Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

'Cut the cash and we won't close the gap'
The Australian
Dr Brown, who was in one of the first groups of Aboriginal medical graduates in Australia and previously an indigenous health adviser to the Australian Medical Association, was yesterday appointed as Warren Mundine's deputy after receiving the backing ...

Chemistry World
Geological technique adapted to analyse Aboriginal Australian objects
Chemistry World
Aboriginal Australian people use mineral pigments such as kaolinite and hematite to decorate wood, bark, resin and other organic substances. The analysis of these materials in a non-destructive way can be extremely challenging. In objects with ...

South Australia Police Caught in Perjury Against Aboriginal Elder
Mathaba.Net
The Labor Weatherill government had called upon Tribal Elders to attend parliament in relation to their inclusion in the State constitution, and many local Aboriginal leaders took up the offer, believing they were being asked into parliament for their ...

gap program to target dementia
The Australian
Dementia affects the indigenous community earlier in life, with 73 per cent of indigenous dementia cases occurring between the age of 60 and 70; compared with 70 and older for the majority of non-Aboriginal Australians. Alzheimer's Australia chief ...

Why you have to watch this film
The Age
For the last few weeks, I've seen a film bring together Aboriginal people all over Australia. The buzz around Utopia - a documentary by John Pilger - has been unprecedented. Some 4000 people attended the open-air premiere in Redfern last month - both ...

Aboriginal artist Richard Bell accuses Adelaide Festival artist of using ...
Herald Sun
A LEADING Australian indigenous artist has accused another artist featured in the Adelaide Festival's main exhibition of “blatantly” appropriating indigenous designs he says have been presented as “decoration and fluff”. Queensland-born Richard Bell ...

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Aboriginal artist Richard Bell accuses Adelaide Festival artist of using ...
NEWS.com.au
Queensland-born Richard Bell said Archibald Prize-winning artist Del Kathryn Barton was insulting Aboriginal people with her large-scale painting, the heart land, at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The work, an intensely coloured and detailed 9m ...

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Brisbane Times
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
Brisbane Times
We travelled across Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory, treating Aboriginal men, women and children for trachoma and other eye diseases, problems which still plague remote Aboriginal communities today. The Australia I saw in ...
Hostility to John Pilger's film a denial of nation's brutal pastThe Canberra Times

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The Age
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
The Age
Fortunately, there's a simple way in – an opportunity to get a "punter's guide" to the truth about the treatment of Aboriginal Australians. John Pilger's latest film, Utopia - a 110-minute feature length documentary more than two years in the making ...
Hostility to John Pilger's film a denial of nation's brutal pastWA today

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Sydney Morning Herald
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
Sydney Morning Herald
It's the new mantra in Aboriginal affairs: get your kids to school. Prime Ministers Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd were fond of saying it. So too is Prime Minister Tony Abbott. While I don't accept that education alone, or rather a lack of access to it ...

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BBC News
How Aborigines could solve Australia's bushfire problem
BBC News
Strong winds and soaring temperatures have led to dozens of bushfires in southern Australia. Could Aboriginal "gardening" techniques be used to control them in future? I am only an hour into visiting a retired couple just north of Sydney when I realise ...

Indigenous mentor system pours $38m into economy
The Australian
The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience program is now so big and successful that an independent KPMG report due to be released today has concluded it contributed $38 million to the economy in 2012. The Weekend Australian can reveal that ...

Two young women have been caught on camera racially abusing and assaulting ...
The Australian
... Brian Swan said police believed they had identified the women, and it was with the help of a slew of public tip-offs. Police are expected to charge the two young women who bashed and racially vilified a partially blind indigenous man on a Gold ...

The Guardian
Woman turns herself in over Gold Coast bus attack on elderly man
The Guardian
“The victim actually doesn't identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander,” he said. “However it is concerning that the alleged [attackers] perceived that he was.” Dr Tim Soutphommasane, race discrimination commissioner at the Australian Human ...
Women in racist attack on old manManawatu Standard
Gold Coast bus attack: two women leave elderly man 'upset and shaken'Brisbane Times

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Daily Mail
Caught on camera: Disturbing footage reveals two women punching, kicking and ...
Daily Mail
Two women have been caught on camera viciously attacking a blind, elderly Australian Aboriginal man while he was sitting down in the disabled seat of a bus. The video, which was filmed on a mobile phone by a 13-year-old girl travelling on the bus on ...

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rights Advocacy Lead
Pro Bono Australia
If Australia is the lucky country, why do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have a lower life expectancy than other Australians – and many people in the developing world? Every Australian deserves equal access to income, employment, health ...

Two teenage girls have been caught on camera allegedly racially abusing and ...
The Australian
EARLIER: SOCIAL media has exploded with repulse at two teenage girls who punched, kicked and spat on an elderly indigenous man in a horrific assault on a bus in Kirra. Footage of the incident where two drunk teenagers assaulted and racially abused a ...

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SBS
APY elders share sacred songline with the world
SBS
A painstaking project to capture one of Aboriginal Australia's most important creation stories is set to be unveiled in Adelaide. The endeavour has overcome controversy to preserve one of Central Australia's oldest intact songlines called the Ngintaka, ...

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James Price Point Aboriginal cultural leader passes away
ABC Local
Tributes have flowed today for the man from the Australian Greens with Senator Rachel Siewert expressing deep sadness at the man's passing. "His courage in fighting the James Price Point Gas hub proposal was inspiring and his leadership was a key to ...

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James Price Point Aboriginal cultural leader passes away
ABC Local
Tributes have flowed today for the man from the Australian Greens with Senator Rachel Siewert expressing deep sadness at the man's passing. "His courage in fighting the James Price Point Gas hub proposal was inspiring and his leadership was a key to ...