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The Mercury
Thousands of Hobart protesters call for Australia Day date change
The Mercury
Hobart protesters were joined by thousands around the country calling for the date marking the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 to be scrapped. Part of the large crowd who marched to Parliament Lawns. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES. Tasmanian Aboriginal ...

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Silly to serious marks Qld's Australia Day
NEWS.com.au
"Before, they had the true history hidden from them, and a lot of them didn't realise they were disrespecting Aboriginal people," he said. Mr Fogarty called on state and federal governments to hear the voices of Indigenous Australians and "just go ...

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The Australian
Australia Day 2018: Gillian Triggs supports Aboriginal treaty
The Australian
Today's “Justice Through Treaty” event in Sydney began with a march from Redfern Park to Hyde Park in the CBD, followed by speeches from Professor Triggs and others including ACTU secretary Sally McManus, feminist academic Eva Cox, Labor MP Linda ...

The Australian
Australia Day 2018: Gillian Triggs supports Aboriginal treaty
The Australian
Today's “Justice Through Treaty” event in Sydney began with a march from Redfern Park to Hyde Park in the CBD, followed by speeches from Professor Triggs and others including ACTU secretary Sally McManus, feminist academic Eva Cox, Labor MP Linda ...

Sea of indigenous flags in Sydney march
Yahoo7 News
The streets of Redfern have been transformed by a sea of red, black and yellow flags with thousands gathering in Sydney to march for indigenous rights. Organiser Ken Canning from Fighting In Resistance Equally said he hoped the Invasion Day rally would ...

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SBS
Jacinta Price: 'People aren't celebrating the fact that Aboriginal people have suffered'
SBS
“People aren't celebrating the fact that Aboriginal people have suffered. Nowhere do I believe that an Australian is celebrating that fact. They are celebrating the fact that we are an incredibly wonderful nation. We are a nation where we have the ...

ABC Online
We asked for your earliest memory of Australia Day. These are your responses
ABC Online
"As a family, we always picnicked usually in a national park to enjoy the natural Australian bush rather than the usual urban/suburban day-to-day environment. So I guess I've always associated it with the Australia as it was pre-colonisation. I'd like ...

Courier Mail
Elder calls for Australia Day to become Treaty Day
Courier Mail
Mr Watson said he was surprised at the intensity of this year's date debate. He said last week he expected at least 1500 people to turn up for tomorrow's Invasion Day march, which has grown steadily every year since it started in Brisbane in 1970 ...

Courier Mail
Elder calls for Australia Day to become Treaty Day
Courier Mail
INDIGENOUS leader Uncle Sam Watson has called for Australia Day to be shifted to the day a treaty is finally signed with indigenous Australians. Mr Watson, one of the organisers of this morning's Invasion Day march, from State Parliament to Musgrave ...

Uncle Richard Davis says changing Australia Day date will cause unnecessary disharmony
Illawarra Mercury
LEAVE IT AS IT IS: Uncle Richard Davis used his Welcome to Country address to call for Australia Day to continue being celebrated on January 26. Picture: Georgia Matts. Contrary to many in his indigenous community, Uncle Richard Davis believes ...

Illawarra Mercury
Illawarra Aboriginal leader says leave Australia Day as is | Illawarra ...
Illawarra Mercury
Contrary to many in his indigenous community, Uncle Richard Davis believes Australia Day should remain being celebrated on January 26.

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SBS
WA snubbed in Australia Day honours
SBS
Meanwhile, Mr McGowan maintained his support for keeping Australia Day on January 26, saying it was a distraction and wants the federal government to focus on more important funding issues confronting Aboriginal people. "The Commonwealth government is ...

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Key quotes from Australia Day events
NEWS.com.au
Labor leader Bill Shorten. "At its heart, of course, the story of Australia is a migrant story, built upon an indigenous heritage. It is a story of diverse people from across the globe coming to this place, building a life, and calling Australia our ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
What Sydneysiders got up to on Australia Day morning
The Sydney Morning Herald
The day wasn't all about celebration for some, though, with two major protests taking place in the city. Two separate groups marched from Redfern: the Invasion Day Rally travelled to the Yabun Festival in Victoria Park, Camperdown, and the Long March ...
NSW governor notes Australia Day angstSBS
Ancient custom lives on thousands of years later: Stunning photos capture dancers performing a traditional ...Daily Mail

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NEWS.com.au
Malcolm Turnbull opens Australia Day speech with indigenous greeting
NEWS.com.au
Last year he spoke in Ngunnawal in an address to unveil the ninth annual Closing the Gap report, and he also opened his speech for the Australian of the Year Awards last night using the language. During his Australia Day address, Mr Turnbull urged ...
Australia Day: Turnbull dismisses calls for change to flagThe Australian
Malcolm Turnbull says Australian flag will never change, rejecting new designThe Guardian
Few back changing Australia Day: TurnbullThe West Australian

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NEWS.com.au
Malcolm Turnbull opens Australia Day speech with indigenous greeting
NEWS.com.au
Last year he spoke in Ngunnawal in an address to unveil the ninth annual Closing the Gap report, and he also opened his speech for the Australian of the Year Awards last night using the language. During his Australia Day address, Mr Turnbull urged ...
Australia Day: Turnbull dismisses calls for change to flagThe Australian

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Daily Telegraph
Call to celebrate but also acknowledge Australia Day wrongs
Daily Telegraph
She told a small but attentive crowd at Campbelltown's Koshigaya Park, and again at Picton's Botanical Gardens, that 203 years to the day Australia and its indigenous population was invaded. Campbelltown Citizen of the Year Jody Scott. Picture: Robert ...

Daily Telegraph
Wollondilly's Australia Day honoured veterans, indigenous people and community servants
Daily Telegraph
We Australians are such a rich palette,” she said. “I'm not sure that we are really accepting or tolerant, we try to be. But we are certainly inclusive and welcoming. •Local Hero Organisation of the Year — Black Cockatoos Aboriginal Corporation. “We ...

NEWS.com.au
Australia Day: PM says impact of European settlement on Aboriginals was 'tragic'
The Australian
Australia Day should include a focus on the recognition of indigenous Australians and the “honest and open truthful recognition” of Australia's history, Malcolm Turnbull says. The Prime Minister said the impact of European settlement on Aboriginal ...
Malcolm Turnbull opens Australia Day speech with indigenous greetingNEWS.com.au

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SA rally calls for a new Australia Day
SBS
Then we can move onto all of the other things that are not right for Aboriginal people." Mr Sansbury said he believed change was inevitable. "January 26 means nothing to us except that we've got to break it down and get rid of it," he told reporters ...

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