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The Guardian
Megafauna and Indigenous Australians coexisted for at least 17000 years
The Guardian
Australia was once home to giant reptiles, marsupials and birds (and some not so giant), but the extinction of this megafauna has been the subject of a debate that has persisted since the 19th century. Despite great advances in the available scientific ...

The New Daily
The Australia Day 2017 lamb ad doesn't even mention Australia Day
The New Daily
But given recent debate over whether Australia Day's January 26 date should be changed – some believe the date signifies the day Indigenous Australians were invaded by Britain – MLA has produced 2017's ad from an Aboriginal perspective.
This year's Australia Day lamb ad doesn't mention Australia DayThe Age
The new lamb ad gets a “D” for effort, not for diversitySBS
New 'We Love Our Lamb' ad tackles Australia Day date controversyThe Australian Women's Weekly
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The New Daily
The Australia Day 2017 lamb ad doesn't even mention Australia Day
The New Daily
But given recent debate over whether Australia Day's January 26 date should be changed – some believe the date signifies the day Indigenous Australians were invaded by Britain – MLA has produced 2017's ad from an Aboriginal perspective.
MLA shirks Australia Day, tackles Invasion Day controversyAdNews
The new lamb ad gets a “D” for effort, not for diversitySBS
No Sam Kekovich in new Australia Day ad, but it causes a stirCrikey (registration)

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Deniliquin Pastoral Times (registration) (blog)
Second degree for Trent
Deniliquin Pastoral Times (registration) (blog)
Trent's interest in cultural heritage stems from his family's involvement in creating Indigenous milestones in Australia. His grandfather Sir Douglas Nicholls, from the Yorta Yorta Nation, was the pastor of Australia's first Aboriginal Church of Christ ...

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Australia Day ad doesn't mention Australia Day but it does mention Fyshwick
WAtoday
Amid growing calls to move Australia Day from January 26, the industry group on Thursday released an ad that confronts head-on the controversy around hosting the national day on a date marking the start of colonialism and Indigenous dispossession.

The Australian
This year's Australia Day lamb ad doesn't mention Australia Day
The Sydney Morning Herald
Amid growing calls to move Australia Day from January 26, the industry group on Thursday released an ad that confronts head-on the controversy around hosting the national day on a date marking the start of colonialism and Indigenous dispossession.
Australia Day ad has no mention of it? Strewth!The Australian
'Never lamb alone': Annual Aussie lamb ad celebrates multiculturalism9news.com.au
'Hang on, aren't we all boat people?'NEWS.com.au
Weekly Times Now -AdNews -Huffington Post Australia
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Indigenous communities harvesting gubinge in Western Australia's far north are reporting some big yields this wet season. (ABC News) January 2017 The bush tucker, which is also known as Kakadu plum, is found across northern Australia and regarded as having more vitamin C than any other fruit. Lenny O'Meara from Kimberley Wild Gubinge said after big rains in December, there was an abundance of quality fruit on the Dampier Peninsula, north of Broome. "The season up here is very good this year because of the rain," he told ABC Rural. "The trees have flourished with the water and the fruit is abundant, especially compared to last year when it was a bit drier and there wasn't as much fruit around. "So it's really good picking this year and the fruit are nice and fat." Mr O'Meara said when the plums tasted 'tangy' it was a sign the vitamin C content was high. He said the quality of fruit this year was proving to be excellent. MORE: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-12/big-yields-for-gubinge-industry-north-of-broome/8173320

New Matilda
Curtain And The Case For Freedom: How Many Indigenous Prisoners In Australia Are Innocent?
New Matilda
Amy McQuire has been investigating the jailing of an Aboriginal man in Queensland for over a year. Here she details at the case, and the broader reality of wrongful convictions in Australia. In 1991, an Aboriginal woman named Lynda tragically lost her ...

New Matilda
Curtain And The Case For Freedom: How Many Indigenous Prisoners In Australia Are Innocent?
New Matilda
Amy McQuire has been investigating the jailing of an Aboriginal man in Queensland for over a year. Here she details at the case, and the broader reality of wrongful convictions in Australia. In 1991, an Aboriginal woman named Lynda tragically lost her ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
How Donald Trump sent the Australian dollar soaring
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Australian dollar surged around one US cent amid renewed uncertainty about Donald Trump's policies following his first press conference as US President-elect. After trading around 73.75 US cents before Trump spoke, the dollar soared to as high as ...

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AdNews
MLA shirks Australia Day, tackles Invasion Day controversy
AdNews
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) has forgone its infamous Australia Day ad in favour of a celebration of modern multiculturalism and a play on Invasion Day - how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders refer to the day Australia was founded by British ...
The new lamb ad is the most important piece of Aussie advertising in a very long timeMuMbrella

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Aboriginal Art Directory News
ART & POLITICS
Aboriginal Art Directory News
He significantly pushed back the accepted date for the arrival of Aborigines in Australia. He opposed the Stolen Generations policy. He did, mistakenly believe that Southern mixed-race Aborigines would “disappear into the general community”, but he ...

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AdNews
MLA shirks Australia Day, tackles Invasion Day controversy
AdNews
It went onto say that The Monkeys had found it difficult to cast Aboriginal characters due to Indigenous actors “feeling like the commercial trivialises the violent British settlement of Australia”. MLA and The Monkeys haven't shied away from ...

ABC Online
Strong wet season boosting yields for Indigenous gubinge harvest
ABC Online
The bush tucker, which is also known as Kakadu plum, is found across northern Australia and regarded as having more vitamin C than any other fruit. Lenny O'Meara from Kimberley Wild Gubinge said after big rains in December, there was an abundance of ...

The Conversation AU
Aboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17000 years
The Conversation AU
What it could have looked like when humans and megafauna lived together: a giant macropod Procoptodon goliah in the foreground, while Thylacinus cynocephalus hunts for prey nearby. A herd of Zygomaturus can be see on the lake edge of the ancient ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Giving the less fortunate a hand up
dailytelegraph.com.au
“Seeing the sad things that happened to some of them in later life, and visiting vulnerable communities as I travelled, led me to direct my energy to finding parity not just for indigenous people but for all vulnerable Australians.” Today Andrew, a ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Giving the less fortunate a hand up
dailytelegraph.com.au
“Including awful examples of forced labour in the very supply chains of my company, Fortescue Metals Group,” he says. “That's what really tipped me over the edge to adding modern slavery to ending the indigenous disparity in Australia as my lifetime ...

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The New Daily
Snake on a plane leads to flight cancellation
The New Daily
The MLA's two-and-a-half-minute spot features a diverse cast including European settlers, a wave of immigrants, vegans and LGBT Australians atop a Mardi Gras float who arrive in waves to join a beach barbecue started by three indigenous Australians.
Political expenses: Julie Bishop charged taxpayers for Portsea Polo trip, Mathias Cormann claimed for AFL finalABC Online

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Sydney readies for Australia Day celebrations
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These include the WugulOra Indigenous Morning Ceremony marking the official start and honours for traditional land owners with the raising of the Aboriginal and Australian flags and the Ferrython race from Circular Quay to Shark Island and then back to ...

Courier Mail
Why Horn-Pacquiao is a knockout
Courier Mail
Back in 1968, Lionel Rose, who a few years earlier had been living on the dirt floor of a bark humpy in an Aboriginal camp, had his first trip outside of Australia, dismantling Japan's national treasure Fighting Harada for the world bantamweight title ...

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