Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Port Macquarie News
Is Wattle Day the answer to Australia Day date concerns?
Port Macquarie News
Aboriginal people object to the celebration of the events of 26 January and many cannot celebrate a day that is the anniversary of an invasion. That was the strong message in the major Aboriginal protest marches that accompanied the 1938 and 1988 ...
LETTER: Time to move Australia Day to National Wattle DayBundaberg News Mail

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Bundaberg News Mail
LETTER: Time to move Australia Day to National Wattle Day
Bundaberg News Mail
Today very many non-Aboriginal Australians are sensitive to that message - a clear indicator of the progress the Australian community is making in our shared journey of reconciliation. Australia Day is not set in stone, we have adapted it as we have ...

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ABC Online
NT Government criticised for giving top Aboriginal affairs job to former MLA
ABC Online
The Northern Territory's Labor Government has come under fire for giving a former politician who was abandoned by remote Aboriginal voters in 2016 a job as a top Indigenous affairs adviser to the Chief Minister. Lynne Walker lost the seat of Nhulunbuy ...

The Guardian
Invasion Day rally: where protests will be held across Australia
The Guardian
At the same time, the Invasion Day Rally, organised by FIRE (Fighting In Resistance Equally) grassroots Indigenous activists, will leave The Block in Redfern at 10am and march toward Victoria Park, where the Yabun festival is held. The Yabun festival ...
My grandfather protested against Australia Day in 1938. We'll never ...ABC Online
'About the future and the past': NSW Labor to ink treaty with Indigenous AustraliansThe Sydney Morning Herald
Australia Day? We've got bigger fish to fryNational Indigenous Times
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Aboriginal Australians should be considered and celebrated everyday
Moree Champion
There is a growing uneasiness around this week in Australia, particularly around the 26th of January and its status as the national day. Some say it's time to unite while others say it can't be done on a day which is associated with much hurt for the ...

Aboriginal Australians should be considered and celebrated everyday
Moree Champion
There is a growing uneasiness around this week in Australia, particularly around the 26th of January and its status as the national day. Some say it's time to unite while others say it can't be done on a day which is associated with much hurt for the ...

The Cairns Post
Australia Day critics wrong to perpetuate Invasion Day myth
The Cairns Post
Writing for WA Today, academic Sherry Sufi pointed out this week that if the UN saw white settlement of Australia as an invasion, Aborigines would have no claims to Native Title because of “right of conquest” laws. “Had Australia actually been invaded ...

ABC Online
Government accused of 'hiding the truth' after ignoring questions on Indigenous affairs
ABC Online
The department is responsible for most Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander government programs, and the majority of its 2,300 staff are focussed on Indigenous affairs. The department took about 100 questions on non-Indigenous issues, of which about ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
'About the future and the past': NSW Labor to ink treaty with Indigenous Australians
The Sydney Morning Herald
"Treaties are a practical way for New South Wales to deepen Aboriginal participation in the economy and community." Treaties were established early in other British colonial outposts such as New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Legal battles over ...
NSW Labor wants treaty with AboriginalsSBS

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Re-enactment pageant sparked 'day of mourning' protest
NEWS.com.au
After 150,000 spectators watched the official parade pass along George St, Ferguson and Cooper led about 100 Aborigines on a march to Australian Hall function centre on Elizabeth St, Surry Hills. They launched a manifesto, Aborigines Claim Citizen ...

Daily Telegraph
The Aboriginal kids boxing with the 'Guv' David Hurley
Daily Telegraph
The Tribal Warrior program was launched by local Koori elder Shane Phillips and Redfern's police commander Luke Freudenstein in 2009 to empower and provide purpose to the area's youth. And it has worked. Mr Hurley at an Australia Day lunch in Sydney ...

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Herald Sun
Victorian Opposition promise new laws, if elected, to force councils to recognise Australia Day
Herald Sun
Opposition scrutiny of government spokesman Tim Smith said: “Last year the Premier sat by and failed to condemn the councils that opposed Australia Day, now's his chance to finally stand up to the Greens.” Opposition local government spokesman David ...

NT leader calls on Aboriginals to forgive
NEWS.com.au
Speaking at a debate about Australia Day at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney on Wednesday, Ms Price recalled the 1928 Coniston massacre in the Northern Territory in which 60 indigenous people were killed - some of them her family. The ...

The Australian
Push to fly Aboriginal flag on Sydney icon
The Australian
"If it's so important to put up then why not just leave it up there?" She has collected more than 64,000 signatures on a Change.org petition and many supporters are shocked that the flag is taken down, she said. Ms Toka wants to discuss the matter with ...

ABC Online
Kalgoorlie firefighters pelted with bricks and rocks on the job
ABC Online
Firefighters in Western Australia's Goldfields will no longer attend fires at an Aboriginal community without a police escort after being pelted with bricks and rocks while on a job. Officers from Kalgoorlie Fire Station were responding to a fire at ...

The West Australian
Change the date talks urged
The West Australian
The issue of celebrating the arrival of the First Fleet of British ships in New South Wales in 1788 is a contentious subject with the day associated with picnics at the beach and fireworks in the modern era but also the start of British colonisation ...

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Rallies and marches on track for Friday
National Indigenous Times
Speakers at Redfern are set to include National Congress of Australia's First Peoples co-chair Rod Little and Aboriginal Elder and pastor Ray Minniecon. Speakers at Hyde Park will include congress co-chair Jackie Huggins, former Human Rights Commission ...

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The Guardian
Massacres and protest: Australia Day's undeniable history
The Guardian
One hundred years later, on 26 January 1938, a date by then called Australia Day, a group of 100 mostly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, led by the Aborigines Progressive Association, met at Australian Hall in Sydney for a day of mourning ...
Australia Day? We've got bigger fish to fryNational Indigenous Times
BuzzFeed launches 'What They Don't Teach You' documentary series ahead of Australia DayMuMbrella
Australia Day debate: It's a date with the pastSunraysia Daily
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National Indigenous Times
Australia Day? We've got bigger fish to fry
National Indigenous Times
A leader representing some of Australia's most isolated communities says there are more important issues facing Aboriginal people than the date of Australia Day. Marra Worra Worra chief executive Dickie Bedford will travel more than 4800km from remote ...
Massacres and protest: Australia Day's undeniable historyThe Guardian
BuzzFeed launches 'What They Don't Teach You' documentary series ahead of Australia DayMuMbrella

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Geelong Advertiser
Corangamite MP Sarah Henderson slams Greens over Australia Day date debate
Geelong Advertiser
But Greens leader Richard Di Natale said Ms Henderson may be missing the point of the ongoing push to move the date to one more considerate of Aboriginal history. Ms Henderson said the Greens campaign to change the date of Australia Day was ...

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