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On May 27, 2019, ABC Indigenous televised a report on the work being done to save Kuwarra, the language of the Indigenous people from around the Lake Darlot region, north east of Leonora.
On April 9, 2018, the United Nations produced a brief explanation of the history of its genocide convention calling for the prevention and punishment of genocide.
On April 25, 2018, The Feed televised a segment explaining Australia’s Indigenous ‘Frontier Wars’ and calling for them to be commemorated. (Warning: there are two instances of crude language toward the end of this clip.)
On July 28, 2018, the ABC televised a segment in which the mapping of 250 Indigenous massacre sites across Australia was discussed.
On January 21, 2018, Buzz Feed televised the responses of a range of Indigenous Australians to Australia Day being celebrated on January 26.
On June 2, 2017, Behind the News (BTN) televised a segment detailing what Australia’s Indigenous peoples agreed on in their Uluru ‘Statement from the Heart’
On January 20, 2016 The Ethics Centre published an eight-minute speech given by Indigenous journalist Stan Grant as part of a debate on the question 'Is racism ruining the Australian dream?'
Grant’s speech gives a powerful overview of Indigenous-Australian interaction since 1770.
October 9, 2015, a brief documentary was produced based on the work of John Pilger to explain to Norwegian students the dispossession and disadvantage of many of Australia’s Indigenous people.
On May 8, 2013, Little Bits of History televised a segment discussing whether Australia’s Indigenous conflicts should be commemorated by the Australian War Museum.
On November 13, 2014, 7 News televised comments by former prime minister, John Howard, and Australian of the Year Adam Goodes each criticizing, from opposing perspectives, the way in which history is being taught within Australian schools.
On May 10, 2008, ABC News televised former prime minister John Howard explaining to Harvard students his decision to not apologise to Indigenous people for policies commonly claimed to have produced the ‘stolen generations’.
On February 2, 2008, amateur Hawaiian historian Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp posted a segment titled ‘Australian Aboriginal Genocide’ which traces Indigenous and settler conflict and the relocation of Indigenous children.
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Should Australia formally recognise that genocide was perpetrated against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples?
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On July 10, 2019, The Sydney Morning Herald published the edited transcript of the speech given by Indigenous Australians Minister, Ken Wyatt, at the Canberra Press Club.
Wyatt referred to treaty negotiation, an Indigenous voice and historical truth-telling.
The full text can be accessed at 
On July 10, 2019, The Daily Telegraph published a point of view by commentator Andrew Bolt titled 'Identity politics shames us all'
Bolt argues that proposals such as the establishment of an Indigenous voice, which he terms an 'Aboriginal parliament' would be highly divisive.
The full text can be accessed at
On July 7, 2019, ABC News posted an analysis titled 'Canada acknowledges "colonial genocide", but will it set a precedent in the Commonwealth?'
The article considers the ramifications of the Canadian acknowledgement within Canada and in other Commonwealth countries such as Australia.
The full text can be accessed at
On June 7, 2019, MacLean's published an opinion piece by Heidi Matthews, Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, titled 'What the debate around Indigenous genocide says about Canada'.
The comment considers the political and legal ramifications of Canada acknowledging it has committed Indigenous genocide.
The full text can be accessed at
On June 4, 2019, ABC News published a report titled 'Justin Trudeau vows to act on deaths of Canada's Indigenous women and girls, called a "genocide"'
The report gives an overview of the response of the Canadian prime minister to the report of the special commission tasked with investigating murdered and missing Indigenous women in Canada.
The full article can be accessed at
On March 4, 2019, The Guardian published a research and analysis piece detailing Indigenous massacre sites across Australia, many of which have not been previously mapped.
The independent research has been funded by the Balnaves Foundation and is ongoing.
The most current report at this time can be accessed at
On February 11, 2019, The Guardian published a report by Ben Smee titled 'Truth-telling: 80% say past injustices against Indigenous people should be recognised'
The article details the findings of the reconciliation barometer survey, conducted by Reconciliation Australia every two years.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 24, 2019, news.com.au published a comment titled 'Why the Australia Day debate, and discussion about any other divisive issue, is now basically pointless'
The comment argues that the effect of social media is to artificially exacerbate contemporary issues.
The full text can be accessed at
On October 10, 2018, Reconciliation Australia issued a media release titled 'Truth-Telling About the Past, the Present and the Future'
The release explains the positive impacts of truth telling on the lives of contemporary Indigenous Australians.
The full text can be accessed at
On September 26, 2018, NITV published a report titled ''It's about genocide, not achievements': PM's Indigenous day proposal falls flat'
The report gives the views of a range of Indigenous activists who reject Prime Minister Morrison's proposal that there should be one Australia Day on January 26 to celebrate Australian achievement since federation and another on a different date to celebrate Indigenous culture.
The full text can be accessed at
On December 22, 2017, the Journal of Genocide Research published an updated version of Dirk Moses article 'An antipodean genocide? The origins of the genocidal moment in the colonization of Australia.'
The article gives an overview of conflicting views on the issue and ultimately argues that conflicting interest between the settlers and the Indigenous population pushed their interaction in the direction of genocide.
The full text can be accessed at
On May 25, 2017, The Daily Telegraph published a point of view by commentator Andrew Bolt in which he accused the ABC of promoting division in Australia by promoting a change to the constitution which, he claims, would separate Australians by race.
The full text can be accessed at
On March 27, 2015, the Monash University Indigenous Centre and the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law published a paper by Colin Tatz, Professor of Politics at Macquarie University, Sydney. titled 'Genocide in Australia by Accident or Design'
This is the culmination of a series of papers Tatz has written on this question. His conclusion is that the genocide perpetrated against Indigenous Australians was more deliberate than accidental.
The full text can be accessed at
On September 22, 2014, The Guardian published a report titled 'John Howard: there was no genocide against Indigenous Australians'
The former prime minister rejects the findings of the Stolen Generation report 'Bringing Them Home' on the removal of Indigenous children and their placement in white settings that this was an act of genocide.
The full text can be accessed at
On December 22, 2010, The Koori History Website posted a speech given by Keith Windschuttle when he addressed the Sydney Institute on February 11, 2003. The speech is titled 'The Fabrication of Aboriginal History' which draws heavily on volume one of Windschuttle's book of the same name.
The full text can be accessed at
In February 2010 The Monthly published a comment by Robert Manne, currently Vice-Chancellor's Fellow and Convener of the Ideas & Society Program at La Trobe University, titled 'Keith Windschuttle' in which Manne critiques that arguments put by Windschuttle in The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, vol 1.
The full text can be accessed at
On March 12, 2006, The Sydney Morning Herald published a report titled 'Nothing to say sorry for: Howard'
The report included excerpts from an interview with the former prime minister in which he rejected that the Stolen Generation report 'Bringing Them Home' on the removal of Indigenous children and their placement in white settings indicated that there was anything for which the Government or contemporary Australian people need apologise.
The full text can be accessed at
On December 12, 2002, The South China Morning Post published a review of Keith Windschuttle's 'The Fabrication of Aboriginal History', volume one. The review is titled 'Furore as author calls the Aboriginal genocide in Tasmania a myth' and presents views on both sides of the issue.
The full text can be accessed at
On December 16, 2002, The Age published an editorial titled 'Story of nation's birth turns spiteful'
The editorial outlines the development of the 'history wars' which involve conflicting views of the nature of the conflict between the Indigenous population and early settlers.
The full text can be accessed at
On November 25, 2002, The Sydney Morning Herald published a comment by Paul Sheehan titled 'Our history, not rewritten but put right'
The comment is a defence of the Position put by historian Keith Windschuttle in his first volume of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History.
The full text can be accessed at
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