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The Conversation AU
When the Bullin shrieked: Aboriginal memories of volcanic eruptions thousands of years ago
The Conversation AU
Other than it had a fearful shriek, guaranteed to put the fear of God into anyone who heard it, history appears silent about the nature of the bird that Aboriginal Australians once named “bullin”. Yet its shriek portended danger, apparently the ...

The West Australian
Both sides wrong on burqas
The West Australian
The ABC's indigenous editor Stan Grant this week made an argument for why there are indigenous people who would prefer to see the tearing down of a statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park because it proclaims he “discovered” Australia.

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Please endeavour not to rewrite history, James Cook's critics told
The Australian
Grant's call ignited a debate about how to reconcile Australia's colonial and indigenous past. Historian Keith Windschuttle, writing in The Australian today, criticised Grant's call, arguing that the inscription was accurate because Cook was the first ...
This won't change history. But it will ensure we never learn its lessonsdailytelegraph.com.au
Stan Grant questions Captain Cook's place in Australian historyYahoo7 News

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Please endeavour not to rewrite history, James Cook's critics told
The Australian
Grant's call ignited a debate about how to reconcile Australia's colonial and indigenous past. Historian Keith Windschuttle, writing in The Australian today, criticised Grant's call, arguing that the inscription was accurate because Cook was the first ...
Stan Grant questions Captain Cook's place in Australian historyYahoo7 News

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Indigenous leaders slam move to shift Australia Day as 'divisive' nonsense
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NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton has dismissed the push to axe Australia Day as an attempt to rewrite history. Blacktown indigenous elder Gordon Workman. Picture: Tim Hunter. Blacktown indigenous elder Gordon Workman bluntly described moves to ...

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Indigenous leaders slam move to shift Australia Day as 'divisive' nonsense
dailytelegraph.com.au
NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton has dismissed the push to axe Australia Day as an attempt to rewrite history. Blacktown indigenous elder Gordon Workman. Picture: Tim Hunter. Blacktown indigenous elder Gordon Workman bluntly described moves to ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
This won't change history. But it will ensure we never learn its lessons
dailytelegraph.com.au
Lismore and Byron councils are the latest to consider axing or moving our national day, which they claim insults indigenous Australians. They want to hold want citizenship ceremonies at more “culturally appropriate” times. Well, the federal government ...
Stan Grant questions Captain Cook's place in Australian historyYahoo7 News

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Editorial: Save the date, don't change it
Perth Now
Blacktown Aboriginal elder Uncle Gordon Workman says changing the date of Australia Day will do nothing to change history. Picture: Tim Hunter. No one would ever consider the far north coast towns of Lismore or Byron Bay bastions of conservatism, being ...

Editorial: Save the date, don't change it
Perth Now
Blacktown Aboriginal elder Uncle Gordon Workman says changing the date of Australia Day will do nothing to change history. Picture: Tim Hunter. No one would ever consider the far north coast towns of Lismore or Byron Bay bastions of conservatism, being ...

Herald Sun
Councils around the country make moves to change what happens on Australia Day
Herald Sun
But not everyone thinks Australia Day should be celebrated on January 26. Indigenous Australians have been on this land for more than 40,000 years and many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders think the day marks a loss of their culture and rights.
Darebin council's Australia Day move provokes political backlashABC Online
'Heart is pounding': Another Melbourne council scraps Australia DayThe Age
Second Melbourne Council Votes To Cancel Australia Day CeremoniesHuffington Post Australia
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Herald Sun
Councils around the country make moves to change what happens on Australia Day
Herald Sun
The summer date is used by families and friends to get together and by councils to perform citizenship ceremonies, to welcome our newest Australians. But not everyone thinks Australia Day should be celebrated on January 26. Indigenous Australians have ...
Darebin council's Australia Day move provokes political backlashABC Online
'Heart is pounding': Another Melbourne council scraps Australia DayThe Age
Second council stripped of ceremoniesThe Australian
Huffington Post Australia -Ten Eyewitness News -SBS -The Guardian
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Port Stephens Examiner
Star on the rise: Mia Page in Aboriginal Model Search national final
Port Stephens Examiner
The competition aims to find the next generation of indigenous models from around Australia. Mia was one of eight winners announced during the first round of the competition held in Newcastle in December 2016. The win advanced her to the state level.

Herald Sun
Rita Panahi: Darebin council Australia Day ban divides Aussies
Herald Sun
Research shows that despite years of “invasion day” rhetoric whipped up by segments of the media, only 31 per cent of indigenous people feel negatively towards Australia Day while 53 per cent support changing the date, according to polling conducted ...

Herald Sun
Rita Panahi: Darebin council Australia Day ban divides Aussies
Herald Sun
It's disingenuous to suggest that a significant majority of indigenous Australians feel negatively towards the national holiday. Research shows that despite years of “invasion day” rhetoric whipped up by segments of the media, only 31 per cent of ...

Western Advocate
A pair of Littles to perform on stage in Bathurst
Western Advocate
Produced by regional arts development organisation Arts OutWest, the event is supported by funding from the Australian Government's Aboriginal Regional Arts Fund and by the Bathurst Aboriginal Lands Council, and with the support of the Jimmy Little ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Blacktown Aboriginal elder says council should still celebrate Australia Day on January 26
dailytelegraph.com.au
Last week, the council also voted unanimously to no longer hold citizenship ceremonies on January 26, which has also become known as Invasion Day among many indigenous Australians. Darebin Mayor Kim Le Cerf. Her council voted to make big changes ...

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Blacktown Aboriginal elder says council should still celebrate Australia Day on January 26
dailytelegraph.com.au
Last week, the council also voted unanimously to no longer hold citizenship ceremonies on January 26, which has also become known as Invasion Day among many indigenous Australians. Darebin Mayor Kim Le Cerf. Her council voted to make big changes ...

ABC Online
Rare white koala born at Australia Zoo seeks perfect name from Facebook fans
ABC Online
A rare white koala joey has been born at a Queensland zoo, and the search is now on for the right name. Australia Zoo, north of Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast, welcomed its first white koala joey this breeding season. The female is not albino — its ...

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The Singleton Argus
Indigenous children being removed at an alarming rate
The Singleton Argus
This is not an echo from the Stolen Generation, the darkest chapter in Australian history. These are the words a four-year-old indigenous child screamed as she was ripped from her grandmothers arms just last month. Don't let them take me. These are the ...

Stan Grant on Australia's 'great silence'
ABC Online
As the US re-examines historical representations of the darker parts of its history in the wake of the violence at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Stan Grant, the ABC's Indigenous Editor is calling for what he describes as the “great ...

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