Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Guardian
Tony Abbott's white settlement remarks offend Indigenous leaders
The Guardian
Abbott said British settlement provided the foundation for Australia to become one of the most prosperous societies on earth. Mundine said this might be true, but not everyone was benefiting. “Does that mean that Aboriginal people have prospered from that?
Abbott criticised for view that First Fleet was Australia's defining momentThe Australian
Greatest of many evils swamp budget messSydney Morning Herald
First Fleet significance undeniable: Warren TrussSBS
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The Guardian
Tony Abbott names white settlement as Australia's 'defining moment', remark ...
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Indigenous figures including the chair of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council are furious that Tony Abbott has highlighted white settlement as the defining moment in Australian history. The Prime Minister made the comment while he was ...
First Fleet significance undeniable: Warren TrussSBS
Tony Abbott says first fleet arrival is the defining moment in Australian historyThe Guardian

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Indigenous deal angers Maritime Union of Australia
The Australian
A COMPANY owned by some of the nation's leading Aboriginal business and sporting identities has angered the powerful Maritime Union of Australia by reaching a non-union labour deal that allows it to compete for lucrative work on multi-billion-dollar ...

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Indigenous deal angers Maritime Union of Australia
The Australian
A COMPANY owned by some of the nation's leading Aboriginal business and sporting identities has angered the powerful Maritime Union of Australia by reaching a non-union labour deal that allows it to compete for lucrative work on multi-billion-dollar ...

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Case not made for indigenous reform, Tony Abbott told
The Australian
AWARENESS and understanding of the push to acknowledge indigenous Australians in the Constitution have not reached a point where the nation can proceed directly to a referendum, a panel headed by former deputy prime minister John Anderson has ...

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Green Left Weekly
Dealer joins dots between climate and Aboriginal art
Green Left Weekly
Instead, Newstead ended up becoming one of Australia's leading dealers in Aboriginal art - a panoramic life story he recounts in his provocatively-titled memoir The Dealer Is The Devil, which was released to wide critical acclaim this year. His study ...

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Wall Street Journal
An Aboriginal Dance Company Explores Australia's Cultural History
Wall Street Journal
This true story of first contact has become the inspiration for a show touring Australia, put on by the country's leading indigenous dance company, Bangarra. "Patyegarang" is a portrayal of love and illumination in an era marked by bloodshed and pain.

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State government provides training funding for Aboriginal communities
Roxby Downs Sun
South Australia's Aboriginal communities will have the chance to access the skills and expertise of the business sector under a $1 million funding arrangement with Jawun Indigenous Corporate Partnerships. Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Minister ...

State government provides training funding for Aboriginal communities
Roxby Downs Sun
South Australia's Aboriginal communities will have the chance to access the skills and expertise of the business sector under a $1 million funding arrangement with Jawun Indigenous Corporate Partnerships. Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Minister ...

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SBS
Aboriginal woman who died in WA jail was there for an unpaid fine
SBS
After complaining to police about severe pain, vomiting and partial paralysis she was twice taken to a local hospital but on both occasions declared well enough to be sent back to prison depsite reportedly not being seen by a doctor reported he ...

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The Stringer
22-year-old police death in custody should not have occurred
The Stringer
The death of 22-year-old Yamatji woman Julieka Dhu while in police custody earlier this month has led to renewed calls for medical nurses to be stationed at lockups 24/7 and for the implementation of the Custody Notification Service in Western ...

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The Stringer
WA Aboriginal Health Council says “NO” to $7 co-payment
The Stringer
Western Australia's Aboriginal Health Council, a peak health body for First Nations people, has gone further than just criticising the Federal Government's $7 Medicare co-payment. The Council is sending a powerful message to both the Federal Government ...

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The Stringer
What will it take to end Aboriginal disadvantage, the inequalities and the ...
The Stringer
The Fred Hollows Foundation's CEO, Brian Doolan said, “There are no excuses for Australia to be the only developed country in the world where people still suffer from trachoma, where Indigenous men in areas such as the east Katherine region have an ...

The Guardian
From two Aboriginal employees to 241 in just four years: How Ayers Rock Resort ...
BRW
There are 241 indigenous people who are employed at the resort – 35 per cent of the staff. Yet, only four years ago, only two Aborigines had jobs there. It was a pretty bad “look” in the spiritual heart of Australia, not helped by the fact that the ...
John Pilger: Australia is a land of excuses, not the land of the fair goThe Guardian

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The Guardian
John Pilger: Australia is a land of excuses, not the land of the fair go
The Guardian
In his 2013 film Utopia, Pilger brought attention back to the Indigenous disadvantage in remote Australian communities, dismantling the Howard government's basis for its Northern Territory intervention (the claim of widespread child abuse by Aboriginal ...
Red Centre resort no longer all-whiteThe Australian Financial Review

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ATCO Australia Continues Support of Indigenous Culture Through New Nomad ...
NewsMaker (press release)
PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA -- (Marketwired) -- ATCO Australia's partnership with Nomad Two Worlds and renowned Nyoongar artist Tjyllyungoo (Lance Chadd) will continue with a new world-first art project capturing the cultural significance of the ...

Indigenous arts given funding boost
ArtsHub (subscription)
The ILS program, a community-based program for the maintenance, revival, transmission and promotion of Australia's Indigenous languages, will receive $8.8 million. This news comes after it was announced earlier in the year that funding of almost $9.5 ...

The Vine
10 Things: Hey, indigenous Australians: Bolt was here first
The Vine
No one of any “race” - Aboriginal or other - who is younger than 54 was here before me. They have no greater right to this country. It is racist to say a group of Australians living today were here “first” on the basis of who some of their ancestors were.

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ATCO Australia Continues Support of Indigenous Culture Through New Nomad ...
Marketwired (press release)
PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA--(Marketwired - Aug. 25, 2014) - ATCO Australia's partnership with Nomad Two Worlds and renowned Nyoongar artist Tjyllyungoo (Lance Chadd) will continue with a new world-first art project capturing the cultural ...

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Pedestrian TV
Andrew Bolt Insists Indigenous Australians Weren't 'Here First'
Pedestrian TV
You can watch the episode here, but if you're not quite up to it, the relevant discussion began at around the 33-minute mark, when Bolt and Johns started hashing out whether recognising indigenous Australians in the document would divide the nation by ...
10 Things: Hey, indigenous Australians: Bolt was here firstThe Vine

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