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Huffington Post Australia
Dan Sultan Clashes With Jacqui Lambie, George Brandis Over Australia Day
Huffington Post Australia
"I think there are many days throughout our history that include everybody and I think it's important that a day called Australia Day includes all Australians. The fact of the matter is that it doesn't include us, it excludes us [Indigenous Australians ...
Jacqui Lambie and Dan Sultan clash on live TV: 'Australia Day has always been racist'NEWS.com.au
Jacqui Lambie says indigenous push should be closing gap, not Australia DayThe Australian

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Racist place names to be struck from the record in Queensland
Brisbane Times
Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich said he was glad the department recognised the deeply offensive, derogatory term caused pain to Indigenous Australians and other minorities of African descent. "We welcome the removal of those ...

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The Advertiser
Marion Council likely to reject push to move Australia Day ceremonies
The Advertiser
Renewed debate about Australia Day came as Federal Labor Leader Bill Shorten threw his support behind calls for an additional plaque to be added to a statue of Captain Cook to acknowledge that indigenous people lived in Australia before British ...
Australia Day: Marion council to vote on moving the date of celebrationsABC Online
Moving Aust Day social engineering: JoyceSky News Australia
Marion council's push to scrap Australia Day ceremony unlikely to pass, mayor saysThe Guardian

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The Advertiser
Marion Council likely to reject push to move Australia Day ceremonies
The Advertiser
Renewed debate about Australia Day came as Federal Labor Leader Bill Shorten threw his support behind calls for an additional plaque to be added to a statue of Captain Cook to acknowledge that indigenous people lived in Australia before British ...
Australia Day: Marion council to vote on moving the date of celebrationsABC Online
Moving Australia Day is 'garbage': JoyceThe West Australian
Another council will vote on whether to change Australia DayRockhampton Morning Bulletin
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Marion Council likely to reject push to move Australia Day ceremonies
Townsville Bulletin
Renewed debate about Australia Day came as Federal Labor Leader Bill Shorten threw his support behind calls for an additional plaque to be added to a statue of Captain Cook to acknowledge that indigenous people lived in Australia before British ...

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The Age
Melbourne's Banyule Council votes to keep January 26 Australia Day celebrations
The Age
The motion put forward by Cr Garotti said Banyule Council had long-held a tradition of a "respectful and inclusive program of Australia Day activities" which celebrated Indigenous heritage and the municipality's multicultural society, and he did not ...
Aboriginal history is 'cultural vandalism'? Then I'll proudly wear my Aboriginal flag-starred beretThe Guardian

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The Age
Melbourne's Banyule Council votes to keep January 26 Australia Day celebrations
The Age
The motion put forward by Cr Garotti said Banyule Council had long-held a tradition of a "respectful and inclusive program of Australia Day activities" which celebrated Indigenous heritage and the municipality's multicultural society, and he did not ...
Yarra Ranges mayor wants to expand, not axe Australia Day festivitiesHerald Sun
Don't celebrate Australia in shame or ignoranceBrisbane Times
Aboriginal history is 'cultural vandalism'? Then I'll proudly wear my Aboriginal flag-starred beretThe Guardian

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Mystery 'chemical haze' hits UK coast
The Australian
Shorten backs statue overhaul · Hyde Park Statue Vandalised GREG BROWN. Bill Shorten says a Sydney statue of Captain James Cook should stay but its plaque should acknowledge indigenous Australians were here first.

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The Australian
Same sex marriage: Network Ten admits doctoring controversial footage
The Australian
Instead of accurately and fairly presenting the 'no' case, including the very real consequences for ordinary Australians if the law is changed, media outlets have instead used manufactured stories to favour the Yes case.” A spokesman for the City of ...

The Australian
Melbourne housing market continues to expand as Sydney catches its breath
The Australian
“We don't think it would be disastrous, but it (Sydney housing values) could fall 5-10 per cent peak to trough,” Mr Lawless told The Australian following the launch in Sydney of CoreLogic's updated housing value index. By the end of this year, the pace ...

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Tear down Australia's racist statues
Red Flag
Australian capitalism was built on stolen land and the blood and broken lives of Aboriginal people, and also of Torres Strait and South Sea Islanders. Queensland's sugar industry was built through the slave labour of at least 62,000 men and women ...

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Premier Jay Weatherill Has His Say On Moving Australia Day
FiveAA
“You want the community as a whole to say, 'Here's the new deal for our relationship with Aboriginal Australia,' and you can't do that just by one council picking off an issue which is calculated to get peoples' backs up,” Mr Weatherill told Alan ...

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The Australian
Dean Mercer, legendary ironman, dead after Gold Coast crash
The Australian
Former national ironman champion Dean Mercer has died after crashing his car into a fence on the Gold Coast. The 47-year-old father-of-four had a heart attack in the moments before his car came off the road and into the fence at Mermaid Waters early on ...

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The Australian
Bangladesh v Australia: live day two of first Test in Dhaka
The Australian
The Australians are hanging on grimly against a probing all-spin spin attack on a wearing wicket. Handscomb is doing more than hanging on – he has launched something of a counterattack. A couple of slog-swept boundaries has blunted the hosts' charge.

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The Australian
Update inaccurate statue plaques, says Bill Shorten
The Australian
But he is not opposed for an additional plaque to be placed on the Captain Cook statue which noted indigenous Australians were on the continent before the British. “This country works best when we work together so an additional plaque on Captain Cook's ...
Bill Shorten's plan to neutralise Captain Cook debateBendigo Advertiser

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The Australian
Sydney shooting: girl, 3, found shot dead in Sydney home
The Australian
Shorten backs statue plaque update · Hyde Park Statue Vandalised GREG BROWN. Bill Shorten says a Sydney statue of Captain James Cook should stay but its plaque should acknowledge indigenous Australians were here first.

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Moving Australia Day is 'garbage': Joyce
NEWS.com.au
The Marion Council will consider a motion next month from Councillor Bruce Hull seeking to recognise the feelings of indigenous Australians. But Mr Joyce has suggested the council stick to "rubbish and roads". "Every time a council decides their job is ...

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Illawarra Mercury
Is it time to find a new day, Australia?
Illawarra Mercury
It's worth remembering that opposition to Australia Day isn't actually anything new – there were protests calling it a “day of mourning” as far back as 1938. And it's certainly not hard to see the Aboriginal people's point of view here – even if you're ...

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Herald Sun
Maroondah councillors remain in favour of recognising Australia Day
Herald Sun
It comes after Yarra and Darebin councils in Melbourne's inner suburbs voted to stop Australia Day formalities earlier this month, shifting the date of its citizenship ceremonies to appease indigenous Australians. The Federal Government acted swiftly ...

ABC Online
Marion Council to vote on dropping Oz Day by moving citizenship ceremonies away from January 26
The Advertiser
Councillor Bruce Hull introduced a motion over the weekend that would acknowledge January 26 as the date of European invasion, in recognition of the feelings of indigenous Australians. “Australia Day has been held on many different days over the years ...
Australia Day: Marion council to vote on moving the date of celebrationsABC Online

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