Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Radio Australia
Court rejects challenge to Rio Tinto mining lease
Radio Australia
The Federal Court has dismissed a legal challenge to a lease agreement between Aboriginal traditional land owners in the Northern Territory and mining giant Rio Tinto. In 2011, then prime minister Julia Gillard was part of a ceremony held in east ...

Marijuana Swap for Gas Marks Path for Australia Aborigines: Jobs
Businessweek
“I never thought I'd have a chance to help build something like this,” says Wood, 23, an indigenous Australian whose mother's death was related to alcohol abuse. “I used to smoke marijuana and be pretty heavy on the grog, because I didn't have anything ...

Yahoo!7 News
Marijuana Swap for Gas Marks Path for Australia Aborigines: Jobs
Bloomberg
“I never thought I'd have a chance to help build something like this,” says Wood, 23, an indigenous Australian whose mother's death was related to alcohol abuse. “I used to smoke marijuana and be pretty heavy on the grog, because I didn't have anything ...
Close the gap: joint parly callThe Australian

all 8 news articles »

Aboriginal leaders defend welcome fee
Central Western Daily
“For council to come out and say they shouldn't pay it... creates this issue that we as Aboriginal people don't support Australia Day and we've supported it since its inception,” he said. “To single out Aboriginal people because we didn't do a welcome ...

and more »

Elite unit to drive Noel Pearson indigenous reforms
The Australian
Mr Pearson will co-chair the new steering committee with Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet associate secretary Liza Carroll to drive enormous change in the way money for indigenous Australians is spent. The Cape York leader told The Australian ...

and more »

88: a story of Aboriginal survival
ABC Online (blog)
For many Australians 1988, the year of the bicentenary of white settlement, was an opportunity to celebrate the survival of Australia's indigenous people. Maybe you were a part of a group of people who travelled from the NT to Sydney to remind the rest ...

The Guardian (blog)
Melbourne Indigenous Arts festival: Deborah Cheetham's highlights
The Guardian (blog)
I'm often asked for advice on how to connect with Australia's Indigenous cultures. For some people a connection with the longest continuing culture in the world, whilst enticing, seems all too difficult and unnecessarily complicated. For others ...

A time to talk about realities of Aboriginal Australians
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
To the letter-writer "Please explain graffiti" (Your View, January 30), I too read the January 28 Leader item. However, nowhere did I read this damage was caused by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person.

and more »

Sydney Morning Herald
Adrian Newstead's new expose on the Aboriginal Art Market has everyone talking.
artsHub Australia (subscription)
There is no better person to tackle such a complex and layered topic as Newstead, founder of Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery (1981), Australia's oldest continuously operating Aboriginal art gallery, and former President of the Indigenous Art Trade ...
Art resale royalties an 'abject failure' for Indigenous artistsSydney Morning Herald

all 2 news articles »

Radio Australia
Federal Court rejects challenge by Aboriginal traditional owners to Rio Tinto ...
Radio Australia
The Federal Court has dismissed a legal challenge to a lease agreement between Aboriginal traditional land owners in the Northern Territory and mining giant Rio Tinto. In 2011, then prime minister Julia Gillard was part of a ceremony held in east ...

and more »Google News

The Age
Blak Cabaret: indigenous artists take the stage for the Indigenous Arts Festival
The Age
''The ideal is to develop it into a true sense of cabaret and get around Australia and the world.'' On the topic of who he expects in the audience, Tamiru knows that Aboriginal people will make up a major part, but given the playful nature of the work ...

Google News

What happens to Aboriginal Australians after a stroke or traumatic brain injury?
HealthCanal.com
Professor Beth Armstrong is leading a research project examining communications disorders in Aboriginal Australians in WA. Indigenous Australians are twice as likely to suffer a stroke and 21 times as likely to suffer a traumatic brain injury as the ...

SBS
Call for compensation over 'stolen' Indigenous languages
SBS
Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann said money needed to be invested in helping Indigenous Australians reclaim their native tongues. "These Aboriginal people who suffered, whose language suffered linguicide, ought to receive compensation in the form of ...

Google News

PM must tear up any thoughts of a treaty
The Daily Telegraph
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott reopened debate about recognition of Aboriginal Australians in the Australian Constitution when he chose Australia Day to reiterate his government's commitment to preparing a draft of a formal wording by September.

and more »

Sydney Morning Herald
New ritual: Aboriginal NRL players perform with Bangarra Dance Theatre. Photo ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Every Australian team on Kangaroo tours from 1908 to 1967 performed an Aboriginal war cry, derived from Stradbroke Island, before matches but they never did so on home soil and it was decided in 1973 that the dance ''did not reflect being Australian''.

Welcome to Aboriginal Australia in the 21st Century – John Pilger's Utopia.
Lankaweb
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 Aboriginal male suffering the indignity of public housing Australia. My identity came with a sense of collective ...

The Guardian
Andrew Bolt, Indigenous Australian? Come off it
The Guardian
Bolt also plays mischief-maker, claiming to be an Indigenous Australian. Like Pauline Hanson did in her maiden speech to the parliament in 1996, Bolt makes his claim based on a technical view that everyone born in Australia is legally, but not socially ...

Yareah Magazine
Australia. The modern Aboriginal Art Movement and Art Market
Yareah Magazine
The Dealer is the Devil – An Insider's History of the Aboriginal Art Trade. Written by Adrian Newstead. Release Date: February 2014. Published by Brandl & Schlesinger. BOOK LAUNCH Tuesday 04 February, 2014 6- 8pm. Australian Galleries, 15 Roylston ...

Polemicist Andrew Bolt Declares Himself 'Indigenous' And Accuses PM Of ...
Business Insider Australia
Provocative Melbourne columnist Andrew Bolt has done it again, starting his Herald-Sun column today with the claim “I am an indigenous Australian” and warning that Prime Minister Tony Abbott's plan to recognise Aboriginal Australians in the ...

Google News

I am, you are, we are Australian
Herald Sun
But this Australia is now under severe threat. Most incredibly, that threat is now led by Prime Minister Abbott, a Liberal. Abbott says he wants a “national crusade” to change the Constitution to recognise Aborigines as the “first Australians”. “If we ...
Utopia review: Shocking treatment of Aborigines revealedThe Age
It's time to commemorate the Frontier WarsOn Line opinion
Lessons from the 1967 referendumNinemsn
The Sunshine Coast Daily
all 7 news articles »