Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Conversation AU
The call that might save your life this Christmas – and how Lifeline saved mine
The Conversation AU
Earlier this month, the latest Children's Rights Report was released, showing that one in 12 Australian men and women had experienced physical abuse by a family member, and one in 28 experienced sexual abuse by a family member, before the age of 15.

The Mercury
With architecture as the narrator
The Mercury
Seeds from France planted at the bay created the first European garden in Australia, and cordial contact was achieved between the French and Tasmanian Aborigines, who feasted, played games and sang. Louise Girardin, a woman disguised as a male ...

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Indigenous activist holds out against Carmichael mine
The Australian
A spokeswoman for the state Minister for State Development, Natural Resources and Mines, Anthony Lynham, last night said he could not issue the mining lease for Australia's largest proposed coal mine until Mr Burragubba's case was resolved. The case ...

ABC Online
Artists and authors pick the PM's summer reading list
ABC Online
I think dear old Malcolm has gone a bit overboard on the positive thinking route—the whole 'it's never been a more exciting time to be an Australian! Everything for the best, and the best of all possible worlds, all we need is to be agile and ...

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NEWS.com.au
Floatopia event cancelled following outbursts and insults online
NEWS.com.au
Anyone who publicly celebrated on Australia Day should be conscious of the insensitivity given Aboriginal communities continue to name it Invasion Day. “Not only are individuals being insensitive to the true meaning of this day but they are also ...

Australian Geographic
Vale Harry Butler AO CBE
Australian Geographic
... on the sustainable exploitation of first oil and later gas on Barrow Island off the WA coast. Harry was the 1979 Australian of the Year, an honour he shared with Neville Bonner, the first Aboriginal person to become a member of the Australian ...

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SBS
A year in the spotlight for Indigenous challenges
SBS
And Australia was once again reminded of the tragedy of Indigenous people dying in custody. There was heckling of West Australian premier Colin Barnett over the death of a young Aboriginal woman, known as Ms Dhu for cultural reasons. She died days ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal man found dead in custody four hours after routine court appearance
The Guardian
The father of an Aboriginal man who died while waiting for someone to sign his bail paperwork in Broome, Western Australia, was notified of his death by staff at a prison 2,189km away – but it took them two phone calls to tell him which of his sons had ...

NT News
MLA raises questions over care unit
NT News
“The Central Australia Palliative Care Association and myself as Minister for Health worked collaboratively to get this much needed service off the ground in Alice Springs,” Mrs Lambley said. “Over the last 12 months there has ... “We just feel that ...

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ABC Online
Gulf of Carpentaria communities prepare for potential cyclone
ABC Online
However, forecasters said the chance of a cyclone forming today or tomorrow north of Australia was becoming less likely, due to a low pressure system located over part of the Northern Territory developing more slowly than expected. The Bureau of ...

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The Stringer
Western Australia doesn't get it; they think jailing the poor is just fine
The Stringer
Western Australia jails the poorest at a higher rate than the rest of the nation. Western Australia jails those who cannot afford to pay fines. Western Australia jails Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people at abominable rates, the highest in ...

ABC Online
Welfare debit card mooted for WA Goldfields
ABC Online
Communities in Western Australia's northern Goldfields could become the next trial sites for the Federal Government's welfare debit card. A bill to set up three trial sites for the welfare card, which will hold 80 per cent of fortnightly payments and ...

The Sunshine Coast Daily
The good, the bad and the expensive: Aussie politics in 2015
The Sunshine Coast Daily
He equivocated on Constitutional recognition and spent one week espousing his apparent "credentials" on Cape York, at the same time turning a tin ear to the real concerns of Aboriginal Australia. The government's ear was, however, receptive to the ...

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Crikey (registration) (blog)
Will the proposed s116A prohibit or entrench racial discrimination in the ...
Crikey (registration) (blog)
Stan Grant, for example, recently noted that the Australian Law Reform Commission records 67 different definitions of Australian Indigenous people. But he didn't take it a step further: a definition of Aboriginal or Indigenous arises because we make ...

The Age
We should shout about the historic achievement of adding Indigenous languages ...
The Age
Studies consistently point to the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who learn their own languages are more engaged with their school life and education overall. Research from Australia and Canada is also beginning to show that ...
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Bush tucker trend: Indigenous custodians call for protections on native foodsSydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
We should shout about the historic achievement of adding Indigenous languages ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Studies consistently point to the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who learn their own languages are more engaged with their school life and education overall. Research from Australia and Canada is also beginning to show that ...
More focus on Indigenous talentcricket.com.au

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ABC Online
Martu elders fight against removal of Aboriginal children
ABC Online
More than a decade after it featured in the Stolen Generations movie Rabbit-Proof Fence, a remote West Australian community has raised concerns about the number of Aboriginal children currently in care. Martu elders from Jigalong, 1,300 kilometres ...

Port Stephens Examiner
Kelvin Kong to speak on Australia Day
Newcastle Herald
The Australia Day Council of NSW has released a list of 140 prominent sports people, cultural leaders and medical pioneers who will speak to various communities on January 26. Dr Kong spoke to Fairfax in May when he said his childhood was somewhat ...
Kelvin Kong an Australia Day ambassadorPort Stephens Examiner

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cricket.com.au
More focus on Indigenous talent
cricket.com.au
Cricket has enjoyed a formal, popular presence on the Australian sporting landscape for far longer than Aussie rules, rugby union, rugby league and soccer yet the football codes have long been the pursuit of choice for budding Aboriginal and Torres ...
Bush tucker trend: Indigenous custodians call for protections on native foodsSydney Morning Herald

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ABC Online
Learning about Indigenous culture from 'Arandic professor of science'
ABC Online
When she was old enough she moved to Alice Springs and worked as a cleaner at the local post office, courthouse and the Institute for Aboriginal Development (IAD). A chance encounter at her workplace led to the start of her career. "I was a cleaner at ...

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