Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

SBS
'Australia Day of shame': Thousands march in 'Invasion Day' protests
SBS
Two inner-Melbourne councils - Yarra and Darebin - were banned by the federal government from hosting citizenship ceremonies after controversially voting not to recognise Australia Day on January 26. Those councils, along with Moreland City Council ...
Calls for greater diversity in Australia Day honoursNEWS.com.au
Australia Day: Celebrations and protests across the nationThe West Australian

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ABC Online
What Central Australia's remote Aboriginal communities think of Australia Day
ABC Online
Celebrating Australia Day on the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet "celebrates illegal occupation", an Aboriginal community leader says. Yuendumu leader and Warlpiri researcher Simon Japangardi Fisher is one of three Aboriginal leaders in ...
NSW Labor plans to sign treaty recognising Indigenous ownershipThe Guardian
Celebrating Indigenous finalists in the Australian of the Year AwardsSBS
Australia Day 2018: Richard Di Natale says indigenous not better off from settlementThe Australian
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NEWS.com.au
30 surprising facts about Australia according to McCrindle Research and the ABS
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Mr McCrindle added that Australia is also much more multicultural than it has ever been before. “The latest census data showed us a changing of the guard, not only in that one in three Australians are born overseas, but more overseas born Australians ...

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The Guardian
Invasion Day protests: human rights observers to monitor Melbourne rally
The Guardian
Human rights observers are to attend the Invasion Day rally in Melbourne on Friday to monitor the way police respond to the protesters, Amnesty International has said. The Melbourne rally is the largest of those held around the country on 26 January ...

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SBS
Australia Day 2018: Celebrations and protests expected across the country
SBS
Citizenship ceremonies and backyard barbecues are bound to draw big crowds, but not all will be celebrating this year. NSW Governor David Hurley has helped kick-off Australia Day celebrations in the state with a speech acknowledging the controversy ...
Calls for greater diversity in Australia Day honoursNEWS.com.au

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SBS
Australia Day 2018: Celebrations and marches expected across the country
SBS
The governor was joined by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and about a 1000 people at Barangaroo on the harbour under a grey sky for the indigenous WugulOra morning ceremony to mark Australia Day. It included dancers, a smoking ceremony, the singing of ...

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ABC Online
What these Indigenous actors, writers and thinkers will be doing on January 26
ABC Online
Depending on who you are or how you feel about Australia Day, January 26 can be a cause for celebration, protest or barely worth a comment. Recent public debate has underscored how the day can be a source of pain or anger for many of Australia's ...
NSW Labor plans to sign treaty recognising Indigenous ownershipThe Guardian
Australia Day explained: Why it's really held on 26 January and the push to change the dateSBS (blog)
'About the future and the past': NSW Labor to ink treaty with Indigenous AustraliansThe Sydney Morning Herald
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The Conversation AU
How to have a better conversation about Australia Day
The Conversation AU
You could read this as Abbott emphasising a narrative of “Australia as a success story”. And while he acknowledges in the article that “not everything's perfect in contemporary Australia” - referring to the disadvantage experienced by many Indigenous ...

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The Guardian
Morning mail: quantum physicist named Australian of the year
The Guardian
We have an editorial outlining the Guardian view on Australia Day, and Indigenous author Alexis Wright writes movingly about living in a nation that celebrates the colonisation of your ancestors' land. The British prime minister, Theresa May, has said ...
Australian of the Year Michelle Simmons: quantum leap for women in scienceThe Australian
Top scientist vying for atomic victorySBS

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The Cairns Post
CQU lecturer, Cairns woman, Yidinji elder Henrietta Marrie receives Order of Australia
The Cairns Post
The Yidinji woman will be made a member of the Order of Australia today for her significant service to the community as an advocate for indigenous cultural heritage and intellectual property rights, and to education. The CQU indigenous engagement ...

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Celebrations and protests on Australia Day
SBS
Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove is urging Australians to embrace Australia Day to celebrate the rich history and culture of indigenous people and the contributions of migrants. As disagreement intensifies over shifting the national day from the ...

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The Australian
Abandoning the nation's special day unwise and foolish, says Geoffrey Blainey
The Australian
It is understood Greens leader Richard Di Natale, lower-house Melbourne MP Adam Bandt, Victorian state MP Lidia Thorpe and other Victorian Greens MPs will attend an event in Melbourne to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Aboriginal activist William ...

The Guardian
Evonne Goolagong-Cawley honoured for tennis and Indigenous advocacy
The Guardian
Forty-seven years after she came to international prominence by winning both the 1971 French Open and Wimbledon crowns, Evonne Goolagong-Cawley has been made a companion of the Order of Australia, the nation's highest honour. Recognised for her ...
7-time major winner Goolagong Cawley gets Australian honorsUSA TODAY

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The Guardian
Victorian opposition leader tells councils to celebrate Australia day or face the sack
The Guardian
Guy's comments follow weeks of national debate around the push to change the date of Australia Day away from the anniversary of the arrival of the first fleet, a day known by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Invasion Day. A survey ...
State opposition to sack councils for not celebrating Australia DayThe Age
Vic councils stand firm on Aust Day shunSBS

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The Advertiser
Our history is not perfect. Let's move on
The Advertiser
However bleak some parts of our history are, they are a vision of peace compared to the relentless brutality of Mexico's colonial history. From 1492 onwards, the many indigenous nations of Mexico and Central America found themselves in a state of ...

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NEWS.com.au
Rugby league legend Johnathan Thurston says Australia Day date change inevitable
NEWS.com.au
“I believe the first step could be an open forum involving our key political and cultural leaders … representatives from all sides of the debate. “I believe this would be a good starting point.” Tensions have been boiling ahead of Australia Day ...
Johnathan Thurston backs calls for conversation on changing Australia Day dateABC Online
Australia Day date: Johnathan Thurston calls for changeThe Australian
Who are the Australian of the Year award nominees?SBS
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ABC Online
Johnathan Thurston backs calls for conversation on changing Australia Day date
ABC Online
Johnathan Thurston believes Australians need to be more informed about why the date of Australia Day is hurtful to Indigenous people. Thurston, 36, who is set to retire from rugby league as one of the sport's greats after the upcoming season, also ...
Rugby league legend Johnathan Thurston says Australia Day date change inevitableNEWS.com.au
Australia Day date: Johnathan Thurston calls for changeThe Australian
Australian of the Year to be announced tonightTen Eyewitness News
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ABC Online
Australia Day: 'Mixed emotions' as Aboriginal councils reveal opposing views on celebrations
ABC Online
"There are a lot of mixed emotions [on January 26]." Cr Lacey said the people of Palm Island would celebrate the day "with open arms" if it were celebrated on another date. "There's commentary about Sorry Day. It's about the destruction of children ...
NSW Labor plans to sign treaty recognising Indigenous ownershipThe Guardian
'About the future and the past': NSW Labor to ink treaty with Indigenous AustraliansThe Sydney Morning Herald
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price: It's shallow, meaningless, emotional rhetoric unrepresentative of the view of all ...The Advertiser
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SBS
My Australia: The country's first Indigenous surgeon on confronting inequality
SBS
'My Australia' is a special SBS News series exploring cultural heritage and identity, and asking what it means to be Australian in 2018. For kids destined to become be doctors, Grace Kinsella's house was a good place to grow up. The Woromi woman was a ...

Daily Mail
'We thought they were going to be massacred': 80 years since forced First Fleet re-enactment
ABC Online
"Then followed in the week before the celebrations an amusing battle of tactics between the Protection Board officers and the executive of the Aborigines' Progressive Association … Some Sydney relatives of a Peter Johnson from Menindee tried to see ...
Australia Day or Invasion Day? Thousands plan to protestReuters
Should we really feel guilty about celebrating Australia Day? The REAL story behind the white settlement on January ...Daily Mail

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