Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Sydney Morning Herald
Jane Hodson helped guide the voice of central Australian Aborigines
Sydney Morning Herald
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 ...

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Brisbane Times
Jane Hodson helped guide the voice of central Australian Aborigines
Brisbane Times
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 ...

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Aboriginal artist shares conservation stories in Hong Kong
Radio Australia
Billy Doolan feels at ease in Hong Kong. The connection runs deep through his bloodlines. Billy's maternal great-great-grandfather was Chinese and came to Australia during the gold rush in the late nineteenth century. Interestingly some of his ...

GP co-payment to hit indigenous population hard
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australians have vastly poorer health than average, and there is still a life expectancy gap of about 11 years between indigenous and non-indigenous men in Australia, according to the latest Closing the Gap report. Donna Ah Chee, CEO of the ...

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 87 events ...
Sydney Indymedia
personal pain and ongoing damage caused by our nation's failure to respect Aboriginal and. Torres Strait Islander people as equals." ANTaR. Event details: http://www.nsdc.org.au. Event details: http://www.humanrights.gov.au/news/events/national-sorry-day

The Guardian
Five questions to Megan Davis: on Aboriginal self-determination
The Guardian
My family is Aboriginal, South Pacific Islander and Australian. Part of my family came to Australia via the practice of "blackbirding" –that is, the kidnapping and enslaving of South Pacific Islanders to work on plantations, especially in Queensland ...
remote 'can ill afford co-payment'The Australian
REGIONAL PORTS: Gladstone funds boost in indigenous educationLloyd's List Daily Commercial News

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The Guardian
Cash for jails: Tony Abbott's budget for Indigenous Australia
The Guardian
Aboriginal Australia anticipated a tidal wave of cuts, but seeing more than half a billion dollars ripped out from under a people who have been chronically underfunded for decades still sent shockwaves through our communities (although budget analysis ...

cuts 'could have reached 10pc'
The Australian
But the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples argued Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people would suffer disproportionately. “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander measures in the budget are already causing considerable anxiety among our ...

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The Guardian
remote 'can ill afford co-payment'
The Australian
The body that oversees Australia's not-for-profit Aboriginal health organisations yesterday said it believed Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders should be exempt from the co-payments “to prevent any backward steps in Aboriginal health”. The National ...
Five questions to Megan Davis: on Aboriginal self-determinationThe Guardian
REGIONAL PORTS: Gladstone funds boost in indigenous educationLloyd's List Daily Commercial News

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Aboriginal councillor Dominic Wy Kanak wants the First Fleet settlement in ...
The Daily Telegraph
The report to the council states the plan will help “gain recognition and official endorsement by Reconciliation Australia” of its work with our indigenous people. Reconciliation Australia chief executive Leah Armstrong applauded the council's efforts ...

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Rethinking indigenous Australia's agricultural past
ABC Online
Historians, indigenous writers and academics are rethinking Australia's perception of indigenous land management, arguing the first Australians had complex systems of agriculture that went far beyond the the hunter gatherer tag. "I came across repeated ...

UPI.com
Aboriginal art, 60000 years old, vandalized in Australia
UPI.com
DAMPIER, Australia, May 14 (UPI) --Aboriginal art carved into rocks 60,000 years ago in Australia has been vandalized, officials said Wednesday. The rock art on the Burrop Peninsula of Western Australia, now a national heritage-listed part of Murujunga ...

$65000 to assist Aboriginal Music Careers
ArtsHub (subscription)
The director's new production of Shakespeare's life-affirming comedy for Black Swan stars an entirely West Australian cast. Fans to perform with ARIA idols at Festival ... Announced today at Parliament House, Sydney, Minister for the Arts Troy Grant ...

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Adam Goodes - Australian Constitution Still Discriminatory Against Aborigines ...
International Business Times AU
Australia may be exerting efforts to ban racism among its residents but these are not enough, at least for Australian of the Year and AFL legend Adam Goodes. For one, the country's very own prevailing constitution remains discriminatory against the ...

SBS
Indigenous Health Budget Slashed
Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous Not for Profit Reconciliation Australia has asked what programs will need go to make the $165 million savings as part of the Federal Budget's cuts to Indigenous health. And the organisation said the $543 million in savings arising from the ...
Indigenous affairs hit by 'savage budget cuts'SBS
Budget 2014: fuel excise, cuts to Indigenous programs will hurt regional WA ...ABC Local
Cuts will hit indigenous people hardNTNews.com.au

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SBS
Indigenous affairs hit by 'savage budget cuts'
SBS
He points to two budget announcements which he says will hit Indigenous Australians particularly hard: the seven-dollars it'll cost to visit a GP, and the eventual lifting of the pension eligibility age to 70. Mr Mohamed says many Indigenous families ...
Budget 2014: $534 million cut to Indigenous programsABC Online

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State slammed over Aboriginal deaths in custody
The Australian
Architectural anthropologist Elizabeth Grant, whose work has been published in the Australian Indigenous Law Review, says South Australia is the worst performer in implementing the royal commission's recommendations. Dr Grant found that while other ...

SBS
Budget 2014: $534 million cut to Indigenous programs
ABC Online
Opposition Indigenous affairs spokesman Shayne Neumann says Tony Abbott can no longer be considered the Prime Minister for Indigenous Australia as "the close the gap strategy is in tatters". Mr Neumann has also criticised the Government for failing to ...
Government to dramatically reduce Indigenous programsSBS

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SBS
Government to dramatically reduce Indigenous programs
SBS
It appears the Indigenous Advancement Strategy will have to operate without the country's peak body for Indigenous people. The Labor government promised $15 million to the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples in its Budget last year.

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SBS
#Budget2014 reactions on #health #Indigenous affairs #welfare & more
Crikey (blog)
The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) welcomed continued funding for the 150 Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services around Australia announced/confirmed in the Budget, saying it means “we can ...
Comment: Why the federal budget is bad for health and worse for societySBS (blog)
Why the federal budget is bad for health and worse for societyThe Conversation

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