Editorial: Full picture not conveyed on Aboriginal lives

February 16 2017 - 8:00am

It is an affront to Indigenous Australians that their lives are almost always portrayed in mainstream media through a prism of what the Prime Minister called "despondency and deficit" when releasing the 2017 Closing the Gap report. Descriptions of poverty, domestic violence, drunkenness and homelessness may be well-intentioned attempts to draw attention to ongoing problems, but they do not convey the full picture of Aboriginal lives. 

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