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'Can't rewrite history': NT statue debate
NT News
In Australia, the national conversation began innocuously in August, when ABC's indigenous Affairs editor Stan Grant floated the idea of changing — or, in his argument, correcting — the plaque on a monument of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park.

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The Australian
Revisionist plans will die in a ditch, says Barnaby Joyce
The Australian
On Monday, the Opposition Leader said an extra plaque should be placed on the statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park, which proclaims that Cook discovered Australia, to recognise that indigenous Australians inhabited the continent before ...

The Australian
Revisionist plans will die in a ditch, says Barnaby Joyce
The Australian
On Monday, the Opposition Leader said an extra plaque should be placed on the statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park, which proclaims that Cook discovered Australia, to recognise that indigenous Australians inhabited the continent before ...

The Age
Historical heritage must be built up, not torn down
The Australian
The lack of memorials to Australia's distinguished indigenous heroes and high achievers should be redressed, ideally as a result of ideas from Aborigines. In Sydney, statues of indigenous leaders such as Bennelong and Pemulwuy, who were local leaders ...
There is a unifying solution to the statues stand-offThe Age

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The Australian
Coming home to Mother Earth
The Australian
Landy-Ariel is an excellent teacher, for where I can see nothing around us but modern development, she senses Mother Earth acutely. After all, indigenous Australians are the oldest culture in the world, she reminds me; their relationship to the earth ...

The Australian
Coming home to Mother Earth
The Australian
Landy-Ariel is an excellent teacher, for where I can see nothing around us but modern development, she senses Mother Earth acutely. After all, indigenous Australians are the oldest culture in the world, she reminds me; their relationship to the earth ...

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The Canberra Times
Benjamin Law: Australia's literacy rate is shocking - and potentially dangerous
The Canberra Times
Some years back, an OECD study surveyed Australians aged between 15 and 74 and rated them on their literacy skills. The results were shocking: 43.7 per cent had below-proficiency-level literacy. If you're young and Indigenous, the chances of you ...

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The Canberra Times
Benjamin Law: Australia's literacy rate is shocking - and potentially dangerous
The Canberra Times
Some years back, an OECD study surveyed Australians aged between 15 and 74 and rated them on their literacy skills. The results were shocking: 43.7 per cent had below-proficiency-level literacy. If you're young and Indigenous, the chances of you ...

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The Advertiser
Bruce Chatwin's 1980s bestseller The Songlines gets a bucketing by SA Museum anthropologist
The Advertiser
But anthropologists in Australia have been caught between welcoming the book for popularising Aboriginal culture around the world, and criticising it for its misunderstandings. Jones, who is based at the SA Museum and has an international reputation ...

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White nationalists threaten local councils over Australia Day changes
The New Daily
Adding fuel to the debate on Australia's history, prominent indigenous journalist Stan Grant last week said the inscription on the statue of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park (above left) should be changed because it perpetuated the “damaging myth ...

White nationalists threaten local councils over Australia Day changes
The New Daily
Adding fuel to the debate on Australia's history, prominent indigenous journalist Stan Grant last week said the inscription on the statue of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park (above left) should be changed because it perpetuated the “damaging myth ...

History wars flare up again, concealing real story
The Advocate
The events left not only North America reeling, but Australia, too. When the ABC's indigenous editor Stan Grant suggested last week that a statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park misrepresented Australian history, a firestorm erupted. A ...

Mandurah Mail
Mandurah's Assumption Primary School receives grant to create Aboriginal mural
Mandurah Mail
The school will engage an Aboriginal artist to work with the students in the design and delivery of the artwork, which would be used to promote and teach the students about Australia's first culture. “We are a multi-cultural school community and are ...

Mandurah Mail
Mandurah's Assumption Primary School receives grant to create Aboriginal mural
Mandurah Mail
"The School Reconciliation Grants help local communities to explore and establish achievable outcomes while highlighting the importance of reconciliation and the significance it plays in making the lives of Indigenous Australians brighter," Mr Lockyer ...

Herald Sun
Moonee Valley Council says it has no plans to stop citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day
Herald Sun
The council's reconciliation policy includes a commitment based on principles of respect, recognition and relationships in which it recognises: “the past injustices inflicted on Australia's' Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities by this and ...

The Australian
Low voter turnout hampers remote NT governance
The Australian
He said he had recently returned from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, where over the course of a fortnight, not one indigenous person mentioned constitutional recognition, changing Australia Day or modifying monuments — issues that ...

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The Mabo Oration
ArtsHub (subscription)
Noel Pearson gave the powerful inaugural address in 2005 pointing out that the principles established by Mabo represented the best opportunity for resolution of colonial grievance between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, noting that it was a ...

The Australian
Albo denies criticising Shorten on Cook statue
The Australian
On Monday, Mr Shorten said an extra plaque should be placed on the statue, which proclaims that Cook discovered Australia, to recognise that indigenous Australians inhabited the continent before European settlement. Mr Albanese responded by saying ...

The Australian
Albo denies criticising Shorten on Cook statue
The Australian
On Monday, Mr Shorten said an extra plaque should be placed on the statue, which proclaims that Cook discovered Australia, to recognise that indigenous Australians inhabited the continent before European settlement. Mr Albanese responded by saying ...

The Australian
Grog abuse drops under welfare card
The Australian
Almost half the 2141 welfare recipients in the remote trial communities of East Kimberley in Western Australia and Ceduna, South Australia, reported significantly cutting their drinking, drug and gambling dependence. There was a significant reduction ...

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