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A New Voice in Ntaria

“We need to help our youth become strong through speaking out about health, learning their language, and becoming strong in their culture.”

Cornelius Mollingin

Keeping culture strong: From Wadeye to Thursday Island and back again

This week I came to Thursday Island in the Torres Strait… It is the first time I have left the Northern Territory since 1982.

Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves

We shouldn’t have to choose between culture and opportunity

We do not want to have to choose between two worlds, and we do not want our world to keep being misheard and misunderstood. Enough is enough.

Russell Dann

I’ve spent a lot of time promoting Indigenous health… all without thinking about my own

I’ve spent a lot of time promoting Indigenous health, such as STI check-ups, men’s wellbeing, community mental health, and suicide in the Kimberly; all without thinking about my own health.

Lowanna Gibson

The racism that resides here

Racism. Indigenous people are experts on this subject. We face it daily. In the media, at work and school. Sometimes it is blatant and sometimes it is casual (although both are equally harmful).

Aunty Tanya Day’s Inquest – Daily Updates

The inquest was opened with an acknowledgement of country by Yorta Yorta Elder Uncle Colin Walker. Uncle Colin poured sand from Dhungalla/ the Murray River on the bench to explain where Aunty Tanya Day commonly found rest and how she was denied such rest prior to her death.

Inquest into the death of Aunty Tanya Day — how did we get here?

The inquest, running until September 13, is the culmination of twenty months of intensive advocacy and investigations. How did we get here?

Travis Akbar

The Australian Dream: “You Black Monkey Looking C***”

The Australian Dream was devastating, with a running time of 106 minutes, I had tears slowly running down my cheeks for at least 45 of them.

Andrew Beitzel

Decolonising? Not at Uni

The Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation is due to open a sponsored undergraduate major at the University of Queensland in 2020. Named ‘Western Civilisation’, it features such ‘exemplar’ topics as ‘The Judaeo-Christian Tradition’, and ‘Creating the West’ (see: theft).

Gavin Stanbrook

“Join us in the fight for justice” Black Lives Matter protest to be held in Sydney.

Next Wednesday 21 August, more than 12 families and our supporters will march from Sydney Town Hall to NSW Parliament house at 12.30pm to protest the murders of our loved ones, and demand action from the NSW Justice Department. We are fighting a battle that has been waged since Invasion in 1788.

Cassandra Diamond

Young Indigenous women invited to join STEM Academy

Applications for the Indigenous Girls' STEM Academy are open until the 25th August 2019.

Nat Cromb

Exploitative practices not unconscionable.

You know when you rage and are that wild you grind your teeth, bite your tongue and sing people in your head? That is how I have felt writing the words that follow, so much so, that I have done CTRL+find checks to make sure none of my usual four letter words crept in.

Jade Pearson

8 things you should know when teaching Indigenous culture

Indigenous education is so much more than some dot art and a ‘cultural’ song you found from the Wiggles

Dr Tess Ryan

Language is Power

Learning Gathang is one way of taking back something that was taken.

Gadrian Hoosan

Warburdar Bununu: Our stories, our songs, will shield our water

Let’s unite for water for our future generations, for all communities, for all people, for all the animals.

Luke Pearson

Debunking: No definition of Indigenous

Spoiler alert: There is a definition of Indigenous, and Pauline Hanson is not it.

Alwyn Doolan

I’ve walked 12 million steps to deliver a message to the Australian government

I set off a year ago carrying three message sticks as an invitation and a challenge. You are part of us and this land now.

Melinda Mann

We can’t afford to leave Indigenous students behind

If Australia is serious about jobs for Indigenous youth we must invest in specialist career roles in schools.

A New Voice in Ntaria

Keeping culture strong: From Wadeye to Thursday Island and back again

We shouldn’t have to choose between culture and opportunity

I’ve spent a lot of time promoting Indigenous health… all without thinking about my own

The racism that resides here

Aunty Tanya Day’s Inquest – Daily Updates

Inquest into the death of Aunty Tanya Day — how did we get here?

The Australian Dream: “You Black Monkey Looking C***”

Decolonising? Not at Uni

“Join us in the fight for justice” Black Lives Matter protest to be held in Sydney.

Young Indigenous women invited to join STEM Academy

Exploitative practices not unconscionable.

8 things you should know when teaching Indigenous culture

Language is Power

Warburdar Bununu: Our stories, our songs, will shield our water

Debunking: No definition of Indigenous

I’ve walked 12 million steps to deliver a message to the Australian government

We can’t afford to leave Indigenous students behind

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