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  • At the trial for the murder of Cassius Turvey, the West Australian Supreme Court has heard disturbing details of the alleged attack on the 15-year-old Noongar Yamatji boy, who died in hospital ten days after the alleged attackin October 2022. 

  • DILAPIDATED buildings are hindering dedicated services’ desperate efforts to close the gap on better life outcomes for Aboriginal people. A damning report, co-authored by Infrastructure Victoria and the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, exposes…

  • THIRTY-SIX First Nations ancestors from the United Kingdom have been returned in a ceremony hosted by the Natural History Museum in London. The ceremony marked the return of ancestors to four communities in Queensland: one ancestor to the Woppaburra community, one to the Warrgamay, two ancestors to the Wuthathi community and two ancestors to the Yadhighana community. The remaining 30 ancestors…

IN SPORT

  • NOW in its third incarnation, the AFL’s Gather Round descended on South Australia from Thursday, April 10 to Sunday, April 13, with all 18 teams playing across three venues. See our picture spread from this year’s Round.

Mid-year Education Feature, pages 29 – 53

Latest News Stories

Apryl Day with a picture of her mother Tanya Day. (Picture AAP)

Advocates for justice

Friday, 2 May 2025 3:51 pm

A PROUD Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wemba, and Barapa Barapa woman, Apryl Day found herself at the forefront of the ongoing advocacy to prevent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody after her mother Tanya tragically passed away in a prison cell in Castlemaine in 2017…

Speaking with the Koori Mail at the recent Ngarra Jarra Noun Healing Ceremony in Naarm (Melbourne), Apryl reflected fondly on her mother’s vibrant personality.

“She was a grandmother of eight, her favourite colour was pink, she liked to wear high heels and look her best, and she loved to cook,” she said.

Read Koori Mail correspondent ALI MC’s report from the Ngarra Jarra Noun Healing Ceremony.

Members of the Bundjalung Tribal Society are getting ready to celebrate 50 years.

Bundjalung Mob to mark 50 years

Friday, 2 May 2025 3:18 pm

THE Bundjalung Tribal Society will celebrate 50 years of service, advocacy and cultural strength with a special event on Saturday, May 3, at the Lismore Workers Sports Club and is seeking corporate sponsors to stand alongside the organisation to help mark this important milestone.

Founded in 1975, the Bundjalung Tribal Society has played a vital role in supporting community through land rights advocacy, cultural preservation, housing initiatives, and grassroots leadership.

“We are incredibly proud to be celebrating 50 years of Bundjalung strength and survival,” said society chairperson, Tracey King.

To support this event go to: bundjalungtribalsociety.com or call (02) 6621 6992.

Jim Everett before he went to the colonial court to deliver his message to the magistrate. Picture: Jillian Mundy

Palawa Elder refuses to recognise jurisdiction

Friday, 2 May 2025 2:44 pm

A FORTNIGHT ago Palawa Elder Uncle Jim Everett puralia meenamatta entered the Hobart Magistrates Court to tell them they have no jurisdiction over him as an Aboriginal man protecting his Country.

He entered the day a charge of trespass against him was to be heard. It stems from his arrest in a logging coupe at Bradys Lake on his 82nd birthday in October last year.

Everett described the peaceful protest against clear felling of native forests and his arrest as a present to the forests.

Read Jillian Mundy’s story

Arrernte artist and illustrator Seraphina Newberry with her first graphic novel, Exo Dimensions. (Picture: Indigenous LIteracy Foundation)

Telling ancient stories in a brand new, futuristic way

Friday, 25 April 2025 6:03 pm

IMAGINE this, the Rainbow Serpent turning into a superhero in a dystopian present day, complete with cyborgs and zombies, set in a graphic novel that entwines Indigenous creation stories in a time where the past catches up with the future.  

It may be a lot to get your head around, but for Arrernte artist and illustrator Seraphina Newberry and her readers, it all makes perfect sense.  

Federal Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy (centre right) with the most senior surviving claimant of the Wakaya- Alyawarre land claim, Eileen Bonney, in the Barkly region, Northern Territory. Traditional Owners are celebrating the return of more than 400,000 hectares of Country following four decades of negotiations and legal proceedings. (AAP)

Land returned after 45-year wait

Friday, 25 April 2025 5:30 pm

AFTER four decades of advocacy, Traditional Owners are celebrating the return of their Country, but say it has been a long time coming. In 1980, the Central Land Council lodged a land claim on behalf of Wakaya and Alyawarre Traditional Owners in the Northern Territory’s Barkly region. (AAP)

Monaroo Elder Uncle BJ Cruse spoke at the United Nations in Switzerland last year about historic child abuse. He’s now heading to New York to speak about human rights abuses.

Uncle BJ off to the UN, again

Friday, 25 April 2025 5:28 pm

MONAROO Elder Uncle BJ Cruse is again flying overseas to call out the Australian Government’s breach of human rights to the United Nations (UN). 

It relates to the compulsory acquisition of land at Fisheries Beach, Eden, in Yuin Country, by the Commonwealth of Australia, on behalf of the Department of Defence, in September 2002. 

Uncle BJ said the land was granted to the Aboriginal people under the 1999 International Regional Forest Agreement (RFA).