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Geelong Advertiser
Being an Australian worth celebrating
Geelong Advertiser
Australia Day reminds us of that and unites us regardless of our religious, racial or national backgrounds. I know that many within our Australian indigenous community see January 26 as “Invasion Day” and the beginning of British colonisation and ...

Courier Mail
A fortunate life is not for all
Courier Mail
Since settlement in 1788, while the “strong men and brave women” were making Australia our home, racism was excluding Aborigines, sending them to prison for offences that did not apply to white people. Today, indigenous Australians are the most ...

Courier Mail
A fortunate life is not for all
Courier Mail
Since settlement in 1788, while the “strong men and brave women” were making Australia our home, racism was excluding Aborigines, sending them to prison for offences that did not apply to white people. Today, indigenous Australians are the most ...

SBS
Spirits soar as Raise The Bar catapults Indigenous young guns to academic and sporting success
SBS
As many as 38 Indigenous teens from all corners of Australia attended the third Raise The Bar Academy at the University Of Melbourne. Program co-founder Bridgid Junot says it provided an opportunity for the talented athletes to expose themselves to the ...

New Matilda
Busting Black Myths: The Truth About Our First Peoples.
New Matilda
You could get drunk this Australia Day, or try something different… learn about the real history of this nation. Amy McQuire helps you dip your toe in the water. It's one of the greatest myths about Aboriginal people: that before European invasion ...

The Age
'We were the first': How No Fixed Address made white Australia listen
The Age
It's the only album ever launched by an Australian prime minister, Bob Hawke doing the honours at the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne in 1982. In the same year they were the first Aboriginal band to appear on Countdown, introduced as one of Australia's most ...

Historians, writers and academics are now rethinking Australia's perception of Indigenous land management. They argue that the first Australians had complex systems of agriculture that went far beyond the hunter-gatherer tag. They were, in fact, our first farmers, whose intimate knowledge of 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

SBS
10 things you should know about January 26
SBS
You should know that... The first sanctioned marriage between an Aboriginal person and a convict, Robert & Maria Lock, occurred on the 26th January 1824. This union was performed on the 26th only by coincidence and has nothing to do with 'Australia Day ...

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SBS
10 things you should know about January 26
SBS
At the meeting the following resolution was unanimously passed, "We, representing the Aborigines of Australia, assembled in conference at the Australian Hall, Sydney, on the 26th day of January, 1938, this being the 150th Anniversary of the Whiteman's ...
Should we find another day?Shepparton News

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The Northern Daily Leader
Alex dancing for her culture and country
The Northern Daily Leader
“We usually do, after School Spectacular not a fundraiser, but another concert kind of thing, and this year we are doing two performances on Australia Day,” Alex said. The 15-year-old will perform as part of the acclaimed Aboriginal Bangarra Dance ...

Henrietta Marrie, a Gimuy Walubarra Yidinji woman, has undetaken research in Australia and abroad on issues issues relating to traditional knowledge, access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing, protection of traditional knowledge as intellectual property, and the conservation and management of biological diversity.

NT News
All welcome on Jan 26
NT News
WHILE some denounce Australia Day as Invasion Day, an Aboriginal clan from northeast Arnhem Land uses it to welcome doctors, nurses, teachers, police and the community to their land and to thank them for their contributions. On Thursday, the ...

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The Advocate
Know Australia Day before you change it
The Advocate
Many Indigenous elders shudder at the mentioning of Australia Day as a time to celebrate this country, for the scars inflicted on their culture still show. There is a significant number of people – probably a majority of Australians – who will ...

Courier Mail
Where Australia Day means 'thankyou'
Courier Mail
Clan leader, Bakamumu Marika, 59, says: “Australia Day is a very significant day for Australians, including Yolgnu people, the First Australians. We don't talk about negative things. It's about a birth of citizenship and freedom, for all of them on our ...

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Courier Mail
Where Australia Day means 'thankyou'
Courier Mail
... will dance the Rirratjingu clan's Wuyal dance that represents the suger bag man story on Australia Day to celebrate people from all walks of life coming together with Yirrkala's indigenous people. Pictured a Nuwul Beach in Yirrkala. Picture ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Where Australia Day means 'thankyou'
dailytelegraph.com.au
... will dance the Rirratjingu clan's Wuyal dance that represents the suger bag man story on Australia Day to celebrate people from all walks of life coming together with Yirrkala's indigenous people. Pictured a Nuwul Beach in Yirrkala. Picture ...

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The Advertiser
Where Australia Day means 'thankyou'
The Advertiser
... will dance the Rirratjingu clan's Wuyal dance that represents the suger bag man story on Australia Day to celebrate people from all walks of life coming together with Yirrkala's indigenous people. Pictured a Nuwul Beach in Yirrkala. Picture ...

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Herald Sun
Arnhem Land: Where Australia Day means 'thankyou'
Herald Sun
... will dance the Rirratjingu clan's Wuyal dance that represents the suger bag man story on Australia Day to celebrate people from all walks of life coming together with Yirrkala's indigenous people. Pictured a Nuwul Beach in Yirrkala. Picture ...

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Daily Advertiser
What's happening in Wagga Wagga
Daily Advertiser
On Australia Day 2017 do we, as Aboriginal people, just turn our backs on the day and try to pretend that it is not happening, or do we try to find a way to show and educate others about the amazing culture that we have and have had for over 60,000 years.

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Coolum News
Australia Day an insult to Aboriginals: former candidate
Coolum News
That's the question Tim Lawson is posing to Bundaberg and the nation as he calls for Australia Day to be moved to another date. The former Hinkler Federal candidate said it was "insane" to expect that Aboriginal people would want to embrace January 26 ...