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SBS Australians celebrate survival of Indigenous culture SBS While Australia Day celebrates the arrival of Europeans 226 years ago, the day is also used as an opportunity to remember those who have walked the land for thousands of years and to celebrate indigenous culture. Events like the Yabun festival in ...
Mundine calls for Indigenous treaties SBS Mr Mundine is now urging Mr Abbott to do what decades of Prime Ministers before him have either been unable or unwilling to: negotiate treaties with Australia's Indigenous people. He says there should be separate treaties with each of what he calls the ...
Tony Abbott promises to recognise Aborigines as nation's first people Sydney Morning Herald The Senior Australian of the Year, former federal politician and founding co-chairman of Reconciliation Australia, Fred Chaney, said it was important to work in partnership with the indigenous community to ''enable the Aboriginal people of Australia to ...
Labor ridicules proposal by Warren Mundine for indigenous treaties The Australian Tony Abbott's chief adviser on Aboriginal affairs, Warren Mundine, proposed the idea in an Australia Day address, saying the treaties could allow indigenous Australians to "forgive'', while resolving drawn-out native title cases. But Labor's spokesman ...
Chaney: Indigenous recognition achievable The Australian Mr Chaney, co-founder of Reconciliation Australia, says Australia is now a very different place to the Australia of the 1960s, when it took a decade of campaigning to ensure the successful 1967 referendum to count indigenous Australians in the national ...
The Guardian Australia Day: Indigenous people are told to 'get over it'. It's impossible The Guardian Australians may want us to "get over it", to stop being so "sensitive". But then, why do we still set aside a day of remembrance on ANZAC day to commemorate those who risked their lives at war? And why don't we acknowledge the brave Aboriginal fighters ...
The Guardian Australia Day: Indigenous people are told to 'get over it'. It's impossible The Guardian Australians may want us to "get over it", to stop being so "sensitive". But then, why do we still set aside a day of remembrance on ANZAC day to commemorate those who risked their lives at war? And why don't we acknowledge the brave Aboriginal fighters ...
The Guardian Indigenous recognition referendum: Tony Abbott refuses to set a deadline The Guardian Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP. The prime minister has hosed down calls to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution during this parliamentary term, saying the landmark reform needs to put to the people when it is most likely to succeed. On the ...
Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award The West Australian The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal...
Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award The West Australian The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal...
Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award The West Australian The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal...
Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award Yahoo!7 News The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal...
Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award ABC Online The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal...
Voice of America Aboriginal Athlete Receives Australia's Top Civic Honor Voice of America "But in the last five years, you know, I have really changed my perception of what is Australia Day, what it is to be Australian, and for me it is about celebrating the positives that, you know, we are still here as indigenous people.” Goodes is also ...
Voice of America Aboriginal Athlete Receives Australia's Top Civic Honor Voice of America "But in the last five years, you know, I have really changed my perception of what is Australia Day, what it is to be Australian, and for me it is about celebrating the positives that, you know, we are still here as indigenous people.” Goodes is also ...