Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Telegraph.co.uk
Meet the Aboriginal unit Prince Harry will train with in Australia
Telegraph.co.uk
In a remote stretch of bushland in outback Australia, a force of camouflaged Aboriginal soldiers rely on their unique hunting and survival skills as they keep watch over a vast swath of territory that includes harsh desert, rugged coastline and ...
Harry is Facing 'Hectic' Month of Training With Australian ArmyThe New Indian Express
Prince Harry to report for duty with Australian army next weekStars and Stripes
Prince Harry to work with elite Australian regimentPress Herald
NZCity
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SBS
Comment: Aboriginal lifestyles could fix the hole in the heart of Australia
SBS
These problems are too often perceived only in the context of the dysfunction of remote Aboriginal settlements and seen therefore as purely "Aboriginal" issues rather than issues of government capability. That is a mistake. Many non-Aboriginal ...

Māori Television
Support grows for Australian Aboriginal communities from Māori MPs
Māori Television
Māori MPs have been writing to political parties in Australia in a bid to stop the closure of around 150 Aboriginal communities. Over the past week Te Kāea was in Australia reporting on the issue, while back in Aotearoa, the Aboriginal communities have ...

Support grows for Australian Aboriginal communities from Māori MPs
Māori Television
Māori MPs have been writing to political parties in Australia in a bid to stop the closure of around 150 Aboriginal communities. Over the past week Te Kāea was in Australia reporting on the issue, while back in Aotearoa, the Aboriginal communities have ...

SBS
What Easter means for Indigenous Australia
SBS
But Pastor and Kabi Kabi and Goreng Goreng man, Ray Minnieco, says that the Easter period resonates deeply with Indigenous spiritual traditions, thanks to the story of sacrifice. “For me in terms of our Aboriginal spirituality, the story of sacrifice ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal legend backs up research findings on origins of Central Australian ...
ABC Online
"Just an amazing coincidence that we'd independently concluded that the seeds had been transported and then subsequently we discover an Aboriginal legend is exactly what we found scientifically. "The concordance of the findings of a scientific study ...

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The Guardian
Landmark WA judgment on Aboriginal sacred sites prompts call for review
The Guardian
The Robinsons were represented by Greg MacIntyre SC, a barrister who specialises in Aboriginal heritage and worked on the Mabo case. MacIntyre told Guardian Australia the guidelines used by the department “completely delists all mythological sites”.
Port Hedland sacred site ruling highlights 40-year-old heritage system's ...ABC Online
Aboriginal heritage test case overturns decision to deregister Port Hedland siteRadio Australia

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ABC Online
Broome runner Adrian Dodson-Shaw to become first Indigenous Australian to ...
ABC Online
Broome marathon runner Adrian Dodson-Shaw is set to become the first Indigenous Australian to set foot on the North Pole and tackle one of the of world's most gruelling challenges, the North Pole Marathon. No stranger to overcoming obstacles, ...

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ABC Online
Broome runner Adrian Dodson-Shaw to become first Indigenous Australian to ...
ABC Online
Broome marathon runner Adrian Dodson-Shaw is set to become the first Indigenous Australian to set foot on the North Pole and tackle one of the of world's most gruelling challenges, the North Pole Marathon. No stranger to overcoming obstacles, ...

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InDaily
Designer lessons in Aboriginal cloaks
InDaily
Australian Aboriginal dress is rarely cited as a key inspiration – and, in that, I think many designers are missing an opportunity. 19th-century images of Aboriginal people from south-eastern Australia frequently feature subjects wearing possum-skin ...

Funding cut signals the destruction of Aboriginal life in Australia
Eureka Street (satire) (registration)
The Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion is presiding over the destruction of Aboriginal life in Australia. Last week he faced an angry protest by Indigenous organisations in Alice Springs over funding cuts. In last year's Budget, the Federal ...

ABC Online
Ice addiction overtaking alcohol as biggest problem facing Indigenous ...
ABC Online
Ice addiction is overtaking alcohol as the biggest problem facing Indigenous populations, the head of a rehabilitation centre specialising in treatment for Aboriginal people says. Joe Coyte is CEO of The Glen, on the New South Wales Central Coast ...

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The Guardian
#SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA: stop the forced closure of Aboriginal communities ...
The Guardian
'I was a part of a strong group of individuals who left a marker on history through the campaign to “Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia” and through the social media platforms created as #SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA.' Photograph: ...

50 Aboriginal soldiers fought on Gallipoli
SBS
Perhaps 50 Aboriginal soldiers fought on Gallipoli in an era when they weren't recognised as Australian citizens and enlistment was technically forbidden. No-one really knows for sure, not even the Australian War Memorial which has sought to catalogue ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Australia's Aboriginal war heroes 'finally' recognised by memorial sculpture
Telegraph.co.uk
Aboriginal groups have long campaigned for proper recognition of their service. “One way to get this recognition was to advocate for a memorial and the bullets are a great idea,” Ray Minniecon, from the Coloured Diggers movement, told Sydney's Daily ...
Aboriginal war heroes remembered with new Anzac memorial in Hyde ParkThe Daily Telegraph
Public artwork honours contribution of Indigenous soldiersSBS
Tony Albert's 'confronting' tribute to Indigenous Diggers unveiled in Sydney's ...Sydney Morning Herald
The Guardian -Artinfo UK
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SBS
Emergency summit held over SA Aboriginal community closures
SBS
Leaders from remote Aboriginal communities in South Australia have held an emergency summit to try to stop funding cuts that could force the closure of their communities - a move they've labelled cultural genocide. Representatives from every regional ...
Police Commissioner backs push to close remote WA Aboriginal communities ...ABC Online
Reality of Aboriginal child abuse far worseThe West Australian
West Australian police commissioner backs closure of remote communitiesThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Palaszczuk has been honest about Billy Gordon. But it's still a sad day for ...
The Guardian
Gordon's election, together with Leanne Enoch, was celebrated Australia wide as two Aboriginal MPs took their place in a state parliament. Like female leaders, the novelty of Aboriginal MPs means the spotlight and the onus to act as a role model is ...

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Free Speech Radio News
Protests follow Australia's moves to cut services in remote indigenous communities
Free Speech Radio News
In Australia, a growing protest movement led by indigenous activists and elders is demanding that the conservative government rethink its plans to cut services to more than half of the remote indigenous communities in the largest state of Western ...
More bang needed for the indigenous buck says Noel PearsonThe Australian
Empowered Communities a chance to close the gapBrisbane Times
Interview: Noel Pearson from Empowered CommunitiesABC Message Stick

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The Age
More bang needed for the indigenous buck says Noel Pearson
The Australian
The report found that the government spent $30.3bn on services for indigenous people in 2012-2013; $43,449 per Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person. “We need to get a better bang out of the money that's going into indigenous Australia,” Mr ...
Empowered Communities a chance to close the gapBrisbane Times
Interview: Noel Pearson from Empowered CommunitiesABC Message Stick

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Reality of Aboriginal child abuse far worse
The West Australian
Statistics about the magnitude of child sexual abuse in remote Aboriginal communities are unreliable, mainly because of deliberate under-reporting. The Australian Institute of Family Studies has estimated that up to 90 per cent of sexual abuse in these ...

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