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Gympie Times
Is the new lamb ad the solution to Australia Day?
Gympie Times
It stars three young indigenous Australians who have organised a barbecue on the beach. Swiftly, the "guests" arrive. In a salute to those who mourn "Invasion Day" and what might be a middle finger to those who claim it never happened, early white ...

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Sky News Australia
AFL star's father gets Aboriginal certificate
Sky News Australia
Richmond Tigers AFL star Dustin Martin has been issued with a certificate of Aboriginality as part of a renewed bid for his father to be allowed to return home to Australia. Dustin Martin's father Shane was born in New Zealand to New Zealand parents ...

Sky News Australia
AFL star's father gets Aboriginal certificate
Sky News Australia
Richmond Tigers AFL star Dustin Martin has been issued with a certificate of Aboriginality as part of a renewed bid for his father to be allowed to return home to Australia. Dustin Martin's father Shane was born in New Zealand to New Zealand parents ...

Green Left Weekly
Australia Day: Change the date
Green Left Weekly
They are not too fussed by academics and progressive minded people acknowledging that modern Australia was founded on the violent dispossession of its Indigenous peoples when talking among themselves. They do not care if Indigenous people ...

ABC Online
Australia Day lamb advertisement draws criticism from Indigenous groups
ABC Online
The annual television advert encouraging people to eat lamb on Australia Day is often controversial, and it seems this year is no different, with members of the Indigenous community describing it as "highly offensive" and "disgusting". While Meat and ...

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ABC Online
Australia Day lamb advertisement draws criticism from Indigenous groups
ABC Online
The annual television advert encouraging people to eat lamb on Australia Day is often controversial, and it seems this year is no different, with members of the Indigenous community describing it as "highly offensive" and "disgusting". While Meat and ...
Is the new lamb ad the solution to Australia Day?Gympie Times

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Christian Science Monitor
In Australia, mentors help Aboriginal teens create new futures
Christian Science Monitor
And, some Aboriginal experts say, the egalitarian relationship between the youth and their often non-indigenous mentors is helping dissolve racial stereotypes as Australia's national conversation around race and history evolves. “Aboriginal people are ...

Christian Science Monitor
In Australia, mentors help Aboriginal teens create new futures
Christian Science Monitor
“We have a saying: No shame at AIME,” says Jason Burton, AIME's center manager for Curtin and Murdoch Universities in Western Australia, at the Clontarf AIME grade 12 graduation night. '“We like to say 'indigenous equals success' – we want to say, 'You ...

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Museum as a force for cultural revival
ArtsHub (subscription)
'The TMAG is one of the oldest museums in Australia and so has had a difficult history in the way it treated the Tasmanian Aboriginal community in the past. More recently the museum has slowly but steadily been building better relationships with the ...

Warwick Daily News
Karen Brooks: Forget the haters. The new lamb ad is a gem ...
dailytelegraph.com.au
Its a sign of both our consumer society and sensitivity around Australian nationalism and how and who best expresses this that the Meat and Livestock ...
Is the new lamb ad the solution to Australia Day?Warwick Daily News

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Perth Now
Forget the haters. The new lamb ad is a gem
Perth Now
It stars three young indigenous Australians who have organised a barbecue on the beach. Swiftly, the “guests” arrive. In a salute to those who mourn “Invasion Day” and what might be a middle finger to those who claim it never happened, early white ...

Courier Mail
Forget the haters. The new lamb ad is a gem
Courier Mail
It stars three young indigenous Australians who have organised a barbecue on the beach. Swiftly, the “guests” arrive. In a salute to those who mourn “Invasion Day” and what might be a middle finger to those who claim it never happened, early white ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney what's on guide: eight days of top attractions
The Sydney Morning Herald
ART Jason Wing, whose work is strongly influenced by his dual Chinese and Aboriginal heritage, curates the group exhibition Black Mirror (until Jan 29), a survey of what it means to be Aboriginal in contemporary Australian society. 11am-5pm, 107 ...

The Mercury
Australia Day is Invasion Day. We should not celebrate it
The Mercury
So it's never really surprised me that I, along with a large portion of our population, indigenous and otherwise, have never been keen to adorn ourselves in Australian flag paraphernalia and start swilling booze with reckless abandonment. Many ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
We shouldn't move Australia Day, but we must change the tone of the day
The Sydney Morning Herald
If the date were to be changed, it would cause more harm than good for Indigenous relations. Rightly or wrongly, it would confirm in the minds of many Australians the Hanson narrative about one culture being elevated above another. Far from encouraging ...

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Coffs Coast Advocate
A marvel of Aboriginal art on dislay in Coffs
Coffs Coast Advocate
Djon Mudine was Research Professor at Minpaku Museum of Ethnology in Osaka between 2005-2006 and served as the Senior Curator for the Gallery of Aboriginal Australia, National Museum of Australia, Canberra until 2000, after serving as Senior Curator ...

Coffs Coast Advocate
A marvel of Aboriginal art on dislay in Coffs
Coffs Coast Advocate
Djon Mudine was Research Professor at Minpaku Museum of Ethnology in Osaka between 2005-2006 and served as the Senior Curator for the Gallery of Aboriginal Australia, National Museum of Australia, Canberra until 2000, after serving as Senior Curator ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney what's on guide: eight days of top attractions
The Sydney Morning Herald
ART Jason Wing, whose work is strongly influenced by his dual Chinese and Aboriginal heritage, curates the group exhibition Black Mirror (until Jan 29), a survey of what it means to be Aboriginal in contemporary Australian society. 11am-5pm, 107 ...

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Armidale Express
Treaty Grounds of Waitangi: Visiting New Zealand's most important national monument
Armidale Express
The rock is a sacred site for Indigenous Australians and one with which their non-Indigenous compatriots can also spiritually identity – even if some of the latter still persist in climbing over it – and, at the same time, Waitangi itself represents a ...

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Taranaki Daily News
New Australia Day lamb ad isn't landing well with Indigenous Australians
Taranaki Daily News
The latest Meat and Livestock Association Australia Day ad has been widely hailed as diverse and progressive on social media, but many Indigenous Australians have reacted very differently. Ryan Griffen, creator of ABC drama Cleverman, believes the ad ...