Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Guardian
Aboriginal woman in WA fined $500 for stealing $6.75 box of tampons
The Guardian
An Aboriginal woman has been fined $500 for stealing a $6.75 box of tampons under a system of on-the-spot infringement notices introduced in Western Australia to free up police time. The 20-year-old woman received the infringement notice on Tuesday ...

The Guardian
Footprint spotted by Aboriginal elder led searchers to missing bushman
The Guardian
“They [Aboriginal elders] read the land like a book – they see things I can't see and it just blows me away,” he said. The team split up so they could continue their work, while also tracking the steps for a couple of kilometres, and passed on what ...
Aboriginal elder helped save WA bushmanPerth Now

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TIME
Australia's Largest Indigenous Urban Community Wants to Keep the Name Blacktown
TIME
Australia's largest urban community of indigenous people is resisting plans to change the name of its local government area. The Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders who live in the area say that the name Blacktown, given to a suburban area of ...
The settlers gave this place the name Blacktown. Now should they take it away?The Guardian

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Six reasons Tarnanthi may be our most important Indigenous Festival yet
ArtsHub (subscription)
Opening Tarnanthi, South Australia's Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, former Prime Minister Paul Keating called for a blending of black and white Australia, noting that Australia will only have a truly composite ...
First Aboriginal Art symposium for Grafton GalleryClarence Valley Daily Examiner

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Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
First Aboriginal Art symposium for Grafton Gallery
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
AN Aboriginal Art Symposium to be held this weekend will be the first of it kind for the Clarence. The two-day event on October 17-18 at the Grafton Regional Gallery will offer a rare opportunity to hear directly from some of Australia's leading and ...

Deal struck to end removal of Aboriginal children
ABC Local
A long-awaited agreement has been reached to prevent Aboriginal children from being forcibly taken from their families and communities in western New South Wales. The group ... Mr Shoebridge said the deal could be rolled out across Australia. "This is ...

ABC Online
Governments must focus on ice problem in Aboriginal communities, say SA leaders
ABC Online
Aboriginal leaders have told a forum in Adelaide that governments need to have a specific focus on ice use in Aboriginal communities. The South Australian Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council is concerned the Federal Government is not getting enough ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal groups in SA say more needs to be done to address ice in communities
ABC Online
TIM PALMER: A group of Aboriginal leaders in South Australia says governments need to have a specific focus on ice in Aboriginal communities. A forum in Adelaide today heard from a range of speakers - including people with family members who have died ...

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The Australian
lessons in indigenous culture
The Australian
West Australian Chief Justice Wayne Martin and the University of Notre Dame are developing an Aboriginal cultural training program for judges and magistrates in a bid to reduce indigenous incarceration and recidivism. Chief Justice Martin said there ...

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The Australian
lessons in indigenous culture
The Australian
West Australian Chief Justice Wayne Martin and the University of Notre Dame are developing an Aboriginal cultural training program for judges and magistrates in a bid to reduce indigenous incarceration and recidivism. Chief Justice Martin said there ...

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The Conversation AU
FactCheck Q&A: are Indigenous youth suicide rates in the top of Australia the ...
The Conversation AU
In 2008–2012, the suicide rate for Indigenous Australians was almost twice the rate for non-Indigenous Australians (based on age-standardised rates). For 15–19 year olds, the rate was five times as high as the non-Indigenous rate (34 and 7 per 100,000 ...

New Matilda
Basic Income A No-Brainer For Remote Indigenous Australia
New Matilda
This week is the 8th International Basic Income Week. It made me contemplate yet again Basic Income as an alternative worthy of serious contemplation as the employment situation in remote Indigenous Australia teeters towards disaster. Even the ...

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New Matilda
The 'Right To Development' On Indigenous Lands
New Matilda
In the recently released White Paper on Developing Northern Australia, it is noted that many Indigenous Australians say that native title rights do not provide a basis for active participation in the economy. Indigenous Australians sometimes talk about ...

ABC Online
Indigenous art sector wrestles with downturn: 'Perfect storm' blamed for ...
ABC Online
Australia's Indigenous art sector is grappling with a rapid and ruthless period of decline that has resulted in an oversupply of works and little incentive for investors. Sales in the Aboriginal arts sector peaked in 2007, reaching $26 million. But the ...

Yahoo! Maktoob News
Australian Aboriginal girls visit Emirati designer's workshop
Yahoo! Maktoob News
A group of young Australian girls from indigenous Aboriginal communities got a first-hand look at the world of Emirati fashion design on Thursday with a visit to the workshop of Emirati designer Latifa Al Gurg. The visit was part of the nine-day ...

ABC Online
Kimberley Girl empowers young Aboriginal women in Western Australia
ABC Online
Despite the usual catwalks and high fashion, Kimberley Girl is far more than the average beauty pageant. The event began in 2004 as a leadership program that uses fashion as a hook to attract Aboriginal teenagers and young women aged from 16-25.

gulfnews.com
Aboriginal Australians visit UAE fashionistas
gulfnews.com
Dubai: A group of 10 Aboriginal Australian girls are visiting Dubai on a cultural nine-day to trip to meet some of the UAE's inspiring female talent in the fields of art and fashion. The group of girls, who flew out from their West Australian ...
Australian Aboriginal girls visit Emirati designer's workshopKhaleej Times
Aborigines visit UAE fashionistasYahoo! Maktoob News

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Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' policy
Green Left Weekly
In Sydney, the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy won its demand for affordable housing. In Western Australia Aboriginal activists led the fight and won a partial victory to save pristine Walmadan/James Price Point in the Kimberley region from a $45 ...

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The Guardian
Fears cashless welfare card could discriminate against Indigenous people
The Guardian
New data obtained by the National Welfare Rights Network (NWRN) shows that in one of the trial sites, Ceduna in South Australia, although Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people account for 30% of the population, they would make up 72% of people ...
Violence in Indigenous communities is distressing, but we must talk about itABC Online

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Khaleej Times
Australian Aboriginal girls visit Emirati designer's workshop
Khaleej Times
NA081015-SK-FASHION Latifa Al Gurg, Twisted Roots founder, Emirati Fashion designer demonstrating designed clothes to the girls who comes from Australia at Dubai on Thursday. 08 October,2015. (Picture to go with Bernie's story). Photo by Shihab
Aborigines visit UAE fashionistasgulfnews.com

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