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History wars flare up again, concealing real story
The Advocate
The events left not only North America reeling, but Australia, too. When the ABC's indigenous editor Stan Grant suggested last week that a statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park misrepresented Australian history, a firestorm erupted. A ...

Mandurah Mail
Mandurah's Assumption Primary School receives grant to create Aboriginal mural
Mandurah Mail
The school will engage an Aboriginal artist to work with the students in the design and delivery of the artwork, which would be used to promote and teach the students about Australia's first culture. “We are a multi-cultural school community and are ...

Mandurah Mail
Mandurah's Assumption Primary School receives grant to create Aboriginal mural
Mandurah Mail
"The School Reconciliation Grants help local communities to explore and establish achievable outcomes while highlighting the importance of reconciliation and the significance it plays in making the lives of Indigenous Australians brighter," Mr Lockyer ...

Herald Sun
Moonee Valley Council says it has no plans to stop citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day
Herald Sun
The council's reconciliation policy includes a commitment based on principles of respect, recognition and relationships in which it recognises: “the past injustices inflicted on Australia's' Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities by this and ...

The Australian
Low voter turnout hampers remote NT governance
The Australian
He said he had recently returned from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, where over the course of a fortnight, not one indigenous person mentioned constitutional recognition, changing Australia Day or modifying monuments — issues that ...

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The Mabo Oration
ArtsHub (subscription)
Noel Pearson gave the powerful inaugural address in 2005 pointing out that the principles established by Mabo represented the best opportunity for resolution of colonial grievance between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, noting that it was a ...

The Australian
Albo denies criticising Shorten on Cook statue
The Australian
On Monday, Mr Shorten said an extra plaque should be placed on the statue, which proclaims that Cook discovered Australia, to recognise that indigenous Australians inhabited the continent before European settlement. Mr Albanese responded by saying ...

The Australian
Albo denies criticising Shorten on Cook statue
The Australian
On Monday, Mr Shorten said an extra plaque should be placed on the statue, which proclaims that Cook discovered Australia, to recognise that indigenous Australians inhabited the continent before European settlement. Mr Albanese responded by saying ...

The Australian
Grog abuse drops under welfare card
The Australian
Almost half the 2141 welfare recipients in the remote trial communities of East Kimberley in Western Australia and Ceduna, South Australia, reported significantly cutting their drinking, drug and gambling dependence. There was a significant reduction ...

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ABC Online
Changing weather: Understanding Australia through ancient Indigenous knowledge of seasons
ABC Online
"We call it arretherre. It's the bad wind. People get irritable and cranky because of the west wind." Arrernte indigenous elder Veronica Dobson is talking about the weather from a unique point of view. She learned about the natural world from her ...

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ABC Online
Changing weather: Understanding Australia through ancient Indigenous knowledge of seasons
ABC Online
"We call it arretherre. It's the bad wind. People get irritable and cranky because of the west wind." Arrernte indigenous elder Veronica Dobson is talking about the weather from a unique point of view. She learned about the natural world from her ...

Financial Times
Statue wars spread from US to Australia
Financial Times
A public debate over the impact of colonisation on Australia's indigenous population has raged since the 1980s, shortly after academics began disputing the official view of a peaceful settlement of Australia, instead arguing it was an invasion resisted ...

ABC Online
Cooktown wants monuments to mark first reconciliation between Indigenous and European people in 1770
ABC Online
Cooktown is planning to erect a series of statues to commemorate the first recorded reconciliation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia in 1770. Alberta Hornsby, a Bama historian and Guugu Yimithirr woman, is part of the team behind the ...

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ABC Online
Cooktown wants monuments to mark first reconciliation between Indigenous and European people in 1770
ABC Online
Cooktown is planning to erect a series of statues to commemorate the first recorded reconciliation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia in 1770. Alberta Hornsby, a Bama historian and Guugu Yimithirr woman, is part of the team behind the ...

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Mackay Daily Mercury
'More important issues than statues'
Mackay Daily Mercury
In Sydney, a statue of Captain James Cook has been at the centre of a debate on whether the plaque stating he discovered Australia should be changed to acknowledge indigenous Australians. Cr Hill said she had not received any direct complaints about ...

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SBS
'Aust film of the year' to air in London
SBS
Indigenous-Australian film making talent will be on display at the upcoming London Film Festival, with Warwick Thronton's Sweet Country in the official competition. The Melbourne-born festival director Clare Stewart told AAP the "highly-anticipated ...

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The Australian
Indigenous history lessons 'capitulation to the left': Abbott
The Australian
The Australian revealed on Wednesday the government had commissioned Melbourne University to devise resources to enhance teaching on pre-settlement indigenous history under the leadership of prominent indigenous academic Marcia Langton.

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The Australian
Indigenous history lessons 'capitulation to the left': Abbott
The Australian
The Australian revealed on Wednesday the government had commissioned Melbourne University to devise resources to enhance teaching on pre-settlement indigenous history under the leadership of prominent indigenous academic Marcia Langton.

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The Northern Daily Leader
Wattle Day: Could a new, golden Australia Day bloom in the springtime?
The Northern Daily Leader
The wattle has been the annual herald of new life to Australians from the first Indigenous people, who used the tree for all manner of purposes over tens of thousands of years, to those who have adopted the green and gold - the foliage and the bloom ...

Wattle Day: Could a new, golden Australia Day bloom in the springtime?
Brisbane Times
The wattle has been the annual herald of new life to Australians from the first Indigenous people, who used the tree for all manner of purposes over tens of thousands of years, to those who have adopted the green and gold – the foliage and the bloom ...

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