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Courier Mail
If you love Australia, change the date
Courier Mail
In 1938, then Australian premiers gathered in Sydney to mark 150 years since the First Fleet's landing. That same day, Aboriginal leaders held a Day of Mourning and Protest to highlight the mistreatment of Aboriginal people and campaign for equal rights.
Australia Day is an 'inappropriate way and day to celebrate'Northern Star

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dailytelegraph.com.au
If you love Australia, change the date
dailytelegraph.com.au
In 1938, then Australian premiers gathered in Sydney to mark 150 years since the First Fleet's landing. That same day, Aboriginal leaders held a Day of Mourning and Protest to highlight the mistreatment of Aboriginal people and campaign for equal rights.

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Warren Mundine: We must stop celebrating Australia Day on ...
dailytelegraph.com.au
This week we mark a very significant day in Australias history. January, 26, 1788 was the first time Europeans landed on this continent to stay.
Australia Day is an 'inappropriate way and day to celebrate ...Northern Star

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Perth Now
If you love Australia, change the date
Perth Now
In 1938, then Australian premiers gathered in Sydney to mark 150 years since the First Fleet's landing. That same day, Aboriginal leaders held a Day of Mourning and Protest to highlight the mistreatment of Aboriginal people and campaign for equal rights.

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9news.com.au
2017 Australian of the Year: The seniors getting recognition for their 'extraordinary contributions'
9news.com.au
A former member of Australian 60s girl group the Sapphires, Ms Peeler now serves as a principal at Worawa Aboriginal College. Through her work, Ms Peeler has served as a cultural advocate, ensuring Indigenous knowledge and values are incorporated ...

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9news.com.au
2017 Australian of the Year: The seniors getting recognition for their 'extraordinary contributions'
9news.com.au
A former member of Australian 60s girl group the Sapphires, Ms Peeler now serves as a principal at Worawa Aboriginal College. Through her work, Ms Peeler has served as a cultural advocate, ensuring Indigenous knowledge and values are incorporated ...

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New Matilda
Think The Muslim Australia Day Billboard Should Be Re-instated? Think Again
New Matilda
Islamophobia cannot be fought without undermining white supremacy, and white supremacy in Australia is contingent on the oppression of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – of which 'Australia Day' is a significant marker. There is no 'anti ...

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Domain News
It's time to rethink how we design our cities: Indigenous architect
Domain News
Samoan-born architect Dr Albert Refiti said Australian cities should adopt design principles that reflect Indigenous Australian identity. The State Library talk on Indigenous architecture. Photo: Jim Malo. “I think you really have to understand the ...

World News For January 23 2017
POPSUGAR Australia
Statistics show that young Indigenous people are more likely to take their own lives at five times the rate of non-Indigenous Australians. It's an unacceptable number that led to the creation of a community-based support service in West Australia that ...

ABC Online
Indigenous suicide: Struggling communities get $10 million funding boost
ABC Online
More than a third of Australia's youth suicides are Indigenous, and Indigenous children make up 80 per cent of those under 12 who take their own lives, said Indigenous suicide researcher Gerry Georgatos, who works on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Why I don't support changing the date of Amnesia DayEureka Street (registration)

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ABC Online
Indigenous suicide: Struggling communities get $10 million funding ...
ABC Online
A community-based support service to prevent Indigenous suicides is getting a $10 million boost as the Government begins to roll it out across Australia.

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Geelong Advertiser
Being an Australian worth celebrating
Geelong Advertiser
Australia Day reminds us of that and unites us regardless of our religious, racial or national backgrounds. I know that many within our Australian indigenous community see January 26 as “Invasion Day” and the beginning of British colonisation and ...

Courier Mail
A fortunate life is not for all
Courier Mail
Since settlement in 1788, while the “strong men and brave women” were making Australia our home, racism was excluding Aborigines, sending them to prison for offences that did not apply to white people. Today, indigenous Australians are the most ...

Courier Mail
A fortunate life is not for all
Courier Mail
Since settlement in 1788, while the “strong men and brave women” were making Australia our home, racism was excluding Aborigines, sending them to prison for offences that did not apply to white people. Today, indigenous Australians are the most ...

SBS
Spirits soar as Raise The Bar catapults Indigenous young guns to academic and sporting success
SBS
As many as 38 Indigenous teens from all corners of Australia attended the third Raise The Bar Academy at the University Of Melbourne. Program co-founder Bridgid Junot says it provided an opportunity for the talented athletes to expose themselves to the ...

New Matilda
Busting Black Myths: The Truth About Our First Peoples.
New Matilda
You could get drunk this Australia Day, or try something different… learn about the real history of this nation. Amy McQuire helps you dip your toe in the water. It's one of the greatest myths about Aboriginal people: that before European invasion ...

The Age
'We were the first': How No Fixed Address made white Australia listen
The Age
It's the only album ever launched by an Australian prime minister, Bob Hawke doing the honours at the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne in 1982. In the same year they were the first Aboriginal band to appear on Countdown, introduced as one of Australia's most ...

SBS
10 things you should know about January 26
SBS
You should know that... The first sanctioned marriage between an Aboriginal person and a convict, Robert & Maria Lock, occurred on the 26th January 1824. This union was performed on the 26th only by coincidence and has nothing to do with 'Australia Day ...

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SBS
10 things you should know about January 26
SBS
At the meeting the following resolution was unanimously passed, "We, representing the Aborigines of Australia, assembled in conference at the Australian Hall, Sydney, on the 26th day of January, 1938, this being the 150th Anniversary of the Whiteman's ...
Should we find another day?Shepparton News

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The Northern Daily Leader
Alex dancing for her culture and country
The Northern Daily Leader
“We usually do, after School Spectacular not a fundraiser, but another concert kind of thing, and this year we are doing two performances on Australia Day,” Alex said. The 15-year-old will perform as part of the acclaimed Aboriginal Bangarra Dance ...