Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Guardian
Aboriginal elders who signed anti-marriage equality petition don't speak on my ...
The Guardian
Late last week, a group of 30 Indigenous Australians, backed by evangelical Christian groups, presented an “Uluru bark petition” opposing marriage equality to the federal government via Senator Eric Abetz. The petition reads, in part: “Although ...
Aboriginal community members say Uluru Bark Petition doesn't represent their ...Gay News Network

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The Guardian
Mick Gooda to head Queensland taskforce to pay stolen Aboriginal wages
The Guardian
The Queensland treasurer and minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander partnerships, Curtis Pitt, said Gooda was “one of Australia's most respected Indigenous leaders and we're lucky to have him performing this important role”. “Mick ...
Mick Gooda to head Stolen Wages TaskforceBrisbane Times
Mick Gooda to head up Stolen Wages TaskforceMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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Aboriginal LGBTQIs voice their views on Aboriginal petition against same-sex ...
SBS
"Which is less than 0.05 percent of the Aboriginal population of Australia", said Indigilez leadership and support group's Tanya Quakawoot. "So a very small percentage of Aboriginal people oppose gay marriage without any consultation with Indigenous ...

Brisbane Times
Qantas stops Aboriginal actor Alec Doomadgee from carrying boomerangs on plane
Brisbane Times
"I don't see anyone pulling up the Pope when he walks on with his thing of beads because he might choke someone on the plane." Mr Doomadgee said the incident was what racism in Australia looked like, not the "in your face KKK sh-t" but "snide, smartass ...

Business Insider Australia
An Aboriginal company is on the verge of selling Australian camel meat to the ...
Business Insider Australia
The people of the Ngaanyatjarra lands in central Australia are on the verge of opening up a market in China for wild camel meat. The Ngaanyatjarra Camel Company is half-owned by the Ngaanyatjarra people and half owned by Central Livestock ...

The Guardian
Message from Mungo: mother of all battles to bring Aboriginal ancestors home
The Guardian
Overseas, that connection to the past is broken, but in Australia it is still there and it's very strong.” Pike says his interviews with Aboriginal people about Lady Mungo were often emotional, tearful conversations. “They talk about her as their queen ...

Group highlights indigenous super troubles
Yahoo7 News
Indigenous Australians have less retirement savings and greater difficulty in accessing their superannuation funds than the rest of the population. They also have less opportunity to benefit from their compulsory savings because they have lower life ...

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Green Left Weekly
Gough Whitlam's Wave Hill hand back celebrated by Indigenous elders 40 years on
ABC Online
"I want to promise you that this act of restitution which we perform today will not stand alone - your fight was not for yourselves alone and we are determined that Aboriginal Australians everywhere will be helped by it. "Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly ...
Custodianship in the 21st CenturyGreen Left Weekly

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NEWS.com.au
Julieka Dhu died while in custody at a Pilbara watch-house. Picture: Facebook ...
NEWS.com.au
This month marks the anniversary of the death of a 22-year-old Aboriginal woman, Julieka Dhu, in police cells in Western Australia — her crime was unpaid fines. For Mr Langdon, the end came three hours after his arrest. “He died in his sleep with ...

The Australian
Mimili Maku centre helps indigenous art bloom in the desert
The Australian
When artists Robert Fielding and Betty Kuntiwa Pumani were recognised at Darwin's peak National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards this month, a tiny community in South Australia's remote and often troubled Anangu Pitjantjatjara ...
DARWIN – THE BIGGER PICTUREAboriginal Art Directory News

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Sydney Morning Herald
Nigel Scullion's mission to stop festering tension among the Block's ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has flown in to broker a peace deal between Aboriginal rivals fighting for control of the Block, the historic parcel of Redfern that has been besieged for 15 months by protests and sporadic violence ...

The Guardian
Paperless arrests endanger Indigenous lives, Northern Territory coroner says
The Guardian
About 95% of people being held in NT cells for liquor offences are Aboriginal, and so there is an increased chance of their dying in police custody, the inquest heard. “Unless the paperless arrest laws are struck from the statute books, more and more ...
NT coroner says paperless arrest system 'manifestly unfair' at inquest into ...ABC Online
NT coroner recommends repeal of new police powers after Indigenous death in ...ABC Message Stick

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The Australian
Mutitjulu unaware of 'Uluru bark petition' on sanctity
The Australian
The so-called Uluru bark petition was signed by about 30 indigenous people, but claimed to represent the Aboriginal people of Australia. “This is a cultural initiative, it is not a Christian initiative,'' Pastor Walker said. “But you can align the two ...

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Independent Australia
Tony Abbott and White Australia: Let's be serious about change
Independent Australia
The innate conservatism of Tony Abbott and much of white Australia is steering the discussion of genuine Indigenous rights towards a minimalist and almost meaningless constitutional conclusion, says Jeff McMullen. When most of the world recognises the ...

Independent Australia
How sharing stories with Aboriginal communities is healing the racial divide
Independent Australia
That is particularly apparent in the racial tensions that still exist in Australia, in our politics, our policies and the way of life for our two communities — Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal. Our past is an emotional storm of two peoples in traumatic ...

Gympie Times
Kabi Kabi indigenous title claims could be put to the test
Gympie Times
GYMPIE region's Kabi Kabi aboriginal people have declared their independence from Australia and claimed sovereign ownership of at least two near-Gympie properties, tribal representative Gary Tomlinson said yesterday. But the State Government says the ...

The Guardian
Australia desperately needs more Indigenous teachers. Our students deserve it
The Guardian
Currently I'm in the last few months of fieldwork, looking at the experiences of Aboriginal girls in Australian urban boarding schools incorporating a Māori girls' school as a comparison. I'm passionate about Indigenous research, and am developing a ...

The Maitland Mercury
Word Watch: So, what exactly is Australian?
The Maitland Mercury
Not so long ago I was thumbing through my copy of the Oxford Australian National Dictionary. The first entry under Australian said “l: An Aboriginal”. Aboriginal Australian or Vietnamese Australian, Italian Australian or Greek Australian or any other ...

Honi Soit
The Indigenous Australia We Don't Talk About
Honi Soit
It's not very often that most of us hear success stories from Aboriginal communities. The overwhelming majority of the mainstream media treatment of Indigenous issues focuses on the (very real) problems which affect Aboriginal people, problems which ...

Medical Daily
Australia Has A Vegemite Problem: Dry Aboriginal Communities Are Using It To ...
Medical Daily
Alcohol use in these areas of Australia has been disputed for some years. Under Australian law, Aborigines in Western Australia and the Northern Territory were not granted the right to drink liquor until 1964, according to a report issued by the ...
Australia warns against homebrew Vegemite alcohol drinksYahoo News
Australian Government Concerned Over Vegemite's Use In MoonshineNPR
Vegemite being used to make homemade alcohol in dry communities: reportsSydney Morning Herald
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