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The Age
Survival Day seeks a positive focus
The Age
It could be any other Australia Day festival if it weren't for the didgeridoo droning and The Last Post. For indigenous Australians and many others at the seventh annual Survival Day festival in Belgrave on Sunday, January 26 is a day mixed with ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Goodes great choice, say Australia Day revellers
Sydney Morning Herald
Australians celebrating in Circular Quay on Sunday described Adam Goodes as a wonderful ambassador and a rightful winner of the coveted Australian of the Year award. Goodes, an AFL champion and indigenous community leader, said he wanted to use ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Goodes great choice, say Australia Day revellers
Sydney Morning Herald
Australians celebrating in Circular Quay on Sunday described Adam Goodes as a wonderful ambassador and a rightful winner of the coveted Australian of the Year award. Goodes, an AFL champion and indigenous community leader, said he wanted to use ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott promises to recognise Aborigines as nation's first people
Sydney Morning Herald
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has promised to finalise by September a draft for amending the constitution to recognise Aboriginal people as the first Australians. However, he warned against against rushing the changes, saying national debate was needed ...

Aborigines 'must move on from survival thinking to live in victory'
The Australian
WHILE Australia Day can be a source of deep pain and a reminder of a culture devastated by the arrival of Europeans, it's time indigenous people stop describing themselves as "victims of a racist system", according to a member of the Prime Minister's ...

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The West Australian
Political leaders want to right wrongs done to indigenous Australians
The Australian
TONY Abbott and Bill Shorten have used Australia Day to reaffirm their strong commitment to advancing the constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians as soon as possible. The Prime Minister, who presided over a citizenship ceremony on the ...
Adam Goodes pushes for indigenous recognition ahead of Australia DaySydney Morning Herald
Abbott on indigenous recognition crusadeThe West Australian
Indigenous footballer Adam Goodes named Australian of the YearSBS

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Indigenous channel reappraises its strategy in reaching out to a broader range ...
The Australian
RELAUNCHING as one of SBS's digital channels was meant to bring National Indigenous Television to a wider audience, but 12 months since its free-to-air debut the channel is reassessing its strategy after struggling to cut through to mainstream Australia.

Rio Tinto details blueprint for indigenous jobs
The Australian
Rio Tinto Australia managing director David Peever, who has been appointed to the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, has written to the indigenous jobs review headed by mining magnate Andrew Forrest to present a blueprint for change.

First nations need to sign treaties
The Australian
The head of Mr Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council, former ALP national president Warren Mundine, said indigenous Australians needed to "forgive Australia as a nation" and permit themselves to "love their country (and) take pride in Australia's ...

First nations need to sign treaties
The Australian
The head of Mr Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council, former ALP national president Warren Mundine, said indigenous Australians needed to "forgive Australia as a nation" and permit themselves to "love their country (and) take pride in Australia's ...

Abbott on indigenous recognition crusade
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PRIME Minister Tony Abbott is determined that recognising indigenous people in Australia's constitution is a "national crusade" that should be important to everyone. The case for constitutional recognition is getting a boost from two indigenous ...

Abbott on indigenous recognition crusade
The Australian
"If we had known in 1901 what we know now, if our hearts had been as big then as now, we would have acknowledged indigenous people in the constitution back then," he told reporters at Australia Day celebrations in Canberra. He noted the nation's ...

Tony Abbott says it is time for indigenous people to be recognised in constitution
NEWS.com.au
"If we had known in 1901 what we know now, if our hearts had been as big then as now, we would have acknowledged indigenous people in the constitution back then,'' he told reporters at Australia Day celebrations in Canberra. Start of sidebar. Skip to ...

Tony Abbott says it is time for indigenous people to be recognised in constitution
NEWS.com.au
"If we had known in 1901 what we know now, if our hearts had been as big then as now, we would have acknowledged indigenous people in the constitution back then,'' he told reporters at Australia Day celebrations in Canberra. Start of sidebar. Skip to ...

Indigenous recognition a crusade: Tony Abbott
The Australian
TONY Abbott is determined that recognising indigenous people in Australia's constitution is a "national crusade'' that should be important to everyone. The case for constitutional recognition is getting a boost from two indigenous advocates winning ...

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Indigenous recognition a crusade: Tony Abbott
The Australian
TONY Abbott is determined that recognising indigenous people in Australia's constitution is a "national crusade'' that should be important to everyone. The case for constitutional recognition is getting a boost from two indigenous advocates winning ...
Adam Goodes pushes for indigenous recognition ahead of Australia DaySydney Morning Herald
Indigenous footballer Adam Goodes named Australian of the YearSBS
Abbott on indigenous recognition crusadeThe West Australian
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Abbott on indigenous recognition crusade
Sydney Morning Herald
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is determined that recognising indigenous people in Australia's constitution is a "national crusade" that should be important to everyone. The case for constitutional recognition is getting a boost from two indigenous ...

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Aboriginal activist Michael 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 ...
Adam Goodes pushes for indigenous recognition ahead of Australia DaySydney Morning Herald
Champions of indigenous advancementThe Australian
Aboriginal Athlete Receives Australia's Top Civic HonorVoice of America
SBS
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Former politician named senior Australian
NEWS.com.au
"We have to work in partnership with Aboriginal people ... and if we do that then the political firepower that's being directed, the bureaucratic firepower and the community firepower will enable the Aboriginal people of Australia to have their ...

The Guardian
Australia Day is a time for mourning, not celebration
The Guardian
Australia Day is a time for mourning, not celebration. The refusal to celebrate Australia Day is part of an ongoing fight for the recognition of the abuse of Indigenous people's rights. If we give up on protesting, we might soon no longer remember the ...
Respected Aboriginal elder, Associate Professor Ted Wilkes. Source: News ...NEWS.com.au
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