Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

dailytelegraph.com.au
Anthony Dillon: Australia Day changes are trivial distractions
dailytelegraph.com.au
AS A university researcher, I have had the opportunity to see many success stories on Aboriginal Australians. While it is important to celebrate this success, there is still much work to be done. Problems such as homelessness, violence, and child abuse ...
Councils around the country make moves to change what happens on Australia DayHerald Sun
Darebin council's Australia Day move provokes political backlashABC Online
Half-mast better than half-arsed for Jan 26National Indigenous Times
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SBS
Moving Australia Day: brave or futile?
SBS
Australia Day is intended as a day to unite the nation but, for many in the Indigenous community, it is a day of protest and mourning. A growing number of councils across the country are beginning to dump their planned Australia Day celebrations in ...

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Yahoo7 News
'You can't rewrite history': Sydney indigenous leader says Australia Day date change will divide nation
Yahoo7 News
A Sydney indigenous leader has hit out at plans to move Australia Day, describing the proposal as divisive and saying you can't rewrite history. Community debate is raging over January the 26 after some councils dumped the date with others considering ...
Moving Australia Day: brave or futile?SBS
Some regional NSW councils ready to consider Australia Day date change, while others are notABC Local

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Clover Moore refers concerns about Macquarie statue to Indigenous panel
The Sydney Morning Herald
"There have been too many people in mainstream Australia ready to make judgment on these issues without consulting Indigenous communities, and whether well-meaning or not, it's often done more harm than good," she said. The council has already ...

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SBS
Kyle Anderson: The first Indigenous Australian to win a World Series of Darts title
SBS
Anderson, who says his nickname is the 'The Original' to pay homage to his Aboriginal heritage, says he designed his shirt with Aboriginal art for the competition and walked out to a remix of 'Solid Rock' by Goanna. "I thought let's bring something ...

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ABC Online
When the bullin shrieked: Aboriginal memories of volcanic eruptions thousands of years ago
ABC Online
Other than it had a fearful shriek, guaranteed to put the fear of God into anyone who heard it, history appears silent about the nature of the bird that Aboriginal Australians once named "bullin". Yet its shriek portended danger, apparently the ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal leader withdraws support for cashless welfare card and says he feels used
The Guardian
The cashless welfare card has been trialled in the Western Australian towns of Wyndham and Kununurra since April 2016. Figures show theft and property offences have risen since the card's introduction. Photograph: Melissa Davey for the Guardian.

Coffs Coast Advocate
Movement to change Aus Day celebrations hits NSW's north
Coffs Coast Advocate
CHANGING DATE: NSW Greens Aboriginal Affairs spokeswoman Dawn Walker (right) has backed local governments who have decided to move Australia Day citizenship ceremonies. Contributed ...

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National Indigenous Times
Esteemed educator accepts UK fellowship
National Indigenous Times
Prominent Aboriginal educator Professor Lester Irabinna-Rigney is set to take up a fellowship at leading research university Kings College in London. The University of South Australia professor is the recipient of an inaugural Aboriginal and ...

National Indigenous Times
WA's main jail over-full and unsafe: report
National Indigenous Times
The main maximum security prison in Western Australia — a state where Aboriginal people are imprisoned at a higher rate than anywhere else in Australia — is failing to meet expectations in prisoner rehabilitation, training and support, according to ...

ABC Online
Stan Grant: It is a 'damaging myth' that Captain Cook discovered Australia
ABC Online
Who would have thought the mere suggestion that Captain Cook did not in fact discover Australia would be so controversial? It seems to have taken some people by surprise, the idea that people were here for more than 60,000 years before the Endeavour ...

ABC Online
Adelaide Parklands dry zones unwelcoming to Indigenous population, welfare groups say
ABC Online
Welfare groups are calling for Adelaide Parklands dry zones to be axed, saying they make the local Indigenous community feel unwelcome in their own city. The 2014 dry zone trial will expire in September, but the Adelaide City Council will submit an ...

The Conversation AU
When the Bullin shrieked: Aboriginal memories of volcanic eruptions thousands of years ago
The Conversation AU
Other than it had a fearful shriek, guaranteed to put the fear of God into anyone who heard it, history appears silent about the nature of the bird that Aboriginal Australians once named “bullin”. Yet its shriek portended danger, apparently the ...

The West Australian
Both sides wrong on burqas
The West Australian
The ABC's indigenous editor Stan Grant this week made an argument for why there are indigenous people who would prefer to see the tearing down of a statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park because it proclaims he “discovered” Australia.

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Please endeavour not to rewrite history, James Cook's critics told
The Australian
Grant's call ignited a debate about how to reconcile Australia's colonial and indigenous past. Historian Keith Windschuttle, writing in The Australian today, criticised Grant's call, arguing that the inscription was accurate because Cook was the first ...
Stan Grant questions Captain Cook's place in Australian historyYahoo7 News

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Indigenous leaders slam move to shift Australia Day as 'divisive' nonsense
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NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton has dismissed the push to axe Australia Day as an attempt to rewrite history. Blacktown indigenous elder Gordon Workman. Picture: Tim Hunter. Blacktown indigenous elder Gordon Workman bluntly described moves to ...

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Editorial: Save the date, don't change it
Perth Now
Blacktown Aboriginal elder Uncle Gordon Workman says changing the date of Australia Day will do nothing to change history. Picture: Tim Hunter. No one would ever consider the far north coast towns of Lismore or Byron Bay bastions of conservatism, being ...

Herald Sun
Councils around the country make moves to change what happens on Australia Day
Herald Sun
But not everyone thinks Australia Day should be celebrated on January 26. Indigenous Australians have been on this land for more than 40,000 years and many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders think the day marks a loss of their culture and rights.
Darebin council's Australia Day move provokes political backlashABC Online
'Heart is pounding': Another Melbourne council scraps Australia DayThe Age
Second Melbourne Council Votes To Cancel Australia Day CeremoniesHuffington Post Australia
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Herald Sun
Rita Panahi: Darebin council Australia Day ban divides Aussies
Herald Sun
It's disingenuous to suggest that a significant majority of indigenous Australians feel negatively towards the national holiday. Research shows that despite years of “invasion day” rhetoric whipped up by segments of the media, only 31 per cent of ...

Western Advocate
A pair of Littles to perform on stage in Bathurst
Western Advocate
Produced by regional arts development organisation Arts OutWest, the event is supported by funding from the Australian Government's Aboriginal Regional Arts Fund and by the Bathurst Aboriginal Lands Council, and with the support of the Jimmy Little ...