Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Guardian
Indigenous health: wealthy nations not always better than developing countries
The Guardian
A grandmother holds her granddaughter at a “town camp” on the outskirts of Alice Springs, Australia. Life expectancy for Indigenous populations in Australia, Canada and New Zealand is on par with those of Indigenous people in Kenya, Panama and ...

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The Guardian
Closing the Gap: Greens call for federal spending on Indigenous rangers
The Guardian
Ranger groups and Indigenous protected areas (IPAs) have been federally funded since 2007, and are considered a success among Indigenous affairs policies. Under the scheme local Indigenous people are trained and employed to maintain, monitor, and ...

TheRecord.com.au
Reconciliation Report examines state of reconciliation in Australia
TheRecord.com.au
Coordinator of Aboriginal Catholic Ministry in Perth, Vicky Burrows, recently spoke to The eRecord about the effect of The State of Reconciliation in Australia Report on the Archdiocese and its potential to trigger important conversations within our ...

ABC Online
Bookkeeper blames gambling addiction for $780000 theft from NT Aboriginal organisations
ABC Online
Through 167 separate transactions he stole about $550,000 from almost 20 Aboriginal organisations, mainly not-for-profit organisations from small remote communities across Central Australian including Atitjere, Pukatja and Santa Teresa. The Australian ...

Taranaki Daily News
Taranaki 'white fellas' return home after years in remote Aboriginal communities
Taranaki Daily News
Ronnie and husband Noel have been working with remote Aboriginal communities in Northern Australia for more than five years providing treatment for those in end stage renal failure. Known as "white fellas", Ronnie said it was beautiful and humbling to ...

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The Guardian
Aboriginal sci-fi Neomad wins Australia's top comic book award
The Guardian
For Australian comic artists, winning the Gold Ledger is like winning best picture at the Oscars. And on Friday it was picked up by the Aboriginal sci-fi comic book Neomad, created with the input of more than 30 young people in the Western Australian ...

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Aboriginal Australian Man Shares Racist Messages He Regularly Receives On Grindr
Queerty
Dustin Mangatjay McGregor is a 23-year-old Yolngu man. The Yolngu is group of Aboriginal people who originally inhabited north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Because of his ethnic origin, McGregor says he regularly receives ...

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Aboriginal Australian Man Shares Racist Messages He Regularly Receives On Grindr
Queerty
Dustin Mangatjay McGregor is a 23-year-old Yolngu man. The Yolngu is group of Aboriginal people who originally inhabited north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Because of his ethnic origin, McGregor says he regularly receives ...

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End Aboriginal cult of victimhood
The Australian
Take the recent stories generated by the 25th anniversary of the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. We've seen stories and heard speeches all centring on the theme of “25 years later, Aboriginal people still die in custody”.

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The Guardian
How do you buy Indigenous Australian art ethically?
The Guardian
These practices were “rampant” in Alice Springs some years ago, says Philip Watkins, who is head of Desart, an association of central Australian Aboriginal art and craft centres. A Senate inquiry into the matter was held in 2007 and from that a ...
Pat Dodson must keep on highlighting Australia's continuing shameSydney Morning Herald
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Not Content With Wrecking The Environment, Greg Hunt Is Now Desecrating Sacred SitesNew Matilda

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Sydney Morning Herald
Pat Dodson must keep on highlighting Australia's continuing shame
Sydney Morning Herald
It's now been 24 years since was called Australia's unutterable shame, the legacy of dispossession, degradation and devastation of Indigenous people, in the High Court's reversal of the legal fallacy that this was an empty continent. Since Mabo, we ...

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The Age
Pat Dodson must keep on highlighting Australia's continuing shame
The Age
It's now been 24 years since was called Australia's unutterable shame, the legacy of dispossession, degradation and devastation of Indigenous people, in the High Court's reversal of the legal fallacy that this was an empty continent. Since Mabo, we ...
How do you buy Indigenous Australian art ethically?The Guardian

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ABC Online
Sydney massacre of Aboriginal people at Appin remembered by thousands
ABC Online
Officially, 14 people were killed, but Aboriginal historians believe the number was much higher. On Sunday, descendants of the Dharawl tribe mixed NSW Governor David Hurley and thousands of others in memoriam. Ivan Wellington, a descendent of the ...

The Guardian
Indigenous community lets tourists in on newly won Australian homeland
The Guardian
An Indigenous group who won a huge land title claim is partnering with a commercial tourism operator to bring visitors to its region – a remote and seldom visited part of Australia. Intrepid Travel, a global company known for taking tourists on ...

The Guardian
Stan Grant appointed to Referendum Council on Indigenous recognition
The Guardian
Grant said he was determined that constitutional recognition should not be simply about “rewriting history or inserting some poetic words about Aboriginal people”. “Recognition needs to be something that improves the governance and good policy-making ...
Stan Grant lands important new jobNEWS.com.au
Stan Grant appointed special adviser to PM on Indigenous recognitionSBS
Stan Grant appointed to Referendum CouncilThe Australian

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Sydney Morning Herald
When volcanoes clash: Transcendence tells Australia's history through Indigenous eyes
Sydney Morning Herald
According to Dja Dja Wurrung man Justice Nelson, telling this history in Nyernila: Aboriginal Creation Stories of Victoria, all the rocks thrown by Lalgambook at Tarrengower can still be seen today. They form the Guildford Plateau, where the Jaara ...

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Indigenous Australian student shares screenshots of racist Grindr abuse
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A university student has opened up about the frequent racist messages that he receives through online dating apps, SBS reports. Dustin Mangatjay McGregor has Yolngu heritage, which means he comes from a group of Indigenous people from the ...
Gay indigenous man screenshots racist messages he gets on GrindrDaily Mail

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The Guardian
Aboriginal deaths in custody: 25 years on, the vicious cycle remains
The Guardian
The commission investigated the deaths of 99 Aboriginal people between 1980 and 1989, but the 1983 death of 16-year-old John Pat, in a police cell in Roebourne, 190km down the road from where Dhu died 21 years later, was the catalyst. Its overarching ...
Why we should honour the humanity of every person who dies in custodyThe Conversation AU

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ABC Online
Aboriginal deaths in custody: It's getting worse not better, says brother of man who died at Darwin watch house
ABC Online
"The fundamental lesson from the royal commission was that Aboriginal people die in custody too often simply because they're in custody too often," Mr Hunyor said. The Darwin-based lawyer said there appears to be little will to change. "In the Northern ...
Scales of justice still tipped towards police who harm people in their custodyThe Conversation AU

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ABC Online
Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody: Amnesty accuses Scullion of false 'progress' claims
ABC Online
"It has been 25 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and Aboriginal people are still disproportionately dying whilst in incarceration," she said. "The Government continues to ignore the majority of recommendations by the ...
Black Women, And A Tale Of Two CommissionsNew Matilda
Scales of justice still tipped towards police who harm people in their custodyThe Conversation AU

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