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New Matilda
Ahed Tamimi: Australian Outrage Or Indifference ?
New Matilda
... spent four days in Israel and 45 minutes with Palestinians. International publicity surrounding Ahed Tamimi contrasts with the silence and passivity of Australia's mainstream media, government and opposition. They may be indulging in hot summer ...

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NT News
Former CLP minister Bess Price defend's daughter Jacinta's Australia Day stance
NT News
Alice Springs town councillor Jacinta Price's decision to participate in Mark Latham's campaign to “save” Australia Day has been defended by her mother Bess Price. The former CLP housing minister said the “hate” that had been directed at her daughter ...

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SBS
'Debate history, don't deny it': Turnbull disappointed by calls to change Australia Day
SBS
"I'm disappointed by those who want to change the date of Australia Day, seeking to take a day that unites Australia and Australians and turn it into one that would divide us," Mr Turnbull said in a Facebook video. "Australia Day is a day to come ...

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Gourmet Traveller Magazine Australia
Barangaroo House, Sydney review
Gourmet Traveller Magazine Australia
Then again, this is the first pub I've been to that acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora nation as the traditional owners of the land where it stands. Probably a tactful move for a venue named for one of the women who figures most prominently in ...

ABC Online
New Rugby Australia chief Raelene Castle striving for stability after tumultuous 2017
ABC Online
Raelene Castle created history when she was named Rugby Australia's new chief executive and the first woman to lead a major Australian football code. The New Zealander and daughter of a former Kiwi rugby league captain officially began her first day in ...
New Rugby Australian CEO Raelene Castle says results key in transforming rugby's imageNEWS.com.au
New RA CEO Castle wants stabilitySBS

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia Day 2018 in Sydney: Record crowds expected as party is split into three precincts
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney's Australia Day program includes choreographed power ski shows. Photo: James Alcock. However Indigenous singer Christine Anu, one of the performers on Australia Day, said that "as long as the conversation continues, we as Australians all have ...
Sydney's Australia Day celebrations should be moved, says independent MP Alex GreenwichABC Online

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BuzzFeed News
What's Next? Australian LGBTI Conference Tackles Life After Marriage Equality
BuzzFeed News
“Inclusion is the most overused word in Australia right now,” Aboriginal woman and lesbian Esther Montgomery, who hails from the Pilbara in Western Australia, told the room. Montgomery argued that Aboriginal LGBTIQ people are in crisis, and desperately ...

The Australian Financial Review
Push to commemorate China's 'forgotten' Anzacs
The Australian Financial Review
Albert Wong says the lack of Chinese faces in Australia's Anzac Day parades says a lot about the "forgotten" role China played in World War I. While about 5 per cent of the country's population is ethnic Chinese, the Hong Kong-born Australian ...

Bega District News
Bermagui Survival Day call for Australia Day date change
Bega District News
However, formation of Phillip's penal colony, under King George III, was not made official until February 7, and it wasn't until 24 years ago that Australia Day was created a national public holiday. A.B. Original's song January 26 has helped bring the ...

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Bega District News
Bermagui Survival Day call for Australia Day date change
Bega District News
... of Australia Day, because it's offensive to us,” he said this week. “The day reminds us of theft, genocide and loss of culture, and that's nothing to celebrate, but we can celebrate our survival.” Mr Kelly will be joining many others at Bermagui on ...

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Changing the date for Australia Day would be a "backwards step"
Warrnambool Standard
CHANGING the date of Australia Day would be a backwards step, according to two well-known Aboriginal leaders. Warrnambool's Adeline McDonald believes Australia Day should be held on January 26 and residents should consider it a day of reflection. LEAVE ...

The Guardian
Australia Day back in political spotlight as Greens vow to push for date change
The Guardian
The Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, sparked the latest round of controversy when he told the Australian his party would campaign to have Australia Day, which is now 26 January – a day that marks the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet and the ...
Australia Day: Greens to use local council numbers to lead #changethedate pushABC Online
Greens will push Australia Day date change in 2018: Di NataleSBS
Australia Day: Greens leader Richard Di Natale steps up campaign to change dateThe Australian
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The Border Mail
Indigo mayor Jenny O'Connor has said she personally would like Australia Day no longer held on January 26, but ...
The Border Mail
Cr O'Connor's comments follow Greens federal leader Richard Di Natale saying his party was “redoubling” its effort to change the date of Australia Day. “By throwing our support behind the community groups and local councillors doing the hard yards on ...

Brag Magazine
The terrible, intoxicating lie of Australian patriotism
Brag Magazine
White Australians have aids to help us, so that we might forget the widespread and systemic murder and displacement of Indigenous Australians. Intense patriotism, often disguised as a form of all-encompassing, harmonious national unity, is one of them ...

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Brag Magazine
The terrible, intoxicating lie of Australian patriotism
Brag Magazine
White Australians have aids to help us, so that we might forget the widespread and systemic murder and displacement of Indigenous Australians. Intense patriotism, often disguised as a form of all-encompassing, harmonious national unity, is one of them ...

ABC Online
Skull found at Tasmanian beach 'very old' and 'Aboriginal in origin', police say
ABC Online
Human remains found at Lauderdale Beach near Hobart are possibly "decades old" and are "Aboriginal in origin", police say after preliminary examination. The discovery was made by a local resident while walking dogs just before 8:00pm on Sunday. Police ...
Human bones found at Tas beach 'very old'NEWS.com.au

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ArtsHub
Close Encounters
ArtsHub
Fez Fa'anana is himself an Australian of Samoan descent and Close Encounters now also includes Dale Woodbridge-Brown, an Aboriginal man who went through 'Blakflip,' the Circus Oz mentoring program designed to develop young Aboriginal performers and ...

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ABC Online
Sydney's Australia Day celebrations should be moved, says independent MP Alex Greenwich
ABC Online
He said an Indigenous ceremony at Barangaroo would be an important part of Sydney's official celebrations on January 26. Ms Anu, a presenter on ABC Radio Sydney who has Torres Strait Islander heritage, said she wanted the conversation about what the ...

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ABC Online
Sydney's Australia Day celebrations should be moved, says independent MP Alex Greenwich
ABC Online
He said an Indigenous ceremony at Barangaroo would be an important part of Sydney's official celebrations on January 26. Ms Anu, a presenter on ABC Radio Sydney who has Torres Strait Islander heritage, said she wanted the conversation about what the ...

Latrobe Valley Express
Ready to record Aboriginal voices
Latrobe Valley Express
The Bairnsdale-born songwriter moved from Lake Tyers to Morwell when he was five, then hitchhiked to Adelaide in 1979 where the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music equipped him with the basics of reggae and led him to co-found No Fixed Address. The ...