100, 200 years' time we know exactly the contribution those people had”. “Through the campaign ...

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The Guardian
'My relative was a mass murderer of Aborigines. Can I make amends?'
The Guardian
And that is saying a lot for a country in which 20,000 of its Indigenous people are estimated to have died during the “frontier wars”, and where, until relatively recent history, tens of thousands of Aboriginal children were separated forcibly from ...
Cal Flyn on how Scotland's bloody colonial legacy inspired family memoirHerald Scotland

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ABC Online
Doubts cast on likelihood of referendum to add Indigenous Australians to the constitution by 2017
ABC Online
Two members of the national Referendum Council have cast doubt on whether a referendum on recognising Indigenous people in the Australian constitution would be achievable by May 2017. The date for the vote was flagged by Recognise, the ...
First Nations senate candidate exposes the con in Constitutional RecognitionGreen Left Weekly

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Supreme Court Chief Justice Chris Kourakis hits out at South Australia indigneous jail toll
The Advertiser
The Chief Justice said the conference would examine ways to improve basic health, education and employment prospects for young Aboriginal people, who he said were at a distinct sociological disadvantage. “I have described it as continued institutional ...