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The Australian
Albanese disputes need to change Captain Cook statue
The Australian
Mr Albanese said there were bigger issues facing indigenous Australians than inscriptions on statues. On Monday Mr Shorten backed calls for an extra plaque to be placed on the statue that would recognise Aborigines inhabited the continent before ...

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The Australian
Indigenous team win science's Eureka award
The Australian
Dr Ens says her “eyes were opened to Aboriginal Australia” when she first visited Ngukurr in 2008 as a postdoctoral researcher with Charles Darwin University. What started as ecological work quickly became social. “It became about the people, and the ...

The Australian
Indigenous team win science's Eureka award
The Australian
Dr Ens says her “eyes were opened to Aboriginal Australia” when she first visited Ngukurr in 2008 as a postdoctoral researcher with Charles Darwin University. What started as ecological work quickly became social. “It became about the people, and the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal people paying for boom in Canberra's property prices
The Sydney Morning Herald
To complete the picture, Canberra also has one of the highest rates of homelessness in Australia with Aboriginal people (1.6 per cent of the Canberra population) representing 26 per cent of all people accessing homelessness services. Winnunga ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal people paying for boom in Canberra's property prices
The Sydney Morning Herald
To complete the picture, Canberra also has one of the highest rates of homelessness in Australia with Aboriginal people (1.6 per cent of the Canberra population) representing 26 per cent of all people accessing homelessness services. Winnunga ...

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ABC Online
Mega prawn farm Project Sea Dragon nets Indigenous Land Use Agreement in northern Australia
ABC Online
Plans to build one of the world's largest prawn farms on a remote cattle station in the Northern Territory have taken a major step with native title holders supporting the project and signing an Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) for its development ...

ABC Online
Mega prawn farm Project Sea Dragon nets Indigenous Land Use Agreement in northern Australia
ABC Online
Plans to build one of the world's largest prawn farms on a remote cattle station in the Northern Territory have taken a major step with native title holders supporting the project and signing an Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) for its development ...

Byron Shire News
Stalinist pigeon perch attack fixed
Byron Shire News
Recently Stan Grant made the point that having a statue in Sydney's Hyde Park lauding Captain James Cook for "discovering” Australia was not accurate when Aboriginal people had been custodians of this place for more than 60,000 years and had been ...

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Herald Sun (blog)
Darebin council Australia Day ban divides Aussies
Herald Sun (blog)
“Dumping Australia Day is a bad idea firstly because it's a distraction from more serious issues like child abuse, violence, homelessness and unemployment, and secondly, it promotes the myth that Aboriginal people are upset by a date,” Dr Dillon told ...

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Herald Sun (blog)
Darebin council Australia Day ban divides Aussies
Herald Sun (blog)
It has been edifying to hear from Aboriginal leaders fed up with Australia Day being used as a “smokescreen” by those who lack the courage to face the serious issues afflicting indigenous communities. It's time we listened to a broader range of ...

Northern Star
Govt slammed for 'heavy handed' Australia Day threat
Northern Star
Update 5:36pm: LISMORE Mayor Isaac Smith criticised the Federal Government for assuming it had moved to change date of Australia Day in a letter sent to him last week. Cr Smith clarified the council had consulted its Aboriginal Advisory Committee to ...

Herald Sun (blog)
Miserable activists trashing Australia Day
Herald Sun (blog)
Meanwhile, we have clownish councillors dropping all references to Australia Day based on an online survey of '88 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' plus another 281 people polled in a street survey, the majority of whom were against the council's ...

Herald Sun (blog)
Miserable activists trashing Australia Day
Herald Sun (blog)
Even among indigenous Australians, only 31 per cent felt negative about Australia Day, while 53 per cent supported changing the date. Given the biased media coverage, you could be forgiven for thinking that every indigenous Australian was vehemently ...

Herald Sun
Aboriginal artist Stan Dryden says leave historical monuments alone but acknowledge indigenous achievement in ...
Herald Sun
“A lot to be proud of even in that short recent migration, and certainly that pride in our indigenous Australians and the history that they've built over many thousands of years,” he said. Melbourne Day Committee chairman Campbell Walker said Melbourne ...

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Herald Sun
Aboriginal artist Stan Dryden says leave historical monuments alone but acknowledge indigenous achievement in ...
Herald Sun
“A lot to be proud of even in that short recent migration, and certainly that pride in our indigenous Australians and the history that they've built over many thousands of years,” he said. Melbourne Day Committee chairman Campbell Walker said Melbourne ...

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ABC Online
A year from Elijah Doughty's death, we still don't understand the anger it sparked
ABC Online
As in most parts of Australia, there was violence on the Goldfields frontier in the early years. At the peak of the first resources boom in the mid-1890s, a group of Aboriginal people numbering as many as 30 were trapped in a gully and massacred at ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Finalists Named in Inaugural Indigenous Digital Excellence Awards
Pro Bono Australia
“Ranging from the founder of Australia's first Indigenous business accelerator, to an Elder who uses 3D printers to create cultural artefacts, and Darwin's most popular Airbnb host – the talent and ambition of the IDX Awards finalists is truly ...

The Australian
Albanese: 'Greater issues facing First Australians than inscriptions'
The Australian
Mr Albanese said this morning that there were bigger issues facing indigenous Australians than inscriptions on historical statues. “There are far greater issues facing the First Australians that what's on a statue,” Mr Albanese told Adelaide radio ...

New GO Foundation Indigenous student scholarships launched
EducationHQ Australia
“This is just the beginning of GO Foundation public school scholarships and we look forward to being able to support many more Indigenous students on their journey through school, into further education and employment,” Michael O'Loughlin added.

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BE GLAD IT WAS THE BRITISH
Herald Sun (blog)
Leo Maglen asks: what do the activists think would have happened to Aboriginal Australia if the British had NOT colonised the continent. Be grateful, because there is no way a land occupied by tribes with no technology and an essentially Stone Age ...