Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Indigenous Australian 10kWh battery system set to launch – cheaper than Tesla
One Step Off The Grid (blog)
*This is an amended version of the original article. A table has been removed, due to the risk of prices listed on it going out of date, and the price of the WattGrid battery has been adjusted to $11,999, to include GST. Another battery storage ...

At Redfern's the Block, spirits lifted after Tent Embassy win
SBS
The Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy is claiming victory after Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion stepped in to guarantee finance for low-income housing at the iconic landmark in the Sydney suburb of Redfern. For 15 months, the Aboriginal Tent ...

The Guardian (blog)
Migrants should not have constitutional recognition alongside first Australians
The Guardian (blog)
And it remains an uncomfortable truth that the enormous wealth that non-Indigenous Australia has harvested (to which Goodenough refers) has come from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Earth and sea. The wealth has not been rightfully distributed ...
Are we really closing the gap? Seven brutal realities facing Indigenous ...Sydney Morning Herald

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ABC Online
Redfern Tent Embassy claims victory with Aboriginal housing deal
ABC Online
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is preparing to walk away from The Block at Redfern in inner Sydney after the Federal Government arranged a $70 million deal that will see 62 homes built for Indigenous families. In June, the protesters insisted they would ...
Victory at The Block: government gives $5m to homes for Aboriginal familiesThe Guardian
Black heart, still beating: Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy claims important ...Honi Soit

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The Guardian
'Institutionalised racism' reason for fewer Indigenous kidney transplants
The Guardian
Institutionalised discrimination against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians may be behind a widening gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients receiving kidney transplants, a kidney specialist and researcher has claimed.

Telegraph.co.uk
'Welcome to Country' app teaches users about Aboriginal culture in Australia
Telegraph.co.uk
The app was created by Aboriginal company Weerianna Street Media with the intent of educating people on the Traditional Owners' culture and heritage protocols right across the Australia. It uses GPS data from the device to work where the users are in ...

The Australian
JN Gumbula: an elder who shared his vast indigenous knowledge
The Australian
Gumbula was descended from a prominent line of Yolngu leaders from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory whose influential contributions to building understanding between indigenous and other Australians date from the 1920s. His parents' and ...

The Australian
Indigenous kids lead Port Adelaide's AFL push into China
The Australian
The trip is the marriage of two of Port's community programs: its strategy to lure sponsorship from Chinese companies seeking inroads into Australia's economy and its Aboriginal health and education programs. Port Adelaide chief executive Keith Thomas ...

ABC Online
IndigifestOZ film festival: Indigenous culture showcased in WA event
ABC Online
When Western Australian writer and director Dennis Simmons joined the first ever all-Aboriginal team to compete in the Rottnest Channel Swim, he knew it was history in the making. The 19.7-kilometre open water swim from Perth's Cottesloe Beach to ...

ABC Online
Cashless welfare cards to be trialled in remote Western Australia by March
ABC Online
"Then, of course, the welfare economy came in and that has done untold damage to a couple of generations of Aboriginal people. "All of the serious leaders of Indigenous Australia know that sit down money has been poison. "All of them know that chronic ...

DPS News (press release)
World's highest dementia rate in Aboriginal communities
DPS News (press release)
Research by The University of Western Australia's (UWA) Centre for Health and Ageing has confirmed that the incidence of dementia in remote Aboriginal communities is the highest in the world, with head injuries and age the greatest contributing factors.

ABC Online
Indigenous disadvantage 'appalling, unacceptable', Tony Abbott told during ...
ABC Online
Northern Area Peninsula Mayor Bernard Charlie told Mr Abbott the state of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is unacceptable. "The social and economic indicators for the NP (Northern Peninsula) region is appalling and unacceptable as a ...

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Preserving Australia's Aboriginal Languages
Language Magazine
ThinkstockPhotos-78252437 The Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language and the Australian National University (ANU) are teaming up to document ten of Australia's most endangered Aboriginal languages, ...

ABC Local
Aboriginal dance group hopes to spread Australian culture at New Zealand ...
ABC Local
The Ngulumburu Boonyah Dance Group is an all female traditional Aboriginal dance group based in Townsville. They have been invited to attend the Healing Our Spirits Worldwide Gathering in Waikato, New Zealand in November, where all the Indigenous ...

The Guardian
Nova Peris: 2015 can be the turning point for Aboriginal Australia. Let's not ...
The Guardian
Protesters listen to Labor senator Nova Peris at the #sosblakaustralia rally outside parliament house in Darwin on May 1, 2015 demonstrating against possible closures of Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. Photograph: Helen Davidson for the ...

The Age
Australian PM to spend week with remote Aboriginal communities
The West Australian
Abbott's government in June unveiled an ambitious plan to develop northern Australia -- a vast area spanning more than three million square kilometres (1.16 million square miles) with a population of over one million people and which includes the Great ...
Time running out for the Prime Minister for Indigenous affairsThe Age
PM fulfils indigenous community promiseThe Australian (blog)

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Yahoo News
Australian PM to spend week with remote Aboriginal communities
Yahoo News
The Australian leader said he hoped the stint would help him "to become as practically familiar with the real issues in indigenous Australia as possible". "To spend... just one week in 52, focused on indigenous issues is not too much," Abbott told ...
PM fulfils indigenous community promiseThe Australian (blog)
Tony Abbott plans to go where no Prime Minister has been beforeSydney Morning Herald

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PM fulfils indigenous community promise
The Australian (blog)
AS proof, Mr Abbott will travel this week to the Torres Strait Islands, delivering for a second time on his pre-election promise to spend one week a year in a remote indigenous community. The prime minister touches down on Sunday evening, bringing with ...

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PM fulfils indigenous community promise
9news.com.au
It is also home to Australia's second indigenous people, whose culture more closely aligns with the Melanesian people of Papua New Guinea than mainland indigenous Australians. Federal government MP Warren Entsch, whose electorate of Leichhardt ...

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BBC News
Emerging Australian artist Christian Thompson forges new path
BBC News
Australian artist Christian Thompson says education and a mixed heritage enable him to slide between cultures. In his video, Silence is Golden, Aboriginal artist Christian Thompson dances in slow motion against a jet-black background. Thompson isn't ...