Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Mental Health Campaign for Indigenous Youth
Pro Bono Australia
'Yarn safe' was developed with a group of 12 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people from across Australia, including Elcho Island, Brisbane, Darwin, Broome, Melbourne and Perth. headspace said the campaign was created to improve mental ...
Do opponents even know what the changes are?Fraser Coast Chronicle

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Crikey (blog)
“Speaking with one voice” – WA's changes to Aboriginal Heritage law rejected ...
Crikey (blog)
in some ways the worst in mainland Australia. (although a bill has recently been introduced into Tasmanian Parliament's to revamp the State's current outdated heritage legislation) Victoria and Queensland upgraded their Aboriginal cultural heritage ...

Sydney Morning Herald
The price Aboriginal children paid at Retta Dixon
Sydney Morning Herald
The royal commission into child sexual abuse has asked searing questions about the behaviour of people in power across Australian society, writes Greg Pemberton. In Darwin this week, it turns its attention to the homes for Aboriginal children run by ...

Spike in numbers of NT children in care
9news.com.au
The NT has the lowest placement rate of Aboriginal children with Aboriginal carers in Australia. Ms Jackson said carers receive training every 12 months, but not specifically to do with protective behaviours and grooming for sexual assault. She said ...

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The Australian
Aborigines still have little say
The Australian
The first wave of the reform current a decade ago had its special features: precise detail, high fantasy. Few now remember the Council of Australian Governments' June 2004 “national framework of principles for delivering services to indigenous ...

champion of indigenous poor
The Australian
He was 66 and retired when he learned that the Aboriginal Legal Service could not find a court officer for remote Laverton, 955km northeast of Perth. Although he was once the boss of the ALS in Western Australia, Mr Wyatt moved to the town and did the ...

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MP Ben Wyatt pays tribute to father, Cedric Wyatt, who died Thursday
ABC Online
West Australian Labor MP Ben Wyatt has paid tribute to his father, Aboriginal rights activist Cedric Wyatt, who died on Thursday night after suffering an illness. Cedric Wyatt, 74, was remembered by his son as a much-respected leader who fought for the ...
Wyatt's tribute to Aboriginal leader dadCourier Mail
'A leader who forged the path for many'Perth Now

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Wyatt's tribute to Aboriginal leader dad
NEWS.com.au
WEST Australian Labor member Ben Wyatt has paid tribute to his late father, describing him as a man who fought for the advancement of the Aboriginal community. CEDRIC Wyatt, 74, died on Thursday night following an illness. Mr Wyatt, who is the Member ...
MP Ben Wyatt pays tribute to father, Cedric Wyatt, who died ThursdayABC Online
WA Labor MP Ben Wyatt pays tribute to his late father CedricHerald Sun

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Wyatt's tribute to Aboriginal leader dad
The Australian
WEST Australian Labor member Ben Wyatt has paid tribute to his late father, describing him as a man who fought for the advancement of the Aboriginal community. CEDRIC Wyatt, 74, died on Thursday night following an illness. Mr Wyatt, who is the Member ...

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The Australian (blog)
Ancient Aboriginal sites at risk in the Pilbara
The Australian (blog)
The sites now needed protection, Willesee noted, as “important records of the history of early settlement of Australia” and the only physical evidence of the region's Aboriginal past. Today the landscapes of the Pilbara and Kimberley regions are being ...

NEWS.com.au
Child abuse commission broadens scope to focus on indigenous kids
The Australian
Across Australia, research shows “many indigenous children who had been removed from their families were cruelly treated — many suffered physical and sexual abuse,” commission chair Peter McClellan said this week. More than 800 Aboriginal people had ...
Abuse hearings for Tiwi IslandersThe West Australian

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CANBERRA OBSERVED Forrest's bold plan for indigenous Australians
News Weekly
Last October, the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, commissioned a report from Andrew Forrest, one of Australia's leading business leaders with an unrivalled record of working for the advancement of indigenous Australians, to prepare a report on how ...

The West Australian
Canberra cuts funds for Aboriginal communities
The West Australian
Mr Scullion said: "Providing essential and municipal services in towns and cities across Australia has always been the responsibility of State and local governments and it should be no different in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.".

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The West Australian
Canberra cuts funds for Aboriginal communities
The West Australian
Mr Scullion said: "Providing essential and municipal services in towns and cities across Australia has always been the responsibility of State and local governments and it should be no different in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.".

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Sydney Morning Herald
Can a DNA test reveal if you're an indigenous Australian?
Sydney Morning Herald
The ALRC heard from genetic counsellors and others about the positive uses of genetic testing in Australia to re-establish links between individuals and their Aboriginal family members that had been severed by adoption, circumstance, or past government ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Early British settlement 'all bad' for indigenous Australians: Tony Abbott
Sydney Morning Herald
The arrival of British settlers in Australia was "all bad" for indigenous Australians, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has declared, as the federal government prepares to set the timeline for a referendum on indigenous recognition in the constitution. Mr ...
John Howard: there was no genocide against Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Out in the Bush, Abbott attacks Britain's Aboriginal sinsTelegraph.co.uk
Eyes wide shut to blackfellasThe Australian
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Don't go too far in advocating constitutional recognition for Aborigines
The Australian (blog)
My colleague Joe Lane has established that in South Australia between 1840 and early last century, the total number of full-time staff in the Aboriginal department was one: the protector. Presently, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Out in the Bush, Abbott attacks Britain's Aboriginal sins
Telegraph.co.uk
Such remote Aboriginal communities, scattered across regional Australia, are notorious for high rates of infant mortality, disease, unemployment and crime and drug problems; Australia's 700,000 Aborigines on average die some 10 years younger than ...

John Howard: there was no genocide of Aboriginal Australians – video
The Guardian
The former Australian prime minister John Howard has reiterated his belief that there was no genocide of Indigenous Australians during the stolen generations era. In an interview with the Seven network, Howard said that modern governments should not be ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
How would a referendum change Australia's racist laws?
Sydney Morning Herald
That date marks the 50th anniversary of Australia's most successful referendum. In 1967, over 90% of voters granted the federal Parliament power over Aboriginal affairs and deleted a section from the Constitution that said Aboriginal people could not ...

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