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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…

ONE of rugby league’s biggest names has confirmed his availability for Aboriginal sport’s main event that gets underway in less than a month.

Latrell Mitchell last week announced he will pull together a team to represent his people, and birthplace, Taree, at the 52nd NSW Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout Carnival.

The Koori Knockout this year will be played at Bathurst, Country for Wiradjuri, in the Central Tablelands of NSW, and home of motorsport’s Bathurst 1000.

Bathurst was chosen as host by the winners of last year’s Koori Knockout, Walgett…

SHOWCASING Western Australian and Noongar culture on a global stage, The Phil Walleystack Indigenous Arts Foundation has just returned from a global gig in Croatia as part of the 3rd International Folklore Festival Split.

In a performance titled ‘Kaya Croatia’, it was the first time Australia has been represented at the festival and the first time Noongar culture has been promoted in Croatia.

Well received by the Europeans, the Croatian Government rolled out the red carpet for the crew and projected the Australian and Aboriginal Flags onto the City’s water fountain in Zagreb.

The group, made up of five Western Australian…

HAILING from far north Queensland, 16 Indigenous girls and young women are taking the stories of Western Australia’s Pilbara region to the United Kingdom.

The Marliya choir will be joined by members of Australia’s national children’s choir, Gondwana Voices, as well as the UK’s Farnham Youth Choir and Royal Scottish National Orchestra Youth Chorus when they perform Spinifex Gum at the Barbican Centre in London.

Marliya is made up of children who were also members of the Gondwana Indigenous Children’s choir.

Spinifex Gum, which will be performed in both Yindjibarndi and English, was composed…

AMANDA Reid has overcome a difficult preparation to successfully defend her Paralympic Games title with a commanding performance in the C1- 3 500m time trial at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome, south-west of Paris.

In Tokyo, the proud Wemba Wemba and Guring-gai woman became the first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander woman to win a cycling medal at the Paralympic Games.

Now, she has gone back-to-back to add a second gold to her collection.

Reid said her fourth Paralympic Games had been one to remember.

“It’s just been an experience and a half…