Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

SBS
NSW MP wants a 'Corroboree Day' to celebrate Indigenous Australians
SBS
NSW minister Andrew Constance has dismissed another frontbencher's idea to replace the Labour Day public holiday with a "Corroboree Day" celebrating Indigenous Australians. Senior minister David Elliott on Monday told Sydney media the existing public ...
Andrew Constance criticises proposal to replace Labour Day with indigenous dayDaily Telegraph
NSW minister David Elliott says Labour Day should be replaced with an indigenous day of celebrationNEWS.com.au
Minister suggests scrapping Labour Day… his attempt absolutely flops2GB
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ABC News
Indigenous leader and family members face court on fraud charges worth more than $650000
ABC News
Indigenous leader Geoff Clark and three of his family members faced court today on a total of 86 fraud-related charges between them connected to Indigenous organisations in south-west Victoria. Mr Clark, his wife Trudy Clark and sons Jeremy and Aaron ...

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Daily Telegraph
Andrew Constance criticises proposal to replace Labour Day with indigenous day
Daily Telegraph
“I would have thought a corroboree would be an opportunity for white Australians to learn about the contribution of indigenous australians as much as it is for indigenous Australians to celebrate their success,” Mr Elliott said. “I love Australia Day ...
Minister suggests scrapping Labour Day… his attempt absolutely flops2GB
Public holiday should be replaced with 'Corroboree' dayNews Mail

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The Islander
Our Future | Ancient knowledge may be farming's future
The Islander
As our country suffers extended drought and the sustainability in agriculture rises to the top of the news agenda, it's about time we ask where are the Indigenous voices in this discussion? We have knowledge and records showing how we use firestick ...

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Gold Coast Bulletin
NSW minister David Elliott says Labour Day should be replaced with an indigenous day of celebration
Gold Coast Bulletin
NSW Veterans Affairs Minister David Elliott believes Labour Day is no longer relevant and should be changed to celebrate indigenous Australians. “If you polled what Labour Day is, when was it established and what does it commemorate, I reckon 90 per ...

The Australian
Church to repay millions for shutting school
The Australian
Shalom Christian College was one of the few specialist indigenous schools in Australia to offer boarding places to children from remote Aboriginal and islander communities in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. But the Reverend ...

Daily Telegraph
David Elliott urging opposition to back his Labour Day holiday change
Daily Telegraph
“I would have thought a corroboree would be an opportunity for white Australians to learn about the contribution of indigenous australians as much as it is for indigenous Australians to celebrate their success,” Mr Elliott said. “I love Australia Day ...

The Cairns Post
Local Far North trio in hot New Zealand form
The Cairns Post
EMERGING Cairns talent Jakobe Hunter, Joel Matysek and Marshall Ware only had limited roles for the Australian indigenous basketball team but coach Joel Khalu says they completed them perfectly. The Australian squad wrapped up their fourth straight ...

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The Australian
Scott Morrison defends indigenous day proposal
The Australian
“I'm not saying we need another opportunity because indigenous Australians can't participate in Australia Day. Quite the contrary.” Mr Morrison said that in his own Sutherland Shire electorate of Cook, south of Sydney, a “meeting of two cultures ...
PM Morrison shifts gears on indigenous daySBS

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SBS
PM Morrison shifts gears on indigenous day
SBS
Scott Morrison has stressed the need to reconcile the arrival of the First Fleet with the contributions of indigenous people, after reopening debate about the date of Australia Day. The prime minister ripped open a can of worms last week after ...

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NEWS.com.au
Why everyday Australians should be mortified by the 'Uluru twerking' clip
NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal people are still over-represented in our jails and under-represented in positions of power, and calls to change the date of Australia Day to a less offensive spot on the calendar are routinely howled down by calls for Aboriginal people to ...

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ABC Local
Min Min lights: Is there a scientific explanation for the mysterious phenomenon?
ABC Local
Min Min lights are a mysterious phenomenon that have spooked many people in the outback of Australia. But is there any scientific proof that Min Min lights exist? Or is it simply an Aboriginal folktale that has been passed down for generations? The ...

ABC Message Stick
Remote Aboriginal community sells art, crowdfunds to have uranium-free water supply
ABC Message Stick
A remote community in Western Australia's outback is crowdfunding and selling art to raise money to fix its water supply, which has uranium levels more than twice the national health standards. Buttah Windee is 760 kilometres north-east of Perth on the ...

The Advertiser
Laine Anderson: We need to talk about shifting Australia Day
The Advertiser
If the majority of indigenous Australians support a national day of celebration – perhaps during NAIDOC week as suggested by Coalition frontbencher Ken Wyatt, an Aboriginal man from Western Australia – perhaps it's something we should explore. But then ...
'We want white people to stop celebrating the day they invaded us'SF Bay Area Indymedia

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ABC Local
Family demands police to re-examine mysterious death of Indigenous boy left on NSW train tracks
ABC Local
Professor Anthony has called on police to change their policies to ensure all mysterious deaths involving Indigenous Australians are thoroughly investigated. "I think the police need to have a proper disciplinary system where there are ramifications ...

ABC Local
Telstra debts in the hundreds of thousands accrued by just 74 remote users
ABC Local
Indigenous Australians in some of the nation's most remote communities are being handed exorbitant Telstra phone bills, with data suggesting more than $360,000 of debt has been accrued across just 74 cases in three states. Tiwi Islands woman Anne Marie ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Goodbye, Milne: let's get on with it, ABC
The Sydney Morning Herald
Instead of celebrating the Indigenous culture of our own country we fear it and shut it down, but when others show pride in their indigenous culture we applaud them. One fine day we will be as proud of Indigenous Australia as New Zealanders are of ...

The Canberra Times
Transport for Canberra brings more congestion and pollution
The Canberra Times
I applaud the suggestion that Australia should have a public holiday to celebrate Indigenous Australia (''Warning to PM any new national holiday will carry $3b price tag'', September 26, p3) and have a solution for those warning about the cost of the ...

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Herald Sun
Collingwood AFL finals star Mason Cox from Texas tells of love of Aussie outback and Aboriginal kids
Herald Sun
As an American in Australia, he had not expected to see the substandard living conditions of many Aboriginal people, or to learn of the existence of child neglect and abuse in Tennant Creek, Cox said. It was shocking to hear, just days after the ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
'Australia Day is always going to be important' Warren Mundine says
The Sydney Morning Herald
There are more pressing issues for Aboriginal people than changing the date of Australia Day, Indigenous leader Warren Mundine says. Mr Mundine, who has previously voiced his support for changing the date from January 26 but also called for a stop to ...