Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Daily Telegraph
Black-on-black hate holds back progress
Daily Telegraph
Some may read that last sentence and think: “Yes, I know the racism Aboriginal people face is bad.” However, the hate and slander I'm talking about here is that which they receive from other Aboriginal people, and therefore, is not considered racism ...

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Herald Sun
James Campbell: Controversy over Australia Day catches Labor between the Greens and the Coalition
Herald Sun
Anyone could see that from the moment the ABC decided to side with them by sacking the Hottest 100 from January 26, it would be game on. This week the Greens leader Richard Di Natale upped the ante saying the day represented dispossession, theft, and ...
Australia Day: Greens to use local council numbers to lead #changethedate pushInfosurhoy

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Newcastle Herald
Australia Day's wretched past for Anglo/Celtic people seems to have been forgotten
Newcastle Herald
OTHER OPTIONS: There is much to celebrate about our rich past and great nation, but January 26 is far from the most appropriate day to do it. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers. AUSTRALIA Day is not just painful for indigenous people. The move to change the ...

SBS
These giant bunya nuts are a key Indigenous food as well as snacks for dinosaurs
SBS
Each January at the Australian Botanic Garden in Sydney's Mount Annan, the bunya pine trees begin to drop their cones. If you don't think this is a big deal, you should know that they used to be dinosaur food millions of years ago - bunya pines have ...

Gippsland Times
Hidden Perth: The story behind Australia's first free colony
Gippsland Times
There's no plaque outside 57 Murray Street in Perth's CBD, nothing to record the significant role it played in Australian history. Yet had you visited this same building anytime between 1915 and 1940, you'd have witnessed a steady stream of Indigenous ...

The Guardian
'Mob has always been there for me': Indigenous drag performers to lead Midsumma pride march
The Guardian
On 26 January, while the country celebrates, mourns or ignores Australia Day, Zac Collins-Widders will march through Melbourne in defence of his Aboriginality. Two days later, he will lead a second march at Midsumma festival in celebration of his ...

Herald Sun
A reason to change the date of Australia Day
Herald Sun
Isabel Lander and Zena Ross celebrate Australia Day Celebrations at Wagstaffe in NSW last year. (Pic: Mark Scott). Do they genuinely feel that the day Arthur Philip landed with his ships of convicts at Sydney Cove is the only proper option? I wonder ...

The Australian
Turnbull urges Shorten to defend Australia Day
The Australian
“The overwhelming majority of Australians, the vast majority, believe that Australia Day should be celebrated on the day it always has been celebrated, the 26th of January.” Linda Burney proposes replacing Queen's birthday with indigenous celebration ...
Linda Burney calls for Indigenous holiday as she criticises 'divisive' change the date movementSBS
Linda Burney warns Greens push to change Australia Day 'more divisive than helpful'The Guardian
Flags should be flown at half-mast on Australia Day, Indigenous MP says9news.com.au
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SBS (blog)
OPINION: Political divisiveness happens every time Indigenous people are the topic of national debate
SBS (blog)
He also talked of the disadvantage in Aboriginal communities and ongoing injustices of Aboriginal people. We also had this discussion promptly shut down by visibly uncomfortable interviewees, rather than giving the weight it deserved. Probably the ...

The West Australian
Pilbara community shows way with pilot projects
The West Australian
Indigenous consultant Peter Clements, who has a background in renewable energy projects, said the facilities were seen as a pilot because of their simple operating technology using remote sensing of data generated on site. “The project is within a ...

Your morning Briefing
The Australian
Labor frontbencher Linda Burney has proposed replacing the Queen's Birthday with a national holiday to celebrate Australia's indigenous heritage and says she finds it “difficult” to be involved in Australia Day celebrations, despite maintaining that ...

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ABC Online
Australia Day dividing Australians and excluding Indigenous people, says Professor Chris Sarra
ABC Online
"Regrettably I don't think Australia Day, and what it represents, is a day that most people in the Aboriginal community want to celebrate," says Professor Chris Sarra, one of Malcolm Turnbull's key Indigenous advisors. "I say that mindful that you get ...

The Cairns Post
$1.5m fund to create special indigenous tourism products in Cairns
The Cairns Post
A $1.5 million fund is being established to create special indigenous tourism experiences aimed at Chinese visitors in the tropical north. By midyear existing indigenous tourism businesses will be able to apply for funding to create new products ...

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Daily Telegraph
Anthony Mundine slams champ Jeff Horn: 'White boy' all hype
Daily Telegraph
The fighter said he and fellow indigenous Australians continue to suffer from years of systematic discrimination, including what he believes is undeserved praise for world champion Horn's achievements in the ring. “He's only the flavour of the month ...
'He's only the flavour of the month because he is a white boy': Boxer Anthony Mundine slams rival Jeff Horn claiming ...Daily Mail

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The Guardian
Centrelink allowed companies accused of exploitation to deduct payments from welfare
The Guardian
One of the businesses, Amazing Rentals, continued to hold Centrepay approval for more than two years after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (Asic) raised concerns it had failed to comply with responsible lending obligations. Most of ...

The Australian
Women take indigenous treaty process to Supreme Court
The Australian
South Australia, Victoria and the Northern Territory are all moving to establish separate treaties with their Aboriginal language groups. The South Australian Labor government has appointed a treaty commissioner and in late 2016 allocated $4.4 million ...

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The Australian
Fraser minister critical of Turnbull's rejection of indigenous voice
The Australian
“It is bewildering to many involved in the first indigenous constitutional deliberative process since Australia's nationhood that a deeply complex and sophisticated pathway forward was rejected outright — not so much on very thinly veiled political ...

The Australian
'Tens of thousands' to join Australia Day activist WAR
The Australian
Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) — which refuses to engage with police or Melbourne City Council to co-ordinate the ''Invasion Day'' rally — anticipate a protest larger than last year, which drowned out the city's official Australia Day ...

They were first, and they survived — we should listen
The Australian
Their democracies are comfortably able to accommodate equal citizenship and the unique place of their indigenous peoples within their democracies. What are the factual and legal bases for continuing difference within the nation? The fact is they ...

ESPNcricinfo.com
Tracing Australian cricket's indigenous past until the BBL
ESPNcricinfo.com
Later, when it was brought to their attention, they wished Josh Lalor (in Brisbane Heat's squad) had been playing too. In that one instant, Australian cricket did something it had never done, it had three top-level indigenous cricketers in action at ...

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