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The West Australian
Councils should keep out of Australia Day debate, say WA mayors
The West Australian
As the Greens revealed it had enlisted star power to help in its anti-Australia Day campaign, WA councils said they should focus on delivering services to ratepayers and leave decisions about changing the date of Australia Day to the Federal Government ...
Holiday hubris getting in the way of indigenous issuesThe Australian

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SBS
My Australia: The rising hip-hop star staying true to his first language
SBS
Last year he won a Triple J Unearthed Indigenous artist contest and performed at the National Indigenous Music Awards. He says he uses his rap to showcase the living nature of Indigenous languages. "It's something different and especially to round the ...

NEWS.com.au
'Important' change to Southern Cross recognises Aboriginal astronomy
NEWS.com.au
The new names were selected from cultures around the world, including Chinese, Coptic, Hindu, Mayan, South African and Australian Aboriginal. The Southern Cross is not only a well known constellation, but a symbol of Australia.Source:News Corp ...

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ABC Local
Australia Day dividing Australians and excluding Indigenous people, says Professor Chris Sarra
ABC Local
"Regrettably I don't think Australia Day, and what it represents, is a day that most people in the Aboriginal community want to celebrate," says Professor Chris Sarra, one of Malcolm Turnbull's key Indigenous advisers. "I say that mindful that you get ...

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ABC Local
Australia Day dividing Australians and excluding Indigenous people, says Professor Chris Sarra
ABC Local
"Regrettably I don't think Australia Day, and what it represents, is a day that most people in the Aboriginal community want to celebrate," says Professor Chris Sarra, one of Malcolm Turnbull's key Indigenous advisers. "I say that mindful that you get ...

The Conversation AU
Explainer: the evidence for the Tasmanian genocide
The Conversation AU
At a public meeting in Hobart in the late 1830s, Solicitor-General Alfred Stephen, later Chief Justice of New South Wales, shared with the assembled crowd his solution for dealing with “the Aboriginal problem”. If the colony could not protect its ...

The Guardian
Celebrating Australia Day on 26 January like dancing on graves, says reconciliation body
The Guardian
It is “impossible” for Australia Day to be an inclusive holiday while it remains held on 26 January, Reconciliation Australia has said. The independent organisation, which is the national expert body on reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Most don't care when Australia Day is held, poll findsThe Sydney Morning Herald
Holiday hubris getting in the way of indigenous issuesThe Australian
Heidi Anderson: Indigenous suicide rates out of controlPerthNow
Daily Mail
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The Guardian
Celebrating Australia Day on 26 January like dancing on graves, says reconciliation body
The Guardian
It is “impossible” for Australia Day to be an inclusive holiday while it remains held on 26 January, Reconciliation Australia has said. The independent organisation, which is the national expert body on reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Most don't care when Australia Day is held, poll findsThe Sydney Morning Herald
Holiday hubris getting in the way of indigenous issuesThe Australian
Heidi Anderson: Indigenous suicide rates out of controlPerthNow
Daily Mail
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Brisbane Times
Most don't care when Australia Day is held, poll finds
Brisbane Times
Only 37 per cent of people agreed the current date was offensive to Indigenous people, even though many Indigenous leaders have long been calling for change. Nearly half of people – 46 per cent – disagreed the date was problematic. Asked if Australia ...
Holiday hubris getting in the way of indigenous issuesThe Australian

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Herald Sun
The Greens leader is trying to divide Australians
The Australian
It's an appropriate national day because it is arguably the most significant day in our country's history for indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. We seem able to manage a degree of duality with how we regard Anzac Day, most assuredly a military ...
James Campbell: Controversy over Australia Day catches Labor between the Greens and the CoalitionHerald Sun
Australia Day: Greens to use local council numbers to lead #changethedate pushInfosurhoy

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Brisbane Times
Holiday hubris getting in the way of indigenous issues
The Australian
But Burney has an idea to break the Australia Day impasse. RN Breakfast, yesterday: Burney: Australia should have a national public holiday that celebrates, that lifts up, that recognises First Nations peoples, First Nations stories ... Hamish McDonald ...
Most don't care when Australia Day is held, poll findsBrisbane Times

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Daily Telegraph
Black-on-black hate holds back progress
Daily Telegraph
Some may read that last sentence and think: “Yes, I know the racism Aboriginal people face is bad.” However, the hate and slander I'm talking about here is that which they receive from other Aboriginal people, and therefore, is not considered racism ...

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Daily Telegraph
Black-on-black hate holds back progress
Daily Telegraph
Some may read that last sentence and think: “Yes, I know the racism Aboriginal people face is bad.” However, the hate and slander I'm talking about here is that which they receive from other Aboriginal people, and therefore, is not considered racism ...

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Herald Sun
James Campbell: Controversy over Australia Day catches Labor between the Greens and the Coalition
Herald Sun
Anyone could see that from the moment the ABC decided to side with them by sacking the Hottest 100 from January 26, it would be game on. This week the Greens leader Richard Di Natale upped the ante saying the day represented dispossession, theft, and ...
Australia Day: Greens to use local council numbers to lead #changethedate pushInfosurhoy

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The Advocate
'Change the date': Aboriginal leaders on Australia Day debate
The Advocate
CHANGE THE DATE: Protesters gathered in Hobart in 2017 to campaign for the date of Australia Day to be changed. Picture: Supplied. Celebrating Australia Day on January 26 is like “rubbing salt in the wounds” of the Aboriginal community, Tasmanian ...

Warwick Thornton: 'I make films for us, as Australians'
ABC Online
Sweet Country is director and cinematographer Warwick Thornton's second feature film after 2009's award-winning Samson & Delilah. Already garnering rave reviews at festivals worldwide, the 1920s period western is inspired by a true story of an ...

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Eternity News
Aboriginal fellowship wants to revive theological college
Eternity News
... also in Sydney, about creating a support unit to help raise the academic level of Aboriginal students from a typical Year 10 level to degree level. “That's what's needed, but it's hard for colleges to get their head around that, we're finding, so ...

Newcastle Herald
Australia Day's wretched past for Anglo/Celtic people seems to have been forgotten
Newcastle Herald
OTHER OPTIONS: There is much to celebrate about our rich past and great nation, but January 26 is far from the most appropriate day to do it. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers. AUSTRALIA Day is not just painful for indigenous people. The move to change the ...

SBS
These giant bunya nuts are a key Indigenous food as well as snacks for dinosaurs
SBS
Each January at the Australian Botanic Garden in Sydney's Mount Annan, the bunya pine trees begin to drop their cones. If you don't think this is a big deal, you should know that they used to be dinosaur food millions of years ago - bunya pines have ...

SBS
These giant bunya nuts are a key Indigenous food as well as snacks for dinosaurs
SBS
Each January at the Australian Botanic Garden in Sydney's Mount Annan, the bunya pine trees begin to drop their cones. If you don't think this is a big deal, you should know that they used to be dinosaur food millions of years ago - bunya pines have ...