Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The West Australian
Aboriginal father, daughter become Queensland's first Indigenous ...
The West Australian
"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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Historic images reframe Aboriginal photography
ABC Local
"Here we have an Aboriginal woman photographer, totally unknown to mainstream Australia, who was travelling through the camps and taking these wonderful photographs of her family, their community and their lifestyle." Additionally there are stories of ...

Historic images reframe Aboriginal photography
ABC Local
"Here we have an Aboriginal woman photographer, totally unknown to mainstream Australia, who was travelling through the camps and taking these wonderful photographs of her family and their community and their lifestyle." Additionally there are stories ...

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Historic images reframe Aboriginal photography
ABC Local
"Here we have an Aboriginal woman photographer, totally unknown to mainstream Australia, who was travelling through the camps and taking these wonderful photographs of her family and their community and their lifestyle." Additionally there are stories ...

We've lost 98% of Indigenous music traditions – who cares?
The Conversation
Australian Indigenous performance traditions, among the oldest in the world, are also among the most endangered. According to a Statement on Indigenous Australian Music and Dance endorsed in 2011 by the…

Uneven flow of benefits
The Australian
Aboriginal corporations are not regulated under the corporations law and do not report to the Australian Securities & Investments Commission. Since 2006, more than 2000 corporations have been regulated under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres ...

SBS
'Aboriginal fighting page' could be allowed under new Racial Discrimination Act
SBS
Commenters have described it as an “Aboriginal fighting page”, but it is unclear if the page is operated by Indigenous Australians. One video shows a man being grabbed by the hair before being kneed in the head, while others can be heard off camera ...

Indigenous Australians three times more likely to suffer from dementia, NT ...
ABC Online
The study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, examined 780 cases of dementia in the Territory between 2008 and 2011 and found it struck Indigenous people at a younger age. Community geriatrician Michael Lowe says the median age of ...

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Warren Mundine, chairman of the Australian Government's Indigenous Advisory ...
The Australian
I was educated at a time when Australian children weren't taught much about Aboriginal culture or society in school. Or, if they were, they were generally given the impression Aboriginal people knew nothing of value and achieved nothing of substance ...

Indigenous Australians three times more likely to suffer from dementia, NT ...
Yahoo!7 News
"It shows that even though the Indigenous population in Australia is relatively small, they're disproportionally affected by dementia so we have to make sure that any program, any service, any research really does pay attention to the Indigenous ...
The Indigenous Population Is Getting Dementia At Three Times The Rate Of ...Business Insider Australia
increased incidence of dementia in indigenous AustraliansRadio Australia

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Indigenous dementia needs urgent action
ABC Online
That's the finding of a Northern Territory study that has prompted calls for urgent action to address the growing number of Indigenous Australians with dementia. And researchers say the burden of the condition will only increase as the population ages ...

The Indigenous Population Is Getting Dementia At Three Times The Rate Of ...
Business Insider Australia
A detail as Prince William shakes hands with a Aboriginal man. Scott Barbour/Getty Images. Australia's indigenous population is getting dementia at a rate three times that of non-indigenous residents, according to research published in the Medical ...

Australian art laws: Dealing with fraud
The Star Online
In Australia, Aboriginal paintings, with the widespread use of simple geometry and dot patterns, are fair game to potential forgers, while for modern art, abstract paintings prove to be more popular targets. This piece was on display at the Beyond The ...

In search of the indigenous little people of northern Australia
The Australian
THEY are everywhere in north Australia, and nowhere. They are real and unreal; mythical and historical. They are depicted in the rock art, they are in the stories, they are in the minds of men and women from Cape York and the Top End right across to ...

Defection of Indigenous MPs poses big challenges
The Australian
By attaching herself, as a symbol of Australia's fight against indigenous disadvantage, to Clive Palmer's Punch and Judy show, Anderson may have limited her ability to manoeuvre in a policy area dominated by the intelligentsia. It remains to be seen ...

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Scullion rejects report on indigenous body overhaul
The Australian
The report has angered Indigenous Minister Nigel Scullion, who said “it presents ambiguous and confused findings” after he requested options for an overhaul of the Indigenous Land Corp and Indigenous Business Australia. “It provides support for both, ...

In search of the indigenous little people of northern Australia
The Australian
THEY are everywhere in north Australia, and nowhere. They are real and unreal; mythical and historical. They are depicted in the rock art, they are in the stories, they are in the minds of men and women from Cape York and the Top End right across to ...

Justice or just us? Lack of Aboriginal jurors sparks concerns
ABC Local
Despite Indigenous people making up about 45 per cent of the population of Central Australia, they are only a small fraction of people who sit on juries. The issue of racial balance on juries in the Northern Territory was raised during the trial of ...

Brisbane Times
Education vouchers in plan for indigenous affairs overhaul
The Australian
The radical proposal comes as the audit commission argues that disadvantage faced by indigenous Australians be better targeted, with programs that are failing to be slashed. It also calls for the merger of Indigenous Business Australia and the ...
Condemnation over audit's proposed welfare cutsSBS
Cut early, cut often: where the Commission of Audit wants the axe to fall on ...Government News

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The Guardian
Five questions to Eugenia Flynn on racism, and loving Australia | IndigenousX
The Guardian
I live in Melbourne, but my family is originally from Darwin in the Northern Territory and I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. My father was Tiwi and Larrakia and my mum was Teo Chew Chinese from Malaysia. I identify as both Aboriginal and Chinese ...