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The Sydney Morning Herald
Vandals deface Hyde Park statues in Australia Day protest
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous journalist Stan Grant has slammed the defacement of a number of statues in Hyde Park overnight as appalling and disgraceful. Between 2.25am and 3.15am on Saturday, the statues of former NSW Governor Lachlan Macquarie and Captain Cook ...
Statues vandalised in Sydney's Hyde ParkThe Australian
Captain Cook statue sparks debate about whether it should be removedNEWS.com.au
'Its appalling, disgraceful': Stan Grant lashes Hyde Park statue vandalsNewcastle Herald
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Yahoo7 News
Turnbull says no to 'rewriting history'
The Australian
Malcolm Turnbull has spoken out against “rewriting history”, “editing statues” and “deleting Australia Day” to help reconciliation with indigenous people, dismissing the idea as a Stalinist exercise to blank out parts of history. The Prime Minister ...
Australian PM slams 'Stalinist' critics of colonial statuesYahoo7 News
Aboriginals want Captain Cook statue which said he 'discovered Australia' REMOVED following violent protests in the ...Daily Mail
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The Australian
Statues vandalised in Sydney's Hyde Park
The Australian
The graffiti attack comes just days after indigenous broadcaster Stan Grant called for the inscription on the Cook statue - saying he “discovered” the territory in 1770 - be changed. But Malcolm Turnbull, weighing into the debate on Friday, said Grant ...

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Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Councillor's indigenous call for Yeppoon Aus Day celebrations
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Cr Belot said humbly inviting the indigenous community to join the table of committee members who organise Australia Day celebrations would provide the real insight surrounding the debate. He said he was endeavouring to persuade Livingstone Shire ...

The Cairns Post
Kiwi finds calling at FNQ indigenous tourism icon
The Cairns Post
HEAR the one about the Kiwi chef who ended up running a leading Australian indigenous tourism company in Far North Queensland? Bryce Madgwick's journey to becoming general manager of Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park differs from that of the ...

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The Cairns Post
Kiwi finds calling at FNQ indigenous tourism icon
The Cairns Post
“A lot of indigenous mobs across Australia don't have this opportunity and potentially never will.” Born in Auckland, Mr Madgwick moved to Western Australia as a teenager, graduating from Busselton State High School. He became a chef and ran several ...

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The Australian
Let's not squander the chance to make better history
The Australian
It would preserve the integrity of the Constitution, allow for a more meaningful declaration and give indigenous Australians a permanent voice in their affairs. Besides, we already have an informal advisory body on indigenous affairs, and are likely to ...

Aboriginal massacres DID happen
Eternity News
The terrible reality of the violent death of Aboriginal people, on the frontier of Australia's pastoral invasion of Aboriginal lands, is a part of Australia's past which needs to be named for what it was. Yet there are those who would 'whitewash' this ...

Gold Coast Bulletin
ABC Aboriginal TV presenter Stan Grant cooks up a recipe for turmoil
Gold Coast Bulletin
This week, however, Stan Grant, the well-paid ABC Aboriginal television presenter, imported a dangerous American obsession which can only exacerbate racial tensions in Australia. Grant, in an article published on the ABC website and in subsequent media ...

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The Australian
This week: Albert Namatjira; indigenous art; event security; two Kates
The Australian
At the Sydney opening of Opera Australia's The Rabbits in January last year, Malcolm Turnbull sat front and centre in the stalls. Behind the Prime Minister, and to my left, sat a handsome, well-dressed gent in his late 20s. It wasn't until after the ...

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The Australian
Yolngu art's US dreaming
The Australian
Skerritt says there is “a lot more interest (in the US) in Aboriginal art than there is in non-Aboriginal Australian art”. While some smaller US galleries have begun probing the canon more deeply, so far larger institutions have preferred surveys ...

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The Australian
Yolngu art's US dreaming
The Australian
Stephen Gilchrist, a University of Sydney lecturer who curated Everywhen: The Eternal Present in indigenous Art from Australia at the Harvard Art Museum last year, says it is an exciting time to work in the US as more institutions open their doors. “In ...

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The Australian
Australia Day debate: reclaim history instead of distorting it
The Australian
Nothing does more to cloud a discussion of the state of the nation and the role of Australia Day than the existence of two such contrasting indigenous groups. There is even a third, with a very different history and background. Torres Strait Islanders ...
ABC Aboriginal TV presenter Stan Grant cooks up a recipe for turmoilGold Coast Bulletin

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The Australian
Australia Day debate: reclaim history instead of distorting it
The Australian
Nothing does more to cloud a discussion of the state of the nation and the role of Australia Day than the existence of two such contrasting indigenous groups. There is even a third, with a very different history and background. Torres Strait Islanders ...

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Yahoo7 News
Australian PM slams 'Stalinist' critics of colonial statues
Yahoo7 News
Sydney (AFP) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday dismissed calls to change colonial-era monuments and the date of Australia Day as "Stalinist" exercises in rewriting history as debate intensified over the country's treatment of its ...
Captain Cook statue sparks debate about whether it should be removedNEWS.com.au
Captain Cook didn't 'discover' Australia: Aborigines seek removal or changes to statue of explorerMontreal Gazette
Aboriginals want Captain Cook statue which said he 'discovered Australia' REMOVED following violent protests in the ...Daily Mail
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ABC Online
Between catastrophe and survival: The real journey Captain Cook set us on
ABC Online
As an Indigenous person, my admiration for his feats is mixed with the reality that he looked upon my ancestors, in his words, as "some of the most rude and uncivilised upon the Earth". ... This is the history of all of us who call Australia home. My ...

ABC Online
Work-for-the-dole crime claim rejected by Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion
ABC Online
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has rejected suggestions from police in Western Australia that a controversial work-for-the-dole program is contributing to crime in the State's remote communities. Police and community leaders from WA ...

Gladstone Observer
Should Gladstone consider changing Australia Day?
Gladstone Observer
Jarrod Beezley, chairman of the Yallarm Advocacy and Advisory Group, a community-based organisation that supports indigenous students, believes the date should be changed. "Australia Day has been a hot topic for a while now," Mr Beezley said. "If we're ...

Courier Mail
Dutton fury over moves to remove historical statues in Sydney
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ABC broadcaster Stan Grant is among those calling for an examination of various statues and place names linked to violence against indigenous Australians. Mr Grant has not made a call for any removal of any monuments. Historian Keith Windschuttle said ...
Captain Cook statue sparks debate about whether it should be removedNEWS.com.au
Opinion: Confederate statue demolition shouldn't extend to AustraliaCourier Mail
Racial tension mounts over Captain Cook statue credited with discovery of AustraliaXinhua
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Courier Mail
Opinion: Confederate statue demolition shouldn't extend to Australia
Courier Mail
Indigenous editor Grant thinks we have been lagging behind the US and a bit slow to get into the statue-tearing-down business. “Americans are tearing down the monuments to hate, but we remain oblivious to ours,” he said this week. “Across Australia ...

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