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The Advocate
Letters to the Editor
The Advocate
Anzac Day works as a military commemoration without jingoism at least partly because the date is not the anniversary of some great Australian military victory, but a costly failure. The ambiguity drives a reflection, and encourages a commitment to ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Tracker review: Alexis Wright's collective memoir of Bruce Tilmouth's life
The Sydney Morning Herald
A major, fascinating thread concerns land rights and Tracker's passion for economics, his "grand vision of turning land rights into positive economic and social change, so that Aboriginal people could occupy higher levels of the economy". He equipped ...

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Cosmos
Australian raptors start fires to flush out prey
Cosmos
Australian Aboriginal lore is replete with references to birds carrying fire, and some traditional ceremonies even depict the behaviour. Now ornithologists have collected accounts from witnesses across the savannas of Australia's far north, known as ...
Firehawks: In Australia, birds of prey are intentionally setting the forests on fireZME Science

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Brisbane Times
History repeats in bid to fix Sydney trains
Brisbane Times
To change the date could be more divisive and would disenfranchise Indigenous, non-Indigenous and prospective Australians. Australia Day committees have been active in most local government areas and major cities for over 30 years, supported by all ...

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Daily Telegraph
Changing Australia Day won't change history
Daily Telegraph
Most of the self-identifying indigenous members of our community who claim to feel hurt by Australia Day being held on January 26 would also have white ancestors in their family trees and may not even have been born if the First Fleet hadn't come. In ...

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Daily Telegraph
Changing Australia Day won't change history
Daily Telegraph
Most of the self-identifying indigenous members of our community who claim to feel hurt by Australia Day being held on January 26 would also have white ancestors in their family trees and may not even have been born if the First Fleet hadn't come. In ...

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The Advertiser
Changing Australia Day won't change history
The Advertiser
Most of the self-identifying indigenous members of our community who claim to feel hurt by Australia Day being held on January 26 would also have white ancestors in their family trees and may not even have been born if the First Fleet hadn't come. In ...

The Advertiser
Changing Australia Day won't change history
The Advertiser
Most of the self-identifying indigenous members of our community who claim to feel hurt by Australia Day being held on January 26 would also have white ancestors in their family trees and may not even have been born if the First Fleet hadn't come. In ...

ABC Online
Meet Alice in Wonderland, an Indigenous AFL-playing tomboy
ABC Online
Traditionally a dancer, Yunupingu was nominated as best newcomer at the 2015 Sydney Theatre Awards for her lead role in the Australian Theatre For Young People's production of Sugarland. It was her big break in the acting world. "I've been dancing ...

ABC Online
Meet Alice in Wonderland, an Indigenous AFL-playing tomboy
ABC Online
Traditionally a dancer, Yunupingu was nominated as best newcomer at the 2015 Sydney Theatre Awards for her lead role in the Australian Theatre For Young People's production of Sugarland. It was her big break in the acting world. "I've been dancing ...

The Guardian
Coroner criticises authorities for not telling family Indigenous prisoner was dying
The Guardian
A coroner has criticised Northern Territory authorities for not telling the family of an Indigenous man in custody that he was critically ill until after he died, 12 days after being admitted to hospital. Kwementyaye Japaljarri*, 34, was serving a five ...

3AW
Dick Smith wants to move Australia Day, but praises 'best ad yet'
3AW
Former Australian Of The Year Dick Smith has again called for the date of Australia Day to be moved to a more inclusive date. “We should call January 26 First Fleet Day – it's a very important date,” he said. “But I think if I was an Aboriginal person ...

SBS
Reporting on Indigenous trauma on the other side of the world
SBS
The song is part of a traditional welcome to Sagkeeng First Nation reserve, a self-governing Indigenous community in Canada's prairie province of Manitoba, which I am visiting while on assignment for Dateline. A dozen or so First Nations people have ...

SBS
Reporting on Indigenous trauma on the other side of the world
SBS
The song is part of a traditional welcome to Sagkeeng First Nation reserve, a self-governing Indigenous community in Canada's prairie province of Manitoba, which I am visiting while on assignment for Dateline. A dozen or so First Nations people have ...

Yahoo7 News
'Never satisfied': The Aboriginal councillor campaigning to 'save' Australia Day
Yahoo7 News
... shoppers and the elderly are all too paranoid to celebrate Australia Day openly. "In an environment where you have so much political correctness, where certain words, themes and values are banned in public institutions, I think the Big Brother ...
This 'save Australia Day' ad is the dumbest thing I've ever seenTechly

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Yahoo7 News
'Never satisfied': The Aboriginal councillor campaigning to 'save' Australia Day
Yahoo7 News
... shoppers and the elderly are all too paranoid to celebrate Australia Day openly. "In an environment where you have so much political correctness, where certain words, themes and values are banned in public institutions, I think the Big Brother ...
This 'save Australia Day' ad is the dumbest thing I've ever seenTechly
Mark Latham predicts dystopian future in new 'Save Australia Day' adStarts at 60

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The Adelaide Review
Grounded: Fringe's first family hub in Victoria Square
The Adelaide Review
Called Grounded, David Sefton's pop-up precinct will run for 10 days, opening on Friday, February 16, and is a collaboration between the former Adelaide Festival artistic director, the youth-orientated artistic organisation Carclew and producers Insite ...

The Guardian
$500m meant for Indigenous services was spent elsewhere by NT government
The Guardian
The Northern Territory underspent about $500m in GST payments meant for disadvantaged Indigenous communities in 2015-16, the Yothu Yindi Foundation has told the Productivity Commission's GST review. It accused governments of running policies that ...

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The Guardian
$500m meant for Indigenous services was spent elsewhere by NT government
The Guardian
In its submission, Yothu Yindi analysed billions of dollars in GST revenue apportioned to the NT through the Commonwealth Grants Commission (CGC), and found that about half a billion dollars assessed for Indigenous services in 2015-16 was spent ...

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The Australian
Tropical Cyclone Joyce: Police warn against cyclone parties
The Australian
Cyclone Joyce has formed in the Timor Sea and is gathering strength as it tracks towards the West Australian coast, prompting the evacuation of the world's largest bulk minerals port and forcing people in the tourist town of Broome and nearby ...
Tropical Cyclone Joyce has formed off WASBS

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