Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

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Please endeavour not to rewrite history, James Cook's critics told
The Australian
Grant's call ignited a debate about how to reconcile Australia's colonial and indigenous past. Historian Keith Windschuttle, writing in The Australian today, criticised Grant's call, arguing that the inscription was accurate because Cook was the first ...
This won't change history. But it will ensure we never learn its lessonsdailytelegraph.com.au
Stan Grant questions Captain Cook's place in Australian historyYahoo7 News

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Indigenous leaders slam move to shift Australia Day as 'divisive' nonsense
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NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton has dismissed the push to axe Australia Day as an attempt to rewrite history. Blacktown indigenous elder Gordon Workman. Picture: Tim Hunter. Blacktown indigenous elder Gordon Workman bluntly described moves to ...

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This won't change history. But it will ensure we never learn its lessons
dailytelegraph.com.au
Lismore and Byron councils are the latest to consider axing or moving our national day, which they claim insults indigenous Australians. They want to hold want citizenship ceremonies at more “culturally appropriate” times. Well, the federal government ...
Stan Grant questions Captain Cook's place in Australian historyYahoo7 News

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Editorial: Save the date, don't change it
Perth Now
Blacktown Aboriginal elder Uncle Gordon Workman says changing the date of Australia Day will do nothing to change history. Picture: Tim Hunter. No one would ever consider the far north coast towns of Lismore or Byron Bay bastions of conservatism, being ...

Herald Sun
Councils around the country make moves to change what happens on Australia Day
Herald Sun
The summer date is used by families and friends to get together and by councils to perform citizenship ceremonies, to welcome our newest Australians. But not everyone thinks Australia Day should be celebrated on January 26. Indigenous Australians have ...
Darebin council's Australia Day move provokes political backlashABC Online
'Heart is pounding': Another Melbourne council scraps Australia DayThe Age
Second council stripped of ceremoniesThe Australian
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Port Stephens Examiner
Star on the rise: Mia Page in Aboriginal Model Search national final
Port Stephens Examiner
The competition aims to find the next generation of indigenous models from around Australia. Mia was one of eight winners announced during the first round of the competition held in Newcastle in December 2016. The win advanced her to the state level.

Herald Sun
Rita Panahi: Darebin council Australia Day ban divides Aussies
Herald Sun
Research shows that despite years of “invasion day” rhetoric whipped up by segments of the media, only 31 per cent of indigenous people feel negatively towards Australia Day while 53 per cent support changing the date, according to polling conducted ...

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Blacktown Aboriginal elder says council should still celebrate Australia Day on January 26
dailytelegraph.com.au
Last week, the council also voted unanimously to no longer hold citizenship ceremonies on January 26, which has also become known as Invasion Day among many indigenous Australians. Darebin Mayor Kim Le Cerf. Her council voted to make big changes ...

The Singleton Argus
Indigenous children being removed at an alarming rate
The Singleton Argus
This is not an echo from the Stolen Generation, the darkest chapter in Australian history. These are the words a four-year-old indigenous child screamed as she was ripped from her grandmothers arms just last month. Don't let them take me. These are the ...

ABC Online
Darebin council's Australia Day move provokes political backlash
ABC Online
Mr Andrews said he believed people could respectfully celebrate the country's values on January 26, while also honouring Indigenous Australians. "I've been privileged and honoured to have been involved in many different events on our national day where ...
'Heart is pounding': Another Melbourne council scraps Australia DayThe Age
Darebin council votes to dump Australia DayHerald Sun
Second Melbourne Council Votes To Cancel Australia Day CeremoniesHuffington Post Australia
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Principal Education Advisor, Indigenous (EAL/D)
EducationHQ Australia
Strengthen curriculum leaders, designated coaches and teachers' knowledge of the IEAL/D frameworks as they relate to the Australian Curriculum by focusing professional development on student learning, effective teaching strategies and how to ...

Yahoo7 News
'Changing Captain Cook statue could lead to riots': Sunrise debates calls to 'end historical lies'
Yahoo7 News
Calls to change inscriptions on key Australian statues, including the Captain Cook monument in Sydney's Hyde, has sparked a heated debate with suggestions such a move would leave to riots. Indigenous broadcaster Stan Grant is calling for inaccuracies ...

ABC Online
Missed the eclipse? Here's when you can catch one
ABC Online
Indigenous Australians have been watching solar eclipses for millennia. Historians report: “The Warlpiri people explain a solar eclipse as being the Sun-woman being hidden by the Moon-man as he makes love to her.” Some people say you're not really a ...

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NEWS.com.au
RUSH HOUR: End of the Australian Sex Party
NEWS.com.au
Darebin council voted last night to replace the cermony with a “culturally appropriate event” respectful to indigenous Australians. Mayor Kim Le Cerf said if Australians were better educated they would “feel ashamed to be celebrating on January 26 ...

Herald Sun
Darebin Council to vote on dumping Australia Day
Herald Sun
Councillors tonight voted to replace the ceremony with a “culturally appropriate event” that would be respectful to indigenous Australians. The council will drop all references to Australia Day, including renaming its Australia Day Awards the “Darebin ...

The Guardian
Pat Dodson says cashless welfare card a 'public whip' to control Indigenous people
The Guardian
“I haven't heard him say much on anything since I came to the parliament on anything to do with improving the lives of Aboriginal people in remote communities,” he told Guardian Australia. Dodson said he had heard “mixed messages” about the card, which ...

BBC News
How a school play about Aboriginal history set off a row
BBC News
It's one of the most sensitive topics of modern Australia: the country's past treatment of its indigenous peoples. And its capacity to divide non-indigenous Australians has again been thrust into the spotlight, this time because of a primary school ...

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Call to combat fetal alcohol syndrome
SBS
Several Australian studies were included, among them a 2015 examination of an Indigenous Australian population which found 12 of every hundred children had the disorder. One of every 13 women who consumed alcohol while pregnant was estimated to ...

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The Australian
Call to end the 'great silence' on our indigenous history
The Australian
If Malcolm Turnbull were serious that Australia Day was a day to honour indigenous Australians, “what could be more apt than to correct a monument that tells us, still, that in 1770 we did not exist?” he wrote. But Keith Windschuttle, historian and ...

Australian Jewish News
Recognising Indigenous role
Australian Jewish News
TEARS were shed at a moving ceremony in Sydney last Sunday, when Jewish federal MP Julian Leeser presented certificates to 12 descendants of Indigenous men who served in Australian Light Horse brigades during the WWI Sinai-Palestine campaign.