Saturday 25th January 1997
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Noel Pearson, a facilitator of the summit, highlighted resistance by indigenous groups to pressure from industry for legislative validation of non-pastoral activities on pastoral leases which may be invalid because the High Court found that native title could exist on leases.
He said, "Government and industry were on notice about possible existence of native title, and therefore for there to be across-the-board statutory forgiveness of people's failure to follow the law arouses a lot of opposition from the Aboriginal side about the justice of statutory up-front validation."
There were also "problems with simply assuming that compensation cures the up-front validation because gaining compensation for removal of native title under the Native Title Act had proved a difficult process".
The Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) release their mascots.
These include:
Supporting a moratorium on further reductions of car tariffs after 2000 and backing a more interventionalist industry policy.
Attacking Howard's view of mainstream Australia saying that "you won't always find them standing behind a white picket fence".
Saying that job insecurity that used to effect only blue-collar workers was now felt among all Australian workers.
He also accused Transport Minister John Sharp of spoiling for a fight with waterfront workers because the Howard government believed that it would win them political kudos.
He also took the Howard government to task over the threat to the universal health care system and the shift to "privilege" in the university system as major issues for Labor attack this year.
Qualities like defiance against the odds, down-to-earth practicality, courage, committment, mateship and love of the country.
Here are the Australia day winners over the last 25 years:
| Year | Activity | Winner |
| 1971 | Economist and Aboriginal activist | Dr H C "Nugget" Coombs |
| 1972 | Former Prime Minister | Mr Gough Whitlam |
| 1973 | Nobel prize-winning author | Patrick White |
| 1974 | Former Premier of Queensland | Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen |
| 1975 | NO AWARD | |
| 1976 | Fraser Island conservationist | Mr John Sinclair |
| 1977 | Former Family Court chief judge Former Prime Minister | Justice Elizabeth Evatt Mr Malcolm Fraser |
| 1978 | Former New South Wales Premier | Mr Neville Wran |
| 1979 | Founder of bone marrow register Former Governor-General | Ms Shirley Nolan Sir Zelman Cowen |
| 1980 | Former CSR Chief Executive | Sir Gordon Jackson |
| 1981 | Bussinessman | Keith Campbell |
| 1982 | Environmentalist | Dr Bob Brown |
| 1983 | Former Prime Minister | Bob Hawke |
| 1984 | Heart Surgeon | Dr Victor Chang |
| 1985 | Mudginberri abattoir owner | Mr Jay Pendarvis |
| 1986 | Tourism Minister Comedian and film star | John Brown Paul Hogan |
| 1987 | Former TNT boss Australian Cricket Captain Dancer Wool Industry leader | Sir Peter Ables Allan Border Graeme Murphy David Asimus |
| 1988 | Queensland corruption inquiry head | Mr Tony Fitzgerald QC |
| 1989 | Operatic diva | Dame Joan Sutherland |
| 1990 | Eye surgeon | Dr Fred Hollows |
| 1991 | Former CSIRO chief executive | Dr John Stocker |
| 1992 | Aboriginal land rights activist | Eddie Mabo |
| 1993 | Salvation Army leader | General Eva Burrows |
| 1994 | Medical researcher and humanist | Sir Gustav Nossal |
| 1995 | Professor David Pennington | Professor Mal Logan |
| 1996 | Nobel Prize winner for medicine | Prof Peter Doherty |
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