Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Brisbane Times
'Remove my music': Darren Hayes lashes Cory Bernardi over alternative Hottest 100
Brisbane Times
"It's been a cultural tradition for many people to listen to the Triple J Hottest 100 [and] that's no longer available to them," he said. "Creating a playlist under Spotify is available to anyone. This is nonsensical. Suddenly, artists are saying you ...

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'Remove my music': Darren Hayes lashes Cory Bernardi over alternative Hottest 100
The Sydney Morning Herald
Last year, Triple J announced it was shifting the date of its Hottest 100 Australia Day out of respect for Indigenous Australians after an overwhelming majority of listeners flagged their support. On Thursday afternoon, Spotify issued a statement ...
Cory Bernardi creates his own 'alt Hottest 100' playlist for Australia Day9news.com.au
Musicians and Spotify distance themselves from Cory BernardiNEWS.com.au

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Brisbane Times
'Remove my music': Darren Hayes lashes Cory Bernadi over alternative Hottest 100
Brisbane Times
"It's been a cultural tradition for many people to listen to the Triple J Hottest 100 [and] that's no longer available to them," he said. "Creating a playlist under Spotify is available to anyone. This is nonsensical. Suddenly, artists are saying you ...

SBS
My Australia: The rising hip-hop star staying true to his first language
SBS
Last year he won a Triple J Unearthed Indigenous artist contest and performed at the National Indigenous Music Awards. He says he uses his rap to showcase the living nature of Indigenous languages. "It's something different and especially to round the ...

ABC Local
Australia Day dividing Australians and excluding Indigenous people, says Professor Chris Sarra
ABC Local
"Regrettably I don't think Australia Day, and what it represents, is a day that most people in the Aboriginal community want to celebrate," says Professor Chris Sarra, one of Malcolm Turnbull's key Indigenous advisers. "I say that mindful that you get ...

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The Guardian
Celebrating Australia Day on 26 January like dancing on graves, says reconciliation body
The Guardian
It is “impossible” for Australia Day to be an inclusive holiday while it remains held on 26 January, Reconciliation Australia has said. The independent organisation, which is the national expert body on reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Most don't care when Australia Day is held, poll findsThe Sydney Morning Herald
Holiday hubris getting in the way of indigenous issuesThe Australian
Heidi Anderson: Indigenous suicide rates out of controlPerthNow
Daily Mail
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Herald Sun
The Greens leader is trying to divide Australians
The Australian
It's an appropriate national day because it is arguably the most significant day in our country's history for indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. We seem able to manage a degree of duality with how we regard Anzac Day, most assuredly a military ...
James Campbell: Controversy over Australia Day catches Labor between the Greens and the CoalitionHerald Sun
Australia Day: Greens to use local council numbers to lead #changethedate pushInfosurhoy

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Brisbane Times
Holiday hubris getting in the way of indigenous issues
The Australian
But Burney has an idea to break the Australia Day impasse. RN Breakfast, yesterday: Burney: Australia should have a national public holiday that celebrates, that lifts up, that recognises First Nations peoples, First Nations stories ... Hamish McDonald ...
Most don't care when Australia Day is held, poll findsBrisbane Times

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Daily Telegraph
Black-on-black hate holds back progress
Daily Telegraph
Some may read that last sentence and think: “Yes, I know the racism Aboriginal people face is bad.” However, the hate and slander I'm talking about here is that which they receive from other Aboriginal people, and therefore, is not considered racism ...

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Herald Sun
James Campbell: Controversy over Australia Day catches Labor between the Greens and the Coalition
Herald Sun
Anyone could see that from the moment the ABC decided to side with them by sacking the Hottest 100 from January 26, it would be game on. This week the Greens leader Richard Di Natale upped the ante saying the day represented dispossession, theft, and ...
Australia Day: Greens to use local council numbers to lead #changethedate pushInfosurhoy

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Newcastle Herald
Australia Day's wretched past for Anglo/Celtic people seems to have been forgotten
Newcastle Herald
OTHER OPTIONS: There is much to celebrate about our rich past and great nation, but January 26 is far from the most appropriate day to do it. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers. AUSTRALIA Day is not just painful for indigenous people. The move to change the ...

SBS
These giant bunya nuts are a key Indigenous food as well as snacks for dinosaurs
SBS
Each January at the Australian Botanic Garden in Sydney's Mount Annan, the bunya pine trees begin to drop their cones. If you don't think this is a big deal, you should know that they used to be dinosaur food millions of years ago - bunya pines have ...

Gippsland Times
Hidden Perth: The story behind Australia's first free colony
Gippsland Times
There's no plaque outside 57 Murray Street in Perth's CBD, nothing to record the significant role it played in Australian history. Yet had you visited this same building anytime between 1915 and 1940, you'd have witnessed a steady stream of Indigenous ...

The Guardian
'Mob has always been there for me': Indigenous drag performers to lead Midsumma pride march
The Guardian
On 26 January, while the country celebrates, mourns or ignores Australia Day, Zac Collins-Widders will march through Melbourne in defence of his Aboriginality. Two days later, he will lead a second march at Midsumma festival in celebration of his ...

Herald Sun
A reason to change the date of Australia Day
Herald Sun
Isabel Lander and Zena Ross celebrate Australia Day Celebrations at Wagstaffe in NSW last year. (Pic: Mark Scott). Do they genuinely feel that the day Arthur Philip landed with his ships of convicts at Sydney Cove is the only proper option? I wonder ...

The Australian
Turnbull urges Shorten to defend Australia Day
The Australian
“The overwhelming majority of Australians, the vast majority, believe that Australia Day should be celebrated on the day it always has been celebrated, the 26th of January.” Linda Burney proposes replacing Queen's birthday with indigenous celebration ...
Linda Burney calls for Indigenous holiday as she criticises 'divisive' change the date movementSBS
Linda Burney warns Greens push to change Australia Day 'more divisive than helpful'The Guardian
Flags should be flown at half-mast on Australia Day, Indigenous MP says9news.com.au
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SBS (blog)
OPINION: Political divisiveness happens every time Indigenous people are the topic of national debate
SBS (blog)
He also talked of the disadvantage in Aboriginal communities and ongoing injustices of Aboriginal people. We also had this discussion promptly shut down by visibly uncomfortable interviewees, rather than giving the weight it deserved. Probably the ...

The West Australian
Pilbara community shows way with pilot projects
The West Australian
Indigenous consultant Peter Clements, who has a background in renewable energy projects, said the facilities were seen as a pilot because of their simple operating technology using remote sensing of data generated on site. “The project is within a ...

Your morning Briefing
The Australian
Labor frontbencher Linda Burney has proposed replacing the Queen's Birthday with a national holiday to celebrate Australia's indigenous heritage and says she finds it “difficult” to be involved in Australia Day celebrations, despite maintaining that ...

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ABC Online
Australia Day dividing Australians and excluding Indigenous people, says Professor Chris Sarra
ABC Online
"Regrettably I don't think Australia Day, and what it represents, is a day that most people in the Aboriginal community want to celebrate," says Professor Chris Sarra, one of Malcolm Turnbull's key Indigenous advisors. "I say that mindful that you get ...