Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Building relations between police and the Aboriginal community
ABC Local
Stories around Aboriginal people and policing are typically dominated by issues of alcohol and drug abuse, violence, arrests and prison. Western Australia continues to record the highest Indigenous imprisonment rate with over four per cent of the WA ...

SBS
Constitution is discriminatory: Adam Goodes
SBS
"We need to fix the parts of it that still allow discrimination against Australians based on their race," Goodes said. He said it was "dear to my heart" to have a constitution that recognised the continuing cultures, languages and heritage of Australia ...
Constitution labelled 'discriminatory'Sky News Australia

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Sydney Morning Herald
Adam Goodes seeks Aboriginal recognition in constitution
Sydney Morning Herald
Australian of the Year Adam Goodes remembers learning in school that “nobody was here before Captain Cook”. Now the AFL player and “proud” Adnyamathanha Aboriginal man is calling on all Australians to correct that wrong by backing a referendum to ...
Is the media making us sick?Crikey (blog)

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Adam Goodes says Australian constitution is discriminatory
The Australian
Senior Australian of the Year Fred Chaney, a former federal minister for Aboriginal Affairs and a member of the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition, said change would be a “logical next step” for Australia. He said recent comments made by ...

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Is the media making us sick?
Crikey (blog)
Risky drinking occurs at a similar rate in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to that in the broader community (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2010). In addition, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are more likely to abstain from ...

Federal Budget 2014: What we know so far
Yahoo!7 News
In 2011-12, Australia spent $130 billion, or $5,796 per Australian, on health. Still, Australians living in rural and regional areas have worse access to medical care than their city counterparts, and rates of chronic illness in Indigenous communities ...

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WGAR News: Charter of the United Nations does not apply to Australia, claims ...
Sydney Indymedia
3 May 14: "The Australian's headline 'Abbott open to treaties with Aboriginal nations' might shock, confuse and cause many Aboriginal people to be justifiably suspicious. All of a sudden the conservative Coalition Government is welcoming discussion ...

Elder stakes his claim on a home of his own
The Australian
A MEMBER of Tony Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council is this week expected to be granted the first 99-year indigenous home-ownership lease in mainland Northern Territory, paving the way for more private property rights in Aboriginal communities ...

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Green Left Weekly
Adelaide forum discusses Aboriginal rights
Green Left Weekly
Hundreds gathered on May 6 to fill Adelaide's Tandanya National Indigenous Cultural Institute for the forum “An Aboriginal Perspective on Inequality, the Intervention, Racism and Struggle”. It was jointly organised by the South Australian Aboriginal ...

Helsinki Times
Hipsters squeeze out Aborigines as former Sydney slum gentrifies
Helsinki Times
Australian Aborigines have met and lived for millenia in what is now Sydney's Redfern district. With young urbanites moving in and driving up property prices, their chances of remaining rest on an empty hectare of land. Known simply as The Block, the ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Jessica Mauboy flies Aboriginal flag at Eurovision
The Guardian (blog)
Sea of Flags ended as a man dressed as an austronaut, holding the Aboriginal flag, was lowered to stage beside Mauboy, proclaiming today was “one small step for Europe, one giant leap for Australia.” The Guardian's Katharine Murphy will live blog the ...
This Is How Australia Does EurovisionMusic Feeds
Mauboy performs at EurovisionSydney Morning Herald
Eurovision 2014: Jessica Mauboy performs for millions to mark Australia's ...ABC Online
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SBS
Grave news for Aboriginal Boer War soldier
SBS
"So now we have two Aboriginal men who were recognised as having served in the Boer War with headstones and grave plaques. John Searle is the other one, from Western Australia, and so we're really starting to recognise that Aboriginal men did serve in ...

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White Face – some notes from a fair-skinned Aboriginal
The Conversation
Since European settlement of Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups have used public performances as a way to incorporate European audiences and engage with settler colonial economy. In this way artistic performance has functioned as ...

Aboriginal freehold to generate wealth
The Australian
INDIGENOUS Australians will be given the chance to buy and sell their own homes under new Queensland laws that pave the way for freehold title to exist across their communities. After decades of debate and delays, the Newman government will introduce ...

SBS
Aboriginal Australians more likely to suffer dementia: Study
SBS
A study conducted by the Northern Territory Department of Health has shown that Aboriginal Australians are three times more likely to suffer from Dementia than the rest of the population. The news has caused serious concerns among health professionals.
98% of Indigenous Music Traditions have been lostABC Online (blog)
Health voices unite on the Commission of Audit recommendationsCrikey (blog)

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Aboriginal land claim progresses to court
ABC Local
Ms Lawson's claim contends that in 1922 her grandparents were never compensated for the loss of their land when South Australia took ownership of the lake from New South Wales to build a water storage basin. On behalf of her family, she is asking for a ...

Yahoo!7 News
Aboriginal father, daughter become Queensland's first Indigenous ...
Yahoo!7 News
"I'm so honoured to have another generation of Indigenous doctors coming through," Mr Hayman said. "When I started, there was only about five or six Aboriginal doctors across Australia. "Now we have about 250, and about 250 Aboriginal medical students ...

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Aboriginal father, daughter become Queensland's first Indigenous ...
Yahoo!7 News
"I'm so honoured to have another generation of Indigenous doctors coming through," Mr Hayman said. "When I started, there was only about five or six Aboriginal doctors across Australia. "Now we have about 250, and about 250 Aboriginal medical students ...

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Dad, daughter Queensland's first Indigenous intergenerational doctors
ABC Message Stick
"When I started, there was only about five or six Aboriginal doctors across Australia. "Now we have about 250, and about 250 Aboriginal medical students studying." Ms Hayman recently finished postgraduate studies in medicine and is now interning at ...

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Aboriginal father, daughter Queensland's first Indigenous intergenerational ...
ABC Online
"When I started, there was only about five or six Aboriginal doctors across Australia. "Now we have about 250, and about 250 Aboriginal medical students studying." Ms Hayman recently finished postgraduate studies in medicine and is now interning at ...

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