Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Cairns Post
CQU lecturer, Cairns woman, Yidinji elder Henrietta Marrie receives Order of Australia
The Cairns Post
The Yidinji woman will be made a member of the Order of Australia today for her significant service to the community as an advocate for indigenous cultural heritage and intellectual property rights, and to education. The CQU indigenous engagement ...

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Celebrations and protests on Australia Day
SBS
Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove is urging Australians to embrace Australia Day to celebrate the rich history and culture of indigenous people and the contributions of migrants. As disagreement intensifies over shifting the national day from the ...

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The Australian
Abandoning the nation's special day unwise and foolish, says Geoffrey Blainey
The Australian
It is understood Greens leader Richard Di Natale, lower-house Melbourne MP Adam Bandt, Victorian state MP Lidia Thorpe and other Victorian Greens MPs will attend an event in Melbourne to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Aboriginal activist William ...

The Guardian
Evonne Goolagong-Cawley honoured for tennis and Indigenous advocacy
The Guardian
Forty-seven years after she came to international prominence by winning both the 1971 French Open and Wimbledon crowns, Evonne Goolagong-Cawley has been made a companion of the Order of Australia, the nation's highest honour. Recognised for her ...
7-time major winner Goolagong Cawley gets Australian honorsUSA TODAY

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The Guardian
Victorian opposition leader tells councils to celebrate Australia day or face the sack
The Guardian
Guy's comments follow weeks of national debate around the push to change the date of Australia Day away from the anniversary of the arrival of the first fleet, a day known by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Invasion Day. A survey ...
State opposition to sack councils for not celebrating Australia DayThe Age
Vic councils stand firm on Aust Day shunSBS

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The Advertiser
Our history is not perfect. Let's move on
The Advertiser
However bleak some parts of our history are, they are a vision of peace compared to the relentless brutality of Mexico's colonial history. From 1492 onwards, the many indigenous nations of Mexico and Central America found themselves in a state of ...

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NEWS.com.au
Rugby league legend Johnathan Thurston says Australia Day date change inevitable
NEWS.com.au
“I believe the first step could be an open forum involving our key political and cultural leaders … representatives from all sides of the debate. “I believe this would be a good starting point.” Tensions have been boiling ahead of Australia Day ...
Johnathan Thurston backs calls for conversation on changing Australia Day dateABC Online
Australia Day date: Johnathan Thurston calls for changeThe Australian
Who are the Australian of the Year award nominees?SBS
Ten Eyewitness News -myGC.com.au -Riverine Herald
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ABC Online
Johnathan Thurston backs calls for conversation on changing Australia Day date
ABC Online
Johnathan Thurston believes Australians need to be more informed about why the date of Australia Day is hurtful to Indigenous people. Thurston, 36, who is set to retire from rugby league as one of the sport's greats after the upcoming season, also ...
Rugby league legend Johnathan Thurston says Australia Day date change inevitableNEWS.com.au
Australia Day date: Johnathan Thurston calls for changeThe Australian
Australian of the Year to be announced tonightTen Eyewitness News
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ABC Online
Australia Day: 'Mixed emotions' as Aboriginal councils reveal opposing views on celebrations
ABC Online
"There are a lot of mixed emotions [on January 26]." Cr Lacey said the people of Palm Island would celebrate the day "with open arms" if it were celebrated on another date. "There's commentary about Sorry Day. It's about the destruction of children ...
NSW Labor plans to sign treaty recognising Indigenous ownershipThe Guardian
'About the future and the past': NSW Labor to ink treaty with Indigenous AustraliansThe Sydney Morning Herald
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price: It's shallow, meaningless, emotional rhetoric unrepresentative of the view of all ...The Advertiser
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SBS
My Australia: The country's first Indigenous surgeon on confronting inequality
SBS
'My Australia' is a special SBS News series exploring cultural heritage and identity, and asking what it means to be Australian in 2018. For kids destined to become be doctors, Grace Kinsella's house was a good place to grow up. The Woromi woman was a ...

Daily Mail
'We thought they were going to be massacred': 80 years since forced First Fleet re-enactment
ABC Online
"Then followed in the week before the celebrations an amusing battle of tactics between the Protection Board officers and the executive of the Aborigines' Progressive Association … Some Sydney relatives of a Peter Johnson from Menindee tried to see ...
Australia Day or Invasion Day? Thousands plan to protestReuters
Should we really feel guilty about celebrating Australia Day? The REAL story behind the white settlement on January ...Daily Mail

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The Australian
Australia Day date: Johnathan Thurston calls for change
The Australian
NRL star Johnathan Thurston has called for a change in the date of Australia Day, declaring it was not a date that was inclusive to indigenous Australians. The North Queensland Cowboys halfback is Queensland's Australian of the Year and one of eight ...
Johnathan Thurston backs calls for conversation on changing Australia Day dateABC Online
Who are the Australian of the Year award nominees?SBS (blog)
Australian of the Year to be announced tonightTen Eyewitness News
PerthNow -Riverine Herald
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SBS
How to make your own Indigenous herbs and spices rack
SBS
“We've encouraged and mentored people to have their own micro businesses on community and for First Nations' community to be able to actually own a place within the current native food industry.” And so the Outback Pride Project was born, harvesting ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
I used to love Australia Day. Now I get why it's an issue
The Sydney Morning Herald
A friend replied, "Sorry, Kelly, but my conscience cannot allow me to celebrate the day England invaded Aboriginal Australia and set forth a system based on racism and violence that promotes white rule on black land that our government still ...

The Conversation AU
Pointing to the scoreboard: how Indigenous hip hop keeps talking to white Australia
The Conversation AU
Like A. B. Original's members Briggs (Yorta Yorta man Adam Briggs) and Trials (Ngarrindjeri man Dan Rankine), other Indigenous rappers have been starting public conversations about white Australia's black history and producing various forms of hip hop ...
Let's get over Gallipoli too: Briggs on Australia Day and the spirit of oppressionThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Central Western Daily
OUR SAY: Australia Day's more than an opportunity for a barbecue
Central Western Daily
Australia Day was routinely moved to the Monday closest to January 26 so everyone could enjoy a long weekend. Most people would accept it as a day off work, to be spent with family – at a barbecue, perhaps. How Australian, was the general feeling – a ...

The Guardian
NSW Labor plans to sign treaty recognising Indigenous ownership
The Guardian
Labor governments in Victoria and South Australia have already committed to signing a treaty with Indigenous peoples, with the first to be signed within two months. SA has appointed a treaty commissioner, Roger Thomas, to consult with Aboriginal ...
Australia Day: 'Mixed emotions' as Aboriginal councils reveal opposing views on celebrationsABC Online
'About the future and the past': NSW Labor to ink treaty with Indigenous AustraliansThe Sydney Morning Herald
Will native Australian food ever be mainstream?SBS
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Central Western Daily
COMMENT: 'Whether you're Indigenous or not, this is your history'
Central Western Daily
CALL TO ARMS: Orange resident Tom Goolagong offers his thoughts on the Australia Day debate. I'VE been asked a lot recently about my point of view on changing the date of Australia Day, and whether we should. I've thought about it, hard, and it ...

Shepparton News
Councillors share views on Australia Day date
Shepparton News
She characterised Australia Day as ''a day to celebrate living together in harmony'' and to celebrate ''differences as well as similarity''. Cr Hazelman said the issue was one that would not be going away. For many indigenous Australians, he said ...

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Shepparton News
Councillors share views on Australia Day date
Shepparton News
She characterised Australia Day as ''a day to celebrate living together in harmony'' and to celebrate ''differences as well as similarity''. Cr Hazelman said the issue was one that would not be going away. For many indigenous Australians, he said ...

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