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Johnathan Thurston calls for "national chat" on Australia Day
Pickle
Johnathan Thurston has weighed in on the issue of Australia Day being held on January 26, with the Indigenous champion suggesting it's time Australians have a “national chat” regarding the date. While stopping short of suggesting the date be moved, the ...

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Independent Australia
Australia Day: Changing the date changes nothing
Independent Australia
But as the experience of Canada, New Zealand and the U.S. shows, treaties or settlement agreements with indigenous peoples are mirages when it comes to addressing the consequences of settler colonialism and its ongoing genocide. What can be done? The ...

Independent Australia
Australia Day: Changing the date changes nothing
Independent Australia
But as the experience of Canada, New Zealand and the U.S. shows, treaties or settlement agreements with indigenous peoples are mirages when it comes to addressing the consequences of settler colonialism and its ongoing genocide. What can be done? The ...

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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald letters to the editor Tuesday January 23 2018
Newcastle Herald
MOVING Australia Day from 26th January would increase unity and reduce division, Jeff Corbett ('The division is outdated', Herald, 20/1). The injustices inflicted on Aboriginal Australians, which began on January 26 1788, have continued down through ...

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Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Australia's haves and have nots
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Close to 13 million Australians aged 15 and over are employed with 68.4 per cent of them in full-time jobs. But 3.4 per cent of Australians receive some form of the dole. The group most frequently identified are the 670,000 Aboriginal and Islander ...
Government spending on community services and housing is revealedNEWS.com.au

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SBS
Bigger indigenous issues than Aust Day: MP
SBS
Labor frontbencher Linda Burney says indigenous social justice issues should be given more focus than a campaign to change the date of Australia Day. Updated Updated 8 mins ago. An indigenous Labor frontbencher has urged the government and the Greens ...

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NEWS.com.au
Australia's haves and have nots revealed in stark wealth gap report
NEWS.com.au
The group most frequently identified are the 670,000 Aboriginal and Islander citizens, who are roughly three per cent of the population, with the total expected to grow to one million by 2026. “At 30 June 2016, 10.4 per cent of Australia's population ...
Community services bill hits $31 billionSBS

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NEWS.com.au
Australia's haves and have nots revealed in stark wealth gap report
NEWS.com.au
The group most frequently identified are the 670,000 Aboriginal and Islander citizens, who are roughly three per cent of the population, with the total expected to grow to one million by 2026. “At 30 June 2016, 10.4 per cent of Australia's population ...
Community services bill hits $31 billionSBS

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Geelong Advertiser
Chris Mackey: Australia Day will represent many different things to many different Australians
Geelong Advertiser
Something doesn't seem quite right about celebrating a national day on a date that represents to many indigenous Australians the invasion, dispossession and genocide of their ancestors. The point is that Australia Day will represent many different ...

Aboriginal people have good reasons to celebrate
The Australian
Some people question the appropriateness of celebrating this day because, for Aboriginal people, it also represents the day when they no longer occupied this continent on their own. Certainly life has changed for Aborigines, but they could not have ...

Aboriginal people have good reasons to celebrate
The Australian
Instead, our national day should celebrate a real national achievement by Australians — the opening of our first federal parliament in Melbourne on May 9, 1901. This landmark event has made it possible for all Australians to enjoy a stable democracy ...

Greens get good telling-off from indigenous leaders
The Australian
It's a day that represents the beginning of an ongoing genocide, the slaughter of so many Aboriginal people. How have indigenous leaders responded to Di Natale's push? Warren Mundine speaking to The Weekend Australian, Saturday: I'm on record saying we ...

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Greens get good telling-off from indigenous leaders
The Australian
It's a day that represents the beginning of an ongoing genocide, the slaughter of so many Aboriginal people. How have indigenous leaders responded to Di Natale's push? Warren Mundine speaking to The Weekend Australian, Saturday: I'm on record saying we ...

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The Mercury
Tasmanian councils will hold a feast of events to mark Australia Day on Friday
The Mercury
Also changing the date of its iconic event is radio station Triple J, which will move its Hottest 100 countdown from January 26 to the following day, in acknowledgment of the “increasing debate” about the day's meaning for indigenous Australians. Those ...

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The Mercury
Tasmanian councils will hold a feast of events to mark Australia Day on Friday
The Mercury
Also changing the date of its iconic event is radio station Triple J, which will move its Hottest 100 countdown from January 26 to the following day, in acknowledgment of the “increasing debate” about the day's meaning for indigenous Australians. Those ...

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SBS
Commemorate instead of celebrate Australia Day, Indigenous leader says
SBS
"What happened on the 26th of January 1788 was on balance, for everyone - Aboriginal people included - a good thing because it brought Western civilisation to this country, it brought Australia into the modern world," Mr Abbott told 2GB radio in ...

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SBS
Commemorate instead of celebrate Australia Day, Indigenous ... - SBS
SBS
An Indigenous community leader says January 26 should be a day of commemoration instead of the celebration of the 'day darkness fell upon us'.

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SBS
Commemorate instead of celebrate Australia Day, Aboriginal leader says
SBS
"What happened on the 26th of January 1788 was on balance, for everyone - Aboriginal people included - a good thing because it brought Western civilisation to this country, it brought Australia into the modern world," Mr Abbott told 2GB radio in ...

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NRL.COM
Bloody Good Bloke Johnathan Thurston Calls For A “National Chat” Re: Aus Day
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I think we need to have a national chat about it, and I think Australians need to be educated to be educated on why some Indigenous Australians, Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, aren't fans of or aren't associated with January 26. I think ...
Thurston calls for an Australia Day 'national chat'NRL.COM
Former NRL player Joe Williams asks Johnathan Thurston to consider not standing for national anthemFox Sports

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SBS
'He's an idiot': Abbott's First Fleet 'good' for Aboriginal people comment met with outrage
SBS
Pastor Ray Minniecon, one of the organisers of Sydney's Invasion Day rally, said Mr Abbott was 'an idiot' after the former Prime Minister said the arrival of the First Fleet was a 'good thing' for Indigenous Australians. "He's an idiot, he doesn't ...
First Fleet 'good' for Indigenous Australians, Tony Abbott saysThe Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott says January 26 marks a 'good thing' for Aboriginal peopleNEWS.com.au
British settlement was a “good thing” for indigenous Australians, Tony Abbott saysDaily Telegraph
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