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THE National NAIDOC Committee and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation have announced that the ABC will once again be the home of National NAIDOC Week celebrations as the official broadcast and education partner.

National NAIDOC Week 2024 will be held across the country from July 7-14, with the theme this year of Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud & Proud.

As the official broadcast partner, the ABC will telecast the NAIDOC awards live from Tarndanya (Adelaide) on Kaurna Yerta from 7.30pm (AEST) on Saturday, July 6.

The awards will be hosted by Total Control star Rob Collins, 10 News First presenter Narelda Jacobs, and comedian Steph Tisdell…

HISTORY will be made this month when Marissa Williamson Pohlman takes her place in the Australian Olympic team in Paris.

The staunch Ngarrindjeri woman will become the first Aboriginal female boxer to fight at the Olympics when she enters the ring in Paris.

Williamson Pohlman booked her ticket to Paris when she won gold at the 2023 Pacific Games in Honiara in the 66kg division final.

“I know there are young ones looking up to me and I take that very seriously,” the 22-year-old said.

Williamson Pohlman is part of a record 12 Australian boxers selected to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

VICTORIA’S historic truth-telling process – the Yoorrook Justice Commission – has reached a critical milestone, concluding its social injustice public hearings that have laid bare systemic structural racism compounding the state’s brutal colonial history.

On Thursday in Melbourne – unceded Wurundjeri lands – the state’s Treasurer and Minister for Economic Growth, Tim Pallas, gave evidence on the Labor government’s efforts to improve economic prosperity for First Peoples.

Minister Pallas oversees the government’s economic policy and strategy around management of public funds and resources, including planning and delivery of major infrastructure projects.

Under questioning by Yoorrook’s senior counsel Fiona McLeod, he acknowledged historical and ongoing injustices and entrenched disadvantage experienced by First Peoples in Victoria, including dispossession from their land, water and resources, and culture, through the acts of squatters that were – and remained – unlawful; and the state’s financial management principles, state revenue…

A STATE memorial service is being planned to honour the life of esteemed Yolŋu leader Rev Dr D. Gondarra.

As a respected lawman of the Dhurili clan of north-east Arnhem Land and a key Aboriginal leader over decades, Dr Gondarra was a highly effective advocate for his Yolŋu culture and language.

His good friend, Mr Yingiya Guyula, announced Dr Gondarra’s death in the Northern Territory parliament on June 20. Dr Gondarra died surrounded by family on June 18.

Dr Gondarra’s eldest daughter, Biritjalawuy Gondarra, described her father as “a battler” who took his fight for justice to some of the highest offices in the world, including the United Nations.

“He’s done so much for his people for the last 50 years, to gain justice and freedom in Australia,” Ms Gondarra said.

“He’s been a great role model to us, his children, and to many of us.”

The memorial service is expected to be held in Darwin on August 30 at a venue to…

UNCLE BJ Cruse will address the United Nations (UN) this month (July).

It is his latest bid to get redress for himself and other Aboriginal people who experienced mental and physical abuse as a child.

In his three-minute address the Yuin Elder describes his week-long ordeal at a public hospital when he was five.

“The nurses dressed me in a makeshift gown fashioned from an empty flour sack. Stencilled on the front and back was the word ‘Abo’ which is short for Aboriginal. It symbolises a half human,” he said.

“I was made to follow the nurse all day, constantly holding onto her apron strings in each hand. Failing to turn at the same time and direction I would pull a left or right apron string undone and she would slap me on the corresponding side of the…

TWELVE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander coaches have graduated from the Australian Olympic Indigenous Coaching Scholarship (AOICS) program.

The AOICS program is a high-level professional development, education and formal training to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Olympic sport coaches.

The recent graduation ceremony marks the completion of all required program elements.

Hailing from the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales, the program graduates include Dawn Maizie Baira, Travis Carroll, Shana Casimiro and Keegan Popowski (hockey), Simone Carré and Benjamin Catley (athletics), Libby Cook-Black, Andrew Thorpe, ‘TJ’ Cora and Tiana Brockhurst (marathon), and Michael Faccin and Kimberly Eulenstein (swimming).

The 12 newly-graduated coaches are now accredited to deliver ongoing coach development courses in targeted…