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NT town won't change Aust Day amid rally | Daily Telegraph
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The Alice Springs mayor says the Northern Territory town won't be changing the Australia Day date as protesters prepare to hold an Invasion Day rally.

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The Advocate
Abetz defends pride in Australia Day
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"While Senator Abetz, like every non-Aboriginal Australian today, is not directly responsible for past dispossession and cruelty to Aboriginal people, he could think more deeply and exercise some sensitivity towards the Aboriginal voices calling for ...
Abetz slams date change campaignThe Advocate

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Abetz defends pride in Australia Day
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"While Senator Abetz, like every non-Aboriginal Australian today, is not directly responsible for past dispossession and cruelty to Aboriginal people, he could think more deeply and exercise some sensitivity towards the Aboriginal voices calling for ...

NEWS.com.au
Why changing the date won't change a thing
NEWS.com.au
Or, as said by the “proud part-Aboriginal” Anthony Dillon from the ACU's Institute for Positive Psychology and Education: “For those who feel it is their mission to insist that non-Aboriginal Australians should somehow feel guilty for past sins, your ...
The markers of everyday racism in AustraliaThe Conversation AU
Australia Day Is Stained With Blood And It's Time We Moved ItHuffington Post Australia
Australian style: meet the designers at the forefront of contemporary ...Domain News
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Why Indigenous people want to change the date of Australia Day
9news.com.au
Many Indigenous Australians refer to Australia Day as Survival Day or Invasion Day. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have long opposed the holiday being held on the date of colonisation, with Ms McGrath joining a chorus of activists ...
NITV's 3LACK60 Sessions: #ChangeTheDateSBS
How Indigenous voices are using social media to #ChangeTheDateMashable

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Solving the problem of Australia Day
On Line opinion
On the one hand, many enthusiasts for Australia Day want the Aboriginal critics and their non-Aboriginal advocates to basically “get over” their resentment – some even suggesting that it is based on a false or excessively negative reading of Australian ...

NEWS.com.au
Stats show how far we've come in 50 years
NEWS.com.au
The 1966 Census recorded a national population of 11,540,764, though it's important to note that a historic referendum — which recognised Aboriginal Australians in the Census and Australia's population statistics — took place the following year ...

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Independent Australia
How the rise of Trump is related to indigenocide and Australia Day
Independent Australia
There will be endless talk about the great Australian spirit and all being together. It is all bullshit. Indigenocide saw the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Aboriginal people between 1788 and 1850, either through actual force of arms, or more often ...

The Conversation AU
The markers of everyday racism in Australia
The Conversation AU
Claire Smith has received funding from the Australian Research Council for research into Aboriginal people living in the long grass in Darwin. Jordan Ralph receives funding from an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship and ...
Australia Day Is Stained With Blood And It's Time We Moved ItHuffington Post Australia
Why I won't be partying on 26 JanuaryRed Flag
Australian style: meet the designers at the forefront of contemporary Australian designDomain News
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ABC Online
'An act of betrayal against Australia': Fremantle divided over cancellation of Australia Day festivities
ABC Online
He said Aboriginal people find nothing to celebrate about the day, which marks the arrival of the First Fleet. "Australia Day being celebrated on the 26th of January means the celebration of history, and in that history Aboriginal people have suffered ...
WA celebrates Australia Day with a bangNEWS.com.au

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Artists divided as some boycott Australia Day
ArtsHub (subscription)
For some, 26 January is a day to celebrate the founding of the country we now call Australia. For others it's an excuse for a barbie and a day off. But for an increasing number of Australians - especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders – 26 ...

Australia Day 2017 'one of biggest ever'
The Australian
Mr Kirby said about two-thirds of Australians get involved in celebrations every year - from backyard barbecues to harbourside concerts. An indigenous morning ceremony at Barangaroo will kick things off in Sydney, before the Australian and Aboriginal ...
NSW hive of activity for Australia Day9news.com.au

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SA's Australian of Year 2017 finalists
NEWS.com.au
Senior Australian of the Year: Patricia Buckskin. An educator and passionate advocate of lifelong learning. Was appointed South Australia's first Aboriginal state manager of Aboriginal education workers in 1987. Instrumental in setting up the Kaurna ...

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Domain News
Australian style: meet the designers at the forefront of contemporary Australian design
Domain News
In the Aboriginal culture of Australia, art and design have been used as forms of communication and education for 50,000 years. Today, contemporary design concepts complement the traditional arts and crafts that have evolved over centuries.
Indigenous Homeless Hit Hardest By Funding UncertaintyPro Bono Australia

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Why I won't be partying on 26 January
Red Flag
“Australia Day is our national day”, a day when “history is put to one side”, he insisted. WA Labor's Aboriginal affairs spokesperson Ben Wyatt also turned on the council, telling the Australian, “cancelling fireworks is a facile response and likely to ...

the AU review (blog)
Works by contemporary female artists from remote Aboriginal areas to tour North America for the next two years
the AU review (blog)
Miami's The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU will exhibit the work of nine contemporary female artists hailing from remote Aboriginal areas, in an exhibition called Making the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
The woman with “the best job in the world”
dailytelegraph.com.au
To that end the qualified lawyer, businesswoman and former national leader of the Family First Party is working hard to integrate elements of corporate Australia into traditional Aboriginal cultural approaches to create employment, support health and ...

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The Australian
Too many caught up in cycle of the sorry business
The Australian
Present damage caused by historical wrongs became a fashionable cause in Canadian indigenous politics in the 1990s, and Kevin Rudd's acclaimed apology to indigenous Australians unwittingly encouraged its importation to Australia. Aboriginal and Torres ...

The Australian
Stolen Generation court battle: sisters win $200k after Linda Burney appeals
The Australian
In a passionate letter addressed to the court, Ms Burney, who is the first Aboriginal woman elected to Australia's House of Representatives, argued that "a forced adoption" had torn the family apart more than 50 years ago, but their love for each other ...

Courier Mail
If you love Australia, change the date
Courier Mail
In 1938, then Australian premiers gathered in Sydney to mark 150 years since the First Fleet's landing. That same day, Aboriginal leaders held a Day of Mourning and Protest to highlight the mistreatment of Aboriginal people and campaign for equal rights.

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