Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Tony Abbott promises to recognise Aborigines as nation's first people
Sydney Morning Herald
The Senior Australian of the Year, former federal politician and founding co-chairman of Reconciliation Australia, Fred Chaney, said it was important to work in partnership with the indigenous community to ''enable the Aboriginal people of Australia to ...

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Monarchists warn of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous recognition ...
ABC Online
"The appalling desecration of Captain Cook's cottage in Melbourne by anti-Australia Day vandals will cause many people to resile from the very thought of a referendum and the now almost certain violence that will accompany it," the group's national ...
Chaney: Indigenous recognition achievableThe Australian
Monarchists criticised for warning of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous ...Radio Australia

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Sydney Morning Herald
Labor ridicules proposal by Warren Mundine for indigenous treaties
The Australian
Tony Abbott's chief adviser on Aboriginal affairs, Warren Mundine, proposed the idea in an Australia Day address, saying the treaties could allow indigenous Australians to "forgive'', while resolving drawn-out native title cases. But Labor's spokesman ...
Chaney: Indigenous recognition achievableGeelong Advertiser
Abbott on indigenous recognition crusadeHerald Sun

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The Guardian
Australia Day: Indigenous people are told to 'get over it'. It's impossible
The Guardian
Australians may want us to "get over it", to stop being so "sensitive". But then, why do we still set aside a day of remembrance on ANZAC day to commemorate those who risked their lives at war? And why don't we acknowledge the brave Aboriginal fighters ...

The Guardian
Indigenous recognition referendum: Tony Abbott refuses to set a deadline
The Guardian
Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP. The prime minister has hosed down calls to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution during this parliamentary term, saying the landmark reform needs to put to the people when it is most likely to succeed. On the ...

Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award
The West Australian
The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal ...

Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award
ABC Online
The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal ...

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Aboriginal Athlete Receives Australia's Top Civic Honor
Voice of America
"But in the last five years, you know, I have really changed my perception of what is Australia Day, what it is to be Australian, and for me it is about celebrating the positives that, you know, we are still here as indigenous people.” Goodes is also ...

The Age
Survival Day seeks a positive focus
The Age
It could be any other Australia Day festival if it weren't for the didgeridoo droning and The Last Post. For indigenous Australians and many others at the seventh annual Survival Day festival in Belgrave on Sunday, January 26 is a day mixed with ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Goodes great choice, say Australia Day revellers
Sydney Morning Herald
Australians celebrating in Circular Quay on Sunday described Adam Goodes as a wonderful ambassador and a rightful winner of the coveted Australian of the Year award. Goodes, an AFL champion and indigenous community leader, said he wanted to use ...

The West Australian
Political leaders want to right wrongs done to indigenous Australians
The Australian
TONY Abbott and Bill Shorten have used Australia Day to reaffirm their strong commitment to advancing the constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians as soon as possible. The Prime Minister, who presided over a citizenship ceremony on the ...
Adam Goodes pushes for indigenous recognition ahead of Australia DaySydney Morning Herald
Abbott on indigenous recognition crusadeThe West Australian
Indigenous footballer Adam Goodes named Australian of the YearSBS

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Indigenous channel reappraises its strategy in reaching out to a broader range ...
The Australian
RELAUNCHING as one of SBS's digital channels was meant to bring National Indigenous Television to a wider audience, but 12 months since its free-to-air debut the channel is reassessing its strategy after struggling to cut through to mainstream Australia.

Rio Tinto details blueprint for indigenous jobs
The Australian
Rio Tinto Australia managing director David Peever, who has been appointed to the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, has written to the indigenous jobs review headed by mining magnate Andrew Forrest to present a blueprint for change.

First nations need to sign treaties
The Australian
The head of Mr Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council, former ALP national president Warren Mundine, said indigenous Australians needed to "forgive Australia as a nation" and permit themselves to "love their country (and) take pride in Australia's ...

Tony Abbott says it is time for indigenous people to be recognised in constitution
NEWS.com.au
"If we had known in 1901 what we know now, if our hearts had been as big then as now, we would have acknowledged indigenous people in the constitution back then,'' he told reporters at Australia Day celebrations in Canberra. Start of sidebar. Skip to ...

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Indigenous recognition a crusade: Tony Abbott
The Australian
TONY Abbott is determined that recognising indigenous people in Australia's constitution is a "national crusade'' that should be important to everyone. The case for constitutional recognition is getting a boost from two indigenous advocates winning ...
Adam Goodes pushes for indigenous recognition ahead of Australia DaySydney Morning Herald
Indigenous footballer Adam Goodes named Australian of the YearSBS
Abbott on indigenous recognition crusadeThe West Australian
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The Guardian
Australia Day is a time for mourning, not celebration
The Guardian
Australia Day is a time for mourning, not celebration. The refusal to celebrate Australia Day is part of an ongoing fight for the recognition of the abuse of Indigenous people's rights. If we give up on protesting, we might soon no longer remember the ...
Respected Aboriginal elder, Associate Professor Ted Wilkes. Source: News ...NEWS.com.au
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Live: Australia Day 2014
SBS
For more than a decade Adam Goodes has been part of the Sydney Swans pack and now he's been recognised for kicking goals off-field as an indigenous ambassador. The 34-year-old AFL superstar has been named Australian of the Year for 2014 for his ...

The Canberra Times
2014: A year for action on indigenous challenges
The Canberra Times
It would be a testament to the leadership of Mr Goodes and Mr Abbott if Australia Day 2014 were known as a time when in-depth policy debate about the problems in indigenous communities came to the surface. As stated previously in The Canberra Times' ...

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Australia Day and Indigenous culture
ABC Online (blog)
Australia Day is a time for celebration, but - for some - also a moment of controversy. Invasion Day protests are a regular occurrence and opponents of Australia Day say it should be more about remembering the dispossession of the Indigenous peoples ...

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