Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

WGAR News: Gallipoli not the only war to define Australian warfare: Gary Foley ...
Sydney Indymedia
"Nick completed his PhD at the University of Tasmania in 2013, looking at the conflict between Aborigines and settlers on the Van Diemen's Land frontier between 1803-1842. His current research interests include, among other things, Australian contact ...

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Indigenous education in spotlight
North Queensland Register
MINISTER for Education Peter Chandler recently spent three days visiting remote schools on Queensland's Cape York Peninsula including the renowned Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy established by national Indigenous leader Noel Pearson.

Pain to last years, says Treasury Department
The Australian
INCREASING the eligibility for the aged pension to 70 years old will discriminate against Aboriginal Australians, says the NWRN. End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. The Prime Minister will say tonight that the aim of the budget will be “to ...

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Palmer 'induced' rebel NT trio: Newman
The Australian
But six months later in March last year, Mr Giles - Australia's first indigenous head of government - abolished the Department of Indigenous Advancement, saying he wanted his entire administration to focus on indigenous affairs. Mr Giles told Sky News ...

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Aboriginal People–How to Misunderstand Their Science
The Epoch Times
Just one generation ago Australian schoolkids were taught that Aboriginal people couldn't count beyond five, wandered the desert scavenging for food, had no civilisation, couldn't navigate and peacefully acquiesced when Western Civilisation rescued ...

Radio Australia
Federal budget: Warren Mundine expects there will be cuts to Indigenous funding
Radio Australia
The head of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, has warned his fellow councillors to be prepared to be among the most hated people in Australia after next month's federal budget. Warren Mundine says cuts to Indigenous ...

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Federal budget: Warren Mundine expects there will be cuts to Indigenous funding
ABC Online
The head of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, has warned his fellow councillors to be prepared to be among the most hated people in Australia after next month's federal budget. Mr Mundine has told the ABC he expects ...

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Federal budget: Warren Mundine expects there will be cuts to Indigenous funding
Yahoo!7 News
The head of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, has warned his fellow councillors to be prepared to be among the most hated people in Australia after next month's federal budget. Mr Mundine has told the ABC he expects ...

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Mundine tells fellow Indigenous councillors to prepare to be 'hated' after May ...
The West Australian
The head of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, has warned his fellow councillors to be prepared to be among the most hated people in Australia after next month's federal budget. Mr Mundine has told the ABC he expects ...

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How David Unaipon (Almost) Changed Our Nation
Lifehacker Australia
Unaipon was said to be “the best-known Aborigine in Australia” during his lifetime. But having researched his life and his scientific investigations, it's impossible to avoid the conclusion that he would have been much better-known and more influential ...

Ray McMinn, Australia's first indigenous submariner, had choice of jail or the ...
Herald Sun
“I was in a spot of bother at the time and was actually found in a car that belonged to someone else,” the Aboriginal elder and Australia's first indigenous submariner told News Corp Australia. “Fortunately I chose to join the navy where I got educated ...

Calls for greater investment in Aboriginal community controlled health sector
Crikey (blog)
In a recent article worth reading in full, Professor Ian Ring, a professorial fellow at the Australian Health Services Research Institute at the University of Wollongong, says Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations run by and for ...

The Australian Da Vinci: How David Unaipon (Almost) Changed Our Nation
Lifehacker Australia
Unaipon was said to be “the best-known Aborigine in Australia” during his lifetime. But having researched his life and his scientific investigations, it's impossible to avoid the conclusion that he would have been much better-known and more influential ...

The West Australian
Historians plea for Tasmania's Aboriginal soldiers not to be forgotten
The West Australian
"So they claimed they had at least one European parent and could therefore get around that clause. "While Aboriginal soldiers were in the trenches alongside other Australian soldiers, there was an equality that hadn't been experienced before between ...

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Minister Elmes Urges Respect For Indigenous War Heroes
The Cairns Post
“Indigenous Australians have served the country in conflicts going back to the Boer War, and many have died protecting Australian and Commonwealth interests,” Mr Elmes said. “Many of them had been treated as equals for the first time in their lives as ...
OPINION: Aboriginal servicemen ignored for far too longNewcastle Herald

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Brisbane Times
OPINION: Aboriginal servicemen ignored for far too long
Newcastle Herald
This related to the hoary myth that indigenous people had made no contribution to service of the nation in the many overseas wars that have involved Australia since the 19th century. Professor Langton also spoke that evening about the importance of ...
Minister Elmes Urges Respect For Indigenous War HeroesThe Cairns Post
Remember indigenous Queenslanders who have fought for our nationBrisbane Times

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The Canberra Times
Lest we forget, wars undeclared
The Canberra Times
We are uncertain of the size of the indigenous population when settlement began. We have no idea how many people died in the smallpox epidemic that swept across south-eastern Australia in advance of settlement. We are unsure what the population was ...

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Royal couple receive traditional Aboriginal welcome in Australian Outback ...
StarPhoenix
SYDNEY - Britain's Prince William and his wife, Kate, have received a traditional Aboriginal welcome during a visit to the Australian Outback. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived Tuesday in the tiny town of Yulara, near the bright red sandstone ...

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Royal couple receive traditional Aboriginal welcome in Australian Outback ...
The Province
SYDNEY - Britain's Prince William and his wife, Kate, have received a traditional Aboriginal welcome during a visit to the Australian Outback. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived Tuesday in the tiny town of Yulara, near the bright red sandstone ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Gallipoli not the only war to define Australian warfare
Sydney Morning Herald
As an Aboriginal person who had family serve in World War I, I am acutely aware that there are many Aboriginal families who had relatives who fought at Gallipoli. I am nevertheless always deeply concerned each Anzac Day about the way in which Gallipoli ...
Anzac Day's disjuncture from the bloody failure it representsCrikey
Anzac Day: 2014SBS (blog)

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