Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

World Policy Institute (blog)
Australia's Treatment of Aboriginal People is Its Dirty Secret
World Policy Institute (blog)
I had a call from Rosalie Kunnoth-Monks the other day. Rosalie is an elder of the Arrernte-Alyawarra people who lives in Utopia—a vast and remote region in the “red heart” of Australia. The nearest town is Alice Springs, more than 200 miles across an ...
Aboriginal young people make up half of the youths across Australia who are in prisonDaily Mail
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment RatesPro Bono Australia
Cleverman Is An ABC TV Series About An Aboriginal SuperheroGizmodo Australia (blog)
ABC Local -Australia Network News -ABC Message Stick
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Daily Mail
Aboriginal young people make up more than half of the youths across Australia who are locked up.
Daily Mail
Indigenous young people account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but make up more than half of the youths across Australia who are locked up. Prisoners aged 24 years or under made up 24 per cent of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment RatesPro Bono Australia
Cleverman Is An ABC TV Series About An Aboriginal SuperheroGizmodo Australia (blog)
New ABC show 'Cleverman' is about an Aboriginal superhero and we're already hooked off the trailerDaily Life
Eureka Street (registration)
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Daily Mail
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment Rates
Pro Bono Australia
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council has called on governments to fundamentally rethink the way they work with Aboriginal communities if they are to combat the deepening crisis of rising imprisonment rates for indigenous people. The call comes on the eve of ...
Aboriginal young people make up half of the youths across Australia who are in prisonDaily Mail
Cleverman Is An ABC TV Series About An Aboriginal SuperheroGizmodo Australia (blog)
'Cleverman' Series Australia & US Premiere: Meet the 1st Aboriginal Hero!Australia Network News
ABC Message Stick -Daily Life
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SBS
Racism on Grindr: Indigenous gay man screenshots racial abuse online
SBS
I remember when I moved to Darwin and students in my class, who were barely 13 years old, were making offensive racial remarks about Aboriginal people. In my experience, people need to be taught from a young age that racism isn't acceptable.”.

Daily Mail
Actor Jack Charles calls for training for taxi drivers after being refused service
The Guardian
“I want to know who invented the idea of asking Aboriginal people to pay upfront, no matter what the time of day. “You need a bastard like me. A deadset, ridgy-didge, beyond redemption bastard like me, to take on the taxi industry, to take on the ...
Aboriginal actor Jack Charles refused a ride by a taxi in Melbourne AGAINDaily Mail

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ABC Local
Aboriginal people affected by Maralinga nuclear tests take peace sculpture to Japan
ABC Local
Members of an Aboriginal community affected by the nuclear bomb tests at Maralinga in the 1950s are connecting with nuclear bomb survivors in Japan. A group of artists from Yalata in South Australia are flying to Nagasaki today to unveil a sculpture ...

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Gizmodo Australia (blog)
Cleverman Is An ABC TV Series About An Aboriginal Superhero
Gizmodo Australia (blog)
“Cleverman marks a new era for Australia's production sector, inviting audiences to experience a bold new story-world where Aboriginal storytelling meets high concept genre drama,” said Sally Riley, Head of Indigenous, ABC TV. “With an 80 per cent ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Deaths in custody: Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who are locked up. In the Northern Territory, they represent more than 90 per cent of those children in ...

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The Canberra Times
Aboriginal public servants on their own on pay, says govt
The Canberra Times
Aboriginal Hostels Limited has offered its 486 workers, 70 per cent of whom are Aborigine or Torres Strait Islanders, pay rises worth just 1 per cent a year while most Australian Public Service workers have been offered 2 per cent as part of the bitter ...
Indigenous prison rate is a national crisis, and our international shameSydney Morning Herald
Call for overhaulThe Guardian (Australia)

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The Age
Actor and Aboriginal elder Uncle Jack Charles refused taxi in Melbourne, again
The Age
Aboriginal elder and renowned actor Jack Charles has again been refused a cab in Melbourne because of what he calls systemic racial discrimination against Indigenous Australians by taxi drivers. The 72-year-old was with two artists visiting from Turkey ...

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SBS
How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia's highway network
SBS
The next time you're driving down a country road in outback Australia, consider there's a good chance that very route was originally mapped out by Aboriginal people perhaps thousands of years before Europeans came to Australia. And like today, they ...

The Australian
Aboriginal people caught in vicious cycle of justice system, Patrick Dodson says
The Australian
Taking aim at the country's legislators for the worsening rates of imprisonment since the 1991 royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, Mr Dodson said the “vicious cycle” that saw indigenous Australians overrepresented in jail remained. “By ...
Patrick Dodson makes emotional plea for action on Aboriginal incarcerationSydney Morning Herald
[ April 13, 2016 ] Justice system “sucking us up like waste”, says Dodson NEWSNational Indigenous Times

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Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Dodson makes emotional plea for action on Aboriginal incarceration
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's legal system has become a "feared and despised processing plant" for most Aboriginal people, propelling the most vulnerable and disadvantaged toward a "broken, bleak future", according to Patrick Dodson. Lamenting that the situation has ...

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The Ecologist (blog)
Starvation in Australia: Utopia's dirty secret
The Ecologist (blog)
Australian governments have long waged a one-sided war on the continent's Aboriginal peoples, writes John Pilger. And now a new weapon has come into play: the starvation of the most remote, culturally intact communities. It's all part of a multi ...

There's no longer tolerance for Aboriginal amnesia
ArtsHub (subscription)
Many exhibitions have ushered understanding for the integral connection Indigenous Australian culture has with the land. These are exhibitions both traditional and contemporary in nature; some have been political and others have taken a more ethereal ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Australia should look to China, the global beacon of poverty reduction
The Guardian
For two months a nine member Aboriginal delegation was a guest of the Chinese Communist Party. It angered the Australian government and was a PR coup for the Chinese. At the time China remained in the cold – US President Nixon had only that year ...

Atlanta Black Star
Australian Government's Failed Intervention Leaves Aborigines Poor, Hungry, Suicidal and Criminalized
Atlanta Black Star
The Indigenous people of Australia continue to suffer from terrible living conditions and unfair criminalization years after the government began an unsuccessful intervention to aid them. Many of these people live in Utopia, a broad, distant region in ...
The dirty secret of UtopiaOn Line opinion

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Scroll.in
How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia's highway network
Scroll.in
The next time you're driving down a country road in outback Australia, consider there's a good chance that very route was originally mapped out by Aboriginal people perhaps thousands of years before Europeans came to Australia. And like today, they ...

Independent Australia
Utopia: The dirty secret of Indigenous Australia
Independent Australia
Nine years after the Howard Government's "Intervention", conditions are dire for Indigenous Australians who are "denied consistent running water, sanitation and power. That basic sustenance should join this list is not surprising", says John Pilger. I ...

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The Advertiser
Flying the flag in mum's honour
The Advertiser
It is also why Campbelltown Council's backflip last week on a decision not to fly the Aboriginal flag outside its chambers means so much to him. “I grew up for a long time knowing I was Aboriginal, but not having a strong sense of identity about my ...