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'Fix present, not the past': Price
NT News
Ms Price said there was no need to change Australia Day and people who celebrated on January 26 need not feel guilty. “I keep hearing that aboriginal people want to change the date of Australia Day, well what about the aboriginal people who don't want ...

NEWS.com.au
This actually hurts the cause
NEWS.com.au
IT WAS supposed to be a peaceful protest, advocating for change on behalf of indigenous Australians' whose history had been marred by violence and dispossession. But ironically, violence, along with flag burning and threatening signs at Invasion Day ...
Violent 'nutters' hijacked our rallydailytelegraph.com.au

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The Guardian
'What are you actually celebrating?' Indigenous elder says Australia Day debate must continue
The Guardian
The Guardian met Mills in downtown Darwin on Australia Day, beneath a large mural of the Aboriginal flag and the West Papuan flag flying side by side. Mills is a little late and some of the paint on her newly created protest T-shirt is still wet ...

Ballarat Courier
Snake Valley farmer and OAM speaks about conservation, reconciliation
Ballarat Courier
Neville Oddie is a Snake Valley farmer, long time CFA volunteer, conservationist and Aboriginal rights activist. He received an Order of Australia Medal on Australia Day. Here he accepts his award in his own words. I humbly acknowledge the personal ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
'The US has no better friend than Australia': Trump's Australia Day message
The Sydney Morning Herald
What's Australia Day like for an Aboriginal community? Aboriginal people lived on the land now known as Lake Tyers, also known as Bung Yarnda, for at least 50,000 years before the campaign to dispossess and eradicate them began. Here, like many other ...

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Debate over date marks Australia Day
Yahoo7 News
Yet just a few kilometres away thousands of indigenous Australians and their supporters marched through the city, demanding Australia's national day be moved from January 26, which they referred to as "Invasion Day". The march turned violent when a ...

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The Australian
Australia Day: protests out of tune with songs of love
The Australian
Elsewhere across the country, however, thousands of their new compatriots marched in solidarity with indigenous Australians who consider January 26 to be a day of mourning. “Invasion Day” protests were held peacefully in Brisbane and Melbourne, while ...

The Australian
Australia Day: 'invasion day but also survival day'
The Australian
Australia is yet to reach a point “where people no longer think it's out of the ordinary to have successful Aboriginal people; where people recognise our achievements and the fact we worked hard to achieve them, not just because we were Aboriginal and ...

The Australian
Australia Day: 'invasion day but also survival day'
The Australian
Ms Burney said the looming consideration of a referendum on constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians meant that 2017 would be “an important year in terms of what is taught to all Australians about the history of this country”. An estimated ...

The Advertiser
Australia Day spirit sparkles amid protests
The Advertiser
One police officer was injured when officers arrested a man for trying to set the Australian flag on fire. While outraged mainstream Aboriginal leaders and Premier Gladys Berejiklian condemned the violence, the NSW Greens tonight tried to blame police.

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Pedestrian TV
Conservative Former MP Calls For The Date Of Australia Day To Change
Pedestrian TV
Though there's obviously a huge push – largely from younger, progressive crowds – to move Australia's national day away from a day associated with invasion, violence and genocide against Indigenous Australians, it is rare to hear that sentiment from ...
Barnaby Joyce launches extraordinary attack on people who want to move Australia DayGoondiwindi Argus
Australia Day critics should 'crawl under a rock and hide for a little bit', Barnaby Joyce saysABC Online
Turnbull rejects Australia Day date-changeSky News Australia
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal Tent Embassy protesters call for treaty
The Sydney Morning Herald
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?

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal Tent Embassy protesters call for treaty
The Sydney Morning Herald
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?

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The Age
Aboriginal Tent Embassy protesters call for treaty
The Age
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?

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The Age
Aboriginal Tent Embassy protesters call for treaty
The Age
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?
Violence mars Australia Day protestsRiverine Herald

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WAtoday
Aboriginal Tent Embassy protesters call for treaty
WAtoday
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?
Violence mars Australia Day protestsRiverine Herald

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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?

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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?

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Australia Day: Nothing to celebrate in Lake Tyers Mission
The Age
A sign behind the bar plugs the inaugural Australia Day cockroach race: "Bogan attire welcome". Less than a half-hour drive up the road, at Lake Tyers Mission, things are quiet, still. This is the place the state government handed back to the ...

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Australia Day: Nothing to celebrate in Lake Tyers Mission
The Sydney Morning Herald
A sign behind the bar plugs the inaugural Australia Day cockroach race: "Bogan attire welcome". Less than a half-hour drive up the road, at Lake Tyers Mission, things are quiet, still. This is the place the state government handed back to the ...

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