Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Sydney Morning Herald
Kevin Kitchener helped Aborigines caught in the justice and prison systems
Sydney Morning Herald
In the 1990s, Kitchener shifted to direct legal advocacy for Indigenous Australians. Over 14 years he worked for a range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and legal aid organisations around Australia. He represented clients, trained staff in ...

The Guardian
Indigenous women injured at 31 times the rate of non-Indigenous women
The Guardian
Braybook highlighted another figure of the AIHW report, that stated Indigenous women and men were more than 10 times as likely to access specialist homelessness services as non-Indigenous Australians, comprising 22% of all clients of these services.
Two thirds of Indigenous people dying before age 65, AIHW report findsABC Online

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The New Daily
Holographic exhibition tells stories of disabled Indigenous Australians
The New Daily
A holographic exhibition that has been shown at human rights conventions in Geneva and New York is shedding light on the challenges faced by disabled Indigenous Australians. Creator Belinda Mason spoke with 30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
Australia launches indigenous procurement policySupply Management
Indigenous youth detention scandal continues to growRed Flag

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WA today
Indigenous Australian detained in Northam in case of mistaken identity
WA today
The lawyer for a 39-year-old man who has been locked up in a detention centre outside of Perth for days despite being an Indigenous Australian has labelled the mix-up as 'scandalous'. Refugee Rights Action Network spokeswoman Sally Thompson said Mr ...
Man claiming to be Indigenous held in WA immigration detention centreABC Online
Stolen generation dispute: man claiming Aboriginal heritage held in detentionThe Guardian
Indigenous man 'falsely detained as refugee'The New Daily
Perth Now -SBS
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The Guardian
Stolen generation dispute: man claiming Aboriginal heritage held in detention
The Guardian
In a statement, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection said it contacted the local Aboriginal council as part of its investigation, and the council “did not affirm his claims to be Aboriginal”. However, Guardian Australia understands that ...

ABC Online
Man claiming to be Indigenous held in WA immigration detention centre
ABC Online
A man being held in Western Australia's Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre says he is an Indigenous Australian and not a visa overstayer or asylum seeker. Eddie David, 39, has been held in the centre since Friday. He said he was born on Murray ...

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Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians is a once-in-a ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Triumphs and tragedies shape us. Almost 50 years ago, Australians triumphed by changing the Australian constitution for the better at referendum – Vote Yes for Aborigines. They did so in such numbers that no referendum before or since has ever matched ...

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Brisbane Times
Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians is a once-in-a ...
Brisbane Times
Triumphs and tragedies shape us. Almost 50 years ago, Australians triumphed by changing the Australian constitution for the better at referendum – Vote Yes for Aborigines. They did so in such numbers that no referendum before or since has ever matched ...

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SBS
Embracing Indigenous languages: the Kiwis just do it better
SBS
The idea that our Kiwi cousins have a much better track record on national policy and attitudes to Indigenous peoples is not at all new. Talk to Kiwis and there is an uncomfortable cringe about Australian ignorance towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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ABC Online
Queen's Birthday honours: Lucy Marshall, campaigner for Indigenous Agent ...
ABC Online
A West Australian Indigenous elder who campaigned on behalf of Aboriginal Agent Orange victims has been made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). Derby woman Lucy Marshall is one of more than 500 people recognised in this year's Queen's ...
Renowned Aboriginal musician honouredSBS
Let's replace the Queen's Birthday holiday with Reconciliation DaySydney Morning Herald
Queen's Birthday Honours list for 2015 in South AustraliaThe Australian

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The Guardian
'Unadulterated strength': the women of Indigenous Australia in their own words
The Guardian
In Ntaria, 130km west of Alice Springs in Australia's red centre, Que Kenny stands in country made famous by artist Albert Namatjira, her shock of red hair glowing against the clear blue sky. An Aboriginal transgender activist, studying law at Deakin ...

Perth Now
'I was headed to the big prison'
Perth Now
An Amnesty report launched this week, “A brighter tomorrow: Keeping indigenous kids in the community and out of detention in Australia”, shows that Australia is detaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children at its highest rate in 20 years.

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NEWS.com.au
'They said I was headed to the big prison': A new lost generation
NEWS.com.au
An Amnesty report launched this week, “A brighter tomorrow: Keeping indigenous kids in the community and out of detention in Australia”, shows that Australia is detaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children at its highest rate in 20 years.

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The Daily Telegraph
Aboriginal Artifacts Unearthed in Australian Park
Archaeology
PARRAMATTA, AUSTRALIA—Excavations ahead of the construction of a new playground at a park in suburban Sydney uncovered Aboriginal spear barbs, back blades, and flakes left over from tool making. The site, once home to the Burramatta clan, is also ...
Aboriginal artefacts discovered in archaeological dig at Parramatta ParkThe Daily Telegraph

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The Australian
Indigenous body would slow legislative process
The Australian (blog)
Aboriginal Australians would be better off striving to become an important part of 21st-century Australia than to become a special category in the Constitution. In any debate, the playing field must be level. Australians will only consider it fair if ...
Does government need to fund a Indigenous Australian constitutional ...SBS

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Indigenous recognition campaign isn't in tune
The Australian
Marcia Langton said this week that most indigenous Australians would reject the minimalist or merely symbolic approach and that if an official no case is funded, the referendum will fail. Langton has subscribed to Noel Pearson's efforts at dealing with ...

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous gargoyles to stay at Australian War Memorial
The Canberra Times
Critics and Aboriginal elders' hopes controversial Indigenous gargoyles at the Australian War Memorial would be left on the scrap pile have been dashed. Among the 26 stone gargoyles of native animals lining the courtyard at the Australian War Memorial ...

Daily Mail
'Australia needs to lose its privilege of whiteness to stop racism ...
Daily Mail
An Aboriginal activist says the only way Australia will be able to stop racism is to lose its 'privilege of whiteness'. Nakkiah Lui spoke at a forum focussing on racism called 'I'm Not Racist, But...' and told the audience last Friday she believed the ...

SBS
PM unaware vital Aboriginal legal service is about to lose Commonwealth funding
SBS
Under New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory law, police agencies are legally obliged to call the Custody Notification Service if it has an Aboriginal person in custody. The CNS also allows Aboriginal people to receive culturally appropriate ...
Funding threat to 24-hour phone line connecting Aboriginal people in custody ...ABC Online
Hotline credited with reducing Aboriginal deaths in custody loses Government ...ABC Message Stick

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The Guardian
Fighting proud: the remarkable story of Indigenous AFL icon Michael Long
The Guardian
Flanagan's latest book is an unconventional biography of the champion Australian Rules footballer and indigenous community leader Michael Long. He calls it a “funny, serious book” to match its subject - and it is. It'll make you laugh at the absurdity ...