Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Aussie Opposition calls for Australia Day referendum on republic, indigenous recognition
Xinhua
CANBERRA, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has called for a joint referendum on indigenous recognition in the Australian Constitution and Australia becoming a republic. Anthony Albanese, former deputy prime minister and the man ...

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Matt Cunningham: Australia Day s**t fight doesn't address most pressing issues
NT News
I'm pretty agnostic about changing the date of Australia Day. I think I fall into the 56 per cent of Australians who don't really care. I reckon that number would be even higher in the Northern Territory, although to even express that opinion has ...
Australians rally to protest British 'Invasion Day'Chronicle

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Census 2016: dropouts, migrants and indigenous communities ...
The Australian
It is a figure with which we are all familiar: the unemployment rate. This simple single percentage figure is the equivalent of political kryptonite: it can be deadly for a government and for a politician if it appears in a particularly virulent and ...

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The Australian
Flags lowered to half-mast at Queensland Parliament House
The Australian
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags were lowered to half-mast at Queensland's Parliament House, contrary to official protocol, after police passed on a request from the indigenous elders at an Invasion Day march. Thousands of protesters ...

Silly to serious marks Qld's Australia Day
NEWS.com.au
"Before, they had the true history hidden from them, and a lot of them didn't realise they were disrespecting Aboriginal people," he said. Mr Fogarty called on state and federal governments to hear the voices of Indigenous Australians and "just go ...

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The Australian
Australia Day 2018: Gillian Triggs supports Aboriginal treaty
The Australian
Today's “Justice Through Treaty” event in Sydney began with a march from Redfern Park to Hyde Park in the CBD, followed by speeches from Professor Triggs and others including ACTU secretary Sally McManus, feminist academic Eva Cox, Labor MP Linda ...

Sea of indigenous flags in Sydney march
Yahoo7 News
The streets of Redfern have been transformed by a sea of red, black and yellow flags with thousands gathering in Sydney to march for indigenous rights. Organiser Ken Canning from Fighting In Resistance Equally said he hoped the Invasion Day rally would ...

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ABC Online
We asked for your earliest memory of Australia Day. These are your responses
ABC Online
"As a family, we always picnicked usually in a national park to enjoy the natural Australian bush rather than the usual urban/suburban day-to-day environment. So I guess I've always associated it with the Australia as it was pre-colonisation. I'd like ...

Courier Mail
Elder calls for Australia Day to become Treaty Day
Courier Mail
Mr Watson said he was surprised at the intensity of this year's date debate. He said last week he expected at least 1500 people to turn up for tomorrow's Invasion Day march, which has grown steadily every year since it started in Brisbane in 1970 ...

Illawarra Mercury
Illawarra Aboriginal leader says leave Australia Day as is | Illawarra ...
Illawarra Mercury
Contrary to many in his indigenous community, Uncle Richard Davis believes Australia Day should remain being celebrated on January 26.

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NEWS.com.au
Malcolm Turnbull opens Australia Day speech with indigenous greeting
NEWS.com.au
Last year he spoke in Ngunnawal in an address to unveil the ninth annual Closing the Gap report, and he also opened his speech for the Australian of the Year Awards last night using the language. During his Australia Day address, Mr Turnbull urged ...
Australia Day: Turnbull dismisses calls for change to flagThe Australian
Malcolm Turnbull says Australian flag will never change, rejecting new designThe Guardian
Few back changing Australia Day: TurnbullThe West Australian

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SBS
'Australia Day of shame': Thousands march in 'Invasion Day' protests
SBS
Two inner-Melbourne councils - Yarra and Darebin - were banned by the federal government from hosting citizenship ceremonies after controversially voting not to recognise Australia Day on January 26. Those councils, along with Moreland City Council ...
Calls for greater diversity in Australia Day honoursNEWS.com.au
Australia Day: Celebrations and protests across the nationThe West Australian

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ABC Online
What Central Australia's remote Aboriginal communities think of Australia Day
ABC Online
Celebrating Australia Day on the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet "celebrates illegal occupation", an Aboriginal community leader says. Yuendumu leader and Warlpiri researcher Simon Japangardi Fisher is one of three Aboriginal leaders in ...
NSW Labor plans to sign treaty recognising Indigenous ownershipThe Guardian
Celebrating Indigenous finalists in the Australian of the Year AwardsSBS
Australia Day 2018: Richard Di Natale says indigenous not better off from settlementThe Australian
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NEWS.com.au
30 surprising facts about Australia according to McCrindle Research and the ABS
NEWS.com.au
Mr McCrindle added that Australia is also much more multicultural than it has ever been before. “The latest census data showed us a changing of the guard, not only in that one in three Australians are born overseas, but more overseas born Australians ...

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The Guardian
Invasion Day protests: human rights observers to monitor Melbourne rally
The Guardian
Human rights observers are to attend the Invasion Day rally in Melbourne on Friday to monitor the way police respond to the protesters, Amnesty International has said. The Melbourne rally is the largest of those held around the country on 26 January ...

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SBS
Australia Day 2018: Celebrations and protests expected across the country
SBS
Citizenship ceremonies and backyard barbecues are bound to draw big crowds, but not all will be celebrating this year. NSW Governor David Hurley has helped kick-off Australia Day celebrations in the state with a speech acknowledging the controversy ...
Calls for greater diversity in Australia Day honoursNEWS.com.au

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SBS
Australia Day 2018: Celebrations and marches expected across the country
SBS
The governor was joined by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and about a 1000 people at Barangaroo on the harbour under a grey sky for the indigenous WugulOra morning ceremony to mark Australia Day. It included dancers, a smoking ceremony, the singing of ...

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ABC Online
What these Indigenous actors, writers and thinkers will be doing on January 26
ABC Online
Depending on who you are or how you feel about Australia Day, January 26 can be a cause for celebration, protest or barely worth a comment. Recent public debate has underscored how the day can be a source of pain or anger for many of Australia's ...
NSW Labor plans to sign treaty recognising Indigenous ownershipThe Guardian
Australia Day explained: Why it's really held on 26 January and the push to change the dateSBS (blog)
'About the future and the past': NSW Labor to ink treaty with Indigenous AustraliansThe Sydney Morning Herald
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The Conversation AU
How to have a better conversation about Australia Day
The Conversation AU
You could read this as Abbott emphasising a narrative of “Australia as a success story”. And while he acknowledges in the article that “not everything's perfect in contemporary Australia” - referring to the disadvantage experienced by many Indigenous ...

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The Guardian
Morning mail: quantum physicist named Australian of the year
The Guardian
We have an editorial outlining the Guardian view on Australia Day, and Indigenous author Alexis Wright writes movingly about living in a nation that celebrates the colonisation of your ancestors' land. The British prime minister, Theresa May, has said ...
Australian of the Year Michelle Simmons: quantum leap for women in scienceThe Australian
Top scientist vying for atomic victorySBS

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