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EducationHQ Australia
Re-building Indigenous identity in Canada
EducationHQ Australia
Lionel Cranenburgh travelled 17,000 kilometres from Perth to Canada last year to study first hand how two provinces in Canada tackle the 21st century curriculum. What he found has relevance to schools in Australia and New Zealand. This is the first of ...

Bega District News
Greens: Australia Day celebrations show disregard for Indigenous history
Bega District News
On January 26, many in the Bega Valley and across the seat of Eden-Monaro will come together to celebrate what they see as a day of national pride and Australian values. Greens candidate for Eden-Monaro Tamara Ryan has joined with Greens Senator for ...

New York Times
Aboriginal Brass Band Offers Burst of Hope in a Bleak Community
New York Times
“It sounds like here is an English tradition being foisted upon indigenous Australia — what a horrible colonial thing to do,” said Mr. Morrison, the former artistic director of the Queensland Music Festival, one of the project's main supporters ...

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InDaily
Protests and celebrations for SA's Aboriginal community
InDaily
While for most Australians, Australia Day is spent celebrating national pride, for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people it's a day for reflecting on culture and the past. On January 26, 1788, the first fleet raised the Union Jack at Sydney ...
The Presets Explain Why They Won't Celebrate Australia Day On Jan 26Pedestrian TV
It's time to change our traditionsThe Monthly (subscription)
Can Australia Day be reshaped?WA today
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InDaily
Protests and celebrations for SA's Aboriginal community
InDaily
While for most Australians, Australia Day is spent celebrating national pride, for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people it's a day for reflecting on culture and the past. On January 26, 1788, the first fleet raised the Union Jack at Sydney ...
How to show solidarity with Indigenous Australians this Invasion DayDaily Life

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Daily Life
How to show solidarity with Indigenous Australians this Invasion Day
Daily Life
In the lead-up to Invasion Day 2016, Buzzfeed Australia released a video entitled, Aboriginal People Respond To 'Australia Day'. Generally speaking, I haven't been much of a fan of the various Buzzfeed 'Respond' videos. Many of them seem to be focused ...
Protests and celebrations for SA's Aboriginal communityInDaily
Australia's Annual Celebration of Genocide and ConquestteleSUR English
Briggs Drops Truth Bombs About Australia DayTone Deaf

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Daily Life
How to show solidarity with Indigenous Australians this Invasion Day
Daily Life
In the lead-up to Invasion Day 2016, Buzzfeed Australia released a video entitled, Aboriginal People Respond To 'Australia Day'. Generally speaking, I haven't been much of a fan of the various Buzzfeed 'Respond' videos. Many of them seem to be focused ...

The Queensland Times
Aboriginal art invades cafe for Australia Day
The Queensland Times
BORN on Australia Day and taking on the adopted name of Cook, Aboriginal artist Sally Harrison has always felt an obvious conflict in her sense of identity. "I couldn't stand myself being a white person. I'm Captain Cook and I'm black," Harrison said.

Sydney Morning Herald
Acknowledging how Indigenous Australians are still left behind this Australia Day
Sydney Morning Herald
For many Australians, January 26 will be marked by beers, barbecues and Australian flag bikinis. The Triple J Hottest 100 will blare from house parties around the country and pubs will swell with punters out to celebrate a rare Tuesday off work.
Government's Healthy Welfare Card no solution to alcohol abuseThe Australian

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Sydney Morning Herald
Acknowledging how Indigenous Australians are still left behind this Australia Day
Sydney Morning Herald
For many Australians, January 26 will be marked by beers, barbecues and Australian flag bikinis. The Triple J Hottest 100 will blare from house parties around the country and pubs will swell with punters out to celebrate a rare Tuesday off work.

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ABC Online
Stan Grant's speech on racism and the Australian dream as part of IQ2 debate goes viral
ABC Online
A powerful speech by Indigenous journalist Stan Grant in which he says the "Australian dream is rooted in racism" has gone viral. Grant addressed an audience in Sydney on the impact of colonisation and discrimination as part of the IQ2 debate series ...
Here's how Australians are reacting to Stan Grant's speech on racism 'killing the Australian dream'Business Insider Australia
After the furore, meet the real Adam GoodesSydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant's speech on racism hailed Australia's 'Martin Luther King moment'Daily Mail

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ABC Online
Stan Grant's speech on racism and the Australian dream as part of IQ2 debate goes viral
ABC Online
A powerful speech by Indigenous journalist Stan Grant in which he says the "Australian dream is rooted in racism" has gone viral. Grant addressed an audience in Sydney on the impact of colonisation and discrimination as part of the IQ2 debate series ...
Stan Grant's speech on racism: Is this Australia's 'Martin Luther King moment'?Sydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant's speech on racism and the Australian dream goes viralThe Guardian
Here's how Australians are reacting to Stan Grant's speech on racism 'killing the Australian dream'Business Insider Australia
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Sydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant's speech on racism: Is this Australia's 'Martin Luther King moment'?
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous journalist Stan Grant has declared racism is "killing the Australian dream", in an impassioned speech that has gone viral on social media. The powerful speech, delivered at the IQ2 Racism Debate in October, emerged online last week, with ...
Here's how Australians are reacting Stan Grant's speech on racism 'killing the Australian dream'Business Insider Australia
Stan Grant's speech on racism and the Australian dream goes viralThe Guardian
Stan Grant's speech: Raw, powerful, essential to watch todayStarts at Sixty

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SBS
Comment: Changing the date won't fix 'Australia Day'
SBS
And to be honest, I've never really understood why non-Indigenous Australia wouldn't want the opportunity to start afresh. The 26th of January also commemorates the day some of the poorest and most desperate citizens of Great Britain were dumped on the ...

SBS
Comment: Changing the date won't fix 'Australia Day'
SBS
You see, back when I left retail in 2002, Australia Day was barely a blip on the national calendar. Certainly, the only thing I associated it with were protests in the Aboriginal community. Just last year, I was incredibly pleased to see Invasion Day ...

Sky News Australia
Four dead after Canadian school shooting
Sky News Australia
A gunman opened fire at a Canadian high school and a second location in an aboriginal community in northern Saskatchewan, leaving four dead and at least two injured, officials say. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said from Davos, Switzerland that a ...

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ABC Online
Suicide of nephew will never leave Aboriginal elder Trevor Donaldson, who wants safe house
ABC Online
Mr Donaldson, who is the Goldfields Land and Sea Council's native title cultural project manager, has proposed an Aboriginal youth safe house be established in Kalgoorlie-Boulder. "What they are suggesting [through the critical response project] seems ...

The Canberra Times
The problem with Australia Day
The Canberra Times
Australia Day is our Confederate flag. It's not that a better date can't be found – a worse date can't be found. The great historical divide in this country is between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. No day brings that divide into sharper or ...

Sydney Morning Herald
After the furore, meet the real Adam Goodes
Sydney Morning Herald
The same year, he urged people to see the controversial John Pilger documentary, Utopia, about Aboriginal Australia's dispossession. He's also deeply involved in the Recognise campaign to change the constitution so that the presence of Aboriginal and ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Jessica Mauboy to sing indigenous version of national anthem on Australia Day
dailytelegraph.com.au
Aboriginal educator Clarence Slockee, head of visitor services at Barangaroo, says indigenous Australians have used fire and smoke to regenerate and reinvigorate the land for thousands of years and the cleansing ceremony is an extension of that ...
Australia's Day for Secrets, Flags and CowardsCounterPunch
Australia Day celebrations leave a bad taste for Indigenous AustraliansSBS
Australians invited to commemorate Survival Day at Indigenous eventsThe Guardian

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