Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

What Is Australia Day? From Convict Ships to Cultural Celebration
International Business Times UK
Purposefully held on the same date as Australia Day, it was a protest held by Aboriginal Australians against the 150 years of mistreatment and seizure of land when the first ships landed. The first march was organised by two bodies. One protest was ...

Easy ways to make Australia Day a day to remember
The Daily Telegraph
The raising of the Aboriginal and Australian flags on the Sydney Harbour Bridge honours age-old custodial traditions and marks the start of the Australia Day celebrations across the state. A fire will be lit at the Sydney Opera House and carried aboard ...

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Crikey
Razer's class warfare: Aboriginal Australia needs capital, not bullshit feelings
Crikey
Razer's class warfare: Aboriginal Australia needs capital, not bullshit feelings. by Helen Razer. There is one of those things I believe the expert photoshoppers call a “macro” currently circulating madly online. I am all for a critique of that ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Archie Roach still a powerful voice for Indigenous justice
The Guardian (blog)
“The song with him has a lot do with what I've sung about through the years – the struggles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It is through these fresh voices in music that a new generation of Australians will become more familiar with ...

Crikey
Razer's class warfare: Aboriginal Australia needs capital, not bullshit feelings
Crikey
Razer's class warfare: Aboriginal Australia needs capital, not bullshit feelings. by Helen Razer. There is one of those things I believe the expert photoshoppers call a “macro” currently circulating madly online. I am all for a critique of that ...

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The West Australian
Investigation finds no child abuse in Australian circumcision injuries
UPI.com
DARWIN, Australia, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The Northern Territory, Australia, Child Abuse Taskforce said an aboriginal circumcision ceremony that sent three teens to the hospital is not child abuse. Three teenage boys were medically evacuated in December ...
Anger in NT community after circumcision rite ends with three boys airlifted ...ABC Online

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The West Australian
Anger in NT community after circumcision rite ends with three boys airlifted ...
ABC Online
"There are number of cultures that operate in the NT and even more Australia-wide - Islamic cultures, Christian cultures, Aboriginal cultures, other religions and other cultural practices," he said. "So long as those practices don't amount to child ...
Investigation finds no child abuse in Australian circumcision injuriesUPI.com

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Sky News Australia
Police get suspended term for tasering
Sky News Australia
Two West Australian policemen convicted of assaulting an Aboriginal man by repeatedly tasering him in a lock-up have been given suspended jail terms and fined. CCTV footage showed the officers - Aaron Grant Strahan, 45, and Troy Gregory Tomlin, ...
Two policemen found guilty of Taser assault against Kevin SprattPerth Now
Magistrate rules officers who repeatedly tasered man guilty of assaultThe Australian
WA cops guilty of lock-up tasering assaultYahoo!7 News

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More 'money on ground' with indigenous reforms
The Australian
THE powerful Minerals Council of Australia says the government's decision to merge 26 indigenous programs into five will provide significantly more money to be spent on aboriginal people with up to half of all commonwealth money spent clogged up in ...

WA today
Magistrate rules officers who repeatedly tasered man guilty of assault
The Australian
TWO West Australian police officers have been found guilty of assaulting an Aboriginal man by repeatedly tasering him while in custody. Aaron Grant Strahan and Troy Gregory Tomlin have been on trial in Perth Magistrates Court jointly accused of common ...
WA cops guilty of lock-up tasering assault on Kevin SprattWA today
Decision to be handed down in Spratt tasering casePerth Now

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The Guardian
Two Western Australian police guilty over 2008 tasering of Aboriginal man
The Guardian
Two Western Australian policemen have been found guilty of assaulting an Aboriginal man by repeatedly tasering him in a lock-up. Aaron Grant Strahan and Troy Gregory Tomlin have been on trial in Perth magistrates court for six days, jointly accused of ...
WA cops guilty of lock-up tasering assaultNinemsn
Decision to be handed down in Spratt tasering casePerth Now

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Government funding for Aboriginal regional arts projects
artsHub Australia (subscription)
NSW is home to the largest Indigenous community in Australia and NSW Aboriginal artists are producing high-quality works that fuse traditional stories and culture with contemporary art forms and media.' Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Victor Dominello ...

SBS
Vic memorial for hanged Aboriginal men
Sky News Australia
On January 20, 1842, two Aboriginal men were the first people executed in Melbourne. If City of Melbourne councillor Cathy Oke has anything to do with it, more people will know the story of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner. 'Their story is part of ...
Plans to recognise the first two Aboriginal people executed in MelbourneABC Online

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Eureka Street
Time to honour Aboriginal frontier warriors
Eureka Street
'Forgotten War' by Henry Reynolds Professor Tim Flannery of Macquarie University has expressed his 'sense of outrage' that the Australian War Memorial (AWM) refuses to honour Aboriginal warriors who fought and died defending their lands and their ...

Plans to recognise the first two Aboriginal people executed in Melbourne
ABC Local
As Australia Day approaches, Melbourne City Council is working on plans to commemorate two Aboriginal people, who were the first people executed in Victoria. In 1842, Tasmanian men Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, convicted of murdering two ...

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The appalling state of indigenous ear health
6minutes (blog)
He has been called a 'trailblazer' in the world of medicine, but Australia's first indigenous surgeon says he is simply giving back to those communities that have long supported him. Kelvin Kong (pictured) speaks to 6minutes about his work. Were you ...

Indigenous Advocate Takes Top Job
Pro Bono Australia
Oxfam Policy Advisor Andrew Meehan has been appointed as National Director of ANTaR - a national advocacy organisation dedicated specifically to the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Meehan will come to ANTaR from Oxfam Australia ...
TREATY - Change.org petition for Treaty - please sign and shareSydney Indymedia

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Sydney Morning Herald
Outside pressure key to better life for Aborigines
Sydney Morning Herald
Veteran filmmaker John Pilger believes the lot for indigenous people will improve only after pressure from outside Australia. "My own sense is that the so-called problem of indigenous Australia, which is really a problem for non-indigenous Australia ...

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WGAR News: Congress to hold urgent meetings with members and supporters ...
Sydney Indymedia
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples is a national voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. As a company the Congress is owned and controlled by its membership and is independent of Government. Together we will be leaders ...

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SBS
Gudirr Gudirr, Marrugeku – review
The Guardian (blog)
Pigram's solo dance work is an articulate and thoroughly interrogated exploration of her politicised identity as an Aboriginal Australian of diverse cultural heritage. Working with Belgian choreographer Koen Augustijnen's "task-based" choreography, and ...
Gudirr Gudirr rarely loses its gripThe Australian
Aboriginal culture showcased in dance for changeSBS

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