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SBS
Same-sex marriage postal vote: Remote Indigenous towns will get phone or online option
SBS
The option will only be available to specific groups of voters, including those travelling overseas, those living in remote communities, including Aboriginal town camps, and those with “certain disabilities”. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS ...

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Pursuit
Australia's referendum drought
Pursuit
Australia's worst performing referendum was the 1988 'Rights and Freedoms' in which only 31% of voters supported the proposal, and was not carried by one state. The best performing referendum was in 1967 to include and recognise Indigenous Australians ...

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Newcastle Herald
Do Hunter councils support changes to Australia Day?
Newcastle Herald
We naturally review our Australia Day events each year and this issue is certainly something worth discussing with our Aboriginal Strategic Committee and community, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal. It is important that we listen carefully to the ...
Tom Elliott: Reality a rare visitor to Yarra councilHerald Sun
Australia Day: Greens' Adam Bandt offers to hold Yarra citizenship ceremonies to help out councilABC Online
Govt and mayor yet to hold Aust Day talksThe West Australian
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The Conversation AU
Controlled experiments won't tell us which Indigenous health programs are working
The Conversation AU
These issues are particularly relevant to remote Australia and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, where high levels of illness and early death persist, and where what applies to the tightly controlled conditions of a laboratory rarely ...

The Conversation AU
Controlled experiments won't tell us which Indigenous health programs are working
The Conversation AU
These issues are particularly relevant to remote Australia and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, where high levels of illness and early death persist, and where what applies to the tightly controlled conditions of a laboratory rarely ...

National Indigenous Times
Aboriginality today: it's not all black and white
National Indigenous Times
Douglas D'Antoine is changing the stereotype of what it means to be an Aboriginal person in Australia. He is many things: a father, a man thriving in his workplace and possessing a body that reflects a very healthy 45 years. He is governed by an ...

National Indigenous Times
Aboriginality today: it's not all black and white
National Indigenous Times
Douglas D'Antoine is changing the stereotype of what it means to be an Aboriginal person in Australia. He is many things: a father, a man thriving in his workplace and possessing a body that reflects a very healthy 45 years. He is governed by an ...

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Eternity News
Indigenous art book 'Our Mob, God's Story' wins Australian Christian book of the year
Eternity News
Our Mob, God's Story has taken out the prize for the 37th Annual Australian Christian book of the Year at a ceremony in Melbourne. The judges called the book “beautiful, confident and irresistible.” Advertisement. “Sixty-six Aboriginal and Torres ...

Eternity News
Indigenous art book 'Our Mob, God's Story' wins Australian Christian book of the year
Eternity News
Our Mob, God's Story has taken out the prize for the 37th Annual Australian Christian book of the Year at a ceremony in Melbourne. The judges called the book “beautiful, confident and irresistible.” Advertisement. “Sixty-six Aboriginal and Torres ...

The Australian
Childcare push to scrap Australia Day
The Australian
A push is on to sideline Australia Day celebrations in preschools and childcare settings because of sensitivity about the event among indigenous Australians, with a group of activist educators throwing its support behind a Melbourne council's ban.

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The Australian
Childcare push to scrap Australia Day
The Australian
A push is on to sideline Australia Day celebrations in preschools and childcare settings because of sensitivity about the event among indigenous Australians, with a group of activist educators throwing its support behind a Melbourne council's ban.

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The Advertiser
Art Gallery of South Australia's new Namatjiras change the story of Aboriginal dot painting
The Advertiser
“As far as we know, he was the first,” AGSA's curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, Nici Cumpston said. The paintings reveal Namatjira had an intimate knowledge of his traditional culture, something “we previously didn't know”. “They ...

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ABC Online
Tom Elliott: Reality a rare visitor to Yarra council
Herald Sun
But before the likes of Yarra council rewrite the past too much, consider what history really has to teach us about European colonisation of Australia. For a start, this continent was never going to remain undiscovered. The idea that Aborigines could ...
Australia Day: Greens' Adam Bandt offers to hold Yarra citizenship ceremonies to help out councilABC Online

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Tom Elliott: Reality a rare visitor to Yarra council
Herald Sun
As per the 2016 census, indigenous Australians constitute only 3 per cent of our population — yet their grievance with Australia Day means that, in Yarra at least, the remaining 97 per cent of us can't enjoy our national celebration. Yarra council ...
'It must change': Karl Stefanovic's Australia Day change of heartThe Sydney Morning Herald
AUSTRALIA DAY: Should the date be changed?Warwick Daily News
Television personality Karl Stefanovic supports changing date of Australia DayCourier Mail
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The Age
Indigenous rapper Briggs says Malcolm Turnbull should stop being a 'coward' over Australia Day
The Age
An Indigenous rapper who has campaigned to change the date of Australia Day has branded Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull a "coward" for his lack of leadership over the issue. Adam Briggs, one half of the hip-hop duo A.B. Original, praised Yarra Council ...
Yarra Council scraps Australia Day celebrations, won't hold citizenship ceremoniesNEWS.com.au
David Penberthy: Beware the well-meaning non-representative LeftieThe Advertiser
January 26: Three steps to changing the date of Australia DayABC Online
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NEWS.com.au
Crazy Hanson moments you forgot about
NEWS.com.au
She first came to prominence after she was disendorsed as a Liberal candidate in 1996 for making racist comments about Aboriginal Australians but secured a victory in the Queensland lower house seat of Oxley anyway because she still appeared on the ...

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Katherine Times
Bush votes still count in plebiscite
Katherine Times
“Over 20 AEC Indigenous and Community Engagement Officers, the majority of whom are Indigenous, deliver a range of services across Australia. The objectives of the program are increase enrolment, voter turnout, formality and knowledge of electoral ...

ABC Online
Same-sex marriage survey: Fears residents in Aboriginal town camps, rural areas won't be able to vote
ABC Online
People in remote communities and Indigenous town camps fear they may be locked out of voting in the same-sex marriage postal poll, due to difficulties getting them papers in the mail. A spokesperson for the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirmed the ...
Aboriginal Council Calls On "Discriminatory" Same-Sex Postal Survey To Be AbandonedBuzzFeed News

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The West Australian
Program to boost knowledge of law for Aboriginal women
The West Australian
Their persistence paid off when a joint venture between Oxfam Australia and Aarnja made the event possible. Aarnja chief executive Janine Dureau said she was determined to seek a partnership with Oxfam to bring the eight-year-old program to the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
This year will be the last Family and Community public holiday
The Sydney Morning Herald
It's like a garden, to be continually worked and to bring together an idea of an Australia which is strengthened by this Indigenous and non-Indigenous heritage to be the country we want it to be." Greens crossbencher Caroline Le Couteur welcomed the ...

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