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Herald Sun
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre applauds Kingborough Council's Australia Day date shift bid
Herald Sun
Flinders Island Council has celebrated Australia Day on an alternative date for several years. “This issue is not going to go away,” Ms Sculthorpe said. “To have an official change will require the Commonwealth to do it, but they are not in a hurry to ...

The Mercury
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre applauds Kingborough Council's Australia Day date shift bid
The Mercury
Flinders Island Council has celebrated Australia Day on an alternative date for several years. “This issue is not going to go away,” Ms Sculthorpe said. “To have an official change will require the Commonwealth to do it, but they are not in a hurry to ...

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The Mercury
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre applauds Kingborough Council's Australia Day date shift bid
The Mercury
She said Australia Day celebrated the invasion of one people's land by another people and ignored the previous 40,000 years of indigenous culture. “There has been no treaty to mark the end of hostilities, there's been no negotiation of the terms on ...

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The Guardian
Business must help with social reform: Ken Henry
The Australian
Dr Henry, the board's latest recruit, said he wanted to help new indigenous businesses on Cape York manage risk and become financially resilient. Since bowing out as Treasury secretary in 2012 he has been appointed to head the board of National ...
Noel Pearson hits out at political parties for 'welfare reform failure'The Guardian

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The Australian
18C debate: Media needs freedom to cover all indigenous affairs
The Australian
Even worse, Cronin admits that for a time the impact of section 18C meant he considered having West Australian Newspapers abandon its coverage of Aboriginal affairs. Cronin's view has been informed by his struggle to defend a cartoon by Paul Zanetti ...

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The Australian
18C debate: Media needs freedom to cover all indigenous affairs
The Australian
Even worse, Cronin admits that for a time the impact of section 18C meant he considered having West Australian Newspapers abandon its coverage of Aboriginal affairs. Cronin's view has been informed by his struggle to defend a cartoon by Paul Zanetti ...

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The Guardian
Noel Pearson hits out at political parties for 'welfare reform failure'
The Guardian
“These vampire industries have completely colonised Indigenous Australia and constitute the Australian welfare state's main response to poverty and the problems that arose from welfare dependency … there's no incentive for players to resolve the ...

SBS
Australia's newest sporting champions are an Indigenous figure skater and his Russian-born partner
SBS
Indigenous ice skater Harley Windsor from Rooty Hill in Sydney's west and his Russian-born partner Ekaterina (Katia) Alexandrovskaya made history at the Junior Grand Prix event in Tallinn, Estonia on September 30 when they won the pairs title, beating ...

The Guardian
Bill Leak cartoon on Indigenous parents reflects situation in WA, says police chief
The Guardian
“To all the hardworking, loving Aboriginal parents across Western Australia, I commend your resilience in being strong role models for our children in the face of constant struggles you encounter on a daily basis. To all the hardworking, loving non ...

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Perth Now
From cosy cove to super city
Perth Now
She said while Unknown Land specifically referred to the “European eyes” viewing Australia for the first time, the exhibition acknowledged the Aboriginals who owned and lived on the land before settlement. Painted in 1850 by Edmund Henderson, who was ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous designers show their fashions on Adelaide catwalk
ABC Online
Through textiles and design, the ancient culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has hit the catwalk in Adelaide. Several Indigenous fashion designers have created collections which are part of this year's Adelaide Fashion Festival. Elisa ...

ABC Online
Indigenous designers show their fashions on Adelaide catwalk
ABC Online
"Dilly bags were really important for our people so I've adapted the techniques of dilly bags into clothing," she said. Ms Carmichael, a descendant of the Ngugi people from Quandamooka saltwater country in eastern Australia, previously was a painter ...

Queerty
Australia's First Gay Aboriginal Politician Makes Impassioned Case For Marriage Equality
Queerty
It's insane, but somehow Australia doesn't yet have marriage equality — and they might not for many more years, due to an acute lack of political leadership. Now, the country's first openly gay Aboriginal legislator is expressing his (entirely ...

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The Australian
Noel Pearson: 'radical centre' can solve indigenous issues
The Australian
Paul Keating was the radical centre's greatest exponent in Australia, while John Howard was the “great manager of the centre”. Mr Pearson said the causes of indigenous disadvantage and poverty were a subject of “great convulsion”. “Though historical ...

The Mercury
Council considers Australia Day shift
The Mercury
“We've got to be sensitive to our Aboriginal ancestors, but at the same time Australia was established on January 26. “We need to be inclusive and take into consideration all aspects. “At the end of the day we are one and it's one Australian people ...

Armidale Express
Studies show diversity in Aboriginal peoples
Armidale Express
"The genetic diversity among Aboriginal Australians is amazing,” co-author Dr Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, from the Universities of Copenhagen and Bern said. "Because the continent has been populated for such a long time, we find groups from south-western ...

ABC Online
Boxing Day 1866 Aboriginal team v MCC remembered 150 years on at MCG
ABC Online
They were there as Cricket Australia announced measures to help celebrate the 1866 Boxing Day Test when its 2016 version rolls around this year. On the same ground, but in a very different world, 150 years ago, a team of Aboriginal men took on the ...
Australia's Boxing Day Test to honour 1866 Aboriginal XITheSportsCampus.com
Artwork to mark Boxing Day celebrations | cricket.com.aucricket.com.au
Boxing Day Test honours indigenous playersSBS

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Catholic Leader
Indigenous culture should be in Australian classrooms, graduating Catholic Torres Strait student says
Catholic Leader
INDIGENOUS high school graduate Sahamar Ruben wants Australia's education curriculum to include studies in Indigenous culture for the sake of non-indigenous students. Miss Ruben, a Torres Strait Islander student from St Peter Claver College, Riverview, ...

The Age
Boxing Day Test will honour Indigenous players
The Age
Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland is hoping that a commemorative tour of England will encourage another Indigenous player into the Test ranks. Australia hasn't had an Indigenous player since fast bowler Jason Gillespie, who played his last Test ...
Boxing Day 1866 Aboriginal team v MCC remembered 150 years on at MCGABC Online
Artwork to mark Boxing Day celebrations | cricket.com.aucricket.com.au
Australia's Boxing Day Test to honour 1866 Aboriginal XITheSportsCampus.com

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Boxing Day Test will honour Indigenous players
The Sydney Morning Herald
Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland is hoping that an upcoming commemorative tour of England will encourage another Indigenous player into the Test ...
Artwork to mark Boxing Day celebrations | cricket.com.aucricket.com.au
Commonwealth Bank Boxing Day Test to honour 1866 Aboriginal XIWisden India

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