Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Junkee
The Herald Sun Has Dismissed 4000 Indigenous Rights Protesters As A “Selfish ...
Junkee
Yesterday, an estimated 800 people in Sydney and 4,000 in Melbourne took to the CBD to protest the closure of remote Indigenous communities. Unlike the controversial Reclaim Australia protest which turned violent last weekend, the larger crowd was ...
Thousands rally in Melbourne in support of remote Aboriginal communitiesABC Online
Australian media "ignore" Aboriginal plightRadio New Zealand
Good news: Victorian council opposes closures of Aboriginal communities (and ...Green Left Weekly
Herald Sun -The Guardian
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ABC Online
SA's first Aboriginal Anglican Bishop, Christopher McLeod, to focus on ...
ABC Online
South Australia's first Aboriginal Anglican Bishop says he plans to use his new role to focus on reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Reverend Christopher McLeod, who is of Gurindji descent and whose mother was a member of the ...
Consecration of Anglican Aboriginal Bishop for South AustraliaAnglicannews
Indigenous gather for ordination of Aboriginal Anglican bishopThe Australian

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Sydney Morning Herald
800 people march in Sydney protest against forced closure of remote Indigenous ...
Sydney Morning Herald
"These moves to relocate Aboriginal people and break up communities are taking place Australia wide - from the APY lands in SA, the homelands of the NT, to the Block in the heart of Sydney," a Facebook event for the protest said. "Across the continent ...
The Herald Sun Has Dismissed 4000 Indigenous Rights Protesters As A “Selfish ...Junkee
Thousands rally in Melbourne in support of remote Aboriginal communitiesABC Online
Australian media "ignore" Aboriginal plightRadio New Zealand
Green Left Weekly -Herald Sun
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Slate Magazine (blog)
Entire Aboriginal Communities May Be “Closed” in Australia
Slate Magazine (blog)
Thousands of people rallied in Melbourne on Friday to protest the potential closure of up to 150 Australian aboriginal communities, according to reports. The government of Western Australia has said it cannot continue to provide services to all of the ...
Australian media "ignore" Aboriginal plightRadio New Zealand

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teleSUR English
Australians Protest Forced Indigenous Community Closures
teleSUR English
Munro joined thousands of other protesters in Sydney who marched from Belmore Park to the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy. In a statement issued online, march organizers said they were both frustrated by plans to redevelop the Block – a chunk of the ...
800 people march in Sydney protest against forced closure of remote Indigenous ...Brisbane Times
Australians slam govt. over plans against aboriginalsPress TV

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Sydney Morning Herald
Recognition of Indigenous Australians in constitution will help alleviate ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The document reflects Australia's history of British settlement, but fails to mention the much longer occupation of the continent by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It is as if their history does not matter, and is not part of the nation ...
A history of Australia's Indigenous art in 10 objectsThe Guardian
Change the narrative to stop Aboriginal incarcerationCrikey

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Junkee
Indigenous remote communities protest blocks Melbourne streets
The Guardian
A large protest opposing the closure of remote indigenous communities in Western Australia shut down streets in central Melbourne on Friday afternoon. Several thousand people gathered outside Flinders Street railway station at 4pm. “Enough is enough ...
The Herald Sun Has Dismissed 4000 Indigenous Rights Protesters As A “Selfish ...Junkee
Thousands rally in Melbourne in support of remote Aboriginal communitiesABC Online
Australian media "ignore" Aboriginal plightRadio New Zealand
Green Left Weekly -Herald Sun
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SBS
Indigenous chamber of commerce calls for end to welfare dependence
SBS
"Today marks a new page in our history as Indigenous Australians and power to achieve a bright, prosperous position within the Australian economy, and also in the global economy," Ms Barwick told NITV News. "What I do know is that the establishment of ...
'Healthy Welfare' trial not on the cards for Wilcannia: ScullionABC Online

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Anglicannews
Consecration of Anglican Aboriginal Bishop for South Australia
Anglicannews
[Anglican Diocese of Adelaide] Tomorrow's Episcopal Ordination of The Revd Christopher McLeod, to Assistant Bishop with special responsibility for ministry alongside Aboriginal people in South Australia, is a landmark occasion for the Adelaide Anglican ...
Indigenous Anglican bishop a firstThe Australian

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ABC Online
Thousands rally in Melbourne in support of remote Aboriginal communities
ABC Online
Thousands of people have staged a rally in Melbourne against the forced closure of remote Aboriginal communities, bringing parts of the CBD to a standstill. There were major delays to public transport on Friday as Flinders Street and St Kilda Road ...
Australian media "ignore" Aboriginal plightRadio New Zealand
Good news: Victorian council opposes closures of Aboriginal communities (and ...Green Left Weekly
Protesters make city peak hour chaosHerald Sun
The Transcontinental -The Guardian
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New Matilda
Marches Today In Sydney, Melbourne Against Forced Closures Of Aboriginal ...
New Matilda
Organisers of simultaneous protests in Sydney and Melbourne this afternoon are hoping thousands will turn out to march against the forced closures of Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. The events will also provide an opportunity for ...
Maori Urged to Protest Australian Government PolicyScoop.co.nz (press release)

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Indigenous art is more contemporary than you think
ArtsHub (subscription)
Iwantja Arts centre manager Beth Conway told ArtsHub there is an exciting and dynamic shift happening in art centres across Australia. 'A new modern art movement is pushing through the boundaries of previous conceptions of contemporary Aboriginal art.'.

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SBS
How Aborigines' dingo dreaming turned into a nightmare
The Australian
There is, in fact, only one other Western country with a profile of dog attack fatalities similar to outback indigenous Australia — rural and remote Canada, where indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians also keep numerous dogs, due to the sledding ...
Indigenous adviser calls for database of Indigenous AustraliansSBS
SA Indigenous figures fear funding dispute could lead to 'cultural genocide'The Guardian

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Telegraph.co.uk
Prince Harry stuns tiny Aboriginal township in outback Australia with ...
Telegraph.co.uk
The force patrols a remote 700,000 square-mile section of northern Australia that marks the largest area of operations of any military unit in the world. About 60 per cent of its members are Aborigines, who tend to have good local bush knowledge and ...
Prince Harry poses with locals in remote Kimberley communityABC Message Stick
Prince Harry poses with Indigenous community residents during Australian tourAustralian Times

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SBS
Indigenous adviser calls for database of Indigenous Australians
SBS
I'm a citizen of Australia to get that passport," he said. "Why shouldn't we be up for the same scrutiny?" He said it would enable Indigenous Australians to prove their identity, which is required to access certain services or perform certain duties ...
SA Indigenous figures fear funding dispute could lead to 'cultural genocide'The Guardian

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SBS
Indigenous advisor wants database of Indigenous Australians
SBS
The Australian government was accused of cultural genocide by the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in its Bringing them Home report for assuming legal guardianship of Indigenous children to assimilate them into white culture.

The Guardian
Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum's Indigenous ...
The Guardian
It's been less than a century since the world's leading collectors began acknowledging Indigenous Australian art as more than mere ethnographic artefact. Since then, the most enlightened, from Hong Kong to London, New York to Paris, have understood ...

WA today
Aboriginal imprisonment rates: Barnett government failing
WA today
Western Australia has the highest rate of Aboriginal imprisonment in the country and the Barnett government has failed to act on the issue, the Human Rights Law Centre says. The Australian Bureau of Statistics in March found 39 per cent of prisoners in ...

The Guardian
SA Indigenous figures fear funding dispute could lead to 'cultural genocide'
The Guardian
Changes in funding to Indigenous organisations through the Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) as well as changes to municipal funding have locals in South Australia fearing every regional and remote community could be shut down. Different ...
“Take our words away”: Hyperbolic fear of Australia's Indigenous heritageCrikey (blog)

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“Take our words away”: Hyperbolic fear of Australia's Indigenous heritage
Crikey (blog)
Last month on Neil Mitchell's 3AW talkback show, a parent of a student at Wonthaggi North Primary School called up to express her anger that her child was being taught to sing the Australian National Anthem in “Aboriginal”. As part of the school's ...