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Courier Mail
Elder calls for Australia Day to become Treaty Day
Courier Mail
Mr Watson said he was surprised at the intensity of this year's date debate. He said last week he expected at least 1500 people to turn up for tomorrow's Invasion Day march, which has grown steadily every year since it started in Brisbane in 1970 ...

Courier Mail
Elder calls for Australia Day to become Treaty Day
Courier Mail
INDIGENOUS leader Uncle Sam Watson has called for Australia Day to be shifted to the day a treaty is finally signed with indigenous Australians. Mr Watson, one of the organisers of this morning's Invasion Day march, from State Parliament to Musgrave ...

Uncle Richard Davis says changing Australia Day date will cause unnecessary disharmony
Illawarra Mercury
LEAVE IT AS IT IS: Uncle Richard Davis used his Welcome to Country address to call for Australia Day to continue being celebrated on January 26. Picture: Georgia Matts. Contrary to many in his indigenous community, Uncle Richard Davis believes ...

Illawarra Mercury
Illawarra Aboriginal leader says leave Australia Day as is | Illawarra ...
Illawarra Mercury
Contrary to many in his indigenous community, Uncle Richard Davis believes Australia Day should remain being celebrated on January 26.

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SBS
WA snubbed in Australia Day honours
SBS
Meanwhile, Mr McGowan maintained his support for keeping Australia Day on January 26, saying it was a distraction and wants the federal government to focus on more important funding issues confronting Aboriginal people. "The Commonwealth government is ...

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Key quotes from Australia Day events
NEWS.com.au
Labor leader Bill Shorten. "At its heart, of course, the story of Australia is a migrant story, built upon an indigenous heritage. It is a story of diverse people from across the globe coming to this place, building a life, and calling Australia our ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
What Sydneysiders got up to on Australia Day morning
The Sydney Morning Herald
The day wasn't all about celebration for some, though, with two major protests taking place in the city. Two separate groups marched from Redfern: the Invasion Day Rally travelled to the Yabun Festival in Victoria Park, Camperdown, and the Long March ...
NSW governor notes Australia Day angstSBS
Ancient custom lives on thousands of years later: Stunning photos capture dancers performing a traditional ...Daily Mail

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NEWS.com.au
Malcolm Turnbull opens Australia Day speech with indigenous greeting
NEWS.com.au
Last year he spoke in Ngunnawal in an address to unveil the ninth annual Closing the Gap report, and he also opened his speech for the Australian of the Year Awards last night using the language. During his Australia Day address, Mr Turnbull urged ...
Australia Day: Turnbull dismisses calls for change to flagThe Australian
Malcolm Turnbull says Australian flag will never change, rejecting new designThe Guardian
Few back changing Australia Day: TurnbullThe West Australian

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NEWS.com.au
Malcolm Turnbull opens Australia Day speech with indigenous greeting
NEWS.com.au
Last year he spoke in Ngunnawal in an address to unveil the ninth annual Closing the Gap report, and he also opened his speech for the Australian of the Year Awards last night using the language. During his Australia Day address, Mr Turnbull urged ...
Australia Day: Turnbull dismisses calls for change to flagThe Australian

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Daily Telegraph
Call to celebrate but also acknowledge Australia Day wrongs
Daily Telegraph
She told a small but attentive crowd at Campbelltown's Koshigaya Park, and again at Picton's Botanical Gardens, that 203 years to the day Australia and its indigenous population was invaded. Campbelltown Citizen of the Year Jody Scott. Picture: Robert ...

Daily Telegraph
Wollondilly's Australia Day honoured veterans, indigenous people and community servants
Daily Telegraph
We Australians are such a rich palette,” she said. “I'm not sure that we are really accepting or tolerant, we try to be. But we are certainly inclusive and welcoming. •Local Hero Organisation of the Year — Black Cockatoos Aboriginal Corporation. “We ...

NEWS.com.au
Australia Day: PM says impact of European settlement on Aboriginals was 'tragic'
The Australian
Australia Day should include a focus on the recognition of indigenous Australians and the “honest and open truthful recognition” of Australia's history, Malcolm Turnbull says. The Prime Minister said the impact of European settlement on Aboriginal ...
Malcolm Turnbull opens Australia Day speech with indigenous greetingNEWS.com.au

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SA rally calls for a new Australia Day
SBS
Then we can move onto all of the other things that are not right for Aboriginal people." Mr Sansbury said he believed change was inevitable. "January 26 means nothing to us except that we've got to break it down and get rid of it," he told reporters ...

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Herald Sun
Australia Day 2018: Thousands turn out for protest in Melbourne CBD
Herald Sun
Aboriginal elder Larry Walsh says that racial “profiling crap” needs to end, both for Indigenous Australians and other ethnicities blamed from crime in Melbourne #australiaday2018 @theheraldsun pic.twitter.com/VUCZTEzie2. — Monique Hore (@moniquehore ...

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SBS
'Australia Day of shame': Thousands march in 'Invasion Day' protests
SBS
Two inner-Melbourne councils - Yarra and Darebin - were banned by the federal government from hosting citizenship ceremonies after controversially voting not to recognise Australia Day on January 26. Those councils, along with Moreland City Council ...
Calls for greater diversity in Australia Day honoursNEWS.com.au
Australia Day: Celebrations and protests across the nationThe West Australian

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SBS
'Australia Day of shame': Thousands march in 'Invasion Day' protests
SBS
Aboriginal protesters who marched through Canberra to the historic Tent Embassy have described Australia Day as a "day of mourning". The Canberra march culminated in a smoking ceremony at the 46-year-old embassy, just outside Old Parliament House ...

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Daily Telegraph
Thousands gather for 'Invasion Day' protest march in Sydney
Daily Telegraph
Protesters are being encouraged to sign up to the Greens party and the Socialist Alliance. Organiser Ken Canning from Fighting In Resistance Equally said he hoped the Invasion Day rally would draw attention to indigenous deaths in custody and was ...

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Townsville Bulletin
Girramay elder explains why Aboriginals are angry about Australia Day
Townsville Bulletin
His children and grandchildren and great grandchildren have Anglo names, but they have Aboriginal names, tribal names and “skin” names, as well. These Aboriginal names are drawn from the creeks and the weather. He points to the south and says “that's ...

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ABC Online
What Central Australia's remote Aboriginal communities think of Australia Day
ABC Online
Celebrating Australia Day on the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet "celebrates illegal occupation", an Aboriginal community leader says. Yuendumu leader and Warlpiri researcher Simon Japangardi Fisher is one of three Aboriginal leaders in ...
NSW Labor plans to sign treaty recognising Indigenous ownershipThe Guardian
Celebrating Indigenous finalists in the Australian of the Year AwardsSBS
Australia Day 2018: Richard Di Natale says indigenous not better off from settlementThe Australian
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ABC Online
What Central Australia's remote Aboriginal communities think of Australia Day
ABC Online
Celebrating Australia Day on the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet "celebrates illegal occupation", an Aboriginal community leader says. Yuendumu leader and Warlpiri researcher Simon Japangardi Fisher is one of three Aboriginal leaders in ...
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price: It's shallow, meaningless, emotional rhetoric unrepresentative of the view of all ...The Advertiser
Australia Day explained: Why it's really held on 26 January and the push to change the dateSBS (blog)
NSW Labor plans to sign treaty recognising Indigenous ownershipThe Guardian
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