Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Cross-Cultural Training Call
Pro Bono Australia
There is desperate need for proper cross-cultural training for people who work with Indigenous clients and communities, according author and community educator, Richard Trudgen. Trudgen, the author of Why Warriors Lie Down and Die and a community ...

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Starvation of Indigenous in Australia. Utopia's Dirty Secret
teleSUR English
Black incarceration in Australia is greater than that of Black people in Apartheid South Africa. Indigenous people go to prison, are beaten up in custody and die in custody as a matter of routine. In despairing communities, children as young as 10 take ...
Utopia residents hungry, but this isn't newsGreen Left Weekly

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Green Left Weekly
Cuban Aboriginal literacy program success
Green Left Weekly
More than 80 people packed into a lecture theatre at Sydney University on March 31 for a public forum entitled: "Increasing Aboriginal literacy: The Cuban 'Yes I Can!' literacy campaign in Australia". The forum was organised by the Australia-Cuba ...

The Guardian
Indigenous groups say ranger program is working, but needs more funding
The Guardian
A coalition of Indigenous ranger groups are ramping up their campaign for more government support before the federal budget, claiming the government's program is working, but needs to be expanded if Australia is to close the gap on Indigenous ...

News article reignites Australia's 'history wars'
The Straits Times
The article referred to language guidelines issued by one of Australia's top universities, the University of New South Wales (UNSW), which advised students and staff on how to discuss Australian history without offending the country's Aboriginal people.

Mongabay.com
Rekindling Australia's Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary)
Mongabay.com
It is now acknowledged, however, that many indigenous people lit fires regularly as part of a sophisticated relationship with the land that helped nurture their future supply of food resources and encouraged biodiversity. Growing concern about climate ...

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Mongabay.com
Rekindling Australia's Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary)
Mongabay.com
It is now acknowledged, however, that many indigenous people lit fires regularly as part of a sophisticated relationship with the land that helped nurture their future supply of food resources and encouraged biodiversity. Growing concern about climate ...
Near deaths in Australian prisons largely uninvestigated, human rights advocates sayABC Online

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New York Times
Asia Pacific|An Heir to a Tribe's Culture Ensures Its Language Is Not Forgotten
New York Times
Mr. Grant, 75, is an elder of Australia's second-largest Aboriginal tribe, the Wiradjuri, who roamed most of central New South Wales before white farmers surged inland in the early 1800s. Until recently, he was one of only a handful of people still ...

Daily Mail
Did Aborigines use 'star maps' to plot their way across Australia?
Daily Mail
Robert Fuller, a PhD student of indigenous cultural astronomy at the University of New South Wales in Australia, has found they navigated their way across hundreds of miles to trade with other groups using the star patterns to mark waypoints on their ...

ABC Online
Secrecy and Despatch exhibition remembers the 1816 Appin Massacre of Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
In the early hours of the morning on April 17, soldiers under the command of Captain James Wallis, by instruction of Governor Macquarie, shot at and drove a group of Aboriginal people over the gorge of the Cataract River. Two hundred years on, the ...
Artists shed light on Governor Macquarie's massacres of Indigenous AustraliansSydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
Aboriginal campaigner Jack Green to stand in Northern Territory election
The Guardian
Should he win – a prospect supporters say is not unrealistic once preferences are taken into account – Green hopes to push for better housing and health outcomes for Aboriginal people who live on remote homelands and outstations. Development ...

Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
Aboriginal people urged to enrol to vote
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
THE NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) has urged Aboriginal people to enrol to vote in the upcoming federal election. NSWALC Chair Roy Ah-See said an election was required to be held before January 14, 2017, but a poll could be called at any time ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Call for mandatory sentencing laws to be scrapped to reduce indigenous incarceration rates
Sydney Morning Herald
The gross over-representation of Aboriginal people in prison is a "national disgrace" and should be tackled by abolishing controversial mandatory sentences for a range of minor offences, the nation's peak body for barristers has urged. In a plan ...
Calls to review mandatory prison sentencesSky News Australia
ABA targets sentencing lawsThe Australian
Fix or ditch mandatory sentencing: ABALawyers Weekly

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The Atlantic
Is There a Place for Indigenous Healers in Australia's Health System?
The Atlantic
Statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show that the life expectancy of indigenous people is about 10 years less than that of nonindigenous people (69.1 years compared with 79.7 for men; 73.7 compared with 83.1 for women), and ...

Australia settles longest-running NT Aboriginal land claim
Radio New Zealand
Australia's longest running claim under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act of the Northern Territory has finally been declared Aboriginal land. The Kenbi Land Claim - on nearly 60,000 hectares on a peninsula west of Darwin - was made 37 years ago.

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ABC Online
Aboriginal health body calls for taskforce to tackle child sex abuse in NT
ABC Online
The risk of Aboriginal children and adolescents falling victim to sexual abuse in northern Australia is cause for "growing alarm", leaving children unsafe, the peak Indigenous community-controlled health body has said.

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Herald Sun
Under fire Darebin deputy mayor Oliver Walsh continues to deny Aboriginal genocide, despite apologising for ...
Herald Sun
Thornbury's Damien Kingsbury delivered a public question at this week's council meeting asking if councillors recognised Cr Oliver Walsh's comments as a “failure to represent the central concern of Australia's indigenous people, and the rest of the ...

The Conversation AU
How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia's highway network
The Conversation AU
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 ...

BBC News
The pride and fury of Australia's Indigenous rappers
BBC News
Born in the United States, hip hop has developed a distinct Indigenous flavour in Australia that reflects both dispossession and hope. There is an unerringly provocative streak coursing through the music of Corey Webster, aka Nooky, a young firebrand ...

ABC Online
Kenbi land claim finalised after 37 years, handback to NT Indigenous owners to follow
ABC Online
The claim's long history has divided more than 2,000 Aboriginal people from several family groups who wanted access to the land. Many Larrakia people were unable to legally prove their connection to the land, and left without any major rights to the land.
[ April 6, 2016 ] EXCLUSIVE: Australia's longest running land claim finally settled NATIVE TITLENational Indigenous Times
Indigenous affairs: Kenbi land claim settled after 37-year battleThe Guardian
Darwin land rights deal 'a win for just four'The Australian
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