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Aboriginal activist called a 'hypocritical hater'
The Australian
An Aboriginal activist who called for Australia to be burnt to the ground during an incendiary address to an “invasion day” rally has been described as a hypocritical hater and faces calls to be dumped from her leadership role with a government-funded ...

Aboriginal activist called a 'hypocritical hater'
The Australian
An Aboriginal activist who called for Australia to be burnt to the ground during an incendiary address to an “invasion day” rally has been described as a hypocritical hater and faces calls to be dumped from her leadership role with a government-funded ...

The Australian
Labor split over Albanese plan for joint referendum
The Australian
The Opposition Leader's office would not be drawn on Mr Albanese's idea, revealed in The Weekend Australian, which contradicted Labor policy. Mr Albanese proposed the joint referendum as a way of creating a national “platform of unity'' and ending ...

Daily Telegraph
Tim Blair: No rhyme or reason in divisive Australia Day poetry
Daily Telegraph
... all Australian governments. They take way too much money from taxpayers and a great many of us would very much like to see them fall apart. But it's difficult to work out why Onus-Williams is so against governments, because they take that money and ...

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Daily Telegraph
Anthony Mundine brings his Muslim beliefs and plan to change Australia to the I'm A Celeb jungle
Daily Telegraph
“Well Donald Trump is President, it is very realistic. I could be the next Prime Minister and I'd do you all right too,” the 42-year-old former rugby league player told News Corp. “I definitely would not be the conventional, I would be the outsider. If ...

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Hockey-like sport 'dumbung' played by Indigenous Australians lays the field for Kookaburras-Dutch clash
ABC Online
As the Australian and Dutch men's hockey teams clashed over the weekend in the West Australian town of Narrogin, locals pointed with pride to their own ancient Indigenous ball-and-stick game that closely resembles the modern Olympic sport. The ...

ABC Online
Hockey-like sport 'dumbung' played by Indigenous Australians lays the field for Kookaburras-Dutch clash
ABC Online
As the Australian and Dutch men's hockey teams clashed over the weekend in the West Australian town of Narrogin, locals pointed with pride to their own ancient Indigenous ball-and-stick game that closely resembles the modern Olympic sport. The ...

The North West Star
Frank Lawler gets Australia Day sporting award
The North West Star
DESERVING: Frank Lawler receives the Mount Isa Sportsperson of the year award from Crs George Fortune and Peta MacRae. Photo: Derek Barry. Frank Lawler likes to do his sport away from the glare of publicity. Whether it's helping out kids in the boxing ...

The Conversation AU
FactCheck: can native title 'only exist if Australia was settled, not invaded'?
The Conversation AU
Sherry Sufi's claim that “native title can only exist if Australia was settled, not invaded” is incorrect. Native title is the legal recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' property rights to Australian land that existed when the ...

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FactCheck: can native title 'only exist if Australia was settled, not invaded'?
The Conversation AU
The High Court of Australia in the 1992 Mabo decision found that an Australian court does not have the power to challenge the basis on which the English claimed sovereignty in 1788. The status of Australian land law, including native title, is a ...

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The Guardian
Hottest 100: Californian rapper Kendrick Lamar wins Triple J poll
The Guardian
With band members of Samoan, Fijian and Korean backgrounds, there are more Australian people of colour in the now London-based band than there have been in all previous Hottest 100 top tens put together. And while an Indigenous artist is yet to break ...
Canberrans enjoy Triple J Hottest 100 countdown pool party at the Duxton HotelThe Canberra Times

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Warren Mundine: The idea we can't celebrate Australia because of certain people and events in history is wrong
The Advertiser
Indigenous Australians who support keeping January 26 were racially abused, even physically threatened, as were also people like me who support a change of date but don't believe it's a priority and defend those who disagree. We've been accused of ...
Matt Cunningham: Australia Day s**t fight doesn't address most pressing issuesNT News
Mills' message having profound impact through Gaels, SpursESPN.co.uk
Thousands protest 'Invasion Day' on Australia's national dayBorneo Bulletin Online
Chronicle -Kaplan Herald
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Warren Mundine: The idea we can't celebrate Australia because of certain people and events in history is wrong
The Advertiser
Indigenous Australians who support keeping January 26 were racially abused, even physically threatened, as were also people like me who support a change of date but don't believe it's a priority and defend those who disagree. We've been accused of ...
Matt Cunningham: Australia Day s**t fight doesn't address most pressing issuesNT News
Australia Day is a time to celebrate our great nationToowoomba Chronicle
Mills' message having profound impact through Gaels, SpursESPN.co.uk
Borneo Bulletin Online -Chronicle -Daily Mail
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Aussie Opposition calls for Australia Day referendum on republic, indigenous recognition
Xinhua
CANBERRA, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has called for a joint referendum on indigenous recognition in the Australian Constitution and Australia becoming a republic. Anthony Albanese, former deputy prime minister and the man ...

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Matt Cunningham: Australia Day s**t fight doesn't address most pressing issues
NT News
NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner this week said it is not something that's ever raised with him either. That's not to say it's not a genuine issue for some Aboriginal people. (I had an interesting conversation with a Larrakia man over a XXXX Gold at ...
Australians rally to protest British 'Invasion Day'Chronicle

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Matt Cunningham: Australia Day s**t fight doesn't address most pressing issues
NT News
I'm pretty agnostic about changing the date of Australia Day. I think I fall into the 56 per cent of Australians who don't really care. I reckon that number would be even higher in the Northern Territory, although to even express that opinion has ...
Australians rally to protest British 'Invasion Day'Chronicle

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Census 2016: dropouts, migrants and indigenous communities ...
The Australian
It is a figure with which we are all familiar: the unemployment rate. This simple single percentage figure is the equivalent of political kryptonite: it can be deadly for a government and for a politician if it appears in a particularly virulent and ...

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The Age
'Invasion day' rally organiser says her comments Australia should 'burn to the ground' should not be taken literally
The Age
"It was the biggest protest for Aboriginal people since the 1970s and I am just so proud of our community and of everybody else who came out with us today," Ms Onus-Williams said. "I would hate my comments to deflect from that." Many of the marchers ...

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The Australian
Flags lowered to half-mast at Queensland Parliament House
The Australian
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags were lowered to half-mast at Queensland's Parliament House, contrary to official protocol, after police passed on a request from the indigenous elders at an Invasion Day march. Thousands of protesters ...

The Australian
Flags lowered to half-mast at Queensland Parliament House
The Australian
“The flags at Queensland's Parliament should never be lowered to appease protesters.” “Lowering flags will do nothing to tackle life threatening but preventable diseases, substance abuse, domestic violence and unemployment – the real issues facing our ...