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• WALGETT Aboriginal Connection has defied history to win back-to-back titles at Aboriginal rugby league’s iconic event. WAC defeated Nanima Common Connections 46-12 to win the 52nd edition of the NSW Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout Carnival at Bathurst on Sunday. See page 5, 48 and back page.  

• INDIGENOUS women are being murdered at a rate of up to seven times the national average, mostly at the hands of intimate partners. Over more than three decades, 455 women were killed by men, with 11 per cent of homicides involving a female offender, a report by the Australian Institute Criminology shows. 

PLUS – Central Land Council celebrates 50 years of land rights. 

In SPORT:

• THE Indigenous Marathon Foundation has announced a 12-person squad, representing a cross-section of the community and from around the country – for the New York City Marathon next month. The 2024 Indigenous Marathon Project squad will tackle one of the world’s most iconic endurance events head-on on Sunday 3 November. 

• KIRA BUCKSKIN first played Senior 1 (A-Grade) netball as a 15- year-old; she is now celebrating as an A-Grade premiership player at Gawler Central in the Barossa, Light & Gawler (BLG) Netball Association at Tanunda.

Latest News Stories

Students from the NSW south-east took part in the First Nations Snowsports Program at Jindabyne last month.

Indigenous students take on the First Nations Snowsports Program

Monday, 7 October 2024 5:59 pm

INDIGENOUS students from the NSW south-east had their first experience of sport and snow at the First Nations Snowsports Program at Jindabyne last week.

The program, held earlier this month, saw the students learning the ropes on how to ski or snowboard at Perisher Ski Resort.

Afterwards, the youngsters took part in the inaugural Indigenous Snowsports event at the National Interschools Snowsports competition.

Participants were based at Jindabyne Sport and Recreation Centre where they also took part in cultural activities and learnt…

Dougie and Susan Mansell outside their family home in a Hobart suburb where their grandson Codie died in 2018.

Family hopes Codie’s legacy will save lives

Monday, 7 October 2024 5:57 pm

ALMOST six years after Tasmanian Aboriginal teenager Codie Mansell died, findings of an inquest have been published, further devastating his family.

Tasmanian coroner Olivia McTaggart found the seventeen-year-old’s death was preventable.

She attributed a number of factors, including a series of miscommunications by Ambulance Tasmania and Tasmanian Police, and a flawed ambulance safety ‘alerts’ system, recommending immediate procedural changes.

Codie, an aspiring country singer, passed away at his family home, less than six kilometres from the state’s main hospital…

Doody shucking oysters at Kelly’s Oyster Farm in Galway in September 2023.

Champion oyster shucker to battle best in the world

Monday, 7 October 2024 5:56 pm

GERARD ‘Doody’ Dennis left Australia on September 24 to again compete in the world oyster opening championships.

Last year the Gamilaroi and Walbunja man was the first Indigenous Australian to shuck competitively at the World Oyster Opening Championships in Ireland.

Originally from Walgett, in remote northwest NSW, Doody moved to Batemans Bay to live with relatives when he was 14.

Doody did a two-year traineeship for a Certificate IV in Aquaculture Harvest and Post- Harvest Operations with C & J Single Seed Oysters and at Batemans Bay Oysters. So began the love of oysters.

It was at Batemans Bay Oysters where he…

FLEWNT received a series of racist comments after he shared this photo online.

Vile, racist comments shock hip-hop stars

Monday, 7 October 2024 5:55 pm

AFTER millions of viewers around the world tuned in to watch their captivating performance on Americas Got Talent in June, father and son hip-hop duo FLEWNT and INKABEE should have returned home to Perth on a high.

Instead, FLEWNT was met with offensive online abuse, hate, and a barrage of racist comments on his social media almost as soon as he touched back down from Los Angeles (LA).

“I couldn’t believe it. I mean, I know there’s always that negative comment or two out there – but this was just insane,” FLEWNT told the Koori Mail.

“I could see that Mob and community were already calling out the racist comments on the Facebook post, but the more I read, the more angry I felt about the comments…

A flash mob of didgeridoo and clapstick players has broken a world record in Brisbane, to mark three years of occupation at a central Queensland mining lease.

Record marks three years of ceremony

Tuesday, 10 September 2024 11:11 pm

A FLASH mob of didgeridoo and clapstick players has set a new world record for the largest ensemble of clapsticks as Indigenous custodians celebrated three years of reoccupation of their homelands.

The record was broken in Brisbane on Sunday September 1, when 221 people gathered in King George Square playing clapsticks joined by 173 people playing the didgeridoo simultaneously.

While the didgeridoo record wasn’t broken, organiser and didgeridoo player Gurridyula Gaba Wunggu said it means there…

Lead applicant Minnie McDonald.

NT stolen-wages case settled

Tuesday, 10 September 2024 11:10 pm

THE Federal Government will pay up to $202 million compensation to thousands of Indigenous workers whose wages were stolen while working in the Northern Territory last century.

The payout is part of the settlement of a class action on behalf of workers and their families who were subject to Commonwealth wage control legislation between 1933 to 1971.

The Western Australian government settled a similar case last year for stolen wages in that state, agreeing to pay out $165 million while an action against the Queensland government…