Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal diplomat threatened with body search by Australian customs
Green Left Weekly
APG diplomat Pekeri Ruska (Goenpul/Yuggera) was harassed and threatened by customs officials at Brisbane international airport this afternoon after presenting only her Aboriginal passport which had been stamped on entry and exit from Honiara, Solomon ...

SBS
Indigenous Groups Question Budget Strategy
Pro Bono Australia
The Federal Government says Indigenous Australians will be the beneficiaries of fresh Budget shakeups in housing and jobs, but Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representatives have criticised the Government's approach. The 2015 Federal Budget ...
Budget 2015: Indigenous groups call for more funding certaintySBS

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Budget 2015: Indigenous groups call for more funding certainty
SBS
"Such an environment directly impacts our ability to work together to achieve positive outcomes for all Australians. The way to avoid this uncertainty is to meaningfully and genuinely engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples ...
Indigenous Groups Question Budget StrategyPro Bono Australia
Budget 2015: Concerns raised over federal plans to hand funding of Indigenous ...ABC Online

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Aboriginal Art Directory News
The Australia Council Wants You
Aboriginal Art Directory News
As of today the Australia Council for the Arts will be hosting discussion sessions across the country about the future of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts - and Executive Director of ATSI Arts, Lydia Miller, is inviting ATSI artists and ...

The Conversation AU
Tassie Indigenous student explores her future in Canberra
ABC Online
"I made a lot of relationships with other high achieving Indigenous students around Australia, ones that were keen on university just like I am, ones that really wanted to make the most of every opportunity and learn, and really wanted to take ...
Nothing has changed since Indigenous higher ed reviewThe Conversation AU

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ABC Local
Tassie Indigenous student explores her future in Canberra
ABC Local
"I made a lot of relationships with other high achieving Indigenous students around Australia, ones that were keen on university just like I am, ones that really wanted to make the most of every opportunity and learn, and really wanted to take ...
Nothing has changed since Indigenous higher ed reviewThe Conversation AU

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ABC Online
Kimberley Land Council chief threatens to 'kill' Broome's tourism industry in ...
ABC Online
Anthony Watson said he would be happy to move his own community to Cable Beach and "camp for weeks and months" to ensure the Western Australian Government involved Aboriginal people in its discussions about the future of remote communities.
Protest loses its messageHerald Sun

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Jobs Program for Indigenous People With Disability
Pro Bono Australia
“The disability community in Indigenous Australia is very diverse and it's really important to recognise this when working in community. This project gives valuable insights and we hope it will also instill greater confidence in service providers and ...

Insidethegames.biz
Australian Olympic Committee recognizes indigenous heritage
Xinhua
CANBERRA, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has voted to change its constitution to recognize the heritage and culture of the indigenous people and Torrens Strait islanders at its annual general meeting on Saturday. "To recognize the ...
Australian Olympic Committee officially change Constitution to recognise ...Insidethegames.biz

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Australian Olympic Committee
AOC changes constitution to recognise indigenous heritage
Australian Olympic Committee
AOC: Members at the Australian Olympic Committee Annual General Meeting in Sydney today have unanimously voted to amend the Constitution to recognise the nation's first people. The new passage in the AOC Constitution reads: “To recognise the ...
Australian Olympic Committee recognizes indigenous heritageXinhua

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The Australian
Olympic steps to recognise indigenous in constitution
The Australian
Senator Peris, who was Australia's first Aboriginal Olympic gold medallist, as part of the 1996 Hockeyroos team in Atlanta, said the AOC's move would provide an example to follow in the lead-up to the national referendum. “This simple act includes my ...

ABC Online
Call to end protests over WA Aboriginal community closures
ABC Online
Western Australia's Aboriginal Affairs Minister has called for an end to national protests over the potential closure of some of WA's 274 remote Indigenous communities. Large rallies were staged across the country protesting against Premier Colin ...
Aboriginal voices resist closuresGreen Left Weekly
Aboriginal elders voice concern over plans to close remote communitiesABC Message Stick
WA Govt 'braves' remote indigenous planPerth Now
The Guardian -Radio Australia -Crikey (blog)
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Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal voices resist closures
Green Left Weekly
Resistance, particularly Aboriginal resistance, to the planned community closures is indicative of more than just a community responding to a policy that violates basic human rights. It also brings to the surface a resistance that has existed in ...
Aboriginal elders voice concern over plans to close remote communitiesABC Message Stick
WA Indigenous groups frustrated at lack of detail in remote communities planThe Guardian
WA Govt 'braves' remote indigenous planPerth Now
Radio Australia
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SBS
Comment: Let's see all the faces of Team Australia on our TV screens
SBS
Australia has moved a long way from the 70s series Boney, for which New Zealand-born actor James Laurenson was hired to play a half-Aboriginal detective – but we're still a very long way from achieving colour-blind casting across the board in our ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous expert joins Australian Heritage Council
The Age
Lyndon Ormond-Parker, who was born in Darwin, is of Alyawarr descent from the Barkley Tablelands in the Northern Territory. An Indigenous cultural expert of over 15 years' standing, Mr Ormond-Parker is an Australian Research Council Fellow in the ...
Northern Land Council chief Joe Morrison calls for Indigenous involvement in ...ABC Online

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ABC Online
Northern Land Council chief Joe Morrison calls for Indigenous involvement in ...
ABC Online
The head of one of Australia's most powerful Indigenous bodies has accused Adam Giles's Country Liberal Party (CLP) Government of "sweeping aside" Indigenous people to develop the Northern Territory. The Northern Land Council's (NLC) chief Joe ...

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The Conversation AU
Let's see all the faces of Team Australia on our TV screens
The Conversation AU
Australia has moved a long way from the 70s series Boney, for which New Zealand-born actor James Laurenson was hired to play a half-Aboriginal detective – but we're still a very long way from achieving colour-blind casting across the board in our ...

The Conversation AU
Some Australian Indigenous languages you should know
The Conversation AU
As an ice-breaker, I often ask my linguistics students to name an Australian Indigenous language. Some are able to name Warlpiri, Yolngu Matha or Arrente, but most cannot manage the name of a single language. That is astonishing given there are 250 to ...
Exhibition: Indigenous Australia – enduring civilisationGeographical

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The Australian
Indigenous culture focus for Australia's first UN woman
The Australian
During the past fortnight with Professor Davis in the chair, the UNPFII has confronted a range of issues that are directly relevant to Australia. Youth suicide, constitutional recognition and the forced removal of Aboriginal people from their land have ...

Lift yourselves out of victimhood: Warren Mundine
The Australian
Mr Mundine said the call from Mr Pearson for indigenous Australia to stop blaming the wrongs of the past for today's disadvantage expressed a frustration with welfare dependency, which he shared. “I have never seen anyone pulled out of poverty by ...

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