Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

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Body politics goes Black
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'The greatest challenge we face in “imaging” Australia is to uphold the idea that there is one image of Aboriginal Australia or even that there is an Aboriginal Australia that has a distinct difference to Australia at large. Artists in this show are ...
Buried Country reissue illuminates once again the rich trove of Aboriginal ...ABC Online (blog)
The Condescension of Ethnic Categories in Contemporary Australian ArtHoni Soit

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Intercontinental Cry
Aboriginal or Australian?
Intercontinental Cry
“All Aborigines and part-Aborigines are expected eventually to attain the same manner of living as other Australians and to live as members of a single Australian community, enjoying the same rights and privileges, accepting the same responsibilities, ...

ABC Online
Indigenous health programs' funding from Western Australian government ...
ABC Online
The Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia has described being hit by a double whammy after finding out about a 50 per cent state budget cut to Indigenous programs. Budget papers show that funding for Aboriginal-run medical services has halved ...

The Australian
Leaders unite to finish the land rights battle
The Australian
“None of us have got the silver bullet or the single answer, but we're all searching for the best interests for the indigenous peoples, not just our own groups, but across Australia.” The meeting heard excessive regulation, crippling development costs, ...

BBC News
Aboriginal legends reveal ancient secrets to science
BBC News
Scientists are beginning to tap into a wellspring of knowledge buried in the ancient stories of Australia's Aboriginal peoples. But the loss of indigenous languages could mean it is too late to learn from them. The Luritja people, native to the remote ...
Kimberley campaigner Sam Cook at the May 1 rally with her cousin Kevin Stagg ...Perth Now
From missions to homelands and back to assimilationRed Flag
Overhaul for Indigenous spendingPS News

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BBC News
Aboriginal legends reveal ancient secrets to science
BBC News
Scientists are beginning to tap into a wellspring of knowledge buried in the ancient stories of Australia's Aboriginal peoples. But the loss of indigenous languages could mean it is too late to learn from them. The Luritja people, native to the remote ...
Kimberley campaigner Sam Cook at the May 1 rally with her cousin Kevin Stagg ...Perth Now
From missions to homelands and back to assimilationRed Flag
Overhaul for Indigenous spendingPS News

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ABC Online
Rare French paintings of Tasmanian Aboriginal life before colonisation to tour ...
ABC Online
The pictures are owned by France's Museum of Natural History in La Havre and will tour the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), Launceston's Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, the National Museum of Australia in Canberra and several other ...

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The Guardian
Majority of Australians 'would vote for Indigenous recognition' in a referendum
The Guardian
The overwhelming majority of voters, including two-thirds of Coalition voters, would support a referendum on recognising Indigenous Australians if a poll was held today, a survey by advocacy group Recognise reveals. The poll of 750 Aboriginal and ...
Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...Radio Australia

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ABC Online
Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...
ABC Online
Advocacy group Recognise has released a poll that suggests 75 per cent of Australians would back a yes vote if the referendum was held now. The poll was conducted by Polity Research in March and took responses from 2,700 voters. To be successful the ...
Majority of Australians 'would vote for Indigenous recognition' in a referendumThe Guardian
Slow progress in Constitutional recognition for Indigenous AustraliansEureka Street (satire) (registration)

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ABC Online
Funding cut for remote Aboriginal domestic violence shelter will 'put lives at ...
ABC Online
phA domestic violence shelter servicing 50 Aboriginal communities in the remote north of Western Australia has emerged as the latest project to miss out on funding under the Federal Government's overhaul of Indigenous funding. The women who run the ...

The Stringer
Truth, not lies, on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander suicide rates
The Stringer
For non-Aboriginal Australians who have suicided the average estimated loss of life is about 30 years per person however for the First Peoples of this continent who take their lives the average loss per person in years is more than 50 years. To put ...

Green Left Weekly
Four Corners' fishbowl journalism does more damage to Aboriginal people
Green Left Weekly
Particularly when it comes to responsible reporting of Aboriginal poverty. Last week, Four Corners pointed its lens into a few Aboriginal communities in Western Australia and produced a beautiful piece of promotion for the WA government and its plans ...
Coffs Harbour rallies against forced closure of remote Aboriginal communitiesABC Online
Hear A Melbourne Muso's Heartfelt Protest Song Against Aboriginal Community ...theMusic

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The Australian
Acknowledging indigenous heritage a good beginning
The Australian
That would best be done if and when Australians decide to become a republic. The urgent need is not for a comprehensive preamble but for an acknowledgment of the assured place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in our history and as part ...
Save the date: #IHMayDay15 is coming your way, soon…Crikey (blog)

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ABC Online
Tears of pride as Aboriginal elder Timothy Nadjowh honoured with Order of ...
ABC Online
Hundreds of people from the West Arnhem community of Gunbalanya celebrated as elder Timothy Nadjowh was appointed a member of the Order of Australia. NT Administrator John Hardy said Mr Nadjowh's courage "to do his own thing, his determination to ...

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ABC Online
Judge slams indigenous jail rates
The Australian
“The failure to bring the Aboriginal incarceration rate anywhere near proportionate levels represents a continuing institutional degradation of Australia's indigenous people,” Justice Kourakis told the South Australian Press Club. He warned that budget ...
Indigenous jailing rate shameful, SA Chief Justice Chris Kourakis saysABC Online

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ABC Local
Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival launches in Cairns
ABC Local
"It gives not only the indigenous children of Cape York the opportunity to speak to the elders, but also the spectators and visitors that come from all around Australia and overseas an opportunity to sit around the campfire and yarn with the elders ...

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SBS
Indigenous activist accuses government of 'racist budget'
SBS
Indigenous Australian imprisonment rates are around 12 times more than non-Indigenous Australians, even though they comprise less than three percent of the overall Australian population, according to the government's Australian Institute of Criminology.
Indigenous Groups Question Budget StrategyPro Bono Australia
Remote Indigenous communities could close if NT government takes full controlThe Guardian
'Dysfunctional' NT Government must not run Indigenous outstations, Northern ...ABC Online

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The Guardian
Tony Abbott proud of budget spending on Indigenous affairs - video
The Guardian
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples says the 2015 budget 'is not a budget for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' , despite the prime minister saying he's proud of its Indigenous spending. Les Malezer of the congress says the ...

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Aboriginal art focus leaves Sotheby's Australia for London
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Sotheby's London will present its first Aboriginal Art sale on 10 June, 75 lots spanning more than 200 years. The catalogue calls this a 'landmark auction…the first to be held by a major auction house outside of Australia.' Drawn from the important ...

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Aboriginal art focus leaves Sotheby's Australia for London
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Sotheby's London will present its first Aboriginal Art sale on 10 June, 75 lots spanning more than 200 years. The catalogue calls this a 'landmark auction…the first to be held by a major auction house outside of Australia.' Drawn from the important ...

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