Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Bluesfest and Boomerang join forces
Soulshine
The Boomerang precinct at Bluesfest is all about cherishing culture and ending the disparity between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia. This intergenerational exchange will allow our loyal audiences a unique hands-on engagement and experience, ...

ABC Online
Indigenous mentor turning lives around in Halls Creek
ABC Online
In an outback town with a troubled reputation, a local Aboriginal man is helping turn around the prospects for the next generation. Carl Merrison was born and bred in the remote West Australian town of Halls Creek, which was once described by Kimberley ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Virtual dreaming - Indigenous Australia restored in the digital world
Sydney Morning Herald
Now he's part of an ambitious artificial intelligence project to digitally recreate Indigenous pre-settlement Australia – and in the process preserve Aboriginal culture in a virtually living state. In the first stage of the project – run by the Digital ...

ABC Online
proud Aboriginal elder dances with granddaughter at graduation
ABC Online
She plans to complete year 11 and 12 at Clontarf Aboriginal College in WA and dreams of becoming a nurse, working in her own community and in Melbourne. "I would still love to practice culture and teach people my culture," she says. "I also want to be ...

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The Australian
Patrick Dodson's shift on racial discrimination ban in referendum
The Australian
... replace outdated constitutional elements with a new head of powers for parliament to make laws for the benefit of indigenous people, while Aboriginal leaders would forgo a racial discrimination clause that could impose far-reaching effects upon ...

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ABC Online
String of 78 Christmas cards hung outside Parliament House to symbolise ...
ABC Online
... violence than non-indigenous women. "Violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women is not an Indigenous problem, but an Australian problem," she said. "And the response to support our Indigenous sisters has not been adequate to date ...

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The Conversation AU
New Aboriginal languages course should count towards ATARs
The Conversation AU
The new subject offers students the opportunity to engage in a meaningful way with Australia's first languages and to learn to communicate, speak, read and write an Aboriginal language. Schools will work with communities to help design a course for the ...

The Guardian
I can't call myself an Indigenous Australian and also say sovereignty never ceded
The Guardian
The task of Australian colonialism is to convince us that our identity and national interest is within the confines of Australian colonialism. The Australian government calls us “Indigenous Australians”, “Aboriginal Australians”, and “First Australians ...
Take stock of your human rights record, Catholic Bishop tells governmentSBS

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SBS
Take stock of your human rights record, Catholic Bishop tells government
SBS
Chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, Bishop Vincent Long, has used International Human Rights Day on Thursday to call out the nation's current social ills and urge governments to lift their game in working with Aboriginal and ...

New South Wales Rugby League
A Trip To Remember
New South Wales Rugby League
It was a momentous tour, headlined by a visit to Villiers-Bretonneux on Armistice Day followed by an historic match as the first Aboriginal side to play on the Somme Battlefields – in addition to visits to the Australian embassies in Paris and Rome ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Australia through Aboriginal eyes: the only way to understand our land
Sydney Morning Herald
In 1992, the United Nations International Year for the World's Indigenous People, I did not want to see out the year without saying something definitive about the general plight of indigenous people around the world and most particularly of our own.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Keating's Redfern Park speech
Sydney Morning Herald
"Indeed, the more we interpret Australia through Aboriginal eyes, through the experience of their long and epic story, the more we allow ourselves to understand the land we share." Rather than re-enter the debate on constitutional recognition and his ...
Australia through Aboriginal eyes: the only way to understand our landThe Age

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SBS
Adam Goodes up for Human Rights Medal
SBS
She is a Bardi woman from the Kimberley in Western Australia and was the first Aboriginal psychologist to graduate in the country. Currently working as a professor at the University of Western Australia, her research aims to improve outcomes for ...

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SBS
Death by 'diseases of poverty': Health authorities urged to protect Aboriginal ...
SBS
... too many others in remote Aboriginal communities Kia died of a disease of poverty at an early age," deputy state coroner Hugh Dillon said on Monday. "How this occurred in contemporary Australia has been the underlying problem this inquiry has ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Grayson Perry regrets his comments about Aboriginal art, says fame has ruined ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Grayson Perry says he regrets questioning whether Australian Aboriginal painting should be considered contemporary art. The Turner Prize-winning artist and flamboyant cross-dressing cultural critic caused a storm of protest in October with comments ...

Australian Geographic
Lecture: Pictorial tour of historic Antarctica
Australian Geographic
The National Museum of Australia's Encounters exhibition features 151 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander objects that were either taken or gifted during the first encounters between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia. Dr Shayne ...

Sky News Australia
Aboriginal kids need more protection: Coroner
Sky News Australia
'Like too many others in remote Aboriginal communities Kia died of a disease of poverty at an early age,' deputy state coroner Hugh Dillon said on Monday. 'How this occurred in contemporary Australia has been the underlying problem this inquiry has ...

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Australian Geographic
Lecture: Pictorial tour of historic Antarctica
Australian Geographic
The National Museum of Australia's Encounters exhibition features 151 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander objects that were either taken or gifted during the first encounters between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia. Dr Shayne ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
The sad fate of Aboriginal heritage in Western Australia
ArtsHub (subscription)
An Aboriginal Stone tool (chert knife), discovered in excavations at the Djadjiling rock shelter at a Pilbara mine site in Western Australia. Ho New. There is systemic discrimination against Aboriginal heritage in Western Australia. This does not come ...
Separate but unequal: the sad fate of Aboriginal heritage in Western AustraliaThe Conversation AU

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The Conversation AU
Separate but unequal: the sad fate of Aboriginal heritage in Western Australia
The Conversation AU
More than 3,000 Aboriginal sites have lost registration status as part of sweeping changes in classifications in the Aboriginal Heritage Register. Domes of Purnululu, Western Australia. Pic: David Denicolò ...