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Arutz Sheva
Att'y Stephen M. Flatow, 29/01/17 23:28
Arutz Sheva
Pilger offered troubling details about the plight of the Arrernte-Alyawarra people, who live in the ironically-named Utopia region of Australia. “Elderly indigenous people in the homelands [as those areas are called] had received no food from an aged ...

ABC Online
Back Roads in Harrow: How Johnny Mullagh led Australia's first international and Indigenous team
ABC Online
While the Ashes series between Australia and England first XIs continues to this day, the history of Indigenous cricket and the Aboriginal team's tour is largely forgotten outside of western Victoria. Harrow is half-way between Melbourne and Adelaide ...

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ABC Online
Back Roads in Harrow: How Johnny Mullagh led Australia's first international and Indigenous team
ABC Online
While the Ashes series between Australia and England first XIs continues to this day, the history of Indigenous cricket and the Aboriginal team's tour is largely forgotten outside of western Victoria. Harrow is half-way between Melbourne and Adelaide ...

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Brisbane Times
Indigenous children twice as likely to die from severe infection: study
Brisbane Times
Based on more than 82,750 children and 4864 Indigenous Australian children, the study was the largest to examine life-threatening infections in Indigenous children, with researchers led by the University of Queensland's Associate Professor Luregn ...

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Courier Mail
ABC daydreams on date change
Courier Mail
Changing the date will be like the Sorry marches and apologies — a lazy substitute for the hard work of fixing the real problems facing Aboriginal Australians, including terrible domestic violence, unemployment and crime. It also falsely assumes that ...

Herald Sun
Andrew Bolt: ABC claims push building for changing the date of ...
Herald Sun
THE ABC is now using its huge power to campaign to change the date of Australia Day.

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Herald Sun
ABC claims push building for changing the date of Australia Day
Herald Sun
Its website even claims: “Momentum is building to change the date of out of respect for indigenous Australians — many of whom view 26 January as 'Invasion Day'.” What “momentum”? A McNair poll showed just 15 per cent of Australians want the date ...

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With Bruce Pascoe, Bill Gammage, Uncle Max Harrison, Beth Gott, Heather Buith, Jimmy Onus, Dr Penny Wurm, Lorraine Williams, Ken Stewart. Historians, writers and academics are upending the colonial lies and deception of First Nations agriculture, land management and medicinal plant knowledge, The first Nations peoples had complex systems of agriculture that went far beyond the hunter-gatherer tag. They were, in fact, our first farmers and land managers, whose intimate knowledge of the medicinal values and managing native plants and animals sustained them for thousands of years. ABC RADIO NATIONAL 'Bush Telegraph' http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bushtelegraph/rethinking-indigenous-australias-agricultural-past/5452454

The Province
Dirtsong speaks about Aboriginal Australia with individual and collective truths
The Province
Combining the talents of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island artists and musicians, the group took its name from a speech given by former Australian Prime Minister John Howard which referenced a “black armband view of history” being unproductive.

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Calgary Herald
Dirtsong speaks about Aboriginal Australia with individual and collective truths
Calgary Herald
In September 2016, DNA testing results reported from a University of Copenhagen study lead by evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev proved Aboriginal Australians are the oldest continuous civilization on Earth. Tests of modern populations in ...

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Vancouver Sun
Dirtsong speaks about Aboriginal Australia with individual and collective truths
Vancouver Sun
In September 2016, DNA testing results reported from a University of Copenhagen study lead by evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev proved Aboriginal Australians are the oldest continuous civilization on Earth. Tests of modern populations in ...
High Performance Rodeo: Black Arm Band's dirtsong brings universal scope to Australia's indigenous communitiesCalgary Herald

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Vancouver Sun
Dirtsong speaks about Aboriginal Australia with individual and collective truths
Vancouver Sun
In September 2016, DNA testing results reported from a University of Copenhagen study lead by evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev proved Aboriginal Australians are the oldest continuous civilization on Earth. Tests of modern populations in ...
High Performance Rodeo: Black Arm Band's dirtsong brings universal scope to Australia's indigenous communitiesCalgary Herald

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SBS
Healing ceremony kicks off Fremantle's alternative Australia Day
SBS
Hundreds of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people gathered at Fremantle's iconic Roundhouse on Saturday in a symbolic gesture of reconciliation. A ceremony was held at the former West Australian prison overlooking the Indian Ocean that organisers say ...

Daily Advertiser
Indigenous community members have weighed in on whether they think the day should be changed
Daily Advertiser
“The young people definitely cannot deal with Australia Day on that date and changing the date would give us all the chance to celebrate this beautiful country without the negative implications.” It comes after Aboriginal activist Joe Williams demanded ...
Invasion Day marches only divide us: PriceSky News Australia

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ABC Online
The Human Zoo: Documentary sheds light on stolen Aboriginal people 'treated as animals'
ABC Online
The Indigenous community on Palm Island in far north Queensland will feature in an historical documentary about a relatively unknown aspect of colonisation. Up to 20 Aboriginal people were taken from northern Australia in the 19th and 20th centuries to ...

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ABC Online
The Human Zoo: Documentary sheds light on stolen Aboriginal people 'treated as animals'
ABC Online
The Indigenous community on Palm Island in far north Queensland will feature in an historical documentary about a relatively unknown aspect of colonisation. Up to 20 Aboriginal people were taken from northern Australia in the 19th and 20th centuries to ...

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The Canberra Times
Aboriginal Tent Embassy protesters call for treaty
The Canberra Times
Marbk Barkendjah at Aboriginal Tent Embassy on Australia Day. Photo: Jay Cronan. They then sat outside the front doors of the building for an hour as a line of police formed a guard blocking the entrance. "What do we want? Treaty. What have we got?

The Australian
Australia Day: dwelling on past not for Price
The Australian
She has previously called for a royal commission into the epidemic of violence in indigenous communities. And citing her own family's suffering in the Northern Territory's infamous 1928 Coniston massacre, she said Australia Day's meaning could easily ...

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NT News
Australia Day date change won't end abuse of Aboriginal people
The Australian
I keep hearing that Aboriginal people want to change the date of Australia Day. Well, what about the Aboriginal people who do not want to change the date Do ...
Alice Springs councillor Jacinta Nampijinpa Price against changing ...NT News

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NT News
Australia Day date change won't end abuse of Aboriginal people
The Australian
I keep hearing that Aboriginal people want to change the date of Australia Day. Well, what about the Aboriginal people who do not want to change the date? Do we not count because our opinions differ? And why aren't these people who protest about ...
Alice Springs councillor Jacinta Nampijinpa Price against changing ...NT News
Invasion Day marches only divide us: Price - Sky NewsSky News Australia

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