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In the wake a violent Invasion Day protest in Sydney, ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr says the date of Australia's national day should be changed — but only once the country becomes a republic.
Topics: australia-day, event, canberra-2600, act, nsw
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump issues an Australia Day message, citing the long diplomatic relationship between the two countries and saying America has "no better friend".
Topics: australia-day, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedAustralian music producer Flume claims the top spot in the triple j Hottest 100 countdown for 2016, in a year that attracted a record-breaking 2.2 million votes and more Australian artists than ever before.
Topics: australia-day, arts-and-entertainment, music, music-awards, dance-music, australia
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| UpdatedFremantle mayor Brad Pettitt claims a victory of sorts in his bid to move Australia Day festivities to another date, saying the move helped improve people's understanding over why January 26 was not a day of celebration for Aboriginal Australians.
Topics: australia-day, event, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, wa, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory hosts events involving a ute convoy, protests and citizenship ceremonies, as people commemorate Australia's national day.
Topics: australia-day, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedStan Grant finds a missing part of his family tree — a man who connects him directly to the time of first contact, when white met black on the shores of Botany Bay.
Topics: australia-day, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, sydney-2000
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Peter Greste issues a strong and passionate defence of Australia's sense of freedom as part of Australia Day celebrations.
Topics: australia-day, regional, discrimination, oberon-2787
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| UpdatedTasmanians take to the race track with their ferrets and bash out a few thongophone tunes to celebrate Australia Day.
Topics: australia-day, latrobe-7307, tas
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Bobbie Brazil, AO for service to tertiary education governance, to agricultural, environmental and resource management organisations, and to women in rural and regional areas
Topics: agribusiness, australia-day, university-and-further-education, water-management, government-and-politics, agricultural-policy, brisbane-4000, brookstead-4364, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedWhen artist Sven Roehrs asked his mother's neighbour, Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, to sit for a portrait, he did not know he would be painting the next Australian of the Year.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, painting, offbeat, australia-day, qld, australia
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| UpdatedTasmania's Governor again enters political debate, calling for a discussion about the date for Australia Day and saying she understands the feelings of Aboriginal people.
Topics: aboriginal, community-and-society, australia-day, hobart-7000, tas
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| UpdatedA police officer is injured and a man charged after clashes between police and protesters at an Invasion Day march through inner-city Sydney.
Topics: australia-day, aboriginal, aboriginal-language, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, sydney-2000, hobart-7000, brisbane-4000, alice-springs-0870
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The annual Australia Day lamb ad often gets tongues wagging, but is it helping get chops on to the barbecue?
Topics: sheep-production, agricultural-prices, advertising, advertising-and-marketing, australia-day, agricultural-marketing, mildura-3500
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| UpdatedSportspeople, musicians, business leaders and humanitarians are among the New South Wales people to receive 2017 Australia Day honours.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, community-organisations, australia-day, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThose opposed to Australia Day do so because of the historical significance, but I celebrate on January 26 for a quite different reason — because Australia is a great country to live in, writes Anthony Dillon.
Topics: australia-day, community-and-society, government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia
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Wugulora Indigenous morning ceremony to commence Australia Day and celebrate Australia's traditional landowners.
Topics: australia-day, indigenous-culture, sydney-2000
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Dr Karl Kruszelnicki explains Australian of the Year Professor Alan Mackay-Sim's research which has led to groundbreaking advances in the treatment of spinal cord injuries.
Topics: genetics, australia-day, australia
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| UpdatedAustralian history is full of great moments, which could serve as alternative dates for Australia Day, including April 7, when the most Australian movie ever made — The Castle — was released, writes Ben Pobjie.
Topics: federation, history, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, national-days, offbeat, australia-day, australia
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| UpdatedMalcolm Turnbull and Barnaby Joyce are among Government figures to dismiss calls to change the date of Australia Day, despite comments by the Prime Minister's Indigenous advisor and a former cabinet minister.
Topics: community-and-society, national-days, australia-day, history, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedToday marks Australia Day and Indian Republic Day, and both have much work to do before equality is achieved.
Topics: australia-day, women, race-relations, australia, india
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| UpdatedIraqi-born refugee Heetham Hekmat reflects on the worst night of his life — when he and his family were herded into their house before it was set alight — as he prepares to become an Australian citizen in Hobart today.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, australia-day, tas
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Topics: rural, medical-research, australia-day, environmental-policy, access-to-education, brookstead-4364, brisbane-4000
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Bobbie Brazil, AO, says she is humbled by the award and grateful for education her parents provided growing up on a dairy farm at Jambin, CQ
Topics: water-management, agribusiness, australia-day, university-and-further-education, brisbane-4000, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedOlympic gold medallist Kim Brennan was among Australia's Rio champions to earn Australia Day honours, but her award is for much more than just her skill on the water.
Topics: olympics-summer, sport, australia-day, event, rowing, australia
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| UpdatedEmerging Melbourne musician Tash Sultana says her love for music dragged her from drug problems to the top of the Australian music scene.
Topics: music, australia-day, radio, melbourne-3000