Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

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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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 ...

ABC Online
'Powerful' Noongar letters offer glimpse into Aboriginal history
ABC Online
Curtin University researchers are set to collate letters from state archives and correspondence held by families across Western Australia, dating from the 1860s to the 1960s. Working alongside Noongar advisers, they plan to present the letters together ...

ABC Online
Encounters: Indigenous artefacts returned to Australia from UK in new ...
ABC Online
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia will display 151 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artefacts, most of which have not returned to Australia since they were taken by the British in early interactions. The centrepiece of the ...

SBS
Aboriginal artefacts taken by Captain Cook to feature at national museum
SBS
Dozens of rare Aboriginal artefacts from the first British expedition to Australia will go on display at the National Museum of Australia from Friday. Among them, a shield and two fishing spears, collected on Captain James Cook's 1770 expedition to ...
Encounters: Indigenous artefacts returned to Australia from UK in new ...ABC Online
Captured by Cook: artefacts travel from Botany to UK and backThe Australian
National Museum of Australia in Canberra launches Encounters exhibitionThe Canberra Times

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Perth Now
More Aboriginal police could cut crime
Perth Now
JobTrainWA chief executive Selina Maguire said having more Aboriginal officers in the state's police force would result in fewer indigenous people ending up in the prison system. Ms Maguire said more needed to be done within the Aboriginal community to ...
Push for more indigenous WA policeSBS

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SBS
Aboriginal artefacts taken by Captain Cook to feature at national gallery
SBS
Dozens of rare Aboriginal artefacts from the first British expedition to Australia will go on display at the National Museum of Australia from Friday. Among them, a shield and two fishing spears, collected on Captain James Cook's 1770 expedition to ...
Encounters: Indigenous artefacts returned to Australia from UK in new ...ABC Online
Captured by Cook: artefacts travel from Botany to UK and backThe Australian
National Museum of Australia in Canberra launches Encounters exhibitionThe Canberra Times

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Perth Now
Lawyers, advocates push for government plan to address soaring Indigenous ...
ABC Online
Lawyers, judges and Indigenous leaders are in Sydney today talking about Aboriginal Australians behind bars. The Law Council of Australia said Aboriginal families and communities are being torn apart because so many Indigenous mothers are incarcerated ...
Dhu inquest: No racism at WA hospital:Perth Now
No racism at WA hospital, inquest told9news.com.au
When unpaid fines mean paying with your life, the system is brokenNEWS.com.au
Junkee -Daily Life -WA today
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ABC Online
West Australian study links Indigenous language to obesity risk
ABC Online
We were thinking that if we could actually get more policies aimed at providing Indigenous Australians with a greater understanding of their culture, perhaps teaching them about the Indigenous diet and those type of things, that would also- that may be ...
Doctors call for target to close gap on indigenous incarceration ratesSydney Morning Herald
Calls to 'close the gap' on prison rates9news.com.au
Indigenous Australians suffer 'health and justice crisis', doctors' group warnsThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Doctors call for target to close gap on indigenous incarceration rates
Sydney Morning Herald
Doctors are calling on the Turnbull government to set a national target for closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous imprisonment rates. The Australian Medical Association said on Wednesday that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, who ...
Calls to 'close the gap' on prison rates9news.com.au
Indigenous Australians suffer 'health and justice crisis', doctors' group warnsThe Guardian

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ABC Online
Uncovering Australia's Indigenous past: Forgotten 1920s photos reveal insight ...
ABC Online
A rusty tin containing 1920s photographs, hidden away in a Port Macquarie back shed has cast new light on the lives of coastal Aborigines at the turn of last century. The glass plates and lantern slides are considered some of the finest photographs of ...

ABC Online
Number of doctors to be 'severely reduced' by federal policy, Aboriginal ...
ABC Online
The number of doctors working in Western Australia's Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) will be reduced from 56 to 19 under a policy proposed by the Federal Government, according to the Aboriginal Health Council of WA.

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Inhabitat (blog)
Award-winning Wanarn Clinic brings healthcare to Australia's Aboriginal community
Inhabitat (blog)
This small community clinic in the Australian outback is a point of pride for local residents. Working under an extremely tight budget, Kaunitz Yeung Architecture designed the clinic to double as a place where the Aboriginal community could meet and ...

PopMatters
Ready to Soar! 'Ready For This' Offers New Stories of Aboriginal Australia
PopMatters
Ready For This, billed as Australia's first Aboriginal teen drama, kicked off on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) 3 in October; six episodes in, it's made good on its promise to tell a nuanced, engaging story about what it means to be a young ...
Aboriginal researcher fights for indigenous languages, looks to MaoriStuff.co.nz

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ABC Online
Police thought dying Aboriginal woman Ms Dhu was faking it, coronial inquest told
ABC Online
Western Australian police told hospital staff they thought an Aboriginal woman who later died in custody was "faking it", a coronial inquest has heard. Ms Dhu, 22, died in August last year after being held at the South Hedland police station in WA's ...
Ms Dhu's family calls for end to jail for fines as death in custody inquest beginsThe Guardian
Family seek justice on WA custody deathSBS
Death in custody victim complained of painNT News
The West Australian -9news.com.au
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ABC Online
Police thought dying Aboriginal woman Ms Dhu was faking it, coronial inquest told
ABC Online
Western Australian police told hospital staff they thought an Aboriginal woman who later died in custody was "faking it", a coronial inquest has heard. Ms Dhu, 22, died in August last year after being held at the South Hedland police station in WA's ...
Ms Dhu's family calls for end to jail for fines as death in custody inquest beginsThe Guardian
Family seek justice on WA custody deathSBS
WA death in custody victim was in painYahoo7 News
The West Australian -9news.com.au
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AustralianDoctor.com (subscription)
GP registrar training in Aboriginal services under threat
AustralianDoctor.com (subscription)
... packages to just their first 12 months with an Aboriginal Medical Service. Clinics say they will lose registrars — particularly their most experienced registrars — not only in the most remote communities, but also in Australia's larger rural ...

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Stuff.co.nz
Aboriginal researcher fights for indigenous languages, looks to Maori
Stuff.co.nz
The situation over the Tasman is dire - their languages are disappearing, Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research at the University of Sydney, Professor Jakelin Troy. "In Australia our languages are going to sleep," she said. "Out of ...

Brisbane Times
Reclaim Australia rally drowned out in Brisbane
Brisbane Times
The counter-rally began chanting "always was, always will be Aboriginal land", which visibly confused some Reclaim Australia supporters, who threw their hands up in frustration and called for the other side to "pick a side". A counter-rally speaker ...
Police outnumber protesters at Reclaim Australia rally and counter-protest in ...9news.com.au
Protesters face-off in Canberra: Reclaim Australia and 'anti-racism' rallies ...The Border Mail
No arrests as protesters face off in ACTThe Australian (blog)
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WA today
Whether you're listening or not, Australia is a nation of white privilege
WA today
A man shouts slogans about Aboriginal rights in Australia during a protest against G20 leaders in Brisbane in 2014. Photo: Daniel Munoz. I have just returned from Jamaica, where I gave a keynote address on Black Consciousness as part of the country's ...

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