Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Indigenous Prisoner Program Cut
Pro Bono Australia
“Six months ago the Australian government brutally stripped our budget by 4.5 per cent over four years, and now we're facing even more cuts, this time with a program that is solely, purely 'frontline',” Naden said. “We have heard so many public ...

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Patty Mills, Aboriginal NBA Champion
Indian Country Today Media Network
Mills was born in Canberra, Australia, in 1988; his father is a Torres Strait Islander and his mother is an Australian Aborigine of the Ynunga people. “My heritage and my culture and where I'm from mean the most to me, more than anything,” Mills told ...
The powerful message behind NBA champion Patty Mills donning the Torres ...Herald Sun
Patty Mills: First Indigenous Australian To Win An NBA ChampionshipWebProNews
Patty Mills earns plaudits as San Antonio Spurs win NBA championshipThe Age
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Voices from the past: Aboriginal protests remembered
Sydney Morning Herald
Esther Carroll was three when she was photographed in this groundbreaking image from the first Day of Mourning in 1938. Now a spritely 78, what does she think of her family's involvement in this controversial moment in Australia's history? ''I just ...

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Voices from the past: Aboriginal protests remembered
The Age
The image, taken outside the Australian Hall on Elizabeth Street, is part of the exhibition Hereby Make Protest that aims to highlight the fighting spirit and challenging voices of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association from the 1920s and ...

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University Herald
Aboriginal Australians Experience More Racism in Health Settings, Study
University Herald
For the study, researchers analysed reports on racism in health settings and their impact on mental health of Aboriginal Australians. They then compared the results to racism experiences in other areas including workplaces, education and sport.

Sportal.com.au
Australia's Patty Mills is on the brink of an NBA title and he's got the US ...
The Daily Telegraph
Under the headline “Flying 3 Flags and Seeking One Banner”, Billy Witz of the New York Times talks with Mills and his parents about their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island roots and the issue of reconciliation in Australia. “Mills speaks ...
Why Patty Mills is in my hall of fameThe Roar
Mills thankful for Australian supportsportal.co.nz
The Diverse Heritage of San Antonio Spurs' Patty MillsTrue Blue Tribune

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Abbott breaches faith with Aborigines in 'act of political theft'
The Australian
Australians have heard a lot about Tony Abbott's broken promises — but even I didn't think the Prime Minister would breach faith with indigenous Australians so shamelessly and so brazenly. Aboriginal Australians welcomed Abbott into their communities.

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Abbott breaches faith with Aborigines in 'act of political theft'
The Australian
Australians have heard a lot about Tony Abbott's broken promises — but even I didn't think the Prime Minister would breach faith with indigenous Australians so shamelessly and so brazenly. Aboriginal Australians welcomed Abbott into their communities.

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Doctors Say Racist Receptionists Are Among The Health Challenges For ...
Business Insider Australia
The latest Medical Journal of Australia has an investigation of health issues affecting Indigenous Australians including crusted scabies, childhood obesity and lack of follow-up care. Obesity rates in Aboriginal children in NSW are increasing at a ...

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'Hollow words' from PM on gap
The Australian
BILL Shorten has accused Tony Abbott of betraying Aborigines after having promised to be the Prime Minister for indigenous Australians and then cutting more than $500 million of related funding in the budget. He warns that Labor would no longer offer ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Flying 3 Flags and Seeking One Banner
New York Times
His turn on basketball's biggest stage is a source of pride for sports-mad Australians, but being the first indigenous Australian to play in the N.B.A. finals — his mother is Aboriginal and his father is a Torres Strait Islander — is immensely ...
Documentary to raise awareness of NBA star Patrick Mills' indigenous heritageSydney Morning Herald
Australia's Patty Mills is on the brink of an NBA title and he's got the US ...The Daily Telegraph
Why Patty Mills is in my hall of fameThe Roar
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Australia aboriginals protest land seizure
Press TV
The wealthy nation's impoverished Aboriginals gathered on Saturday in Sydney's suburb of Redfern to vent their anger and frustration at a scheme by the Australian government to take away their land for commercial uses. The group, which has set up a ...

'This is not right': Aboriginal boy in nappies locked in police van
The Daily Telegraph
THIS should not happen in Australia: a 15-month-old Aboriginal boy, still in nappies, locked in the back of a Northern Territory police paddy wagon. A photographer from News Corp Australia's Centralian Advocate, Justin Brierty, took this photo outside ...

The Guardian
The bone collectors: a brutal chapter in Australia's past
The Guardian
Other remains from collections in Berlin, at Washington's Smithsonian Museum, Oxford University and London's Natural History Museum have been repatriated directly to Australian Indigenous communities. The federal government, through the Ministry for ...

The rise of methamphetamine use in Aboriginal communities
ABC Online
While the Australian Crime Commission's Illicit Drug Data Report 2012-13 detailed record rates of methamphetamine use and the impacts in Australian cities, the meth or 'ice' story in the Kimberley has mostly been limited to quietly spoken rumours of a ...

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San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich recognises indigenous Australians, Patty ...
Herald Sun
In his fifth season, Mills is the first Australian of indigenous heritage to play in the NBA Finals and continues to play a key part in the team as Tony Parker's back-up. One of Mills' uncles Danny Morseau was the first indigenous basketball player for ...

Aboriginal recognition in WA constitution long overdue: Opposition
ABC Online
"It's an opportunity for every West Australian to buy into the amazing history that we have in Western Australia, the long connections of Aboriginal people from the Kimberley to the Great Southern. "So it is a chance to correct a historical wrong." In ...

Calls for proper recognition of Indigenous veterans
ABC Local
A Queensland council is collating an honour roll of Aboriginals who fought in Australian wars and will hold a ceremony honouring their service during NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) Week. It's hoped that will be a ...

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Australian Ageing Agenda
Honoured for service to Indigenous aged care
Australian Ageing Agenda
Marjorie Tripp, a Ngarrindjeri elder from South Australia who has spent decades working for aged care equality for Aboriginal Australians, says she hopes the progress made in service provision continues over the coming decades. Her services to the ...
Indigenous housing may be left out of The BlockABC Online

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Calls for proper recognition of Indigenous veterans
ABC Online
A Queensland council is collating an honour roll of Aboriginals who fought in Australian wars and will hold a ceremony honouring their service during NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) Week. It's hoped that will be a ...

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