Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

NEWS.com.au
Debunking the myth of Australia Day
NEWS.com.au
The NSW governor Henry Parkes also recognised the day was a reminder to Aborigines of how they had been “robbed”. So it wasn't always an obvious choice for Australia's national day. After the Commonwealth of Australia was founded in 1901, there was ...

SBS
Changing Australia's colonial statues 'rewards vandalism': PM
SBS
A different solution was instead raised by opposition Labor MP Linda Burney - the first Aboriginal woman elected to the lower house of parliament - who called for Cook's plaque to be updated to reflect that he had not "discovered" the nation. She was ...
Shorten goes cold on extra plaques for statuesThe Australian
Vandalising numpties undermine the scope for reasoned debateCourier Mail
Australia is debating what to do about its statues that honor colonizersQuartz
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Echonetdaily
What now in native foods?
Echonetdaily
Australia's cultural cringe has affected our uptake of and interest in native foods. Clayton Donovan, Australia's only 'hatted' Indigenous chef, found his use of Australian native foods was accepted and celebrated more in the UK than at home. This is ...

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SBS
Queensland moves to remove racist place names such as N***** Creek
SBS
The inscription in Hyde Park says the English explorer discovered Australia, which Grant said tells Aboriginal people that before 1770 they did not exist. "My ancestors were here when Cook dropped anchor. We know now that the first peoples of this ...

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The Educator
Indigenous education improving, but challenges remain
The Educator
Sarra is the founder and chairman of the Stronger Smarter Institute – a non-profit organisation delivering better outcomes for Indigenous, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children across Australia. Sarra addressed the conference about the impact ...

The Guardian
WA Liberals journal claims Indigenous recognition risks '60% of Australian continent'
The Guardian
One of Australia's most famous conservative historians has warned Liberal party members that the push to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution has a “hidden agenda” to carve out a separate state or nation, and has urged them to oppose a ...

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The New Daily
Dan Sultan schools politicians on Q&A's Australia Day debate
The New Daily
Aboriginal singer-songwriter Dan Sultan has schooled a panel of politicians, with a simple answer to the heated Australia Day debate: listen to Indigenous voices. Attorney-General George Brandis, Labor MP Tony Burke, independent Senator Jacqui Lambie, ...
Jacqui Lambie and Dan Sultan clash on live TV: 'Australia Day has always been racist'NEWS.com.au
Dan Sultan clashes with George Brandis, Jacqui Lambie over Australia Day date on Q&AABC Online
Lambie lashes out at indigenous pushThe Australian
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NEWS.com.au
Jacqui Lambie and Dan Sultan clash on live TV: 'Australia Day has always been racist'
NEWS.com.au
Sultan and Lambie butted heads in response to an audience question about whether the national day of celebration on January 26 should be changed because it marks the “genocide” of many Aboriginal Australians. Many indigenous people view the date as ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Time for a House of First Nations for Aboriginal Australians
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Referendum Council's final report surprised everyone by advocating for an Indigenous representative body to be provided in the Australian Constitution instead of recognising Indigenous people in the preamble. It also caught federal parliamentarians ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Time for a House of First Nations for Aboriginal Australians
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Referendum Council's final report surprised everyone by advocating for an Indigenous representative body to be provided in the Australian Constitution instead of recognising Indigenous people in the preamble. It also caught federal parliamentarians ...

The Age
Time for a House of First Nations for Aboriginal Australians
The Age
The Referendum Council's final report surprised everyone by advocating for an Indigenous representative body to be provided in the Australian Constitution instead of recognising Indigenous people in the preamble. It also caught federal parliamentarians ...

The Advertiser
Marion Council likely to reject push to move Australia Day ceremonies
The Advertiser
Renewed debate about Australia Day came as Federal Labor Leader Bill Shorten threw his support behind calls for an additional plaque to be added to a statue of Captain Cook to acknowledge that indigenous people lived in Australia before British ...
Australia Day: Marion council to vote on moving the date of celebrationsABC Online
Moving Aust Day social engineering: JoyceSky News Australia
Marion council's push to scrap Australia Day ceremony unlikely to pass, mayor saysThe Guardian

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Marion Council likely to reject push to move Australia Day ceremonies
Townsville Bulletin
Renewed debate about Australia Day came as Federal Labor Leader Bill Shorten threw his support behind calls for an additional plaque to be added to a statue of Captain Cook to acknowledge that indigenous people lived in Australia before British ...

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The Age
Melbourne's Banyule Council votes to keep January 26 Australia Day celebrations
The Age
The motion put forward by Cr Garotti said Banyule Council had long-held a tradition of a "respectful and inclusive program of Australia Day activities" which celebrated Indigenous heritage and the municipality's multicultural society, and he did not ...
Aboriginal history is 'cultural vandalism'? Then I'll proudly wear my Aboriginal flag-starred beretThe Guardian

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Tear down Australia's racist statues
Red Flag
Australian capitalism was built on stolen land and the blood and broken lives of Aboriginal people, and also of Torres Strait and South Sea Islanders. Queensland's sugar industry was built through the slave labour of at least 62,000 men and women ...

FiveAA
Premier Jay Weatherill Has His Say On Moving Australia Day
FiveAA
“You want the community as a whole to say, 'Here's the new deal for our relationship with Aboriginal Australia,' and you can't do that just by one council picking off an issue which is calculated to get peoples' backs up,” Mr Weatherill told Alan ...

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The Australian
Update inaccurate statue plaques, says Bill Shorten
The Australian
But he is not opposed for an additional plaque to be placed on the Captain Cook statue which noted indigenous Australians were on the continent before the British. “This country works best when we work together so an additional plaque on Captain Cook's ...
Bill Shorten's plan to neutralise Captain Cook debateBendigo Advertiser

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Illawarra Mercury
Is it time to find a new day, Australia?
Illawarra Mercury
It's worth remembering that opposition to Australia Day isn't actually anything new – there were protests calling it a “day of mourning” as far back as 1938. And it's certainly not hard to see the Aboriginal people's point of view here – even if you're ...

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ABC Online
Marion Council to vote on dropping Oz Day by moving citizenship ceremonies away from January 26
The Advertiser
Councillor Bruce Hull introduced a motion over the weekend that would acknowledge January 26 as the date of European invasion, in recognition of the feelings of indigenous Australians. “Australia Day has been held on many different days over the years ...
Australia Day: Marion council to vote on moving the date of celebrationsABC Online

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ABC Online
Australia Day: Marion council to vote on moving the date of celebrations
ABC Online
It follows similar moves by several councils in Victoria, which want the date changed out of respect for Aboriginal people. Cr Hull said Australia Day was a divisive event on the calendar. "If we actually do change the day, wouldn't it be great to have ...
Marion Council to vote on dropping Oz Day by moving citizenship ceremonies away from January 26The Advertiser
Adelaide council to vote on moving Australia Day commemorations to another date9news.com.au

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