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Joe Geia announces 'Sing for the Black' album and national tour
Guugu Yimidhirr and Kaurareg music icon, Joe Geia will launch his double vinyl a...
Joseph Guenzler 9 Sep 2026
Quandamooka Festival ready to return with two days of culture on Country
Quandamooka Festival returns to Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) this weeke...
Joseph Guenzler 8 Sep 2026
Lydia Fairhall explores love and loss on new album 'The Narrows'
Worimi singer-songwriter and ordained priest Lydia Fairhall has released her sec...
Joseph Guenzler 7 Sep 2026
Deadly Fringe to celebrate its 10th season in 2026
The Melbourne Fringe Festival is set to celebrate its 2026 season from September...
Phoebe Blogg 1 Sep 2026
First Nations dance, music and culture take centre stage at Apmerenge-ntyele Festival in Mparntwe
First Nations dancers and musical performers from across the continent - and the...
Phoebe Blogg 26 Aug 2026
Statistics tell one story, we tell another: First Nations film Facing the Numbers 'giving voices to lives too often reduced to data'

Kieran Satour and Tyson Perkins' new documentary is a striking expression of lived experience, people and families so often hidden behind the statistics.

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Aug 25, 2026
Cape York students prepare to take the stage at Band Camp 2026

Cape York students from Coen and Hope Vale will travel to Cairns next month for Band Camp 2026, culminating in a performance at the Yarrabah Music and Cultural Festival.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Aug 25, 2026
Darebin FUSE Festival celebrates First Nations artistry with 2026 Deadly Darebin Program

Darebin Arts and Darebin FUSE Festival will present events that celebrate the depth, diversity and excellence of the artistic practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives on the 2026 D...

Phoebe Blogg Phoebe Blogg Aug 21, 2026
'Get there early' - last year's Native Food Festival sold out of stock by Saturday afternoon

Thirty Aboriginal-owned businesses will trade at Carriageworks from 25 to 27 September for the second Australian Native Food Festival, with the weekend markets and café free to attend on regist...

Reece Harley Reece Harley Aug 20, 2026
Quandamooka Festival unveils 2026 music and cultural program

Quandamooka Festival will return to Minjerribah in September with two days of music, dance, art, cultural activities and on-Country experiences.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Aug 20, 2026
Minjerribah prepares for annual celebration of Quandamooka culture

Preparations are in place for Queensland's Quandamooka Festival, which returns to Minjerribah / North Stradbroke Island next month. The festival celebrates the rich, living culture of the Quandamooka...

Callan Morse Callan Morse Aug 13, 2026
Wiradjuri astrophysicist Dr Kirsten Banks is 'in the business of fostering people's curiosity'

Wiradjuri astrophysicist Dr Kirsten Banks, maybe better known by her online handle astrokirsten, says science is for everyone, even if they don't know it.

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Aug 13, 2026
IncarcerNation opens conversation on Indigenous incarceration in Australia

A major exhibition examining Australia's incarceration crisis and its impact on First Nations people has opened at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin as part of the 2026 Darwin Festiva...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Aug 5, 2026
The Indigenous craftsman who listens for singing trees

The walk comes first. Through the stringybark and scrub outside Yirrkala, Ian Gurruwiwi moves quietly between the trees, eyes scanning trunks and limbs he has known all his life.

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Robyn Wuth (AAP) Aug 3, 2026
Australia leans on Indigenous culture in Pacific pacts

Australia is reshaping its Pacific diplomacy by putting First Nations relationships at the heart of new regional treaties and alliances. Emerging pacts with partners, including a landmark alliance wit...

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Robyn Wuth (AAP) Aug 3, 2026
Garma eyes life after mining and a new land rights era

As tents come down on the red escarpment at Gulkula and visitors leave the bush airstrip, Indigenous leaders depart northeast Arnhem Land with a clear message: the next 50 years of Australia's story m...

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Robyn Wuth (AAP) Aug 3, 2026
Rock star Elder hails Gove mining closure as land win

For Yothu Yindi founding member and senior Yolngu Elder Witiyana Marika, the end of large‑scale mining at Gove is no disaster. It's rather a chance for his community to reclaim Country and build...

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Robyn Wuth (AAP) Aug 3, 2026
Garma festival shows Yolŋu culture in full colour

On a red-dust mat in northeast Arnhem Land, Yolŋu families gather to show the rest of Australia a culture carried in song, story and white ochre.

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Robyn Wuth (AAP) Aug 3, 2026
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