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And as you can see, it’s not just the look that’s changed. You’ll immediately notice a dramatic shift in the way NIT goes about its editorial duties of keeping you informed, entertained and engaged. As [...]

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NEWS

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CULTURE

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BOOKS

  • Showcasing Indigenous writing

    Desert Writing, Stories from Country, is the latest offering from University of WA Publishing, showcasing the extraordinary talents of some of our best Indigenous writers and poets. The NIT today publishes an extract from the [...]

HEALTH

  • Danielle takes a stand to close the gap

    Indigenous medical student Danielle Dries is playing a leading role in the 9,000-strong National Rural Health Student Network. As the network’s Indigenous Health Officer, this proud Kaurna woman from South Australia advocates for positive change [...]
  • Hollows team revisits Fred’s old stomping ground

    The extraordinary work of the Fred Hollows Foundations continues unabated, with two major milestones being celebrated this year as the organisation continues its work across the back blocks of Australia. It’s been 25 years since [...]
  • Bowel cancer survival rates hit rock bottom

    Reduced access to health services, poor support mechanisms and cultural and practical barriers within the health system guaranteed indigenous cancer sufferers had a poor bowel cancer survival rate, new research has shown. The new study, [...]

PEOPLE

  • Phillipa’s talking to the animals

    Phillipa Dhagapan is an Animal Management Worker (AMW) working for the East Arnhem Regional Council.  Animal Management Workers support the council’s veterinary services and provide expertise on dog health and management to the local community. [...]
  • From bush to beauty queen

    My name is Jenayah Elliott, and I am a Jaru girl from the Kimberley. I am 17 and originally from Halls Creek, but currently living in Perth with my mum. I’m attending Penrhos College All [...]
  • A life in the saddle

    Wik Mungkan elder Willie Lawrence has spent the best part of 60 years working as a cattleman across Cape York. At 78, and with sight in just one eye, he’s still in the saddle. In [...]

ARTS

  • Chern’ee gives Games’ mascot Borobi a helping hand

    Kalkadoon artist Chern’ee Sutton has given Borobi, the new 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games’ mascot, a big hand in more ways than one. The 19-year-old is over the moon that her work has finally been unveiled – along with [...]
  • Entries open for prestigious playwright award

    Belvoir is now accepting entries for The Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright’s Award, open to all writers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent. The Award is open to everyone from the most experienced playwrights, to people [...]

BUSINESS

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Time and tide

  • The passing of senior Yolngu women

    The Yothu Yindi Foundation today paid tribute to yet another senior Yolngu woman, Mrs Mununggurr, who passed away yesterday after battling illness, the second death of a senior Yolngu woman in consecutive days. A founding [...]

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FASHION

  • Indigenous designers herald a coming of age

    When garments by Aboriginal designers along with those by Torres Strait Islanders, Canada’s First Nations, Native American Indians, New Zealand Maoris and the Pacific Island nations hit the catwalk, it will be the first time [...]

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MEDIA

  • NITV in a League of its own

    Like most footy fans, I’m a big supporter of the Marngrook Footy Show, which I’m told returns to NITV on Thursday, March 24. Can’t wait. It’s been a long off-season and long break between footy [...]

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LANGUAGE

  • Sydney turns to Gadigal language names

    Historic buildings in Green Square and a network of wetlands in Sydney Park will be renamed with Aboriginal words in a move the City of Sydney hopes will bring our first language back into everyday [...]
  • Reviving our languages and keeping them strong

    The new Pama Language Centre will assist the indigenous peoples of Cape York Peninsula to revive ancestral languages and safeguard those under threat. Cape York Partnership has launched the Pama Language Centre which will support [...]

FOOD

  • New adventures on the menu for Black Olive

    Mark Olive, Australia’s first indigenous celebrity chef, thinks it’s time he got back on the road. It’s been a decade since the chef with the big grin and personality to match, made his ground-breaking The [...]

SPORT

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EDUCATION

  • Crowdfunding push to stem Indigenous brain drain

    The University of Newcastle has launch its first crowdfunding campaign to create an Indigenous Science Communication scholarship. The scholarship will enable an Indigenous university student to work with its highly successful Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) [...]
  • Dan Sultan heading west for big Madalah gig

    He’s been called the black Elvis – among many things, he would add – and he’s about to head West to help out one of the country’s most celebrated scholarship programs. Three times ARIA-award winner [...]
  • Doctor Jack’s AIME is to get real results

    One of the nation’s most enterprising millennials, Jack Manning Bancroft, will be made an Honorary Doctor of the University of South Australia this week in recognition of his highly successful national program to improve educational [...]
  • Robots arrive in downtown Wellington

    Indigenous students from the NSW rural community of Wellington have been the first to take part in the 2016 Flint Program, an initiative developed by IDX in partnership with the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence and [...]
  • Sydney Uni’s jolly good Fellows

    A unique accelerator program aimed at kick-starting the careers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander academics at the University of Sydney is now underway, with five inaugural fellows embarking on cutting-edge research. Former NRL star [...]
  • VTEC grads on Cloud Nine

    Mining giant FMG has unveiled its first Vocational Training and Employment Centre (VTEC) graduates of 2016, with 11 of them bound for the company’s remote Cloudbreak mine in WA’s Pilbara. And not unusually, more than [...]
  • Mapping the past – and the future

    Australian Catholic University’s first Indigenous PhD staff scholarship holder, Dr Bindi Bennett, has graduated at a ceremony in Sydney. Dr Bennett, one of five recipients of ACU’s Indigenous Staff Research Scholarships, completed her thesis, Developing [...]
  • California here I come

    Dr Kathryn Gilbey has won a 2016 Fulbright Scholarship to the US, where she will develop collaborations with Chicana women and other First Nation’s women. The scholarship is awarded by Australian-American Fulbright Commission to promote [...]

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APPOINTMENTS

  • New head for peak child care group

    Australia’s peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Families has appointed Gerry Moore, a Yuin man from the south coast of NSW, as its new CEO. The Secretariat of National Aboriginal and [...]