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The Australian
Burke and Wills descendants speak out on plans to alter monument
The Australian
Calls to recognise the indigenous Australians who explored the continent before Burke and Wills's 1860 expedition and the Aboriginal guides who helped the pair on their journey come as the latest Newspoll revealed 58 per cent of Australians don't want ...

SBS
Coalition won't rewrite history on Captain Cook: Morrison
SBS
"However, our modern Australian story has not been without its failures, its shames and tragedies, in particular for indigenous Australians," Mr Morrison conceded. Greens MP Adam Bandt said calls to modify plaques on statues of colonial leaders like ...
Newspoll finds overwhelming support to leave statues aloneThe Australian

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Higher rates of dementia found in Indigenous Australians who suffered childhood trauma
ABC Online
Researchers following a group of just over 300 Indigenous Australians in New South Wales say they are discovering an association between rates of dementia and those who reported a high level of childhood trauma. Doctor Kylie Radford from Neuroscience ...

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J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
Diller Teen Fellows work with Aboriginal community
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
Here they made new friends, learnt about Jewish Communities in other countries, developing their connection to Israel and Zionism, to world Jewry and indeed their identity as Australian Jews. The whole seminar knew who the Australians were, with their ...

Armidale Express
Aboriginal language celebrated at A Day on the Dale
Armidale Express
ABORIGINAL people were the first people in history to traverse unknown territory in Asia and Australia, a University of Copenhagen study has shown. And, on Friday, descendants of the oldest surviving culture on Earth marched through Armidale in a ...

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Lithgow Mercury
Lithgow's Mayor will not change Australia Day
Lithgow Mercury
Mayor Lesslie said all residents can be acknowledged in Australia Day celebrations, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents. “Yes. They're Australian. And Australia Day is for all Australians. We do celebrate Aboriginal people's ...

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SBS
Coalition won't rewrite history on Cook
SBS
Mr Morrison's op-ed follows weeks of debate around the appropriateness of colonial era statues, and Australia Day itself, considering the country's indigenous history. A statue of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park that was defaced last week has now ...

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SBS
Coalition won't rewrite history on Captain Cook: Morrison
SBS
Mr Morrison's op-ed follows weeks of debate around the appropriateness of colonial era statues, and Australia Day itself, considering the country's indigenous history. A statue of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park that was defaced last week has now ...
Newspoll finds overwhelming support to leave statues aloneThe Australian

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The Australian
An Endeavour for the age: Captain James Cook's epic voyage
The Australian
And that story cannot be told without the oral histories of indigenous Australians told alongside it; the views from the elders whose ancestors occupied the east coast of this glorious land long before Endeavour bobbed into their horizon. Today, part ...

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The West Australian
Noongar man Clinton Pryor walks from Perth to Canberra to raise awareness of indigenous issues
The West Australian
Over the past year he met with Aboriginal elders and community leaders across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria and NSW. His walk included trekking through the Gibson Desert for two weeks in summer, where he had to ...

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The Canberra Times
Noongar man Clinton Pryor walks from Perth to Canberra raise awareness of indigenous issues
The West Australian
Over the past year he met with Aboriginal elders and community leaders across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria and NSW. His walk included trekking through the Gibson Desert for two weeks in summer, where he had to ...
Clinton Pryor arrives in Canberra after walking from Western AustraliaThe Canberra Times

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The Australian
Why I cherish Jan 26 in all its complexity
The Australian
North of Brewarrina, not far from the ancient fish traps where I was just over a week ago, is the site of the Hospital Creek massacre, where 400 indigenous Australians were slaughtered in 1859. Unforgivably, just one of many such episodes that is part ...

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Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians
Gippsland Times
Dementia expert Kylie Radford, who led the research published in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, says she hopes the study could go some way to explaining why the rate of dementia in Australia's Indigenous population is three to four ...

The Transcontinental
Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians
The Transcontinental
Dementia expert Kylie Radford, who led the research published in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, says she hopes the study could go some way to explaining why the rate of dementia in Australia's Indigenous population is three to four ...

Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians
Crookwell Gazette
Dementia expert Kylie Radford, who led the research published in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, says she hopes the study could go some way to explaining why the rate of dementia in Australia's Indigenous population is three to four ...

The Australian
Newspoll finds overwhelming support to leave statues alone
The Australian
The survey finds those who want additional plaques on statutes to recognise indigenous Australians amount to only 19 per cent of voters, while those who want new inscriptions to replace existing plaques make up 11 per cent. Malcolm Turnbull has accused ...

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Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians
Bellingen Courier Sun
Dementia expert Kylie Radford, who led the research published in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, says she hopes the study could go some way to explaining why the rate of dementia in Australia's Indigenous population is three to four ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Rewriting our history is not the way to go
The Sydney Morning Herald
Clearly, he did not "discover" Australia. He charted its east coast, and, it might be said, picked the eyes out of the country for his colonial masters. Legitimately, Grant can claim that his Aboriginal ancestors "discovered" Australia 65,000 years ago ...
Rex Jory: Leave our history, and our statues, aloneThe Advertiser

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Madeleine Madden: Indigenous actor doesn't want to see historic statues torn down
dailytelegraph.com.au
But Madeleine Madden — who will soon appear in Foxtel's upcoming Picnic at Hanging Rock — does back calls to change the date of Australia Day from January 26. Australian actor Madeleine Madden wants a change to the date of Australia Day — but ...

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Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians
Ararat Advertiser
Dementia expert Kylie Radford, who led the research published in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, says she hopes the study could go some way to explaining why the rate of dementia in Australia's Indigenous population is three to four ...