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Indigenous leader Jackie Huggins has hit back at Tony Abbott's claim that indigenous people have benefited from the arrival of the First Fleet, saying the British who settled in Australia benefited from the dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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Your noon Briefing
The Australian
Indigenous leader Jackie Huggins has hit back at Tony Abbott's claim that indigenous people have benefited from the arrival of the First Fleet, saying the British who settled in Australia benefited from the dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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ABC Online
Australia Day should be January 1 — the symbolism is perfect
ABC Online
Australian federation was marred by the exclusion of Aboriginal people and the enactment of the White Australia policy. Yet by this document, Australia was conceived as a democracy. Citizens were given the power through the ballot box to change the ...

UNSW Newsroom
If Indigenous voices can't even be heard on Australia Day, what hope have we got?
UNSW Newsroom
At the barest of minimums, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community are begging the government and our fellow citizens to acknowledge the truth about our history, our hardship and our heartbreak since invasion. Those who advocate to keep the ...
Indigenous MP Ken Wyatt says Australian republic is inevitableCommunity Newspaper Group

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SBS
My Australia: Linda Burney - 'I grew up not knowing my Aboriginal family'
SBS
'My Australia' is a special SBS News series exploring cultural heritage and identity, and asking what it means to be Australian in 2018. Linda Burney made history when she became the first Indigenous woman to serve in the House of Representatives in ...

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SBS
My Australia: Linda Burney - 'I grew up not knowing my Aboriginal family'
SBS
'My Australia' is a special SBS News series exploring cultural heritage and identity, and asking what it means to be Australian in 2018. Linda Burney made history when she became the first Indigenous woman to serve in the House of Representatives in ...

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The Australian
Australia Day: British 'benefited from dispossession of indigenous'
The Australian
Indigenous leader Jackie Huggins has hit back at Tony Abbott's claim that indigenous people have benefited from the arrival of the First Fleet, saying the British who settled in Australia benefited from the dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Commemorate instead of celebrate Australia Day, Indigenous leader saysSBS
First Fleet 'good' for Indigenous Australians, Tony Abbott saysThe Sydney Morning Herald
It's convenient to say Aboriginal people support Australia Day. But it's not trueThe Guardian
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Pickle
Johnathan Thurston calls for "national chat" on Australia Day
Pickle
Johnathan Thurston has weighed in on the issue of Australia Day being held on January 26, with the Indigenous champion suggesting it's time Australians have a “national chat” regarding the date. While stopping short of suggesting the date be moved, the ...

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Independent Australia
Australia Day: Changing the date changes nothing
Independent Australia
But as the experience of Canada, New Zealand and the U.S. shows, treaties or settlement agreements with indigenous peoples are mirages when it comes to addressing the consequences of settler colonialism and its ongoing genocide. What can be done? The ...

Independent Australia
Australia Day: Changing the date changes nothing
Independent Australia
But as the experience of Canada, New Zealand and the U.S. shows, treaties or settlement agreements with indigenous peoples are mirages when it comes to addressing the consequences of settler colonialism and its ongoing genocide. What can be done? The ...

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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald letters to the editor Tuesday January 23 2018
Newcastle Herald
MOVING Australia Day from 26th January would increase unity and reduce division, Jeff Corbett ('The division is outdated', Herald, 20/1). The injustices inflicted on Aboriginal Australians, which began on January 26 1788, have continued down through ...

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Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Australia's haves and have nots
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Close to 13 million Australians aged 15 and over are employed with 68.4 per cent of them in full-time jobs. But 3.4 per cent of Australians receive some form of the dole. The group most frequently identified are the 670,000 Aboriginal and Islander ...
Government spending on community services and housing is revealedNEWS.com.au

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SBS
Bigger indigenous issues than Aust Day: MP
SBS
Labor frontbencher Linda Burney says indigenous social justice issues should be given more focus than a campaign to change the date of Australia Day. Updated Updated 8 mins ago. An indigenous Labor frontbencher has urged the government and the Greens ...

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NEWS.com.au
Australia's haves and have nots revealed in stark wealth gap report
NEWS.com.au
The group most frequently identified are the 670,000 Aboriginal and Islander citizens, who are roughly three per cent of the population, with the total expected to grow to one million by 2026. “At 30 June 2016, 10.4 per cent of Australia's population ...
Community services bill hits $31 billionSBS

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NEWS.com.au
Australia's haves and have nots revealed in stark wealth gap report
NEWS.com.au
The group most frequently identified are the 670,000 Aboriginal and Islander citizens, who are roughly three per cent of the population, with the total expected to grow to one million by 2026. “At 30 June 2016, 10.4 per cent of Australia's population ...
Community services bill hits $31 billionSBS

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Geelong Advertiser
Chris Mackey: Australia Day will represent many different things to many different Australians
Geelong Advertiser
Something doesn't seem quite right about celebrating a national day on a date that represents to many indigenous Australians the invasion, dispossession and genocide of their ancestors. The point is that Australia Day will represent many different ...

Aboriginal people have good reasons to celebrate
The Australian
Some people question the appropriateness of celebrating this day because, for Aboriginal people, it also represents the day when they no longer occupied this continent on their own. Certainly life has changed for Aborigines, but they could not have ...

Aboriginal people have good reasons to celebrate
The Australian
Instead, our national day should celebrate a real national achievement by Australians — the opening of our first federal parliament in Melbourne on May 9, 1901. This landmark event has made it possible for all Australians to enjoy a stable democracy ...

Greens get good telling-off from indigenous leaders
The Australian
It's a day that represents the beginning of an ongoing genocide, the slaughter of so many Aboriginal people. How have indigenous leaders responded to Di Natale's push? Warren Mundine speaking to The Weekend Australian, Saturday: I'm on record saying we ...

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Greens get good telling-off from indigenous leaders
The Australian
It's a day that represents the beginning of an ongoing genocide, the slaughter of so many Aboriginal people. How have indigenous leaders responded to Di Natale's push? Warren Mundine speaking to The Weekend Australian, Saturday: I'm on record saying we ...

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