Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The West Australian
Pilbara Aboriginal tourism ready, waiting for global exposure
The West Australian
Australia's North West Tourism chief executive Glen Chidlow spoke of the campaign to “soften” the perception of the Pilbara, by promoting the outstanding tourism opportunities, in particular the Karijini, Murujuga and Millstream national parks ...

The Australian
Indigenous teachings without British, western history a 'capitulation' to the Left: Abbott
The Australian
“It's a history of which all Australians should be proud and I imagine most children would be thrilled to learn more about the indigenous history of their local area and our nation.” Education Minister Simon Birmingham said yesterday Senator Scullion's ...

The Conversation AU
Lasers and dung beetles: the 2017 Eureka Prizes celebrate the best of Australian science
The Conversation AU
Professor Alan Cooper from the University of Adelaide's Australian Centre for Ancient DNA was awarded the UNSW Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Research. Working with the South Australian Museum and Aboriginal families and ...
Universities share the gongs at EurekasThe Australian (blog)

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The Cairns Post
Keep Cook statues but build new monuments to Australia's black history
The Cairns Post
Captain Cook's diaries reveal conflict had broken out between indigenous inhabitants and Captain Cook's man after they landed in 1770 at what would later become Cooktown. Aboriginal men took umbrage at the Europeans taking turtles for food, and lit ...

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The Australian
Bipartisan support for Scullion's pre-Cook history lessons
The Australian
“As a former educator, and as someone involved in the reconciliation movement for 20 years, schools and the curriculum are crucial vehicles for the teaching of Aboriginal studies, heritage and language,” she told The Australian. The indications of ...

The Australian
Maitland Brown bust bears scars of when row came to a head
The Australian
While the US controversy over historic statues has been “hyped up” in Australia, Professor Gregory says journalist Stan Grant was right to object to the wording of the Cook statue. “I fully understand that for Aboriginal people, many of these statues ...

The Australian
Indigenous team win science's Eureka award
The Australian
Dr Ens says her “eyes were opened to Aboriginal Australia” when she first visited Ngukurr in 2008 as a postdoctoral researcher with Charles Darwin University. What started as ecological work quickly became social. “It became about the people, and the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal people paying for boom in Canberra's property prices
The Sydney Morning Herald
To complete the picture, Canberra also has one of the highest rates of homelessness in Australia with Aboriginal people (1.6 per cent of the Canberra population) representing 26 per cent of all people accessing homelessness services. Winnunga ...

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ABC Online
Mega prawn farm Project Sea Dragon nets Indigenous Land Use Agreement in northern Australia
ABC Online
Plans to build one of the world's largest prawn farms on a remote cattle station in the Northern Territory have taken a major step with native title holders supporting the project and signing an Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) for its development ...

Byron Shire News
Stalinist pigeon perch attack fixed
Byron Shire News
Recently Stan Grant made the point that having a statue in Sydney's Hyde Park lauding Captain James Cook for "discovering” Australia was not accurate when Aboriginal people had been custodians of this place for more than 60,000 years and had been ...

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Herald Sun (blog)
Darebin council Australia Day ban divides Aussies
Herald Sun (blog)
“Dumping Australia Day is a bad idea firstly because it's a distraction from more serious issues like child abuse, violence, homelessness and unemployment, and secondly, it promotes the myth that Aboriginal people are upset by a date,” Dr Dillon told ...

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Northern Star
Govt slammed for 'heavy handed' Australia Day threat
Northern Star
Update 5:36pm: LISMORE Mayor Isaac Smith criticised the Federal Government for assuming it had moved to change date of Australia Day in a letter sent to him last week. Cr Smith clarified the council had consulted its Aboriginal Advisory Committee to ...

Herald Sun (blog)
Miserable activists trashing Australia Day
Herald Sun (blog)
Meanwhile, we have clownish councillors dropping all references to Australia Day based on an online survey of '88 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' plus another 281 people polled in a street survey, the majority of whom were against the council's ...

Herald Sun
Aboriginal artist Stan Dryden says leave historical monuments alone but acknowledge indigenous achievement in ...
Herald Sun
“A lot to be proud of even in that short recent migration, and certainly that pride in our indigenous Australians and the history that they've built over many thousands of years,” he said. Melbourne Day Committee chairman Campbell Walker said Melbourne ...

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ABC Online
A year from Elijah Doughty's death, we still don't understand the anger it sparked
ABC Online
As in most parts of Australia, there was violence on the Goldfields frontier in the early years. At the peak of the first resources boom in the mid-1890s, a group of Aboriginal people numbering as many as 30 were trapped in a gully and massacred at ...

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BE GLAD IT WAS THE BRITISH
Herald Sun (blog)
Leo Maglen asks: what do the activists think would have happened to Aboriginal Australia if the British had NOT colonised the continent. Be grateful, because there is no way a land occupied by tribes with no technology and an essentially Stone Age ...

The Australian
Drive to increase pre-settlement history lessons
The Australian
Senator Scullion suggested the debate over an additional plaque on Captain James Cook's statue to acknowledge the presence of Aborigines on the continent before his arrival, or “retrofitting” historical monuments, would be irrelevant if Australians ...

NEWS.com.au
Historical grievance politics imperils our future
The Australian
The debate is not really about statues or political correctness. The statues row is a bizarre event revealing of something larger: how European Australia and indigenous Australia are going to reconcile on this continent given their competing cultures ...
Debunking the myth of Australia DayNEWS.com.au
Changing Australia's colonial statues 'rewards vandalism': PMSBS
Vandalising numpties undermine the scope for reasoned debateCourier Mail
Quartz -The Straits Times
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The Advertiser
Dean Jaensch: Australia Day should be a celebration of unity, not division and conflict
The Advertiser
There has also been a call that the notation on the statue of Captain Cook in Sydney should be sand blasted to remove the words that he “discovered Australia” on the ground that this is also offensive to Aboriginal people. How far should this ...

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SBS
Shorten, Plibersek cold on extra statue plaques
The Australian
“We should be aware of what Australia Day means for Indigenous people, it is a day of invasion for Indigenous Australians and we should be alert to the fact that it is hurtful and damaging for many people, but we need to have a mature conversation as a ...
Changing Australia's colonial statues 'rewards vandalism': PMSBS
Debunking the myth of Australia DayNEWS.com.au
Dean Jaensch: Australia Day should be a celebration of unity, not division and conflictThe Advertiser
The Sydney Morning Herald -Courier Mail -Quartz
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