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The Australian
Drive to increase pre-settlement history lessons
The Australian
Senator Scullion suggested the debate over an additional plaque on Captain James Cook's statue to acknowledge the presence of Aborigines on the continent before his arrival, or “retrofitting” historical monuments, would be irrelevant if Australians ...

The Australian
Drive to increase pre-settlement history lessons
The Australian
Labor MP Linda Burney, the first indigenous woman elected to the House of Representatives, said it was historically wrong to credit Cook with the discovery of Australia and pushed for the plaque to be changed. Bill Shorten fuelled the debate this week ...

NEWS.com.au
Historical grievance politics imperils our future
The Australian
The debate is not really about statues or political correctness. The statues row is a bizarre event revealing of something larger: how European Australia and indigenous Australia are going to reconcile on this continent given their competing cultures ...
Debunking the myth of Australia DayNEWS.com.au
Changing Australia's colonial statues 'rewards vandalism': PMSBS
Vandalising numpties undermine the scope for reasoned debateCourier Mail
Quartz -The Straits Times
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The Australian
Burke and Wills statue latest in line for an amended plaque
The Australian
The plaque on the statue, before it was removed early last year, said Burke and Wills were “the first to travel the continent from south to north”, but indigenous Australians are known to have explored the country's interior for thousand of years ...

Sky News Australia
Govt called to address Indigenous abuse
Sky News Australia
Malcolm Turnbull's former chief adviser on indigenous affairs has called for the adoption of abused Aboriginal children, accusing the Prime Minster of ignoring their plight. Warren Mundine has told Sky News he is dismayed the country is obsessing about ...

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The Advertiser
Dean Jaensch: Australia Day should be a celebration of unity, not division and conflict
The Advertiser
There has also been a call that the notation on the statue of Captain Cook in Sydney should be sand blasted to remove the words that he “discovered Australia” on the ground that this is also offensive to Aboriginal people. How far should this ...

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The Advertiser
Dean Jaensch: Australia Day should be a celebration of unity, not division and conflict
The Advertiser
There has also been a call that the notation on the statue of Captain Cook in Sydney should be sand blasted to remove the words that he “discovered Australia” on the ground that this is also offensive to Aboriginal people. How far should this ...

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SBS
Shorten, Plibersek cold on extra statue plaques
The Australian
“We should be aware of what Australia Day means for Indigenous people, it is a day of invasion for Indigenous Australians and we should be alert to the fact that it is hurtful and damaging for many people, but we need to have a mature conversation as a ...
Changing Australia's colonial statues 'rewards vandalism': PMSBS
Debunking the myth of Australia DayNEWS.com.au
Dean Jaensch: Australia Day should be a celebration of unity, not division and conflictThe Advertiser
The Sydney Morning Herald -Courier Mail -Quartz
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Perth Now
Aboriginal activist Clinton Pryor's walk for justice
Perth Now
West Australian Clinton Pryor is walking from Perth to Canberra to protest against the forced closures of Indigenous communities. Picture: Nathan Hopkins, Phresh Creative. An admin team of four people run the operation from their base in Perth. Mr ...

Perth Now
Aboriginal activist Clinton Pryor's walk for justice
Perth Now
West Australian Clinton Pryor is walking from Perth to Canberra to protest against the forced closures of Indigenous communities. Picture: Nathan Hopkins, Phresh Creative. An admin team of four people run the operation from their base in Perth. Mr ...

NEWS.com.au
Debunking the myth of Australia Day
NEWS.com.au
“Australia Day has not always been on the 26th of January,” Macquarie University Professor Bronwyn Carlson, an expert in indigenous studies, told news.com.au. “It has over the past 100 years been celebrated on various days in various months so it is ...

NEWS.com.au
Debunking the myth of Australia Day
NEWS.com.au
The NSW governor Henry Parkes also recognised the day was a reminder to Aborigines of how they had been “robbed”. So it wasn't always an obvious choice for Australia's national day. After the Commonwealth of Australia was founded in 1901, there was ...

SBS
Changing Australia's colonial statues 'rewards vandalism': PM
SBS
A different solution was instead raised by opposition Labor MP Linda Burney - the first Aboriginal woman elected to the lower house of parliament - who called for Cook's plaque to be updated to reflect that he had not "discovered" the nation. She was ...
Shorten goes cold on extra plaques for statuesThe Australian
Vandalising numpties undermine the scope for reasoned debateCourier Mail
Australia is debating what to do about its statues that honor colonizersQuartz
Brisbane Times -Red Flag -Daily Mail
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Echonetdaily
What now in native foods?
Echonetdaily
Australia's cultural cringe has affected our uptake of and interest in native foods. Clayton Donovan, Australia's only 'hatted' Indigenous chef, found his use of Australian native foods was accepted and celebrated more in the UK than at home. This is ...

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SBS
Shorten goes cold on extra plaques for statues
The Australian
Mr Shorten played down his support for adding an extra plaque on the Sydney statue of Captain Cook which would acknowledge Aboriginal Australians inhabited the land before the British settlers. While the Labor leader yesterday said he had no opposition ...
Changing Australia's colonial statues 'rewards vandalism': PMSBS
'An additional plaque': Bill Shorten's plan to neutralise Captain Cook ...Brisbane Times
Vandalising numpties undermine the scope for reasoned debateCourier Mail
Quartz -Red Flag -Daily Mail
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SBS
Queensland moves to remove racist place names such as N***** Creek
SBS
The inscription in Hyde Park says the English explorer discovered Australia, which Grant said tells Aboriginal people that before 1770 they did not exist. "My ancestors were here when Cook dropped anchor. We know now that the first peoples of this ...

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SBS
Queensland moves to remove racist place names such as N***** Creek
SBS
The inscription in Hyde Park says the English explorer discovered Australia, which Grant said tells Aboriginal people that before 1770 they did not exist. "My ancestors were here when Cook dropped anchor. We know now that the first peoples of this ...

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The Educator
Indigenous education improving, but challenges remain
The Educator
Sarra is the founder and chairman of the Stronger Smarter Institute – a non-profit organisation delivering better outcomes for Indigenous, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children across Australia. Sarra addressed the conference about the impact ...

The Educator
Indigenous education improving, but challenges remain
The Educator
Sarra is the founder and chairman of the Stronger Smarter Institute – a non-profit organisation delivering better outcomes for Indigenous, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children across Australia. Sarra addressed the conference about the impact ...

The Mandarin (registration)
5 areas of Australian public policy that saw substantial long-term impact
The Mandarin (registration)
Over the same period, indigenous female life expectancy increased by 0.6 years. However while the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous life expectancy is reducing somewhat, indigenous Australians can still expect to die 10 years earlier than ...