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Townsville Bulletin
It's time to move the date of Australia Day
Townsville Bulletin
The move has come amid growing backlash from listeners who believe the date of our national day is disrespectful to indigenous Australians who see January 26 as “Invasion Day”. The Hottest 100 and Australia Day have gone hand-in-hand since forever.

Constitutional reform can combat brutality
9news.com.au
Ms Oscar cites last week's nationwide protests following the acquittal of a man who ran over Aboriginal boy Elijah Doughty in Western Australia, and the tear-gassing of former Northern Territory juvenile inmate Dylan Voller. "Our kids know the odds ...

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The Guardian
Constitutional reform can combat brutality
Yahoo7 News
Ms Oscar cites last week's nationwide protests following the acquittal of a man who ran over Aboriginal boy Elijah Doughty in Western Australia, and the tear-gassing of former Northern Territory juvenile inmate Dylan Voller. "Our kids know the odds ...
Bill Shorten calls for finalising of referendum question on Indigenous voice in parliamentThe Guardian

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The Australian Financial Review
Uluru's Field of Light adds contemporary magic to a timeless wonder
The Australian Financial Review
For centuries, Indigenous Australians have been reading the position and intensity of the stars, observing both subtle changes and meteoric events in order to better predict daily life, from when fish might be plentiful to the approaching change of season.

Aboriginal prison rates blew out under Triggs's HRC while she was busy attacking Bill Leak
The Australian
Bill Leak and The Australian are staring down a Human Rights Commission challenge under section 18C, 10 weeks after the cartoonist's provocative drawing led to a public debate over indigenous parental neglect. So much has changed in a year. Ex-HRC ...

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Aboriginal prison rates blew out under Triggs's HRC while she was busy attacking Bill Leak
The Australian
Colin was Australia's first Aboriginal policeman. He gave pivotal evidence at the Fitzgerald inquiry. He is one of the finest men you are ever likely to meet. He said, 'Mate, that was such a great cartoon. What you have said in that cartoon is ...

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The Australian
Let's work together on constitutional change: Shorten to Turnbull
The Australian
In a letter to the Prime Minister yesterday, the Opposition Leader proposed that the committee be charged with consulting with indigenous Australians, academics and the broader community and working with constitutional experts to develop a question to ...

The Australian
Let's work together on constitutional change: Shorten to Turnbull
The Australian
Mr Shorten's letter came as Aboriginal leader Nolan Hunter said New Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal could be a model for proposed Australian indigenous policy reform. Mr Hunter, the chief executive of the powerful Kimberley Land Council in Western ...

The Australian
Bill Leak shone a light, but some chose not to look
The Australian
It is a year since Bill Leak, the late cartoonist for this newspaper, drew a cartoon about an Aboriginal deadbeat dad who had forgotten his delinquent son's name. It caused quite a stir. It ended up in the Australian Human Rights Commission. Looking ...

9news.com.au
Triple J launches survey to examine changing Hottest 100 date from January 26
Esperance Express
The ABC's national youth broadcaster pledged last year to investigate changing the date after it came under increasing pressure from an online petition calling for the date to be changed in recognition of the offence it caused indigenous Australians.
Triple J's Hottest 100 debateTen Eyewitness News
Former Triple J Host Matt Okine Says He Will Vote To Change The Date Of The Hottest 100Music Feeds
Triple J reviews Hottest 100 countdown Australia Day date9news.com.au
Junkee
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Fremantle mayoral candidate pledges to return Australia Day celebrations to January 26
Community Newspaper Group
“There has been a growing movement that January 26 is increasingly becoming a day that is 'not for all Australians' and for many Aboriginal Australians it is indeed a day of sadness and dispossession,” he said. “This does not just refer to Indigenous ...

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ABC Online
160000 people turned away: How the justice system is failing vulnerable Australians
ABC Online
All Australians have the right under the law to seek justice. Yet this right means little when you cannot exercise it because you can't get the help you need. That's the problem now facing countless Australians, and it's getting worse. Tens of ...

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ABC Online
160000 people turned away: How the justice system is failing vulnerable Australians
ABC Online
All Australians have the right under the law to seek justice. Yet this right means little when you cannot exercise it because you can't get the help you need. That's the problem now facing countless Australians, and it's getting worse. Tens of ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Teen netball talent makes national indigenous team
dailytelegraph.com.au
The 13-year-old is this week's Local Sports Stars nominee after she made the NSW indigenous netball team. But it got even better for the Lethbridge Park player. After good form for NSW she was picked in the Australian indigenous Budgies team. “My dream ...

The Conversation AU
Australia has ignored black viewpoints before – why would a constitutional 'voice' be any different?
The Conversation AU
Australia has previously flirted with designated parliamentary seats for Aborigines elected on an Aboriginal roll, akin to the (now) seven reserved seats for Māori in New Zealand. In 1944 Pastor Doug Nicholls sought one such federal seat for an ...

The Conversation AU
Australia has ignored black viewpoints before – why would a constitutional 'voice' be any different?
The Conversation AU
Australia has previously flirted with designated parliamentary seats for Aborigines elected on an Aboriginal roll, akin to the (now) seven reserved seats for Māori in New Zealand. In 1944 Pastor Doug Nicholls sought one such federal seat for an ...

Triple J's Hottest 100 debate
Ten Eyewitness News
Triple J says it's reviewing the date of the Hottest 100 countdown following 10 months of research and consultations involving musicians and community leaders. According to reports the radio station also has strong ties with Indigenous Australians and ...

The Conversation AU
Dr G. Yunupingu's legacy: it's time to get rid of chronic hepatitis B in Indigenous Australia
The Conversation AU
News of the tragic death of Dr G. Yunupingu last week in Darwin at only 46 years of age has again highlighted the unacceptable gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and other Australians. Yunupingu had been living with ...

The Conversation AU
Dr G. Yunupingu's legacy: it's time to get rid of chronic hepatitis B in Indigenous Australia
The Conversation AU
Hepatitis B infections, which can lead to liver disease and cancer, are unacceptably high in Indigenous Australians. In Northern Australia, 10-20% of the Indigenous population is infected with the virus. Eliminating the impact of this infection in ...

Smithsonian
Aboriginal Rangers Uncover Trove of Rock Art in Northern Australia
Smithsonian
Hundreds of pieces of rock art were recently discovered in a remote region of northern Australia by Aboriginal rangers fighting wildfires, one example of many such sites left behind by the continent's first humans. "This part of the world … is covered ...