Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
South Australia's first Indigenous female fire-fighting team forms
ABC Online
MARK COLVIN: A group of women in a remote Aboriginal community in South Australia's APY Lands have formed the state's first Indigenous female fire-fighting team. For cultural reasons women in Mimili can't join the Country Fire Service unit in the town.

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South Australia's first Indigenous female fire-fighting team forms
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MARK COLVIN: A group of women in a remote Aboriginal community in South Australia's APY Lands have formed the state's first Indigenous female fire-fighting team. For cultural reasons women in Mimili can't join the Country Fire Service unit in the town.

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ABC Online
Mimili CFS brigade forms South Australia's first Indigenous female ...
ABC Online
A group of women in a remote Aboriginal community in South Australia's APY Lands have formed the state's first Indigenous female firefighting team. For cultural reasons women in Mimili cannot work with the men in the Country Fire Service (CFS) brigade ...

The Guardian
Bill Shorten: without more Indigenous Labor MPs, we can't be true to our values
The Guardian
It is also despite my firm belief that the Australian Labor party is more in tune with Aboriginal Australia and more deserving of Aboriginal votes than ever before. We have a proud legacy from the former Labor government and have since led the debate ...

The Guardian
Warwick Thornton on his images of Indigenous children in 'fast-food suicide vests'
The Guardian
Politicians and policy-makers have begun to acknowledge the impact of this loss of heritage and culture on the lives of the first Australians, but Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders continue to bear a disproportionate burden of disease and ...
Enduring controversy: BP sponsorship ignites new row over British Museum's ...The Guardian (blog)
Patients fearful ahead of possible closure of western Sydney Aboriginal ...ABC Online
Coca Cola is more of a threat than terrorism, says Warwick ThorntonSydney Morning Herald
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The New Daily
Ancient DNA link connects Australians, South Americans
The New Daily
The skull, that of a young woman dubbed “Luzia”, yielded a radiocarbon age of 10,030 years. Its narrow, oval cranium with a projecting face and lower chin, resembled the skulls of modern Australoid peoples like Australia's Aborigines, Melanesians, and ...

The Guardian
The Australian curriculum offers hope for the future of Indigenous communities
The Guardian
The three areas – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia, and sustainability – will provide opportunities for all students to gain personal and social benefits in addition to becoming ...
Enduring controversy: BP sponsorship ignites new row over British Museum's ...The Guardian (blog)
Patients fearful ahead of possible closure of western Sydney Aboriginal ...ABC Online
Coca Cola is more of a threat than terrorism, says Warwick ThorntonSydney Morning Herald
The Australian Financial Review -Eureka Street (satire) (registration) -The Guardian (Australia)
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Inside Australia's most dangerous prison yard 'The Circle' at Goulburn prison
Daily Mail
Like all the yards on the Circle, which holds the greatest concentration of Australia's most depraved criminals crammed together in wedge-shaped pens smaller than zoo enclosures, 2 Yard was full of rapists and murderers. Also called 'the human zoo ...

ABC Online
'Different laws' for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people: social justice ...
ABC Online
There is a huge disparity between the way Indigenous and non-Indigenous people are sentenced by Australia's justice system, according to the man charged with advocating for the rights of Indigenous people. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social ...
Warwick Thornton on his images of Indigenous children in 'fast-food suicide vests'The Guardian

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Sydney Morning Herald
Amazonians' ancient links to Indigenous Australians - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
Distant DNA links have been discovered between Aboriginal Australians and tribes living deep within the Amazon rainforest. Researchers in the US and Denmark have established that people sharing DNA links with Aboriginal people crossed the Bering land ...

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Smithsonian
A DNA Search for the First Americans Links Amazon Groups to Indigenous Australians
Smithsonian
The latest genetic analyses back up skeletal studies suggesting that some groups in the Amazon share a common ancestor with indigenous Australians and New Guineans. The find hints at the possibility that not one but two groups migrated across these ...

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The Australian (blog)
Rare items of Aboriginal cricketing history discovered
Australian Times
The discovery of the artifacts was made by Dr Gaye Sculthorpe, curator and section head of Oceania at the British Museum and curator of the BP exhibition Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation at the British Museum showing until 2 August. While on ...
Australia's first XI left its spears and clubs behind in EnglandThe Australian (blog)
Aboriginal cricket team first Australian cricketers to travel overseas ...Western Daily Press
The visiting Aborigine cricket team who amazed Victorian crowds with bat, ball ...Daily Mail

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Shields Gazette
Aboriginal art display sparks tales of Australia
Shields Gazette
The exhibition, about the Aboriginal concept of 'Country', opened last month at Bede's World, Jarrow, as part of the Treasures of South Tyneside 2015 programme. Prints, on loan from the British Museum, created by four Australian artists, are shown ...

SBS
Aboriginal activist enters Australia without passport
SBS
In a statement to SBS, immigration said the Australian Government does not recognise the Aboriginal passport as a valid travel document. “In certain circumstances where a traveller presents at the border and is seeking to enter Australia without a bona ...
This guy just got into Australia using a homemade passportBusiness Insider Australia

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PS News
Indigenous tourism in the picture - PS News
PS News
Indigenous tourism in the picture. A new short film highlighting Aboriginal tourism experiences to domestic and international visitors has been launched by Tourism Australia. Titled Aboriginal Australia: Our Country is Waiting For You, the three-minute ...

CNET
Remote communities call for digital inclusion in outback Australia
CNET
A forum of indigenous leaders, communications groups and regional community advocates has called for greater digital inclusion across Australia, saying parts of the country are being left behind as Australia carves out its broadband future. The ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Enduring controversy: BP sponsorship ignites new row over British Museum's ...
The Guardian (blog)
Three months after opening an exhibition of treasured items from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, it is clear just how thoroughly London's British Museum has anticipated the potential anger and emotion of Indigenous Australians.
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair a winter taste of culture | afr.comThe Australian Financial Review
Modest but realistic hope for a 2017 Referendum - Eureka StreetEureka Street (satire) (registration)

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The Australian (blog)
Australia's first XI left its spears and clubs behind in England | The Australian
The Australian (blog)
If England's cricketers have anything to be grateful for after losing the second Test by 405 runs, it is that their opponents are not fielding the skills of the first Australian side to tour England. In 1868 a team of Aboriginal cricketers amazed ...

Government policy on remote communities has failed
The Australian
For 40 years we have lived under the delusion Aboriginal Australia needs more government, not less. The Howard government's 2007 intervention relied on that same flawed assumption. People of good heart wanted John Howard's measures to succeed, ...

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Western Daily Press
Aboriginal cricket team first Australian cricketers to travel overseas ...
Western Daily Press
The Aboriginal cricket team became the first organised group of Australian cricketers to travel overseas. The first tour by an Australian team classed as representative would not be made until 1878. From the early 1860s onwards, cricket matches between ...