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NT: ABORIGINAL and Torres Strait Islander people who took part in a controversial work for the dole scheme have launched a class action, claiming the program was racially discriminatory.

QLD: LESS than half of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children entering out-of-home care are being placed with relatives or kin, with advocates urging more effort from governments to deal with the issue.

WA: STRICT emissions curbs have been loosened on a major gas plant harming nearby ancient rock art after Woodside pushed back on the emissions regulations claiming they amounted to an “effective refusal” of the project.

NSW: FROM 1912 to 1969 Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls cruelly treated children who were forcibly removed from their families. A powerful new truth-telling exhibition, Secrets of Dawn, will tour NSW as part of the healing process for survivors and their families.

IN ARTS

VIC: AUSTRALIA’S longest-running First Nations theatre company, ILBIJERRI, has announced the appointment of acclaimed Yorta Yorta/ Gunaikurnai playwright and director Andrea James as its new artistic director and co-CEO, to follow on from the remarkable 18-year tenure of Dr Rachael Maza AM.

Latest News Stories

Wiradjuri woman Olivia Coe Fox gives voice to culture.

Would be teacher has The Voice

Wednesday, 15 October 2025 12:48 pm

Wiradjuri woman and University of Sydney primary education student, Olivia Coe Fox, has become the first person to sing in an Aboriginal language on the The Voice Australia, marking a historic moment in Australian television.

Singing in Yawuru language, her cover of ‘I Am, You Are, We are Australian’ was accompanied by didgeridoo and widely praised as an emotional and cultural significant moment.

Discover more about these deadly Fellows.

First Nations leaders win Churchill fellowships

Wednesday, 15 October 2025 12:48 pm

Fourteen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders have been named Churchill Fellows for 2025.

They will travel the world to bring back ideas that strengthen culture, communities and Country. Their projects span land management, health, education, justice, fashion and the arts reflecting the breadth of First Nations leadership across Australia.

Bonus quarterly feature in this edition.

Get the latest Torres news

Friday, 10 October 2025 11:00 am

With many Torres Strait Islanders living on the mainland of Australia, the Koori Mail has partnered with local Thursday Island-based newspaper, The Torres News, to bring some stories from the ’top of Australia’.

The Torres News is offered as an insert in the Koori Mail four times a year.

Premiers – the Brisbane Lions – 2025

Dogg Day for Cats

Friday, 10 October 2025 11:00 am

By Peter Argent – In front of a block-buster crowd of 100,022 at the MCG, the Brisbane Lions lifted the AFL premiership cup, after a brilliant performance in a relentless game, with Charlie Cameron breaking the game open deep in the third term.

Bobbie Kendall valiantly tries to survive eight seconds

Rough riding ringers battle with the bulls

Wednesday, 8 October 2025 12:37 pm

By Christine Howes – It’s been six years since Pormpuraaw, on the western side of Cape York, held a rodeo, but the sport and spectacle have lost none of their popularity.

In a town once famous for its ‘Croc Races’, the 2025 Pormpuraaw Rodeo featured poddy, juvenile and open rides on local bulls brought in from local outstations, and nearly 40 riders.

See all the action from this year’s event in our picture spread, pages 13 – 15, Edition 861.

Archie Moore pictured at the entrance way to this award-winning work ‘Kith and Kin’.

The commanding cosmic presence of Kith and Kin

Wednesday, 8 October 2025 12:37 pm

By Christian Morrow – At the heart of Archie Moore’s monumental Venice Biennale Golden Lion winning installation (Kith and Kin) lies an uncomfortable story of dispossession and truth-telling that ultimately becomes a cosmic story of connection and Indigenous sovereignty. The site-specific work currently resides at Queensland Art Gallery in a softly lit space dominated by the enormous mural that traces both his Anglo-Scottish and Gamilaroy/ Bigambul family trees, all hand written in chalk on a blackboard background.