Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The West Australian
WA's Australian of the Year continues to break down barriers
The West Australian
Tracy Westerman learnt early how to be a strong, proud Aboriginal. Now WA's Australian of the Year is teaching others to be the same. It looks like an old passport — those hard, fold-able ones you might have seen floating around in your parents' or ...

The Northern Daily Leader
Australia Day: Why our destiny requires another date to celebrate
The Northern Daily Leader
Aware this symbol of colonisation would impact on the Indigenous community, First Fleet organisers sought advice from leaders, including Charles Perkins and Sydney activist Burnum Burnum, aka Harry Penrith, who planted the Aboriginal flag on an English ...

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The Australian
Greens MP receives death threats over half-mast flag push on Australia Day
The Australian
Some of the threats were signed 'Real Australians', Ms Thorpe said. “But I know these people do not represent the majority of people in our great country,” she wrote. read more; The hypocrisy is breathtaking. “I know that we are better than this.” Ms ...
Death threats levelled at Vic Greens MPThe West Australian

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The Queensland Times
Why Australia Day should stay as it is
The Queensland Times
January 26 is approaching and that means another round of the Australia Day debate. I'll be straight up - I think Australia Day should remain where it is. Now before the left unleashes its moral outrage, let me tell you why. The argument is that the ...
Many assist Australia Day date change from January 26Luxora Leader

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Newcastle Herald
Jeff Corbett: Australia Day and outdated division
Newcastle Herald
It is especially not a celebration of the Australia that existed before January 26, 1788, and a good reason is that there was then no nation of Australia. It is hardly a celebration of the injustices inflicted on the Aboriginal people for many years ...

ABC Online
Time to 'consign to history' the relics of segregation in WA as work begins on Aboriginal reserve plan
ABC Online
They are the rundown, often squalid legacy of segregation; shanty-towns clustered on the outskirts of prosperous regional towns. Three thousand people live in Aboriginal town-based reserves in Western Australia, with residents, Aboriginal leaders and ...

NT News
NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner puts support behind Australia Day on January 26
NT News
Although acknowledging the date of the national holiday was divisive, Mr Gunner said Australia Day should be about unity. “January 26 must meaningfully acknowledge the entire story of our nation. This means more than acknowledgement of country and a ...

Courier Mail
Johnathan Thurston's daughters have broadened his vision for the future
Courier Mail
“I'd also like to see a change in early childhood learning for our culture and I think it's a national issue making sure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families are accessing kindies and early childhood learning.” Thurston said he was recently ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia Day: Why our destiny requires another date to celebrate
The Sydney Morning Herald
Perkins, who took part in the 1965 Freedom Rides and was a public face of Aboriginal Australia during the 1967 referendum campaign, said: "Of course you should re-enact the First Fleet as you white fellas have gotta have your own Dreamtime because if ...

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The Canberra Times
'Daggers drawn' in Australia Day debate as Canberrans reveal mixed feelings on date change
The Canberra Times
Ms Munro said it may take a few more generations before Australians grasp what Australia Day means to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. ACT Australian of the Year and founder of Darkies Design, Dion Devow, said he was more interested in closing ...

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The Mercury
Is Australia Day a day to party, or to protest?
The Mercury
Reconciliation Tasmania co-chair Bill Lawson has decided to down barbecue tools on January 26, breaking with a long-held tradition in his own backyard. Aboriginal leader Heather Sculthorpe will leave her Kingston Beach home early to escape the flag ...

Indigenous MP Lidia Thorpe sends kids away after 'Australia Day' threats of death and gang rape
The New Daily
Ms Thorpe told The New Daily she stood by her calls for Australians to fly the flag at half-mast on Australia Day in recognition that many Indigenous Australians regard the day the First Fleet arrived as an invasion. The Greens have advocated for ...

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The Advertiser
Is it Australia Day or Invasion Day? Aboriginal leaders respond to change the date debate
The Advertiser
Activist. Former Chairperson of the SA Aboriginal Justice Advocacy Committee and Chairperson of the National Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee for over 10 years. FOR Tauto Sansbury, there is no room for debate as the answer is obvious. “Change the ...
Piers Akerman: People seeking to change Australia Day date display hatred of our countryDaily Telegraph
John Bertrand hits out at councils for banning Australia DayHerald Sun
Rex Gardner: We should unite on Australia DayThe 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 ...

The Advertiser
Lainie Anderson: Forget Cory Bernardi's top 100 songs - check out mine
The Advertiser
Anyway, Bernardi (or a clever spin doctor, at least) has revealed an alternative Hottest 100 playlist in protest at Triple J's “politically correct” decision to change the date of its hugely popular countdown of the nation's top 100 Australian songs ...

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Port Macquarie News
Are you celebrating world religion day on Sunday? | graph
Port Macquarie News
Sikhism is in fact the fastest-growing religion in Australia since 2011 (74 per cent increase) ahead of Hinduism (60 per cent increase). Other Spiritual beliefs practised by Australians include Middle Eastern religions (Baha'i, Mandaean, Druse ...

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 ...

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The Mercury
Rex Gardner: We should unite on Australia Day
The Mercury
Whatever day we choose to celebrate Australia Day will not change the painful history of European settlement and the slaughter both sides inflicted on each other. Opinions have been flying left right and centre around Australia in recent weeks, with ...

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The Age
Aboriginal MP hits back against vile threats over Australia Day flag call
The Age
Greens MP Lidia Thorpe says she is shaken but refusing to be cowed by death and rape threats she received this week after calling for Australian flags to be flown at half-mast on Australia Day. Victoria's first female Aboriginal MP took to social media ...
Nigel Scullion says Indigenous people haven't raised Australia Day date issue with himABC Online
Celebrating Australia Day on 26 January like dancing on graves, says reconciliation bodyThe Guardian
Greens' focus is not on Aborigines, says Sue GordonThe Australian
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The West Australian
Former Australian of the Year Fiona Stanley urges Australia Day date change to boost health
The West Australian
Former Australian of the Year Fiona Stanley says changing the date of Australia Day would have an “almost direct”, positive impact on Aboriginal health. Joining the push to shift the national holiday from January 26, the Telethon Kids Institute patron ...