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Darebin council's Australia Day move provokes political backlash
ABC Online
Support the #changethedate campaign and initiate an ongoing conversation, in partnership with the Darebin Aboriginal Advisory Committee, to build better understanding with the broader Darebin community of Australia's history and the Aboriginal and ...
'Heart is pounding': Another Melbourne council scraps Australia DayThe Age
Darebin council votes to dump Australia DayHerald Sun
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ABC Online
Darebin council's Australia Day move provokes political backlash
ABC Online
Mr Andrews said he believed people could respectfully celebrate the country's values on January 26, while also honouring Indigenous Australians. "I've been privileged and honoured to have been involved in many different events on our national day where ...
'Heart is pounding': Another Melbourne council scraps Australia DayThe Age
Darebin council votes to dump Australia DayHerald Sun
Second Melbourne Council Votes To Cancel Australia Day CeremoniesHuffington Post Australia
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Principal Education Advisor, Indigenous (EAL/D)
EducationHQ Australia
Strengthen curriculum leaders, designated coaches and teachers' knowledge of the IEAL/D frameworks as they relate to the Australian Curriculum by focusing professional development on student learning, effective teaching strategies and how to ...

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'Changing Captain Cook statue could lead to riots': Sunrise debates calls to 'end historical lies'
Yahoo7 News
Indigenous broadcaster Stan Grant is calling for inaccuracies in Australia's history to end, starting with an inscription on a Captain Cook statue in Sydney's Hyde Park that reads: "Discovered this territory in 1770.” Mr Grant told The Australian ...

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'Changing Captain Cook statue could lead to riots': Sunrise debates calls to 'end historical lies'
Yahoo7 News
Calls to change inscriptions on key Australian statues, including the Captain Cook monument in Sydney's Hyde, has sparked a heated debate with suggestions such a move would leave to riots. Indigenous broadcaster Stan Grant is calling for inaccuracies ...

ABC Online
Copwatch program empowers Aboriginal communities to film interactions with police
ABC Online
Lawyers and Aboriginal justice advocate Shaun Harris, the uncle of Ms Dhu who died in custody in Western Australia, discussed tips on how and when to film authorities, things to do before sharing the footage on social media, and ways to protect it.

THE GIDDY POWER OF SAYING NO TO AUSTRALIA DAY
Herald Sun (blog)
Now Darebin council has banned Australia Day to placate locals who identify as Aboriginal. The pictures of the meeting suggest white colonisation actually brought over many of their own relatives. I am not legally free to speculate why they assert ...

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Education & Transitions
EducationHQ Australia
... such as Geraldine Atkinson (President, VAEAI), Professor Shane Hearn (Dean of Indigenous Research, University of Adelaide), Anton Shirripa (Teacher,Clontarf Aboriginal College) and Tristan Duggle (State Finalist Young Australian of the Year 2017).

ABC Online
Missed the eclipse? Here's when you can catch one
ABC Online
Indigenous Australians have been watching solar eclipses for millennia. Historians report: “The Warlpiri people explain a solar eclipse as being the Sun-woman being hidden by the Moon-man as he makes love to her.” Some people say you're not really a ...

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RUSH HOUR: End of the Australian Sex Party
NEWS.com.au
Darebin council voted last night to replace the cermony with a “culturally appropriate event” respectful to indigenous Australians. Mayor Kim Le Cerf said if Australians were better educated they would “feel ashamed to be celebrating on January 26 ...

Herald Sun
Darebin Council to vote on dumping Australia Day
Herald Sun
Councillors tonight voted to replace the ceremony with a “culturally appropriate event” that would be respectful to indigenous Australians. The council will drop all references to Australia Day, including renaming its Australia Day Awards the “Darebin ...

Herald Sun
Darebin Council to vote on dumping Australia Day
Herald Sun
Councillors tonight voted to replace the ceremony with a “culturally appropriate event” that would be respectful to indigenous Australians. The council will drop all references to Australia Day, including renaming its Australia Day Awards the “Darebin ...

The Guardian
Pat Dodson says cashless welfare card a 'public whip' to control Indigenous people
The Guardian
“I haven't heard him say much on anything since I came to the parliament on anything to do with improving the lives of Aboriginal people in remote communities,” he told Guardian Australia. Dodson said he had heard “mixed messages” about the card, which ...

BBC News
How a school play about Aboriginal history set off a row
BBC News
It's one of the most sensitive topics of modern Australia: the country's past treatment of its indigenous peoples. And its capacity to divide non-indigenous Australians has again been thrust into the spotlight, this time because of a primary school ...

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BBC News
How a school play about Aboriginal history set off a row
BBC News
It's one of the most sensitive topics of modern Australia: the country's past treatment of its indigenous peoples. And its capacity to divide non-indigenous Australians has again been thrust into the spotlight, this time because of a primary school ...

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Call to combat fetal alcohol syndrome
SBS
The findings, reported in the Journal of Development and Behavioural Pediatrics, were based on surveys of parents and teachers of primary school Aboriginal Australian children living in remote communities in Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia. Within ...

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Call to combat fetal alcohol syndrome
SBS
Several Australian studies were included, among them a 2015 examination of an Indigenous Australian population which found 12 of every hundred children had the disorder. One of every 13 women who consumed alcohol while pregnant was estimated to ...

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The Australian
Call to end the 'great silence' on our indigenous history
The Australian
Hyde Park, the oldest public park in Australia, is operated by the Sydney City Council. A spokesman for the Lord Mayor said: “Any proposal would be referred to the City's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory panel for their consideration and ...

The Australian
Call to end the 'great silence' on our indigenous history
The Australian
If Malcolm Turnbull were serious that Australia Day was a day to honour indigenous Australians, “what could be more apt than to correct a monument that tells us, still, that in 1770 we did not exist?” he wrote. But Keith Windschuttle, historian and ...

Don't abandon abused children
The Australian
The crisis confronting Aborigines and authorities in Western Australia, where the Coroner is investigating the suicides of 13 Aboriginal children and young people in the Kimberley, is no less severe. The problems are clear, the solutions far less so ...

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