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NT: A “catastrophic” series of errors by medical staff during and after a surgical procedure led to a 48-year-old grandmother’s death, a coroner has found.

NSW: A group of Elders and community members have created a digital keeping place that records and shares information on people and events that have helped shape Yuin history, language and lifestyle.

QLD: Aboriginal Elders in southern Queensland have come together recently to protest the sale of land they say should be earmarked for community use.

TAS: A new mural of Palawa women in downtown Hobart is prompting conversations about pride, visibility and the legacy of colonial narratives.

VIC: LOCAL First Nations and non- Indigenous community members gathered recently at Me- Mandook Galk in Chewton, Victoria, for a celebration filled with music, connection, and hope for the future.

WA: THE WA Department of Justice is adding Aboriginal offenders’ cultural connections to its databases.

Latest News Stories

Proud Yankunytjatjara and Wirangu woman, Shelley Ware is a regular columnist for Koori Mail.

Why it’s important to develop your boundaries to survive Survival Day

Friday, 16 January 2026 12:38 pm

By SHELLEY WARE

January 26 is a hard day for many Aboriginal people. For most of us, it is not a celebration but a reminder of invasion, loss and survival.

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. Boeing has agreed to fully fund a scholarship that could one day result in a First Nations student going to space. (Picture: Boeing)

Space Race

Friday, 16 January 2026 12:38 pm

By DARREN COYNE

The search is on for the first Indigenous person to one day become an astronaut.

But there are also plenty of other career options available, like building robots!

Curtin University Associate Professor Samantha Owen.

Finding something that we can all celebrate as a nation

Thursday, 15 January 2026 10:31 am

By TODD JIGARRU CONDIE

On the eve of Australia Day, Curtin University Associate Professor Samantha Owen says there is growing interest in how Australia remembers war and conflict, and how those traditions are evolving to reflect a broader, more inclusive understanding of Australia’s national story.

“National days of commemoration can be powerful moments of reflection, but they also raise important questions about whose experiences are remembered and celebrated.

“Remembrance traditions have long focused on military service and sacrifice, but they can also exclude or marginalise other perspectives,” Associate Professor Owen said.

Top-left: Jaheim Brener conducted a smoking at the celebration on returned Aboriginal land – Piyura Kitina/Risdon Cove. Top-right: Angus Baillie, Leroy Hart Jnr, Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta, Jessie Williams and Adam Thompson were some of the knowledge holders celebrated for their support of the junior ranger program. Bottom: Muylatina milaythina junior rangers and leaders who came together to celebrate a year of amazing activities and learning

TAC junior rangers graduate

Thursday, 15 January 2026 10:31 am

By JILLIAN MUNDY

Abseiling into canyons, photographing the Milky Way, cutting up wallabies, naming mutton birds – ‘what’s all this’, you ask?

These are just a few of the activities the muylatina milaythina rangers reminisced about at their graduation recently. Muylatina milaythina, meaning ‘embrace country’, is the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) junior ranger program, which had 50 Aboriginal youth from across Lutruwitja/Tasmania this year.

A jubilant Rose embraces the gloves that won him the world bantamweight title.

Icons of First Nations sporting history: Lionel Rose

Wednesday, 14 January 2026 11:41 am

In a special series, Koori Mail correspondent Peter Argent looks back across the history of First Nations sports people in this country, looking for the competitors that became heroes and idols in their respective sporting codes.

Challenging Japan’s Masahiko ‘Fighting’ Harada for the world bantamweight title on 26 February 1968 in Tokyo, Rose wrote his name into the history books by becoming the first Indigenous Australian to be a world champion boxer.

Scartisha Ningella and Lucille Jimbidie at home in Karratha.

Mum, daughter sharpen troop’s Aboriginal edge

Wednesday, 14 January 2026 11:23 am

By GEOFF VIVIAN

Walmajarri-Nyikina woman Lucille Jimbidie has been promoted to Lance Corporal after serving four years in the Australian Army Reserve with her daughter, Private Scartisha Ningella.

According to Jimbidie, enlisting was “all her daughter’s idea”. Ningella had been inspired to join after hearing an enlistment officer speak at Karratha Senior High School, where she works as an education assistant.

Fast forward four years, and mother and daughter take part in regular patrols.