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National Indigenous Times
Indigenous bright sparks are London-bound
National Indigenous Times
“Six years ago, there had never been an Indigenous Australian studying for a full-time degree at either Oxford or Cambridge universities,” Mr Potok said. “Now, thanks to the Charlie Perkins and Roberta Sykes Scholarships, there have been 37 Indigenous ...

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National Indigenous Times
Indigenous bright sparks are London-bound
National Indigenous Times
“Six years ago, there had never been an Indigenous Australian studying for a full-time degree at either Oxford or Cambridge universities,” Mr Potok said. “Now, thanks to the Charlie Perkins and Roberta Sykes Scholarships, there have been 37 Indigenous ...

National Indigenous Times
WA's main jail over-full and unsafe: report
National Indigenous Times
The main maximum security prison in Western Australia — a state where Aboriginal people are imprisoned at a higher rate than anywhere else in Australia — is failing to meet expectations in prisoner rehabilitation, training and support, according to ...

Football Australia (press release)
Get to know Lydia Williams
Football Australia (press release)
She grew up in the frontier mining town of Kalgoorlie, spending much of her childhood travelling to remote parts of Western Australian with her father, an Indigenous tribal elder. ▻ She moved to Canberra at the age of 11 and only played goalkeeper ...

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The Guardian
Captain Cook statue: Sydney refers 'discovery' claim to Indigenous board
The Guardian
The City of Sydney council has referred to its Indigenous board concerns about a statue inscription claiming Captain James Cook discovered Australia. The Cook statue in Hyde Park has been criticised for ignoring tens of thousands of years of Indigenous ...
Stan Grant: It is a 'damaging myth' that Captain Cook discovered AustraliaABC Online
Correct Captain Cook history, says Stan GrantSBS

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Australia Day date hot topic for Central Coast Council candidates
dailytelegraph.com.au
The issue has sparked community debate after Yarra and Darebin councils in Victoria voted to dump Australia Day citizenship ceremonies and replace them with events respectful to indigenous Australians. Samantha Coad and Son Xavia of Long Jetty at The ...

Get to know Lydia Williams
Matildas (press release)
She has American heritage as well as an Indigenous Australian family background. ▻ She grew up in the frontier mining town of Kalgoorlie, spending much of her childhood travelling to remote parts of Western Australian with her father, an Indigenous ...

ABC Online
Stan Grant: It is a 'damaging myth' that Captain Cook discovered Australia
ABC Online
Who would have thought the mere suggestion that Captain Cook did not in fact discover Australia would be so controversial? It seems to have taken some people by surprise, the idea that people were here for more than 60,000 years before the Endeavour ...

ABC Online
Stan Grant: It is a 'damaging myth' that Captain Cook discovered Australia
ABC Online
Who would have thought the mere suggestion that Captain Cook did not in fact discover Australia would be so controversial? It seems to have taken some people by surprise, the idea that people were here for more than 60,000 years before the Endeavour ...

NT News
Indigenous Economic Development Forum to be held in Darwin in October
NT News
It is recognised as one of the largest Indigenous economic development events in Australia. The forum will provide a platform to enhance discussions held between Indigenous businesses and other stakeholders during the recent Economic Summit series and ...

ABC Online
Adelaide Parklands dry zones unwelcoming to Indigenous population, welfare groups say
ABC Online
Welfare groups are calling for Adelaide Parklands dry zones to be axed, saying they make the local Indigenous community feel unwelcome in their own city. The 2014 dry zone trial will expire in September, but the Adelaide City Council will submit an ...

ABC Online
Adelaide Parklands dry zones unwelcoming to Indigenous population, welfare groups say
ABC Online
Welfare groups are calling for Adelaide Parklands dry zones to be axed, saying they make the local Indigenous community feel unwelcome in their own city. The 2014 dry zone trial will expire in September, but the Adelaide City Council will submit an ...

The Conversation AU
When the Bullin shrieked: Aboriginal memories of volcanic eruptions thousands of years ago
The Conversation AU
Other than it had a fearful shriek, guaranteed to put the fear of God into anyone who heard it, history appears silent about the nature of the bird that Aboriginal Australians once named “bullin”. Yet its shriek portended danger, apparently the ...

The West Australian
Both sides wrong on burqas
The West Australian
The ABC's indigenous editor Stan Grant this week made an argument for why there are indigenous people who would prefer to see the tearing down of a statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park because it proclaims he “discovered” Australia.

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Please endeavour not to rewrite history, James Cook's critics told
The Australian
Grant's call ignited a debate about how to reconcile Australia's colonial and indigenous past. Historian Keith Windschuttle, writing in The Australian today, criticised Grant's call, arguing that the inscription was accurate because Cook was the first ...
This won't change history. But it will ensure we never learn its lessonsdailytelegraph.com.au
Stan Grant questions Captain Cook's place in Australian historyYahoo7 News

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Please endeavour not to rewrite history, James Cook's critics told
The Australian
Grant's call ignited a debate about how to reconcile Australia's colonial and indigenous past. Historian Keith Windschuttle, writing in The Australian today, criticised Grant's call, arguing that the inscription was accurate because Cook was the first ...
Stan Grant questions Captain Cook's place in Australian historyYahoo7 News

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Indigenous leaders slam move to shift Australia Day as 'divisive' nonsense
dailytelegraph.com.au
NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton has dismissed the push to axe Australia Day as an attempt to rewrite history. Blacktown indigenous elder Gordon Workman. Picture: Tim Hunter. Blacktown indigenous elder Gordon Workman bluntly described moves to ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Indigenous leaders slam move to shift Australia Day as 'divisive' nonsense
dailytelegraph.com.au
NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton has dismissed the push to axe Australia Day as an attempt to rewrite history. Blacktown indigenous elder Gordon Workman. Picture: Tim Hunter. Blacktown indigenous elder Gordon Workman bluntly described moves to ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
This won't change history. But it will ensure we never learn its lessons
dailytelegraph.com.au
Lismore and Byron councils are the latest to consider axing or moving our national day, which they claim insults indigenous Australians. They want to hold want citizenship ceremonies at more “culturally appropriate” times. Well, the federal government ...
Stan Grant questions Captain Cook's place in Australian historyYahoo7 News

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Editorial: Save the date, don't change it
Perth Now
Blacktown Aboriginal elder Uncle Gordon Workman says changing the date of Australia Day will do nothing to change history. Picture: Tim Hunter. No one would ever consider the far north coast towns of Lismore or Byron Bay bastions of conservatism, being ...