Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Australian
Google features Aboriginal themed artwork for Australia Day
The Australian
This Australia Day has taken on distinctly political overtones with a Liberal MP urging republicans to “leave your black armbands at home” and Google emblazoning its homepage with a teenager's depiction of an Aboriginal mother weeping at the theft of ...
The World's Most Popular Website Just Ripped The Rug Out From Under Australia DayNew Matilda
Australia Day 2016: Google praised for 'shining a light' with Indigenous artworkSydney Morning Herald
Google's Australia Day 'Google Doodle' is a powerful reminder of what today means for Indigenous AustraliansDaily Life
Daily Mail
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The Guardian
On this Invasion Day, I am angry. Australia has a long way to go
The Guardian
This is a prime example of white Australia's denial and guilt. Maybe it's just too close to home, too unsettling for them to acknowledge that the land they stand on was stolen, drenched in the blood and suffering of our Aboriginal ancestors. The longer ...
Protesters condemn Australia Day 'invasion' and reject recognition campaignHerald Sun
Australia Day protest at Vic parliament9news.com.au
Australians Protest Against Invasion DayteleSUR English

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ABC Online
Australia Day honours: Leonora Aboriginal leader receives award for child health and language work
ABC Online
She said now more than ever Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people needed to be able to listen and learn from one another, so they could live in what she saw as a new, bicultural Australia. With her mother Luxie Hogarth and other members of her ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
An Australian republic 'could benefit Aborigines'
MWC News
A leading Australian academic and Aboriginal activist has supported a renewed campaign for Australia to become a republic if it recognises the sovereignty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander citizens and gives them more political representation.
The world's oldest living culture forms centrepiece of a modern Australia DaySydney Morning Herald
Universal values define our national characterWA today
Australia Day: the least we can do is accept our own historyOn Line opinion
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ABC Online
Australia Day honours Western Australian community leaders
ABC Online
An Aboriginal woman who has dedicated years of her life to preserving her people's language, a botanical painter who has captured the nation's rare flora with vivid accuracy and a council shire president helping prisoners stay connected to the community.

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Daily Mail
The World's Most Popular Website Just Ripped The Rug Out From Under Australia Day
New Matilda
It's hard to imagine a more pointed political statement – reminding non-Aboriginal Australians on Australia Day of the price that other people have paid for their privilege. One of the judges for the Google Doodle is renowned Aboriginal artist Bronwyn ...
Australia Day Google Doodle depicts Indigenous Stolen GenerationDaily Mail

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Education the key for Aboriginal Australians, says IAC Chair
3AW
Australia Day is a common springboard for discussions about how to improve the state of Aboriginal Australia. But Tom Elliott doesn't think calling for symbolic gestures is sensible. "The government standing up and saying sorry, maybe declaring a ...

Coffs Coast Advocate
NSW Aboriginal Land Council Chair reflects Day of Mourning
Coffs Coast Advocate
ON the eve of Australia Day celebrations, NSW Aboriginal Land Council Chair Roy Ah-See has appealed to Aboriginal people to continue to fight for self-determination by taking inspiration from the leaders of the 1938 Day of Mourning. Coinciding with ...

New Matilda
'A White Australia Safari': Aamer Rahman And Briggs Discuss Australia/Invasion Day
New Matilda
“Like a white Australia safari,” Rahman says. In the short clip the pair also discuss the Australian flag, the absence of Aboriginal history in schools, and explain why they won't stand for the national anthem. “Number one, it doesn't represent me or ...
Australia's Annual Celebration of Genocide and ConquestteleSUR English

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ABC Online
Australia Day: Sombre time for Aboriginals, Jannawi Dance Clan artistic director says
ABC Online
Australia Day may mark the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 and the founding of our nation, but for many Aboriginal Australians there is little to celebrate and 'Invasion Day' or 'Survival Day' as it is known is one filled with mixed emotions. "I've ...

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New York Times
Aboriginal Brass Band Offers Burst of Hope in a Bleak Community
New York Times
“It sounds like here is an English tradition being foisted upon indigenous Australia — what a horrible colonial thing to do,” said Mr. Morrison, the former artistic director of the Queensland Music Festival, one of the project's main supporters ...

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InDaily
Protests and celebrations for SA's Aboriginal community
InDaily
While for most Australians, Australia Day is spent celebrating national pride, for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people it's a day for reflecting on culture and the past. On January 26, 1788, the first fleet raised the Union Jack at Sydney ...
How to show solidarity with Indigenous Australians this Invasion DayDaily Life

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Daily Life
How to show solidarity with Indigenous Australians this Invasion Day
Daily Life
In the lead-up to Invasion Day 2016, Buzzfeed Australia released a video entitled, Aboriginal People Respond To 'Australia Day'. Generally speaking, I haven't been much of a fan of the various Buzzfeed 'Respond' videos. Many of them seem to be focused ...
Protests and celebrations for SA's Aboriginal communityInDaily
Australia's Annual Celebration of Genocide and ConquestteleSUR English
Briggs Drops Truth Bombs About Australia DayTone Deaf

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The Queensland Times
Aboriginal art invades cafe for Australia Day
The Queensland Times
BORN on Australia Day and taking on the adopted name of Cook, Aboriginal artist Sally Harrison has always felt an obvious conflict in her sense of identity. "I couldn't stand myself being a white person. I'm Captain Cook and I'm black," Harrison said.

Sydney Morning Herald
Acknowledging how Indigenous Australians are still left behind this Australia Day
Sydney Morning Herald
For many Australians, January 26 will be marked by beers, barbecues and Australian flag bikinis. The Triple J Hottest 100 will blare from house parties around the country and pubs will swell with punters out to celebrate a rare Tuesday off work.
Government's Healthy Welfare Card no solution to alcohol abuseThe Australian

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ABC Online
Stan Grant's speech on racism and the Australian dream as part of IQ2 debate goes viral
ABC Online
A powerful speech by Indigenous journalist Stan Grant in which he says the "Australian dream is rooted in racism" has gone viral. Grant addressed an audience in Sydney on the impact of colonisation and discrimination as part of the IQ2 debate series ...
Here's how Australians are reacting to Stan Grant's speech on racism 'killing the Australian dream'Business Insider Australia
After the furore, meet the real Adam GoodesSydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant's speech on racism hailed Australia's 'Martin Luther King moment'Daily Mail

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SBS
Comment: Changing the date won't fix 'Australia Day'
SBS
You see, back when I left retail in 2002, Australia Day was barely a blip on the national calendar. Certainly, the only thing I associated it with were protests in the Aboriginal community. Just last year, I was incredibly pleased to see Invasion Day ...

Sky News Australia
Four dead after Canadian school shooting
Sky News Australia
A gunman opened fire at a Canadian high school and a second location in an aboriginal community in northern Saskatchewan, leaving four dead and at least two injured, officials say. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said from Davos, Switzerland that a ...

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ABC Online
Suicide of nephew will never leave Aboriginal elder Trevor Donaldson, who wants safe house
ABC Online
Mr Donaldson, who is the Goldfields Land and Sea Council's native title cultural project manager, has proposed an Aboriginal youth safe house be established in Kalgoorlie-Boulder. "What they are suggesting [through the critical response project] seems ...

Sydney Morning Herald
After the furore, meet the real Adam Goodes
Sydney Morning Herald
The same year, he urged people to see the controversial John Pilger documentary, Utopia, about Aboriginal Australia's dispossession. He's also deeply involved in the Recognise campaign to change the constitution so that the presence of Aboriginal and ...

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