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| UpdatedA major shake-up of Perth's Skyworks could be on the cards in the wake of the tragic plane crash on Australia Day, with Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi saying the event will be reviewed — but will continue "in some form".
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, australia-day, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe tail of the plane which plunged into Perth's Swan River on Australia Day, killing two people on board, is pulled from the water as the search for answers over what caused the crash continues.
Topics: air-and-space, australia-day, perth-6000, wa
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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