Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Courier Mail
Vile racist slur that left me stunned
Courier Mail
I love Aboriginals with a passion, their artwork, their culture, their jewellery,” Mayor Ferguson said. “It's about education, isn't it. It's about people understanding that Aboriginals are our brothers and sisters, they are our culture, they are ...

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Weekly Times Now
Dimboola's indigenous culture showcased in bush tucker tours
Weekly Times Now
“So I talk about the overall Aboriginal culture and history of Australia. I teach people when they approach Aborigines in Uluru, for instance, they consider it impolite to look people in the eye, which, of course, is impolite for non-indigenous. “I ...

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Revealing the buried history of Aboriginal country music
ABC Message Stick
It doesn't have mainstream recognition, but there's a home grown musical culture full of songs of dispossession, rebellion and heart ache - Aboriginal country music. Now a new book has been released which looks at its buried history.
Buried Country: The little-known history of Aboriginal country musicABC Online

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ABC Online
Buried Country: The little-known history of Aboriginal country music
ABC Online
American hip-hop and blues have been popular within the Australian music scene for decades but there is a little-known, homegrown musical culture that also draws on dispossession, rebellion and heartache — Aboriginal country music. It does not have ...

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Kalgoorlie Muslims welcome council decision to approve prayer room
ABC Message Stick
Mr Imroz said Kalgoorlie's Muslim community respected the Aboriginal community. "I am from Fiji where there are native people who are the traditional owners," he said. "So when I came to Australia, I understood this land belongs to them [Aboriginal ...

Aboriginal Australians' year of action
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While it is rare to see a year where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people don't take to the streets to challenge government policies, Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett's announcement in November 2014 of the proposed closure of remote ...

New Matilda
In Canada And Australia, Aboriginal Women Reporting Disappearances Meet ...
New Matilda
As Amy McQuire reports, there are striking similarities between the treatment those women received and a number of cases in Australia. In 1990, Aboriginal woman Muriel Craig Walker walked into the police station on the mid-north coast town of ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Unsettled art show accompanies Encounters at the National Museum of Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
Judy Watson was once told the Fijian word for museum meant "the place where things go to die", but rather than being dusty and long forgotten on a museum shelf, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artefacts from the British Museum resonate with ...

The Guardian
Time to remedy great wrong against indigenous: Malcolm Turnbull
The Australian
“When our Constitution was framed over a century ago, there was no acknowledgment of the custodianship of the Aboriginal history of Australia, there was no acknowledgment of 40,000 years' occupation and caring for this country by the Aboriginal and ...
Indigenous will lead talks on Constitutional recognitionThe Sunshine Coast Daily
Ignoring Indigenous Australians a big error, Turnbull tells referendum councilThe Guardian

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Domestic violence behind spike in indigenous jail numbers: John Rau
The Australian
In response to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures that show South Australia has the second-highest rate of Aboriginal imprisonment of all states, Mr Rau said the problem was not the state's corrections system but rather a “deeply entrenched ...

The Australian
Seal death inquiry team targets Aboriginal elder
The Australian
Ngarrindjeri man Darrell Sumner told The Australian that Environment Department compliance officers executed a search warrant on his Meningie property in South Australia's lower lakes region last week. They told him they were looking for a club ...

The Guardian
Indigenous will lead talks on Constitutional recognition
The Sunshine Coast Daily
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (centre) and Aboriginal leaders Pat Anderson (left) and Mick Gooda listen as Professor Patrick Dodson addresses the first meeting of the Referendum Council on constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and ...
Ignoring Indigenous Australians a big error, Turnbull tells referendum councilThe Guardian
Time to remedy great wrong against indigenous: Malcolm TurnbullThe Australian

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The Guardian
Ignoring Indigenous Australians a big error, Turnbull tells referendum council
The Guardian
Aboriginal leader Mick Gooda (right) speaks to former AFL head honcho Andrew Demetriou before the meeting. Photograph: Paul Miller/AAP. Australia needs a new constitution that “reflects all of our history and does so in a way that unites us and makes ...
Referendum Council to meet for first time, PM flags Indigenous-led consultationsABC Online
In every other comparable nation, treaties and indigenous sovereignty are a ...Sydney Morning Herald
The politics of identity: We are trapped in the imaginations of white AustraliansThe Guardian

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The Conversation AU
Next wave: what Australia can learn from New Zealand's flag referendum
The Conversation AU
But such a design would, in a similar way to the New Zealand design, disregard Australia's rich and ancient Aboriginal culture. Though the kangaroo has significant meaning to Aboriginal peoples, simply placing a kangaroo on the flag does not engage ...
Why Australia shouldn't rush to change the flagSydney Morning Herald

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SBS
A White Christmas? Christmas in Australia is Black! Meet Santa in Gunbalanya
SBS
A picture of an Aboriginal man playing Santa in Gunbalanya in the Northern Territory has been circulating the Internet in December. The image was posted on Reddit alongside the message: "A friend of mine worked at a remote community of the Northern ...

ABC Online
Referendum Council to meet for first time, PM flags Indigenous-led consultations
ABC Online
Mr Shorten told reporters that the meeting would be another step towards the "overdue recognition" of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. He also noted that any change had to be made in the context that Indigenous Australians do not get "an equal ...

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Why Australia shouldn't rush to change the flag
Sydney Morning Herald
The Southern Cross not only references our place in the world, but it is highly significant in Aboriginal mythology. The Union Jack acknowledges European settlement came from Britain, reflected in our national language, system of parliamentary ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
In every other comparable nation, treaties and indigenous sovereignty are a ...
Sydney Morning Herald
When the British founded a colony in Australia in 1788, no treaties were signed. Instead, Aboriginal people were dispossessed due to the legal fiction that the continent was terra nullius, or no man's land. This conveniently applied the so-called ...

The Age
How an Indigenous treaty would build a better foundation for Australia
The Age
When the British founded a colony in Australia in 1788, no treaties were signed. Instead, Aboriginal people were dispossessed due to the legal fiction that the continent was terra nullius, or no man's land. This conveniently applied the so-called ...

The Age
Why Australia shouldn't rush to change the flag
The Age
The Southern Cross not only references our place in the world, but it is highly significant in Aboriginal mythology. The Union Jack acknowledges European settlement came from Britain, reflected in our national language, system of parliamentary ...

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