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• TWO stunning couture gowns by Miriwoong artists, Peggy Griffiths and her granddaughter Cathy Ward, have been unveiled at the recent NGV Gala. Worn on the red carpet by emerging First Nations models, Charvarnie Walsh and Lisa Fatnowna, the gowns will become part of the gallery’s permanent collection and go on display at NGV International in February 2025. Full story, Page 33.

• THE roll-out of new bail laws in the Northern Territory has caused havoc with more than one per cent of the population now behind bars. Journalists reported hearing prisoners howling in the back of court cells in Darwin following a major crack-down by police, who made 31 arrests in just 24 hours after the law changes came into effect.

PLUS: Getting ready for Indigenous All-Stars clashes – sport.

In SPORT:

• SCOTT Boland of Australia took home the player of the match medal during day three of the Fifth Men’s Test Match in the series between Australia and India at Sydney Cricket Ground on January 5, 2025 in Sydney.

• AUSTRALIAN Twenty20 legend Dan Christian has come out of retirement and to the rescue of the BBL’s injury-hit Sydney Thunder. The 41-year-old allrounder last played professionally for the Sydney Sixers two summers ago and has since served as an assistant coach at the Thunder.

Latest News Stories

The Black Swans national netball team returns to the court next year after making their debut in 2024.

Black Swans to fly again in Pacific Series

Wednesday, 15 January 2025 12:54 pm

THE Black Swans national netball team will return to the court this year in what advocates say will help inform and shape a positive relationship within the game.

A 20-strong squad have been named to represent the First Nations team in 2025.

After their historic debut at the 2024 Pacific Netball Series, the Black Swans program will return for its second year, bringing together talented athletes from across the country to showcase their skills and cultural pride.

Twenty Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander netballers from across Australia will…

Cleveland Dodd’s mother, Nadene Dodd, and father, Wayne Gentle. Picture: AAP.

Coroner calls for urgent closure of youth jail

Wednesday, 15 January 2025 12:53 pm

THE troubled youth wing of an adult prison where an Indigenous teenager fatally self-harmed should be closed “as a matter of urgency”, a coroner has told a court.

More funding should be provided for training corrections staff and the prison watchdog’s powers should be beefed up, with coroner Philip Urquhart also calling for the justice department to be stripped of its role overseeing young people.

Cleveland Dodd was found unresponsive inside a cell in Unit 18, a youth wing of the high-security adult facility Casuarina Prison in Perth, in the early hours of October…

Family member Monica Kelly speaks to the media during a community rally outside the NSW Coroners Court calling for justice surrounding the 1983 death of Lewis “Buddy” Kelly, in Sydney.

We want an arrest: new push over exhumed teen’s death

Wednesday, 15 January 2025 12:52 pm

THE family of a talented Indigenous teenager who died unexpectedly still don’t know what their painful decision to exhume his body has achieved.

Lewis “Buddy” Kelly had just bought a car and was set to travel overseas to play tennis when found dead on railway tracks outside Kempsey in northern NSW in December 1983.

No autopsy, no blood-alcohol readings and few witness statements were taken before his death was marked down as accidental self-harm related to…

Joseph Shannon’s role has hit the right note with the budding musician.

Grants now open for $707 million remote-jobs program

Wednesday, 15 January 2025 12:50 pm

THE first round of grants for a new federal government remote-jobs program worth $707 million and designed to create 3,000 jobs are open.

The Remote Jobs and Economic Development (RJED) program aims to create much needed jobs in remote areas with real pay and decent conditions, including superannuation and leave entitlements.

Minister for Indigenous Australians Senator Malarndirri McCarthy said that creating jobs and economic opportunity in remote communities was a powerful…

Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe protests inside the Marble Foyer at Parliament House in Canberra last week.

Suspension, censure ‘badges of honour’, says Lidia Thorpe

Thursday, 19 December 2024 10:48 am

SENATOR Lidia Thorpe has stood defiant despite everything parliament has thrown her way.

In just two weeks, the Senate has voted to censure and suspend the Victorian politician, while an upper chamber colleague has reportedly sought legal action over a comment she made.

But Senator Thorpe remains unbothered.

Stretching the limits of her suspension, she entered the Senate press gallery last Thursday morning and called for a “free Palestine”…

First Nations Voice presiding member Leeroy Bilney speaks during South Australia’s First Nations Voice to Parliament inaugural address to the South Australian Parliament at Parliament House in Adelaide.

First Voice urges meaningful change

Thursday, 19 December 2024 10:47 am

A LEADER of Australia’s first state-based Indigenous Voice to Parliament has delivered a historic address, urging the “once in a lifetime opportunity” be seized to achieve meaningful change for First Nations people.

Speaking to a joint sitting of South Australia’s houses of parliament and the members elected to the act’s body, Voice presiding officer Leeroy Bilney noted there had never been an elected member of parliament whose origin story begins in the storylines of First Nations people of SA.

“In this place … stories are triaged into material for committees for…