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Indigenous art book 'Our Mob, God's Story' wins Australian Christian book of the year
Eternity News
Our Mob, God's Story has taken out the prize for the 37th Annual Australian Christian book of the Year at a ceremony in Melbourne. The judges called the book “beautiful, confident and irresistible.” Advertisement. “Sixty-six Aboriginal and Torres ...

The Australian
Childcare push to scrap Australia Day
The Australian
A push is on to sideline Australia Day celebrations in preschools and childcare settings because of sensitivity about the event among indigenous Australians, with a group of activist educators throwing its support behind a Melbourne council's ban.

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The Australian
Childcare push to scrap Australia Day
The Australian
A push is on to sideline Australia Day celebrations in preschools and childcare settings because of sensitivity about the event among indigenous Australians, with a group of activist educators throwing its support behind a Melbourne council's ban.

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The Advertiser
Art Gallery of South Australia's new Namatjiras change the story of Aboriginal dot painting
The Advertiser
“As far as we know, he was the first,” AGSA's curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, Nici Cumpston said. The paintings reveal Namatjira had an intimate knowledge of his traditional culture, something “we previously didn't know”. “They ...

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ABC Online
Tom Elliott: Reality a rare visitor to Yarra council
Herald Sun
But before the likes of Yarra council rewrite the past too much, consider what history really has to teach us about European colonisation of Australia. For a start, this continent was never going to remain undiscovered. The idea that Aborigines could ...
Australia Day: Greens' Adam Bandt offers to hold Yarra citizenship ceremonies to help out councilABC Online

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Tom Elliott: Reality a rare visitor to Yarra council
Herald Sun
As per the 2016 census, indigenous Australians constitute only 3 per cent of our population — yet their grievance with Australia Day means that, in Yarra at least, the remaining 97 per cent of us can't enjoy our national celebration. Yarra council ...
'It must change': Karl Stefanovic's Australia Day change of heartThe Sydney Morning Herald
AUSTRALIA DAY: Should the date be changed?Warwick Daily News
Television personality Karl Stefanovic supports changing date of Australia DayCourier Mail
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The Age
Indigenous rapper Briggs says Malcolm Turnbull should stop being a 'coward' over Australia Day
The Age
An Indigenous rapper who has campaigned to change the date of Australia Day has branded Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull a "coward" for his lack of leadership over the issue. Adam Briggs, one half of the hip-hop duo A.B. Original, praised Yarra Council ...
Yarra Council scraps Australia Day celebrations, won't hold citizenship ceremoniesNEWS.com.au
David Penberthy: Beware the well-meaning non-representative LeftieThe Advertiser
January 26: Three steps to changing the date of Australia DayABC Online
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NEWS.com.au
Crazy Hanson moments you forgot about
NEWS.com.au
She first came to prominence after she was disendorsed as a Liberal candidate in 1996 for making racist comments about Aboriginal Australians but secured a victory in the Queensland lower house seat of Oxley anyway because she still appeared on the ...

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Katherine Times
Bush votes still count in plebiscite
Katherine Times
“Over 20 AEC Indigenous and Community Engagement Officers, the majority of whom are Indigenous, deliver a range of services across Australia. The objectives of the program are increase enrolment, voter turnout, formality and knowledge of electoral ...

ABC Online
Same-sex marriage survey: Fears residents in Aboriginal town camps, rural areas won't be able to vote
ABC Online
People in remote communities and Indigenous town camps fear they may be locked out of voting in the same-sex marriage postal poll, due to difficulties getting them papers in the mail. A spokesperson for the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirmed the ...
Aboriginal Council Calls On "Discriminatory" Same-Sex Postal Survey To Be AbandonedBuzzFeed News

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The West Australian
Program to boost knowledge of law for Aboriginal women
The West Australian
Their persistence paid off when a joint venture between Oxfam Australia and Aarnja made the event possible. Aarnja chief executive Janine Dureau said she was determined to seek a partnership with Oxfam to bring the eight-year-old program to the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
This year will be the last Family and Community public holiday
The Sydney Morning Herald
It's like a garden, to be continually worked and to bring together an idea of an Australia which is strengthened by this Indigenous and non-Indigenous heritage to be the country we want it to be." Greens crossbencher Caroline Le Couteur welcomed the ...

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9news.com.au
Sydney primary school criticised for staging play depicting abuse of Indigenous children
9news.com.au
A school in Sydney's Northern Beaches region has been slammed for staging a play that featured students posing as nuns and pretending to abuse Indigenous Australian children. Forestville Public School has come under fire after the four-day concert ...

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The West Australian
Dumped Aboriginal corporation boss Steve Mavrigiannakis to fight $350k 'rip-off' claim
The West Australian
The former chief executive of one of Australia's biggest Aboriginal corporations, who is accused of a $350,000 rip-off from his former employers, has signalled he intends to use the lack of action against him by the Federal regulator as a defence in a ...

The Independent
3000 miles, 10 months: one Australian's march for indigenous rights
The Independent
Clinton Pryor's already walked nearly 3,000 miles by the time I meet up with him on a Thursday morning. We're on a country road between Sydney and Melbourne. Pryor, an Aboriginal activist from Australia's west coast, is starting his 310th day on foot ...

Herald Sun (blog)
HOW COUNCIL BULLIES BANNED AUSTRALIA DAY: FAKE HISTORY AND FAKE POLLS
Herald Sun (blog)
Even a McNair poll commissioned by the Left-leaning Guardian Australia last January found only 15 per cent of Australians wanted Australia Day shifted from January 26, the date the First Fleet arrived in 1788. Even 46 per cent per cent of Aboriginal ...
'It must change': Karl Stefanovic's Australia Day change of heartThe Sydney Morning Herald
Television personality Karl Stefanovic supports changing date of Australia DayCourier Mail
Karl Stefanovic: Australia Day 'must change' out of respectFraser Coast Chronicle
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Community Newspaper Group
Swan: Noongar elder presented Lifetime Achievement Award at National Naidoc Awards
Community Newspaper Group
Ms Ryder, who worked for 21 years in the Australian Army, was recognised for her role as president of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Veterans Association of WA, as a community outreach worker and for her commitment to the Swan Alliance's ...

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Inquest hears teen insight into indigenous deaths
The Australian
The young woman, whose identity is suppressed by the West Australian coroner, was rocked by a spate of deaths in her family and exposure to domestic violence. She dropped out of high school, went on welfare and developed depression, the inquest was ...

Inquest hears teen insight into indigenous deaths
The Australian
The young woman, whose identity is suppressed by the West Australian coroner, was rocked by a spate of deaths in her family and exposure to domestic violence. She dropped out of high school, went on welfare and developed depression, the inquest was ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Warren Mundine: Govt must expand cashless cards to more communities
dailytelegraph.com.au
THERE'S a video on social media everyone should watch. It features CCTV footage of the raw violence and drug- and alcohol-fuelled dysfunction gripping many Aboriginal communities in regional Western Australia. The most disturbing scene is footage of a ...