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Does Advance Australia Fair ignore indigenous Australians?
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“I am a judge but I also turn my hand to writing poetry in my spare time,” he said. “I have been conscious for some time of the disquiet among our indigenous citizens … and they clearly have a point. Advance Australia Fair in its present form ...

Starts at 60
Does Advance Australia Fair ignore indigenous Australians?
Starts at 60
“I am a judge but I also turn my hand to writing poetry in my spare time,” he said. “I have been conscious for some time of the disquiet among our indigenous citizens … and they clearly have a point. Advance Australia Fair in its present form ...

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Exhibition re-imagining first British contact makes penultimate stop in Coffs Harbour
ABC Online
When the tour wraps up in June, 'East Coast Encounters' will form part of the permanent collection at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney's Darling Harbour. It features works by a total of 22 Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists and ...

The Guardian
Victoria to fund new elected Aboriginal body to advance treaty talks
The Guardian
... treaty, this is about for the first time having an organised representative voice for Aboriginal Victorians across the entire state and I think that in itself is going to be a huge step forward both for recognition and reconciliation,” Hutchins ...

The Australian
Judge writes third verse to lift our vanilla national anthem
The Australian
Victorian Supreme Court judge Peter Vickery has taken it upon himself to write a third verse, correcting what he sees as the worst anomaly: the absence of reference to indigenous Australians. “I am a judge but I also turn my hand to writing poetry in ...
Anthem update should occur regularly, says Bowman MPBendigo Advertiser

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Indigenous soldiers commemorate Anzac Day
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander soldiers have served in every Australian conflict since at least 1901, according to the Australian War Memorial. Over 1000 Indigenous soldiers fought in World War I, according to the memorial's website, although ...

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Anthem update should occur regularly, says Bowman MP
Southern Cross
Mr Laming said the anthem's first verse could focus on Australia's natural attributes while the second could be on values. While indigenous people needed to be recognised, no particular race of people who had come to Australia dominated. Mr Laming's ...

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Anthem update should occur regularly, says Bowman MP
Busselton Dunsborough Mail
Mr Laming said the anthem's first verse could focus on Australia's natural attributes while the second could be on values. While indigenous people needed to be recognised, no particular race of people who had come to Australia dominated. Mr Laming's ...

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Anthem update should occur regularly, says Bowman MP
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Mr Laming said the anthem's first verse could focus on Australia's natural attributes while the second could be on values. While indigenous people needed to be recognised, no particular race of people who had come to Australia dominated. Mr Laming's ...

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The Guardian
Justice reinvestment to be trialled in ACT to reduce Indigenous incarceration rate
The Guardian
The Australian Capital Territory has announced a 12-month justice reinvestment trial program in an effort to reduce rates of Indigenous incarceration, which are the third highest per capita in the country, after Western Australia and the Northern ...

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The Guardian
Justice reinvestment to be trialled in ACT to reduce Indigenous incarceration rate
The Guardian
The Australian Capital Territory has announced a 12-month justice reinvestment trial program in an effort to reduce rates of Indigenous incarceration, which are the third highest per capita in the country, after Western Australia and the Northern ...

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Anthem update should occur regularly, says Bowman MP
Forbes Advocate
He said the lyrics should reflect the current Australian way of life, sense of reward for effort, larrikinism and resilience and include something about indigenous Australia. Bowman MP Mr Laming has already run into opposition, with north Queensland ...

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Australian politics explainer: the Mabo decision and native title
The Conversation AU
Adding to the panic, Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett claimed that Australian backyards were under threat from Aboriginal land claims – he has since admitted he was wrong. The decision has remained important to Indigenous communities throughout Australia ...

The Advertiser
Anzac Day being betrayed by RSL itself
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Why did the Canberra parade have Aboriginal veterans march together under an Aboriginal flag, rather than with their units under an Australian one? Why did Adelaide's dawn service start with a Welcome to Country — in fact a welcome to “stolen” land ...
Yassmin Abdel-Magied shows what's up with ABCThe Australian

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Herald Sun
Anzac Day betrayed by RSL itself
Herald Sun
Why did the Canberra parade have Aboriginal veterans march together under an Aboriginal flag, rather than with their units under an Australian one? Why did Adelaide's dawn service start with a Welcome to Country — in fact a welcome to “stolen” land ...
Yassmin Abdel-Magied shows what's up with ABCThe Australian
Lisa Oldfield blasts ABC presenter for being a 'b---' for Anzac Day post9news.com.au
Hysteria over Yassmin Abdel-Magied's Anzac Day post cannot be separated from racismThe Sydney Morning Herald
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Children's book about friendship and a crucial moment in Australian history
ABC Message Stick
Fifty years ago two young girls - one Aboriginal, the other from a white Australian family - met at school in Adelaide. Against the backdrop of the 1967 referendum to count Aboriginal Australians in the census, their friendship blossomed. Now, a ...

Sky News Australia
Australia needs a more modern anthem: MP
Sky News Australia
Mr Laming suggested a third verse reflecting indigenous Australians, multiculturalism and how Australia is geopolitically positioned. 'Let's actually sit down and say what truly makes us unique,' he said. 'I just think we're a different nation and ...
Should we change our national anthem? Comment below.NEWS.com.au

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The Australian
Anzac Day: Aboriginal activist tweaks 23rd Psalm to 'shadow of invasion'
The Australian
“Being born Aboriginal is political in this country. I am interested in truth-telling. I am interested in celebrating and remembering all of Australia's history, not shining a spotlight on just one part of it. Why should I apologise?” South Australian ...
Elder's Anzac speech 'too political'The Advertiser

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ABC Online
On Anzac Day, we need to recognise the role of Aboriginal diggers
ABC Online
By all accounts that wasn't uncommon in 1914, when young Australian boys were impatient and eager to fight and the Army was willing to look the other way. Like all Aboriginal men, this boy was legally exempt from military service. This was meant to be ...

ABC Online
Anzac Day: How it came to occupy a sacred place in Australians' hearts
ABC Online
According to the chest-beating nationalism that accompanied and justified this imperial jostling, war was the truest test of the character of men and nations. Australians felt especially keenly their lack of bloody initiation (the frontier wars with ...
Canberra parade marks indigenous serviceNEWS.com.au
Anzac Day Dawn Service guideThe Australian

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