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Hijab billboard campaign success sees signs booked across Victoria
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Many Indigenous Australians identify Australia Day, held every January 26, as Invasion Day, or the day that the British First Fleet arrived and took over the land Indigenous people had occupied for more than 40,000 years. The page added that the ...
Australia Day billboards with girls in hijabs to appear nationwide after campaign raises $130000The Guardian
More than $100000 raised to reinstate Australia Day billboard with Muslim girls, but not all are happyThe Sydney Morning Herald

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New Matilda
The National Hoax: How Did Queensland Ever Fall For Australia Day?
New Matilda
There is something absurd about celebrating Australia Day on January 26th. It's even crazier in this important year when there is intense national debate about Treaties, Sovereignty and how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people want to be ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
More than $100000 raised to reinstate Australia Day billboard with Muslim girls, but not all are happy
The Sydney Morning Herald
... to ignore or 'whitewash Australia's dark past' and the injustices committed against the first Australians," and added that the two girls whose image attracted an Islamophobic backlash were also not seeking to be disrespectful to the Indigenous ...
Hijab billboard campaign success sees signs booked across VictoriaSBS
Australia Day billboards with girls in hijabs to appear nationwide after campaign raises $130000The Guardian

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The Sydney Morning Herald
More than $100000 raised to reinstate Australia Day billboard with Muslim girls, but not all are happy
The Sydney Morning Herald
It took just a matter of hours for a crowdfunding project launched on Wednesday to reach $100,000, surpassing its original goal of $50,000 to fund a campaign for racial and religious tolerance. The campaign was started after a billboard advertising an ...

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Vale Yosl Bergner- artist who saw Aboriginal Australia with ...
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Yosl Bergner spent only 11 years of a long life in Australia but his understanding of the Indigenous tragedy made him an important Australian painter.

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Vale Yosl Bergner- artist who saw Aboriginal Australia with Holocaust eyes
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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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Marrugeku is an un-paralleled presence in Australia today, dedicated to Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians working together to develop new dance theatre languages.Marrugeku builds bridges and breaks down walls between urban and remote ...

The Guardian
Key Wyatt: new minister to tackle how Indigenous health funding used
The Guardian
Improving social determinants of health would help extend lifespan and achieve parity with all Australians. On Wednesday night Wyatt told ABC's 7.30 he still believed Australia was on track to achieve recognition of Indigenous Australians in the ...

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Key Wyatt: new minister to tackle how Indigenous health funding used
The Guardian
He said he and the other Indigenous members of parliament held their positions on merit and that sent “a very strong message to young Aboriginal Australians that their hopes and aspirations can be achieved in many arenas”. “The ministerial appointment ...

The West Australian
Australia Day opposition 'hurts our people': Isaacs
The West Australian
In a speech to be delivered in Newman on January 26, the ambassador and former chairman of Australia Day WA council will urge Aboriginal people to “get past the hurts of the past”. Dr Isaacs said the solution was to make Australia Day more of a ...

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Ken Wyatt named as first Aboriginal minister
The Australian
Mr Wyatt said yesterday that his promotion meant he was now able to drive forward changes to improve outcomes for indigenous and older Australians on his own authority. Outlining the approach he would take to the job, Mr Wyatt said he hoped to better ...
Ken Wyatt becomes first Indigenous minister under Malcolm Turnbull's reshuffleABC Online

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Why the Australia Day lamb ad gets my goat
dailytelegraph.com.au
Australia Day is un-Australian. Worse, the new ad actually puts the boot into Australia Day. Blind Freddy knows that the politically correct mob are out to destroy Australia Day. Indigenous activists (as opposed to normal, everyday indigenous Aussies ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Green grubs in Australia Day attack
dailytelegraph.com.au
In a Facebook post, Left Renewal incited its growing band of supporters to take part in “seven days of resistance in the lead up to Invasion Day” — an event organised by a group calling itself the “Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance”. “Australia ...
Far-left Greens group condemns Australia DayDaily Mail

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Courier Mail
Australia will still make stuff after Holden – Sinodinos
Courier Mail
West Australian MP Ken Wyatt will become the first Indigenous Australian to serve in the federal ministry. He will be sworn in as Minister for Aged Care and Indigenous Health. Victorian MP Michael Sukkar has been appointed Assistant Minister to ...

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Queensland Country Life
Lamb controversy leads to record views
Queensland Country Life
The MLA advert confronts the controversy around hosting the national day on January 26 - a date marking the start of colonialism and the dispossession of Indigenous Australians. It starts with three Indigenous Australians who remark on being the "first ...

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ABC Online
Ken Wyatt becomes first Indigenous minister under Malcolm Turnbull's reshuffle
ABC Online
"Just as Ken was the first Indigenous person to be elected to the House of Representatives and the first to be appointed to the executive of the Commonwealth Government, he is now the first Indigenous person appointed to the Commonwealth ministry," Mr ...
Australia names first indigenous ministerYahoo7 News
Ken Wyatt to become Australia's first Indigenous ministerThe Guardian
Greg Hunt replaces Sussan Ley as health ministerThe Australian
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South China Morning Post
Ken Wyatt becomes first Indigenous minister under Malcolm Turnbull's reshuffle
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He said he did not believe Indigenous health challenges were intractable and called for a wider approach to health care services. "I think we've got to look at how the whole of the health sector throws its weight behind the health of Aboriginal people ...
Conservative MP Ken Wyatt is Australia's first Aboriginal ministerSouth China Morning Post
Malcolm Turnbull gives nod to conservatives with Sukkar promotionThe Australian Financial Review
Australia PM Turnbull names new health minister, first indigenous minister in Cabinet tweakThe Straits Times
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The Flinders News
Celebrate Australia Day
The Flinders News
However, In recent years, efforts have been made to include all Australians, and in 2013, the Australian flag and Aboriginal flag were raised together on the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the first time on Australia Day. “Australia Day is a time to come ...

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South China Morning Post
Conservative MP Ken Wyatt is Australia's first Aboriginal minister
South China Morning Post
Australia on Wednesday appointed its first indigenous minister, a former labourer who has credited education for his rise from humble beginnings in a country where Aborigines remain among the most disadvantaged. Ken Wyatt became Minister for Aged ...
Ken Wyatt becomes first Indigenous minister under Malcolm Turnbull's reshuffleABC Online
Australia PM Turnbull names new health minister, first indigenous minister in Cabinet tweakThe Straits Times
Aborigine promoted in Australian Cabinet reshuffleSalon

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SBS
Campaign launches to restore the Australia Day hijab billboard
SBS
"The billboard is legitimising an interpretation of this nation's history that denies the experiences of its Indigenous communities and their ongoing struggles around this day." Many Indigenous Australians identify Australia Day, held every January 26, ...
Australia Day billboard image showing women in hijabs taken down after threats of violenceNEWS.com.au
Australia Day Muslim themed billboard removed after threatsRT

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