Single-handed and under heavy fire, Aboriginal hero of WWI William Allan Irwin rushed three separate enemy machine gun posts, capturing the munitions and crew before being severely wounded charging a fourth. The date was August […]
Heavily outnumbered and in jungle conditions, Aboriginal servicemen were among Australian troops who fought a guerrilla war against the Viet Cong in the Vietnam War. Their memories and history are part of the new book, […]
Miles Franklin Award-winning author Alexis Wright has won another top literary prize for her biography of larger-than-life Aboriginal leader and entrepreneur, the late Tracker Tilmouth. Ms Wright took out the top gong in the $50,000 […]
One of Indigenous Australia’s most influential political figures has revealed he doesn’t believe Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has “any real interest in Indigenous affairs”. Warren Mundine makes the claim in his new autobiography Warren Mundine: […]
Aboriginal primary and high school students in New South Wales have worked with custodians and linguists to bring a children’s story to life in five traditional languages that can now be studied in classrooms. My […]
From stories from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women around Australia to the career memoir of Australia’s first male Indigenous ballet dancer, 2017 has brought a plethora of enchanting books. Here’s just a selection of […]
Two years after his death legendary Aboriginal leader and entrepreneur Tracker Tilmouth can still pack a punch. In the final years of his life, the charismatic figure whose importance to Australia has been compared to […]
Australia’s oldest independent Indigenous publisher, Magabala Books, is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a call for entries to the inaugural Kestin Indigenous Illustrator Award. The winner of the biennial award will receive $10,000, a mentorship […]
Central Australia could become a seventh, Aboriginal State taking in land from the Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland under a plan put forward by Tasmanian lawyer and veteran activist Michael Mansell. In […]
For tens of thousands of years before colonisation, the Noongar people were much healthier than most Aboriginal Australians are today. A new book sheds light on some of the secrets of that healthy lifestyle and […]
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS TIMES 2018
