Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
Aboriginal culture to be front and centre of Australia Day celebrations
ABC Online
"I think it's important to recognise that Australia Day is a complex day for Aboriginal people but the great thing that's happened this year is that there has been wonderful engagement between the Australia Day Council and the Indigenous community.

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ABC Local
Wind company seeking Aboriginal stakeholders for possible solar farm development
ABC Local
The proponent, Goldwind Australia, has now engaged a company to conduct an assessment of the Aboriginal heritage impacts of a potential solar farm adjacent to the wind farm site. The company is proposing a 20 to 25 MW facility that would occupy an area ...

Fraser Coast Chronicle
'Significant' Butchulla site located on the Burrum River
Fraser Coast Chronicle
Mr Waters has known about his home's history since moving there 30 years ago. He kept its significance quiet due to the dispute about land rights between white and Aboriginal Australia in the 1980's. "I've known ever since I've come here but everybody ...

ABC Online
Indigenous doctors key to improving the health of Aboriginal communities ...
ABC Online
Another group of Indigenous medical students has graduated from Charles Darwin University (CDU), adding to the small number of university trained Aboriginal GP's in Australia. Four Indigenous students graduated from CDU as doctors last year, and two ...
Theatre preview: Jack Charles V The Crown — A true story of redemptionOttawa Citizen

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ABC Online
New WA Children's Commissioner promises better deal for child abuse victims
ABC Online
He plans to build on the work started with the "Listen to Us" report prepared by his immediate predecessor, acting commissioner Jenni Perkin. It flowed from an unprecedented state-wide consultation with Aboriginal children, and provided an insight into ...

ABC Online
Lego changes stance on bulk orders after Ai Weiwei exhibition controversy
ABC Online
The piece, currently on show, features portraits of a number of prominent Australians including Australian of the Year and anti-domestic violence campaigner Rose Batty, formerly imprisoned journalist Peter Greste, Aboriginal rights activist Gary Foley ...

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My Sunshine Coast (press release)
Aboriginal Comedy Allstars is cheeky, playful, irreverent and hilarious
My Sunshine Coast (press release)
Featuring Kevin Kropinyeri, one of Australia's leading Aboriginal comedians who is a regular performer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) and a regular guest on TV including Seven's Weekend Sunrise, Shiralee Hood (MICF Deadly ...

Bundaberg News Mail
Bundaberg link to David Bowie remembered
Bundaberg News Mail
The video featured Roberts and Joelene King as an Aboriginal couple attempting to assimilate into western society, only to discard it. . Its powerful imagery, filled with rich metaphors and the starkness of rural Australia made it one of Bowie's most ...
David Bowie and the Return of the Music VideoThe New Yorker
6 Political Statements You Had No Idea David Bowie MadeElite Daily (blog)
How David Bowie fled cops, dodged snakes and almost sparked a riot on wild Let ...The Sun

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Telegraph.co.uk
David Bowie praised for 'gutsy' support of Aboriginal rights
Telegraph.co.uk
The singer had a lifelong fascination with Australia and owned an inner-city apartment in Sydney Bowie confronted this racism in the Let's Dance clip, which starred two young Aboriginal performers, Terry Roberts and Jolene King, who are seen dancing ...
How David Bowie's Let's Dance shone a light on Australia's Indigenous struggleThe Guardian
The album cover that launched David Bowie's Australia obsessionSydney Morning Herald
'Let's Dance' Pub, The Carinda Hotel, Pays Tribute to David BowieHuffington Post Australia

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Voters face another dual election
Gympie Times
On the videos, former Townsville City Council and Burdekin Shire Council mayors Les Tyrell and Lyn McLaughlin and sitting Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council mayor Alf Lacey talk of their experiences running for office, campaigning and working with ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Why do we keep going back to the bush?
ArtsHub (subscription)
'Jada and Guy were brilliant in going, “But in WA in 1965, in country Western Australia, what kind of things were the Aboriginal people allowed to do, what weren't they allowed to do?” I mean, they were treated as flora, for example; they weren't ...

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Why these 4 shares are sinking on the ASX today
Motley Fool Australia
Beach Energy, an Australian oil and gas producer with key interests in the Cooper Basin, is already 18% lower for 2016 thanks to ongoing falls in oil prices. Nonetheless, in a statement to the ASX this morning, Beach announced the appointment of ...

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ABC Local
Possum skin cloaks and bush medicine explained in Aboriginal seasonal calendar app
ABC Local
In recent years, that knowledge has started to receive a lot more recognition, particularly with a project by the Bureau of Meteorology to build a series of Aboriginal seasonal calendars, mainly in northern Australia. So far, there has not been ...

ABC Online
Energy Resources of Australia reviewing its Ranger uranium mine in the ...
ABC Online
"ERA has initiated a strategic review of its business following advice from the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation that the Mirarr Traditional Owners do not support an extension to the Ranger Authority," its statement to the ASX said. "ERA expects to ...
Australia's oldest uranium mine may close as traditional owners opt to take ...Business Insider Australia

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The Guardian
How David Bowie's Let's Dance shone a light on Australia's Indigenous struggle
The Guardian
Bowie plucked two Aboriginal performers from obscurity – Terry Roberts and Jolene King – to feature them in his clip. As King told Fairfax in 2013, “[The clip] showed the rest of the world that there are Indigenous people here in Australia, and that we ...
'Let's Dance' Pub, The Carinda Hotel, Pays Tribute to David BowieHuffington Post Australia
David Bowie was absolutely entranced by Australia, but not its racist pastMashable
How David Bowie fled cops, dodged snakes and almost sparked a riot on wild Let ...The Sun

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Business Insider Australia
Australia's oldest uranium mine may close as traditional owners opt to take ...
Business Insider Australia
The review of the mine was started after the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation, representing the Mirarr traditional owners, said it didn't want an extension to the Ranger Authority. The current permits expire in 2021. The traditional owners, who are ...

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The Conversation AU
A fine balance: saving Australia's unique wildlife in a contested land
The Conversation AU
Rocio Ponce-Reyes receives funding from the Gas Industry Social and Environmental Research Alliance (GISERA), which is a collaborative vehicle co-funded by CSIRO, Australia Pacific LNG Pty Ltd and QGC to undertake research that addresses the social ...

Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Still plenty of activities to keep the kids entertained
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
On Tuesday, January 19, from 10am to 1pm, the Aboriginal-inspired "Bark Painting" workshop will use a variety of materials including paints, pastels and charcoal to create large "bark" painting on cardboard. This class is suitable for those aged seven ...

Sydney Morning Herald
The album cover that launched David Bowie's Australia obsession
Sydney Morning Herald
Inside a dusty pub, the peroxide-blonde pop star strums and struts in front of a small crowd, and projects outback Australia to the world. Three years before Crocodile Dundee, David Bowie's famous 1983 film clip to Let's Dance, which swung a spotlight ...

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Huffington Post Australia
'Let's Dance' Pub, The Carinda Hotel, Pays Tribute to David Bowie
Huffington Post Australia
Although he was never forgotten. “We just had one of the locals here at our Christmas party dressed up as Santa Claus playing the bass while a guy with bleached hair and all performed that [Let's Dance] scene on the wall,” George told The Huffington ...

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