Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Daily Life
How to show solidarity with Indigenous Australians this Invasion Day
Daily Life
In the lead-up to Invasion Day 2016, Buzzfeed Australia released a video entitled, Aboriginal People Respond To 'Australia Day'. Generally speaking, I haven't been much of a fan of the various Buzzfeed 'Respond' videos. Many of them seem to be focused ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Acknowledging how Indigenous Australians are still left behind this Australia Day
Sydney Morning Herald
For many Australians, January 26 will be marked by beers, barbecues and Australian flag bikinis. The Triple J Hottest 100 will blare from house parties around the country and pubs will swell with punters out to celebrate a rare Tuesday off work.

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ABC Online
Stan Grant's speech on racism and the Australian dream as part of IQ2 debate goes viral
ABC Online
A powerful speech by Indigenous journalist Stan Grant in which he says the "Australian dream is rooted in racism" has gone viral. Grant addressed an audience in Sydney on the impact of colonisation and discrimination as part of the IQ2 debate series ...
Stan Grant's speech on racism: Is this Australia's 'Martin Luther King moment'?Sydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant's speech on racism and the Australian dream goes viralThe Guardian
Here's how Australians are reacting to Stan Grant's speech on racism 'killing the Australian dream'Business Insider Australia
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Sydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant's speech on racism: Is this Australia's 'Martin Luther King moment'?
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous journalist Stan Grant has declared racism is "killing the Australian dream", in an impassioned speech that has gone viral on social media. The powerful speech, delivered at the IQ2 Racism Debate in October, emerged online last week, with ...
Here's how Australians are reacting Stan Grant's speech on racism 'killing the Australian dream'Business Insider Australia
Stan Grant's speech on racism and the Australian dream goes viralThe Guardian
Stan Grant's speech: Raw, powerful, essential to watch todayStarts at Sixty

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SBS
Comment: Changing the date won't fix 'Australia Day'
SBS
And to be honest, I've never really understood why non-Indigenous Australia wouldn't want the opportunity to start afresh. The 26th of January also commemorates the day some of the poorest and most desperate citizens of Great Britain were dumped on the ...

The Canberra Times
The problem with Australia Day
The Canberra Times
Australia Day is our Confederate flag. It's not that a better date can't be found – a worse date can't be found. The great historical divide in this country is between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. No day brings that divide into sharper or ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Jessica Mauboy to sing indigenous version of national anthem on Australia Day
dailytelegraph.com.au
Aboriginal educator Clarence Slockee, head of visitor services at Barangaroo, says indigenous Australians have used fire and smoke to regenerate and reinvigorate the land for thousands of years and the cleansing ceremony is an extension of that ...
Australia's Day for Secrets, Flags and CowardsCounterPunch
Australia Day celebrations leave a bad taste for Indigenous AustraliansSBS
Australians invited to commemorate Survival Day at Indigenous eventsThe Guardian

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Junkee
Indigenous Journalist Stan Grant's Extraordinary Speech On Racism In Australia Is Compulsory Viewing
Junkee
In July last year, when the relentless booing of Adam Goodes by AFL fans prompted nationwide debate, heated arguments about racism in Australian society, and Goodes' eventual retirement from the sport he had dominated for so long, one of the most ...

ABC Online
West Australian Indigenous cancer survivor's Tamworth rodeo success
ABC Online
An Indigenous rodeo rider from north-west WA has proven her worth on the national rodeo circuit, taking out a top five placing in Australia's biggest rodeo in Tamworth. Eighteen-year-old Janine Mongoo from Meekatharra is having the time of her life, ...

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SBS
University after high school: a road less travelled by Indigenous Australians
SBS
School leavers across Australia are getting ready for life as adults, and many are going to university - but it's likely a different story if you identify as Indigenous. Indigenous Australians aged 18-29 years old are much less likely to attend ...

SBS
Australia Day celebrations leave a bad taste for Indigenous Australians
SBS
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the country, Australia Day embodies a variety of meanings. For some, it's a celebration of culture. For others it's a day of mourning. While many see it as a time to pay tribute to the survival ...
John Pilger: Australia's Day For Secrets, Flags And CowardsNew Matilda
Aboriginal boy, 11, 'bashed' by guards in youth detention centre, say familyThe Guardian
Sam Watson: 'Our mob are ready to struggle'Green Left Weekly

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The Guardian
Alice Springs camps services contract 'should stay in Aboriginal hands'
The Guardian
Little Sisters Aboriginal town camp on the fringe of Alice Springs. The camps that surround the central Australian town were leased to the federal government in 2009 in return for $150m in social services and public housing. Photograph: Terry Trewin/AAP.

Center for Research on Globalization
Australia's Day for Secrets, Flags and Cowards
Center for Research on Globalization
In my lifetime, non-indigenous Australia has changed from an Anglo-Irish society to one of the most ethnically diverse on earth. Those we used to call “New Australians” often choose 26 January, ”Australia Day”, to be sworn in as citizens. The ...

Courier Mail
Australia's indigenous housing failure
Courier Mail
But Federal indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion appears reluctant to radically change the IHOP, despite agreeing with the “thrust” of the audit. The review focused on Indigenous Business Australia's (IBA) management of the IHOP since 2005 ...

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ABC Online
National Indigenous Times acquired by Wayne Bergmann's 'pro-business' syndicate
ABC Online
A syndicate described as "pro-business", that includes former Kimberley Land Council CEO Wayne Bergmann and West Australian journalist Tony Barrass, have acquired ownership of the financially troubled Indigenous newspaper. The successful acquisition ...

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The Age
The problem with Australia Day
The Age
Australia Day is our Confederate flag. It's not that a better date can't be found – a worse date can't be found. The great historical divide in this country is between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. No day brings that divide into sharper or ...

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Brisbane Times
The problem with Australia Day
Brisbane Times
Australia Day is our Confederate flag. It's not that a better date can't be found – a worse date can't be found. The great historical divide in this country is between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. No day brings that divide into sharper or ...

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SBS
John Batman: friend or foe to Indigenous Australians?
SBS
The historical Melbourne figure is credited with making the offer to pay rent to the Indigenous landowners of Port Phillip and in 1935 signed a treaty with eight Woi wurrung “chiefs” of the Kulin Nation at Merri Creek. The deed confirmed the purchase ...

Australia Network News
Celebrating Australia Day Is “A Kick In The Face” To Indigenous Australians
Australia Network News
Poet and member of Indigenous Social Justice Association, Ken believes that Australia day should not be celebrated on January 26. “To have it on the very day that became the commencement of . . . the loss of language, the loss of culture, children ...
Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day: What's in a name?SBS

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The Canberra Times
Wallabies and Brumbies star David Pocock is the ACT Australia Day ambassador
The Canberra Times
A self-confessed "unconventional choice" as ACT ambassador, Rugby World Cup star David Pocock says Australia Day is "a very difficult day" for Indigenous Australians because it commemorates "some truly terrible parts of our history". Rather than be ...
David Pocock acknowledges 'truly terrible parts of our history' in ACT Australia Day ambassador speechABC Online

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