Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Toronto Star
'Indigenous Leadership Initiative' proposes program to help aboriginal people
Toronto Star
People take part in a march and candlelight vigil in the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation in northern Ontario, April 15. An experiment that won favour in Australia is getting interest in Ottawa as the government aims to live up to its promise to help ...

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ABC Local
Former Aboriginal mission site becomes a focus for cultural education and a celebration of survival
ABC Local
This piece of furniture is a direct link to a chapter of Australia's past when Indigenous people were rounded up and placed on missions by the Aboriginal Protection Board. Now back in Aboriginal hands, this site of the former Bulgandramine Mission is ...

The Adelaide Review
Aboriginal Shields: Power, Protection and History
The Adelaide Review
The current exhibition at the South Australian Museum, Shields: Power and Protection in Aboriginal Australia, explores these key associations while also laying out the full range of hardwood and softwood shields (narrow and broad, painted and carved, ...

The Guardian
Outgoing MP Linda Burney decries 'paternalistic' approach to Aboriginal affairs
The Guardian
Outgoing NSW Labor MP Linda Burney: 'My time in [NSW parliament] has been shaped, though not defined, by my Aboriginality.' Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP. Australian Associated Press. Wednesday 4 May 2016 21.49 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 4 ...

The Australian
Budget 2016: Aboriginal legal services to lose staff with $6m cut
The Australian
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency chief executive Priscilla Collins warned her agency would have to “cut deep” into frontline services, while Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) head Gary Oliver said in NSW alone about 4800 Aboriginal people ...

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ABC Online
African drumming helping Indigenous children overcome anger
ABC Online
It is physical, sometimes frantic and often loud — and it has emerged as one of the most promising suicide prevention programs for young Indigenous kids in Australia. It is called Drumbeat and it uses African drums as a focal point in workshops run ...

ABC Online
Government urged to address 'epidemic' Indigenous suicide rates in remote Australia
ABC Online
Aboriginal people and health workers will travel from across Australia to attend the conference in the wake of escalating Indigenous suicide rates, particularly over the past five years. The Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project, chaired by ...
Indigenous groups disappointed in budget with 'little to offer'The Guardian
Australia's indigenous 'guardians' program finding favour in OttawaSudbury.com
The budget's response to Indigenous unemployment borders on negligenceThe Guardian
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The Guardian
Indigenous groups disappointed in budget with 'little to offer'
The Guardian
“The government's loan will un-encumber the ILC from the crippling impact of an existing debt that is diverting resources from its core business of supporting the economic aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians,” said ...
Government urged to address 'epidemic' Indigenous suicide rates in remote AustraliaABC Online
Australia's indigenous 'guardians' program finding favour in OttawaWinnipeg Free Press
Budget 2016: 'Silent on the important indigenous issues'The Australian

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Care2.com
Stop Australia from Committing 'Cultural Genocide' and Environmental Injustice
Care2.com
Australia is about to make a horrible mistake. The country has (at least, tentatively) earmarked the location of its first nuclear dumping site next to an aboriginal cultural site. And the aboriginal community is speaking out — calling the proposed ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Burney farewells parliament, calls for recognition of Aboriginal history
Sydney Morning Herald
"It's time [Anzac Day] also speaks of the wars fought on Australian soil," she said of the at least 20,000 aboriginal people who died over 150 years of Australia's white settlement. "The history of these conflicts is not well kept, if not to avoid ...
Burney delivers farewell in NSW parliamentThe Australian

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The Age
Calls for curriculum to say Australia was invaded not settled
The Age
Education Minister James Merlino has reignited debate about whether the curriculum should refer to Australia being invaded rather than settled. It follows the Minister recently declaring that in the eyes of Aboriginal people, Australia was invaded ...

ABC Online
Cashless welfare card: Geraldton Indigenous elders reject 'unfair social experiment'
ABC Online
Aboriginal elders and community advocates in regional Western Australia have rejected a proposed trial of the Commonwealth's cashless welfare card, describing it as a social experiment. Geraldton, 400 kilometres north of Perth, has been widely tipped ...

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SBS
Budget 2016 – What it means for Indigenous people
SBS
The Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies will get $10 million a year for the next four years to preserve and protect Indigenous artefacts. AIATSIS was given a funding bump in the last Budget and endorsed by the Prime ...

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ABC Message Stick
Geraldton photo exhibition explores Aboriginal identity and place
ABC Message Stick
A photographic exhibition has just been launched in Geraldton, Western Australia to give a voice to young Aboriginal people on their identity and place. In partnership with WA arts organisation Disability and Disadvantage in the Arts (DADAA), UK artist ...

The Guardian
Indigenous heritage and development: the fight over Darwin's Kulaluk lease
The Guardian
“And Aboriginal people and Aboriginal organisations, we've got land that we can use.” She said the decision gave the community a say in what would happen to its land, and would create jobs and opportunities for their kids. However the Larrakia Nation ...

The Guardian
Indigenous health: ad campaign aims to reduce smoking rate
The Guardian
The government is committed to halving the 2008 smoking rate for Indigenous people aged 18 or older, of 47%, by 2018. “It is important that we reduce tobacco smoking among all Australians,” Nash said. “But the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Australia Post worker allegedly told 'black people should be shot'Sydney Morning Herald
Campaign targets Indigenous smokersSky News Australia

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ABC Online
A community's journey to find an answer to suicide
ABC Online
About 20 residents from the town have set off on a one-week 3,600-kilometre road trip through the desert to attend Australia's first-ever Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference in Alice Springs on May 5 and 6. The ...

Newcastle Herald
Australia Post worker allegedly told 'black people should be shot'
Newcastle Herald
Australia Post boasts it has a tolerant and diverse workplace and is "committed to continuing our legacy of providing real employment and careers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders". But the federal government-owned business has allegedly taken ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Australia Post worker allegedly told 'black people should be shot'
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia Post boasts it has a tolerant and diverse workplace and is "committed to continuing our legacy of providing real employment and careers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders". But the federal government-owned business has allegedly taken ...

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The West Australian
Aboriginal elder demands Abetz apology
The West Australian
Here is the highest honour, for an Aboriginal man to be a Senator and represent Western Australia,” Dr Isaacs said. “This was Pat's day and the community's day, for everyone, black and white. It's a great achievement. “The Premier shouldn't apologise.
WA MP Peter Abetz defends 'bad taste' same sex marriage speechNEWS.com.au

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