Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Bicentenary event for first 'Stolen' children
Parramatta Sun
On December 28, 1814, she was the first child placed at the Native Institution next to St John's Church at Parramatta, officially established on January 18, 1815 by Governor Lachlan Macquarie at a time when Aboriginal Australians were expected to ...

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UOW adapts US trauma program to assist Indigenous Australians
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Educators and health professionals from around the country gathered at the University of Wollongong this week to finalise the curriculum for Australia's first course in Indigenous Trauma Recovery. It is adapted from a program developed at the USA's ...

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UOW adapts US trauma program to assist Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
Educators and health professionals from around the country gathered at the University of Wollongong this week to finalise the curriculum for Australia's first course in Indigenous Trauma Recovery. It is adapted from a program developed at the USA's ...

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The Ecologist
Utopia - breaking the Great Australian Silence
The Ecologist
Australia must acknowledge the horrors lurking in its own history, writes Fiona Broom, and admit to its continuing Aboriginal genocide. It's made harder by the deliberate ignorance of Australia's mainstream culture, politics and media. But with John ...

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Jack Dale Revealing Australia's Hidden past
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Photographer Neil McLeod professional entree to Aboriginal Australia was through Pastor Doug Nicholls, the first Aboriginal to be knighted and first to be appointed to vice-regal office (he served as Governor of South Australia in the 1970s). The ...

The Age
Tiriki Onus wins new Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship for possum skin cloak ...
The Age
But he says over the past 10 generations so much of the knowledge about the cultural role of the possum skins has been scattered, devalued and replaced with a growing sense of displacement and alienation for many Aboriginal Australians. “I constantly ...

Response to rash of suicides in remote WA regions 'pitiful'
The Australian
He said local, Aboriginal-led suicide prevention bodies such as the Halls Creek Healing Taskforce had been unable to attract funding from the West Australian government, leaving programs at risk. Mr Georgatos said the state government's response to the ...

Mammoth task ahead to bring Aboriginal remains back on country
ABC Online
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Indigenous remains and artefacts kept in museums across Australia and around the world. At one time, museums and explorers would organise expeditions with the specific intent of collecting "Aboriginal specimens ...

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Mammoth task ahead to bring Aboriginal remains back on country
ABC Local
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Indigenous remains and artefacts kept in museums across Australia and around the world. At one time, museums and explorers would organise expeditions with the specific intent of collecting "Aboriginal specimens ...

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Meet the Mob: Deborah Swan
ABC Online
Deborah grew up in Toukley, on the NSW Central Coast. While her indigenous heritage comes from South Australia, she has grown up on Darkinjung land. Her father was killed in a car accident when Deborah was 19, she gave birth to a daughter a year later.

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Saltwater Country Opens in the Netherlands
Aboriginal Art Directory News
A new exhibition Saltwater Country is set to open at the Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht on January 11, showing a great diversity of art produced by sixteen artists from Queensland's coastal regions in north-east Australia. They have ...

When simplistic outrage clouds a complex issue
The Australian (blog)
Conflating all indigenous people of colour as sharing a culture also can help to entrench a sense of their universal victimhood, and such conflation is often simply bewildering. Early in PNG's independent life, meetings with Aboriginal Australians were ...
“Try a little kindness” and other collective resolutions for 2015Crikey (blog)

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The Australian
APY artists see red as pop-up auctions peddle fake works
The Australian
She said all her works sold through Tjala Aboriginal Arts Centre in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands community of Amata in South Australia, where she paints, were genuine. “Ricky brought in a roll of canvasses and told me to write my ...

The Australian
Alliance with Jacqui Lambie gives indigenous women a voice
The Australian
“From years of experience in Australia's biggest city, they have a good understanding of what will work best to protect our children from drugs, violence and unemployment.” One of the advisers will be Bronwyn Penrith, who chairs the Aboriginal women's ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Cabinet papers 1988-89: lost in the space race; Aboriginal treaty; body ...
Sydney Morning Herald
"If manufacture were to occur in Australia it could generate considerable economic benefits. It would employ up to 800 people directly, involve capital expenditure of around $300 million and could generate significant export earnings," Button told cabinet.
Cabinet papers 1988-89: Deaths in custody outgrew cabinet's expectationsThe Australian
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The Guardian
Mining royalties may save WA's remote Indigenous communities from closure
The Guardian
Yu, who is now chairman of the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance, said moving Indigenous communities from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to Redman's Department of Regional Development was a “significant change of ...

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The Australian
Cabinet papers 1988-89: Deaths in custody outgrew cabinet's expectations
The Australian
There was also outcry over deaths that followed physical struggles with authorities, including that of 16-year-old Aboriginal boy John Pat in the police lock-up at Roebourne in Western Australia's north. In Perth at Barton's Mill Prison the following ...

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The Australian
Search for a defining centre
The Australian
There are already indigenous culture centres strewn across Australia, in every state capital and in places as far-flung as the Grampians, Mossman Gorge in far north Queensland, Kakadu, Tennant Creek, even Thursday Island in the Torres Strait — in fact ...

End tiptoeing on abuse: Mundine
The Australian
Figures obtained by The Australian reveal the number of Aboriginal children taken into care in NSW — which already had the highest rates of indigenous child removal — jumped almost 10 per cent over the past year. Warren Mundine, chairman of the Prime ...

Black circle may prove missing link to lost first Aboriginal flag
The Australian (blog)
The circle was cut from black fabric used to make the first Aboriginal flag in the early 1970s, stitched at the South Australian Museum, where designer Harold Thomas was working. In place of the black circle, the museum's props department stitched the ...