Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Guardian
Indigenous prisoners in police custody get 24-hour counselling hotline
The Guardian
From Thursday, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people held in prisons or police lock-ups in Western Australia will be able to request access to a 24-hour hotline that will connect them with the Aboriginal Visitors Scheme (AVS), a support and ...

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The Australian (subscription)
Denial won't save Aboriginal kids
The Australian (subscription)
With section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act rearing its head once again, many Australians may fear accusations of racism if they point out that too many Aboriginal children live in disgraceful conditions from which non-Aboriginal children would ...

The Australian (subscription)
Alan Jones isn't racist, he wants Aboriginal kids to be safe
The Australian (subscription)
The fear of being labelled racist has driven too many of us to remain silent about abuse in Aboriginal Australia. That silence has condemned too many indigenous kids to undergo and witness things children simply should never see. In late 1993 while I ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous MP ruled disorderly for speaking Warlpiri language in parliament
The Guardian
“Warlpiri is one of the first languages for the first people of Australia, and Warlpiri to me is the easiest language for me to express myself in,” Price told the ABC. “I believe our languages should be acknowledged and we are forever and a day having ...
Aboriginal minister Bess Price denied request to speak Indigenous language in NT ParliamentABC Online
Indigenous tongues deserve recognition as official languagesThe Australian (subscription)

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The Guardian
Indigenous writer Bruce Pascoe: Australian literature needs to be better at telling Indigenous stories
The Guardian
When Bruce Pascoe released his non-fiction book Dark Emu: Black Seeds, Agriculture or Accident? – which drew evidence of precolonial Aboriginal Australia food production from diaries of early explorers, challenging their categorisation as hunter ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal minister Bess Price denied request to speak Indigenous language in NT Parliament
ABC Online
The failed request from Local Government Minister Bess Nungarrayi Price came after the central Australian MP was warned over disorderly conduct after she interjected in a parliamentary debate in Warlpiri, prompting NT Speaker Kezia Purick to declare ...
Indigenous MP ruled disorderly for speaking Warlpiri language in parliamentThe Guardian

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Harvard Magazine
At the Harvard Art Museums, Indigenous Australian Art and Thought on Display
Harvard Magazine
Australian anthropologist William Stanner coined the term “everywhen” in the 1960s as a way to translate the Aboriginal experience of past and future as unified and overlapping: time is cyclical and circular, rather than unidirectional and linear, and ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Aboriginal women 'committing crimes to go to jail and avoid abusive partners'
Telegraph.co.uk
Government figures show Aborigines in Australia make up about three per cent of the population but comprise almost a third of the prison population. A report last week found imprisonment for Aboriginal adults increased by 77 per cent between 2000 and ...

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Care2.com
The 'Silent' Killer Behind Australia's Health Crisis
Care2.com
It's no secret that aboriginal Australians have survived many hardships. But a new “silent” killer is destroying aboriginal bodies and communities at an unprecedented rate in Australia's latest health crisis: indigenous Australians have kidney disease ...

Daily Free Press (subscription)
GANS: Fish Down Under dives into Aboriginal Australia
Daily Free Press (subscription)
Newman, now 53, recalled the story Friday at a small cafe in Sydney, just down the street from the Boston University Academic Center where she teaches a course on Aboriginal Australia. Chuckling as she quoted Avalon, Newman said it was the first time ...

SBS
Population snapshots: Australia at 24 million, 14 million and four million
SBS
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act was enacted in 1976. It was the first attempt by an Australian government to legally recognise the Aboriginal system of land ownership and set up processes for Indigenous Australians to reclaim land.

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SBS
Australia's population snapshots at 24 million, 14 million, four million
SBS
The Aborigines Act of 1905 was enacted at the time to provide for “the better protection and care of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Western Australia” by making a “Chief Protector” legal guardian of every Aboriginal and 'half-caste' child under 16 years ...

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The Age
Prevent bushfires the Aboriginal way
The Age
Bushfire still burns somewhere in Australia pretty much all year round. Often it is uncontrolled and destructive fire, sometimes deadly. The nature of fire in our landscape has changed, as has the way we think about it and respond to it. The incidence ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Queen Emma's grave oversight
dailytelegraph.com.au
Chris Ingrey from La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council is a part of the Empowered Communities initiative. Photo: Hollie Adams / The Australian. “This Queen was no proud and haughty aristocrat with a retinue of servants to do her bidding and a ...

Daily Mail
Alan Jones calls for MORE Aboriginal children to be taken from their parents
Daily Mail
Controversial radio shock jock Alan Jones has told listeners to his radio program that Australia needed to have another Stolen Generation to save Indigenous children from their 'drug and alcohol addicted' Aboriginal mothers and fathers. Jones made the ...
Alan Jones says Australia needs another stolen generation 'to protect children'The Guardian
2GB broadcaster Alan Jones says 'we need stolen generations'Sydney Morning Herald
We need more Stolen Generations: Jonesdailytelegraph.com.au
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ABC Online
The story of Australia's first Aboriginal political movement returns to Coranderrk
ABC Online
The play Coranderrk will be performed on the site of the former Aboriginal mission, an hour's drive from Melbourne, for the first time on February 21. Charles is a descendant of the people of Coranderrk, who convinced a parliamentary inquiry in 1881 ...

PRI
An Aboriginal comedy show in Australia finds a mainstream audience
PRI
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 ...

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WA today
Review: Aboriginal artefacts make a surprising return to Australia
WA today
Australian Aborigines were seen as a "doomed" race, even by those who approached them with a keen sympathy. For many settlers they were simply a pest that had to be moved on or eliminated. Although one shouldn't confuse the barbarities of frontier ...

EurekAlert (press release)
Gene technology to help healthy skin in Aboriginal Australians
EurekAlert (press release)
Australian researchers have used cutting-edge genome technologies to reveal the genetic makeup of a widespread skin parasite causing serious health problems in Aboriginal communities. The research team identified the genetic 'map' of the human ...

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Review: Aboriginal artefacts make a surprising return to Australia
WA today
Australian Aborigines were seen as a "doomed" race, even by those who approached them with a keen sympathy. For many settlers they were simply a pest that had to be moved on or eliminated. Although one shouldn't confuse the barbarities of frontier ...

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