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Where are we going with Australia Day? Normal text size Advertisement As soon as I stepped off the tour bus the tears appeared. The other Aussies and Brits started to cry. The Turkish tour guide looked teary while the Americans looked solemn but puzzled. “Was there a war here?” one asked in hushed tones. Anzac Cove in Gallipoli, Turkey. Credit:AP I have never felt more patriotic than during that visit to Anzac Cove. The little beach fringed by the low sandstone wall, the schoolbook history ...

The long weekend for our national day is a heatwave in more ways than one.

Scott Morrison, the prime minister, has defended Australia Day celebrations against criticism from Aboriginal groups by suggesting that the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 “wasn’t a particularly

Prime Minister Scott Morrisons views on Australia Day selfish and lightweight, Michael Dodson says Posted FriFriday 22 updated FriFriday 22 Northern Territory Treaty Commissioner Mick Dodson slammed the Prime Ministers comments. ( Share Print text only Cancel Former Australian of the Year and Northern Territory Treaty Commissioner Michael Dodson has called Scott Morrisons comments about Australia Day "selfish", saying he is "very lightweight when it comes to understanding Australian history". ...

Cricket Australias decision to snub Australia Day the biggest nonsense ever heard22/01/2021|11min NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham says Cricket Australia’s removal of any references to the day is “the biggest nonsense” especially as the person who made the decision has accepted an Australia Day honour. “Cricket should be celebrating Australia Da because it’s the 233rd anniversary of cricket coming to Australia on Tuesday and if there was no First Fleet and no settlement, there’d ...

Let’s bring the nation with us January 23, 2021 — 12.05am Save Normal text size Credit: Stop the nonsense and call Australia Day “Australians Day”. Give us all an opportunity to celebrate the fact that we all live in the best country in the world. It is a fact that Aboriginal people were the first in our country, non-Aborigines developed it and migrants gave it a wonderful multicultural flavour. John Langrehr, Leabrook (SA) I despair that our government simply does not c...

Can Bidens calls for unity spark a tone shift in Australias pretty ordinary politics? FriFriday 22 updated SatSaturday 23 JanJanuary 2021 at 12:33am Joe Bidens inauguration presents a chance for Australia to consider how the tectonic plates of politics have shifted. ( Share Print text only Cancel American politics, at its best, produces great spectacle and rhetoric — never more so, perhaps, than on a presidential inauguration day. It was true again this week with the inauguration of President...

The Trump presidency has allowed too many Australian politicians to borrow from his playbook of stretching the truth.

Parkin, a Quandamooka man whose customary home turf is North Stradbroke island, says the debate is “important to people and we can’t wish it away” but that it will remain “until we deal with it in a real and substantive way”. That, he says, will require the country to “reimagine itself with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, heritage and cultures at the core of a much fuller national identity”. Advertisement Others take the approach of IndigenousX media group chief exec...

Despite having different cultural backgrounds and experiences — Indigenous composers with an Indigenous mentor, and a pianist descended from Anglo-colonial history — it is nevertheless possible to create a project that can serve as a focus for unification and strength. In our instance, the trigger was a relic of the past. Specifically, an historical object made at a time of great significance for Australia: a square piano built around 1770, housed in the keyboard archives of the School of ...