Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Family still waiting for inquest into woman's death in custody
ABC Message Stick
The family of an Aboriginal woman who died last year in police custody in Western Australia are demanding an urgent inquest into the 22-year-old's death. Ms Dhu died in South Hedland in the Pilbara and her family said they had no idea what caused her ...

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Ms Dhu's family call for urgent inquest into Aboriginal woman's death in ...
ABC Online
The family of an Aboriginal woman who died last year in police custody in Western Australia are demanding an urgent inquest into the 22-year-old's death. Ms Dhu died in South Hedland in the Pilbara and her family said they had no idea what caused her ...

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SBS
How much does it cost to keep people in Australian jails?
SBS
Across Australia, Indigenous people are over-represented in Australian prisons. The rate of Indigenous Australians in prison is 16 times higher than non-Indigenous people. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda ...

The Guardian
WA premier withdraws royalties help for struggling Aboriginal communities
The Guardian
Mining royalties will not be used to keep open “unviable” remote Aboriginal communities, the Western Australian premier, Colin Barnett, has said. The move scuttles a lifeline thrown by WA National party leader and regional development minister, Terry ...

Lighting the way for Indigenous students
Lawyers Weekly
Other signatories to the CareerTrackers initiative include: Commonwealth Bank of Australia; GHD; Insurance Australia Group; Indigenous Business Australia; Lend Lease; Leighton Contractors; Qantas; SJB Architecture & Cox Architecture; and Westpac.
Indigenous Children in Care Up 65 Per Cent Since National ApologyPro Bono Australia

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The Guardian
Leeanne Enoch's election in Queensland a huge milestone for Indigenous people
The Guardian
Enoch, who won Algester in Brisbane, and Gordon, who took the far northern seat of Cook 2,000km away, were part of a Labor surge on Saturday that has the party poised to take government just three years after suffering the worst defeat in Australian ...
The QLD election result is a win for Australian womenDaily Life

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Chance for indigenous constitutional recognition 'may be squandered'
The Australian
CRUCIAL bipartisanship on a move to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution risks being “squandered” and the momentum exhausted if a form of words and a voting date are not released this year, the Business Council of Australia says.

The Australian
Pathways to indigenous empowerment
The Australian
DESPITE a decade of ever more concerted interventions across remote Aboriginal Australia, there has been little change in the landscape of the bush communities. Indigenous men and women know the truth; outsiders with clear eyes can see it as well.
Recognition for Indigenous Australians is not like the republic. We need a ...The Guardian

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The Australian
Arthur Boyd's Bride series explores issues beyond indigenous affairs
The Australian
After all, the series is the one with which Boyd established himself as one of the handful of defining Australian painters of the postwar years, and it is one whose originality and evocative power was never surpassed and perhaps not equalled in his ...
Arthur Boyd's Brides paintings reunited at Melbourne's Heide MuseumBrisbane Times

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The Stringer
In Australia, there is the Aboriginal rights struggle
The Stringer
In Australia there is no greater rights struggle than the Aboriginal rights struggle. It is a human rights struggle where not only the First Peoples of this continent were violently and murderously dispossessed of their lands but since the advent of ...

Haaretz
Aboriginal leader identifies with Jewish suffering on Holocaust Day
Haaretz
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Jews from the Auschwitz death camp, the chairman of Australia's first and largest community-controlled Aboriginal health service expressed his people's identification with "the injustice ...

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MAJOR INDIGENOUS EXHIBITION AT BRITISH MUSEUM
Aboriginal Art Directory News
The Australian National Museum and the British Museum are joining forces to present one of the most important exhibitions of Indigenous Australian art and artefacts ever staged. 'Enduring Civilisation', as it's called, will open in London in April and ...

Holocaust anniversary acknowledged by Aboriginal community
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
The service is Australia's first and largest community-controlled Aboriginal facility of this kind. Chairman of the Aboriginal Medical Service Redfern, Sol Bellear said Aboriginal Australians have always felt strongly about the injustice wrought on the ...

Auction house owns studio and runs indigenous 'alliance'
The Australian
The company, Arthouse Auctions, has collected millions of dollars from at least 80 sales around Australia since 2011, including over $90,000 from canvases that experts allege are fakes, online records show. At least 10 Aboriginal artists are embroiled ...

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Indigenous youth 24 times as likely to be locked up, research shows
The Australian (blog)
The Northern Territory was next, locking up young indigenous people at a rate of 397 per 100,000, followed by the ACT on 389, NSW on 376, South Australia on 337, then Queensland on 299. In contrast, the detention rate for Aboriginal youth in Victoria ...

BLOUIN ARTINFO
British Museum to Host Indigenous Australia Exhibition
BLOUIN ARTINFO
The British Museum has announced that it will host the first major exhibition in the UK to present what the Museum describes as “a history of Indigenous Australia, both Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders, through objects.” Titled ...

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Artinfo UK
British Museum to Host Indigenous Australia Exhibition
Artinfo UK
The British Museum has announced that it will host the first major exhibition in the UK to present what the Museum describes as “a history of Indigenous Australia, both Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders, through objects.” Titled ...
Should we move Australia Day?4BC
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The Australian
Aboriginal children 10 times more likely to be in care
The Australian
As at June 30, 2013, 8.5 per cent of indigenous children were living in out-of-home care. This was followed by the ACT, which had 6.3 per cent of Aboriginal children in care, South Australia with 6.1 per cent, Victoria with 5.9 per cent, Western ...

4BC
Should we move Australia Day?
4BC
"I can't quite see how you can celebrate a day as we do as Australia Day that many Aboriginal people call Invasion Day". Mr Smith says Australia can not truley recognise and embrace indigenous Australians and thier 40,000 history if the nations ...
British Museum to Host Indigenous Australia ExhibitionArtinfo UK
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The Guardian
'We have no friends in parliament,' Indigenous protesters tell Canberra
The Guardian
Demonstrators marched from the Aboriginal tent embassy to the front doors of parliament house which was locked for the duration of the protest. They aired a number of grievances relating to Indigenous rights, including deaths in custody and cuts to ...