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Courier Mail
Waving the flag for right reasons?
Courier Mail
Last August, Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt announced that for Aboriginal Australians, January 26 is “a day of sadness and dispossession”. He was proud to see his council support change and said he hoped to see “a wave of change across the nation that ...

Courier Mail
Waving the flag for right reasons?
Courier Mail
In 1988, with the Bicentennial First Fleet re-enactment in Sydney Harbour, every state and territory agreed to celebrate Australia Day on January 26 itself, rather than with a long weekend. This was the year indigenous Australians renamed Australia Day ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Waving the flag for right reasons?
dailytelegraph.com.au
In 1988, with the Bicentennial First Fleet re-enactment in Sydney Harbour, every state and territory agreed to celebrate Australia Day on January 26 itself, rather than with a long weekend. This was the year indigenous Australians renamed Australia Day ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Waving the flag for right reasons?
dailytelegraph.com.au
Last August, Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt announced that for Aboriginal Australians, January 26 is “a day of sadness and dispossession”. He was proud to see his council support change and said he hoped to see “a wave of change across the nation that ...

International Business Times AU
Aboriginal culture centre in WA condemns photo of beheaded goannas, sends message to Indigenous hunters
International Business Times AU
An Aboriginal culture centre in remote Western Australia has condemned a photo posted on social media showing a pile of dead goannas. The post has sparked fear of animal cruelty and a clear message to Indigenous hunters to respect native animals.

'Not an animal or a plant': Putting a human face to 1967 Referendum
SBS
His show also explores specific events in recent Australian history, most notably the 2004 Palm Island riots and the scale of injustice this brought to the community. He says there has been a dramatic shift in the way the Australia sees Aboriginal ...

'Not an animal or a plant': Putting a human face to 1967 Referendum
SBS
He hopes they humanize Indigenous Australians and their struggles to the wider society. "It really rams home the idea that we're not talking about history here, we talking about the lives of Aborigines,” he says. His show also explores specific events ...

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Indigenous Artists Are Not Happy That Australia Is Selling Fake Aboriginal Souvenirs
TravelersToday
An astonishingly 80 percent of marketers in Australia was found out to be selling fake items. Sullivan and her team discovered thousands of arts and crafts that has the Aboriginal signature style to it but learned that it was created from different ...
Katter plans legislation to stop sale of fake Indigenous artABC Online
Bob Katter declares war on “fake” indigenous artworkThe Cairns Post

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TravelersToday
Indigenous Artists Are Not Happy That Australia Is Selling Fake Aboriginal Souvenirs
TravelersToday
An astonishingly 80 percent of marketers in Australia was found out to be selling fake items. Sullivan and her team discovered thousands of arts and crafts that has the Aboriginal signature style to it but learned that it was created from different ...
Bob Katter declares war on “fake” indigenous artworkThe Cairns Post
Katter plans legislation to stop sale of fake Indigenous artABC Online

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ABC Online
Katter plans legislation to stop sale of fake Indigenous art
ABC Online
Organisations, including the Indigenous Art Code and Arts Law Centre, want a licensing scheme in place before the Commonwealth Games next year bring an anticipated flood of knock-off work. Mr Katter said he would introduce a private member's bill when ...

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ABC Online
Budj Bim Cultural Landscape: Ancient Aboriginal site a step closer to UNESCO World Heritage status
ABC Online
If the nomination is successful, Budj Bim would be the Australia's 20th World Heritage site and the only place listed solely for its Indigenous cultural value. It marks a significant turning point for the Gunditjmara traditional owners who have worked ...

ABC Online
Budj Bim Cultural Landscape: Ancient Aboriginal site a step closer to UNESCO World Heritage status
ABC Online
The Federal Government has submitted a nomination for the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape at Lake Condah to be included on Australia's World Heritage Tentative List. If the nomination is successful, Budj Bim would be the Australia's 20th World Heritage ...

ABC Online
Australia Day and the Enduring Power of White Supremacy
ABC Online
Thus the new Parliament of Australia dedicated its earliest energies to enacting white supremacy in law: excluding Aboriginal people from voting in the new nation, restricting immigration and forcibly expelling thousands of Pacific Islander labourers ...

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Vale to artist who saw Aboriginal Australia with Holocaust eyes
ArtsHub (subscription)
The article reported a court hearing in Oodnadatta over a station manager who had chained his Aboriginal workers to a tree. Aborigines was Bergner's last painting in Australia of the subject, and the echoes of Nazi concentration camps in his portrayal ...

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Vale to artist who saw Aboriginal Australia with Holocaust eyes
ArtsHub (subscription)
The article reported a court hearing in Oodnadatta over a station manager who had chained his Aboriginal workers to a tree. Aborigines was Bergner's last painting in Australia of the subject, and the echoes of Nazi concentration camps in his portrayal ...

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ABC Online
Mutilated goannas spark animal cruelty fears, message to Indigenous hunters
ABC Online
A picture posted on social media showing a pile of decapitated goannas has prompted claims of cruelty and calls for Indigenous hunters to respect native animals. An Aboriginal culture centre in remote Western Australia has condemned the image of the ...

Junkee
Why Are We Fighting Islamophobia At The Expense Of Indigenous Australians?
Junkee
Earlier this week an Australia Day billboard sponsored by the Victorian government featuring an image of two young, Muslim girls was taken down after an Islamophobic backlash on social media. The sad but predictable reaction to the billboard, and the ...

Courier Mail
Stop PC bleating about January 26
Courier Mail
The move was made following discussions with some members of the Aboriginal community who saw Australia Day as celebrating the invasion of their lands. The “whatever you do, don't mention Australia Day” virus has now spread to the east coast and ...

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ABC Online
Beyond the fact of our heritage and identity should being Indigenous really matter?
ABC Online
Mr Wyatt comes from an Indigenous community in a particular part of Western Australia — what does he know about Indigenous people in outer Melbourne or southern Queensland? What is this assumption that Indigenous people somehow share the same ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Anthony Mundine slams Australia Day lamb advert
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous boxer Anthony Mundine has slammed the controversial Australia Day lamb campaign as "racist, bro", while his former teammate Wendell Sailor, who features in the advert, has defended it. Earlier this week, I sat down with Mundine for an ...

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