Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

A proposed new flag that everyone's talking about … but what do Aboriginal people think about it?
The Conversation AU
John submitted an Aboriginal design which replaced the Union Jack with a dot painting from Aborigines in central Australia. He says this is “red and white Aboriginal art symbol for a campsite or a home country”. Then he says this flag would reflect ...

Ballarat Courier
Ballarat men dress up in Aboriginal black face, accused of being racists
Ballarat Courier
The Courier has chosen not to name or identify the duo at this point time. Picture: Facebook. UPDATE. Respected Ballarat Aboriginal elder Ted Lovett has condemned two young men for dressing up in blackface as indigenous Australians for an 'Aussie Icon' ...

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Daily Mail
Two Victorian men dress up in BLACKFACE Aboriginal costumes to attend 21st birthday
Daily Mail
In another photo, a woman is also wearing brown face paint, while wearing a bright green track suit with an Australian flag draped around her shoulders. The costume is believed to be a reference to Aboriginal Olympic gold medalist, Cathy Freeman.
Increasing support for #changethedate of Australia Day - Will 2017 be the year? Six Australians have their sayInternational Business Times AU

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The Age
Stan Grant speech: Aboriginal experience surgically targeted at national psyche
The Age
The blistering, eloquent and very sad speech from Stan Grant – delivered in a debate forum last October, and posted by the Ethics Centre on its website ahead of Australia Day – laid out specific problems facing Indigenous Australians, most shamefully ...
Grant: 'The Australian Dream remains outside our grasp'Deutsche Welle

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The Age
Justice should be Australia's dream
The Age
If you are yet to take the 8½ minutes to watch journalist Stan Grant speak on the topic of "racism destroying the Australian dream," make the time. His words are searing, a much-needed jolt to national complacency towards Aboriginal Australia, and a ...

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Australia Day Fireworks stored on Registered Aboriginal Site without consultation
The Stringer
Invasion Day protests speak of the sadness felt by Aboriginal people when Australians celebrate the date that the British laid claim to their land. For them this date also marks the beginning of Australia's policies and practices of genocide against ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal communities hold the key to their future
Sydney Morning Herald
On almost every measure – health, schooling, housing, income, crime and incarceration – Aboriginal Australia trails non-Aboriginal Australia. The Closing the Gap strategy appears to have stalled. The last report showed progress on only two of the ...
Noel Pearson 'regrets' coup against Tony Abbott, says Indigenous affairs in 'deep crisis'ABC Online
Noel Pearson says 1788 is 'one of three' defining moments for AustraliaSBS
Noel Pearson regrets Tony Abbott demise as prime ministerThe Australian
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New Matilda
'In Straya, We Speak English', Said The Australian Flag Clad Patriot to The Aboriginal Pitjantjatjara Speaker
New Matilda
But amidst all the chaos, there's one thing that was said that should be required reading for all Australians. This blog post from an Aboriginal woman in South Australia. And a spoiler alert, NM readers are probably going to react most strongly to this ...

New Matilda
Another Preventable Death: Ms Dhu Vs WA Police And Australia-At-Large
New Matilda
Despite an extensive (and expensive – around $40m) Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1990, Aboriginal Australians still die in custody on a regular basis. The Royal Commission included 339 recommendations in its conclusion; ...

The Advertiser
Aboriginal mother told to 'speak English'
The Advertiser
Confronted with this just hours after singing star Jessica Mauboy kicked off Australia Day celebrations by singing the national anthem in both English and aboriginal dialects from the top of Sydney Harbour Bridge, Elizabeth Close has told how in shock ...

Pedestrian TV
Nakkiah Lui Slams Non-Aboriginals For Nude 'Art' At Invasion Day March
Pedestrian TV
"It was the most inclusive and beautiful Australia Day behavior I have seen today," said photographer Adam Ferguson, who captured the image that's totally enraged Nakkiah and shared it to his Instagram. "Here they are just after, wrapped in an ...

Anglicannews
Cathedral consults on Aboriginal memorials
Anglicannews
[ACNS] St Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia, has begun a consultation on the possible installation of two memorials to commemorate the role that Aboriginal people have made to Australia's armed forces. One memorial would commemorate Aboriginal ...

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MuslimVillage.com (press release) (blog)
Encounters: Aboriginal Australians and Islam
MuslimVillage.com (press release) (blog)
This unequal, master/worker experience between Muslims and the colonial Australian society stands in contrast to the first encounter between Muslim people and the Aboriginal Australians an engagement that had occurred 300 years before the arrival of ...

ABC Online
WA Supreme Court orders probe into Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation
ABC Online
The governance of an Indigenous body in Western Australia's Pilbara will be investigated by the Supreme Court after allegations its directors have not been validly appointed. The issue is the latest in a long-running dispute between the Yindjibarndi ...

Stuff.co.nz
Thousands rally for Aboriginal rights, denounce Australia Day
Stuff.co.nz
While most Australians celebrate Australia Day - which marks the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 - many Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders view it as a day of mourning, marking the dispossession of their land, and refer to the day as ...

WA today
Australia Day 2016: hundreds march along Perth foreshore in Aboriginal protest
WA today
Hundreds of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal protesters have marched along Perth foreshore to oppose Australia Day being held on a date that marks when the First Fleet arrived in Australia and declared the land uninhabited. For many Aboriginal people, the ...
Australia Day: Invasion Day rallies held across nationABC Online
Australia Day 'killing times' shouldn't be swept under the carpetNEWS.com.au
How to show solidarity with Indigenous Australians this Invasion DayDaily Life
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Sydney Morning Herald
Australia Day 2016: Inclusive celebrations open conversation in Sydney's harbour
Sydney Morning Herald
Among the thousands who lined the harbour in sight of the vast Aboriginal and Australian flags – hoisted as Jessica Mauboy sang the national anthem in local Aboriginal languages and English as part of the WugulOra Morning Ceremony – were families ...
Today is our true blue time to partydailytelegraph.com.au
Australia Day: 27 reasons to head Down UnderTelegraph.co.uk

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ABC Online
Australia Day: Invasion Day rallies held across nation
ABC Online
For many Aboriginal people, Torres Strait Islanders and activists, there is little to celebrate on Australia Day, which is seen as the dispossession of Indigenous land and a day of mourning over the First Fleet's arrival at Port Jackson, Sydney, in 1788.
How to show solidarity with Indigenous Australians this Invasion DayDaily Life
Acknowledging how Indigenous Australians are still left behind this Australia DaySydney Morning Herald
Australia Day or Invasion Day, it's the wrong questionThe Age
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NEWS.com.au
Forgotten verses of Advance Australia Fair we'd be embarrassed to sing today
NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, of course. While the verses are full to the brim of the derring-do of the Brits as they set foot on Australia's “boundless plains”, there is not a mention of the indigenous people who had been on ...

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New Matilda
CHANGE THE DATE: Read This If You Want To Know Why Australia Day Is So Offensive To Aboriginal People
New Matilda
To understand why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people find Australia Day so offensive, you only need to ask yourself this one, simple question. If your ancestors were dispossessed, slaughtered and had their land and their children stolen ...
An Australian republic 'could benefit Aborigines'MWC News
The world's oldest living culture forms centrepiece of a modern Australia DaySydney Morning Herald
Government's Healthy Welfare Card no solution to alcohol abuseThe Australian
On Line opinion
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