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Herald Sun (blog)
Darebin council Australia Day ban divides Aussies
Herald Sun (blog)
“Dumping Australia Day is a bad idea firstly because it's a distraction from more serious issues like child abuse, violence, homelessness and unemployment, and secondly, it promotes the myth that Aboriginal people are upset by a date,” Dr Dillon told ...

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Herald Sun (blog)
Darebin council Australia Day ban divides Aussies
Herald Sun (blog)
It has been edifying to hear from Aboriginal leaders fed up with Australia Day being used as a “smokescreen” by those who lack the courage to face the serious issues afflicting indigenous communities. It's time we listened to a broader range of ...

Northern Star
Govt slammed for 'heavy handed' Australia Day threat
Northern Star
Update 5:36pm: LISMORE Mayor Isaac Smith criticised the Federal Government for assuming it had moved to change date of Australia Day in a letter sent to him last week. Cr Smith clarified the council had consulted its Aboriginal Advisory Committee to ...

Herald Sun (blog)
Miserable activists trashing Australia Day
Herald Sun (blog)
Meanwhile, we have clownish councillors dropping all references to Australia Day based on an online survey of '88 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' plus another 281 people polled in a street survey, the majority of whom were against the council's ...

Herald Sun (blog)
Miserable activists trashing Australia Day
Herald Sun (blog)
Even among indigenous Australians, only 31 per cent felt negative about Australia Day, while 53 per cent supported changing the date. Given the biased media coverage, you could be forgiven for thinking that every indigenous Australian was vehemently ...

Herald Sun
Aboriginal artist Stan Dryden says leave historical monuments alone but acknowledge indigenous achievement in ...
Herald Sun
“A lot to be proud of even in that short recent migration, and certainly that pride in our indigenous Australians and the history that they've built over many thousands of years,” he said. Melbourne Day Committee chairman Campbell Walker said Melbourne ...

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Herald Sun
Aboriginal artist Stan Dryden says leave historical monuments alone but acknowledge indigenous achievement in ...
Herald Sun
“A lot to be proud of even in that short recent migration, and certainly that pride in our indigenous Australians and the history that they've built over many thousands of years,” he said. Melbourne Day Committee chairman Campbell Walker said Melbourne ...

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ABC Online
A year from Elijah Doughty's death, we still don't understand the anger it sparked
ABC Online
As in most parts of Australia, there was violence on the Goldfields frontier in the early years. At the peak of the first resources boom in the mid-1890s, a group of Aboriginal people numbering as many as 30 were trapped in a gully and massacred at ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Finalists Named in Inaugural Indigenous Digital Excellence Awards
Pro Bono Australia
“Ranging from the founder of Australia's first Indigenous business accelerator, to an Elder who uses 3D printers to create cultural artefacts, and Darwin's most popular Airbnb host – the talent and ambition of the IDX Awards finalists is truly ...

The Australian
Albanese: 'Greater issues facing First Australians than inscriptions'
The Australian
Mr Albanese said this morning that there were bigger issues facing indigenous Australians than inscriptions on historical statues. “There are far greater issues facing the First Australians that what's on a statue,” Mr Albanese told Adelaide radio ...

New GO Foundation Indigenous student scholarships launched
EducationHQ Australia
“This is just the beginning of GO Foundation public school scholarships and we look forward to being able to support many more Indigenous students on their journey through school, into further education and employment,” Michael O'Loughlin added.

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BE GLAD IT WAS THE BRITISH
Herald Sun (blog)
Leo Maglen asks: what do the activists think would have happened to Aboriginal Australia if the British had NOT colonised the continent. Be grateful, because there is no way a land occupied by tribes with no technology and an essentially Stone Age ...

The Australian
Drive to increase pre-settlement history lessons
The Australian
Senator Scullion suggested the debate over an additional plaque on Captain James Cook's statue to acknowledge the presence of Aborigines on the continent before his arrival, or “retrofitting” historical monuments, would be irrelevant if Australians ...

The Australian
Drive to increase pre-settlement history lessons
The Australian
Labor MP Linda Burney, the first indigenous woman elected to the House of Representatives, said it was historically wrong to credit Cook with the discovery of Australia and pushed for the plaque to be changed. Bill Shorten fuelled the debate this week ...

NEWS.com.au
Historical grievance politics imperils our future
The Australian
The debate is not really about statues or political correctness. The statues row is a bizarre event revealing of something larger: how European Australia and indigenous Australia are going to reconcile on this continent given their competing cultures ...
Debunking the myth of Australia DayNEWS.com.au
Changing Australia's colonial statues 'rewards vandalism': PMSBS
Vandalising numpties undermine the scope for reasoned debateCourier Mail
Quartz -The Straits Times
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The Australian
Burke and Wills statue latest in line for an amended plaque
The Australian
The plaque on the statue, before it was removed early last year, said Burke and Wills were “the first to travel the continent from south to north”, but indigenous Australians are known to have explored the country's interior for thousand of years ...

Sky News Australia
Govt called to address Indigenous abuse
Sky News Australia
Malcolm Turnbull's former chief adviser on indigenous affairs has called for the adoption of abused Aboriginal children, accusing the Prime Minster of ignoring their plight. Warren Mundine has told Sky News he is dismayed the country is obsessing about ...

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The Advertiser
Dean Jaensch: Australia Day should be a celebration of unity, not division and conflict
The Advertiser
There has also been a call that the notation on the statue of Captain Cook in Sydney should be sand blasted to remove the words that he “discovered Australia” on the ground that this is also offensive to Aboriginal people. How far should this ...

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The Advertiser
Dean Jaensch: Australia Day should be a celebration of unity, not division and conflict
The Advertiser
There has also been a call that the notation on the statue of Captain Cook in Sydney should be sand blasted to remove the words that he “discovered Australia” on the ground that this is also offensive to Aboriginal people. How far should this ...

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SBS
Shorten, Plibersek cold on extra statue plaques
The Australian
“We should be aware of what Australia Day means for Indigenous people, it is a day of invasion for Indigenous Australians and we should be alert to the fact that it is hurtful and damaging for many people, but we need to have a mature conversation as a ...
Changing Australia's colonial statues 'rewards vandalism': PMSBS
Debunking the myth of Australia DayNEWS.com.au
Dean Jaensch: Australia Day should be a celebration of unity, not division and conflictThe Advertiser
The Sydney Morning Herald -Courier Mail -Quartz
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