Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Guardian (blog)
Indigenous treasures, briefly on loan to Australia, are about to be taken away – again
The Guardian (blog)
Ye-I-Nie, whose possessions are part of the British Museum collection and are now on loan to an exhibition, Encounters, at the National Museum of Australia. Yidindji woman Henrietta Fourmile Marrie, Ye-I-Nie's great-granddaughter, has spoken about her ...

Junkee
Aboriginal Activist Gary Foley Destroyed Politicians At A Sydney Biennale Installation This Weekend
Junkee
Then, giving truth to his words, he delivered a glorious hour-long discussion monologue laying into white Australians' treatment of Aboriginal people and the way the “bastard” politicians — kind of like those supporting the festival — continue to ...

Star Observer
It's time to talk about the suicide rates of Indigenous LGBTI people in Australia
Star Observer
Held in 2015, the Sexuality and Gender Diverse Populations Roundtable hosted by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project (ATSISPEP) brought together about 25 Indigenous people from around Australia to discuss ...
Momentum building for a Royal Commission in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicidesThe Stringer
Renewed calls for action to address Indigenous disadvantageSBS
Competitive tendering disadvantages indigenous groupsThe Mandarin (registration)

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SBS
Indigenous Australians take Apple, Facebook, Google to Human Rights Commission for racist game
SBS
"It is important that we reflect on the intergenerational trauma of Indigenous Australians. The RDA seeks to protect vulnerable and marginalised minorities from racially based offensive, insulting and humiliating conduct by publicly outing such ...

The Advertiser
Adelaide council votes against flying Aboriginal flag
The Advertiser
At a meeting last week, councillors narrowly voted against a request from its Reconciliation Advisory Committee to spend $2000 on a new flag pole so the Aboriginal flag could fly alongside the Australian flag. Cr Max Amber told the meeting that ...

Green Left Weekly
Tragic suicide of 10-year-old Aboriginal girl
Green Left Weekly
Earlier this month, a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl took her own life in a small Kimberly community near the town of Derby in Western Australia. It is believed that her life leading to her suicide was marred by “trauma and tragedy” and she had previously ...
End the silences, they're toxic – pack up the myth and conspiracy of shame and tabooThe Stringer

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Green Left Weekly
Packed forum discusses Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Treaty
Green Left Weekly
It would have to involve land rights for Aboriginal people and reparations for land and resources stolen. It would also have to involve guaranteed representation in an Australian republic, environmental protection and changes to land tenure agreements.

The Australian (subscription) (blog)
Aboriginal women at vanguard as US collects 'mesmerising' art
The Australian (subscription) (blog)
Exhibitions dedicated to indigenous Australian artists have shown during the past few months and years, or will tour in the next two years in museums in more than a dozen US cities including Chicago, New York, Miami, Detroit, Reno, Portland (Oregon), ...

The Moscow Times (registration)
Yiwarra Kuju: Australian Aboriginal Art at Moscow's Artplay
The Moscow Times (registration)
Artplay Design Center is hosting an exhibition that is rare for Russia called "Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route." It is an international travelling exhibition presented by the National Museum of Australia that lets senior and emerging Aboriginal ...

National Indigenous Times
[ March 18, 2016 ] Bowel cancer survival rates hit rock bottom HEALTH
National Indigenous Times
“These findings further add to the existing data we have that outlines the large gap in cancer survival outcomes between Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people. When we look at prostate and breast cancer, Aboriginal people have a far greater risk ...

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SA Aboriginal nuclear protest intensifies
NEWS.com.au
We remember the atomic weapons tests at Maralinga and Emu Fields and the ongoing denial around the lost lives and health impacts for Aboriginal people," he said. "We won't become the world's nuclear waste dump." Adnyamathanha woman Enice Marsh ...

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The Moscow Times (registration)
Yiwarra Kuju: Australian Aboriginal Art at Moscow's Artplay
The Moscow Times (registration)
Artplay Design Center is hosting an exhibition that is rare for Russia called "Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route." It is an international travelling exhibition presented by the National Museum of Australia that lets senior and emerging Aboriginal ...

ABC Online
10 Years On: Just How Close Are We To Closing The Gap?
Huffington Post Australia
The goal was to eliminate the health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians by 2030. The campaign was built on evidence that significant improvements in the health status of ...
Cancer Council NSW says more Indigenous workers needed in light of disparity in health outcomesABC Online
Locking up Indigenous kids costs $236 million a yearSydney Morning Herald
Rise in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth seeking headspace mental health servicesABC Local
Community Newspaper Group -Sky News Australia -National Indigenous Times
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ABC Online
Indigenous prime minister of Australia inevitable, Aboriginal journalist Stan Grant says
ABC Online
Mr Grant, 52, is the International Editor for SkyNews, Managing Editor of NITV and Indigenous Affairs Editor at The Guardian. He hosts a nightly news bulletin on NITV titled The Point with Stan Grant. He was born in Griffith to a Wiradjuri father and ...

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New Matilda
For This Crime Writer, A 'Typical Aboriginal' Is A Violent, Thieving, Rapist, Murderer
New Matilda
If you're a fan of Australian crime stories you're likely to have come across the work of Paul B. Kidd; 2UE radio host, 'true crime historian', and self-described big game fisher. Kidd enjoys a regular call-back gig on the weekends and has chalked-up ...

PRI
'Nude' photos of Australian Aboriginal women trigger Facebook account suspensions
PRI
In a speech honoring International Women's Day, indigenous rights activist Celeste Liddle spoke about women of the central Australian Arrernte Aboriginal group, to which her family belongs, and their representation on the Internet. When the speech was ...
For Men's Eyes Only: A Black History Of How We Depict Aboriginal WomenNew Matilda

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The Age
Our national shame: Closing the gap for Indigenous Australians is more important than ever
The Age
Lynore's efforts, and those of her fellow health professionals working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, are supported by the hundreds of thousands of Australians today marking 10 years of the Close the Gap campaign. The people's ...
Locking up Indigenous kids costs $236 million a yearSydney Morning Herald
Rise in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth seeking headspace mental health servicesABC Local

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ABC Online
Aboriginal patients self-discharge from hospital at rates 10 times higher than non-Indigenous, figures show
ABC Online
Aboriginal patients are discharging themselves from hospital against medical advice at rates 10 times higher than non-Aboriginal patients, potentially leading to further medical complications and higher death rates, Western Australia figures show.

ABC Online
Seeing Miss Dhu: Time to Turn a Light on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
ABC Online
And a society in which rates of Aboriginal women jailed for fine default grew by 576% since 2008. As scholars in North America and Australia alike have argued, prisons and policing are central to maintaining inequality at the turn of the twenty-first ...

The Canberra Times
National Museum of Australia sparks debate on British Museum's collection of Aboriginal artefacts
The Canberra Times
Should rare Australian Aboriginal artefacts held by the British Museum, and now exhibited in Canberra temporarily, be returned to their place of origin? The objects were collected during a painful, and for many people, shameful period between 1770 and ...