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Welcome to Country: why would anyone oppose it?
The Australian
In my experience the sneerers have not grown up with this tradition of indigenous respect; they're made uncomfortable by it. Welcomes will be said across the nation this Australia Day, yet some local governments don't approve. Sydney's Liberal-majority ...

The Australian
Free speech warriors cower in the face of contrary ideas
The Australian
I've grown up with January 26 as an expanding celebration of our nation, and despite sympathising with critics who say the date is hurtful to many indigenous Australians, I see it as an important marker for our modern history. I'm conservative on this ...

The Australian
Changing date of Australia Day would distort our present
The Australian
The remaining 20 per cent of indigenous Australians who suffer well-known social problems and gaps live mainly in rural and remote areas. These are the government-supported homeland communities established in the 1970s under the policies of Aboriginal ...

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The Australian
'First, finest white Australian'
The Australian
This was a First Fleet sailor standing on the finest coastline in the world, dropping his pants to show Australia's first inhabitants he was a man and not a woman or a god. Another brief moment of practical humility and goodwill conceived 230 years ago ...

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Business Insider Australia
How Spotify became the hottest thing in Australian politics this week
Business Insider Australia
Late last year, Triple J, the country's “youth” music station, announced it was shifting the date of its annual music countdown, the Hottest 100, from January 26 because of continued controversy over Australia Day, which commemorates arrival of the ...
Melbourne Music PR Company To Remain Open On Australia DaytheMusic
Spotify REMOVES Cory Bernardi's 'inappropriate and offensive' Australia Day playlist after complaints from Jimmy ...Daily Mail

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Australia Day debate risks overshadowing other Aboriginal issues: Sean Gordon
ABC Online
Prominent New South Wales Indigenous leader Sean Gordon has rebuked Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion, as the debate over whether Australia Day should be moved from the date of the landing of the first fleet. But at the same time, Sean Gordon ...

Australia Day debate risks overshadowing other Aboriginal issues: Sean Gordon
ABC Online
Prominent New South Wales Indigenous leader Sean Gordon has rebuked Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion, as the debate over whether Australia Day should be moved from the date of the landing of the first fleet. But at the same time, Sean Gordon ...

SBS
2017 a 'dismal year for Indigenous rights': Human Rights Watch
SBS
2017 was a 'particularly dismal' year for Indigenous peoples' rights, according to the Australian Director of Human Rights Watch Elaine Pearson. Once again the country is being called out for its incarceration of Indigenous peoples, particularly for ...
Human rights praise for same-sex marriageThe West Australian

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SBS
Man escaped NT jail after given keys to 'play with', incident not reported for 9 months
SBS
There's no denying that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are Australia's most disadvantaged group across the country. Indigenous people make up 27 per cent of the national prison population, yet only about three per cent of the overall ...

SBS
2017 a 'dismal year for Indigenous rights': Human Rights Watch
SBS
2017 was a 'particularly dismal' year for Indigenous peoples' rights, according to the Australian Director of Human Rights Watch Elaine Pearson. Once again the country is being called out for its incarceration of Indigenous peoples, particularly for ...
Human rights praise for same-sex marriageThe West Australian
Human Rights Watch says Australia needs to address 'serious shortcomings'NEWS.com.au
Australia's human rights record attacked in global report for 'serious shortcomings'The Guardian
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SBS
Man escaped NT jail after given keys to 'play with', incident not reported for 9 months
SBS
There's no denying that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are Australia's most disadvantaged group across the country. Indigenous people make up 27 per cent of the national prison population, yet only about three per cent of the overall ...

The Age
Aboriginal MP receives vile threats over Australia Day flag call
The Age
Last year the government also stripped the cities of Yarra and Darebin of the power to hold citizenship ceremonies after their Greens-led councils voted to stop holding them on January 26. Aboriginal federal MPs Linda Burney​ and Ken Wyatt have also ...
Nigel Scullion: No Indigenous person tells me they want Australia Day changedThe Guardian
Nigel Scullion says Indigenous people haven't raised Australia Day ...ABC Online
Australia Day should not become ammunition in the culture warsThe Sydney Morning Herald
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Premier calls for unity, reflection on Indigenous contributions on national day
The Sydney Morning Herald
As national debate flares about changing Australia Day, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has called for unity and reflection on the importance of Australia's Indigenous heritage while also acknowledging the contribution of the nation's colonial pioneers ...
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Aboriginal LGBTI People Say They Need Funding, Research, And Solidarity
BuzzFeed News
"Aboriginal history has to be acknowledged by LGBTI people," she said. "You can't escape from it." She recalled to the room a conversation she'd had with a friend, Roger McKay, at the Sydney Mardi Gras parade in 1982. "I remember standing there in ...

NSW premier gives thanks to Australia
SBS
So, too, the successive waves of migrant communities, servicemen and women, and ordinary Australians who work hard to be good citizens. The daughter of Armenian immigrants, the premier spoke of her family's gratitude for the opportunities Australia had ...

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Australia Day : it's complicated
University News: The University of Western Australia
Then Australia's landing at Gallipoli earlier that year was to launch the commemoration of another national day: Anzac Day on April 25. Other colonies commemorated their own imperial foundations. In Western Australia, Foundation Day on June 1 ...

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Australia Day : it's complicated
University News: The University of Western Australia
In Western Australia, Foundation Day on June 1 celebrated the arrival of white settlers in 1829. In 1935, all states adopted a common date and name for Australia Day; January 26 and by the 1940s a national public holiday was in place. “Since 1938 ...

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Brag Magazine
There is nothing to celebrate about Invasion Day
Brag Magazine
January 26 is, and always has been, Invasion Day. It marks the day the British colonised this country and brought with them the exploitative and oppressive practices that made the British Empire so barbaric, yet so profitable. It's an annual punch in ...

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Brag Magazine
There is nothing to celebrate about Invasion Day
Brag Magazine
January 26 is, and always has been, Invasion Day. It marks the day the British colonised this country and brought with them the exploitative and oppressive practices that made the British Empire so barbaric, yet so profitable. It's an annual punch in ...

The Australian Financial Review
Australia Day should be more like Anzac Day: Wesley Enoch
The Australian Financial Review
He said Mr Turnbull should lead a process whereby Australia Day came to involve a ritual of some sort, followed by whatever other activities people chose. "Anzac Day has pathways," he said. "It has a dawn service, it has a march and then an element of ...

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