Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
Dennis Jensen's 'noble savage' comments about Aboriginal communities residents 'unhelpful', Nigel Scullion says
ABC Online
"Does the Minister support the comments by the Member for Tangney, Mr Jensen, who describes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as 'noble savages' and says government services shouldn't be provided to remote communities because, and I ...
'Stuck in an era long before this one': Ken Wyatt criticises fellow Liberal's 'noble savage' commentsSBS

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The Guardian
Indigenous Australians and Canadians 'destroyed by same colonialism'
The Guardian
Two men walk past a mural depicting the Aboriginal flag in Sydney. 'If it's something people want, Aboriginal people have less of it, and if it's something people don't want Aboriginal people have more,' said Jonathan Rudin. Photograph: Torsten ...

New Matilda
Amnesty Report Blasts Australia's Detention Of Aboriginal People And Asylum Seekers
New Matilda
Australia has come in for a drubbing in Amnesty International's annual human rights report, with treatment of Aboriginal people and asylum seekers in particular being singled out for condemnation. The extremely high rate at which Indigenous people are ...
'Shameful': Australia must lift game on human rights, Amnesty saysSBS

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New Matilda
Liberal MP Concedes 'British Australia Invaded', Then Demands End To Funding Black 'Lifestyle Choices'
New Matilda
“I put it to the members of this place that the taxpayers of Australia should not be funding lifestyle choices. Yes, I agree with the former Prime Minister, the member for Warringah, when he refers to Indigenous Australians' choice to live in remote ...
Turnbull under pressure to condemn MP over 'noble savage' speech on Indigenous communitiesABC Online
Liberal MP Dennis Jensen called remote Indigenous communities 'noble savages'Daily Mail

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Sydney Morning Herald
One Billion Beats reveals how Australian cinema treats Aboriginal people
Sydney Morning Herald
In a darkened theatre at Campbelltown Arts Centre, a water trough filled with meaning sits on the stage. Behind the trough, a film shows a group of Aboriginal people drinking from a water trough that is later used by cattle. A scene from the movie ...

ABC Online
Indigenous academic Bronwyn Carson explores complexities of being Aboriginal and the politics of identity
ABC Online
Her experience growing up with the understanding that she and her siblings "weren't white, but not Aboriginal either" inspired her recently published PhD, in which she explores the complexities of being an Aboriginal Australian. "I see people from uni ...

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Australian Geographic
Did Aboriginal Australians hold the answer to our bushfire problem?
Australian Geographic
So rapid was the socio-ecological disruption of southern Australia that researchers have had to rely on historical sources, such as colonial texts and images, and tree rings, pollen and charcoal in lake sediments, to piece together how Aboriginal ...

ABC Online
Calls for new WA heritage laws to protect both Aboriginal and European cultural sites
ABC Online
"But there are elements obviously within the Government that are still caught up in an 'old-world view of Aboriginal Australia'." Dr Veth and Dr Ouzman also do not support the legislation. They have added their voices to calls by other local ...

The Conversation AU
Aboriginal fire management – part of the solution to destructive bushfires
The Conversation AU
So rapid was the socio-ecological disruption of southern Australia that researchers have had to rely on historical sources, such as colonial texts and images, and tree rings, pollen and charcoal in lake sediments, to piece together how Aboriginal ...

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Global Voices Online
An Aboriginal Comedy Show in Australia Finds a Mainstream Audience
Global Voices Online
An example: Lui wrote and starred in a satirical advertisement for a cosmetic line, Pretty for an Aboriginal. Lui is light-skinned. Her mother is an Aboriginal from the Gamilaroi Nation in interior Australia. Her father is a Torres Strait Islander ...

The Stringer
Racial inequality in the Australian criminal system – 1 in 6 Black people go to prison
The Stringer
The incarceration rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is an abomination – moral, political and otherwise and bespeaks of diabolical racism unfettered. In Western Australia, the mother of jailers, one in 13 of Aboriginal adult males is ...

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The Guardian
Death in custody: Aboriginal woman Maureen Mandijarra lay in cell for hours
The Guardian
The inquest into her death began in the tourist town 2,240km north of Perth on Western Australia's north-west coast on Monday. In the small courthouse, across a red dirt stained road from the Broome police station, Toby Bishop, the counsel assisting ...

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The Conversation AU
Four ways Western Australia can improve Aboriginal heritage management
The Conversation AU
The new changes will see decisions over heritage listings rest almost entirely with the CEO of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, which the Law Society of Western Australia has argued gives too much power to one person. We need a system of cultural ...
Lawyers call for action on indigenous incarcerationThe Sunshine Coast Daily

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Mashable
Rob Thomas apologises after making racist joke about Aboriginal Australians
Mashable
It's been a humbling few days for American singer and Matchbox 20 frontman Rob Thomas, who apologised after making a racist joke about Aboriginal Australians at a concert. Thomas was playing at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena in Australia as part of his ...

9news.com.au
Stan Grant pens emotional takedown of the Australian dream
9news.com.au
Indigenous journalist Stan Grant says the Australian dream is a "tourist brochure" which let Aboriginal people "rot", and once saw him so ashamed of his skin colour he tried to "scrub it off". Writing in his new book Talking to My Country, the former ...
Stan Grant says Australia still has issues with 'festering racism' in new bookHerald Sun
'The Australian dream left us to rot': exclusive extract from Stan Grant's new book, Talking to My CountryThe Guardian
Journalist Stan Grant could pursue politics career within monthsThe Australian (subscription)

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Daily Mail
Rob Thomas slammed over 'racist' statements about Aboriginal Australians at Melbourne gig
Daily Mail
Fans have swarmed to social media to slam Rob, with one particularly galled social media user writing on his Facebook page: 'Why on earth would you say such a horrible, insensitive thing about Aboriginal people drinking????? Really disappointed ...
Rob Thomas Has Apologized For Making a Racist Joke About Aboriginal AustraliansNoisey (blog)
US rock star's racist joke infuriates Indigenous communityThe New Daily
Rob Thomas makes offensive comment about Aboriginal Australians during Melbourne showWonderwall

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Daily Mail
Rob Thomas apologises after racist comment about Aboriginal Australians at Melbourne show
Daily Mail
'I drink til I think I'm Australian. And then I keep drinking til I think I'm a black Australian': Matchbox 20 front man Rob Thomas has been slammed by fans after making a racist joke about Aboriginal Australians during a solo gig in Melbourne on ...
Rob Thomas makes offensive comment about Aboriginal Australians during Melbourne showWonderwall
Rob Thomas Offensive Remark Down Under ... Drinking Til 'I'm A Black Australian'TMZ.com
Matchbox 20 frontman stuns fans with race remarkSydney Morning Herald
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Wonderwall
Rob Thomas makes offensive comment about Aboriginal Australians during Melbourne show
Wonderwall
While performing in Melbourne, Australia on Feb. 19, the former Matchbox 20 singer got himself into some hot water when he made some off-color remarks about Aboriginal Australians. During the show, the singer chatted with the audience about drinking on ...
Rob Thomas apologises after making offensive and racist comment about Aboriginal Australians during show in ...Daily Mail
Rob Thomas Apologizes For Racist Drinking Joke About Black AustraliansGossip Cop

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Sydney Morning Herald
How Aboriginal artist Dave Malangi's design ended up on Australia's money
Sydney Morning Herald
A camel, according to conventional wisdom, is a horse designed by a committee. We've had our share of camels born of committees in Australia, but the Currency Note Design Group, convened in 1963 by the governor of the Reserve Bank, H. C. "Nugget" ...

The Australian (subscription)
Push for Aboriginal ID tests
The Australian (subscription)
Council chairman Warren Mundine and Queensland Aboriginal leader Stephen Hagan, who until recently headed a council of Australia's Federal Court-vetted native title organisations, said the existing system to approve claims of Aboriginality was outdated ...

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