Feature articles are very rate. By 1965-68 issues such as equal pay for Aboriginal pastoral workers and equality of services for Aboriginal people are appearing at least once a week. Stories begin to treat issues of racial equality and report Aboriginal concerns to maintain their culture and identity. Generally, non-Aboriginal people continue to be quoted as authoritative sources. Integration' themes begin to supersede the formal assimilationist perspective.
Feature articles are still very rare.
By 1970, the Aboriginal rights movement has begun to attract coverage in terms of protest marches. Although paternalistic and assimilationist themes and images are still dominant, issues of Aboriginal cultural rights, economic and social deprivation and racial prejudice are increasingly on the news agenda, and appear to coincide with the late 1960s rise in civil rights and anti-war movements. Feature articles are infrequent and editorial comment not yet expressive of opposition or anxiety toward Aboriginal demands. Reports of the crisis of Aboriginal life in towns and suburban settings appear in this period, including brawls and public disorder involving police intervention. Clearly, the increasing movement of Aboriginal people off the reserves and into State housing in the southwest, and off the pastoral stations and into country towns in the north has brought closer contact with non-Aboriginal people and is changing community relations and attitudes.