Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
Australia Day: dwelling on past not for Price
The Australian
She has previously called for a royal commission into the epidemic of violence in indigenous communities. And citing her own family's suffering in the Northern Territory's infamous 1928 Coniston massacre, she said Australia Day's meaning could easily ...

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NT News
Australia Day date change won't end abuse of Aboriginal people
The Australian
I keep hearing that Aboriginal people want to change the date of Australia Day. Well, what about the Aboriginal people who do not want to change the date Do ...
Alice Springs councillor Jacinta Nampijinpa Price against changing ...NT News

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NEWS.com.au
This actually hurts the cause
NEWS.com.au
IT WAS supposed to be a peaceful protest, advocating for change on behalf of indigenous Australians' whose history had been marred by violence and dispossession. But ironically, violence, along with flag burning and threatening signs at Invasion Day ...
Violent 'nutters' hijacked our rallydailytelegraph.com.au

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The Guardian
'What are you actually celebrating?' Indigenous elder says Australia Day debate must continue
The Guardian
The Guardian met Mills in downtown Darwin on Australia Day, beneath a large mural of the Aboriginal flag and the West Papuan flag flying side by side. Mills is a little late and some of the paint on her newly created protest T-shirt is still wet ...

Debate over date marks Australia Day
Yahoo7 News
Yet just a few kilometres away thousands of indigenous Australians and their supporters marched through the city, demanding Australia's national day be moved from January 26, which they referred to as "Invasion Day". The march turned violent when a ...

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The Australian
Australia Day: protests out of tune with songs of love
The Australian
Elsewhere across the country, however, thousands of their new compatriots marched in solidarity with indigenous Australians who consider January 26 to be a day of mourning. “Invasion Day” protests were held peacefully in Brisbane and Melbourne, while ...

The Australian
Australia Day: 'invasion day but also survival day'
The Australian
Ms Burney said the looming consideration of a referendum on constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians meant that 2017 would be “an important year in terms of what is taught to all Australians about the history of this country”. An estimated ...

Pedestrian TV
Conservative Former MP Calls For The Date Of Australia Day To Change
Pedestrian TV
Though there's obviously a huge push – largely from younger, progressive crowds – to move Australia's national day away from a day associated with invasion, violence and genocide against Indigenous Australians, it is rare to hear that sentiment from ...
Barnaby Joyce launches extraordinary attack on people who want to move Australia DayGoondiwindi Argus
Australia Day critics should 'crawl under a rock and hide for a little bit', Barnaby Joyce saysABC Online
Turnbull rejects Australia Day date-changeSky News Australia
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal Tent Embassy protesters call for treaty
The Sydney Morning Herald
Marbk Barkendjah at Aboriginal Tent Embassy on Australia Day. Photo: Jay Cronan. They then sat outside the front doors of the building for an hour as a line of police formed a guard blocking the entrance. "What do we want? Treaty. What have we got?

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The Age
Aboriginal Tent Embassy protesters call for treaty
The Age
Marbk Barkendjah at Aboriginal Tent Embassy on Australia Day. Photo: Jay Cronan. They then sat outside the front doors of the building for an hour as a line of police formed a guard blocking the entrance. "What do we want? Treaty. What have we got?

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The Canberra Times
Aboriginal Tent Embassy protesters call for treaty
The Canberra Times
Marbk Barkendjah at Aboriginal Tent Embassy on Australia Day. Photo: Jay Cronan. They then sat outside the front doors of the building for an hour as a line of police formed a guard blocking the entrance. "What do we want? Treaty. What have we got?

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Australia Day protesters 'can't win'
dailytelegraph.com.au
Activists shouted “shame” and “genocide” as one speaker outlined how a referendum which successfully voted to include indigenous Australians in the constitution would “legitimise” the document and the crimes against his people. “We are unwilling to ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
When should Australia Day be held?
dailytelegraph.com.au
Only it's not. On January 26 each year, the nation is undeniably divided. Many indigenous Australians feel anger and grief over what started on that date more than 200 years ago when their ancestors began to be dispossessed. Many white Australians feel ...

ABC Online
Australia Day awards: NT nun Sister Anne Gardiner calls for more understanding of Indigenous cultures
ABC Online
It was 62 years ago when Sister Anne Gardiner first moved to Bathurst Island, off the northern coast of Australia, to work as a fresh-faced 22-year-old nun at a mission among the Tiwi people. Last night in Canberra she was honoured for her decades of ...

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NEWS.com.au
When should Australia Day be held?
NEWS.com.au
Only it's not. On January 26 each year, the nation is undeniably divided. Many indigenous Australians feel anger and grief over what started on that date more than 200 years ago when their ancestors began to be dispossessed. Many white Australians feel ...

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NEWS.com.au
Australia Day protesters 'can't win'
NEWS.com.au
PROTESTERS have descended on Parliament House to speak out against a proposed referendum to change the constitution to include indigenous Australians. More than 100 activists marched up to the steps of Parliament at midday waving the Aboriginal ...
Barnaby Joyce launches extraordinary attack on people who want to move Australia DayGoondiwindi Argus
Australia Day critics should 'crawl under a rock and hide for a little bit', Barnaby Joyce saysABC Online
Turnbull rejects Australia Day date-changeSky News Australia
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Thousands march in Sydney on Australia Day for Indigenous 'day of mourning'
The Sydney Morning Herald
A man has been arrested and two people are injured after a scuffle between police and protesters during an Australia Day march in central Sydney. Thousands of demonstrators were walking west along Broadway, towards Victoria Park, on Thursday ...
Why Indigenous people want to change the date of Australia Day9news.com.au
Indigenous institute's Australia Day message 'PC gone mad'The Australian
Acknowledging how Indigenous Australians are still left behind this Australia DayWhyalla News
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Sky News Australia
'Invasion Day' protests turn violent
Sky News Australia
Thousands of protesters marched through across the nation on Australia Day labelling the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 as a 'day of killing' rather than the birth of a nation. The crowd, many draped in Aboriginal flags, gathered in Redfern on ...

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Indigenous leader on Australia Day: 'We're not being heard'
The Queensland Times
ONE of Ipswich's most prominent Indigenous leaders has weighed in on the Australia Day date change debate. The question of whether Australia's national day should be moved from January 26 - the date associated with colonization and a loss of identity ...

The Australian
Australia Day: Malcolm Turnbull rejects calls for date change
The Australian
“That doesn't mean we need to deny any parts of our heritage and parts of our history whether it's our colonial heritage, our settlement history, our deep and long indigenous history, our post-war migration, the coming of refugees to Australia,” Mr ...
Malcolm Turnbull's 2017 Australia Day message – videoThe Guardian

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