Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Major Aboriginal art exhibition for Auckland Art Gallery
National Business Review (subscription)
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is bringing the largest and most significant exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian art yet seen in New Zealand to Auckland in March. My Country showcases the breadth of recent work by Aboriginal and Torres ...

Adam Goodes and the 'matter of choice'
The Australian
She chose not to be a victim, not to wallow in a past that saw nine of her 10 siblings taken from their parents; saw her removed at the age of five from her parents at Point Pearce, an indigenous town on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, 70km from ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Tim Flannery in call to honour Aborigines killed in land wars
Sydney Morning Herald
Tim Flannery, Australian of the Year in 2007, has expressed his ''personal sense of outrage'' that Aboriginal warriors who fought and died defending their lands and people against white settlers are ignored by the Australian War Memorial. In any other ...
Is there place for aboriginal warriors in war memorials?WA today

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Freeman banks on support for islanders
The Australian
But Credit Suisse isn't alone, with Citigroup late last month unveiling a collaboration with Indigenous Business Australia and Supply Nation for a mentoring partnership for indigenous businesses. UBS supports the Nura Gili Centre for Indigenous ...

Remembering the Aboriginals who fought for Australia in WWI
FRANCE 24
But it is often overlooked that among the 420,000 Australians who participated in that conflict – of whom around 60,000 never made it home – up to 1,000 of the so-called “Diggers” (the nickname for Aussie soldiers) were Aboriginals, men who had no ...
Theatre unearths Australia's shameartsHub Australia (subscription)
Digging Up the Anzacs' Untold StoryWall Street Journal (blog)

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Is there place for aboriginal warriors in war memorials?
The Age
Is there place for aboriginal warriors in war memorials? (00:36). Australian of the Year for 2007, Prof Tim Flannery has opened the idea of recognizing aboriginal fighters in war memorials to discussion at an Australia Day panel. 17/01/14. Gratuitous ...

Theatre unearths Australia's shame
artsHub Australia (subscription)
In fact there were gay Anzacs and city Anzacs, boys who put university courses on hold, young men who had never had a partner and some who never would and, of course, a small but important group of Indigenous Australians whose service is all the more ...

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Review: Pilger's Utopia shows us Aboriginal Australia in 2014
The Conversation
Welcome to Aboriginal Australia in the 21st Century – John Pilger's Utopia. It was more than two decades ago when I saw John Pilger's 1986 documentary The Secret Country for the first time. I was a 17-year-old…

Summer camp aims to lift Indigenous uni enrolments
ABC Online
Indigenous students make up only one per cent of higher education enrolments in Australia. As Tracy Bowden reports, a special summer camp at the University of Sydney is hoping to help change that. TRACY BOWDEN, REPORTER: The summer holidays in ...

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Bid to boost Indigenous cancer survival rates
SBS
The University of Western Australia's School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care is investigating different models of cancer treatment and how they could be used to boost Indigenous survival rates. Preliminary research indicates Aboriginal ...

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Outcomes much poorer for Indigenous Australians with cancer
SBS
The University of Western Australia's School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care is investigating different models of cancer treatment and how they could be used to boost Indigenous survival rates. Preliminary research indicates Aboriginal ...

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Fred Chaney, Senior Australian of the Year nominee
SBS
While he says Australia has come a long way since the 1950s, he says Indigenous incarceration rates are still at catastrophic levels and he says it's the number one barrier to reconciliation in his home state of WA. "If there's a single barrier to ...

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What changes to teaching of Indigenous history?
SBS
"There are two aspects to Australia's history that are paramount. The first of course is our Indigenous history, because for thousands of years Indigenous Australians have lived on this continent. The second aspect of our history is our beginnings as a ...
Australia: New school curriculum to promote war and nationalismWorld Socialist Web Site

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to show in Ak
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Highlighting the many relationships to place and sparking debate as to the politics of land, My Countrycelebrates the powerful art of Indigenous Australians today. The exhibition comes to New Zealand thanks to support from the Australia Council for the ...

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Development Manager, Indigenous Strategy & Services
Pro Bono Australia
In 2012, the University launched the Wingara Mura – Bunga Barrabugu, a comprehensive strategic plan to renew the University's efforts to provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with opportunities to engage with one of Australia's best ...

The Guardian
Where exactly does Christopher Pyne stand on teaching Indigenous history?
The Guardian
Last week when he announced a supposedly independent review of the national curriculum by experts clearly hostile towards the status quo, it was framed in terms of competing aspects of Australia's past – Indigenous history and “western civilisation”.
Inquiry labelled "disgusting"6minutes

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Indigenous hepatitis B program cash uncertainty
The West Australian
"I am concerned that the [Hepatitis Australia] document is taking a fairly simplistic view that there is a lot of hep-B in Aboriginals and we are not doing enough, and it is just a matter of more money and we will fix the problem," he said. "It won't ...

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Indigenous hepatitis B program cash uncertainty
ABC Online
The chief executive of Hepatitis Australia says Commonwealth money meant to help Indigenous people deal with hepatitis B has yet to be distributed. Helen Tyrell says that, in August last year, then-health minister Tanya Plibersek assigned $5.8 million ...

The Guardian (blog)
Black Diggers: challenging Anzac myths
The Guardian (blog)
But like so much about the clichéd Australian Anzac, this entrenched cultural caricature overlooks the extraordinary experiences of minorities who fought as Australian sons of the empire – not least those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait lslanders. Now ...

Food security plan for Aboriginal land bears fruit
ABC Online
It's harvest time at one of Australia's most remote orchards, on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of northwest South Australia. Kenmore Park is an Indigenous community 460 kilometres south west of Alice Springs and is home to about ...