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Corey Bernadi says complaining musicians are “a bunch of privileged prima donnas”
3AW
Mr Bernadi posted the playlist, the AC 100, on music streaming service Spotify late last week, and asked readers of his blog to vote for their favourite songs. A slew of musicians who feature on the playlist, including Men at Work, Jimmy Barnes ...

Manning River Times
Australians need to acknowledge our shared Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage
Manning River Times
We were appalled, but not surprised, to hear of the threats aimed at the Victorian parliamentarian who called for flags to be flown at half-mast on January 26. Many people obviously still feel threatened and indignant if challenged to reappraise the ...

ABC Online
Why Australia Day survives despite revealing our nation's rifts and wounds
ABC Online
Some would have difficulty naming the historical event that Australia Day commemorates, the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. If pressed, they might tell you it was when Captain Cook turned up at Botany Bay. It has long had its critics. In 1938, the ...

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ABC Online
Why Australia Day survives despite revealing our nation's rifts and wounds
ABC Online
Some would have difficulty naming the historical event that Australia Day commemorates, the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. If pressed, they might tell you it was when Captain Cook turned up at Botany Bay. It has long had its critics. In 1938, the ...

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Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
CQ mayor proposes long-weekend solution to date debate
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Ms Landry was one of several LNP leaders to create an online petition to "keep the date", though admitted she hadn't talk to "a lot of Aboriginal groups". This has caused upset for some members of the community, including "MB" of Mount Archer, who sent ...

The Guardian
It's convenient to say Aboriginal people support Australia Day. But it's not true
The Guardian
These establishment pundits don't have any empirical data to support their claims that the majority of Aboriginal people support Australia Day, of course, because that evidence is difficult to obtain empirically. We can take a look at the increasing ...
Canberra Times Letters to the Editor: Australia needs a day dedicated to focusing on reconciliationThe Canberra Times

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The Guardian
It's convenient to say Aboriginal people support Australia Day. But it's not true
The Guardian
Opponents to Australia Day are invariably criticised in two ways. The first is a favoured manoeuvre for establishment media pundits: claim the focus on 26 January is trivial while more pressing Indigenous issues are neglected. This routine is ...
Canberra Times Letters to the Editor: Australia needs a day dedicated to focusing on reconciliationThe Canberra Times

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NT News
Ashley Manicaros: I'll support a date change to Australia Day when we become a republic
NT News
Becoming a republic won't lift indigenous people out of the squalor or correct the health issues of my former footballing colleagues any quicker. But it will allow us to start a fresh page. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull opened the door to the debate ...

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The Australian
Australia Day debate: There are 364 other days to wear a black armband
The Australian
Sure, not everything's perfect in contemporary Australia; and it's possible that Aboriginal life could have continued for some time without modernity bursting upon it, had governor Arthur Phillip not raised the Union flag and toasted the king on ...

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The Australian
Strewth: Turnbull, Abe in lockstep for 'squad goals'
The Australian
When Strewth's colleague Ean Higgins last week approached the Greens to ask whether they were in touch enough with remote Aboriginal Australians to wage a war on their behalf against Australia Day, the Greens' indigenous affairs spokeswoman Rachel ...

The Australian
Australia Day debate: There are 364 other days to wear a black armband
The Australian
Sure, not everything's perfect in contemporary Australia; and it's possible that Aboriginal life could have continued for some time without modernity bursting upon it, had governor Arthur Phillip not raised the Union flag and toasted the king on ...
Australia Day: Why our destiny requires another date to celebrateIllawarra Mercury

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The Queensland Times
Letters to the Editor, Monday, January 22, 2018
Courier Mail
Constitutional reform in regard to Indigenous recognition together with a change to becoming a republic would be the pathway to achieve this. A direct election model for a republic allowing all Australians to vote for the head of state who in turn had ...
Why Australia Day should stay as it isThe Queensland Times
Cara Jenkin: Don't change the date of Australia Day on January 26 – change the meaningThe Advertiser

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The West Australian
WA's Australian of the Year continues to break down barriers
The West Australian
Tracy Westerman learnt early how to be a strong, proud Aboriginal. Now WA's Australian of the Year is teaching others to be the same. It looks like an old passport — those hard, fold-able ones you might have seen floating around in your parents' or ...

The Northern Daily Leader
Australia Day: Why our destiny requires another date to celebrate
The Northern Daily Leader
Aware this symbol of colonisation would impact on the Indigenous community, First Fleet organisers sought advice from leaders, including Charles Perkins and Sydney activist Burnum Burnum, aka Harry Penrith, who planted the Aboriginal flag on an English ...

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The Australian
Greens MP receives death threats over half-mast flag push on Australia Day
The Australian
Some of the threats were signed 'Real Australians', Ms Thorpe said. “But I know these people do not represent the majority of people in our great country,” she wrote. read more; The hypocrisy is breathtaking. “I know that we are better than this.” Ms ...
Death threats levelled at Vic Greens MPThe West Australian

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The Queensland Times
Why Australia Day should stay as it is
The Queensland Times
January 26 is approaching and that means another round of the Australia Day debate. I'll be straight up - I think Australia Day should remain where it is. Now before the left unleashes its moral outrage, let me tell you why. The argument is that the ...
Many assist Australia Day date change from January 26Luxora Leader

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The Queensland Times
Why Australia Day should stay as it is
The Queensland Times
January 26 is approaching and that means another round of the Australia Day debate. I'll be straight up - I think Australia Day should remain where it is. Now before the left unleashes its moral outrage, let me tell you why. The argument is that the ...
Nothing sacred about Australia Day but politicians refuse to admit itIllawarra Mercury
Aussies laid again about Australia Day dateLuxora Leader

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Newcastle Herald
Jeff Corbett: Australia Day and outdated division
Newcastle Herald
It is especially not a celebration of the Australia that existed before January 26, 1788, and a good reason is that there was then no nation of Australia. It is hardly a celebration of the injustices inflicted on the Aboriginal people for many years ...

ABC Online
Time to 'consign to history' the relics of segregation in WA as work begins on Aboriginal reserve plan
ABC Online
They are the rundown, often squalid legacy of segregation; shanty-towns clustered on the outskirts of prosperous regional towns. Three thousand people live in Aboriginal town-based reserves in Western Australia, with residents, Aboriginal leaders and ...

ABC Online
Sugarbag bee honey a feast from nature, with stingless insects creating delicious outback bush tucker
ABC Online
Bee researcher Tobias Smith said there were about 600 species of stingless bees globally, and 11 in Australia. "There are two groups of stingless bees in Australia — the tetragonula bees on the coast and the inland austroplebeia," he said. "Stingless ...