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Darebin FUSE Festival celebrates First Nations artistry with 2026 Deadly Darebin Program
Darebin Arts and Darebin FUSE Festival will present events that celebrate the de...
Phoebe Blogg 21 Aug 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 Sep...
Reece Harley 20 Aug 2026
Quandamooka Festival unveils 2026 music and cultural program
Quandamooka Festival will return to Minjerribah in September with two days of mu...
Joseph Guenzler 20 Aug 2026
Minjerribah prepares for annual celebration of Quandamooka culture
Preparations are in place for Queensland's Quandamooka Festival, which returns t...
Callan Morse 13 Aug 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 hand...
Jarred Cross 13 Aug 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
Stunning kookaburra dance lights up Garma Festival

On Yolŋu country at Garma, a kookaburra's laugh isn't just a sound in the trees - it's a voice from another time. For 18-year-old dancer Cleo Doyle, that call belongs to her pop, a proud Kamilaro...

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Robyn Wuth (AAP) Aug 3, 2026
Pearson urges Garma to look beyond referendum defeat

For one of Australia's most influential Aboriginal leaders, the failure of the voice referendum is written in blue and orange on the nation's electoral map.

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Robyn Wuth (AAP) Aug 2, 2026
Garma returns with four days of Yolŋu culture, art and ceremony

The Garma Festival has returned to Gulkula on Gumatj Country in north-east Arnhem Land for four days of Yolŋu ceremony, art, music, dance and cultural exchange.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Jul 31, 2026
Australian Native Food Festival returns for 2026

Following last year's successful inaugural event, the Australian Native Food Festival will return to Sydney's Carriageworks on September 26-27.

Phoebe Blogg Phoebe Blogg Jul 30, 2026
Darebin Fuse Festival returns for Spring 2026

For ten unforgettable days, creativity across Darebin will be celebrated through back-to-back live music, performances, cultural celebrations, installations, hands-on workshops, film screenings, and i...

Phoebe Blogg Phoebe Blogg Jul 30, 2026
First Nations poets, writers and creatives come together for OUR WORDS event

OUR WORDS brings First Nations poets, writers, creatives and thought leaders together for a series of free live panels to contemplate, provoke and inspire.

Phoebe Blogg Phoebe Blogg Jul 28, 2026
Giiyong Festival to become biennial event as Twofold Aboriginal Corporation launches Giiyong Ganya

Twofold Aboriginal Corporation has announced Giiyong Festival, first established in 2018, will become a biennial event, with a new alternate-year program, Giiyong Ganya, to be presented for the first...

Phoebe Blogg Phoebe Blogg Jul 27, 2026
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