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The Age
Stan Grant speech: Aboriginal experience surgically targeted at national psyche
The Age
The blistering, eloquent and very sad speech from Stan Grant – delivered in a debate forum last October, and posted by the Ethics Centre on its website ahead of Australia Day – laid out specific problems facing Indigenous Australians, most shamefully ...
Grant: 'The Australian Dream remains outside our grasp'Deutsche Welle

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The Boston Globe
Illuminating indigenous Australian art at Harvard
The Boston Globe
“Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art From Australia,” opening at the Harvard Art Museums on Feb. 5, dares museum visitors to imagine time in ways most of us are not used to. It invites us to see as indigenous Australians do — weaving time ...
Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from AustraliaE-Flux

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The Age
Justice should be Australia's dream
The Age
If you are yet to take the 8½ minutes to watch journalist Stan Grant speak on the topic of "racism destroying the Australian dream," make the time. His words are searing, a much-needed jolt to national complacency towards Aboriginal Australia, and a ...

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The Age
Justice should be Australia's dream
The Age
If you are yet to take the 8½ minutes to watch journalist Stan Grant speak on the topic of "racism destroying the Australian dream," make the time. His words are searing, a much-needed jolt to national complacency towards Aboriginal Australia, and a ...

Australia Day Fireworks stored on Registered Aboriginal Site without consultation
The Stringer
Invasion Day protests speak of the sadness felt by Aboriginal people when Australians celebrate the date that the British laid claim to their land. For them this date also marks the beginning of Australia's policies and practices of genocide against ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal communities hold the key to their future
Sydney Morning Herald
On almost every measure – health, schooling, housing, income, crime and incarceration – Aboriginal Australia trails non-Aboriginal Australia. The Closing the Gap strategy appears to have stalled. The last report showed progress on only two of the ...
Noel Pearson 'regrets' coup against Tony Abbott, says Indigenous affairs in 'deep crisis'ABC Online
Noel Pearson says 1788 is 'one of three' defining moments for AustraliaSBS
Noel Pearson regrets Tony Abbott demise as prime ministerThe Australian
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New Matilda
'In Straya, We Speak English', Said The Australian Flag Clad Patriot to The Aboriginal Pitjantjatjara Speaker
New Matilda
But amidst all the chaos, there's one thing that was said that should be required reading for all Australians. This blog post from an Aboriginal woman in South Australia. And a spoiler alert, NM readers are probably going to react most strongly to this ...

New Matilda
Another Preventable Death: Ms Dhu Vs WA Police And Australia-At-Large
New Matilda
Despite an extensive (and expensive – around $40m) Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1990, Aboriginal Australians still die in custody on a regular basis. The Royal Commission included 339 recommendations in its conclusion; ...

ABC Online
Australia's largest open-cut zinc mine ships final load from Karumba amid questions on legacy of landmark native ...
ABC Online
The legacy of a landmark native title agreement in far north-west Queensland is in question as Australia's largest open-cut zinc mine comes to a close. Mining company MMG this week exported its final shipment of zinc concentrate from Karumba, marking ...

The Advertiser
Aboriginal mother told to 'speak English'
The Advertiser
Confronted with this just hours after singing star Jessica Mauboy kicked off Australia Day celebrations by singing the national anthem in both English and aboriginal dialects from the top of Sydney Harbour Bridge, Elizabeth Close has told how in shock ...

The Advertiser
Aboriginal mother told to 'speak English'
The Advertiser
AN indigenous woman talking to her toddler daughter in her native language in Adelaide on Tuesday was told: “It's Australia Day, we speak English in Australia”. Confronted with this just hours after singing star Jessica Mauboy kicked off Australia Day ...

Pedestrian TV
Nakkiah Lui Slams Non-Aboriginals For Nude 'Art' At Invasion Day March
Pedestrian TV
"It was the most inclusive and beautiful Australia Day behavior I have seen today," said photographer Adam Ferguson, who captured the image that's totally enraged Nakkiah and shared it to his Instagram. "Here they are just after, wrapped in an ...

Invasion Day race-baiting does nothing to help Indigenous disadvantage
On Line opinion
Few, if any Australians would dispute the historical injustices perpetrated against Australia's indigenous population. So why should we have a problem with the growing minority that choose to infuse Australia Day with an atmosphere of division and ...

Anglicannews
Cathedral consults on Aboriginal memorials
Anglicannews
[ACNS] St Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia, has begun a consultation on the possible installation of two memorials to commemorate the role that Aboriginal people have made to Australia's armed forces. One memorial would commemorate Aboriginal ...

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Daily Mail
Elizabeth Close 'abused for speaking an indigenous dialect to her daughter'
Daily Mail
An Aboriginal woman says she was the victim of a racist attack on Australia Day when a stranger yelled 'speak English in Australia' after she spoke to her toddler in an indigenous dialect. Artist and nurse Elizabeth Close was running errands at an ...

MuslimVillage.com (press release) (blog)
Encounters: Aboriginal Australians and Islam
MuslimVillage.com (press release) (blog)
This unequal, master/worker experience between Muslims and the colonial Australian society stands in contrast to the first encounter between Muslim people and the Aboriginal Australians an engagement that had occurred 300 years before the arrival of ...

SBS
Noel Pearson says 1788 is 'one of three' defining moments for Australia
SBS
“It is these dates that speak to the three parts of Australia, our Indigenous heritage, the fact of our British colonisation and the removal of discrimination against migrants,” Mr Pearson said. He adds Australia Day, January 26, would not be fuelled ...
Indigenous recognition should come firstSky News Australia
Noel Pearson regrets Tony Abbott demise as prime ministerThe Australian
The deep Indigenous crisisSydney Morning Herald
ABC Online -The Guardian -NEWS.com.au
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ABC Online
WA Supreme Court orders probe into Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation
ABC Online
The governance of an Indigenous body in Western Australia's Pilbara will be investigated by the Supreme Court after allegations its directors have not been validly appointed. The issue is the latest in a long-running dispute between the Yindjibarndi ...

The Roar
Wallabies should use Indigenous Advance Australia Fair
The Roar
I was enjoying my Australia Day breakfast yesterday when I heard Jess Mauboy's rendition, from the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, of Advance Australia Fair. It was mind-blowing. She started with the words of the anthem in the local indigenous ...
Jess sings two versions of anthemdailytelegraph.com.au
Jessica Mauboy sings Indigenous version of national anthem on Australia Day – videoThe Guardian
Jessica Mauboy sings indigenous version of national anthem on Australia DayDaily Mail

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Stuff.co.nz
Thousands rally for Aboriginal rights, denounce Australia Day
Stuff.co.nz
While most Australians celebrate Australia Day - which marks the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 - many Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders view it as a day of mourning, marking the dispossession of their land, and refer to the day as ...