Indigenous

Easter bilby news

Contributor, Tarrangower Times - 18 April 2025

The Australian alternative Easter emblem, the bilby, is iconic but at risk. Bilbies once occupied much of arid and semi-arid Australia but have disappeared from about three quarters of their historic range.

Old language creating a new future

Yorke Peninsula Country Times - 15 April 2025

Rachel Hagan. The Nharangga Language Learning App is expected to launch within the next two months, following nearly two years of planning and community consultation led by the Nharangga Aboriginal Progress Association.

Aboriginal land council: It’s their way or the highway

Erwin Chlanda, Alice Springs News - 14 April 2025

Transparency is a very one-sided proposition for the Central Land Council (CLC): It wants the news media to publish its positions but it won't give answers to questions the media put to them. That's certainly the experience of the Alice Springs News with this secretive organisation which, like other Aboriginal land councils and land trusts, are not subject to freedom of information requests.

Regional Indigenous businesses to showcase at Supply Nation’s Dubbo Trade Fair

Contributor, ARR.News - 7 April 2025

Supply Nation’s Indigenous Business Trade Fair opens Wednesday 9 April ... To be held at the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre, the Trade Fair will showcase around 60 Indigenous businesses with over 350 registered attendees ... looking to source products and services from verified Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suppliers.

Who belongs to Lake Mungo?

Wilcannia News - 7 April 2025

Western Heritage Group's new book, Country, Ancestors and Responsibility records information that Elders shared with us in the 1980s, showing that five Aboriginal Culture Groups have ancient cultural ties to the Willandra Lakes region. That's a unique way of belonging; but there's an outreach to non-Aboriginal people too.

Working bee at the Warrali St garden

Wilcannia News - 7 April 2025

Paddie and Cliodhna held a community working bee at the Warrali St garden. Adults and children planted out seedlings, weeded, built up the compost piles and celebrated the healthy soil that’s been created from the old compost piles ... we learnt how to create an Indigenous Microorganism soil trap ...

Exploring the magic of Pollack Lagoon: a cultural heritage experience

Contributor, The Koondrook and Barham Bridge Newspaper - 3 April 2025

On a glorious day, 21 guests embarked on a journey through time at the Pollack Lagoon, a site rich in history and cultural significance. Nestled within a serene landscape, Pollack Lagoon is a place where the First Nations, the Barapa Barapa people, lived for thousands of years, leaving behind evidence of a deep and enduring connection to the land.

New yarning circle for Narrandera District Hospital

Narrandera Argus - 27 March 2025

New outdoor spaces created specifically for Aboriginal patients, staff and visitors have been completed at Narrandera District Hospital. Featuring a mural by Narrandera-based Wiradjuri artist Uncle Owen Lyons, the project included the creation of a yarning circle and Sorry Business area.

Leading the stray back into the game

Wilcannia News - 24 March 2025

Lorraine Dutton aka Lawless is a Barkandji woman, born in Broken Hill, raised in Bourke with a deep connection to Wilcannia. Back in 2017, Lorraine teamed up with Desert Pea Media (DPM) ... Lorraine has continued her work with DPM and is now being paid to improve her skills as a singer/ songwriter.

Yilabara

Wilcannia News - 24 March 2025

People who travel past the Wilcannia Local Aboriginal Land Council will have noticed a new business sign outside – YILABARA. This is the new trading name for the NSW Local Aboriginal Land Council’s Employment and Training program - Yilabara Solutions, the new version of CDP (Community Development Program).

Barkandji Rangers

Wilcannia News - 24 March 2025

The Barkandji Rangers are coordinated by the Barkandji Native Title Group Aboriginal Cooperation (BNTGAC). The program is a ‘career pathway for Barkandji Traditional Owners’, a stepping stone to further employment with organisations such as NSW National Parks.

A seat with a story: honouring history

Ted Rogers, On Our Selection News - 20 March 2025

A breathtaking 360-degree view now comes with a deeper connection to history at Gorman's Gap in Preston/Upper Flagstone, thanks to a newly installed seat that pays tribute to one of Queensland's most significant early transport routes.

Songlines and science journey together to Kwoorabup Park

Denmark Bulletin - 20 March 2025

Patricia Gill. Gnudju Menang Elder Aunty Carol Pettersen felt like a proud parent at the opening of the Genestreaming Journey Sculpture at Kwoorabup Park on March 8. She and artist and fellow project founder Ben Beeton were, at last, after eight years, endowing the sculpture to the people of Denmark.

Universities: The last woke holdout

Trevor Whittington, CEO WAFarmers - 13 March 2025

Somewhere between Trump’s second term, the corporate world rediscovering common sense, and the general public finally tiring of being lectured by the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) zealots, Australia’s universities seem to have missed the memo: going woke is so yesterday.

CYS welcomes new SAASTA students with a deadly funny performance

Yorke Peninsula Country Times - 12 March 2025

Rachel Hagan. Central Yorke School's South Australian Aboriginal Secondary Training Academy students had a big welcome to a new year of SAASTA with visits from Port Adelaide Football Club and two Deadly Funny comedians stopping off at Yorke Peninsula.

Record youth and Indigenous jail populations

Rodney Stevens, Clarence Valley Independent - 5 March 2025

Record numbers of youths and Indigenous young people are currently incarcerated in NSW jails with the population of inmates on remand due to the current crime wave surging by more than 20 per cent … the percentage of Indigenous inmates currently incarcerated was between 45 and 50 per cent, while 55 per cent of the jail’s inmates were on remand.

“Trust is gone”: Highway works anger Indigenous community

Krista Schade, The Riverine Grazier - 26 February 2025

Works on a stretch of the Sturt Highway west of Hay are under threat as claims that Aboriginal sites have been destroyed have been levelled at Transport for NSW. “We aren’t going to let it rest,” Hay Local Aboriginal Land Council (Hay LALC) CEO Ian Woods said. “We’ll take it all the way to the Environment Court if we have to.”

Uncle Vic Simms

Wilcannia News - 25 February 2025

As mentioned on page one, Leroy Johnson and the Waterbag band played the Culture on Country Survival Day concert last January. The original plan had Leroy and band opening the stage for Uncle Vic Simms. Uncle Vic wasn’t feeling so good so he swapped the playing order.

Heritage: Can’t you see it? It’s everywhere

Trevor Whittington, CEO WAFarmers - 25 February 2025

The recent decision in the Tony Maddox case is yet another example of how Western Australia's Aboriginal heritage laws have become a legal minefield for private property owners. What was once a well-defined, albeit imperfect, piece of legislation largely aimed at the mining sector has evolved into a tool for increasingly ambiguous and arbitrary interpretations of cultural heritage.

Government storekeeper in the bush

Erwin Chlanda, Alice Springs News - 24 February 2025

Exorbitant prices for groceries in outback stores are often the subject of outrage but are rarely dealt with a great deal of logic ... Why should the public purse kick in $50m over four years from 2025-26 to provide remote stores with low-cost access to about 30 food products?

Minister Plibersek concedes that the accreditation of water resource plan is unlawful

Krista Schade, Back Country Bulletin - 17 February 2025

Legal action taken by MLDRIN, a Confederation of First Nations from the southern half of the Murray-Darling Basin, has led to the Federal Environment and Water Minister Tanya Plibersek conceding she made a mistake in accrediting the NSW Fractured Rock Water Resource Plan.

Warwick hosts Indigenous business event

Mim Rogers, Allora Advertiser - 14 February 2025

This will be the first Warwick Black Coffee Indigenous Business Network event for 2025. Black Coffee is a grassroots First Nations business networking opportunity held in regions across Australia each month to provide a platform to connect micro and small business owners.

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