Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Westfield Matildas duo share importance of Melbourne City's Indigenous recognition events
Matildas (press release)
City's Westfield W-League and Hyundai A-League teams will come together at AAMI Park on Sunday to acknowledge the original owners on the site of the stadium, the Wurundjeri tribe, as part of a broader education of players, staff and fans on Aboriginal ...

The Australian
Boss offers workers extra day off to boycott Australia Day
The Australian
Mr Beath said the company was privately owned so it had every right to make a political statement and noted there was no pressure on staff to work on Australia Day. Mr Tudge, a Victorian MP, said the initiative would make “no difference” to advancing ...

Daily Telegraph
Kevin Donnelly: A lesson in history
Daily Telegraph
After the Myall Creek massacre in 1838 seven Europeans were hanged after being convicted for killing Aborigines. And those who condemn British settlement should also realise that it is only because of our legal system that terra nullius was overturned ...

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The West Australian
Human rights praise for same-sex marriage
The West Australian
Human Rights Watch was pleased with a royal commission's recommendations aimed at ending systemic abuse against children in detention in the Northern Territory. However, it was scathing of dramatically disproportionate incarceration rates among ...
Australia praised for same-sex marriageSBS

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Human rights praise for same-sex marriage
SBS
Human Rights Watch was pleased with a royal commission's recommendations aimed at ending systemic abuse against children in detention in the Northern Territory. However, it was scathing of dramatically disproportionate incarceration rates among ...

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Community Newspaper Group
UWA historian suggests moving Australia Day to May 9 to celebrate federation
Community Newspaper Group
“Since 1938 however, Aboriginal Australians have pointed out that, from their perspective, the arrival of the British is not a cause for celebration: on the contrary, it ushered in an era of dispossession,” she said. “We now know that indigenous ...

The Advocate
Why we should change the date of Australia Day
The Advocate
ABOUT this time last year an Aboriginal woman made headlines with a Facebook post opposing a change to Australia Day. An Alice Springs councillor and campaigner against family violence, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price pulled no punches when she pointed out ...
Councils should keep out of Australia Day debate, say WA mayorsThe West Australian
'Time to change the date': Isabel Lucas joins Greens Australia Day campaignSBS
Last Post, January 18The Australian
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Gladstone Observer
Local Indigenous leader defies The Greens on Australia Day
Gladstone Observer
AUSTRALIA Day, once the domain of backyard barbeques, cricket matches and hanging out at the beach has become another political football among calls to change the date. But local Indigenous spokeswoman, Cherissma Blackman says changing the date won't ...
Becoming a republic could solve Australia Day dispute, frontbencher Ken Wyatt saysABC Online
Celebrating Australia Day on 26 January like dancing on graves ...The Guardian
Australia Day: 'British settlement a good thing': AbbottThe Australian
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Herald Sun
Musicians and Spotify distance themselves from Cory Bernardi
Herald Sun
His No. 7 selection, Goanna's Solid Rock, is a song that author Shane Howard says was “meant to inspire Australians to look deeper into the historical racism and injustices suffered by Aboriginal Australia at the hands of Settler Culture since 1788 ...

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Green Left Weekly
Exhaustive history of colonial Western Australia's extreme anti-Aboriginal crimes
Green Left Weekly
Chris Owen has produced an exhaustive history of colonial Western Australia pastoralists and the police who served their interests in the Kimberley region. It shows that, at best, they considered Aboriginal people as convenient slave labour and at ...

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Vale Denis Walker, Aboriginal freedom fighter
Green Left Weekly
Denis Walker, an Aboriginal rights activist and freedom fighter who died on December 4 at the age of 71, has been described as a trailblazer, revolutionary and a giant in the Aboriginal movement. A Noonuccal man from Minjerribah, Stradbroke Island, in ...

The Australian
Australia Day: Bill Shorten dismisses call for separate holiday for indigenous
The Australian
Bill Shorten has dismissed his indigenous frontbencher Linda Burney's suggestion of a separate holiday to celebrate Australia's indigenous heritage, saying Australia already has enough public holidays. The comment cams as the Opposition Leader broke ...
Ken Wyatt wants to change the date of Australia Day - when we become a republicThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous recognition in our Constitution matters – and will need greater political will to achieve
The Conversation AU
It requires a referendum to amend the Australian Constitution to receive majority support in a majority of states. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's view is that for a proposal to succeed it would require “minimal or at least tepid opposition”. The ...

The West Australian
Councils should keep out of Australia Day debate, say WA mayors
The West Australian
As the Greens revealed it had enlisted star power to help in its anti-Australia Day campaign, WA councils said they should focus on delivering services to ratepayers and leave decisions about changing the date of Australia Day to the Federal Government ...
Holiday hubris getting in the way of indigenous issuesThe Australian

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NEWS.com.au
'Important' change to Southern Cross recognises Aboriginal astronomy
NEWS.com.au
The new names were selected from cultures around the world, including Chinese, Coptic, Hindu, Mayan, South African and Australian Aboriginal. The Southern Cross is not only a well known constellation, but a symbol of Australia.Source:News Corp ...

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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 ...

The Conversation AU
Explainer: the evidence for the Tasmanian genocide
The Conversation AU
At a public meeting in Hobart in the late 1830s, Solicitor-General Alfred Stephen, later Chief Justice of New South Wales, shared with the assembled crowd his solution for dealing with “the Aboriginal problem”. If the colony could not protect its ...

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
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Brisbane Times
Most don't care when Australia Day is held, poll finds
Brisbane Times
Only 37 per cent of people agreed the current date was offensive to Indigenous people, even though many Indigenous leaders have long been calling for change. Nearly half of people – 46 per cent – disagreed the date was problematic. Asked if Australia ...
Holiday hubris getting in the way of indigenous issuesThe Australian

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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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