Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Northern Star
Australia Day is about our horrible past, so why change?
Northern Star
How did we get to a place where so much time is wasted trying to trash Australia Day? Everyone knows Aboriginal people were here for tens of thousands of years before Europeans arrived. There isn't a thinking person in Australia who doesn't understand ...

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Fraser Coast Chronicle
Mayor, Butchulla elder weigh in on Australia Day debate
Fraser Coast Chronicle
... of the region's Australia Day events. "Let's all celebrate the great things about being Australia," he said. "It's the best country in the world and we live in a great part of it." But Deputy Mayor George Seymour said he felt there should be a ...

The Cairns Post
FNQ's Yarrabah to commemorate Survival Day on January 26
The Cairns Post
The Fijian-Australian performer said he was lending his talents to Yarrabah's Survival Day event in support of changing the date. “I'm in favour of a different day being called Australia Day but in the meantime we can do our best to celebrate the ...

Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
Change the date? Councillors have their say on Australia Day
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
Cr Richie Williamson said he believed Australia Day was a day of reflection about the nation's past. "To look forward to the bright future Australia has, we must acknowledge the wrongs and shortcomings of the past," he said. "It's also a day to be ...

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Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
Change the date? Councillors have their say on Australia Day
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
Cr Richie Williamson said he believed Australia Day was a day of reflection about the nation's past. "To look forward to the bright future Australia has, we must acknowledge the wrongs and shortcomings of the past," he said. "It's also a day to be ...

NT News
Australia Day plans to go ahead in Darwin on January 26 as usual
NT News
Interstate, three councils in Victoria have opted to ignore Australia Day, out of respect for indigenous people. The movement is being pushed by Greens Senator Richard Di Natale, who says the date will be changed “this decade”. However, at a federal ...

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Greens have a template for attacking Australia Day
The Australian
If they really thought about it, indigenous Australians would realise that British settlement most likely saved them from extinction. At the time of settlement, Aborigines were living in primitive conditions. Had one or the other of the European powers ...

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The Australian
Free speech warriors cower in the face of contrary ideas
The Australian
I've grown up with January 26 as an expanding celebration of our nation, and despite sympathising with critics who say the date is hurtful to many indigenous Australians, I see it as an important marker for our modern history. I'm conservative on this ...

The Australian
Changing date of Australia Day would distort our present
The Australian
The remaining 20 per cent of indigenous Australians who suffer well-known social problems and gaps live mainly in rural and remote areas. These are the government-supported homeland communities established in the 1970s under the policies of Aboriginal ...

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The Australian
'First, finest white Australian'
The Australian
This was a First Fleet sailor standing on the finest coastline in the world, dropping his pants to show Australia's first inhabitants he was a man and not a woman or a god. Another brief moment of practical humility and goodwill conceived 230 years ago ...

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Business Insider Australia
How Spotify became the hottest thing in Australian politics this week
Business Insider Australia
Late last year, Triple J, the country's “youth” music station, announced it was shifting the date of its annual music countdown, the Hottest 100, from January 26 because of continued controversy over Australia Day, which commemorates arrival of the ...
Melbourne Music PR Company To Remain Open On Australia DaytheMusic
Spotify REMOVES Cory Bernardi's 'inappropriate and offensive' Australia Day playlist after complaints from Jimmy ...Daily Mail

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Australia Day debate risks overshadowing other Aboriginal issues: Sean Gordon
ABC Online
Prominent New South Wales Indigenous leader Sean Gordon has rebuked Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion, as the debate over whether Australia Day should be moved from the date of the landing of the first fleet. But at the same time, Sean Gordon ...

SBS
2017 a 'dismal year for Indigenous rights': Human Rights Watch
SBS
2017 was a 'particularly dismal' year for Indigenous peoples' rights, according to the Australian Director of Human Rights Watch Elaine Pearson. Once again the country is being called out for its incarceration of Indigenous peoples, particularly for ...
Human rights praise for same-sex marriageThe West Australian
Human Rights Watch says Australia needs to address 'serious shortcomings'NEWS.com.au
Australia's human rights record attacked in global report for 'serious shortcomings'The Guardian
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SBS
Man escaped NT jail after given keys to 'play with', incident not reported for 9 months
SBS
There's no denying that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are Australia's most disadvantaged group across the country. Indigenous people make up 27 per cent of the national prison population, yet only about three per cent of the overall ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Premier calls for unity, reflection on Indigenous contributions on national day
The Sydney Morning Herald
As national debate flares about changing Australia Day, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has called for unity and reflection on the importance of Australia's Indigenous heritage while also acknowledging the contribution of the nation's colonial pioneers ...
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NSW premier gives thanks to Australia
SBS
So, too, the successive waves of migrant communities, servicemen and women, and ordinary Australians who work hard to be good citizens. The daughter of Armenian immigrants, the premier spoke of her family's gratitude for the opportunities Australia had ...

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Australia Day : it's complicated
University News: The University of Western Australia
In Western Australia, Foundation Day on June 1 celebrated the arrival of white settlers in 1829. In 1935, all states adopted a common date and name for Australia Day; January 26 and by the 1940s a national public holiday was in place. “Since 1938 ...

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The Guardian
Nigel Scullion: No Indigenous person tells me they want Australia Day changed
The Guardian
The Indigenous Affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, says no Indigenous Australian has told him the date of Australia Day should be changed other than a single government adviser. Speaking on the ABC's AM program on Friday, Scullion was asked about ...

ABC Online
Nigel Scullion says Indigenous people haven't raised Australia Day date issue with him
ABC Online
"This is not something that comes up at all. "I can tell you there would be no-one, as a fact." Senator Scullion is a senator for the Northern Territory and has held the Indigenous Affairs portfolio since 2013. He acknowledged Indigenous "culture was ...
Celebrating Australia Day on 26 January like dancing on graves, says reconciliation bodyThe Guardian
Australia Day: Date never brought up by indigenous people says Nigel ScullionThe Australian
Local Indigenous leader defies The Greens on Australia DayGladstone Observer
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Westfield Matildas duo share importance of Melbourne City's Indigenous recognition events
Matildas (press release)
City's Westfield W-League and Hyundai A-League teams will come together at AAMI Park on Sunday to acknowledge the original owners on the site of the stadium, the Wurundjeri tribe, as part of a broader education of players, staff and fans on Aboriginal ...