Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Huffington Post Australia
Recognition: The Greatest Gift For All Australia's Children
Huffington Post Australia
In doing so they not only committed a grave injustice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, they did all Australians a huge disservice. They robbed us of this rich and unimaginably long history and cultural legacy, in which, as modern ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Defying all statistics, he saved a generation of Aboriginal youngsters from ...
Sydney Morning Herald
You won't find his methodology in any drug service manual, but the results were stunningly clear – half the teenage population of Yuendumu (Central Australia's largest Aboriginal community) in 1994 were sniffing petrol but eight years later no one ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Japangardi Miller: Saved a generation of Aboriginal youngsters from ruined lives
Sydney Morning Herald
You won't find his methodology in any drug service manual, but the results were stunningly clear – half the teenage population of Yuendumu (Central Australia's largest Aboriginal community) in 1994 were sniffing petrol but eight years later no one ...

The Canberra Times
ACT and Australia fare badly in indigenous report card
The Canberra Times
While the ACT is a largely healthy and highly educated population, the Aboriginal community continues to be left behind, with little or no progress in five years, a new report finds. The Productivity Commission reported this week on progress towards ...

Green Left Weekly
Racism in Australia: from 1788 to stopping the boats
Green Left Weekly
The white settlers in Australia after 1788 might never have heard of or cared about Voltaire and Locke, but their mental universe owed much to them. The government in faraway London might have prescribed vague fair treatment for the Aboriginal people ...

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The West Australian
Progress on Rottnest Aboriginal burial grounds
The West Australian
Progress on Rottnest Aboriginal burial grounds The Quod on Rottnest will stop being used for accommodation from 2018. Picture: Simon Santi/The West Australian. Work has begun on the formal recognition of Australia's biggest unmarked burial ground.

SBS
Why my daughter won't study Aboriginal languages in her HSC
SBS
As passionate she is about her language, Professor Jakelin Troy is planning to discourage her daughter from studying an Aboriginal language at high school. The University of Sydney academic explains why the move is currently in her daughter's best ...

The Guardian (blog)
Marriage equality in Australia is a final step on a long march from 1788
The Guardian (blog)
The marriages of all convicts were controlled by the government, as were, in later times, the marriages of some immigrants, Australian soldiers and others. But the group that has suffered longest has been Aboriginal Australians who, up until the 1960s ...

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The Australian
Tony McAvoy SC says the justice system needs more Aboriginal lawyers. Picture ...
The Australian
He is one of only 25 barristers who identify as indigenous and are practising in Australia against a backdrop of over-representation of indigenous prisoners, cause enough, he says, for a greater focus on increasing the number of Aboriginal students in ...

SBS
Aboriginal Australia goes back even further than we thought, new evidence reveals
SBS
Archaeologists have unearthed thousands of artefacts in a cave on an island off the coast of Western Australia that date back 53,000 years ago. The Australian newspaper reports that an Oxford University Laboratory found that grains mixed with a ...

InDaily
The preventable scandal of Aboriginal incarceration
InDaily
That there was a greater likelihood of your child being incarcerated than completing year 12 schooling? Welcome to the world of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Indigenous people in Australia represent 2% of our population but 27% of our ...

Brisbane Times
Anzac Square Diggers: Shortlist for first Australians' military memorial
Brisbane Times
"This monument will give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a more inclusive military history within Australia." The winning design would be selected following consultation with several stakeholders, including community elders, Brisbane City ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Aboriginal Languages To Be Included In HSC Curriculum From 2016
Huffington Post Australia
Professor Troy, who authored the first framework for Aboriginal languages to be released by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), compared Australia to New Zealand, where Maori has been an official language for ...
Federal funding saves Indigenous Custody Notification ServiceSBS
Vital Aboriginal Service Saved As State And Federal Liberals Go To War Over CostNew Matilda
Aboriginal languages to become a new HSC subjectChronicleDaily.com (blog)

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Perth Now
Aboriginal workers sought for WA prisons
Perth Now
Fred Chaney, the founding co-chair of Reconciliation Australia and a former federal minister for Aboriginal affairs, says crime and incarceration is WA's biggest obstacle to reconciling with indigenous people. About 40 per cent of WA's adult prisoners ...
Indigenous Australian Activist Points to Forced Displacement Of Her CommunityUprising

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The Australian
Aboriginal legal service cuts blamed on toxic culture
The Australian
Six former VALS staff have independently spoken to The Australian, accusing the organisation of failing severely disadvantaged members of Victoria's indigenous community, including children and long-term clients, and risking deaths in custody. The six ...

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The Australian
Aussie rules trip to China is a great indigenous goal assist
The Australian
“I've realised how strong Aboriginal culture is,” he says. “It's taught me to really acknowledge my culture wherever I go.” Over the course of 10 days, the young men travelling through China told The Australian of their dreams: engaging with their ...

The Stringer
Only in Western Australia – the jailing of the poorest, fine defaulters
The Stringer
Western Australia is tough on the marginalised, on the homeless, on the most vulnerable and a disproportionate number are descendants of the First Peoples. Western Australia's Aboriginal peoples endure the nation's highest psychological distresses, ...

Honi Soit
Home / News / Indigenous Groups Boycott People's Climate March
Honi Soit
And will continue to do so” and that they “unequivocally oppose nuclear power as a 'solution' to climate change, and acknowledge that nuclear power in Australia is dependent on the dispossession of Aboriginal people from their land.” Nonetheless, in ...

The Australian
Bush tobacco culture revealed by Western Desert Aborigines
The Australian
As so often in the deep Australian past, landscape and man combine with unexpected consequences. Aboriginal Australians were almost certainly the first people in world history to discover the charms of nicotine, the only plant-based narcotic or ...

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The Australian
Bush tobacco culture revealed by Western Desert Aborigines
The Australian
A plant of daydreams, if not of dreams, of relaxation, of reflection and inwardness, a gift of the desert's hills and sand dunes — a plant that grows far from the settled haunts of man yet helped shape Australia's first human landscape. Half-forgotten ...

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