Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Daily Life
Australia needs to own up to its slave history
Daily Life
Historians Dr Rosalind Kidd and Dr Thalia Anthony have documented how Aboriginal Australians of all ages were forcibly sent to work on sheep and cattle properties across Australia under government schemes that were supposedly "designed to protect ...

Stock Journal
Aboriginal stake in Kidman carve-up
Stock Journal
From the time when Sidney Kidman first cohabitated the bush with Billy the Aboriginal to the adjistment of stock in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara-Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in 2014, Kidman's history has been interwoven with Indigenous Australia. Not ...

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation is a challenge to review
The Conversation AU
It hovers uneasily between being a fine-art exhibition showing the diversity and sheer visual and sociocultural potency of contemporary Australian visual art practice, and an older-style ethnographic survey.
Indigenous Australians mark Anzac DaySBS
British Museum curator hits back at criticism of Indigenous Australia exhibitionSydney Morning Herald
Convergence to help Aboriginal communities fight against communities' closureGreen Left Weekly
Londonist -CCTV -Crikey (blog)
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Red Flag
Police shut down Aboriginal ANZAC Day march
Red Flag
Forced to the back of Canberra's ANZAC Day parade, Aboriginal activists and their supporters assembled to remember the wars that are never mentioned from the stage, but which more profoundly shaped Australia. The Frontier Wars lasted more than 140 ...

SBS
Indigenous Australians mark Anzac Day
SBS
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have fought for Australia in every war since Federation in 1901. Pastor Ray Minniecon started the Coloured Diggers March nine years ago to fight for the recognition of the role of Indigenous diggers. He ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
British Museum curator hits back at criticism of Indigenous Australia exhibition
Sydney Morning Herald
For curator Gaye Sculthorpe​, a key moment in the British Museum's important new exhibition Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation comes right at the end, where we can watch a film of Abe Muriata​ from Cardwell, Queensland, splitting canes to make ...

Brisbane Times
Aboriginal passport the first step to independence, says activist Callum ...
Brisbane Times
When Callum Clayton-Dixon tried to enter Australia last week using an Aboriginal passport, he was well aware his actions were more symbolic than practical. Mr Clayton-Dixon said he was questioned for about 30 minutes last Friday night when he arrived ...

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The Australian
ABC's 8MMM Aboriginal Radio breaks new ground
The Australian
8MMM claims to be Australia's first indigenous narrative comedy. As bold as it is groundbreaking, it gleefully cuts through the politically correct pieties that often envelop indigenous affairs as it tracks the daily dramas of a chronically underfunded ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Undeclared frontier wars march on Anzac Day
Sydney Morning Herald
A small group of Indigenous Australians will march in Canberra on Saturday to remember the Indigenous people killed during the undeclared Frontier Wars. The march was organised by Sovereign Union, an Indigenous organisation that advocates for the ...
Protesters try to mark 'frontier wars'NEWS.com.au

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VICE News
Australian Aboriginal Communities Under Threat of Closure Take Their Case to ...
VICE News
Over 150 Aboriginal communities in Australia could be forced to shutdown as the government has cut off services to their land. Now community leaders have taken their fight to the United Nations, calling for the UN rapporteur on indigenous rights to ...
Indigenous Australians thank Māori for supportRadio New Zealand

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artnet News
British Museum's Controversial Aboriginal Australian Show Draws Fire
artnet News
The British Museum's highly contentious exhibition on Aboriginal Australian art, which opened yesterday was panned by critics, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Curated by the Aboriginal Australian curator Gaye Sculthorpe, the British Museum's head of ...

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The Conversation AU
Kidman's sale marks second wave of South Australian colonisation
The Conversation AU
From the time when Sidney Kidman first cohabitated the bush with Billy the Aboriginal to the adjistment of stock in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara-Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in 2014, Kidman's history has been interwoven with Indigenous Australia. Not ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
New song penned to celebrate Indigenous diggers
Sydney Morning Herald
A song recognising the contribution of Indigenous Australian soldiers to past and present war efforts has been revealed at a special ceremony in Canberra. On Every Anzac Day was commissioned by the Australian War Memorial, and written and produced by ...
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Opinion: Indigenous soldiers faced terrible discrimination after returning ...Courier Mail

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Sydney Morning Herald
New song penned to celebrate Indigenous diggers
The Age
A song recognising the contribution of Indigenous Australian soldiers to past and present war efforts has been revealed at a special ceremony in Canberra. On Every Anzac Day was commissioned by the Australian War Memorial, and written and produced by ...
Black Diggers review: Uncompromising look at treatment of Indigenous soldiersSydney Morning Herald
World War One's forgotten Anzacs: The Indigenous ArmyBBC News
Opinion: Indigenous soldiers faced terrible discrimination after returning ...Courier Mail
NEWS.com.au
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New Matilda
Aboriginal Group To Shadow ANZAC Day March And Highlight Frontier Wars
New Matilda
It's the war that Australia doesn't like to remember, but that has never deterred the group of Aboriginal people who have walked behind the official ANZAC Day march in Canberra each year since 2012, calling on the nation to remember the first people ...

ABC Online
ACT Government signs agreement to improve health, education services for ...
ABC Online
The ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Agreement 2015-18 also aims to reduce the incarceration rates of Indigenous people, increase school retention rates and foster better relationships between the Government, the public service and the ...

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ABC Online
Anzac Day 2015: Australia's first Indigenous Returned Services League club set ...
ABC Online
He hoped the new club house, an old canteen donated by the Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council, would not only be a hub for welfare support to veterans but a way to encourage the community's younger residents to sign up for careers in the Australian ...

Sydney Morning Herald
ABC's 8MMM Aboriginal Radio pushes racism boundaries
Sydney Morning Herald
His remark echoes through the culture clashes that we witness in the wry satirical comedy Morton-Thomas has co-written, co-produced and performs in, 8MMM Aboriginal Radio. "I think Australia is a country of people who are extremely lazy when it comes ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Black Diggers review: Uncompromising look at treatment of Indigenous soldiers
Sydney Morning Herald
At the outbreak of WWI, Australia was deeply racist. Aborigines were not citizens, couldn't vote, and Indigenous men were barred from enlisting in the nascent Australian Imperial Force. To join the army, they had to prove they were white enough. Still ...
World War One's forgotten Anzacs: The Indigenous ArmyBBC News
Opinion: Indigenous soldiers faced terrible discrimination after returning ...Courier Mail
Black Diggers: a forgotten historyNEWS.com.au

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BBC News
World War One's forgotten Anzacs: The Indigenous Army
BBC News
Anzac Day, 25 April, is probably Australia's most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first campaign that led to major casualties for Australian and New Zealand forces during World War One, and commemorates all the conflicts ...
New song penned to celebrate Indigenous diggersThe Age
Opinion: Indigenous soldiers faced terrible discrimination after returning ...Courier Mail
Black Diggers review: Uncompromising look at treatment of Indigenous soldiersBrisbane Times
NEWS.com.au
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