Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Pedestrian TV
Push for separate lessons on indigenous culture
The Australian
As reported by the New Matilda website, Professor Spurr, who has since been suspended by the university, criticises the English curriculum for giving priority to indigenous texts when their impact on literature in Australia “has been minimal” and ...
RACIAL SPURRThe Monthly (subscription)
The racist emails from Abbott's curriculum expertThe New Daily
Bigoted Barry Spurr: Christopher Pyne's racist reviewerIndependent Australia
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The Conversation AU
Non-Indigenous Australians have to reconcile their needs
The Conversation AU
Non-Indigenous people currently make up 22.8 million (97%) of Australia's 23.5 million residents. That means any major change to the laws or to national culture must find acceptance with this bloc. Any claim to a national process of Aboriginal ...
Why coal is not good for humanityEureka Street

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CBC.ca
Indigenous perspectives from Winnipeg to Sydney
CBC.ca
I was making comparisons with everything I learned about Australian aboriginal people to my people in Canada. I was in Australia on a journalism exchange made possible by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. I spent two weeks working with ...

New Matilda
Black Leaders Condemn Barry Spurr's Assault On Aboriginal People And Culture
New Matilda
He refers to award-winning Aboriginal musician Gurrumul Yunupingu as “well known Aboriginal singer, Wingabanga Gumberumbul”. He also takes aim at “bogans” “fatsoes”, “Mussies” and “Chinky-Poos”, and laments the reality that Australia is less white ...

Programs closes the gap on indigenous breast cancer screening
The Australian
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer experienced by indigenous women yet their participation in BreastScreen Australia remains lower (37 per cent in 2011-12) than the general population (55 per cent) and the national participation target of ...

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Green Left Weekly
John Pilger: War, circus and injustice down under
Green Left Weekly
There are times when farce and living caricature almost consume the cynicism and mendacity in the daily life of Australia's rulers. Across the front pages is a photograph of a resolute Tony Abbott with Aboriginal children in Arnhem Land, in Australia's ...
COAG puts focus on land rights to get Territory moving on jobsThe Australian

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ABC Online
WA Aboriginal communities propose joint venture to secure stake in fish farm ...
ABC Online
Three Aboriginal communities in the far north of Western Australia are hoping to become major players in a new aquaculture industry, but may face competition from foreign investors. At remote Cone Bay, north of Derby, the WA Government has proclaimed a ...

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Australian Mining
More respect needed in negotiations with aboriginal landholders
Australian Mining
An indigenous consulting firm has advised mining companies wishing to negotiate with indigenous landholders to listen first, and negotiate later. Indigenous Services Australia director Tony Shaw has suggested that when seeking permission from ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal playwright and composer Jimmy Chi on the strength to live with ...
ABC Online
For Broome's Jimmy Chi, writing and composition gave him the strength to not just survive his own mental illness, but to take on some of Australia's biggest issues and move the nation towards a more sophisticated understanding of Aboriginal reconciliation.

Crikey (blog)
“Our organs are sacred”: how we fail Aboriginal Australians with Chronic ...
Crikey (blog)
This post is an extract from the catalogue for the exhibition “Get Well Soon: A Diagnosis” by Therese Ritchie and Chips Mackinolty currently showing at David Hancock's Gallery Two Six in Darwin through 11 October 2014. The statistics around chronic ...

Constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians not about race
The Australian
He believes we can “renounce our ethnic identity, because I have done that myself”. That's his choice. But Bolt's circumstances aren't the same as those of indigenous Australians. My ancestors didn't immigrate to Australia a generation ago. They've ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Fred Hollows Foundation funds Australia's first indigenous ophthalmologist
Sydney Morning Herald
His graduation will, for those of us who work in eye health, rank alongside the 1959 graduation of Australia's first Aboriginal university graduate, Margaret Williams, and that of indigenous leader Charles Perkins – a great mate of Fred Hollows – who ...

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Crikey (blog)
“Our organs are sacred”: how we fail Aboriginal Australians with Chronic ...
Crikey (blog)
In simple terms, and all other things being equal, this means over 1,000 Territorian and tri-state Aboriginal people will be “on the machine” in the Territory in 14 years. In Central Australia alone, at worst case by 2020, there will be 479 people ...

To Find Meteorites, Listen to the Legends of Australian Aborigines
Smithsonian
The Aboriginal warning is perhaps one of the clearest examples of an oral tradition that has preserved the memory of an ancient meteorite strike, argues Duane Hamacher at the University of New South Wales in Australia. According to Hamacher, such tales ...

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To Find Meteorites, Listen to the Legends of Australian Aborigines
Smithsonian
The Aboriginal warning is perhaps one of the clearest examples of an oral tradition that has preserved the memory of an ancient meteorite strike, argues Duane Hamacher at the University of New South Wales in Australia. According to Hamacher, such tales ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Blind, but soon they'll see ... Australia's first indigenous eye doctor goes ...
Sydney Morning Herald
It is a milestone for a nation in which indigenous adults are six times more likely than other Australians to go blind; in which remote Aboriginal communities endure eye diseases otherwise confined to the developing world; and whose residents rarely ...

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Blind, but soon they'll see: the nation's first indigenous eye doctor goes to work
WA today
It is a milestone for a nation in which indigenous adults are six times more likely than other Australians to go blind, in which remote Aboriginal communities endure eye diseases otherwise confined to the developing world, and whose residents rarely ...

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WA today
Queen accepts petition for Aboriginal rights, 80 years on
WA today
Its spirit echoes the fresh calls to set aside Senate seats for indigenous Australians that emerged during Prime Minister Tony Abbott's recent trip to Arnhem Land. Mr Abbott called the idea premature. It is unlikely the Queen will formally respond. But ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Why South Sydney Rabbitohs will be forever linked with Aboriginal Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
Peachey, who played most of his career at Cronulla, said the ties that bind indigenous Australia to the Rabbitohs meant he felt he "belonged" at Souths because Redfern was a spiritual home built by Eric Simms and an army of indigenous warriors he ...
What life was like in 1971 when Rabbitohs made last Grand FinalThe Daily Telegraph

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SBS
Australia welcomes first magazine for Indigenous and multicultural women
SBS
"When you look at the Australian fashion industry, there's a breakdown of 1100 models. With that breakdown, there's 16 Chinese models and 7 Indigenous (models)," she told SBS. "Now that's very minimal to say the least." Ms Sarago has now gone on to ...