Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Indigenous man walks from WA to ACT
The Australian
Clinton Pryor will descend on Canberra on Sunday morning, a year after setting out from Perth on his walk for justice. Thousands are expected to join him as he marches down Canberra's main avenue to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy at Old Parliament House.

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Indigenous man walks from WA to ACT
SBS
He plans to raise awareness of indigenous issues during his meetings in Canberra, having met with Aboriginal elders and community leaders across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria and NSW during his walk.

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The Times
History denied is justice delayed
Green Left Weekly
If you accept that celebrating the date as Australia Day is hurtful to many Indigenous people because it marked the beginning of their violent dispossession, then it follows there are some important people who sanctioned or participated in that violence.
Australia rewrites history with campaign against colonial statuesThe Times

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The West Australian
Awards recognition for life and work
The West Australian
Ms Abdullah has worked at the Kimberley Community Legal Services for about 30 years and was honoured with an Order of Australia Medal earlier this year. She has worked with families embroiled in royal commissions and been an advocate for Aboriginal ...

Riverine Herald
Hooray for Australia Day in Echuca-Moama
Riverine Herald
Campaspe Shire mayor Adrian Weston said the issue had not been discussed and there would be no changes to the current Australia Day celebrations across the shire. ''Council has a strong relationship with local aboriginal groups across the shire,'' he said.

NT News
'Can't rewrite history': NT statue debate
NT News
In Australia, the national conversation began innocuously in August, when ABC's indigenous Affairs editor Stan Grant floated the idea of changing — or, in his argument, correcting — the plaque on a monument of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park.

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The Australian
Revisionist plans will die in a ditch, says Barnaby Joyce
The Australian
On Monday, the Opposition Leader said an extra plaque should be placed on the statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park, which proclaims that Cook discovered Australia, to recognise that indigenous Australians inhabited the continent before ...

The Australian
Coming home to Mother Earth
The Australian
Landy-Ariel is an excellent teacher, for where I can see nothing around us but modern development, she senses Mother Earth acutely. After all, indigenous Australians are the oldest culture in the world, she reminds me; their relationship to the earth ...

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The Canberra Times
Benjamin Law: Australia's literacy rate is shocking - and potentially dangerous
The Canberra Times
Some years back, an OECD study surveyed Australians aged between 15 and 74 and rated them on their literacy skills. The results were shocking: 43.7 per cent had below-proficiency-level literacy. If you're young and Indigenous, the chances of you ...

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The Advertiser
Bruce Chatwin's 1980s bestseller The Songlines gets a bucketing by SA Museum anthropologist
The Advertiser
But anthropologists in Australia have been caught between welcoming the book for popularising Aboriginal culture around the world, and criticising it for its misunderstandings. Jones, who is based at the SA Museum and has an international reputation ...

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White nationalists threaten local councils over Australia Day changes
The New Daily
Adding fuel to the debate on Australia's history, prominent indigenous journalist Stan Grant last week said the inscription on the statue of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park (above left) should be changed because it perpetuated the “damaging myth ...

Mandurah Mail
Mandurah's Assumption Primary School receives grant to create Aboriginal mural
Mandurah Mail
The school will engage an Aboriginal artist to work with the students in the design and delivery of the artwork, which would be used to promote and teach the students about Australia's first culture. “We are a multi-cultural school community and are ...

Herald Sun
Moonee Valley Council says it has no plans to stop citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day
Herald Sun
The council's reconciliation policy includes a commitment based on principles of respect, recognition and relationships in which it recognises: “the past injustices inflicted on Australia's' Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities by this and ...

The Australian
Albo denies criticising Shorten on Cook statue
The Australian
On Monday, Mr Shorten said an extra plaque should be placed on the statue, which proclaims that Cook discovered Australia, to recognise that indigenous Australians inhabited the continent before European settlement. Mr Albanese responded by saying ...

ABC Online
Cooktown wants monuments to mark first reconciliation between Indigenous and European people in 1770
ABC Online
Cooktown is planning to erect a series of statues to commemorate the first recorded reconciliation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia in 1770. Alberta Hornsby, a Bama historian and Guugu Yimithirr woman, is part of the team behind the ...

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The Australian
Indigenous history lessons 'capitulation to the left': Abbott
The Australian
The Australian revealed on Wednesday the government had commissioned Melbourne University to devise resources to enhance teaching on pre-settlement indigenous history under the leadership of prominent indigenous academic Marcia Langton.

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Wattle Day: Could a new, golden Australia Day bloom in the springtime?
Brisbane Times
The wattle has been the annual herald of new life to Australians from the first Indigenous people, who used the tree for all manner of purposes over tens of thousands of years, to those who have adopted the green and gold – the foliage and the bloom ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: Indigenous population in NSW and Victoria doubles
The Sydney Morning Herald
The number of Aboriginal Australians living in NSW and Victoria has doubled since 2001.

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The West Australian
Child ear disease a crisis: specialist
The West Australian
In his published report, Dr Lannigan said Australia's indigenous population had the highest rate of chronic ear disease of any indigenous people on the planet, mainly because of socio-economic factors. He has been visiting the Goldfields region for ...

ABC Online
Northern Territory commits to changing racist place names
ABC Online
"You wouldn't for a minute have a statue of an enemy, yet Aboriginal people are constantly being told to get over it." Dr Richards said he believed Australians in general had a problem with facing up to colonial history. "At this stage, people are ...
NT government pushes to rename racist place names after Queensland's moveSBS

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