Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous leader makes Brandis uneasy
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Speaking at the launch of a reconciliation action plan, Reconciliation Australia co-chairman Tom Calma continued his criticism in front of the politician driving the reforms. While Mr Calma's comments were not quite as pointed as in media reports on ...
Brandis' race-hate laws are good for democracyThe Canberra Times
How George Brandis' race-hate laws are good for democracyThe Age

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ABC Online
Percy Trezise: One man's passion for Quinkan Rock Art helps preserve ...
ABC Online
He moved quickly through the Cape York Peninsula scrub and was often accompanied by his bush mates, including his adventure partner, Aboriginal artist Dick Roughsey. But Percy wasn't just a man's man. He was an adventurer who took his family along for ...

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The Guardian
Darwin: Australia's most militarised city, and a lily pad for the Pentagon
The Guardian
Australians prefer to see the isolated and exotic city of Darwin through stories about cyclones, crocodiles, Aboriginal art, spicy market food and unlimited road speeds; a place that lets you go to the supermarket in bare feet and look normal. This way ...

The Guardian
I used to believe I had the right to be a bigot. But reason prevailed
The Guardian
Arguing that black is white is what got commentator Andrew Bolt into a spot of bother in 2010, when he implied light-skinned people who identified as Aboriginal did so for personal gain. Bolt was found guilty of a breach of section 18C of the Racial ...

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SBS
Territory on a tightrope
The Australian
Yesterday, the Prime Minister said while Anderson was a “very, very fine and articulate voice of indigenous Australia”, the dispute was a matter for her and Giles. Anderson told the ABC the Country Liberals were racist, and suggested Aboriginal people ...
'No hope for Aboriginal people' in the CLPSBS
CLP bosses meet to discuss rebel member Alison AndersonABC Message Stick

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Crikey (blog)
A great big wrap of Congress Lowitja coverage
Crikey (blog)
These included the Queensland Aboriginal Islander Health Council (QAIHC), Katherine West Health Board, the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress and the Western Desert Kidney Health project, she said. “Once you go beyond the 'sandstone curtain' as ...

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 54 events ...
Sydney Indymedia
WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 54 events from 31 March 2014. Sun 30 Mar 2014. By WGAR - Working ... ACT · Adelaide · Brisbane · Canberra · Darwin · Hobart · Perth · Cairns · Melbourne · New South Wales · Australia ...

Radio Australia
Australia's South Sea Islander community launch campaign for united ...
Radio Australia
President of the interim national body for Australian South Sea Islanders, Emelda Davis, says it's important the community are seen as distinct from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, with whom they're sometimes grouped. "We've got various types ...

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Australia's South Sea Islander community launch campaign for united ...
ABC Online
President of the interim national body for Australian South Sea Islanders, Emelda Davis, says it's important the community is seen as distinct from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, with whom they're sometimes grouped. "We've got various types of ...

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SBS
'No hope for Aboriginal people' in the CLP
SBS
"Alison Anderson is a very, very fine and articulate voice of indigenous Australia - I deeply respect Alison Anderson," Mr Abbott told reporters in Sydney. "In the end though, the relationship between Alison and (Chief Minister) Adam Giles is a matter ...
Country Liberal Party bosses meet to discuss rebel member Alison AndersonABC Online

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SBS
Country Liberal Party bosses meet to discuss rebel member Alison Anderson
ABC Online
"Alison Anderson is a very fine and articulate voice of Indigenous Australia," he said. "I deeply respect Alison Anderson, I admire the work she has done. "In the end though the relationship between Alison Anderson and Adam Giles is a matter for Alison ...
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North Queensland irrigation plan: Indigenous elders claim lack of consultation ...
ABC Online
"But critically we need to consider, right upfront, the rights and obligations we have to Indigenous people to be involved from the start in the sort of development that will happen in northern Australia, and the Gilbert River is an example of where ...

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Photographic exhibition reveals Brisbane's early indigenous history
ABC Online
... reveals Brisbane's early indigenous history. Updated March 28, 2014 22:59:00. An exhibition of posed photographs of local Aborigines from 19th Century Brisbane has gone on show at City Hall and offers an incredible insight into the capital's social ...

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Aboriginal 'songline' show hits sour note
New Zealand Herald
It was supposed to showcase ancient Aboriginal stories and promote cross-cultural understanding. Instead, a "songline" exhibition due to open last night at the South Australian Museum, one of the nation's leading art institutions, has been postponed ...

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Ongoing battle for recognition of Australia's indigenous soldiers
Warrnambool Standard
HISTORY has been unkind to indigenous soldiers who served Australia in military conflicts, but a south-west researcher is helping give them due credit. Amateur historian Peter Bakker of Hamilton, who helped uncover 88 Victorian Aboriginal soldiers from ...

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Ongoing battle for recognition of Australia's indigenous soldiers
Warrnambool Standard
exit. HISTORY has been unkind to indigenous soldiers who served Australia in military conflicts, but a south-west researcher is helping give them due credit. Amateur historian Peter Bakker of Hamilton, who helped uncover 88 Victorian Aboriginal ...

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Toronto Star
Aboriginal tourism in BC: Offering an authentic experience
Toronto Star
Keith Henry, the CEO of Aboriginal Tourism Association of B.C., says he's had similar experiences in Australia and New Zealand, countries long considered innovators when it comes to developing aboriginal tourism markets, but it's the Aussies and Kiwis ...

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Ongoing battle for recognition of Australia's indigenous soldiers
Warrnambool Standard
exit. HISTORY has been unkind to indigenous soldiers who served Australia in military conflicts, but a south-west researcher is helping give them due credit. Amateur historian Peter Bakker of Hamilton, who helped uncover 88 Victorian Aboriginal ...

Irish Times
Act failing to stop black-on-black racism, says Wesley Aird
The Australian
“We know Aboriginal leaders don't all agree on every topic, but Australia is not the sort of country that should put up with two sets or standards of freedom of speech - one for black and one for white. It's hypocritical and simply not good enough for ...
People have right to be bigots, debate on Australia racism Act hearsIrish Times
Discrimination law change strengthening free speechTasmania Examiner
Warren Mundine maintains criticism of Coalition's proposed changes to Racial ...Radio Australia
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The Age
Smothering free exchange of ideas a dangerous path
The Australian (blog)
Writing today, Aird shines a light on some of the robust conflicts within Aboriginal Australia, pointing out it is simplistic and disingenuous to suggest it is only Aborigines who need protection from the rest of non-Aboriginal Australia. The ...
Interactive: Race discrimination cases from Brits to BoltSBS
Locked in a war of words to define free speechSydney Morning Herald
The fight for the right to be an Australian bigotNew Zealand Herald
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