Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

VICE
Barred Calls: On the Line with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service
VICE
Client Service Officers (CSOs) at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service are responsible for checking in on the wellbeing of every Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander taken into custody within Victoria and Tasmania. Established in response to ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Male voices dominate urban Aboriginal art
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Contemporary Aboriginal Art Exhibition at Bondi Pavilion in 1983 was a kind of debut for urban Aboriginal art, heralding the emergence of urban artists, quickly followed by the formation of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative established in ...
Profile: Yhonnie ScarceThe Adelaide Review

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The Australian
First indigenous Trauma Recovery Program 'an essential step'
The Australian
For Stolen Generations survivor and Aboriginal health specialist Debra Hocking it's been 30 years in the making, but with the launch of Australia's first indigenous Trauma Recovery Program she believes an essential step has been taken in closing the gap.

The Guardian
Keating was right to intervene over recognition and Indigenous Australia's ...
The Guardian
Like Paul Keating, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are big picture people. Many, although not all, of the challenges in communities today are informed by the irresolution of unfinished business. This is not a fashionable thing to say, as ...
'We Are At The Crossroads Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Peoples ...Huffington Post Australia

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The Guardian
Paul Keating lets rip (again): Indigenous recognition could make Australia great
The Guardian
Indigenous dispossession and Australia's colonial shame was a theme Keating returned to often during the lively 90-minute discussion, saying his greatest “emotional commitment” was the historic Mabo legislation that he ushered in which recognised the ...

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The Guardian
How can I feel Australian when this country has told me I don't belong?
The Guardian
Yet, we were conveniently bundled together as Aborigines – our identities extinguished along with our rights to our land. It didn't end there. The Australian Law Reform Commission records 67 different definitions of Australian Indigenous people – you ...

Huffington Post Australia
'We Are At The Crossroads Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Peoples ...
Huffington Post Australia
The impact of current government policies of forced removal and closure of communities, of deregistration of thousands of Aboriginal sites, will be absolutely catastrophic for us. It will also make Australia poorer as a nation. Traditional Owners from ...

The Guardian
Kalgoorlie mayor singles out Aboriginal people over antisocial behaviour
The Guardian
John Bowler, a controversial former Western Australian government mining minister who was elected mayor of Kalgoorlie in last weekend's local government elections, has begun his tenure by singling out Aboriginal people coming into the town of 30,000 ...

Business Insider Australia
An Aboriginal opera star explains why she turned down singing the national ...
Business Insider Australia
Over the past half-century Australians have come to realise much about the persistence, sophistication and success of Aboriginal Australia. The 1967 referendum, the Bringing Them Home Report (1997) and the Apology to the Stolen Generations (2008) have ...

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ABC Online
TARNANTHI contemporary Indigenous art festival attracts 50000 people
ABC Online
Australia's largest festival of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art has been deemed a success with more 50,000 people attending events across Adelaide. More than 300 artists contributed to works showcased in exhibitions for the ...

Australia's new flag? – The Spirit of Belonging
The Westender
The SOB flag represents, once again, an extraordinary act of generosity from our Aboriginal brothers and sisters. Darren's flag lifts our eyes, our discourse and our thoughts. I particularly like Darren's distinction between Indigenous Australians ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Charlie Perkins at a parliamentary joint committee of public accounts inquiry ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Alongside fellow Aboriginal teammates John Moriarty and Gordon Briscoe, Perkins presented a petition to the South Australian Parliament advocating citizenship rights for Aboriginal people. Moriarty, who regards Perkins as "like a brother", remembers ...

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ABC Message Stick
Research gives merit to accuracy of Aboriginal storytelling
ABC Message Stick
"To actually have, around Australia, a body of stories that appear to have come from a time depth of about 7000 years ago when the sea level reached its current height, is an extraordinary finding." Professor Reid said there's been a great deal of ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal women reaffirm fight against nuclear waste dump in South Australia
ABC Online
The shipment began its journey just a day after senior Aboriginal women gathered in Adelaide to mark their fight against a proposed dump in South Australia in the 1990s. The women say they will fight against any new move to put the waste on their land.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Keating pushes 'unfinished business' of Indigenous treaty and republic
Sydney Morning Herald
The former prime minister also says he would back any move by Malcolm Turnbull to revive the minimalist model for an Australian republic that both men crafted in the early 1990s, conceding this might be the "last and best opportunity" to secure the model.

Man pleads guilty to stealing over $1 million from Indigenous Business Australia
ABC Online
Indigenous Business Australia was originally the commercial arm of the former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. Nicholas Ian Schofield, 46, was the financial manager in 2013 when the offences occurred. The court heard that at the time ...

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Lynne Thomas reading Aboriginal translations
ABC Local
Here is a selection of photos sent in by ABC Open audience members from around Australia. If you have any photos you'd like to share with ABC Open, send them via their upload page. You can also Instagram your photo by using #abcmyphoto ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Are Aboriginal art centres sustainable?
ArtsHub (subscription)
Aboriginal art centres are pivotal to the cultural, social and economic wellbeing of many communities in remote areas of Australia. They are key in continuing inter-generational learning, offering work and encouraging entrepreneurship, and offer a ...

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Red Flag
'Still waiting for justice' Aboriginal stolen wages in Western Australia
Red Flag
From 1905 until 1972, thousands of Aboriginal workers in Western Australia had their wages stolen and placed in trust accounts operated by the state government, never to be seen again. In 2012 – four years after a WA taskforce recommended official ...

ABC Online
NT Aboriginal community of Kintore buys $30000 custom-made European church bell
ABC Online
A remote Central Australian Aboriginal community has used money from mining royalties and leases to purchase a new church bell and tower from France at a cost of almost $30,000. A committee of senior people from Kintore, 530 kilometres west of Alice ...