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 [...]

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 [...]

After almost a decade without a job, it had got to the point where Amanda Jarrett thought she would never work again. She was in her home town of Nambucca Heads, had escaped from domestic [...]

Wyong and Gosford Councils had been ignorant and blatantly discriminatory in their draft submissions to the NSW Central Coast Regional Plan, according to prominent Indigenous leader Sean Gordon. The CEO of Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land [...]

ORIC, the watchdog of Aboriginal corporations, has ended its special administration of the Mungoorbada Aboriginal Corporation in the remote community of Robinson River in the Northern Territory. Mungoorbada, registered in 1990, owns and runs the Robinson River [...]

Australia’s longest running land claim – the Kenbi land claim across the Cox Peninsula on the western side of Darwin Harbour – has finally been settled, 37 years after it was lodged. As exclusively revealed by [...]

The NSW Aboriginal Land Council has returned a 10,500-hectare property to its rightful owners, the Murrin Bridge Local Aboriginal Land Council, empowering the local community and Closing the Gap through connection to country. NSWALC Chair [...]

My name is Doris Eaton, I am from the Pitjakarli tribe and I speak Nygangumarta. Last week Martu from the western desert stood alongside Newcrest staff at Irramindi (Telfer) to announce an agreement that will [...]

It may have taken more than 15 years, but the Bunuba people have finally been granted native title over the land they have called home for thousands of years. In what was described by Bunuba [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Western Bulldogs is a football club that has earned the respect of the entire AFL community. So far this season the Bulldogs have accounted for Fremantle and St Kilda in a manner which suggests they are [...]

While I understand that rule changes can quite often improve our game and are part of the evolution of the sport, there’s one very average law that seems to have flown under the media’s radar [...]

Waratah’s playmaker Kurtley Beale is set to sign a massive contract with the English club Wasps. If the deal goes ahead, Beale will join the ranks of the world’s best paid rugby players, earning a [...]

As an avid and loyal Essendon person, it has been a very long and gruelling three seasons watching my beloved Bombers endure the pain of the supplements saga. A guilty verdict by the Court of [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]