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Aboriginal LGBTI People Say They Need Funding, Research, And Solidarity
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"Aboriginal history has to be acknowledged by LGBTI people," she said. "You can't escape from it." She recalled to the room a conversation she'd had with a friend, Roger McKay, at the Sydney Mardi Gras parade in 1982. "I remember standing there in ...

NSW premier gives thanks to Australia
SBS
So, too, the successive waves of migrant communities, servicemen and women, and ordinary Australians who work hard to be good citizens. The daughter of Armenian immigrants, the premier spoke of her family's gratitude for the opportunities Australia had ...

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Australia Day : it's complicated
University News: The University of Western Australia
Then Australia's landing at Gallipoli earlier that year was to launch the commemoration of another national day: Anzac Day on April 25. Other colonies commemorated their own imperial foundations. In Western Australia, Foundation Day on June 1 ...

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Australia Day : it's complicated
University News: The University of Western Australia
In Western Australia, Foundation Day on June 1 celebrated the arrival of white settlers in 1829. In 1935, all states adopted a common date and name for Australia Day; January 26 and by the 1940s a national public holiday was in place. “Since 1938 ...

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Brag Magazine
There is nothing to celebrate about Invasion Day
Brag Magazine
January 26 is, and always has been, Invasion Day. It marks the day the British colonised this country and brought with them the exploitative and oppressive practices that made the British Empire so barbaric, yet so profitable. It's an annual punch in ...

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Brag Magazine
There is nothing to celebrate about Invasion Day
Brag Magazine
January 26 is, and always has been, Invasion Day. It marks the day the British colonised this country and brought with them the exploitative and oppressive practices that made the British Empire so barbaric, yet so profitable. It's an annual punch in ...

The Australian Financial Review
Australia Day should be more like Anzac Day: Wesley Enoch
The Australian Financial Review
He said Mr Turnbull should lead a process whereby Australia Day came to involve a ritual of some sort, followed by whatever other activities people chose. "Anzac Day has pathways," he said. "It has a dawn service, it has a march and then an element of ...

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The Guardian
Nigel Scullion: No Indigenous person tells me they want Australia Day changed
The Guardian
The Indigenous Affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, says no Indigenous Australian has told him the date of Australia Day should be changed other than a single government adviser. Speaking on the ABC's AM program on Friday, Scullion was asked about ...

The Guardian
Nigel Scullion: No Indigenous person tells me they want Australia Day changed
The Guardian
The Indigenous Affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, says no Indigenous Australian has told him the date of Australia Day should be changed other than a single government adviser. Speaking on the ABC's AM program on Friday, Scullion was asked about ...

ABC Online
Nigel Scullion says Indigenous people haven't raised Australia Day date issue with him
ABC Online
"This is not something that comes up at all. "I can tell you there would be no-one, as a fact." Senator Scullion is a senator for the Northern Territory and has held the Indigenous Affairs portfolio since 2013. He acknowledged Indigenous "culture was ...
What our leaders say about Australia Day – and where did it start, anyway?The Guardian
Australia Day: Date never brought up by indigenous people says Nigel ScullionThe Australian
Why we should change the date of Australia DayThe Advocate
The West Australian -Gladstone Observer -The Sydney Morning Herald
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Nigel Scullion says Indigenous people haven't raised Australia Day date issue with him
ABC Online
"This is not something that comes up at all. "I can tell you there would be no-one, as a fact." Senator Scullion is a senator for the Northern Territory and has held the Indigenous Affairs portfolio since 2013. He acknowledged Indigenous "culture was ...
Celebrating Australia Day on 26 January like dancing on graves, says reconciliation bodyThe Guardian
Australia Day: Date never brought up by indigenous people says Nigel ScullionThe Australian
Local Indigenous leader defies The Greens on Australia DayGladstone Observer
SBS -The Sydney Morning Herald -Geelong Advertiser -The Australia Institute
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Westfield Matildas duo share importance of Melbourne City's Indigenous recognition events
Matildas (press release)
City's Westfield W-League and Hyundai A-League teams will come together at AAMI Park on Sunday to acknowledge the original owners on the site of the stadium, the Wurundjeri tribe, as part of a broader education of players, staff and fans on Aboriginal ...

Westfield Matildas duo share importance of Melbourne City's Indigenous recognition events
Matildas (press release)
City's Westfield W-League and Hyundai A-League teams will come together at AAMI Park on Sunday to acknowledge the original owners on the site of the stadium, the Wurundjeri tribe, as part of a broader education of players, staff and fans on Aboriginal ...

The Australian
No trenches between Aussies: ex-army chief
SBS
Their comments come after Tony Abbott described British settlement as "a very good thing" and attacked Bill Shorten for having a bet each way on the date of Australia Day. The former prime minister said British settlement was something all Australians ...
Australia Day: 'British settlement a good thing': AbbottThe Australian
Australia Day: Tony Abbott says British settlement 'a very good thing'The Guardian

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The West Australian
Australia praised for same-sex marriage
SBS
Human Rights Watch welcomed a royal commission report into ending the systemic abuse of children in youth detention in the Northern Territory. However, it was scathing of staggeringly high incarceration rates among indigenous Australians, as well as ...
Human rights praise for same-sex marriageThe West Australian
Human Rights Watch says Australia needs to address 'serious shortcomings'NEWS.com.au
Australia's human rights record attacked in global report for 'serious shortcomings'The Guardian

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Townsville Bulletin
Indigenous leader on Australia Day date change: Do Jews celebrate the holocaust?
Townsville Bulletin
The date of Australia Day, January 26, is controversial as it marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, and the raising of the flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by Governor Arthur ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Nothing sacred about Australia Day but politicians refuse to admit it
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australians held a Day of Mourning on Australia Day back in 1938. And as Indigenous Labor MP Linda Burney wearily noted on Wednesday, she's been "dealing with this issue" in the weeks prior to January 26 for 30 years. And yet, whenever the ...

The Australian
Boss offers workers extra day off to boycott Australia Day
The Australian
Mr Beath said the company was privately owned so it had every right to make a political statement and noted there was no pressure on staff to work on Australia Day. Mr Tudge, a Victorian MP, said the initiative would make “no difference” to advancing ...

Daily Telegraph
Kevin Donnelly: A lesson in history
Daily Telegraph
After the Myall Creek massacre in 1838 seven Europeans were hanged after being convicted for killing Aborigines. And those who condemn British settlement should also realise that it is only because of our legal system that terra nullius was overturned ...

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The West Australian
Human rights praise for same-sex marriage
The West Australian
Human Rights Watch was pleased with a royal commission's recommendations aimed at ending systemic abuse against children in detention in the Northern Territory. However, it was scathing of dramatically disproportionate incarceration rates among ...
Australia praised for same-sex marriageSBS

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