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NT town won't change Aust Day amid rally | Daily Telegraph
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The Alice Springs mayor says the Northern Territory town won't be changing the Australia Day date as protesters prepare to hold an Invasion Day rally.

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National Indigenous Times
What's on around Australia on what-ever-you-call-it Day
National Indigenous Times
Whether you call it Survival Day, Invasion Day or Australia Day, thousands of people will attend Indigenous concerts around Australia on January 26, while in some cities the controversial date will be marked with protest rallies. Here's a guide to some ...

The Advocate
Abetz defends pride in Australia Day
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"While Senator Abetz, like every non-Aboriginal Australian today, is not directly responsible for past dispossession and cruelty to Aboriginal people, he could think more deeply and exercise some sensitivity towards the Aboriginal voices calling for ...
Abetz slams date change campaignThe Advocate

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Abetz defends pride in Australia Day
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"While Senator Abetz, like every non-Aboriginal Australian today, is not directly responsible for past dispossession and cruelty to Aboriginal people, he could think more deeply and exercise some sensitivity towards the Aboriginal voices calling for ...

NEWS.com.au
Changing the date of Australia Day won't change our past, says Joe Hildebrand
NEWS.com.au
For those who mark Australia Day in any official capacity, indigenous Australians are emphatically represented, their culture celebrated and their dispossession acknowledged. For more recent arrivals than Arthur Phillip and his cargo of convicts it is ...
Indigenous sorry business treads a well-worn trackThe Australian
Put an Indigenous MP in charge of Indigenous affairs. It's a good place to startThe Guardian
Indigenous Homeless Hit Hardest By Funding UncertaintyPro Bono Australia
Geelong Advertiser -The Conversation AU
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NEWS.com.au
Why changing the date won't change a thing
NEWS.com.au
Or, as said by the “proud part-Aboriginal” Anthony Dillon from the ACU's Institute for Positive Psychology and Education: “For those who feel it is their mission to insist that non-Aboriginal Australians should somehow feel guilty for past sins, your ...
The markers of everyday racism in AustraliaThe Conversation AU
Australia Day Is Stained With Blood And It's Time We Moved ItHuffington Post Australia
Australian style: meet the designers at the forefront of contemporary ...Domain News
Red Flag -The Guardian -The Australian
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Pedestrian TV
Triple J's Intense Review Of The 'Hottest 100' Date Will Last Most Of 2017
Pedestrian TV
The Hottest 100 has again partnered with AIME (the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience) for the 2016 countdown. The station revealed today that listeners have raised over $105,000 for the organisation, which helps to close the gap in educational ...

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9news.com.au
Why Indigenous people want to change the date of Australia Day
9news.com.au
Many Indigenous Australians refer to Australia Day as Survival Day or Invasion Day. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have long opposed the holiday being held on the date of colonisation, with Ms McGrath joining a chorus of activists ...
NITV's 3LACK60 Sessions: #ChangeTheDateSBS
How Indigenous voices are using social media to #ChangeTheDateMashable

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9news.com.au
Why Indigenous people want to change the date of Australia Day ...
9news.com.au
Activists have urged the nation to think about why Indigenous people find it so offensive to celebrate Australia Day on the date that started "200+ years of ...
NITV's 3LACK60 Sessions: #ChangeTheDate | NITV - SBSSBS
How Indigenous voices are using social media to #ChangeTheDateMashable
Change the Date: hip-hop artists collaborate on new Australia Day ...The Guardian
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Solving the problem of Australia Day
On Line opinion
On the one hand, many enthusiasts for Australia Day want the Aboriginal critics and their non-Aboriginal advocates to basically “get over” their resentment – some even suggesting that it is based on a false or excessively negative reading of Australian ...

ABC Online
Sydney Festival invites choir to sing in Indigenous language Darug on Australia Day
ABC Online
One Sydney Indigenous woman is trying to use the power of song to shape the conversation about which date Australia Day should be celebrated. Jacinta Tobin, a senior Darug woman, is trying to revive Sydney's original language and to do that she will be ...

NEWS.com.au
Stats show how far we've come in 50 years
NEWS.com.au
The 1966 Census recorded a national population of 11,540,764, though it's important to note that a historic referendum — which recognised Aboriginal Australians in the Census and Australia's population statistics — took place the following year ...

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Independent Australia
How the rise of Trump is related to indigenocide and Australia Day
Independent Australia
There will be endless talk about the great Australian spirit and all being together. It is all bullshit. Indigenocide saw the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Aboriginal people between 1788 and 1850, either through actual force of arms, or more often ...

The Conversation AU
The markers of everyday racism in Australia
The Conversation AU
Claire Smith has received funding from the Australian Research Council for research into Aboriginal people living in the long grass in Darwin. Jordan Ralph receives funding from an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship and ...
Australia Day Is Stained With Blood And It's Time We Moved ItHuffington Post Australia
Why I won't be partying on 26 JanuaryRed Flag
Australian style: meet the designers at the forefront of contemporary Australian designDomain News
The Australian -The Guardian -Pro Bono Australia
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The Conversation AU
The markers of everyday racism in Australia
The Conversation AU
Claire Smith has received funding from the Australian Research Council for research into Aboriginal people living in the long grass in Darwin. Jordan Ralph receives funding from an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship and ...

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The Guardian
Northern Australia beset by floods but Indigenous groups warn of fire risk
The Guardian
Aboriginal rangers and traditional owners conduct fire management burns in the Katiti-Petermann Indigenous protected area, in the remote desert country near the Western Australia and Northern Territory border. Photograph: Helen Davidson for the Guardian.

Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous sorry business treads a well-worn track
The Australian
Congratulations to Nick Cater for his excellent article on indigenous sorry business (“Too many caught up in cycle of the sorry business”, 24/1). He makes reference to “the keepers of indigenous rage”. Tomorrow is Australia Day, so we can expect to ...
Mason gives hope to indigenous womenNEWS.com.au
Indigenous Homeless Hit Hardest By Funding Uncertainty | PBAPro Bono Australia
'It was the start of our genocide'Geelong Advertiser
Domain News -Red Flag
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The Australian
Bear hug for first indigenous minister Ken Wyatt
The Australian
The Prime Minister made special mention of the importance of Mr Wyatt's appointment as the first indigenous Australian to head a federal portfolio. Mr Hunt took the opportunity to highlight one of his priorities as he posed for a photograph with former ...

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Courier Mail
January 26 is Australia Day. Stop trying to change it
Courier Mail
Indigenous Australians describe it as “Invasion Day” and argue there is nothing positive or beneficial about the arrival of the First Fleet. The latest Meat and Livestock lamb advertisement, where MasterChef's Poh Ling Yeow asks “aren't we all boat people?

Perth Now
January 26 is Australia Day. Stop trying to change it
Perth Now
Indigenous Australians describe it as “Invasion Day” and argue there is nothing positive or beneficial about the arrival of the First Fleet. The latest Meat and Livestock lamb advertisement, where MasterChef's Poh Ling Yeow asks “aren't we all boat people?

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