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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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…