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[ August 8, 2018 ] Community engagement crucial for educational success EDUCATION
[ August 8, 2018 ] Climate change wreaks havoc on Torres Strait Islander homes NEWS
[ August 8, 2018 ] Indigenous-owned office supply company aims for $20m turnover BUSINESS
[ August 8, 2018 ] Report warns of “hothouse” climate, fears for homelands swallowed by sea NEWS
[ August 8, 2018 ] NT besties prepare to guard Australia’s coastline PEOPLE
[ August 8, 2018 ] A call for local and regional elements in Indigenous voice to parliament NEWS
[ August 8, 2018 ] Pitjantjatjara artist Yaritji Young: we are known for being brave ARTS
[ August 8, 2018 ] ‘The Koori King of Country’ honoured by induction into NIMA Hall of Fame MUSIC

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NT besties prepare to guard Australia’s coastline

by Madelaine Dickie in PEOPLE

Regina Murray and Sallyanne Nilco are friends in arms. The two best friends from the Northern Territory — Murray is from Darwin and Nilco from Batchelor — are on the adventure of a lifetime after signing up as soldiers-in-training with Norforce, the Australian army’s surveillance and reconnaissance unit for remote northern Australia. The pair, both aged 18, are currently training [...]

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Constitutional recognition key to rights and riches

Gumatj leaders have made renewed calls for constitutional recognition for First Nations peoples as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has again ruled out calling a referendum to establish an Indigenous voice to parliament. At the Garma [...]

Climate change wreaks havoc on Torres Strait Islander homes

August 8, 2018

Torres Strait Islands’ mayor Fred Gela has called on the Federal Government to provide urgent funding to help protect the [...]
Report warns of “hothouse” climate, fears for homelands swallowed by sea

August 8, 2018

Aboriginal climate change activists say warnings that the earth could become a hothouse with sea level rises of 60 metres [...]
A call for local and regional elements in Indigenous voice to parliament

August 8, 2018

Any proposal for an Indigenous voice to Federal Parliament would have local and regional elements, the joint select committee on [...]
Constitutional recognition key to rights and riches

August 8, 2018

Gumatj leaders have made renewed calls for constitutional recognition for First Nations peoples as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has again [...]
NITV Radio’s new executive producer thrilled to connect with community

August 8, 2018

NITV news and current affairs producer Danny Teece-Johnson has been appointed digital executive producer for NITV Radio. In the role, [...]
Time to remember the town we forgot

July 25, 2018

The Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek, a place described even by its mayor as the town Australia had forgotten, [...]
Our numbers on the rise, says demographer

July 25, 2018

Australia’s Indigenous population is expected to hit one million in four or five years’ time, and over two million by [...]
Push to keep young offenders on country

July 25, 2018

Young offenders in a town in Western Australia’s far north would be sent on a trek with Miriuwung and Gajerrong [...]

TAFE helps Jason on his journey

July 25, 2018

Yupungathi man Jason De Bosh’s desire to provide for his young family pushed the single father-of-three to start an apprenticeship [...]
Forrest honored as NAIDOC elder

July 11, 2018

Western Australia’s longest serving Indigenous academic, Professor Simon Forrest, has been honored by being named Perth’s male elder of the [...]
Eye expert breaks down unseen barriers

June 26, 2018

Kristopher Rallah-Baker has become Australia’s first Indigenous ophthalmologist after the formally completing his training. The Queensland doctor has been based [...]

Badu Gili 2018 to showcase new First Nations art

July 12, 2018

Nightly year-round Opera House sails projection to feature six new artists Sydney – Wednesday 11 July, 2018: In celebration of NAIDOC Week, the Sydney Opera House today announced the six First Nations artists whose striking [...]

‘The Koori King of Country’ honoured by induction into NIMA Hall of Fame

August 8, 2018

Country music legend Roger Knox — known as the Black Elvis and the Koori King of Country — is set [...]
Hip hop duo climb to new heights

July 25, 2018

When Alice Springs Indigenous hip hop duo Karnage N Darknis and Melbourne rock band Chocolate Starfish got together in the [...]

Pitjantjatjara artist Yaritji Young: we are known for being brave

August 8, 2018

Pitjantjatjara artist Yaritji Young’s entry in Australia’s most prestigious Indigenous art competition — the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait [...]
Actress Teresa discovers there’s Moore to life

July 25, 2018

Noongar Yamatji woman Teresa Moore is preparing for the trip of a lifetime as one of a new crop of [...]

Meet the 16-year-old kicking his way to Italy

August 8, 2018

While many members of Dante Rodrigues’ famous family have made their mark on the football field, the year 11 student [...]
Borroloola girls have goals of their own

July 11, 2018

Matildas’ head coach Alen Stajcic was in the tiny town of Borroloola in the Northern Territory this week checking out [...]
Stacey’s hitting ‘em out of the park

July 11, 2018

Indigenous softball player Stacey Porter—regarded as one of the world’s best—will lead the Australian national team into the Softball World [...]

Lovers of design: pull up a chair

May 30, 2018

The best of Indigenous design from architecture to townplanning and furniture is set to turn heads at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne’s Federation Square. Blak Design Matters has been curated by Melbourne architect Jefa [...]
Global brand sports Indigenous designs

May 30, 2018

Puma has released a new clothing line inspired by Indigenous art and culture in what it claims is the first range of its kind from a global sporting brand. The Borra Grounds range was designed [...]

Community engagement crucial for educational success

August 8, 2018

Education targets for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are not on track, according to the 2018 Closing the Gap [...]
Black-tie fundraiser serves career yarns & wattleseed crusted croc

August 8, 2018

More than 750 guests put on the glitz to support Indigenous education at the black-tie Madalah Ball in Perth on [...]

Clock is ticking for landmark title claim

June 13, 2018

Lawyers challenging Australia’s biggest Native Title settlement say the passing of time has become a “live issue” as the National [...]
KLC says ‘start again’ with Heritage Act

May 30, 2018

The Kimberley Land Council in Western Australia’s north has called for a complete overhaul of the state’s Aboriginal Heritage Act [...]

Doctor discovers big stories about our little people

July 25, 2018

The “little people” of Aboriginal folklore are small, hairy, ugly, strong and have a distinct odour, a Larrakia academic who [...]
Aboriginal women; Proud, strong and beautiful

July 25, 2018

Aboriginal women have a message for South African comedian Trevor Noah — we’ve got inner and outer beauty in spades. [...]
Fitzroy council call for river action

June 26, 2018

Traditional owners in Western Australia’s Kimberley have called on the WA government to work with them to protect the State’s [...]
Treaty poll looms for Indigenous Victorians

June 26, 2018

Aboriginal Victorians are set to go to the polls early next year to elect a representative body to enter treaty [...]

Government launches critical new weapon in fight against syphilis

August 8, 2018

The Federal Government has begun rolling out what it says is a critical new weapon in the fight against the [...]
Uni program aims to bust a gut

July 25, 2018

Could “medical yarn ups” be the answer to the battle of the bulge? With obesity the second highest contributor to [...]