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Human rights praise for same-sex marriage
SBS
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 ...

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NEWS.com.au
Human rights praise for same-sex marriage
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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 ...
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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SBS
Australia has 'serious unresolved' human rights problems: HRW report
SBS
"Indigenous Australians are over-represented in the criminal justice system. Half the prison population has a disability, and inmates face violence, neglect, and extended periods of isolation. Abuses in juvenile detention centers and overbroad counter ...
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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Community Newspaper Group
UWA historian suggests moving Australia Day to May 9 to celebrate federation
Community Newspaper Group
“Since 1938 however, Aboriginal Australians have pointed out that, from their perspective, the arrival of the British is not a cause for celebration: on the contrary, it ushered in an era of dispossession,” she said. “We now know that indigenous ...

Community Newspaper Group
UWA historian suggests moving Australia Day to May 9 to celebrate federation
Community Newspaper Group
“Since 1938 however, Aboriginal Australians have pointed out that, from their perspective, the arrival of the British is not a cause for celebration: on the contrary, it ushered in an era of dispossession,” she said. “We now know that indigenous ...

The Advocate
Why we should change the date of Australia Day
The Advocate
ABOUT this time last year an Aboriginal woman made headlines with a Facebook post opposing a change to Australia Day. An Alice Springs councillor and campaigner against family violence, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price pulled no punches when she pointed out ...
Councils should keep out of Australia Day debate, say WA mayorsThe West Australian
'Time to change the date': Isabel Lucas joins Greens Australia Day campaignSBS
Last Post, January 18The Australian
Community Newspaper Group
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Australian Aviation
Qantas's fourth Boeing 787-9 to feature indigenous livery
Australian Aviation
Qantas's says its fourth Boeing 787-9 will celebrate Australia's indigenous peoples with a yet-to-be-revealed special livery. The aircraft, registration VH-ZND, is due to arrive from the Boeing final assembly line in Everett, Washington State, in early ...

Gladstone Observer
Local Indigenous leader defies The Greens on Australia Day
Gladstone Observer
AUSTRALIA Day, once the domain of backyard barbeques, cricket matches and hanging out at the beach has become another political football among calls to change the date. But local Indigenous spokeswoman, Cherissma Blackman says changing the date won't ...
Becoming a republic could solve Australia Day dispute, frontbencher Ken Wyatt saysABC Online
Celebrating Australia Day on 26 January like dancing on graves ...The Guardian
Australia Day: 'British settlement a good thing': AbbottThe Australian
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Herald Sun
Matildas goalkeeper Lydia Williams on her unconventional background and proud indigenous heritage
Herald Sun
They exchanged letters, she flew over to Australia, they had their honeymoon in a cave. “They both thought it was important for my childhood to incorporate both heritages. Mum being American, Dad being Aboriginal, we also had kangaroo tail and then ...

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Herald Sun
Musicians and Spotify distance themselves from Cory Bernardi
Herald Sun
His No. 7 selection, Goanna's Solid Rock, is a song that author Shane Howard says was “meant to inspire Australians to look deeper into the historical racism and injustices suffered by Aboriginal Australia at the hands of Settler Culture since 1788 ...

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Green Left Weekly
Exhaustive history of colonial Western Australia's extreme anti-Aboriginal crimes
Green Left Weekly
Chris Owen has produced an exhaustive history of colonial Western Australia pastoralists and the police who served their interests in the Kimberley region. It shows that, at best, they considered Aboriginal people as convenient slave labour and at ...

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Vale Denis Walker, Aboriginal freedom fighter
Green Left Weekly
Denis Walker, an Aboriginal rights activist and freedom fighter who died on December 4 at the age of 71, has been described as a trailblazer, revolutionary and a giant in the Aboriginal movement. A Noonuccal man from Minjerribah, Stradbroke Island, in ...

Western Sydney doctor to sail solo for 15000km to close indigenous literacy gap
Catholic Leader
The junior doctor, who studied at the University of Queensland, pursued sailing after reading the autobiography of Joshua Slocum, the first man to single-handedly sail around the world, and is now planning a solo voyage across the Pacific Ocean to open ...

The Australian
Australia Day: Bill Shorten dismisses call for separate holiday for indigenous
The Australian
Bill Shorten has dismissed his indigenous frontbencher Linda Burney's suggestion of a separate holiday to celebrate Australia's indigenous heritage, saying Australia already has enough public holidays. The comment cams as the Opposition Leader broke ...
Ken Wyatt wants to change the date of Australia Day - when we become a republicThe Sydney Morning Herald
Shorten backs Aust Day but hits out at PMSBS

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The Australian
Australia Day: Bill Shorten dismisses call for separate holiday for indigenous
The Australian
Bill Shorten has dismissed his indigenous frontbencher Linda Burney's suggestion of a separate holiday to celebrate Australia's indigenous heritage, saying Australia already has enough public holidays. The comment cams as the Opposition Leader broke ...
Ken Wyatt wants to change the date of Australia Day - when we become a republicThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous recognition in our Constitution matters – and will need greater political will to achieve
The Conversation AU
It requires a referendum to amend the Australian Constitution to receive majority support in a majority of states. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's view is that for a proposal to succeed it would require “minimal or at least tepid opposition”. The ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous recognition in our Constitution matters – and will need greater political will to achieve
The Conversation AU
It requires a referendum to amend the Australian Constitution to receive majority support in a majority of states. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's view is that for a proposal to succeed it would require “minimal or at least tepid opposition”. The ...

Brisbane Times
'Remove my music': Darren Hayes lashes Cory Bernardi over alternative Hottest 100
Brisbane Times
"It's been a cultural tradition for many people to listen to the Triple J Hottest 100 [and] that's no longer available to them," he said. "Creating a playlist under Spotify is available to anyone. This is nonsensical. Suddenly, artists are saying you ...

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9news.com.au
'Remove my music': Darren Hayes lashes Cory Bernardi over alternative Hottest 100
The Sydney Morning Herald
Last year, Triple J announced it was shifting the date of its Hottest 100 Australia Day out of respect for Indigenous Australians after an overwhelming majority of listeners flagged their support. On Thursday afternoon, Spotify issued a statement ...
Cory Bernardi creates his own 'alt Hottest 100' playlist for Australia Day9news.com.au
Musicians and Spotify distance themselves from Cory BernardiNEWS.com.au

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Brisbane Times
'Remove my music': Darren Hayes lashes Cory Bernadi over alternative Hottest 100
Brisbane Times
"It's been a cultural tradition for many people to listen to the Triple J Hottest 100 [and] that's no longer available to them," he said. "Creating a playlist under Spotify is available to anyone. This is nonsensical. Suddenly, artists are saying you ...