Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Digital lifeline for Aboriginal languages facing extinction
ABC Message Stick
Gavan Breen began documenting Aboriginal languages like Yandruwandha across South Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland in the 1960s. GAVAN BREEN: Pretty well all of the languages I worked on have no speakers left now. People in some ...

Aboriginal artist takes on mining giant through paintings
artsHub Australia (subscription)
Good to Bad (2013) was purchased by the Australian National Warm Memorial in Canberra. Courtesy the artist and Cross Art Projects. This exhibition of his paintings – one that has taken three years of consultation by Cross Art Projects Director Jo ...

The Guardian (blog)
The Gods of Wheat Street: finally, my own stories on screen
The Guardian (blog)
There has been an influx of Aboriginal stories on our screens, big and small, with breakaway hits including The Sapphires and Redfern Now as well as NITV, an entire channel featuring Indigenous content from around the world with a focus on Australia.

Australian Indigenous FW highlights aboriginal culture
Fibre2fashion.com
Centuries old Aussie aboriginal culture grabbed the spotlight at the recently held inaugural edition of Australian Indigenous Fashion Week (AIFW), a runway-cum-trade event that highlighted designs crafted by the aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders ...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island war heroes 'vanished' from the Anzac legendThe Daily Telegraph

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Central Australia readies for the royals
Ninemsn
Central Australia readies for the royals. 2:25pm April 21, 2014. About 300 people live in the remote Aboriginal community of Mutitjulu, the closest to Uluru, and visitors need a permit to enter the community. Indiana and Savana were killed at Watsonia ...

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The Times (subscription)
Doris Pilkington Garimara, Aboriginal Novelist, Dies at 76
New York Times
In the 1930s, Australian authorities undertook a campaign to force the native Aborigines into white culture, with the hope that intermarriage would eventually eliminate their race. Mixed-race aboriginal children were taken from their families and ...
Doris Pilkington Garimara dies; wrote of Australia's 'stolen generations'Los Angeles Times
Doris Pilkington GarimaraThe Times (subscription)

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island war heroes 'vanished' from the Anzac legend
The Daily Telegraph
The 19-year-old Queenslander signed up in May, and by August was disembarking in Suez, Egypt, to begin training for the Australian Light Horse Remount Unit. The young indigenous trooper would fight in the 11th Light Horse Regiment in Egypt for the next ...

The Canberra Times
Health service funding in limbo
The Canberra Times
The Community Council for Australia said the uncertainty created by the government's position was also affecting charity and non-profit service providers. Advertisement. Chief executive officer of Canberra's Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health ...

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Sky News Australia
Aboriginal activists stage royal protest
Sky News Australia
About 30 Aboriginal activists are staging a protest at South Bank, where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are due to arrive soon. The protesters are gathered at the park precinct, where the couple is due to attend a civic reception before a brief ...

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Aboriginal activists stage royal protest
The Australian
Police told AAP a small number of Aboriginal protesters had been moved on at South Bank. One activist was ushered away after going behind barricades meant to keep the royal route along Grey Street clear, outside the South Brisbane train station.
Fancy a ride, William teases KateYahoo!7 News

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Australian Indigenous Fashion Week Isn't Just Pretty Prints
The Fashion Spot
But Desert Designs wasn't the only example of Australia's oft-ostracised Aboriginal culture making its mark on modern fashion. After the last shows of MBFWA official had wound down, the inaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week picked up the baton ...

The Fashion Spot
Models walk the runway at the Desert Designs show during Mercedes-Benz ...
The Fashion Spot
But Desert Designs wasn't the only example of Australia's oft-ostracised Aboriginal culture making its mark on modern fashion. After the last shows of MBFWA official had wound down, the inaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week picked up the baton ...

Recognition for Aboriginal justice
inmycommunity
AUSTRALIA'S colonial legacy is still “very much present” in modern society as long as Aboriginal people are imprisoned at a greater rate than others, says retired District Court judge Mary Ann Yeats. The Mosman Park resident said she initially ...

The Guardian (blog)
Blak Wave: 'It's all about Indigenous self-representation'
The Guardian (blog)
What does it mean to be young, gifted and black in Australia today? Who are the next generation of Indigenous arts creators, curators and policymakers? Are Indigenous voices part of the mainstream creative discourse or always “other"? And how do you ...

Fashion Times
Innaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week Showcased Aboriginal Designs ...
Fashion Times
Bringing together Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture with the country's formal fashion industry, the inaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week kicked off last week, and its organizers are already planning to expand. "In terms ...

The art of seeing Aboriginal Australia's queer potential
The Conversation
Since European contact Aboriginal people, such as myself, have been constructed as “straight”. This cultural default has contributed to the difficulty of proving so-called “real accounts” of sexual and…

Eureka Street
Wily Harradine delivered for Indigenous Australians
Eureka Street
I pay tribute to the great Tasmanian Catholic warrior, Brian Harradine, who died on Monday. He did some wonderful work in the Australian Senate, the chamber which Paul Keating once famously described as 'unrepresentative swill'. I was privileged to ...
Harradine a 'politician of the old school who connected with people from all ...The Australian
Harradine put own stamp on political arenaTasmania Examiner

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Indigenous Elders reeling from suicide deaths
ABC Online
The older people's anguish is palpable and a report out today gives voice to Aboriginal Elders across northern Australia, from the Cape to the Kimberley who have never before witnessed such an epidemic of self-harm. Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

SBS
Indigenous suicide at 'crisis' numbers after youth lose their cultural identity
The Guardian
The report features interviews with 30 elders throughout Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland and documents their solutions to prevent self-harm, particularly among younger Indigenous Australians, as part of the Culture is Life ...
Indigenous Elders launch campaign to tackle youth suicideSBS
As Industry Craves Authenticity, Aboriginal Fashion Week Takes FlightThe Business of Fashion
Aboriginal elders lament rise of youth suicidesABC Message Stick
Sydney Morning Herald
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SBS
Aboriginal elders lament loss of culture as Indigenous youth suicides rise
ABC Online
Aboriginal elders in northern Australia say a loss of cultural identity is one of the main reasons for rising Indigenous youth suicide rates. The elders have outlined their views on the issue in a new publication. Two years of consultation has gone ...
Indigenous Elders launch campaign to tackle youth suicideSBS
Culture is key to tackling suicide epidemic, elders sayWA today

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