Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Grandparents as parents
ABC Online
At this moment in Australia, nearly 30,000 families are made up of grandparents who have dependent children in their full-time care. According to Social Services Minister, Kevin Andrews, it is a 'growing social challenge'. ... Then he was removed on ...

Crikey (blog)
Tragic confrontation in the desert
Crikey (blog)
It may be unfashionable in the Aboriginal art world to say this, but I believe many buyers of the apparently abstract canvases from tribal Australia do so in part from the belief that there's an unfathomable meaning that lifts them far above the drips ...

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Traditional owners divided on government visions for commercial development ...
Yahoo!7 News
"It is about non-indigenous Australians and the government yielding to the Aboriginal community the resources it needs to properly manage tourism the way they see it." Simon Birmingham, Parliamentary Secretary to Environment Minister Greg Hunt, says ...

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NT traditional owners divided on national parks development plans
ABC Message Stick
"It is about non-indigenous Australians and the government yielding to the Aboriginal community the resources it needs to properly manage tourism the way they see it." Simon Birmingham, Parliamentary Secretary to Environment Minister Greg Hunt, says ...

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Tribute to our Aboriginal soldiers
Great Lakes Advocate
AT their 2014 Anzac Day commemoration tomorrow students from the Great Lakes College Forster campus will pay special tribute to local Aborigines who fought in defence of Australia over the last 100 years. Dozens of Aboriginal men and women from the ...

Science Network Western Australia
New find challenges 'simple' Australian artefacts assumption
Science Network Western Australia
She notes that they were also made in Japan at a slightly later date, by people who would have had no contact with either Australian Aborigines or people in Africa and Europe. Prof Balme says retouched axes are just one example of material culture ...

Lucky country and its toxic mix
Daily Times
It arises from a case where a powerful conservative media commentator, Andrew Bolt, found himself on the wrong side of the law for casting aspersions on the identity of Aboriginals (native Australians) of fairer skin. In the relevant case, the judge ...

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Style.com
Down Under Update: An In-Depth Look at Australia Fashion Week, Day One
Style.com
I found them at Desert Designs, a fashion collective that focuses on Australian history and Aboriginal culture. The finale look, an electric printed jacket over bathing suit bottoms, was the perfect cure for my midday exhaustion. And a series of ...

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$500000 funding for Indigenous cultural projects::
Invest in Australia
Minister for the Arts, Senator the Hon George Brandis QC has announced 14 Indigenous arts, culture and languages activities have received funding through the Australian Government's Indigenous culture, languages and visual arts programs. The Australian ...

Juvenile jails mull Forrest's indigenous jobs scheme
The Australian
MINING magnate Andrew Forrest's federally funded scheme training indigenous people for direct jobs is under consideration for trial in juvenile detention centres in Western Australia. The Australian has learnt that the West Australian government has ...

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Yowie: Australia's Bigfoot 'Caught On Camera' (VIDEO)
Huffington Post UK
Heal and Dunn have been searching for the hominid, whose roots are in Aboriginal mythology since July 2012 and hope to travel to the US to track down the equally elusive Sasquatch. According to literature on their YouTube account the pair have: “Heard ...

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Retrogram picture special: Footy stars as works of art
Herald Sun
IN SEARCHING for distinctly Australian imagery over the years, many artists have turned to paintings of shearers (Tom Roberts), bushrangers (Sidney Nolan) and outback explorers (John Longstaff). But there are also a substantial number of artists ...

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Yowie: Australia's Bigfoot 'Caught On Camera' (VIDEO)
Huffington Post UK
Heal and Dunn have been searching for the hominid, whose roots are in Aboriginal mythology since July 2012 and hope to travel to the US to track down the equally elusive Sasquatch. According to literature on their YouTube account the pair have: “Heard ...

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Barriers to justice system faced by Indigenous Aussies revealed in report
SBS
The commission says opportunities to improve access to the system and cost-effectiveness. It also highlights particular difficulties faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, and recommends funding priorities and culturally ...

Immunisation rates on the up
inmycommunity
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander immunisations had most growth, from 82.3, 84.7 and 75.8 per cent for children aged one, two and five in 2011 to 2012, up to 90.6, 89.7 and 85.9 in 2012 to 2013. Fremantle Medicare Local board chairman Graham ...

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Secret dinosaur footprints unearthed in WA's north
ABC Message Stick
For many years some of the biggest, best-preserved dinosaur footprints in the world have been shrouded in secrecy. But that is about to change with scientists conducting the first detailed study of dinosaur trackways in Western Australia's Kimberley ...

Secret dinosaur footprints unearthed in WA's north
ABC Message Stick
But that is about to change with scientists conducting the first detailed study of dinosaur trackways in Western Australia's Kimberley region. A Queensland-based research group led by ... "So many of the tracks that are here, there's no other place in ...

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Young People to Speak Out in New Survey
Pro Bono Australia
“Mission Australia's annual youth survey has evolved into an agenda-setting piece of research; providing governments, policy makers and community organisations with valuable insight into the minds of young Australians. “This year's survey will provide ...

SBS
Call for long-term homelessness strategy
SBS
"Indigenous members of Australia only make up 3 per cent of our population, but generally about 20 per cent of the homelessness community are people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background. And once again, they have complex needs and ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Children's Book Council announces 'stronger' shortlist for awards 2014
Sydney Morning Herald
The stories of an Aboriginal "Ned Kelly", Captain Cook and a kookaburra that falls from its nest will compete with a Japanese girl's wartime diary for the award for information books in the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards ...

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