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The North West Star
Frank Lawler gets Australia Day sporting award
The North West Star
DESERVING: Frank Lawler receives the Mount Isa Sportsperson of the year award from Crs George Fortune and Peta MacRae. Photo: Derek Barry. Frank Lawler likes to do his sport away from the glare of publicity. Whether it's helping out kids in the boxing ...

The Conversation AU
FactCheck: can native title 'only exist if Australia was settled, not invaded'?
The Conversation AU
Sherry Sufi's claim that “native title can only exist if Australia was settled, not invaded” is incorrect. Native title is the legal recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' property rights to Australian land that existed when the ...

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The Conversation AU
FactCheck: can native title 'only exist if Australia was settled, not invaded'?
The Conversation AU
The High Court of Australia in the 1992 Mabo decision found that an Australian court does not have the power to challenge the basis on which the English claimed sovereignty in 1788. The status of Australian land law, including native title, is a ...

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The Guardian
Hottest 100: Californian rapper Kendrick Lamar wins Triple J poll
The Guardian
With band members of Samoan, Fijian and Korean backgrounds, there are more Australian people of colour in the now London-based band than there have been in all previous Hottest 100 top tens put together. And while an Indigenous artist is yet to break ...
Canberrans enjoy Triple J Hottest 100 countdown pool party at the Duxton HotelThe Canberra Times

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The Advertiser
Warren Mundine: The idea we can't celebrate Australia because of certain people and events in history is wrong
The Advertiser
Indigenous Australians who support keeping January 26 were racially abused, even physically threatened, as were also people like me who support a change of date but don't believe it's a priority and defend those who disagree. We've been accused of ...
Matt Cunningham: Australia Day s**t fight doesn't address most pressing issuesNT News
Mills' message having profound impact through Gaels, SpursESPN.co.uk
Thousands protest 'Invasion Day' on Australia's national dayBorneo Bulletin Online
Chronicle -Kaplan Herald
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The Advertiser
Warren Mundine: The idea we can't celebrate Australia because of certain people and events in history is wrong
The Advertiser
Indigenous Australians who support keeping January 26 were racially abused, even physically threatened, as were also people like me who support a change of date but don't believe it's a priority and defend those who disagree. We've been accused of ...
Matt Cunningham: Australia Day s**t fight doesn't address most pressing issuesNT News
Australia Day is a time to celebrate our great nationToowoomba Chronicle
Mills' message having profound impact through Gaels, SpursESPN.co.uk
Borneo Bulletin Online -Chronicle -Daily Mail
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Aussie Opposition calls for Australia Day referendum on republic, indigenous recognition
Xinhua
CANBERRA, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has called for a joint referendum on indigenous recognition in the Australian Constitution and Australia becoming a republic. Anthony Albanese, former deputy prime minister and the man ...

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NT News
Matt Cunningham: Australia Day s**t fight doesn't address most pressing issues
NT News
NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner this week said it is not something that's ever raised with him either. That's not to say it's not a genuine issue for some Aboriginal people. (I had an interesting conversation with a Larrakia man over a XXXX Gold at ...
Australians rally to protest British 'Invasion Day'Chronicle

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NT News
Matt Cunningham: Australia Day s**t fight doesn't address most pressing issues
NT News
I'm pretty agnostic about changing the date of Australia Day. I think I fall into the 56 per cent of Australians who don't really care. I reckon that number would be even higher in the Northern Territory, although to even express that opinion has ...
Australians rally to protest British 'Invasion Day'Chronicle

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Census 2016: dropouts, migrants and indigenous communities ...
The Australian
It is a figure with which we are all familiar: the unemployment rate. This simple single percentage figure is the equivalent of political kryptonite: it can be deadly for a government and for a politician if it appears in a particularly virulent and ...

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The Age
'Invasion day' rally organiser says her comments Australia should 'burn to the ground' should not be taken literally
The Age
"It was the biggest protest for Aboriginal people since the 1970s and I am just so proud of our community and of everybody else who came out with us today," Ms Onus-Williams said. "I would hate my comments to deflect from that." Many of the marchers ...

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The Australian
Flags lowered to half-mast at Queensland Parliament House
The Australian
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags were lowered to half-mast at Queensland's Parliament House, contrary to official protocol, after police passed on a request from the indigenous elders at an Invasion Day march. Thousands of protesters ...

The Australian
Flags lowered to half-mast at Queensland Parliament House
The Australian
“The flags at Queensland's Parliament should never be lowered to appease protesters.” “Lowering flags will do nothing to tackle life threatening but preventable diseases, substance abuse, domestic violence and unemployment – the real issues facing our ...

The Mercury
Thousands of Hobart protesters call for Australia Day date change
The Mercury
Hobart protesters were joined by thousands around the country calling for the date marking the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 to be scrapped. Part of the large crowd who marched to Parliament Lawns. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES. Tasmanian Aboriginal ...

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Silly to serious marks Qld's Australia Day
NEWS.com.au
"Before, they had the true history hidden from them, and a lot of them didn't realise they were disrespecting Aboriginal people," he said. Mr Fogarty called on state and federal governments to hear the voices of Indigenous Australians and "just go ...

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The Australian
Australia Day 2018: Gillian Triggs supports Aboriginal treaty
The Australian
Today's “Justice Through Treaty” event in Sydney began with a march from Redfern Park to Hyde Park in the CBD, followed by speeches from Professor Triggs and others including ACTU secretary Sally McManus, feminist academic Eva Cox, Labor MP Linda ...

The Australian
Australia Day 2018: Gillian Triggs supports Aboriginal treaty
The Australian
Today's “Justice Through Treaty” event in Sydney began with a march from Redfern Park to Hyde Park in the CBD, followed by speeches from Professor Triggs and others including ACTU secretary Sally McManus, feminist academic Eva Cox, Labor MP Linda ...

Sea of indigenous flags in Sydney march
Yahoo7 News
The streets of Redfern have been transformed by a sea of red, black and yellow flags with thousands gathering in Sydney to march for indigenous rights. Organiser Ken Canning from Fighting In Resistance Equally said he hoped the Invasion Day rally would ...

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SBS
Jacinta Price: 'People aren't celebrating the fact that Aboriginal people have suffered'
SBS
“People aren't celebrating the fact that Aboriginal people have suffered. Nowhere do I believe that an Australian is celebrating that fact. They are celebrating the fact that we are an incredibly wonderful nation. We are a nation where we have the ...

ABC Online
We asked for your earliest memory of Australia Day. These are your responses
ABC Online
"As a family, we always picnicked usually in a national park to enjoy the natural Australian bush rather than the usual urban/suburban day-to-day environment. So I guess I've always associated it with the Australia as it was pre-colonisation. I'd like ...