Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Daily Life
Magnolia Maymuru is the first Aboriginal woman to represent NT at Miss World Australia
Daily Life
Maminydjama Maymuru is set to make history this year when she becomes the first Aboriginal women to represent the Northern Territory at Miss World Australia. The 19-year-old Yolgnu woman who's going by her new model-name, 'Magnolia', hails from the ...
Magnolia Maymuru: From Yirrkala to the catwalkABC Online

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ABC Message Stick
Sandalwood industry restructure: Aboriginal groups feel left out, but FCP says opportunities exist
ABC Message Stick
The Western Australian government is reforming the wild sandalwood industry and recently held a briefing in Kalgoorlie-Boulder for parties interested in tendering for harvesting contracts. However, some Aboriginal groups said they still felt locked out ...

The Guardian
#IHMayDay16 – a cry for help on Indigenous mental health
The Guardian
We are co-hosting @IndigenousX this week to highlight how much is going on around suicide prevention, families and communities in Indigenous Australia. On 5-6 May, the Inaugural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference took ...

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The Guardian
Gary Foley and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy: 'We were all young, crazy, but we believed in justice'
The Guardian
“That's the biggest Aboriginal community that's ever existed in the 80,000-year history of Australia and it came about because of the slow but sure breakdown of the old apartheid system,” Foley says. “All of the people in Redfern in those days were ...

NEWS.com.au
Axe discovery in WA: Aboriginal ancestors' tool is world's oldest
NEWS.com.au
Lead author Professor Peter Hiscock from the University of Sydney said the discovery meant we must give credit to the ancestors of Aboriginal people for their ingenuity, creativity and adaptability. “We are rewriting history here,” he told Fairfax Media.
Cutting edge Stone Age technology was born in AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
World's oldest hafted axe unearthed in Australia used by early AboriginesDaily Mail
Oldest axe ever found was invented by Aboriginal ancestorsSBS
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NEWS.com.au
The earliest Australians invented the axe, scientist believe
NEWS.com.au
Lead author Professor Peter Hiscock from the University of Sydney said the discovery meant we must give credit to the ancestors of Aboriginal people for their ingenuity, creativity and adaptability. “We are rewriting history here,” he told Fairfax Media.
World's oldest hafted axe unearthed in Australia used by early AboriginesDaily Mail
Oldest axe ever found was invented by Aboriginal ancestorsSBS
Cutting edge Stone Age technology was born in AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
Telegraph.co.uk -ABC Online -The Guardian
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SBS
Oldest axe ever found was invented by Aboriginal ancestors
SBS
A piece of an ancient axe, discovered by Aussie archaeologists in the Kimberley region in Western Australia, reveals the first people to arrive on this continent – Aboriginal ancestors – were also pioneers of early technology. The artefact has been ...
Cutting edge Stone Age technology was born in AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
World's oldest axe discovered in AustraliaTelegraph.co.uk
World's oldest known axe discovered in Australia – videoThe Guardian
Science Network Western Australia -International Business Times UK -RedOrbit
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Courier Mail
Teachers evacuated as school locked down
Courier Mail
Education Minister Kate Jones said she was deeply concerned for the safety of teachers at the Aurukun campus of the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy and promised the department would review its infrastructure and security in the town immediately ...
Aurukun teachers evacuated after alleged carjacking in Indigenous communityThe Guardian

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ABC Online
Bookkeeper jailed for $780k theft from Aboriginal organisations in Central Australia
ABC Online
He used almost 170 separate transactions to pilfer about $550,000 from more than a dozen mostly not-for-profit Aboriginal organisations in remote Central Australia. He also stole $230,000 from a link-up service for family members of the Stolen ...

The Guardian
Aurukun teachers evacuated after alleged carjacking in Indigenous community
The Guardian
Kate Jones, the Queensland education minister, ordered her department on Tuesday to urgently relocate 25 staff from the Aurukun campus of Noel Pearson's Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy to Cairns after she became “deeply concerned” for their ...
Minister orders temporary relocation of Aurukun teachersNorth Queensland Register

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Socialist Worker Online
Aboriginal captives in Australia during colonization
Socialist Worker Online
Aboriginal captives in Australia during colonization. RENOWNED AUSTRALIAN anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner identified, in his 1968 Boyer Lecture, what he termed "the Great Australian Silence." Addressing the structural racism and the violent settler ...

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The Guardian
Labor's Patrick Dodson says Indigenous treaty should be an option
The Guardian
Dodson noted that Victoria had begun negotiations with Indigenous Australians for a settlement agreement, which would be the first treaty with Indigenous Australians in Australia and follow similar arrangements with first peoples in Canada, the US and ...
Election 2016: Labor pledges more indigenous teachersSBS
Bill Shorten visits Cairns on first day of Federal Election campaignThe Cairns Post
LiveBlogLast Updated 7.20pm AEDTFederal Election 2016 live coverage: Turnbull, Shorten begin campaign blitzThe Australian

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ABC Online
Aboriginal remains returned to country
ABC Online
Centuries-old Indigenous remains have been given an "emotional" burial ceremony in Western Australia's northern Goldfields. Members of the Wongatha community yesterday gathered at the Mount Margaret cemetery, 900 kilometres east of Perth, to lay their ...

Huffington Post Australia
Homelessness, Indigenous Affairs And Dementia Groups React To The Federal Budget
Huffington Post Australia
Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Dr Helen Szoke said this lack of recognition showed the rhetoric of 'Closing The Gap' in healthcare and life expectancy for Indigenous Australians had not prompted any additional funding on top of previously announced ...
Don't forget victims in push to cut Indigenous numbers in prisonThe Age

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ABC Online
Indigenous suicide prevention: Stan Grant inspired by WA town's search for answers
ABC Online
The conference, organised by a national Indigenous Suicide Prevention Project, brought together Indigenous academics, researchers and community members from around Australia to address what its co-chair Tom Calma has called "a suicide epidemic" ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous suicide prevention: Stan Grant inspired by WA town's search for answers
ABC Online
The conference, organised by a national Indigenous Suicide Prevention Project, brought together Indigenous academics, researchers and community members from around Australia to address what its co-chair Tom Calma has called "a suicide epidemic" ...

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The Guardian
Australian election 2016: talk turns to Indigenous treaty at Labor event – politics live
The Guardian
The Victorian government will begin talks to work out Australia's first treaty with Indigenous people within weeks. A meeting with First Nations representatives, convened by the State government earlier this month, firmly rejected Constitutional ...
Shorten unveils Indigenous scholarshipsSBS
LiveBlogLast Updated 1.40pm AEDTFederal Election 2016 live coverage: Turnbull, Shorten begin campaign blitzThe Australian

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The Guardian
Indigenous suicide rates climb as governments 'drag the chain' on handing over control
The Guardian
Governments have been “dragging the chain” when it comes to empowering Indigenous communities, people and services to address the devastating rates of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, a conference heard on Friday.
Suicide on the rise among indigenous youthSky News Australia
Successful rural suicide prevention program informs new initiative tailored to Indigenous needsABC Online
Alice Springs conference on LGBTIQ suicide in Indigenous populationGay News Network

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Sky News Australia
Suicide on the rise among indigenous youth
Sky News Australia
Suicide is the main cause of death for indigenous people aged 15-35. "How are we going to fix this?" Kunoth-Monks, an activist and elder from Utopia in Central Australia, asks. Professor Pat Dudgeon is co-chairwoman of the government-funded Aboriginal ...
Successful rural suicide prevention program informs new initiative tailored to Indigenous needsABC Online
Alice Springs conference on LGBTIQ suicide in Indigenous populationGay News Network

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ABC Online
Successful rural suicide prevention program informs new initiative tailored to Indigenous needs
ABC Online
A new pilot program informed and run by Farm-Link was launched in March and is specifically targeted at Aboriginal people. Speaking at the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide prevention conference in Alice Springs, Farm-Link ...
Alice Springs conference on LGBTIQ suicide in Indigenous populationGay News Network

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