Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

BBC News
Australia's Aboriginal comedians fight prejudice with wit
BBC News
She is also all-Aboriginal. In the new show, Blak Cabaret, this burly drag queen rules. And in a retold version of history she asks: What would happen if blacks invaded a white native Australia? The Sydney Festival premiere, featuring Torres Strait ...

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BBC News
Australia's Aboriginal comedians fight prejudice with wit
BBC News
She is also all-Aboriginal. In the new show, Blak Cabaret, this burly drag queen rules. And in a retold version of history she asks: What would happen if blacks invaded a white native Australia? The Sydney Festival premiere, featuring Torres Strait ...

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Is this Australia's Stonehenge?
Northern Star
Father and son team Steven and Evan Strong have combined the written testimony of a forgotten Australia archaeologist, oral indigenous history, and ancient Australian artefacts to sensationally conclude that Aboriginal civilization was far more ...

ABC Online
Charlie Hebdo v 18C: no contest
The Australian
Because of 18C Australians have to cautiously discuss the topic, especially non-Aboriginal Australians. The example highlights a fundamental flaw of 18C. The assumption behind the law is that racism essentially comes from the dominant racial group ...
Deeper waterThe Monthly (subscription) (blog)
Charlie Hebdo attacks provide a false pretext for 18C debateThe Conversation AU

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Westpac commits to 400 Aboriginal places
The Australian (blog)
Australia's top companies have broadened their indigenous engagement strategies to include not just current employment or procurement targets but education and training, spending $72 million last year according to the Business Council of Australia.

The Guardian
Aboriginal women address high rates of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in remote ...
Medical Xpress
The Lililwan study, led by Aboriginal leaders from the Fitzroy Valley communities, The George Institute for Global Health and The University of Sydney, provides Australia's first comprehensive data on the prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in remote ...
Foetal alcohol syndrome: Fitzroy Valley leader June Oscar hopes study brings ...ABC Online
Fitzroy Valley praised for response to scourge of foetal alcohol syndromeThe Guardian

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Daily Mail
Shocking rates of foetal alcohol syndrome found by study in Aboriginal community
Daily Mail
One in eight children in remote communities of Western Australia are born with permanent learning and physical disabilities due to their mothers consuming alcohol while pregnant, a new study has found. Titled the Lililwan Project, meaning 'the little ...

Removal of Aboriginal children at crisis point and rising
Green Left Weekly
The Productivity Commission into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage released its findings into government attempts to 'close the gap' between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia. It has been almost three years since the last Overcoming Indigenous ...

Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal activists plan national convergence for freedom
Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal people and their supporters are converging in Canberra from all over Australia for the Invasion Day weekend. The weekend will feature a "sit-in" that is expected to release an historic Declaration of Independence reaffirming Aboriginal ...

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The Australian
Cries from remote indigenous communities go unheard
The Australian
He was certainly sincere about turning back the boats and ditching the carbon tax, but those are easy marks by comparison to making a difference in indigenous affairs, particularly for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents of remote ...

The Australian
fetal alcohol hits one in eight
The Australian
A LANDMARK health study has found that one in eight children, or 120 children per 1000, in remote Aboriginal communities of the Fitzroy Valley in Western Australia suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome. The devastating findings of the Liliwan Study have ...
Nation's highest rate of fetal alcohol syndrome documented in WA's Fitzroy ValleyABC Online
Foetal alcohol syndrome: One in eight children has permament damage in ...Sydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
What if the French had settled Australia first?
Sydney Morning Herald
Baudin even warned NSW's Governor King of the consequences of dispossessing Aboriginal people in a personal letter: "It would be infinitely more glorious for your nation, as for mine, to mould for society the inhabitants of its own country over whom it ...

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Newcastle Herald
Aboriginal groups to arrive in Hunter over rail corridor
Newcastle Herald
ABORIGINAL groups from across Australia are expected to arrive in Newcastle next month to protest about the disturbance of Aboriginal remains and artefacts along the truncated rail corridor. Awabakal Aboriginal Land Council deputy chairman Richard ...

The Guardian
Indigenous group had no say in Tasmanian wilderness area plan
The Guardian
The draft management plan, released on Thursday after a leaked report was obtained by the Australian, cites concerns raised by Indigenous Australians as one of the key reasons to remove the word “wilderness” from descriptions of the area, and replace ...

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Indigenous group awaits consultation with Health Minister
The Sunshine Coast Daily
"Almost every politician, no matter what side of the fence, has at some time committed to close the appalling health gap between Aboriginal and other Australians," Ms Briggs said. "They all know the dire statistics ... Aboriginal people fare much worse ...

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Australian Ageing Agenda
Service provision fears ahead of NSW privatisation
Australian Ageing Agenda
There is mounting concern over the long-term future of rural and remote and Aboriginal-specific home care service provision in NSW as the State Government seeks to privatise its home care unit by mid-year. The state-run Home Care NSW is the largest ...

John Pilger Interview: White Australians Would Like Aboriginal People to ...
Truth-Out
Pilger incisively and tenaciously reveals the brutal conquest and continued racist treatment of the aboriginal people in Australia. Against this appalling historical documentation of conquest, discriminating and neglect, Pilger also highlights the ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Working in partnership with Aboriginal culture
ArtsHub (subscription)
Our audiences have very little understanding of the diversity of Aboriginal people and cultures. Australian was a multicultural nation before invasion, it's still one today. Views of Aboriginality are often very homogenising. We don't speak with one ...

The West Australian
Australia Day celebrations to feature Aboriginal dancers
SBS
Historically January 26th hasn't been a happy day for all in the indigenous community, with the day being labelled by some Aboriginal Australians both as 'Invasion day' and 'Survival day'. But students from the NSW Public Schools Aboriginal Dance ...
Indigenous leader's plea to celebrate Australia DayThe West Australian
Baird calls on states to support Indigenous recognition. But what difference ...The Guardian

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Sydney Morning Herald
Australia Day in Sydney 2015: 'Biggest and most ambitious Australia Day ever ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Before a performance by children from the NSW Public Schools Aboriginal Dance Ensemble, Australia Day Council of NSW chairman Angelos Frangopoulos revealed a packed schedule of Sydney Harbour races, Aboriginal ceremonies, concerts, sports ...
HMAS Canberra to take Sydney Harbour salute for Australia Day celebrationsABC Online

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