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Rallies and marches on track for Friday
National Indigenous Times
Speakers at Redfern are set to include National Congress of Australia's First Peoples co-chair Rod Little and Aboriginal Elder and pastor Ray Minniecon. Speakers at Hyde Park will include congress co-chair Jackie Huggins, former Human Rights Commission ...

Rallies and marches on track for Friday
National Indigenous Times
Speakers at Redfern are set to include National Congress of Australia's First Peoples co-chair Rod Little and Aboriginal Elder and pastor Ray Minniecon. Speakers at Hyde Park will include congress co-chair Jackie Huggins, former Human Rights Commission ...

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The Guardian
Massacres and protest: Australia Day's undeniable history
The Guardian
One hundred years later, on 26 January 1938, a date by then called Australia Day, a group of 100 mostly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, led by the Aborigines Progressive Association, met at Australian Hall in Sydney for a day of mourning ...
Australia Day? We've got bigger fish to fryNational Indigenous Times
BuzzFeed launches 'What They Don't Teach You' documentary series ahead of Australia DayMuMbrella
Australia Day debate: It's a date with the pastSunraysia Daily
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The Guardian
Massacres and protest: Australia Day's undeniable history
The Guardian
One hundred years later, on 26 January 1938, a date by then called Australia Day, a group of 100 mostly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, led by the Aborigines Progressive Association, met at Australian Hall in Sydney for a day of mourning ...
Australia Day? We've got bigger fish to fryNational Indigenous Times
BuzzFeed launches 'What They Don't Teach You' documentary series ahead of Australia DayMuMbrella

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National Indigenous Times
Australia Day? We've got bigger fish to fry
National Indigenous Times
A leader representing some of Australia's most isolated communities says there are more important issues facing Aboriginal people than the date of Australia Day. Marra Worra Worra chief executive Dickie Bedford will travel more than 4800km from remote ...
Massacres and protest: Australia Day's undeniable historyThe Guardian
BuzzFeed launches 'What They Don't Teach You' documentary series ahead of Australia DayMuMbrella

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Corangamite MP Sarah Henderson slams Greens over Australia Day date debate
Herald Sun
Ms Henderson said the Greens campaign to change the date of Australia Day was “regrettable and, frankly, a diversion”. “If the Greens were genuinely focused on the needs of indigenous Australians, they would speak out on critically important issues ...

Geelong Advertiser
Corangamite MP Sarah Henderson slams Greens over Australia Day date debate
Geelong Advertiser
Ms Henderson said the Greens campaign to change the date of Australia Day was “regrettable and, frankly, a diversion”. “If the Greens were genuinely focused on the needs of indigenous Australians, they would speak out on critically important issues ...
Australia Day debate: It's a date with the pastSunraysia Daily

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Geelong Advertiser
Corangamite MP Sarah Henderson slams Greens over Australia Day date debate
Geelong Advertiser
But Greens leader Richard Di Natale said Ms Henderson may be missing the point of the ongoing push to move the date to one more considerate of Aboriginal history. Ms Henderson said the Greens campaign to change the date of Australia Day was ...

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First Nations performing arts profiled on global stage
ArtsHub
The groundwork laid in previous years by organisations such as the Australia Council had also contributed to the development of this First Nations arts network and new opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, Donnelly said. 'The ...

Daily Liberal
Eye on Dubbo | Australia Day debate is in full swing
Daily Liberal
The Australia Day ceremonies I have attended in Dubbo blend our three cultural traditions in a way that enhances our sense of national identity. We start our proceedings marking respects to the traditional people of the land including Aboriginal ...

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Daily Liberal
Eye on Dubbo | Australia Day debate is in full swing
Daily Liberal
The Australia Day ceremonies I have attended in Dubbo blend our three cultural traditions in a way that enhances our sense of national identity. We start our proceedings marking respects to the traditional people of the land including Aboriginal ...

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The Age
Matthew Guy vows to teach Victorian students 'Australian values'
The Age
It took aim at the three cross-curriculum priorities set out in the Victorian and Australian curriculum that are embedded in subjects when relevant – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Asia and Australia's engagement with ...

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The Age
Matthew Guy vows to teach Victorian students 'Australian values'
The Age
It took aim at the three cross-curriculum priorities set out in the Victorian and Australian curriculum that are embedded in subjects when relevant – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Asia and Australia's engagement with ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Perhaps we've got problems as deep as the US
The Sydney Morning Herald
And how is a request that Australia respectfully consider an alternative date when we might all join in a celebration something that "would divide us". Aboriginal communities witness parties on this date as celebrating the crushing of their people and ...

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The Canberra Times
ACT has highest rate of indigenous child care, protection reports in Australia
The Canberra Times
A new report shows the ACT had the second-highest rate of indigenous children the subject of child protection orders in the country. Photo: JOHN DONEGAN/Fairfax. That compared to a rate of just 46.3 for non-indigenous children in the ACT, and the next ...

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The Canberra Times
ACT has highest rate of indigenous child care, protection reports in Australia
The Canberra Times
A new report shows the ACT had the second-highest rate of indigenous children the subject of child protection orders in the country. Photo: JOHN DONEGAN/Fairfax. That compared to a rate of just 46.3 for non-indigenous children in the ACT, and the next ...

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The Advertiser
Victorians vote same sex marriage, September 11, Julia Gillard as PM among history's most significant moments
Herald Sun
Also on the list for Victoria was the Port Arthur massacre, Kevin Rudd's apology to indigenous Australians, the Vietnam War, the global financial crisis and the Bali bombings. More than 30 per cent of people from across the country said the marriage ...
How we see momentous events is how we see ourselvesThe Australian
Australian National University's Social Research Centre survey reveals our most memorable momentsThe Advertiser

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Brisbane Times
ACT has highest rate of indigenous child care, protection reports in Australia
Brisbane Times
That compared to a rate of just 46.3 for non-indigenous children in the ACT, and the next highest rate for reports about indigenous children, at 320.1 for every 1000 Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander children was in the Northern Territory. The ...

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Brisbane Times
ACT has highest rate of indigenous child care, protection reports in Australia
Brisbane Times
That compared to a rate of just 46.3 for non-indigenous children in the ACT, and the next highest rate for reports about indigenous children, at 320.1 for every 1000 Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander children was in the Northern Territory. The ...

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NEWS.com.au
What life was like for Aboriginal people during colonisation
NEWS.com.au
Despite this, the brutality continued for many years, with some Australians protesting at the indiscriminate killing of the Aboriginal people, which in some areas was attributed to “the brutality of the Native Police and some of the settlers, who, in ...

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