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The Cairns Post
Kiwi finds calling at FNQ indigenous tourism icon
The Cairns Post
HEAR the one about the Kiwi chef who ended up running a leading Australian indigenous tourism company in Far North Queensland? Bryce Madgwick's journey to becoming general manager of Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park differs from that of the ...

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The Cairns Post
Kiwi finds calling at FNQ indigenous tourism icon
The Cairns Post
“A lot of indigenous mobs across Australia don't have this opportunity and potentially never will.” Born in Auckland, Mr Madgwick moved to Western Australia as a teenager, graduating from Busselton State High School. He became a chef and ran several ...

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The Australian
Let's not squander the chance to make better history
The Australian
It would preserve the integrity of the Constitution, allow for a more meaningful declaration and give indigenous Australians a permanent voice in their affairs. Besides, we already have an informal advisory body on indigenous affairs, and are likely to ...

Aboriginal massacres DID happen
Eternity News
The terrible reality of the violent death of Aboriginal people, on the frontier of Australia's pastoral invasion of Aboriginal lands, is a part of Australia's past which needs to be named for what it was. Yet there are those who would 'whitewash' this ...

Gold Coast Bulletin
ABC Aboriginal TV presenter Stan Grant cooks up a recipe for turmoil
Gold Coast Bulletin
This week, however, Stan Grant, the well-paid ABC Aboriginal television presenter, imported a dangerous American obsession which can only exacerbate racial tensions in Australia. Grant, in an article published on the ABC website and in subsequent media ...

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The Australian
This week: Albert Namatjira; indigenous art; event security; two Kates
The Australian
At the Sydney opening of Opera Australia's The Rabbits in January last year, Malcolm Turnbull sat front and centre in the stalls. Behind the Prime Minister, and to my left, sat a handsome, well-dressed gent in his late 20s. It wasn't until after the ...

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The Australian
Yolngu art's US dreaming
The Australian
Skerritt says there is “a lot more interest (in the US) in Aboriginal art than there is in non-Aboriginal Australian art”. While some smaller US galleries have begun probing the canon more deeply, so far larger institutions have preferred surveys ...

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The Australian
Yolngu art's US dreaming
The Australian
Stephen Gilchrist, a University of Sydney lecturer who curated Everywhen: The Eternal Present in indigenous Art from Australia at the Harvard Art Museum last year, says it is an exciting time to work in the US as more institutions open their doors. “In ...

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The Australian
Australia Day debate: reclaim history instead of distorting it
The Australian
Nothing does more to cloud a discussion of the state of the nation and the role of Australia Day than the existence of two such contrasting indigenous groups. There is even a third, with a very different history and background. Torres Strait Islanders ...
ABC Aboriginal TV presenter Stan Grant cooks up a recipe for turmoilGold Coast Bulletin

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The Australian
Australia Day debate: reclaim history instead of distorting it
The Australian
Nothing does more to cloud a discussion of the state of the nation and the role of Australia Day than the existence of two such contrasting indigenous groups. There is even a third, with a very different history and background. Torres Strait Islanders ...

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Yahoo7 News
Australian PM slams 'Stalinist' critics of colonial statues
Yahoo7 News
Sydney (AFP) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday dismissed calls to change colonial-era monuments and the date of Australia Day as "Stalinist" exercises in rewriting history as debate intensified over the country's treatment of its ...
Captain Cook statue sparks debate about whether it should be removedNEWS.com.au
Captain Cook didn't 'discover' Australia: Aborigines seek removal or changes to statue of explorerMontreal Gazette
Aboriginals want Captain Cook statue which said he 'discovered Australia' REMOVED following violent protests in the ...Daily Mail
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ABC Online
Between catastrophe and survival: The real journey Captain Cook set us on
ABC Online
As an Indigenous person, my admiration for his feats is mixed with the reality that he looked upon my ancestors, in his words, as "some of the most rude and uncivilised upon the Earth". ... This is the history of all of us who call Australia home. My ...

ABC Online
Work-for-the-dole crime claim rejected by Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion
ABC Online
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has rejected suggestions from police in Western Australia that a controversial work-for-the-dole program is contributing to crime in the State's remote communities. Police and community leaders from WA ...

Gladstone Observer
Should Gladstone consider changing Australia Day?
Gladstone Observer
Jarrod Beezley, chairman of the Yallarm Advocacy and Advisory Group, a community-based organisation that supports indigenous students, believes the date should be changed. "Australia Day has been a hot topic for a while now," Mr Beezley said. "If we're ...

Courier Mail
Dutton fury over moves to remove historical statues in Sydney
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ABC broadcaster Stan Grant is among those calling for an examination of various statues and place names linked to violence against indigenous Australians. Mr Grant has not made a call for any removal of any monuments. Historian Keith Windschuttle said ...
Captain Cook statue sparks debate about whether it should be removedNEWS.com.au
Opinion: Confederate statue demolition shouldn't extend to AustraliaCourier Mail
Racial tension mounts over Captain Cook statue credited with discovery of AustraliaXinhua
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Courier Mail
Opinion: Confederate statue demolition shouldn't extend to Australia
Courier Mail
Indigenous editor Grant thinks we have been lagging behind the US and a bit slow to get into the statue-tearing-down business. “Americans are tearing down the monuments to hate, but we remain oblivious to ours,” he said this week. “Across Australia ...

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Courier Mail
Opinion: Confederate statue demolition shouldn't extend to Australia
Courier Mail
Grant says that for himself, he is happy to leave Cook's statue standing but would change the inscription which credits him with the discovery of Australia, saying it dishonours Aboriginal people. He also points to the existence of statues of Europeans ...
The statue of Captain Cook seen in Hyde Park.NEWS.com.au
Aboriginals want Captain Cook statue which said he 'discovered Australia' REMOVED following violent protests in the ...Daily Mail
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NEWS.com.au
Australia's best restaurant started from a conversation with a busker
NEWS.com.au
Zonfrillo took Jimmy's lessons and embarked on a journey of discovery, visiting numerous Aboriginal communities across the country, watching food being prepared and cooking his own food in return. “At the moment we have a crocodile soup on the menu, ...
Adelaide's Orana named top Australian restaurantInDaily
Australia's best restaurant is run by a Scottish chef serving bush tucker in AdelaideBusiness Insider Australia

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Central Western Daily
Gerald Power calls for extra public holiday to help celebrate NAIDOC Week | Poll
Central Western Daily
According to the Orange NAIDOC Week chairman and council candidate a public holiday during NAIDOC week would help bring the community together to celebrate Indigenous history and the contribution it has made to Australia. Mr Power's comments come ...

Putting Indigenous heritage at heart of national story
Collie Mail
And he liked the initiatives that came out of the recent Uluru Summit of Indigenous leaders to consider reform of the constitution, and says it's frustrating for many Indigenous people that the nature of the shared Australian history - "something akin ...

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