Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

National Indigenous Times
[ April 6, 2016 ] EXCLUSIVE: Australia's longest running land claim finally settled NEWS
National Indigenous Times
The Kenbi Ranger group, funded by the Indigenous Land Council, is expected to be front and centre in any job opportunities that will arise from the agreement. The Northern Land Council, which helps Aboriginal people manage traditional lands, has been ...

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New Republic
Australia's Other “Flying Doctors”: The Spirits of Aboriginal Bush Healers
New Republic
It's Friday night and still over 35°C in the town of Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory. It is market night, and the pubs and streets are full of people. I hear glass shattering and a man and woman yelling at each other in the front yard ...

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The Guardian
Closure of bush court near Uluru 'will hit Indigenous community'
The Guardian
Aboriginal Peak Organisations NT is an alliance of Aboriginal organisations including the Central Land Council, the Northern Land Council, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the NT, the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency and the Central ...
Fears closure of Mutitjulu court near Uluru could trigger scale-back of bush courtsABC Online

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The Australian (blog)
Northern Territory denies claim Aboriginal singer Gurrumul was mistreated in hospital
The Australian (blog)
There are large numbers of indigenous patients at the emergency department at RDH, said Dr Robert Parker, head of the Australian Medical Association NT. “The hospital is almost like an Aboriginal medical service because 60 per cent of the clients at ...
Claims Royal Darwin Hospital left musician Gurrumul Yunupingu untreated for hours despite serious internal bleedingNEWS.com.au

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NEWS.com.au
Claims Royal Darwin Hospital left musician Gurrumul Yunupingu untreated for hours despite serious internal bleeding
NEWS.com.au
“We know that Aboriginal people that are admitted to hospital are much less likely to get a procedure for that condition than non-Aboriginal people,” he told the ABC. “It's not that individual people are racist, but the whole system is designed for ...
Northern Territory denies claim Aboriginal singer Gurrumul was mistreated in hospitalThe Australian (blog)
Gurrumul racism claim 'disgraceful'Yahoo7 News
Gurrumul's Manager Accuses Darwin Hospital Of Racial ProfilingtheMusic

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The Sunshine Coast Daily
LETTER: Australia's true history needs to be acknowledged
The Sunshine Coast Daily
Then followed decades of slavery, unspeakable violence, massacres that nearly wiped out our Aboriginal population. The older - and wiser - I get, it is obvious who the uncivilised savages are in Australia's history - and they are not the Aborigines ...

Who speaks for Aboriginal Australia?
Red Flag
The responses to the Sydney Daily Telegraph's “discovery” that universities are acknowledging one or two facts about the British invasion of this land have revealed something else: who gets to speak for and about Aboriginal people. In the popular media ...

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RFI
Aboriginal activists fight to preserve heritage site
RFI
Experts say that it's possible that the Randwick stabling yard site was one of the first places of resistance and information sharing by Aboriginal people in response to white people's invasion of the land. "We went back through the old archives from ...

ABC Online
Fact: Australia was invaded, not peacefully settled
Red Flag
Addressing the structural racism and the violent settler-colonial history on which Australian society is built, Stanner explained that a “cult of disremembering” reduced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to little more than a “melancholy ...
Indigenous Americans' genetic diversity disappeared after European colonisation, study findsABC Online

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New Matilda
Invisible Aboriginal: Media Bigots Invading Our Senses
New Matilda
Sure, we've moved past the idea of terra nullius – that Australia was a huge, empty land just ready and waiting for European settlement. Most of us would now agree that yes, Australia was invaded. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians had ...
Conservative case for Indigenous recognition: The Forgotten PeopleThe Australian (subscription)
Australia's Indigenous youth suicide crisisThe Saturday Paper (subscription)

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ABC Online
Sacred mountains celebrate decade back under Aboriginal management
ABC Online
Biamanga National Park includes Mumbulla Mountain, further south in the Bega valley. To the Yuin people, Gulaga is known as the Mother Mountain, and has always been a woman's place. It includes sacred sites where Aboriginal women would retreat for ...

New Matilda
Australia's Indigenous youth suicide crisis
The Saturday Paper (subscription)
The children had been staying with their aunt in Looma, population in the hundreds, and for about four weeks had been attending the vibrant Looma Remote Community School, winner of a Western Australian Premier's Excellence in Aboriginal Education ...
Invisible Aboriginal: Media Bigots Invading Our SensesNew Matilda
Conservative case for Indigenous recognition: The Forgotten PeopleThe Australian (subscription)

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The Australian (subscription)
Conservative case for Indigenous recognition: The Forgotten People
The Australian (subscription)
The founders of the Australian nation saw no place for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Instead, these peoples were cast as outsiders in their own land, a “dying race” not expected to survive British settlement. The Australian ...
Australia's Indigenous youth suicide crisisThe Saturday Paper (subscription)

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The Advertiser
Nurse's death sparks call for bush justice
The Advertiser
APY Lands elder George Murray this week issued a statement, via YouTube, imploring the Anangu people to consider tribal punishment for Davey, who appeared in court this week amid allegations his life was under threat from other indigenous inmates in ...
SA memorial service for slain nurseThe Australian (blog) (subscription)
Gayle Woodford: APY Lands residents grieve over nurse's death, community members 'threatened'ABC Online

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Financial Times
Return of Australia 'history wars'
Financial Times
Almost 250 years after James Cook landed in Australia a bitter debate has erupted over whether the explorer heralded a British “settlement” or “invasion”, as the country continues to grapple with its colonial history and indigenous heritage. The ...
History wars are not the real battledailytelegraph.com.au

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Sydney Morning Herald
Of course Australia was invaded - massacres happened less than 90 years ago
Sydney Morning Herald
Much has been made in the last few days of the University of New South Wales' “diversity toolkit” offering teachers guidelines on Indigenous terminology. The most controversial directive was a line about using the term “invasion” to describe Captain ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Why we need adaptive resilience
ArtsHub (subscription)
It is even possible that this was a first site of resistance and information sharing by Aboriginal people in response to the invasion,' wrote Shoebridge to Minister Stokes. 'This is of the utmost seriousness and we call on you to act.' Archeological ...

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ABC Online
Threatening History: Conservative Panic and the Claim of Aboriginal Sovereignty
ABC Online
Like previous episodes in the 'history wars', the latest furore will have the most negative repercussions for Aboriginal people, who are once again being asked to defend their culture and history. Credit: Cook Landing at Botany Bay, Emmanuel Phillips ...

Hyperallergic
Aboriginal Women in Australia Celebrate Their Football Heroes with Pottery
Hyperallergic
MELBOURNE — The desert of Central Australia might seem like an unlikely place to find an art cooperative making politically potent and beautiful art. But an exhibition at Melbourne's Ian Potter Centre is featuring a moving display of hand-painted ...

Channel News Asia
Australia's colonial past haunts major Sydney tram project
Channel News Asia
Aboriginal Australians demanded a halt on a AUS$2.1 billion (1.12 billion pounds) tram construction project in Sydney after excavators found 20,000 objects potentially linked to one of the country's first conflicts between its original inhabitants and ...
Call to halt Sydney light rail after massive Indigenous artefact findSydney Morning Herald
Indigenous artefacts found on Sydney siteYahoo7 News
Thousands of Aboriginal artefacts found at Australian building sitegulfnews.com
ABC Online
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