Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Indigenous empowerment the real issue, not Australia Day's date
The Australian
Pieces this year and last by Anthony Dillon, Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price focused on the need for real action to lift First Australians from poverty and disease before worrying about celebration dates. But activists in paid not-for-profit ...

Aboriginal activist called a 'hypocritical hater'
The Australian
An Aboriginal activist who called for Australia to be burnt to the ground during an incendiary address to an “invasion day” rally has been described as a hypocritical hater and faces calls to be dumped from her leadership role with a government-funded ...

The Australian
Labor split over Albanese plan for joint referendum
The Australian
The Opposition Leader's office would not be drawn on Mr Albanese's idea, revealed in The Weekend Australian, which contradicted Labor policy. Mr Albanese proposed the joint referendum as a way of creating a national “platform of unity'' and ending ...

Daily Telegraph
Anthony Mundine brings his Muslim beliefs and plan to change Australia to the I'm A Celeb jungle
Daily Telegraph
“Well Donald Trump is President, it is very realistic. I could be the next Prime Minister and I'd do you all right too,” the 42-year-old former rugby league player told News Corp. “I definitely would not be the conventional, I would be the outsider. If ...

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ABC Online
Hockey-like sport 'dumbung' played by Indigenous Australians lays the field for Kookaburras-Dutch clash
ABC Online
As the Australian and Dutch men's hockey teams clashed over the weekend in the West Australian town of Narrogin, locals pointed with pride to their own ancient Indigenous ball-and-stick game that closely resembles the modern Olympic sport. The ...

The North West Star
Frank Lawler gets Australia Day sporting award
The North West Star
DESERVING: Frank Lawler receives the Mount Isa Sportsperson of the year award from Crs George Fortune and Peta MacRae. Photo: Derek Barry. Frank Lawler likes to do his sport away from the glare of publicity. Whether it's helping out kids in the boxing ...

The Conversation AU
FactCheck: can native title 'only exist if Australia was settled, not invaded'?
The Conversation AU
The High Court of Australia in the 1992 Mabo decision found that an Australian court does not have the power to challenge the basis on which the English claimed sovereignty in 1788. The status of Australian land law, including native title, is a ...

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The Guardian
Hottest 100: Californian rapper Kendrick Lamar wins Triple J poll
The Guardian
With band members of Samoan, Fijian and Korean backgrounds, there are more Australian people of colour in the now London-based band than there have been in all previous Hottest 100 top tens put together. And while an Indigenous artist is yet to break ...
Canberrans enjoy Triple J Hottest 100 countdown pool party at the Duxton HotelThe Canberra Times

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The Advertiser
Warren Mundine: The idea we can't celebrate Australia because of certain people and events in history is wrong
The Advertiser
Indigenous Australians who support keeping January 26 were racially abused, even physically threatened, as were also people like me who support a change of date but don't believe it's a priority and defend those who disagree. We've been accused of ...
Matt Cunningham: Australia Day s**t fight doesn't address most pressing issuesNT News
Mills' message having profound impact through Gaels, SpursESPN.co.uk
Thousands protest 'Invasion Day' on Australia's national dayBorneo Bulletin Online
Chronicle -Kaplan Herald
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Aussie Opposition calls for Australia Day referendum on republic, indigenous recognition
Xinhua
CANBERRA, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has called for a joint referendum on indigenous recognition in the Australian Constitution and Australia becoming a republic. Anthony Albanese, former deputy prime minister and the man ...

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NT News
Matt Cunningham: Australia Day s**t fight doesn't address most pressing issues
NT News
I'm pretty agnostic about changing the date of Australia Day. I think I fall into the 56 per cent of Australians who don't really care. I reckon that number would be even higher in the Northern Territory, although to even express that opinion has ...
Australians rally to protest British 'Invasion Day'Chronicle

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Census 2016: dropouts, migrants and indigenous communities ...
The Australian
It is a figure with which we are all familiar: the unemployment rate. This simple single percentage figure is the equivalent of political kryptonite: it can be deadly for a government and for a politician if it appears in a particularly virulent and ...

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The Australian
Flags lowered to half-mast at Queensland Parliament House
The Australian
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags were lowered to half-mast at Queensland's Parliament House, contrary to official protocol, after police passed on a request from the indigenous elders at an Invasion Day march. Thousands of protesters ...

Silly to serious marks Qld's Australia Day
NEWS.com.au
"Before, they had the true history hidden from them, and a lot of them didn't realise they were disrespecting Aboriginal people," he said. Mr Fogarty called on state and federal governments to hear the voices of Indigenous Australians and "just go ...

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The Australian
Australia Day 2018: Gillian Triggs supports Aboriginal treaty
The Australian
Today's “Justice Through Treaty” event in Sydney began with a march from Redfern Park to Hyde Park in the CBD, followed by speeches from Professor Triggs and others including ACTU secretary Sally McManus, feminist academic Eva Cox, Labor MP Linda ...

Sea of indigenous flags in Sydney march
Yahoo7 News
The streets of Redfern have been transformed by a sea of red, black and yellow flags with thousands gathering in Sydney to march for indigenous rights. Organiser Ken Canning from Fighting In Resistance Equally said he hoped the Invasion Day rally would ...

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ABC Online
We asked for your earliest memory of Australia Day. These are your responses
ABC Online
"As a family, we always picnicked usually in a national park to enjoy the natural Australian bush rather than the usual urban/suburban day-to-day environment. So I guess I've always associated it with the Australia as it was pre-colonisation. I'd like ...

Courier Mail
Elder calls for Australia Day to become Treaty Day
Courier Mail
Mr Watson said he was surprised at the intensity of this year's date debate. He said last week he expected at least 1500 people to turn up for tomorrow's Invasion Day march, which has grown steadily every year since it started in Brisbane in 1970 ...

Illawarra Mercury
Illawarra Aboriginal leader says leave Australia Day as is | Illawarra ...
Illawarra Mercury
Contrary to many in his indigenous community, Uncle Richard Davis believes Australia Day should remain being celebrated on January 26.

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NEWS.com.au
Malcolm Turnbull opens Australia Day speech with indigenous greeting
NEWS.com.au
Last year he spoke in Ngunnawal in an address to unveil the ninth annual Closing the Gap report, and he also opened his speech for the Australian of the Year Awards last night using the language. During his Australia Day address, Mr Turnbull urged ...
Australia Day: Turnbull dismisses calls for change to flagThe Australian
Malcolm Turnbull says Australian flag will never change, rejecting new designThe Guardian
Few back changing Australia Day: TurnbullThe West Australian

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