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Celebrations and protests on Australia Day
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Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove is urging Australians to embrace Australia Day to celebrate the rich history and culture of indigenous people and the contributions of migrants. As disagreement intensifies over shifting the national day from the ...

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The Australian
Move the Australia Day date, it's hurtful to us: Johnathan Thurston
The Australian
National Rugby League champion Johnathan Thurston has called for the date of Australia Day to be moved, declaring it was not inclusive of indigenous Australians, as activists prepared to march in today's Justice Through Treaty March. The rugby league ...
Australian of the Year to be announced tonightTen Eyewitness News
Rugby league legend Johnathan Thurston says Australia Day date change inevitableNEWS.com.au
Who are the Australian of the Year award nominees?SBS
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The Australian
Abandoning the nation's special day unwise and foolish, says Geoffrey Blainey
The Australian
It is understood Greens leader Richard Di Natale, lower-house Melbourne MP Adam Bandt, Victorian state MP Lidia Thorpe and other Victorian Greens MPs will attend an event in Melbourne to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Aboriginal activist William ...

The Guardian
Australia Day honours: Evonne Goolagong-Cawley and Tracy Spicer on male-dominated list
The Guardian
Cuthbert, alongside tennis great and Wiradjuri woman Evonne Goolagong-Cawley, was appointed a companion of the Order of Australia, the highest category. Goolagong-Cawley has been recognised for her services to the game as a player and ambassador, and ...

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The Guardian
Evonne Goolagong-Cawley honoured for tennis and Indigenous advocacy
The Guardian
Forty-seven years after she came to international prominence by winning both the 1971 French Open and Wimbledon crowns, Evonne Goolagong-Cawley has been made a companion of the Order of Australia, the nation's highest honour. Recognised for her ...

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The Guardian
Evonne Goolagong-Cawley honoured for tennis and Indigenous advocacy
The Guardian
Forty-seven years after she came to international prominence by winning both the 1971 French Open and Wimbledon crowns, Evonne Goolagong-Cawley has been made a companion of the Order of Australia, the nation's highest honour. Recognised for her ...
7-time major winner Goolagong Cawley gets Australian honorsUSA TODAY

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Daily Telegraph
Australia Day 2018: Flag changers want to drop 'colonist' Union Jack
Daily Telegraph
With the public still torn by the heated debate over holding our national day on the date the First Fleet arrived, The Daily Telegraph can reveal the peak lobby group wanting to ditch Australia's flag will unveil its new design on January 26. It comes ...

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The Times
Aboriginal activists step up campaign against Australia Day
The Times
Monuments to Captain Cook and other British explorers have been defaced in Melbourne as Aboriginal activists ramp up their opposition to Australia's national day. A statue of James Cook was covered in pink paint with the words “no pride” painted ...
Statue of Captain James Cook defaced and spray painted with Aboriginal flag ahead of Australia DayEvening Standard
Vandals demanding to change the date of Australia Day spray paint the Aboriginal flag and the words 'no pride' on ...Daily Mail
Captain Cook statue vandalised in Melbourne before Australia DayThe Guardian
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The Guardian
Victorian opposition leader tells councils to celebrate Australia day or face the sack
The Guardian
“I won't tolerate local government or any other part of government talking down Australia,” Guy told Melbourne talkback radio station 3AW. The policy mirrors a proposal by South Australian Liberal party, which has promised to ban councils from moving ...
Vic councils stand firm on Aust Day shunSBS

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The Guardian
Victorian opposition leader tells councils to celebrate Australia day or face the sack
The Guardian
Guy's comments follow weeks of national debate around the push to change the date of Australia Day away from the anniversary of the arrival of the first fleet, a day known by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Invasion Day. A survey ...
State opposition to sack councils for not celebrating Australia DayThe Age
Vic councils stand firm on Aust Day shunSBS

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Our history is not perfect. Let's move on
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However bleak some parts of our history are, they are a vision of peace compared to the relentless brutality of Mexico's colonial history. From 1492 onwards, the many indigenous nations of Mexico and Central America found themselves in a state of ...

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NEWS.com.au
Rugby league legend Johnathan Thurston says Australia Day date change inevitable
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“I believe the first step could be an open forum involving our key political and cultural leaders … representatives from all sides of the debate. “I believe this would be a good starting point.” Tensions have been boiling ahead of Australia Day ...
Johnathan Thurston backs calls for conversation on changing Australia Day dateABC Online
Australia Day date: Johnathan Thurston calls for changeThe Australian
Who are the Australian of the Year award nominees?SBS
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ABC Online
Johnathan Thurston backs calls for conversation on changing Australia Day date
ABC Online
Johnathan Thurston believes Australians need to be more informed about why the date of Australia Day is hurtful to Indigenous people. Thurston, 36, who is set to retire from rugby league as one of the sport's greats after the upcoming season, also ...
Rugby league legend Johnathan Thurston says Australia Day date change inevitableNEWS.com.au
Australia Day date: Johnathan Thurston calls for changeThe Australian
Australian of the Year to be announced tonightTen Eyewitness News
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ABC Online
Australia Day: 'Mixed emotions' as Aboriginal councils reveal opposing views on celebrations
ABC Online
"There are a lot of mixed emotions [on January 26]." Cr Lacey said the people of Palm Island would celebrate the day "with open arms" if it were celebrated on another date. "There's commentary about Sorry Day. It's about the destruction of children ...
NSW Labor plans to sign treaty recognising Indigenous ownershipThe Guardian
'About the future and the past': NSW Labor to ink treaty with Indigenous AustraliansThe Sydney Morning Herald
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price: It's shallow, meaningless, emotional rhetoric unrepresentative of the view of all ...The Advertiser
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ABC Online
Australia Day: 'Mixed emotions' as Aboriginal councils reveal opposing views on celebrations
ABC Online
From meat pie-eating and spear throwing competitions, to celebrating culture through Survival Day or abstaining from marking the day all together, Queensland's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island councils have differing views on how to mark Australia ...
NSW Labor plans to sign treaty recognising Indigenous ownershipThe Guardian
'About the future and the past': NSW Labor to ink treaty with Indigenous AustraliansThe Sydney Morning Herald
Greens don't care about 'real' indigenous issues, Liberal Sarah Henderson saysThe Australian
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SBS
My Australia: The country's first Indigenous surgeon on confronting inequality
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'My Australia' is a special SBS News series exploring cultural heritage and identity, and asking what it means to be Australian in 2018. For kids destined to become be doctors, Grace Kinsella's house was a good place to grow up. The Woromi woman was a ...

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'We thought they were going to be massacred': 80 years since forced First Fleet re-enactment
ABC Online
"Then followed in the week before the celebrations an amusing battle of tactics between the Protection Board officers and the executive of the Aborigines' Progressive Association … Some Sydney relatives of a Peter Johnson from Menindee tried to see ...
Australia Day or Invasion Day? Thousands plan to protestChannel NewsAsia
Should we really feel guilty about celebrating Australia Day? The REAL story behind the white settlement on January ...Daily Mail
Should Australia Commemorate White Settlement?New York Times

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Daily Mail
'We thought they were going to be massacred': 80 years since forced First Fleet re-enactment
ABC Online
"Then followed in the week before the celebrations an amusing battle of tactics between the Protection Board officers and the executive of the Aborigines' Progressive Association … Some Sydney relatives of a Peter Johnson from Menindee tried to see ...
Australia Day or Invasion Day? Thousands plan to protestReuters
Should we really feel guilty about celebrating Australia Day? The REAL story behind the white settlement on January ...Daily Mail

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The Australian
Australia Day date: Johnathan Thurston calls for change
The Australian
NRL star Johnathan Thurston has called for a change in the date of Australia Day, declaring it was not a date that was inclusive to indigenous Australians. The North Queensland Cowboys halfback is Queensland's Australian of the Year and one of eight ...
Australian of the Year to be announced tonightTen Eyewitness News
Rugby league legend Johnathan Thurston says Australia Day date change inevitableNEWS.com.au
Who are the Australian of the Year award nominees?SBS (blog)
Inside Sport
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