Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Age
Time running out for the Prime Minister for Indigenous affairs
The Age
No prime minister came to the job with more exposure to Indigenous Australia, or promised more. Abbott, after all, was the country's first self-proclaimed Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs. Addressing the country's "national failure" in this area ...
Abbott denies an 'about face' on Indigenous forumsBulletin Leader

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The Canberra Times
Time running out for the Prime Minister for Indigenous affairs
The Canberra Times
No prime minister came to the job with more exposure to Indigenous Australia, or promised more. Abbott, after all, was the country's first self-proclaimed Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs. Addressing the country's "national failure" in this area ...
Abbott denies an 'about face' on Indigenous forumsBulletin Leader

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CBC.ca
Aboriginal Music Week brings in NZ, Australian acts to mentor locals
CBC.ca
Australia's Benny Walker and New Zealand's Tama Waipara are in town to mentor the city's indigenous artists for Aboriginal Music Week. "I find the people out here are incredible passionate about their people," said Walker, an indigenous singer ...

The Globe and Mail
Charlie's Country: A remarkable tale of Aboriginal displacement in Australia
The Globe and Mail
At an Australian hospital, a white doctor addresses an Aborigine simply as “Charlie,” as he has trouble pronouncing “foreign names.” And isn't that a joke, and isn't that appalling – the original dispossessed, the indigenous displaced. It gets to the ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Researchers work to preserve richness of Indigenous languages
Sydney Morning Herald
Every few weeks, at least one Indigenous language around the world dies, according to a report from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. More languages are reportedly being lost in Australia than in any other ...
Racing to record Indigenous languages under attack from 'onslaught of English'The Guardian

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ScienceBlog.com (blog)
Australian aboriginal communities have world's highest dementia incidence
ScienceBlog.com (blog)
Research by The University of Western Australia's 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.

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Medical Xpress
Aboriginal communities have world's highest dementia incidence
Medical Xpress
Research by The University of Western Australia's 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.

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The Guardian
Racing to record Indigenous languages under attack from 'onslaught of English'
The Guardian
Professor Jane Simpson from the Australian National University said Australia's Indigenous languages remain “inherently fragile under the onslaught of English and government policies which make it hard to keep [them] going.” A 2014 National Indigenous ...

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ABC Online
Prime Minister Tony Abbott facing insider rebellion on referendum to recognise ...
ABC Online
But the simple historical fact that there were peoples here that came upwards to 53,000 years ago ... that's a question of being Indigenous to Australia." West Australian Liberal senator Chris Back said the question of whether to recognise Aboriginal ...
Aboriginal constitutional recognition back on cards after Australian PM ...Xinhua
Tony Abbott changes mind, supports Indigenous meetings on recognitionThe Guardian
Tony Abbott will today talk with indigenous leaders on a Constitutional ...Business Insider Australia
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Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Highest dementia in world in remote Aboriginal communities
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Research by The University of Western Australia's 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.

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Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Highest dementia in world in remote Aboriginal communities
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Research by The University of Western Australia's 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 leader: 2017 unlikely for constitutional referendum
ABC Online
The Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been meeting in Canberra today with four indigenous representatives including lawyer and constitutional expert Megan Davis; Cape York representative Noel Pearson; National Congress of Australia's First Peoples ...
Aboriginal constitutional recognition back on cards after Australian PM ...Xinhua
Indigenous leaders to meet with PMThe Australian (blog)
Tony Abbott changes mind, supports Indigenous meetings on recognitionThe Guardian
Business Insider Australia -Yahoo7 News
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The Australian (blog)
Aboriginal petition against gay marriage
The Australian (blog)
THE Uluru bark petition, backed by leaders of 70 different indigenous cultural groups from Queensland to Western Australia, was formally delivered to Speaker Tony Smith on Thursday. The group opposes same-sex marriage on the basis that traditional ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous rights organiser Kevin Cook 'opened the pathways' for all Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
Cook brought his knowledge of Aboriginal and migrant communities together with these new BLF methods when he became the organiser for Aboriginal BLs on the Redfern Housing Company, and worked with the National Black Theatre in Redfern, before ...

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ABC Online
Praise for Indigenous MP Josie Farrer as Aboriginal recognition bill clears ...
ABC Online
Legislation amending the WA Constitution to recognise Aboriginal people as the first peoples of Western Australia has passed in the Lower House of State Parliament. The bill was introduced to Parliament in June by Josie Farrer, the Aboriginal Member ...
WA Aboriginal Recognition Bill progresses9news.com.au
Aboriginal Recognition Bill progresses through WA ParliamentNEWS.com.au

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ABC Online
Praise for Indigenous MP Josie Farrer as WA Parliament votes on Aboriginal ...
ABC Online
Legislation amending the WA Constitution to recognise Aboriginal people as the first peoples of Western Australia is due to pass State Parliament. The Bill was introduced to Parliament in June by Josie Farrer, the Aboriginal Member for Kimberley, who ...
Same-sex: Wayne Bergmann says aboriginals should back marriage equalityThe Australian
WA Aboriginal Recognition Bill progresses9news.com.au

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The Australian (blog)
Aboriginal constitutional recognition back on cards after Australian PM ...
Xinhua
CANBERRA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called for renewed talks about recognizing Indigenous Australians as the country's "first people", just weeks after rejecting the issue. Abbott on Wednesday asked prominent ...
PM to meet indigenous leadersYahoo7 News
PM calls meeting to address impasse on referendum ahead of week in remote ...ABC Online
Indigenous group to meet PM on recognitionThe Australian (blog)
Sydney Morning Herald
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The Australian
Same-sex: Wayne Bergmann says aboriginals should back marriage equality
The Australian
... opposed to same-sex marriage last week signed a bark petition and presented it to the Abbott government last week. The so-called Uluru bark petition was signed by about 30 indigenous people, but claimed to represent the Aboriginal people of Australia.

Aboriginal community in SA escape fire
The Australian
EIGHT people have escaped a fire in an Aboriginal community in South Australia, while a heater is believed to have caused a family home to burn to the ground in a separate blaze in Adelaide. THE fire at the Aboriginal community broke out in a building ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
PM calls meeting to address impasse on referendum ahead of week in remote ...
ABC Online
Cape York representative Noel Pearson, West Australian Indigenous leader Patrick Dodson, Indigenous lawyer and constitutional expert Megan Davis and National Congress of Australia's First Peoples co-chair Kirstie Parker have been invited. There is ...
Aboriginal constitutional recognition back on cards after Australian PM ...Xinhua
PM to meet indigenous leadersYahoo7 News
Tony Abbott moves to heal rift on Indigenous recognitionSydney Morning Herald

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