Dr Tracy Westerman is a proud Njamal woman from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Tracy is the Western Australia’s Australian of the Year for 2018, recognised for spending over two decades working to reduce […]
Gordon Cole is Chair of the Noongar Chamber of Commerce and Industry and member of the National NAIDOC Committee. You can say what you like about the mining giants BHP and Rio Tinto. When they […]
Sean Armistead is an Indigenous executive working with Indigenous & Communities. He is the Chairman of Ganbina and a Board Member of Kinaway Aboriginal CCI. This article represents not the author’s ideals but in the author’s […]
EDITORIAL: When a significant number of Australia’s Indigenous leadership make the effort to attend a speech by a captain of industry it can go two ways. A giant let down or a rousing call to arms […]
Opinion, Phillip Williams Phillip Williams is a senior professional with nearly 20 years in the management Native Title Trusts. He’s worked with TrustWest, Plan B Trustees, Australian Executor Trustees, Macquarie Bank and Australian Unity before joining […]
Let me be blunt. The old way of delivering services to remote Aboriginal communities through centralised bureaucracies hasn’t worked. Box-ticking bureaucrats and politicians in Canberra and Darwin failed to deliver real progress. Centralised decision-making failed […]
By Dr Brett Sutton* With Australia’s influenza season underway, it’s time to talk about vaccinations and why they’re important for everyone, especially at-risk groups, which includes Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders. Aboriginal children aged […]
Reconciliation in Australia has become a meaningless term, says respected Yawuru man Peter Yu. Mr Yu*, from Broome in Western Australia’s Kimberley, told a capacity audience at the Australian National University that reconciliation had become […]
OPINION – EXCLUSIVE By Tammy Solonec* In October last year, Australia was voted onto the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the first time – for a three-year term. On the face of it, this […]
OPINION Another year draws to an end. Like all years prior, it has been one step forward, two steps back with the very occasional unimpeded step forward. Our struggle has not been much different in 2017 than it has been since Cook landed up on Cape York 247 years ago. Ours has […]
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS TIMES 2018
