Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal disadvantage worsens
Green Left Weekly
In August, Abbott declared the arrival of the British First Fleet to be the “defining moment” for Australia. “It was the moment this continent became part of the modern world,” he said. The mainstream media widely described Abbott's latest insult to ...

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Colin Barnett 'hell-bent' on destroying communities
Green Left Weekly
Recently the Premier of Western Australia, Colin Barnett, committed to closing down approximately 150 remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. The premier has claimed that the closures would be in the best interests of Aboriginal people in ...

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The Age
Western Australia to close down Aboriginal communities
Journal of Turkish Weekly
State government planning to shut 150 out of 274 remote indigenous communities. More than half of Western Australia's Aboriginal communities have been earmarked for closure, local media reported, in a policy that some have condemned as racist.
Patrick Dodson warns Aboriginal people will be refugees in their own country ...The Age
Closures worry WA Aboriginal communitiesWA today

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www.worldbulletin.net
Western Australia to close down Aboriginal communities
www.worldbulletin.net
More than half of Western Australia's Aboriginal communities have been earmarked for closure, local media reported, in a policy that some have condemned as racist. Up to 150 of the 274 remote communities are due to be shut down with the state ...
Patrick Dodson warns Aboriginal people will be refugees in their own country ...Brisbane Times
Closures worry WA Aboriginal communitiesNEWS.com.au

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Aboriginal communities kicking goals
The Australian (blog)
THE statistics for suicide in Australia are frightening and alarming. Not only because of how prevalent it is, but also because of its indiscriminate nature and the marked and distinct increase in indigenous communities. The statistics speak for ...

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The Australian
hope as state mourns lost children
The Australian
As the funerals took place, an investigation by The Weekend Australian revealed Western Australia was again a suicide hotspot, with at least 12 young Aborigines having committed suicide in the state this year, twice the number shown in state government ...

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ABC Online
WA Government, Fortescue sign agreement to train, employ Aboriginal prisoners
ABC Message Stick
It became quite easy to determine why 3 per cent of Australia's population which are Indigenous make up around a third of our jails and it's often quite minor offences. It's often driving without licenses, you know, assault related to drugs and alcohol ...
Prisoners guaranteed work through job training scheme in WA's North WestABC Online

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ABC Online
Kimberley Aboriginal communities condemn Colin Barnett's plan to close small ...
ABC Online
Plans by the WA government to close at least 100 remote Indigenous communities have been greeted with dismay. There are more than 270 remote Indigenous communities in Western Australia and between them they are home to 12,000 people.
Traditional owners rally against changes to WA Aboriginal Heritage ActThe Guardian
Traditional owners fight planned Aboriginal Heritage Act changesPerth Now

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Courier Mail
Closures worry WA Aboriginal communities
NEWS.com.au
PREMIER Colin Barnett dropped a bombshell last week, saying the state had no option but to review the viability of 274 small indigenous communities. That was because the federal government had cut off their essential services funding, leaving a ...
WA Government promises close consultation over remote Aboriginal community ...ABC Message Stick

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AOC to recognise indigenous heritage
The Australian
“Australia's indigenous athletes have a rich history of competing and winning at the Olympic Games. From our first indigenous Olympians, Frank Roberts, Michael Ah Matt and Adrian Blair, to Cathy Freeman's legendary sprint at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, ...

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The Guardian
SBS's First Contact is the real 'festering sore' of the nation
The Conversation AU
The SBS/Blackfella Films production First Contact – that takes six non-Indigenous people and immerses them into Aboriginal Australia for the first time – captured the nation's attention this week amassing a television audience nearing 1 million viewers ...
I'm 31 and only had my 'first contact' with Indigenous Australia this yearThe Guardian
First Contact: SBS program creates a frenzy on social media after viewers ...ABC Online
First Contact Is One Of The Most Important Australian TV Shows Of The YearJunkee
SBS -FoxFM (blog) -Sydney Morning Herald
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The Australian
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi's demise echoes the fate of Aboriginal art
The Australian
The vast private collections and public gallery displays amassed over recent years remain, the archipelago of art centres and little studios set up across the desert and the remote corners of Aboriginal Australia are still operating, but the heart of ...

ABC Online
Ancient Aboriginal rock art site discovered in suburban Sydney
ABC Online
An ancient Aboriginal rock art site, believed to be tens of thousands of years old, has been discovered in the suburbs of Sydney. The site, located in Sydney's north shore area, is in a pocket of pristine bush that has kept the art hidden for generations.

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The Guardian
Traditional owners rally against changes to WA Aboriginal Heritage Act
The Guardian
A representation of about 50 traditional owners from across Western Australia travelled to Perth to deliver a petition signed by 1,600 people calling for the amendment to be dropped and redrafted. Ten people also met with the Aboriginal affairs ...
Protesters in WA present petition against changes to Aboriginal Heritage ActABC Online
Traditional owners fight planned Aboriginal Heritage Act changesPerth Now
“Do not turn our people into fringe dwellers once again”: Fitzroy Crossing ...Crikey (blog)

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SBS
Abbott, Hollande reach agreement over Indigenous remains
SBS
Mr Abbott and Mr Hollande have agreed to establish a joint expert committee to help identify the origin of Indigenous Australian remains held in France. Australia and Italy signed a similar agreement in 2009, and remains have also been returned from ...

The Age
First Contact's casting reveals Australia's 'festering sore'
The Age
The producers of SBS series First Contact did not have to look very far to find enough voices to reflect Australia's widespread discrimination towards Indigenous Australians. "The big stereotypes are that they are all drunks, they don't want to work ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians offer a broader concept of wellbeing
The Conversation AU
These results indicate the real cultural faultlines in Australia. The Redfern Indigenous knowledge focus group results point to another way of thinking about ways of living well. The importance of “spirituality” for Aboriginal people in a settler ...

The Conversation AU
Removal Of Aboriginal Children At Crisis Point And Rising
New Matilda
But Australia still jails Aboriginal people at worsening rates, with no change in rates of juvenile detention. Aboriginal people had rates of suicide almost two times higher than non-Indigenous Australia, and the rates of hospitalisation for self-harm ...
Indigenous Australia's diverse memorialisation of the deadThe Conversation AU
Australian indigenous disadvantage reportThe Age
Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report: NT Aboriginal leaders call for ...ABC Online
The Guardian -The Australian
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The Conversation AU
Removal Of Aboriginal Children At Crisis Point And Rising
New Matilda
But Australia still jails Aboriginal people at worsening rates, with no change in rates of juvenile detention. Aboriginal people had rates of suicide almost two times higher than non-Indigenous Australia, and the rates of hospitalisation for self-harm ...
Indigenous Australia's diverse memorialisation of the deadThe Conversation AU
Australian indigenous disadvantage reportThe Age
Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report: NT Aboriginal leaders call for ...ABC Online
The Guardian -The Australian
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ABC Online
Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Productivity Commission report identifies ...
ABC Online
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion says the Productivity Commission report on Indigenous wellbeing is a "call to arms for every Australian". The report shows there has been an alarming jump in the number of Indigenous people being ...
Indigenous Australia's diverse memorialisation of the deadThe Conversation AU
Removal Of Aboriginal Children At Crisis Point And RisingNew Matilda
Australian indigenous disadvantage reportThe Age
The Guardian -The Australian
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