Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

China backing pastoral vision
The Australian
TEN of Australia's biggest Aboriginal-run pastoral stations are preparing for a Chinese-backed merger that aims to reverse their economic fortunes using world-class breeding, management and feed-crop technology. The Aboriginal Pastoral Co-op will begin ...

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Green Left Weekly
Way forward for Aboriginal struggle
Green Left Weekly
A forum titled “An Aboriginal Perspective on Inequality, The Intervention, Racism and Struggle” was held on May 6 in Adelaide. Hosted by the South Australia Aboriginal Coalition for Social Justice, the Socialist Alliance and SIMpla, the forum heard ...

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Aboriginal healers working to keep traditional medicine alive
ABC Online
Aboriginal health may be high on the policy agenda, but traditional Aboriginal healers hardly rate a mention in Australia's official health policies. Annie Hastwell meets an Italian researcher who is determined to raise their profile and bring them ...

The Guardian (blog)
The stolen generations: an unending disaster for Australia
The Guardian (blog)
I've thought a lot about this conundrum as I've read about Australia's stolen generations and pondered whether removal is currently enacted unduly often with Aboriginal Australians. The rationale for the removal of the original stolen generations was ...

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Aboriginal artists celebrate connection to cattle country
ABC Local
The Indigenous men and women who worked for rations and helped to build Australia's northern cattle industry are at the heart of a special art exhibition launched in the Kimberley last night. 'In the saddle, On the wall' features the works of 13 well ...

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The Guardian
education lift not matched by jobs
The Australian
... made significant gains in education, but not employment. “What's concerning, though, is these education gains aren't improving employment; we found that since 2008 employment outcomes for indigenous Australians did not improve in any state or ...
Indigenous hit hardest by dole changesDaily Mail

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As Northern Territory tourist numbers double, Indigenous operators prepare
The West Australian
With Asian holidaymakers flocking to Australia's north, Indigenous tour operators in the Top End are readying to reap the rewards. Tourist numbers in the Northern Territory have doubled over the past three years, with visitors from China and its Asian ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Fears Tony Abbott will widen indigenous gap
The Australian
THE deputy chairman of Tony Abbott's indigenous advisory council, doctor Ngiare Brown, has denounced budget cuts to indigenous affairs and says the $7 GP co-payment will hurt indigenous people and other vulnerable Australians who desperately need ...
Budget: Indigenous Australians among hardest hitABC Local
Long-term approach needed to improve indigenous healthThe Australian Financial Review
Indigenous health leaders say co-payments must be scrapped, as new ...Crikey (blog)
ABC Message Stick -Sydney Morning Herald
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Australia is still fighting a land war and it's the country's great divide
The Conversation
In Australia there are many different views about the historical and current role of Aboriginal people in the national landscape. This view fluctuates. The successes that Aboriginal people have achieved recently are easily embraced. Australians ...

Australian Aborigines Were Sophisticated Farmers and Land Managers
The Epoch Times
SYDNEY–Australian Aborigines, among the oldest continual inhabitants of their land in the world, have long been depicted as hunters and gatherers. Mounting evidence, however, suggests they were not primitives but sophisticated cultivators and land ...

The Australian Financial Review
Fears Tony Abbott will widen indigenous gap
The Australian
THE deputy chairman of Tony Abbott's indigenous advisory council, doctor Ngiare Brown, has denounced budget cuts to indigenous affairs and says the $7 GP co-payment will hurt indigenous people and other vulnerable Australians who desperately need ...
Budget: Indigenous Australians among hardest hitABC Local
Long-term approach needed to improve indigenous healthThe Australian Financial Review
#Budget2014 risks to 'closing the gap' include Indigenous cancer impactCrikey (blog)
ABC Message Stick -Sydney Morning Herald
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The Australian Financial Review
Long-term approach needed to improve indigenous health
The Australian Financial Review
The health status of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people remains unacceptable, with them experiencing a significantly higher incidence of disease and morbidity, as well as lower life expectancy than the average Australian population.
Budget: Indigenous Australians among hardest hitABC Local
#Budget2014 risks to 'closing the gap' include Indigenous cancer impactCrikey (blog)
This budget could devastate Indigenous AustraliansABC Message Stick
Sydney Morning Herald
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Rethinking Indigenous Australia's agricultural past
ABC Online
It has long been thought that prior to white settlement, Indigenous Australians lived a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Now some scholars argue that the first Australians practiced forms of agriculture and aquaculture, writes Cathy Pryor.
drive for indigenous jobs, trainingThe Australian

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Abbott is quietly failing on his 'PM for Aboriginal affairs' promise
The Conversation
This path leads from statesman-like pronouncements, about fundamental change to the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, to neglect, cuts and harsh policy measures. While it is never unexpected, this change is always ...

drive for indigenous jobs, training
The Australian
It will be led by Chandler Macleod Group, whose general manager of indigenous employment, Marcia Ella-Duncan, was the first Aboriginal scholarship holder at the Australian Institute of Sport, the first Aboriginal woman to represent Australia in netball ...

Budget: Indigenous Australians among hardest hit
ABC Local
It's a chilly May day in Canberra as dozens of indigenous health leaders meet to lobby for exemptions to the contraversial co-payment initiative for indigenous Australians. There was a collective shiver when Aboriginal Medical Services around the ...

Budget: Indigenous Australians among hardest hit
ABC Local
It's a chilly May day in Canberra as dozens of indigenous health leaders meet to lobby for exemptions to the contraversial co-payment initiative for indigenous Australians. There was a collective shiver when Aboriginal Medical Services around the ...
This budget could devastate Indigenous AustraliansABC Message Stick
#Budget2014 risks to 'closing the gap' include Indigenous cancer impactCrikey (blog)
The budget: widening not closing the gap on indigenous healthWA today
ACTU (press release)
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Fremantle Dockers
Johnson to launch Freo's 2014 Indigenous Round jumper
Fremantle Dockers
Former Fremantle player and current development coach Roger Hayden worked with Richard Walley, one of Australia's leading Aboriginal performers, artists, musicians and writers, to create the Indigenous Round Guernsey. Fremantle wore the 2013 jumper ...

Radio Australia
Aboriginal artist skelim conservation stori insait long Hong Kong
Radio Australia
Lain bilong tubuna bilongen i bilong China na ikam long Australia long taim ol painim Gold or gold rush insait long Australia long namel bilong yar nineteenth century. Gupela tru na sampela long ol paintings bilongen ol bilong bipo yet igat ol stori ...

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Jane Hodson helped guide the voice of central Australian Aborigines
The Age
She was dedicated to seeing that the contemporary history of the traditional owners of central Australia was respectfully promoted, and that the voices and stories of Aboriginal elders were heard and chronicled. Jane Hodson was born in Dorset, England ...