Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Daily Liberal
Eye on Dubbo | Australia Day debate is in full swing
Daily Liberal
The Australia Day ceremonies I have attended in Dubbo blend our three cultural traditions in a way that enhances our sense of national identity. We start our proceedings marking respects to the traditional people of the land including Aboriginal ...

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Daily Liberal
Eye on Dubbo | Australia Day debate is in full swing
Daily Liberal
The Australia Day ceremonies I have attended in Dubbo blend our three cultural traditions in a way that enhances our sense of national identity. We start our proceedings marking respects to the traditional people of the land including Aboriginal ...

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The Age
Matthew Guy vows to teach Victorian students 'Australian values'
The Age
It took aim at the three cross-curriculum priorities set out in the Victorian and Australian curriculum that are embedded in subjects when relevant – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Asia and Australia's engagement with ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Perhaps we've got problems as deep as the US
The Sydney Morning Herald
And how is a request that Australia respectfully consider an alternative date when we might all join in a celebration something that "would divide us". Aboriginal communities witness parties on this date as celebrating the crushing of their people and ...

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The Canberra Times
ACT has highest rate of indigenous child care, protection reports in Australia
The Canberra Times
A new report shows the ACT had the second-highest rate of indigenous children the subject of child protection orders in the country. Photo: JOHN DONEGAN/Fairfax. That compared to a rate of just 46.3 for non-indigenous children in the ACT, and the next ...

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Brisbane Times
ACT has highest rate of indigenous child care, protection reports in Australia
Brisbane Times
That compared to a rate of just 46.3 for non-indigenous children in the ACT, and the next highest rate for reports about indigenous children, at 320.1 for every 1000 Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander children was in the Northern Territory. The ...

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NEWS.com.au
What life was like for Aboriginal people during colonisation
NEWS.com.au
Despite this, the brutality continued for many years, with some Australians protesting at the indiscriminate killing of the Aboriginal people, which in some areas was attributed to “the brutality of the Native Police and some of the settlers, who, in ...

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NEWS.com.au
What life was like for Aboriginal people during colonisation
NEWS.com.au
One act of violence actually happened on what's now known as Australia Day — January 26, 1838. A commandant of the NSW Mounted Police and his men massacred up to 50 Aboriginal people in retaliation for the killing of stockmen. They also encouraged ...

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The Age
Same-sex marriage ranked Australia's most historic event
The Age
Kevin Rudd hugs guests after his apology to Indigenous Australians. Photo: Gary Ramage. For Mr Pennay, the most historic event to shape his lifetime was the Apollo 11 moon landing. "I had the day off school and watched it on television," he said. "I ...
How we see momentous events is how we see ourselvesThe Australian

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Same-sex marriage ranked Australia's most historic event
The Age
Kevin Rudd hugs guests after his apology to Indigenous Australians. Photo: Gary Ramage. For Mr Pennay, the most historic event to shape his lifetime was the Apollo 11 moon landing. "I had the day off school and watched it on television," he said. "I ...

Herald Sun
Rita Panahai: Celebrities, just stick to the day job
Herald Sun
Despite the years of media coverage painting the day as deeply divisive, only 6 per cent of Australians felt negatively towards Australia Day. Sadly, it's that 6 per cent who are given disproportionate coverage in the media. Among migrants, support for ...

Herald Sun
Koorie Youth Council keeps Invasion Day rally under wraps
Herald Sun
Organiser Tarneen Onus-Williams, who is also an executive of the council, today labelled 3AW radio host Neil Mitchell a racist for challenging the decision. Invasion Day rally organiser Tarneen Onus-Williams. Picture: David Geraghty / The Australian ...
'Invasion Day' protest organiser refuses to answer questions, calls Neil Mitchell a racist3AW

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Community Newspaper Group
Indigenous MP Ken Wyatt says Australian republic is inevitable
Community Newspaper Group
INDIGENOUS federal frontbencher Ken Wyatt says the debate over a new date for Australia Day will stop when the nation becomes a republic, a change he suggests is inevitable within the next 10 years. He believes the momentum for a republic would be ...
How We Came To Understand The Hypocrisy Of Australia DayJunkee
Anzac Day more important than January 26, says McGowanThe Australian
Invading Aboriginals Was a 'Good Thing' For Everybody Says Former Australian LeaderNewsweek

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The Guardian (blog)
Australia Day's barbecue stopper is the same every year | Paul ...
The Guardian (blog)
By the time of the first formal protest in 1938, 26 January had already long been an Indigenous day of mourning.
Indigenous MP Ken Wyatt says Australian republic is inevitable ...Community Newspaper Group
If Indigenous voices can't even be heard on Australia Day, what ...UNSW Newsroom
Inner Sydney leaders weigh in to Australia Day debateDaily Telegraph
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Stars of Sweet Country embrace the Western
The Australian
"When you see this film in another country, people have heard about Australia and maybe seen it but when you go to the landscape as it's presented there it's extraordinary," he said. "And then you've got our indigenous people presented there and most ...

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Your noon Briefing
The Australian
Indigenous leader Jackie Huggins has hit back at Tony Abbott's claim that indigenous people have benefited from the arrival of the First Fleet, saying the British who settled in Australia benefited from the dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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ABC Online
Australia Day should be January 1 — the symbolism is perfect
ABC Online
Australian federation was marred by the exclusion of Aboriginal people and the enactment of the White Australia policy. Yet by this document, Australia was conceived as a democracy. Citizens were given the power through the ballot box to change the ...

SBS
My Australia: Linda Burney - 'I grew up not knowing my Aboriginal family'
SBS
'My Australia' is a special SBS News series exploring cultural heritage and identity, and asking what it means to be Australian in 2018. Linda Burney made history when she became the first Indigenous woman to serve in the House of Representatives in ...

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Independent Australia
Australia Day: Changing the date changes nothing
Independent Australia
But as the experience of Canada, New Zealand and the U.S. shows, treaties or settlement agreements with indigenous peoples are mirages when it comes to addressing the consequences of settler colonialism and its ongoing genocide. What can be done? The ...

Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald letters to the editor Tuesday January 23 2018
Newcastle Herald
MOVING Australia Day from 26th January would increase unity and reduce division, Jeff Corbett ('The division is outdated', Herald, 20/1). The injustices inflicted on Aboriginal Australians, which began on January 26 1788, have continued down through ...

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