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ABC Online
Indigenous arts community lobby Government to make it illegal to sell fake Aboriginal-style souvenirs
ABC Online
Gabrielle Sullivan, chief executive of Indigenous Art Code, has been collecting dozens of mementos and trinkets during an investigation into fake Aboriginal-style souvenirs over the past six months. "These items are extremely popular … marketed as ...

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The Mandarin (registration)
Push to revive national plan for Indigenous language interpreters
The Mandarin (registration)
And, as the lead agency for Indigenous Affairs since 2013, the PM's department has provided around $970 million in funding for some targeted initiatives, including TAFE courses in South Australia and Indigenous language interpreters for the ABC.

Herald Sun
WA Noongar elder Robert Isaacs says Australia Day is 'for everyone'
Herald Sun
Elder Robert Isaacs has warned fellow indigenous Australians they were damaging their people and causing division by opposing Australia Day. Picture: Matt Jelonek. “We cannot change the past. We are damaging our own people, causing division, and we ...

Perth Now
WA Noongar elder Robert Isaacs says Australia Day is 'for everyone ...
Perth Now
ELDER Robert Isaacs has warned fellow indigenous Australians they were damaging their people and causing division by opposing Australia Day.

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Perth Now
'You can't go forward always looking back'
Perth Now
In a speech to be delivered in Newman on January 26, the ambassador and former chairman of Australia Day WA council will urge Aboriginal people to “get past the hurts of the past”. Dr Isaacs said the solution was to make Australia Day more of a ...

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Echonetdaily
SCU law student receives national Indigenous award
Echonetdaily
The annual National Indigenous Law Awards (NILA), awarded by the federal Attorney-General's Department, recognise the achievements of Indigenous Australians who improve justice outcomes for Indigenous Australians. Johanna said the NILA judges ...

EXPERIENCE AUSTRALIA DAY 2017 AT BARANGAROO RESERVE
PRWire (press release)
Australia Day in Barangaroo Reserve provides visitors with a unique chance to experience and learn about Sydney's Aboriginal heritage and Australia's shared history, combined with a full day of free family-friendly activities and entertainment. "If you ...

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NEWS.com.au
Muslim Australia Day billboard pulled
NEWS.com.au
The uproar came just days after a divisive Australia Day advertisement by Meat and Livestock Australia, in which multiple ethnic groups are seen to turn up uninvited to a barbecue being held by indigenous Australians. It drew criticism from similar ...

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ABC Online
Five reasons to love brush turkeys
ABC Online
Their egg incubation process — dumping them in a mound and abandoning them — is an extraordinarily primitive nesting behaviour, closer to a crocodile than a normal bird's. In many places in Australia brush turkeys are totems for Aboriginal people.

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SBS
Indigenous art collective hits back at lamb ad with satire
SBS
The former fish and chip shop owner expressed her displeasure to News Corp, saying she wasn't 'knocking' Aboriginal Australians and urged 'them' to see themselves as Australians. “It really is pretty sad, isn't it? It's bloody idiots out there, ratbags ...

Indigenous art collective hits back at lamb ad with satire
SBS
The video shows a couple of 'settlers' arriving at a beach, where two Indigenous men are having a barbeque. The new arrivals shoot and kill their hosts, after they ask where they came from. The video then encourages Australians to change the date, ...

ABC Online
Australia Day: Organisers promise huge celebrations to showcase Sydney
ABC Online
A free concert at the iconic Sydney Opera House will cap off a full day of Australia Day festivities in the Harbour City that organisers hope will rival the grandeur of New Year's Eve. Both the Australian and Aboriginal flags will be raised on the ...

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ABC Online
Australia Day: Organisers promise huge celebrations to showcase Sydney
ABC Online
A free concert at the iconic Sydney Opera House will cap off a full day of Australia Day festivities in the Harbour City that organisers hope will rival the grandeur of New Year's Eve. Both the Australian and Aboriginal flags will be raised on the ...

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myGC.com.au
Meet the Gold Coast's 2017 Australia Day Award Winners
myGC.com.au
Bianca Cook (Cultural Achievement Award) – “Bianca Cook is a proud, strong, Indigenous Australian, who serves as a senior practitioner for indgenous programs, at 'Lives Lived Well' in Burleigh. [She] provides counselling to Torres Strait Islander and ...

ABC Online
Australia Day: NSW Minister for Multiculturalism says January 26 'not controversial' for Indigenous people
ABC Online
The appropriateness of January 26 to mark Australia's national day has increasingly come under the microscope, amid criticisms it is insensitive to Aboriginal people. The date marks the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet of British ships at ...
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ABC Online
Australia Day: NSW Minister for Multiculturalism says January 26 'not controversial' for Indigenous people
ABC Online
The New South Wales Minister for Multiculturalism says he does not think the date of Australia Day is controversial in Indigenous communities. John Ajaka made the comments while announcing details of this year's celebrations at a press conference in ...
Australia Day 2017: Sydney's program of events unveiledThe Sydney Morning Herald
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Gympie Times
Is the new lamb ad the solution to Australia Day?
Gympie Times
It stars three young indigenous Australians who have organised a barbecue on the beach. Swiftly, the "guests" arrive. In a salute to those who mourn "Invasion Day" and what might be a middle finger to those who claim it never happened, early white ...

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Sky News Australia
AFL star's father gets Aboriginal certificate
Sky News Australia
Richmond Tigers AFL star Dustin Martin has been issued with a certificate of Aboriginality as part of a renewed bid for his father to be allowed to return home to Australia. Dustin Martin's father Shane was born in New Zealand to New Zealand parents ...

Sky News Australia
AFL star's father gets Aboriginal certificate
Sky News Australia
Richmond Tigers AFL star Dustin Martin has been issued with a certificate of Aboriginality as part of a renewed bid for his father to be allowed to return home to Australia. Dustin Martin's father Shane was born in New Zealand to New Zealand parents ...

Green Left Weekly
Australia Day: Change the date
Green Left Weekly
They are not too fussed by academics and progressive minded people acknowledging that modern Australia was founded on the violent dispossession of its Indigenous peoples when talking among themselves. They do not care if Indigenous people ...