Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Toowoomba Chronicle
Australia Day is about our horrible past, so why change?
Toowoomba 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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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 ...

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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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
For several years, the Fraser Coast's Aboriginal community has marched in protest on January 26 - not Australia Day to them, but Invasion Day. For Mrs Gala, the date is divisive. "It's not my celebration," she said. The date marks the anniversary of ...

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 ...

Welcome to Country: why would anyone oppose it?
The Australian
In my experience the sneerers have not grown up with this tradition of indigenous respect; they're made uncomfortable by it. Welcomes will be said across the nation this Australia Day, yet some local governments don't approve. Sydney's Liberal-majority ...

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 ...

SBS
2017 a 'dismal year for Indigenous rights': Human Rights Watch
SBS
2017 was a 'particularly dismal' year for Indigenous peoples' rights, according to the Australian Director of Human Rights Watch Elaine Pearson. Once again the country is being called out for its incarceration of Indigenous peoples, particularly for ...
Human rights praise for same-sex marriageThe West Australian

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SBS
Man escaped NT jail after given keys to 'play with', incident not reported for 9 months
SBS
There's no denying that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are Australia's most disadvantaged group across the country. Indigenous people make up 27 per cent of the national prison population, yet only about three per cent of the overall ...

The Age
Aboriginal MP receives vile threats over Australia Day flag call
The Age
Last year the government also stripped the cities of Yarra and Darebin of the power to hold citizenship ceremonies after their Greens-led councils voted to stop holding them on January 26. Aboriginal federal MPs Linda Burney​ and Ken Wyatt have also ...
Nigel Scullion: No Indigenous person tells me they want Australia Day changedThe Guardian
Nigel Scullion says Indigenous people haven't raised Australia Day ...ABC Online
Australia Day should not become ammunition in the culture warsThe Sydney Morning Herald
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BuzzFeed News
Aboriginal LGBTI People Say They Need Funding, Research, And Solidarity
BuzzFeed News
"Aboriginal history has to be acknowledged by LGBTI people," she said. "You can't escape from it." She recalled to the room a conversation she'd had with a friend, Roger McKay, at the Sydney Mardi Gras parade in 1982. "I remember standing there in ...

Australia Day : it's complicated
University News: The University of Western Australia
Then Australia's landing at Gallipoli earlier that year was to launch the commemoration of another national day: Anzac Day on April 25. Other colonies commemorated their own imperial foundations. In Western Australia, Foundation Day on June 1 ...

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Brag Magazine
There is nothing to celebrate about Invasion Day
Brag Magazine
January 26 is, and always has been, Invasion Day. It marks the day the British colonised this country and brought with them the exploitative and oppressive practices that made the British Empire so barbaric, yet so profitable. It's an annual punch in ...

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Brag Magazine
There is nothing to celebrate about Invasion Day
Brag Magazine
January 26 is, and always has been, Invasion Day. It marks the day the British colonised this country and brought with them the exploitative and oppressive practices that made the British Empire so barbaric, yet so profitable. It's an annual punch in ...

The Australian Financial Review
Australia Day should be more like Anzac Day: Wesley Enoch
The Australian Financial Review
He said Mr Turnbull should lead a process whereby Australia Day came to involve a ritual of some sort, followed by whatever other activities people chose. "Anzac Day has pathways," he said. "It has a dawn service, it has a march and then an element of ...

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The Guardian
Nigel Scullion: No Indigenous person tells me they want Australia Day changed
The Guardian
The Indigenous Affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, says no Indigenous Australian has told him the date of Australia Day should be changed other than a single government adviser. Speaking on the ABC's AM program on Friday, Scullion was asked about ...

ABC Online
Nigel Scullion says Indigenous people haven't raised Australia Day date issue with him
ABC Online
"This is not something that comes up at all. "I can tell you there would be no-one, as a fact." Senator Scullion is a senator for the Northern Territory and has held the Indigenous Affairs portfolio since 2013. He acknowledged Indigenous "culture was ...
What our leaders say about Australia Day – and where did it start, anyway?The Guardian
Australia Day: Date never brought up by indigenous people says Nigel ScullionThe Australian
Why we should change the date of Australia DayThe Advocate
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