Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

ABC Online
CSIRO Indigenous summer school program mixes science with culture
ABC Online
A group of year 10 students from across the country travelled to South Australia to take part in an annual residential program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students held at Flinders University. One of the 28 students to spend the week in ...
Indigenous students encouraged to look at science careersABC Message Stick

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Day News
Firms told to act as indigenous numbers fall
The Australian
Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott is to release the latest indigenous engagement survey of responses from 89 of the biggest companies in Australia, which shows a drop in employee numbers and in the spend on contracting or ...
Aboriginal Knowledge Could Unlock Climate SolutionsIndependent European Daily Express
Academic chides government's 'failure' in tackling Indigenous policiesCT Australia
Aboriginal Leaders in Victoria Promote Culture and History of Indigenous ...Day News

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The Guardian
Red Hill quarry expansion will destroy 'extremely significant' Indigenous site
The Guardian
An “extremely significant” site for an Indigenous group will be destroyed if a proposed quarry expansion is approved in Western Australia. The West Australian government dubbed the $72m centrepiece of its multibillion-dollar Perth City Link project ...

The Guardian
Bungaree, the first Australian: history revisited in Aboriginal art today
The Guardian
Bungaree: the First Australian is a new exhibition pondering an eccentric and compelling figure in Australian history. Bungaree was an Indigenous man, a contemporary of Bennelong and Pemulwuy, living in the Sydney basin at the time that the First Fleet ...

Rundle: why it is important Aboriginal Australians identify collectively
Crikey
The Native Title Act didn't extinguish claims on freehold title land for 30 of 150 nations — it did so for all native claims by all indigenous Australians. The 1967 referendum didn't extend citizenship to all nations beginning with “K”. It was the ...

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Rundle: why it is important Aboriginal Australians identify collectively
Crikey
The Native Title Act didn't extinguish claims on freehold title land for 30 of 150 nations — it did so for all native claims by all indigenous Australians. The 1967 referendum didn't extend citizenship to all nations beginning with “K”. It was the ...

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BBC News
Exploring Australia's forgotten Aboriginal rock art
BBC News
We'd come to Stanley Island, off Australia's Cape York Peninsula, to learn about the Aboriginal Australians who once resided here. But we found the main sign marking Flinders Group National Park concealed by mangroves and the guestbook had recorded ...

Record number of Indigenous doctors graduate from the University of New South ...
ABC Online
The largest cohort of Aboriginal graduate doctors will begin working in hospitals around Australia next year. Six Indigenous students graduated this year with a medicine degree at the University of New South Wales. Justine Brindle from the university's ...

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Indigenous doctors graduate in record numbers from University of New South ...
ABC Online
NICK GRIMM: Aboriginal people are almost twice as likely to end up in hospital as non-Indigenous Australians. But, they're much less likely to be treated by an Indigenous doctor, since only a tiny percentage of medical practitioners in Australia are ...

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Aljazeera.com
Australia's indigenous incarceration crisis
Aljazeera.com
The rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander incarceration is now 18 times higher than that of non-indigenous Australians. Last month, the Law Council of Australia declared the rate of indigenous imprisonment, which has grown by more than 50 ...
Stop peddling lies – “$30 billion spent on Indigenous disadvantage” is a lieThe Stringer

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Scullion defends review as NT traditional owners sound alarm on Northern ...
The West Australian
Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion has rejected suggestions from Australia's largest Aboriginal land council that he is attacking Aboriginal land rights. Senator Scullion was accused by the Northern Land Council (NLC) of breaking an ...

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The Age
Rachel Perkins speaks out on the need to stand up for Aboriginal Australians
The Age
The question Noel Pearson decisively asks: do you believe that it is important that indigenous Australians have a rightful place in this, their own nation? This is a question for you. My people know we want a rightful place in this nation and we have ...

ABC Online
Scullion defends review as NT traditional owners sound alarm on Northern ...
ABC Online
Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion has rejected suggestions from Australia's largest Aboriginal land council that he is attacking Aboriginal land rights. Senator Scullion was accused by the Northern Land Council (NLC) of breaking an ...

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Australia's Abbott Plans Aboriginals Constitutional Acknowledgement in 2017
Sputnik International
A 1967 referendum with a 90.77-percent Yes vote has allowed for the unique status of Aboriginal people in Australia. However, the Aboriginal people remain unacknowledged by the Australian constitution. A protester demanding human rights for Australia's ...

The Canberra Times
Rachel Perkins speaks out on the need to stand up for Aboriginal Australians
The Canberra Times
The question Noel Pearson decisively asks: do you believe that it is important that indigenous Australians have a rightful place in this, their own nation? This is a question for you. My people know we want a rightful place in this nation and we have ...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoner numbers soar, ABS reportsThe Australian
UN call for review of Australia's mandatory sentencing laws has backing of ...ABC Online
Spending on targeted Indigenous services falling, says reportThe Guardian
Pro Bono Australia -SBS -ABC Message Stick
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Charity Kindles boost reading skills of indigenous children
The Australian
“We'll be reaching out to Australia's top CEOs soon to see how we can get our digital library launched. We want young indigenous readers to be among the first to take advantage of the best technology available. We will get this done. It is simply a ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Artist Ben Quilty confronts colonial denial with Aboriginal massacre site art ...
Sydney Morning Herald
In the beautiful southern highlands of NSW there is a glorious spectacle of nature called Fairy Bower Falls. It sounds magical, secluded and full of promise, as if it might be a tranquil sanctuary. One of Australia's most talented contemporary artists ...

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Australia PM Abbott wants referendum to recognize Aboriginal people in ...
i24news
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday that he hopes to hold a vote in May 2017 on changing the country's constitution to finally recognize Australia's indigenous people. The constitution currently does not recognize Aboriginal and ...

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Aljazeera.com
Australian PM Tony Abbott vows historic change to recognise Aborigines by 2017
Telegraph.co.uk
Mr Abbott, a staunch conservative and monarchist, has a strong commitment to social justice and has taken on the cause of improving the lot of Australia's Aborigines as a personal commitment. In September, he spent a week in a tent on a remote ...
Australian PM backs Aboriginal recognitionAljazeera.com
Australia PM Abbott wants indigenous referendum in 2017BBC News
Tony Abbott vows to 'sweat blood' for Indigenous referendumThe Age
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The Straits Times
Australian PM Tony Abbott to 'sweat blood' for Aboriginal recognition
The Straits Times
This file photo taken on Nov 12, 2013, shows Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (centre) speaking with Aboriginal performers at the opening of the 44th Parliament in Canberra. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has declared himself ready to ...

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