Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Advertiser
Australia Day controversy aboriginal leaders respond | Adelaide Now
The Advertiser
It should be a day of celebration, of everything that is good about our sunburnt country, but for many the injustices of the past are just too painful. Here five prominent indigenous South Australians share their views on Australia Day with Rebecca ...
'Daggers drawn' in Australia Day debate as Canberrans reveal ...The Canberra Times
John Bertrand hits out at councils for banning Australia DayHerald Sun
Rex Gardner: We should unite on Australia Day | The MercuryThe Mercury
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Herald Sun
John Bertrand hits out at councils for banning Australia Day
Herald Sun
“I know it is offensive to some indigenous groups ... but Australia Day is still worth celebrating, until we have a genuine proposal for another celebration on the table,” he said. John Bertrand has hit out at councils that dumped Australia Day ...

Junkee
“I'm Not Going Away”: Indigenous MP Lidia Thorpe Responds To Australia Day Death Threats
Junkee
The date of Australia Day has been a point of contention in recent times. On Monday federal Greens leader Richard Di Natale announced that changing the date of the national holiday was one of the party's top priorities. Meanwhile, a number of local ...

The Mercury
Rex Gardner: We should unite on Australia Day
The Mercury
Opinions have been flying left right and centre around Australia in recent weeks, with Greens leader Richard Di Natale declaring January 26 represents an “ongoing genocide”. One letter to an editor took a different view, quoting a young Aboriginal man ...

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Victoria's first female Aboriginal MP receives death threats over Australia Day comments
The New Daily
On Friday, Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion claimed not a single Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person had approached him about changing to date of Australia Day. He made his comments after one of the Prime Minister's Indigenous ...

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ABC Online
Victoria's first female Aboriginal MP receives death threats over Australia Day comments
ABC Online
Victoria's first female Aboriginal MP says she has been threatened with death and gang rape for her comments over Australia Day. Greens MP Lidia Thorpe has previously called for flags to be flown at half-mast on January 26 to recognise the crimes ...

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Fraser Coast Chronicle
Australia Day is about our horrible past, so why change?
Fraser Coast Chronicle
How did we get to a place where so much time is wasted trying to trash Australia Day? Everyone knows Aboriginal people were here for tens of thousands of years before Europeans arrived. There isn't a thinking person in Australia who doesn't understand ...

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Mackay Daily Mercury
Australia Day is about our horrible past, so why change?
Mackay Daily Mercury
How did we get to a place where so much time is wasted trying to trash Australia Day? Everyone knows Aboriginal people were here for tens of thousands of years before Europeans arrived. There isn't a thinking person in Australia who doesn't understand ...

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Northern Star
Australia Day is about our horrible past, so why change?
Northern Star
How did we get to a place where so much time is wasted trying to trash Australia Day? Everyone knows Aboriginal people were here for tens of thousands of years before Europeans arrived. There isn't a thinking person in Australia who doesn't understand ...

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Fraser Coast Chronicle
Mayor, Butchulla elder weigh in on Australia Day debate
Fraser Coast Chronicle
... of the region's Australia Day events. "Let's all celebrate the great things about being Australia," he said. "It's the best country in the world and we live in a great part of it." But Deputy Mayor George Seymour said he felt there should be a ...

The Cairns Post
FNQ's Yarrabah to commemorate Survival Day on January 26
The Cairns Post
The Fijian-Australian performer said he was lending his talents to Yarrabah's Survival Day event in support of changing the date. “I'm in favour of a different day being called Australia Day but in the meantime we can do our best to celebrate the ...

Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
Change the date? Councillors have their say on Australia Day
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
Cr Richie Williamson said he believed Australia Day was a day of reflection about the nation's past. "To look forward to the bright future Australia has, we must acknowledge the wrongs and shortcomings of the past," he said. "It's also a day to be ...

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Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
Change the date? Councillors have their say on Australia Day
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
Cr Richie Williamson said he believed Australia Day was a day of reflection about the nation's past. "To look forward to the bright future Australia has, we must acknowledge the wrongs and shortcomings of the past," he said. "It's also a day to be ...

NT News
Australia Day plans to go ahead in Darwin on January 26 as usual
NT News
Interstate, three councils in Victoria have opted to ignore Australia Day, out of respect for indigenous people. The movement is being pushed by Greens Senator Richard Di Natale, who says the date will be changed “this decade”. However, at a federal ...

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Greens have a template for attacking Australia Day
The Australian
If they really thought about it, indigenous Australians would realise that British settlement most likely saved them from extinction. At the time of settlement, Aborigines were living in primitive conditions. Had one or the other of the European powers ...

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The Australian
Free speech warriors cower in the face of contrary ideas
The Australian
I've grown up with January 26 as an expanding celebration of our nation, and despite sympathising with critics who say the date is hurtful to many indigenous Australians, I see it as an important marker for our modern history. I'm conservative on this ...

The Australian
Changing date of Australia Day would distort our present
The Australian
The remaining 20 per cent of indigenous Australians who suffer well-known social problems and gaps live mainly in rural and remote areas. These are the government-supported homeland communities established in the 1970s under the policies of Aboriginal ...

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The Australian
'First, finest white Australian'
The Australian
This was a First Fleet sailor standing on the finest coastline in the world, dropping his pants to show Australia's first inhabitants he was a man and not a woman or a god. Another brief moment of practical humility and goodwill conceived 230 years ago ...

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Business Insider Australia
How Spotify became the hottest thing in Australian politics this week
Business Insider Australia
Late last year, Triple J, the country's “youth” music station, announced it was shifting the date of its annual music countdown, the Hottest 100, from January 26 because of continued controversy over Australia Day, which commemorates arrival of the ...
Melbourne Music PR Company To Remain Open On Australia DaytheMusic
Spotify REMOVES Cory Bernardi's 'inappropriate and offensive' Australia Day playlist after complaints from Jimmy ...Daily Mail

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Australia Day debate risks overshadowing other Aboriginal issues: Sean Gordon
ABC Online
Prominent New South Wales Indigenous leader Sean Gordon has rebuked Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion, as the debate over whether Australia Day should be moved from the date of the landing of the first fleet. But at the same time, Sean Gordon ...