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• THE dismissal of a Commonwealth appeal in a landmark compensation case shows the “strength” of Native Title and may have implications for Traditional Owners across Australia. The High Court dismissed the appeal against a decision in the Federal Court, which found the Gumatj clan’s Country in northeast Arnhem Land was not acquired “on just terms” before being leased to the Swiss-Australian mining consortium, Nabalco in 1968.

• INDIGENOUS, legal and human rights groups say tough new bail laws in Victoria will needlessly lock away more people – particularly Aboriginal women and children experiencing poverty, family violence and mental illness. “The Allan government has rammed through dangerous and discriminatory bail laws which will deeply harm Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and breach human rights,” they said in a joint statement.

• INDIGENOUS women from across the world have gathered to call for an end to violence, eradication of inequality and for their voices to be heard. The International Indigenous Women’s Forum, marking 25 years of advocacy, released their political declaration at the 69th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York.

• Peter Archer continues his series looking back on the careers of First Nations sporting icons, with Australian representative softballer Stacey Porter.

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Latest News Stories

Morris Roberts has signed up for the 12 month haircutting course at Papunya.

Papunya salon delivering deadly hairdos

Thursday, 27 March 2025 12:19 pm

A NEW hair salon is set to provide training, jobs and a much-needed service to residents in Papunya and surrounding Aboriginal communities.

Papunya, west of Alice Springs, recently celebrated the much-anticipated opening of Papunya Hair Salon, a purpose-built shipping container that underwent a retro-refit prior to delivery.

The hair salon was funded by National Indigenous Australians Agency and has been…

Coalition shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Nampijinpa Price.

We got five out of ten from Senator Nampijinpa Price

Thursday, 27 March 2025 12:13 pm

KOORI MAIL comes to you this week in the shadow of a looming federal election.

As the Voice of Indigenous Australia, we believe our readers deserve to hear from the Coalition shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Nampijinpa Price, in the run-up to an election that must take place on a Saturday, on or before May 17 this year.

Should Peter Dutton’s Coalition win the election, Senator Price would be in line to not only be the new…

Dr Rose Elu speaking outside Federal Court in Melbourne. Picture: Catherine Black.

40 years of the Torres Strait Treaty: A promise now broken by climate harm

Thursday, 27 March 2025 12:12 pm

Torres Strait Island Elder from the Saibai chieftain clan, Aunty Dr Rose Elu, is among the contributors in this edition. Read her anguished opinion piece about the climate betrayal faced by people in the Torres Strait region.

“Forty years ago this year, our Elders fought hard to win the Torres Strait Treaty – an agreement from the Australian government to protect our culture, our connection to land and sea, and our kinship with our neighbours in Papua New Guinea.

Leaders like Tanu Nona, Marau and Getano Lui Snr stood their ground, rejecting inadequate offers and negotiating tirelessly to secure…

The proppaNOW artist collective (left to right): Gordon Hookey, Jennifer Herd, Tony Albert, Megan Cope, Richard Bell and Vernon Ah Kee. The collective also includes the late Laurie Nilsen. Picture: Rhett Hammerton.

Lismore Regional Gallery gets all proppaNOW

Thursday, 27 March 2025 12:11 pm

ONE of Australia’s leading cultural groups, proppaNOW, are currently staging their last exhibition as a collective at Lismore Regional Gallery.

Established in 2003 in Brisbane, proppaNOW members Vernon Ah Kee, Tony Albert, Richard Bell, Megan Cope, Jennifer Herd, Gordon Hookey and Laurie Nilsen explore the politics of Aboriginal art and culture, re-thinking what it means to be a ‘contemporary Aboriginal artist’.

Speaking at the recent opening event, Richard Bell said proppaNOW has looked different in every single venue. “We all make work about land rights and the colonisation of…

Moonbird features Badimya-Yamiji and Noongar actor Kyle Morrison and young Bundjalung actor Lennox Monaghan.

Moonbird film premieres in France

Thursday, 27 March 2025 12:11 pm

Palawa journalist Jillian Mundy has delivered stories about the tradition of muttonbirding on Lutriwita to Koori Mail readers for years. In this edition, Jillian reports on Moonbird, a world premiering six-part drama that has muttonbirding at it’s heart. Mundy speaks with the series writers, Palawa men and muttonbirders, Nathan Maynard and Adam Thompson about sharing cultural practice through story: “instead of having it on screen in a documentary we created a drama to inrtroduce some of the complexity of muttonbirding,” Thompson told her.

Treaty Authority members Dr Petah Atkinson, Jidah Clark, Thelma Austin, Andrew Jackomos and Duean White.

Victoria’s Treaty negotiations are finally getting underway

Thursday, 27 March 2025 12:09 pm

AS Victoria’s first Treaty negotiations look set to begin, the Koori Mail spoke with Jidah Clark, a Djab Wurrung man and Chair of the Treaty Authority, to learn more about its role in the process.

While the first treaty legislation was passed by the Victorian Parliament in 2018 – the first of any kind in Australia – establishing the Treaty Assembly, it was decided that an independent body was required to serve as a negotiator between Traditional Owners and the state government.

As such, the Victorian Parliament established the Treaty…