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Gladstone Observer
Local Indigenous leader defies The Greens on Australia Day
Gladstone Observer
AUSTRALIA Day, once the domain of backyard barbeques, cricket matches and hanging out at the beach has become another political football among calls to change the date. But local Indigenous spokeswoman, Cherissma Blackman says changing the date won't ...
Becoming a republic could solve Australia Day dispute, frontbencher Ken Wyatt saysABC Online
Celebrating Australia Day on 26 January like dancing on graves ...The Guardian
Australia Day: 'British settlement a good thing': AbbottThe Australian
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Herald Sun
Matildas goalkeeper Lydia Williams on her unconventional background and proud indigenous heritage
Herald Sun
They exchanged letters, she flew over to Australia, they had their honeymoon in a cave. “They both thought it was important for my childhood to incorporate both heritages. Mum being American, Dad being Aboriginal, we also had kangaroo tail and then ...

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Herald Sun
Musicians and Spotify distance themselves from Cory Bernardi
Herald Sun
His No. 7 selection, Goanna's Solid Rock, is a song that author Shane Howard says was “meant to inspire Australians to look deeper into the historical racism and injustices suffered by Aboriginal Australia at the hands of Settler Culture since 1788 ...

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Green Left Weekly
Exhaustive history of colonial Western Australia's extreme anti-Aboriginal crimes
Green Left Weekly
Chris Owen has produced an exhaustive history of colonial Western Australia pastoralists and the police who served their interests in the Kimberley region. It shows that, at best, they considered Aboriginal people as convenient slave labour and at ...

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Vale Denis Walker, Aboriginal freedom fighter
Green Left Weekly
Denis Walker, an Aboriginal rights activist and freedom fighter who died on December 4 at the age of 71, has been described as a trailblazer, revolutionary and a giant in the Aboriginal movement. A Noonuccal man from Minjerribah, Stradbroke Island, in ...

Western Sydney doctor to sail solo for 15000km to close indigenous literacy gap
Catholic Leader
The junior doctor, who studied at the University of Queensland, pursued sailing after reading the autobiography of Joshua Slocum, the first man to single-handedly sail around the world, and is now planning a solo voyage across the Pacific Ocean to open ...

The Australian
Australia Day: Bill Shorten dismisses call for separate holiday for indigenous
The Australian
Bill Shorten has dismissed his indigenous frontbencher Linda Burney's suggestion of a separate holiday to celebrate Australia's indigenous heritage, saying Australia already has enough public holidays. The comment cams as the Opposition Leader broke ...
Ken Wyatt wants to change the date of Australia Day - when we become a republicThe Sydney Morning Herald
Shorten backs Aust Day but hits out at PMSBS

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The Australian
Australia Day: Bill Shorten dismisses call for separate holiday for indigenous
The Australian
Bill Shorten has dismissed his indigenous frontbencher Linda Burney's suggestion of a separate holiday to celebrate Australia's indigenous heritage, saying Australia already has enough public holidays. The comment cams as the Opposition Leader broke ...
Ken Wyatt wants to change the date of Australia Day - when we become a republicThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous recognition in our Constitution matters – and will need greater political will to achieve
The Conversation AU
It requires a referendum to amend the Australian Constitution to receive majority support in a majority of states. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's view is that for a proposal to succeed it would require “minimal or at least tepid opposition”. The ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous recognition in our Constitution matters – and will need greater political will to achieve
The Conversation AU
It requires a referendum to amend the Australian Constitution to receive majority support in a majority of states. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's view is that for a proposal to succeed it would require “minimal or at least tepid opposition”. The ...

Brisbane Times
'Remove my music': Darren Hayes lashes Cory Bernardi over alternative Hottest 100
Brisbane Times
"It's been a cultural tradition for many people to listen to the Triple J Hottest 100 [and] that's no longer available to them," he said. "Creating a playlist under Spotify is available to anyone. This is nonsensical. Suddenly, artists are saying you ...

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9news.com.au
'Remove my music': Darren Hayes lashes Cory Bernardi over alternative Hottest 100
The Sydney Morning Herald
Last year, Triple J announced it was shifting the date of its Hottest 100 Australia Day out of respect for Indigenous Australians after an overwhelming majority of listeners flagged their support. On Thursday afternoon, Spotify issued a statement ...
Cory Bernardi creates his own 'alt Hottest 100' playlist for Australia Day9news.com.au
Musicians and Spotify distance themselves from Cory BernardiNEWS.com.au

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Brisbane Times
'Remove my music': Darren Hayes lashes Cory Bernadi over alternative Hottest 100
Brisbane Times
"It's been a cultural tradition for many people to listen to the Triple J Hottest 100 [and] that's no longer available to them," he said. "Creating a playlist under Spotify is available to anyone. This is nonsensical. Suddenly, artists are saying you ...

The West Australian
Councils should keep out of Australia Day debate, say WA mayors
The West Australian
As the Greens revealed it had enlisted star power to help in its anti-Australia Day campaign, WA councils said they should focus on delivering services to ratepayers and leave decisions about changing the date of Australia Day to the Federal Government ...
Holiday hubris getting in the way of indigenous issuesThe Australian

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SBS
My Australia: The rising hip-hop star staying true to his first language
SBS
Last year he won a Triple J Unearthed Indigenous artist contest and performed at the National Indigenous Music Awards. He says he uses his rap to showcase the living nature of Indigenous languages. "It's something different and especially to round the ...

NEWS.com.au
'Important' change to Southern Cross recognises Aboriginal astronomy
NEWS.com.au
The new names were selected from cultures around the world, including Chinese, Coptic, Hindu, Mayan, South African and Australian Aboriginal. The Southern Cross is not only a well known constellation, but a symbol of Australia.Source:News Corp ...

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ABC Local
Australia Day dividing Australians and excluding Indigenous people, says Professor Chris Sarra
ABC Local
"Regrettably I don't think Australia Day, and what it represents, is a day that most people in the Aboriginal community want to celebrate," says Professor Chris Sarra, one of Malcolm Turnbull's key Indigenous advisers. "I say that mindful that you get ...

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ABC Local
Australia Day dividing Australians and excluding Indigenous people, says Professor Chris Sarra
ABC Local
"Regrettably I don't think Australia Day, and what it represents, is a day that most people in the Aboriginal community want to celebrate," says Professor Chris Sarra, one of Malcolm Turnbull's key Indigenous advisers. "I say that mindful that you get ...

The Conversation AU
Explainer: the evidence for the Tasmanian genocide
The Conversation AU
At a public meeting in Hobart in the late 1830s, Solicitor-General Alfred Stephen, later Chief Justice of New South Wales, shared with the assembled crowd his solution for dealing with “the Aboriginal problem”. If the colony could not protect its ...

The Guardian
Celebrating Australia Day on 26 January like dancing on graves, says reconciliation body
The Guardian
It is “impossible” for Australia Day to be an inclusive holiday while it remains held on 26 January, Reconciliation Australia has said. The independent organisation, which is the national expert body on reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Most don't care when Australia Day is held, poll findsThe Sydney Morning Herald
Holiday hubris getting in the way of indigenous issuesThe Australian
Heidi Anderson: Indigenous suicide rates out of controlPerthNow
Daily Mail
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