Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Aboriginal Australians consider class action suit over stolen wages
Journal of Turkish Weekly
Generations of Aboriginal workers in Western Australia had their wages withheld by the state under a trust accounts program until the 1970s. Aboriginal people were rented out by the government to pastoral stations as free workers, for whom food costs ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal woman Lala Mardigan died because 'people who had the power didn't ...
ABC Online
A 20-year-old Aboriginal woman would still be alive if "the people who had the power" cared enough, says a medical professional who tried in vain to convince the Northern Territory Health Department to help her. Lala Mardigan died in a Darwin hospital ...

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Courier Mail
How history is playing its part in ice epidemic
Courier Mail
Associate Professor Edward Wilkes said the arrival of Europeans 200 years ago was still having deep impacts on indigenous Australia reflected in substance abuse, including the drug ice. “Today we are a disadvantaged and oppressed people,” Professor ...

Sputnik International
Aboriginal Australians Consider Class Action Suit Over Stolen Wages
Sputnik International
Generations of Aboriginal workers in Western Australia had their wages withheld by the state under a trust accounts program until the 1970s. Aboriginal people were rented out by the government to pastoral stations as free workers, for whom food costs ...

Australian Aboriginals Fear Gas Fracker Aubrey McClendon's Down Under Drilling ...
DeSmog (blog)
At one point, only ExxonMobil was producing more gas than Chesapeake. But already McClendon's hopes of recreating a US-style gas “fracking” boom in Australia are coming up against resistance from Aboriginal Australians — one of the oldest continuous ...

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DeSmog (blog)
Australian Aboriginals Fear Gas Fracker Aubrey McClendon's Down Under Drilling ...
DeSmog (blog)
Energy companies the world over would love to think they could be first in the queue at the next big global frontier for fossil fuel energy. Aubrey McClendon was a key figure in creating the last big energy boom in his own backyard, using the ...

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ABC Online
Calls for a class action to compensate Aboriginal soldiers
ABC Online
Robert Syron is an Aboriginal man, with family connections to the Worimi and Biripi people. He fought for the Australian Army in Rwanda during the 1990s, and after researching his family history, uncovered that almost 40 of his relatives have fought ...

The Australian
Aboriginal offenders 'twice as likely' to do time, study finds
The Australian
The disagreement comes as Aboriginal prison rates reach record levels, with indigenous people about 12 times as likely to be locked up as other Australians. Dr Weatherburn said Professor Bagaric's analysis failed to account for factors such as prior ...

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The Australian
Telstra and NT government seal $30m Territory connection
The Australian
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, about one-third of households that identify as having Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents have no internet access, compared to 17 per cent for non-indigenous households. Around half of all ...
$30m for remote telecommunicationsNEWS.com.au
Telstra's RAP star Penn inks $30m NT Govt co-investment dealiTWire

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SBS
Indigenous incarcerated youths are 'regular kids': Briggs
SBS
Aboriginal children in Western Australia are 53 times more likely to be imprisoned. Chief Justice Wayne Martin told ABC News in June that those living in the state were the most disadvantaged in the country. "[The statistics are] absolutely appalling ...

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The Guardian
Aussie rules and Aboriginal art: meet the Hermannsburg potters at work
The Guardian
Australian rules football is a big deal in remote Indigenous communities, particularly for young people who usually only see their favourite sporting stars on TV. The recent Adam Goodes controversy, in which the nation was gripped by debate over racial ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
New Aboriginal monument to rival Sydney Opera House, Harbour Bridge
Sydney Morning Herald
Overseas visitors to Sydney could be forgiven for thinking Indigenous people are not a part of Australia's biggest city, according to Aboriginal elder Norma Ingram. "There are thousands and thousands of people from overseas who come here and there's ...

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Sort indigenous funding mess
The Australian
Nobody doubts Tony Abbott's commitment when he says he wants to be the Prime Minister for indigenous Australians. In two years, Mr Abbott has put constitutional recognition of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders firmly on the agenda, spent quality ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Lucy Treloar wondered about an Aboriginal child and wrote Salt Creek, a novel
Sydney Morning Herald
From the moment you start reading Lucy Treloar's story about a white family living in a pristine but unforgiving South Australian marshland during the 1850s you become aware of her deep empathy for the dispossessed local Indigenous people. Treloar's ...

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The Australian
'Close gap' indigneous funds spent on desk jobs
The Australian
When approached for further details, a spokeswoman for Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion directed The Weekend Australian to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, a spokesman for which said the department “did not have” an available ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous land rights pioneer Mr Wunungmurra farewelled at Arnhem Land state ...
ABC Online
Mr Wunungmurra was NLC chair when traditional owners won the 2008 Blue Mud Bay decision, in which the High Court of Australia determined "Aboriginal land" also extended to include tidal waters, and therefore could not be fished without special ...

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The Conversation AU
Capturing the lived history of the Aborigines Protection Board while we still can
The Conversation AU
The NSW Aborigines Protection Board was established in 1883, a time when Social Darwinism theory prevailed and the colony of NSW looked towards a future as part of a federated white Australia. The existence of Aboriginal communities, many of whom ...

ABC Online
Alice Springs Desert Mob exhibition of Central Australia Indigenous art ...
ABC Online
Artists from more than 30 remote desert communities will be represented in Alice Springs for Desert Mob, Central Australia's largest Aboriginal art festival. The annual event, which is celebrating its 25-year anniversary, bills itself as a snapshot of ...

ABC Online
WA's stolen wages shame
ABC Online
In Western Australia the government is facing a potential class action over its controversial stolen wages reparations scheme, which paid Aboriginal people a maximum of $2,000 each after decades of wages withheld by government, child labour, and in ...

The Diplomat
Fighting Trachoma in Indigenous Australia
The Diplomat
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are six times more likely than other Australians to go blind. And 94 percent of this vision loss is preventable or treatable. Trachoma is responsible for 9 percent of all cases of blindness among Indigenous ...