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Perth Now
Aboriginal activist Clinton Pryor's walk for justice
Perth Now
West Australian Clinton Pryor is walking from Perth to Canberra to protest against the forced closures of Indigenous communities. Picture: Nathan Hopkins, Phresh Creative. An admin team of four people run the operation from their base in Perth. Mr ...

NEWS.com.au
Debunking the myth of Australia Day
NEWS.com.au
“Australia Day has not always been on the 26th of January,” Macquarie University Professor Bronwyn Carlson, an expert in indigenous studies, told news.com.au. “It has over the past 100 years been celebrated on various days in various months so it is ...

NEWS.com.au
Debunking the myth of Australia Day
NEWS.com.au
The NSW governor Henry Parkes also recognised the day was a reminder to Aborigines of how they had been “robbed”. So it wasn't always an obvious choice for Australia's national day. After the Commonwealth of Australia was founded in 1901, there was ...

SBS
Changing Australia's colonial statues 'rewards vandalism': PM
SBS
A different solution was instead raised by opposition Labor MP Linda Burney - the first Aboriginal woman elected to the lower house of parliament - who called for Cook's plaque to be updated to reflect that he had not "discovered" the nation. She was ...
Shorten goes cold on extra plaques for statuesThe Australian
Vandalising numpties undermine the scope for reasoned debateCourier Mail
Australia is debating what to do about its statues that honor colonizersQuartz
Brisbane Times -Red Flag -Daily Mail
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Echonetdaily
What now in native foods?
Echonetdaily
Australia's cultural cringe has affected our uptake of and interest in native foods. Clayton Donovan, Australia's only 'hatted' Indigenous chef, found his use of Australian native foods was accepted and celebrated more in the UK than at home. This is ...

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SBS
Shorten goes cold on extra plaques for statues
The Australian
Mr Shorten played down his support for adding an extra plaque on the Sydney statue of Captain Cook which would acknowledge Aboriginal Australians inhabited the land before the British settlers. While the Labor leader yesterday said he had no opposition ...
Changing Australia's colonial statues 'rewards vandalism': PMSBS
'An additional plaque': Bill Shorten's plan to neutralise Captain Cook ...Brisbane Times
Vandalising numpties undermine the scope for reasoned debateCourier Mail
Quartz -Red Flag -Daily Mail
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SBS
Queensland moves to remove racist place names such as N***** Creek
SBS
The inscription in Hyde Park says the English explorer discovered Australia, which Grant said tells Aboriginal people that before 1770 they did not exist. "My ancestors were here when Cook dropped anchor. We know now that the first peoples of this ...

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SBS
Queensland moves to remove racist place names such as N***** Creek
SBS
The inscription in Hyde Park says the English explorer discovered Australia, which Grant said tells Aboriginal people that before 1770 they did not exist. "My ancestors were here when Cook dropped anchor. We know now that the first peoples of this ...

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The Educator
Indigenous education improving, but challenges remain
The Educator
Sarra is the founder and chairman of the Stronger Smarter Institute – a non-profit organisation delivering better outcomes for Indigenous, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children across Australia. Sarra addressed the conference about the impact ...

The Educator
Indigenous education improving, but challenges remain
The Educator
Sarra is the founder and chairman of the Stronger Smarter Institute – a non-profit organisation delivering better outcomes for Indigenous, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children across Australia. Sarra addressed the conference about the impact ...

The Mandarin (registration)
5 areas of Australian public policy that saw substantial long-term impact
The Mandarin (registration)
Over the same period, indigenous female life expectancy increased by 0.6 years. However while the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous life expectancy is reducing somewhat, indigenous Australians can still expect to die 10 years earlier than ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Q&A recap: Forster says Tony Abbott is 'scaremongering' over gay marriage vote
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous singer Dan Sultan says Australia Day needs to be changed. Photo: ABC. End of the story? Not if Tony has anything to say about it. And while there may occasionally be too many Tonys in this debate, there is only one who seems hellbent on ...

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Armidale Express
Racist place names to be struck from the record in Queensland
Armidale Express
Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich said he was glad the department recognised the deeply offensive, derogatory term caused pain to Indigenous Australians and other minorities of African descent. "We welcome the removal of those ...

Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Woori woman inspires with camera in hand
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Nickeema Williams travels Australia and the world sharing positive stories of marginalised communities. Beth Jennings Photography. NCIE executive chair Alison Page said the digital economy has the potential to be a circuit breaker for Aboriginal and ...

The Guardian
WA Liberals journal claims Indigenous recognition risks '60% of Australian continent'
The Guardian
One of Australia's most famous conservative historians has warned Liberal party members that the push to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution has a “hidden agenda” to carve out a separate state or nation, and has urged them to oppose a ...

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The Guardian
WA Liberals journal claims Indigenous recognition risks '60% of Australian continent'
The Guardian
One of Australia's most famous conservative historians has warned Liberal party members that the push to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution has a “hidden agenda” to carve out a separate state or nation, and has urged them to oppose a ...

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The New Daily
Dan Sultan schools politicians on Q&A's Australia Day debate
The New Daily
Aboriginal singer-songwriter Dan Sultan has schooled a panel of politicians, with a simple answer to the heated Australia Day debate: listen to Indigenous voices. Attorney-General George Brandis, Labor MP Tony Burke, independent Senator Jacqui Lambie, ...
Jacqui Lambie and Dan Sultan clash on live TV: 'Australia Day has always been racist'NEWS.com.au
Dan Sultan clashes with George Brandis, Jacqui Lambie over Australia Day date on Q&AABC Online
Lambie lashes out at indigenous pushThe Australian
Pedestrian TV -theMusic -The Guardian
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The New Daily
Dan Sultan schools politicians on Q&A's Australia Day debate
The New Daily
Aboriginal musician Dan Sultan has schooled a panel of politicians on the complexities of Australia Day, with a simple fix: listen to Indigenous voices.
Q & A: Jacqui Lambie and Dan Sultan clash over Australia Day dateNEWS.com.au
Dan Sultan Clashes With Jacqui Lambie, George Brandis Over ...Huffington Post Australia
Q&A: Jacqui Lambie hits out at Australia Day shift callsThe Australian
ABC Online -Daily Mail
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NEWS.com.au
Jacqui Lambie and Dan Sultan clash on live TV: 'Australia Day has always been racist'
NEWS.com.au
Sultan and Lambie butted heads in response to an audience question about whether the national day of celebration on January 26 should be changed because it marks the “genocide” of many Aboriginal Australians. Many indigenous people view the date as ...

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The Australian
Q&A: Jacqui Lambie hits out at Australia Day shift calls
The Australian
Jacqui Lambie has disparaged calls to change the date of Australia Day in a plea for indigenous activists to focus on closing the gap rather than campaigning for ...
Dan Sultan schools politicians on Q&A's Australia Day debateThe New Daily
'Australia Day has always been racist': Sultan in fiery Q&A clash with Lambie9news.com.au
Dan Sultan Clashes With Jacqui Lambie, George Brandis Over ...Huffington Post Australia
NEWS.com.au -ABC Online -Pedestrian TV
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