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Australians celebrate survival of Indigenous culture
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While Australia Day celebrates the arrival of Europeans 226 years ago, the day is also used as an opportunity to remember those who have walked the land for thousands of years and to celebrate indigenous culture. Events like the Yabun festival in ...

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Mundine calls for Indigenous treaties
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Mr Mundine is now urging Mr Abbott to do what decades of Prime Ministers before him have either been unable or unwilling to: negotiate treaties with Australia's Indigenous people. He says there should be separate treaties with each of what he calls the ...
To move on, indigenous people must forgiveThe Age
Central Land Council rejects Warren Mundine's Indigenous treaty proposalABC Online
Indigenous recognition more complicated constitutional change than you thinkCrikey
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Mundine calls for Indigenous treaties
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Mr Mundine is now urging Mr Abbott to do what decades of Prime Ministers before him have either been unable or unwilling to: negotiate treaties with Australia's Indigenous people. He says there should be separate treaties with each of what he calls the ...

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Tony Abbott promises to recognise Aborigines as nation's first people
Sydney Morning Herald
The Senior Australian of the Year, former federal politician and founding co-chairman of Reconciliation Australia, Fred Chaney, said it was important to work in partnership with the indigenous community to ''enable the Aboriginal people of Australia to ...

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Monarchists warn of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous recognition ...
ABC Online
"The appalling desecration of Captain Cook's cottage in Melbourne by anti-Australia Day vandals will cause many people to resile from the very thought of a referendum and the now almost certain violence that will accompany it," the group's national ...
Chaney: Indigenous recognition achievableThe Australian
Monarchists criticised for warning of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous ...Radio Australia

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Monarchists warn of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous recognition ...
ABC Online
"The appalling desecration of Captain Cook's cottage in Melbourne by anti-Australia Day vandals will cause many people to resile from the very thought of a referendum and the now almost certain violence that will accompany it," the group's national ...
Indigenous recognition 'achievable'Sky News Australia
Monarchists criticised for warning of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous ...Radio Australia

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Labor ridicules proposal by Warren Mundine for indigenous treaties
The Australian
Tony Abbott's chief adviser on Aboriginal affairs, Warren Mundine, proposed the idea in an Australia Day address, saying the treaties could allow indigenous Australians to "forgive'', while resolving drawn-out native title cases. But Labor's spokesman ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Labor ridicules proposal by Warren Mundine for indigenous treaties
The Australian
Tony Abbott's chief adviser on Aboriginal affairs, Warren Mundine, proposed the idea in an Australia Day address, saying the treaties could allow indigenous Australians to "forgive'', while resolving drawn-out native title cases. But Labor's spokesman ...
Chaney: Indigenous recognition achievableGeelong Advertiser
Abbott on indigenous recognition crusadeHerald Sun

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Chaney: Indigenous recognition achievable
The Australian
Mr Chaney, co-founder of Reconciliation Australia, says Australia is now a very different place to the Australia of the 1960s, when it took a decade of campaigning to ensure the successful 1967 referendum to count indigenous Australians in the national ...

The Guardian
Australia Day: Indigenous people are told to 'get over it'. It's impossible
The Guardian
Australians may want us to "get over it", to stop being so "sensitive". But then, why do we still set aside a day of remembrance on ANZAC day to commemorate those who risked their lives at war? And why don't we acknowledge the brave Aboriginal fighters ...

The Guardian
Australia Day: Indigenous people are told to 'get over it'. It's impossible
The Guardian
Australians may want us to "get over it", to stop being so "sensitive". But then, why do we still set aside a day of remembrance on ANZAC day to commemorate those who risked their lives at war? And why don't we acknowledge the brave Aboriginal fighters ...

The Guardian
Indigenous recognition referendum: Tony Abbott refuses to set a deadline
The Guardian
Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP. The prime minister has hosed down calls to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution during this parliamentary term, saying the landmark reform needs to put to the people when it is most likely to succeed. On the ...

Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award
The West Australian
The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal ...

Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award
The West Australian
The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal ...

Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award
The West Australian
The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal ...

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Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award
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The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal ...

Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award
ABC Online
The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott promises to recognise Aborigines as nation's first people
Sydney Morning Herald
The Senior Australian of the Year, former federal politician and founding co-chairman of Reconciliation Australia, Fred Chaney, said it was important to work in partnership with the indigenous community to ''enable the Aboriginal people of Australia to ...
Indigenous recognition 'achievable'Sky News Australia
First nations need to sign treatiesThe Australian
Australia Day is a time for mourning, not celebrationThe Guardian
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Aboriginal Athlete Receives Australia's Top Civic Honor
Voice of America
"But in the last five years, you know, I have really changed my perception of what is Australia Day, what it is to be Australian, and for me it is about celebrating the positives that, you know, we are still here as indigenous people.” Goodes is also ...

Voice of America
Aboriginal Athlete Receives Australia's Top Civic Honor
Voice of America
"But in the last five years, you know, I have really changed my perception of what is Australia Day, what it is to be Australian, and for me it is about celebrating the positives that, you know, we are still here as indigenous people.” Goodes is also ...