Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The West Australian
Aboriginals seek place in Constitution
The West Australian
The Bill would amend the preamble of the WA Constitution to insert language stating the Houses of Parliament "resolve to acknowledge the Aboriginal peoples as the First Peoples of Western Australia and traditional custodians of the land". The preamble ...

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Aboriginals seek place in Constitution
The West Australian
The Bill would amend the preamble of the WA Constitution to insert language stating the Houses of Parliament "resolve to acknowledge the Aboriginal peoples as the First Peoples of Western Australia and traditional custodians of the land". The preamble ...

The Guardian (blog)
Indigenous Australian films wow east Africa
The Guardian (blog)
When organisers of a tour of Indigenous Australian films in east Africa announced public screenings of the films in Kampala on social media, several people got in touch wondering if they'd get the chance to watch “wildlife documentaries”. “They're like ...

The rise of methamphetamine use in Aboriginal communities
ABC Local
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 ...

Indigenous leader makes her military mark on the nation
The Australian
Her role in establishing Australia's first war memorial to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, unveiled in Adelaide last year, and her distinguished service to the indigenous community through the promotion of improved aged-care and health results ...

Doctors: Aboriginal Australians Experience Widespread Racism Even When ...
Business Insider Australia
And nearly one-third reported racism in health settings in the past 12 months, suggesting considerable room for improvement in creating safe spaces for Aboriginal people. The survey, reported in the Medical Journal of Australia, asked 221 people about ...

The soft power of Rachel Perkins, bringing Aboriginal stories into the mainstream
The Australian
The slight but strong-willed 44-year-old continues the fight, a generational extension of his work, by serving on the boards that govern filmmaking and screen culture and by bringing Aboriginal stories to middle Australia through her Sydney-based ...

ABC Local
Speaking up about Indigenous language demise
ABC Local
A South Australian professor is concerned about the future of the state's Indigenous languages and what their loss would mean to the confidence, culture and knowledge of land for Aboriginal people. Dean of Aboriginal Scholarship at the University of ...

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ABC Local
Speaking up about Indigenous language demise
ABC Local
A South Australian professor is concerned about the future of the state's Indigenous languages and what their loss would mean to the confidence, culture and knowledge of land for Aboriginal people. Dean of Aboriginal Scholarship at the University of ...

Uncovering the first 20000 years of Australia's pearling history
ABC Local
The Aboriginal Yawuru people of Broome, who were initially enslaved by the European pearling industry, have a pearling history that stretches back to a time when woolly mammoths still roamed the northern hemisphere. It's this bigger, but lesser known ...

Nova Peris tackles Tony Abbott over discrimination
The Australian
LABOR'S first indigenous federal MP, Nova Peris, has written to Tony Abbott imploring him to dump changes to the Racial Discrimination Act, arguing that they would condemn the referendum to acknowledge indigenous Australians in the constitution to ...

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Radio Australia
Aboriginal landholders look to China
ABC Message Stick
... Corporation. Broadcast: 05/06/2014. Reporter: Ginny Stein. Ten of Australia's largest Aboriginal pastoral stations are joining forces in the hope of winning foreign investment, particularly from China, and creating jobs and reviving their pastoral ...
Indigenous pastoral stations join forces, look to China to revive industryRadio Australia

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Radio Australia
Aboriginal landholders look to China
ABC Online
Ten of Australia's largest Aboriginal pastoral stations are joining forces in the hope of winning foreign investment, particularly from China, and creating jobs and reviving their pastoral industry. Ginny Stein. Source: Lateline | Duration: 5min 14sec.
Indigenous pastoral stations join forces, look to China to revive industryRadio Australia

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Crikey (blog)
poverty tourism, dysfunction and the lucky country
Crikey (blog)
I can only comment as a southerner who has minimal contact with aboriginal australia in the north that there were some real shockers in Pilger's program which shook my belief that we have been 'just throwing money at the problem'. The fact that we can ...

Aboriginal elders paint pre-mine tragedy
ArtsHub (subscription)
'Nancy McDinny and Stewart Hoosan insist that the settlement of Australia wasn't a simple story of Aboriginal people acquiescing to the occupation of their land, but one of resistance where many people fought back against violence, sexual abuse and ...

What does reconciliation with Indigenous Australia look like?
The Guardian
In the south of the country, where I live, Aboriginal Australia can often seem abstract or removed from daily life. Most Australians never knowingly encounter an Aboriginal person. My major relationship with Indigenous communities was writing about the ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Nuclear dump on Aboriginal land declared invalid
News24
Sydney - The earmarking of a remote Australian outback area as a nuclear waste dump was invalid because officials failed to contact all traditional Aboriginal landowners affected, a court heard on Monday. Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory was ...
Muckaty Station land rights challenge begins in Federal CourtABC Message Stick
Traditional landowners fighting nuclear waste dump get their day in courtThe Guardian

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Budget cuts stir Aboriginal anger in Australia
Financial Times
Standing in the shadow of a huge aboriginal flag painted on a building and bearing the words “sovereignty never ceded”, Auntie Kay is adamant she will never give up the fight to keep her indigenous community in this inner city Sydney suburb of Redfern.

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Bundian Way preserves and shares Aboriginal culture
ABC Local
Ben Boyd, with a young artist, Oswald Brierly, were guided to the high country by a young Aboriginal man, Budginbro, on horseback from the coast, along river flats and over some of the wildest and most rugged and beautiful parts of Australia. For a ...

Australia's first Indigenous opera set for Adelaide debut
ArtsHub (subscription)
The story of the first mass strike by Aboriginal people in Australian history, the opera details the 1939 walk-off from Cummeragunga Mission, when some 200 people of the Yorta Yorta nation, pushed to breaking point by the draconian conditions enforced ...