Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

No forced adoption for Aboriginal children
Ninemsn
The new laws, which are set to be debated in state parliament on Thursday, would see NSW become the first jurisdiction in Australia where child protection authorities would be required to consider adoption before placing a vulnerable child in foster care.

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First Aboriginal Woman in Australia Senate Draws on Olympic Win
Bloomberg
While Peris won the seat for the now-opposition Labor party in last September's election and has since been tasked with a lead role in helping convince Australians to approve the recognition of indigenous people in the constitution, the furor over her ...

First Aboriginal Woman in Australia Senate Draws on Olympic Win
Bloomberg
While Peris won the seat for the now-opposition Labor party in last September's election and has since been tasked with a lead role in helping convince Australians to approve the recognition of indigenous people in the constitution, the furor over her ...

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Atlanta Black Star
Invasion, Theft, Rape: The European Holocaust Against The Aboriginal ...
Atlanta Black Star
But, I assure you, there is a much more harsh reality for Tasmania. Tasmania is an island slightly larger in size than West Virginia, and is located two-hundred miles off Australia's southeast coast. The aboriginal inhabitants of the island were Black ...

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Australia Senate's First Aboriginal Woman Beat Cyclone, Racism
Businessweek
Aborigines are among Australia's most marginalized people, with infant mortality rates twice that for non-indigenous people and life expectancy about a decade lower. Both Labor and the Liberal-National government have pledged to improve their lot and ...

Green Left Weekly
How Aboriginal people created Australia -- book provides detailed account of ...
Green Left Weekly
This is an extraordinary book that details how Australian Aboriginal people cared for the land, or as Bill Gammage calls it the “Biggest Estate on Earth”. Gammage describes, with many examples, how Aboriginal people looked after the land. No corner was ...

SBS
Project investigates Indigenous self-identification
SBS
If someone says what country do you come from, I say I come from Australia and I am an Australian Aboriginal, so they know about my identification of what I am to this country, if I am outside this country, yeah, because that's all people know. But I ...
Congress Lowitja to focus on racism and the growing risk of “interventions”Crikey (blog)

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Indigenous mental health report shows legal flaws
Warrnambool Standard
Mr Clarke, who is deputy chairman of the First Peoples Disability Network, said successive inquiries had found Aboriginal Australians to be the most jailed sector of the human race and there were now similarities with treatment of refugees seeking asylum.

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ABC Online
Debating race without rancour
The Australian (blog)
At the time the report was released, about 90,000 Aborigines in outback and northern Australia out of a total indigenous population of 350,000 were struggling with woefully low life expectancies and Third World living conditions. The urban-based ...
Andrew Bolt unhappy with ABC apology for 'racist' claim on Q&AThe Guardian
ABC apologises to Andrew BoltBrisbane Times

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Aboriginal elder calls demolition a "dawn raid"
inmycommunity
POLICE cars surrounded the Swan Valley Nyungah Community this morning while buildings were destroyed, in what one Aboriginal elder called “a dawn raid.” Bella Bropho said by the time she arrived all the buildings on Lord Street, Lockridge, property had ...
Last remains of Swan Valley camp flattenedThe Australian
Swan Valley Nyungah community cleared to create conservation reserve and ...ABC Online
Swan Valley Nyungah community cleared to make way for reserveABC Message Stick

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The Australian Da Vinci: How David Unaipon (Almost) Changed Our Nation
Gizmodo 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 ...

Islam and Australian Aborigines
BBC News
Sea cucumbers, feral camels and Malcolm X. They have all played their part in the centuries-old link between Australian Aboriginals and Islam. Janak Rogers explores this link for Heart and Soul, and how Islam is still playing a role in the lives of ...

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Dark Emu argues against 'Hunter Gatherer' history of Indigenous Australians
ABC Local
The common perception of Indigenous Australians leading a 'hunter-gatherer' lifestyle before European settlement is ignoring strong evidence of sophisticated farming and agriculture practices, argues Mr Pascoe. "There certainly was a lot of movement ...

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Dark Emu argues against 'Hunter Gatherer' history of Indigenous Australians
ABC Local
The common perception of Indigenous Australians leading a 'hunter-gatherer' lifestyle before European settlement is ignoring strong evidence of sophisticated farming and agriculture practices, argues Mr Pascoe. "There certainly was a lot of movement ...

SBS
Close the Gap Day to put spotlight on Indigenous healthcare
SBS
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders can expect to live 10-17 years less than non-Indigenous Australians. The babies of Aboriginal mothers are twice as likely to die as other Australian babies, and in general Indigenous Australians experience higher ...
There are doctors in the houseThe Age
Major conferences put the spotlight on improving Indigenous health and ...Crikey (blog)
Canberra's Elected Body report reveals jail rates are as bad there as anywhereNational Indigenous Times

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Indigenous people invisible in Australian ads?
ABC Local
Indigenous people invisible in Australian ads? By Xavier La Canna. The head of an advertising consultancy says Aboriginal people are not involved enough in his industry, and New Zealand is 'kicking Australia's butt' in representations of cultural ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Rise of Aboriginal PhDs heralds a change in culture
Sydney Morning Herald
The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students completing doctoral degrees has quadrupled in the past two decades and a new generation is preparing to influence the institutions of knowledge in Australia. Dr Sana Mary Nakata, 30, whose ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
There are doctors in the house
The Age
Just 55 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students were awarded PhDs in Australia from 1990 to 2000, but 219 students earned PhDs in the 11 years to 2011, a fourfold increase, according to the Department of Education. A remarkable 143 PhDs were ...
Indigenous higher education gathers momentumSydney Morning Herald
Major conferences put the spotlight on improving Indigenous health and ...Crikey (blog)
Canberra's Elected Body report reveals jail rates are as bad there as anywhereNational Indigenous Times

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SBS (blog)
Why our kids should learn Aboriginal history
SBS (blog)
... but what does this mean for the Aboriginal past? There are currently conflicting voices about the relative weighting given to different aspects of Australia's past, but the last 50,000 years of Aboriginal history needs to be the start of the ...

Why our kids should learn Aboriginal history
The Conversation
The national history curriculum implemented across Australia from 2011 provides the opportunity for educators to comprehensively tackle for the first time 50,000 years of Australia's history. The future…