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Immigration Minister rejects Australia Day proposal to recognise ‘sorrow’ of Indigenous Australians – SBS News
Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said holding one minute’s silence on Australia Day to recognise the suffering of Indigenous Australians “plays negative politics…
Immigration Minister Alex Hawke has rejected a proposal from Independent MP Zali Steggall to hold one minute’s silence on Australia Day to recognise Indigenous Australians.
Ms Steggall had written to mayors in her Sydney electorate asking they consider observing the silence to acknowledge the discrimination and hardship Indigenous Australians have faced since British occupation.
Australia Day marks the anniversary of the arrival of the first fleet of British ships into Port Jackson in 1788. A growing…
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