Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Sydney Morning Herald
Desmond Tutu: 'Lay bare the horrors of the past'
Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal elders Djiniyini Gondarra, senior Dhurili clan leader of the Yolngu peoples of north-east Arnhem Land, and Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, a former Anglican nun based in Utopia in Central Australia, wrote to the archbishop this month to express their ...

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The Guardian
Janine Mohamed on the 2212 Indigenous nurses and midwives in Australia
The Guardian
We now have over 2,212 nurses and midwives employed in Australia who identify as Aboriginal Australians or Torres Strait Islander Australians; 150 will be at our annual conference. We have professors and doctors of nursing and midwifery teaching in our ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Constitutional change will divide not unite the nation
The Australian
There is no doubt that throughout Australian history Aborigines suffered terrible injustice. Australian history, like that of all nations, contains plenty of good and plenty of bad. John Howard is right to hail the grandeur of the Australian ...
Australian PM moves to Aboriginal community for one weekTelegraph.co.uk
Tony Abbott's eyes and ears opened to indigenous prioritiesSydney Morning Herald
Australia Considers Constitutional Recognition for Indigenous PeopleWall Street Journal
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Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's plan to recognise Aboriginal culture in Constitution will change ...
Herald Sun
There is no denying that Aboriginal Australians do worse in many ways than the rest of us. Indigenous people are more likely to appear in front of a criminal court, spend time in jail, suffer serious health problems such as diabetes, die young, be ...
Constitutional change will divide not unite the nationThe Australian
Tony Abbott's eyes and ears opened to indigenous prioritiesSydney Morning Herald
Australia's PM decamps to Outback tent to promote Aboriginal rightsAlaska Dispatch
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The Guardian
Activists say they used their Aboriginal passports to re-enter Australia
The Guardian
When they arrived in Canada they were not successful in using their Aboriginal passports and had to use their official passports. But they say they stood their ground in Australia and were eventually allowed through. “The photocopied our passports ...

Indigenous Australians need a licence to drive, but also to work
The Conversation AU
But for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in some parts of Australia, getting a driver licence can be a major challenge. And breaching the conditions or simply failing to pay fines can result in licence suspension or even jail time. More ...
List of complaints against Beyond Blue campaign dismissed by ASBMuMbrella
Unwise to rush ahead with referendumThe Australian (blog)
Trangie Central School celebrate NAIDOC WeekNarromine News

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Indigenous campaigners re-enter Australia on Aboriginal passports
SBS
Brisbane sovereignty campaigners Boe Spearim and Callum Clayton-Dixon have re-entered Australia from Canada using Aboriginal Provisional Government passports. The pair refused to show any Australian documentation and were given a warning by ...

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SBS
Culture, not colour, is the heart of Aboriginal identity
SBS
Findings about Aboriginal identity are an important aspect of the research that has been undertaken as part of the ongoing ARC-funded project – More than Family History: Race, Gender and the Aboriginal family in Australian history – of which I am the ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Australian PM moves to Aboriginal community for one week
Telegraph.co.uk
In an unprecedented move by an Australian leader, whose usual residence is a stately 1920s house in Canberra, Mr Abbott has shifted the seat of government to the outskirts of Yirkalla, a remote Aboriginal township in northern Australia with a ...
Dedicated Aboriginal representation in the Senate a step too farThe Australian
Lambie calls for indigenous seatsGeelong Advertiser

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Push for indigenous Senate seats on Abbott's mind as bush visit begins
The Australian
“While I agree that the Consti-tution should be changed to officially acknowledge Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people, I don't believe that another body similar to the old ATSI Commission should also be created by changes to our ...

NEWS.com.au
Dedicated Aboriginal representation in the Senate a step too far
The Australian
While the idea was put to Abbott as part of a broader plan to help “close the gap” of living standards and expectations between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, and is now being talked about in some indigenous circles, the Prime Minister's ...
Lambie calls for indigenous seatsCourier Mail
Special deals are racism in disguiseHerald Sun

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Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott sets up bush office in outback
NEWS.com.au
The Prime Minister's trip, a pre-election commitment to better engage with Aboriginal society, will see Mr Abbott spend the week listening to the concerns of Aboriginal elders in one of the most culturally active corners of Australia. OZ ACTION ...
Abbott's Top End trip: Indigenous leaders in Arnhem Land to push for ...Yahoo!7 News
'Time to bring us into the nation'The Australian
Galarrwuy Yunupingu will listen to Tony Abbott but true recognition needs more ...Sydney Morning Herald

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Hurricane Workout Day test of endurance to help Aboriginal teens
The Daily Telegraph
Australia's top endurance athlete Matt Murphy, of Berkeley Vale, is teaming up with Spartan Australia obstacle race organiser Max Delacy, of Killcare, to put on a monster three-hour fundraising workout in Sydney this Sunday. “Spartan is about people ...

VICE News
Aboriginal Australians Are Still Dying in Police Custody
VICE News
In 1983, a 16-year-old Aboriginal man called John Pat died of massive head injuries after being taken into police custody in Western Australia. His death, along with several others, sparked the historic Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
Ms Dhu's family to lead public campaign for an inquiry into deathSydney Morning Herald
Ms Dhu's death in custody shows little learntBrisbane Times

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The Guardian
Abbott's Top End trip: Indigenous leaders in Arnhem Land to push for ...
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A group of community leaders in Arnhem Land will use the Prime Minister's arrival on Sunday to push for a renewed focus on a referendum for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians. Tony Abbott is about to embark on a week-long visit to the ...
'Time to bring us into the nation'The Australian
Galarrwuy Yunupingu will listen to Tony Abbott but true recognition needs more ...Sydney Morning Herald

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Noel Pearson's vision for reconciling the nation
The Australian (blog)
There is a dream of a reconciled Australia, a nation with a newly balanced Constitution and a new engagement between indigenous and mainstream citizens of all backgrounds — and the chief architect of this dream is Cape York reformer Noel Pearson, the ...

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Reserve seats for Aboriginal MPs, says PUP senator Jacqui Lambie
The Australian
Senator Lambie also said Mr Forrest's 27 recommendations in his report, which aims to end disparity between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, should be introduced, including the “spectacular” cashless welfare card. “You have to go in hard with ...

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SBS
Police in riot gear removing Aboriginal children at 'gunpoint'
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Police in riot gear have removed children at 'gunpoint'Fraser Coast Chronicle

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Aboriginal community without running water for a month
ABC Online
RUBY JONES: After a month of no running water Central Australia's peak Aboriginal health body has raised the alarm. Donna Ah Chee, the chief executive of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, is warning rates of scabies and trachoma could rise ...

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Mass study finds one in 10 Indigenous Australians has diabetes
ninemsn
Biomedical results National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Health Measures Survey, published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), also shows Indigenous Australians are three times more likely to be diagnosed with the condition than ...