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Waving the flag for right reasons?
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In 1988, with the Bicentennial First Fleet re-enactment in Sydney Harbour, every state and territory agreed to celebrate Australia Day on January 26 itself, rather than with a long weekend. This was the year indigenous Australians renamed Australia Day ...

'Not an animal or a plant': Putting a human face to 1967 Referendum
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He hopes they humanize Indigenous Australians and their struggles to the wider society. "It really rams home the idea that we're not talking about history here, we talking about the lives of Aborigines,” he says. His show also explores specific events ...

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Indigenous Artists Are Not Happy That Australia Is Selling Fake Aboriginal Souvenirs
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An astonishingly 80 percent of marketers in Australia was found out to be selling fake items. Sullivan and her team discovered thousands of arts and crafts that has the Aboriginal signature style to it but learned that it was created from different ...
Katter plans legislation to stop sale of fake Indigenous artABC Online
Bob Katter declares war on “fake” indigenous artworkThe Cairns Post

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Katter plans legislation to stop sale of fake Indigenous art
ABC Online
Organisations, including the Indigenous Art Code and Arts Law Centre, want a licensing scheme in place before the Commonwealth Games next year bring an anticipated flood of knock-off work. Mr Katter said he would introduce a private member's bill when ...

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Budj Bim Cultural Landscape: Ancient Aboriginal site a step closer to UNESCO World Heritage status
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If the nomination is successful, Budj Bim would be the Australia's 20th World Heritage site and the only place listed solely for its Indigenous cultural value. It marks a significant turning point for the Gunditjmara traditional owners who have worked ...

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Vale to artist who saw Aboriginal Australia with Holocaust eyes
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The article reported a court hearing in Oodnadatta over a station manager who had chained his Aboriginal workers to a tree. Aborigines was Bergner's last painting in Australia of the subject, and the echoes of Nazi concentration camps in his portrayal ...

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Mutilated goannas spark animal cruelty fears, message to Indigenous hunters
ABC Online
A picture posted on social media showing a pile of decapitated goannas has prompted claims of cruelty and calls for Indigenous hunters to respect native animals. An Aboriginal culture centre in remote Western Australia has condemned the image of the ...

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Why Are We Fighting Islamophobia At The Expense Of Indigenous Australians?
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Earlier this week an Australia Day billboard sponsored by the Victorian government featuring an image of two young, Muslim girls was taken down after an Islamophobic backlash on social media. The sad but predictable reaction to the billboard, and the ...

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Beyond the fact of our heritage and identity should being Indigenous really matter?
ABC Online
Mr Wyatt comes from an Indigenous community in a particular part of Western Australia — what does he know about Indigenous people in outer Melbourne or southern Queensland? What is this assumption that Indigenous people somehow share the same ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Anthony Mundine slams Australia Day lamb advert
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous boxer Anthony Mundine has slammed the controversial Australia Day lamb campaign as "racist, bro", while his former teammate Wendell Sailor, who features in the advert, has defended it. Earlier this week, I sat down with Mundine for an ...

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The Guardian
Hijab billboard campaign success sees signs booked across Victoria
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Many Indigenous Australians identify Australia Day, held every January 26, as Invasion Day, or the day that the British First Fleet arrived and took over the land Indigenous people had occupied for more than 40,000 years. The page added that the ...
Australia Day billboards with girls in hijabs to appear nationwide after campaign raises $130000The Guardian
More than $100000 raised to reinstate Australia Day billboard with Muslim girls, but not all are happyThe Sydney Morning Herald

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More than $100000 raised to reinstate Australia Day billboard with Muslim girls, but not all are happy
The Sydney Morning Herald
... to ignore or 'whitewash Australia's dark past' and the injustices committed against the first Australians," and added that the two girls whose image attracted an Islamophobic backlash were also not seeking to be disrespectful to the Indigenous ...
Hijab billboard campaign success sees signs booked across VictoriaSBS
Australia Day billboards with girls in hijabs to appear nationwide after campaign raises $130000The Guardian

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Vale Yosl Bergner- artist who saw Aboriginal Australia with Holocaust eyes
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The article reported a court hearing in Oodnadatta over a station manager who had chained his Aboriginal workers to a tree. Aborigines was Bergner's last painting in Australia of the subject, and the echoes of Nazi concentration camps in his portrayal ...

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Marrugeku is an un-paralleled presence in Australia today, dedicated to Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians working together to develop new dance theatre languages.Marrugeku builds bridges and breaks down walls between urban and remote ...

The Guardian
Key Wyatt: new minister to tackle how Indigenous health funding used
The Guardian
Improving social determinants of health would help extend lifespan and achieve parity with all Australians. On Wednesday night Wyatt told ABC's 7.30 he still believed Australia was on track to achieve recognition of Indigenous Australians in the ...

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Why the Australia Day lamb ad gets my goat
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Australia Day is un-Australian. Worse, the new ad actually puts the boot into Australia Day. Blind Freddy knows that the politically correct mob are out to destroy Australia Day. Indigenous activists (as opposed to normal, everyday indigenous Aussies ...

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Courier Mail
Australia will still make stuff after Holden – Sinodinos
Courier Mail
West Australian MP Ken Wyatt will become the first Indigenous Australian to serve in the federal ministry. He will be sworn in as Minister for Aged Care and Indigenous Health. Victorian MP Michael Sukkar has been appointed Assistant Minister to ...

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Queensland Country Life
Lamb controversy leads to record views
Queensland Country Life
The MLA advert confronts the controversy around hosting the national day on January 26 - a date marking the start of colonialism and the dispossession of Indigenous Australians. It starts with three Indigenous Australians who remark on being the "first ...

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ABC Online
Ken Wyatt becomes first Indigenous minister under Malcolm Turnbull's reshuffle
ABC Online
"Just as Ken was the first Indigenous person to be elected to the House of Representatives and the first to be appointed to the executive of the Commonwealth Government, he is now the first Indigenous person appointed to the Commonwealth ministry," Mr ...
Australia names first indigenous ministerYahoo7 News
Ken Wyatt to become Australia's first Indigenous ministerThe Guardian
Greg Hunt replaces Sussan Ley as health ministerThe Australian
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SBS
Campaign launches to restore the Australia Day hijab billboard
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"The billboard is legitimising an interpretation of this nation's history that denies the experiences of its Indigenous communities and their ongoing struggles around this day." Many Indigenous Australians identify Australia Day, held every January 26, ...
Australia Day billboard image showing women in hijabs taken down after threats of violenceNEWS.com.au
Australia Day Muslim themed billboard removed after threatsRT

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