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The Age
The problem with Australia Day
The Age
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 ...

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Brisbane Times
The problem with Australia Day
Brisbane 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 ...

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SBS
John Batman: friend or foe to Indigenous Australians?
SBS
“Five years after the treaty was signed, the senior Kulin clan head Billibellary told the "Protector" of Aboriginal people that the colonial government was "no good" by comparison with Batman, at a time when Protectors tried to interfere with ...

SBS
John Batman: friend or foe to Indigenous Australians?
SBS
The historical Melbourne figure is credited with making the offer to pay rent to the Indigenous landowners of Port Phillip and in 1935 signed a treaty with eight Woi wurrung “chiefs” of the Kulin Nation at Merri Creek. The deed confirmed the purchase ...

Australia Network News
Celebrating Australia Day Is “A Kick In The Face” To Indigenous Australians
Australia Network News
Poet and member of Indigenous Social Justice Association, Ken believes that Australia day should not be celebrated on January 26. “To have it on the very day that became the commencement of . . . the loss of language, the loss of culture, children ...
Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day: What's in a name?SBS

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The Canberra Times
Wallabies and Brumbies star David Pocock is the ACT Australia Day ambassador
The Canberra Times
A self-confessed "unconventional choice" as ACT ambassador, Rugby World Cup star David Pocock says Australia Day is "a very difficult day" for Indigenous Australians because it commemorates "some truly terrible parts of our history". Rather than be ...
David Pocock acknowledges 'truly terrible parts of our history' in ACT Australia Day ambassador speechABC Online

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ABC Online
Revamped Aboriginal plant use trail launched at Australian National Botanic Gardens
ABC Online
An Aboriginal plant use trail at the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) has been revamped and extended to show visitors the multiple ways native flora helped people survive for tens of thousands of years. ANBG project officer Susan Sonntag said ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Deng Thiak Adut's Australia Day speech
Sydney Morning Herald
'Today, as we mark the beginning of Refugee Week, it is important to remember that all non‐Indigenous Australians are immigrants to this land.' Advertisement. She continued, 'From the perspective of thousands of years of Aboriginal custodianship, the ...

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SBS
Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day: What's in a name?
SBS
The day involves recognising the history of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including the trauma caused by government policies of assimilation and separation that saw many people removed from their traditional lands and culture.

SBS
Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day: What's in a name?
SBS
The day involves recognising the history of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including the trauma caused by government policies of assimilation and separation that saw many people removed from their traditional lands and culture.

WA today
Aboriginal protesters return to Heirisson Island for 'refugee camp'
WA today
Both protests ended in ugly scenes with police forcefully removing protesters. One current family of campers claims rangers have already moved them from the south side of the island to the north, because of Tuesday's Australia Day Skyworks celebrations.

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The Guardian
Call to involve Indigenous communities more in family violence programs
The Guardian
Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (Anrows) also concluded the rebuilding of family and kinship ties is considered central to responses because violence is “in part, attributed to intergenerational trauma and the breakdown of ...
Newcastle academic slams 'Eurocentric' education for indigenous studentsABC Message Stick
Gooda blasts card in annual reportThe Guardian (Australia)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander talents converge for Klub KooriGay News Network

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Cadtle Hills News
Australia Day fun outdoors
Cadtle Hills News
Diramu Aboriginal Dance will perform traditional dances and Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime stories while the Hornsby Berowra Ukulele Group and the Jim Jam Music Studio Hornsby will also feature. Young people can enjoy a range of interactive activities ...

Herald Sun
Preston radio station launches nation's first top 100 indigenous music chart for Australia Day
Herald Sun
Preston-based radio station 3KND Kool N Deadly (1503AM) will create a chart of their own this Australia Day, playing their top 100 songs recorded by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. 3KND station manager Jim Remedio said creating the list ...

SBS
Amnesty calls for investigation as Qld police union praises police shoving of ...
SBS
"Violence against women is one of the great shames of Australia," he said. "It is a national disgrace." Amnesty International expressed disappointment towards the police service amid the government's push to protect women from violence. "In light of ...

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Gay News Network
Gooda blasts card in annual report
The Guardian (Australia)
Mr Gooda made 21 recommendations, including that the Western Australian government should not close any remote Aboriginal communities without proper consultation. And he addressed the anxiety and confusion caused by deep cuts to Aboriginal ...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander talents converge for Klub KooriGay News Network

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Northern Star
Oi, oi, oi, take the Aussie test
Northern Star
B. Green, white and black. C. Blue, white and green. What does the yellow circle in the Australian Aboriginal flag represent? A. The moon. B. The Queen. C. The Sun. Which of these is an example of equality in Australia? a. Everyone follows the same ...

Business Insider Australia
The controversial Australia Day lamb ad with Lee Lin Chin is here to stay
Business Insider Australia
“The Board noted that other than the use of the word boomerang the advertisement does not depict, refer to or parody any Indigenous Australians or Aboriginal culture. In the Board's view the use of the tagline or phrase 'Operation Boomerang' as used in ...
Australia Day lamb ad featuring Lee Lin Chin does not incite hatred against ...ABC Online
Aussie Day lamb ad OK: ad standards bureauThe Australian (blog)
MLA's Operation Boomerang cleared by ASBAdNews
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Tenterfield Star
Moriarty to lead Australia Day celebrations
Tenterfield Star
He is a former Chairman of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council, National Aboriginal Sports Corporation of Australia and a former Deputy Chair of Indigenous Business Australia. He is the Chairman and co-founder ...

MuMbrella
MLA accused of promoting rape, kidnap and murder of sheep in Australia Day ad ...
MuMbrella
Many of the complaints focused on the treatment of a vegan and also the appropriation of an Aboriginal boomerang as a symbol of the Australia Day “rescue mission”. People claim the ad has reduced children to tears, provoked supporters of the campaign ...

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