Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
Federal Government accused of bias after failing to meet with elected Indigenous body
ABC Online
Congress promotes itself as a national voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, representing more than 180 member organisations. The elected co-chairs of Congress are ramping up efforts to secure a meeting with the Prime Minister, five ...

Karalee Katsambanis: Stop the blame game and fix Aboriginal communities
Sydney Morning Herald
There would not be a person in Western Australia who didn't get a lump in their throat when they heard that a 10-year-old girl had committed suicide in the remote Kimberley township of Looma. Whether someone is black or white should not even come into it.

and more »

RPT-Australian Aboriginal landowners approve manganese mine expansion plan
Reuters
Australia's indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, who must approve any formal deal between traditional owners and South32 said in a statement that he welcomed the progress made by the miner and the traditional owners in their negotiations. He ...
Australian Aboriginal landowners approve manganese mine expansion planTHE BUSINESS TIMES

all 2 news articles »

Australian Aboriginal landowners approve manganese mine expansion plan
Reuters
Australia's indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, who must approve any formal deal between traditional owners and South32 said in a statement that he welcomed the progress made by the miner and the traditional owners in their negotiations. He ...

and more »

ABC Online
Aboriginal campaigner and suicide survivor shines light on mental health issues
ABC Online
In looking for different ways to address Western Australia's high rate of Indigenous suicide, some prominent advocates at the conference supported Ms Cumming's view that the most effective services are culturally relevant and also deliver what ...

Financial Times
Human origins: genetic isolation of Aboriginal Australians
Financial Times
A team from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge and La Trobe University in Melbourne obtained the complete DNA sequences of the Y chromosome, which is transmitted from father to son, of 13 Aboriginal men from across Australia.

The Guardian
Treaty push should replace Indigenous Recognise campaign, says Yolngu leader
The Guardian
Yingiya Mark Guyula of the Yolngu Nations Assembly is calling for the efforts being put into recognition of Indigenous Australians in the constitution to be redirected to treaties between Australian governments and Indigenous nations. Photograph: Lisa ...

New Matilda
Kim Kardashian vs Aboriginal Culture: Only One Of These Images Has Been Banned By Facebook
New Matilda
Aboriginal people in the remote community of Ampilatwatja (pronounced UM-BUDDER-WATCH) had walked off their community and established a nearby camp in protest at the federal government's 'Northern Territory intervention', a policy launched in the ...

Santanol targets Aboriginal workers in Australia
Recruiter
Indian sandalwood oil producer Santanol has held recruitment days specifically targeting Aboriginal people in the far North of Western Australia. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) news website reports the firm held two information and ...

Quartz
An ancient Australian connection to India?
Quartz
When was the remote Australian continent first settled? Where did these ancient Australians come from? Was the island settled once, or on multiple occasions? Is there a genealogical connection between the indigenous people of Australia and India?

and more »

Huffington Post Australia
Why Are So Many Indigenous People Killing Themselves?
Huffington Post Australia
Like so many other Indigenous people, I remember looking at my skin when I was younger and wishing that I wasn't Aboriginal. Wondering why I was born cursed with this brown skin, the visual representation of everything that made me so different from ...

Huffington Post Australia
Why Are So Many Indigenous People Killing Themselves?
Huffington Post Australia
Like so many other Indigenous people, I remember looking at my skin when I was younger and wishing that I wasn't Aboriginal. Wondering why I was born cursed with this brown skin, the visual representation of everything that made me so different from ...

Sky News Australia
Suicide of 10-year-old 'incomprehensible'
Sky News Australia
Labor Senator Nova Peris says it is incomprehensible a girl as young as 10 took her own life. A 10-year-old Aboriginal girl committed suicide on Sunday in the remote community of Looma, near Derby in Western Australia's Kimberley region. 'I can't ...

and more »

ABC Online
Aboriginal Heritage Act changes give traditional owners less say: Indigenous groups
ABC Online
"This is going to help people who want to access lands and destroy heritage, rather than improving the protection of Aboriginal heritage," he said. There are tens of thousands of sacred Indigenous sites across South Australia, from ancient song lines ...
Indigenous Business Partnership Changes LivesNewsMaker (press release)

all 2 news articles »

Buenos Aires Herald
Australia's Aborigines: 'The most imprisoned people in the world'
Buenos Aires Herald
SYDNEY — An 11-year-old boy charged with murder has come to epitomize Australia's great shame: the plight of its Aboriginal citizens. The boy is one of the youngest people to be charged with murder in Australia. He was part of a gang of seven or eight ...

The Guardian
As an Aboriginal teen I thought about killing myself every day
The Guardian
I just don't want people to think that this problem is separate from them. The Australia where suicide rates of Aboriginal people are rising is separate from the Australia they live in - because it's not. Or that it only applies to certain groups of ...

Daily Liberal
Partnership to deliver better health results for Indigenous Australians
Daily Liberal
A UNIQUE new partnership, established to deliver better health outcomes for Aboriginal people in the western parts of NSW, will be launched on Thursday. The first meeting of the Western NSW Primary Health Network (WNSWPHN) will be held to inform of ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal girl who killed herself suffered 'trauma and harm': minister
The Guardian
The 10-year-old Aboriginal girl who took her own life in Western Australia “had experienced a significant amount of accumulated trauma and harm”, the state's mental health minister, Helen Morton, has said. The girl, who took her own life on Sunday, is ...
WA girl, 10, commits suicideThe Australian Women's Weekly
Children As Young As Ten Are Killing Themselves In Western Australia And The Number Is GrowingBuzzFeed News
A community is in shock following the death by suicide of a 10-year-old girl. Picture: File photoNEWS.com.au
The Australian (subscription) (blog) -SBS -ABC Online
all 40 news articles »

Dr. David Suzuki reveals seven things Australia could learn from its Indigenous peoples
SBS
5: “Indigenous people celebrate and thank the creator for the world that they live in, that's not the way science does it and the knowledge acquired through that way of living is absolutely essential for the survival of those people, if their knowledge ...

ABC Online
Nhulunbuy independent candidate Yingiya Mark Guyula calls for treaty with Indigenous people
ABC Online
Yingiya Mark Guyula will run in the NT seat of Nhulunbuy with the backing of the Yolngu Nations Assembly, a group of Arnhem Land Aboriginal leaders. He said Australian Government ministers needed to hold the same diplomatic talks with Arnhem Land ...