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• A LANDMARK report into missing and murdered First Nations women and children is merely “tinkering at the edges” and won’t deliver justice, an expert has warned. Justice can never be achieved for missing and murdered First Nations women and children while they remain “invisible” and unprotected. That is the message from Indigenous women across Australia following the release of a Senate inquiry’s final report.

• GUNDITJMARA brothers Javier and Darchi Clarke aim to run over 220km in five days (equivalent to five marathons) to raise funds and awareness around mental health and suicide prevention. Their run will start in Ballarat, Victoria, on Tuesday, September 10 (World Suicide Prevention Day), and they aim to arrive in Echuca five days later.

PLUS – Supply Nation’s Connect kicks off in Brisbane, page 25.

In SPORT:

• AUSTRALIA is sending its equal-highest Indigenous contingent to the 2024 Paris Paralympics with a deadly quartet of athletes who will compete at the Games beginning this week (Thursday, August 29 to Sunday, September 8). Paralympics Australia last week confirmed the four squad members and the sports they will compete in.

• MULGA Tigers RLFC from Badu Island in the Torres Strait celebrated long and hard after winning the 2024 Zenadth Kes Rugby League premiership at Waiben on Saturday. The Tigers defeated a valiant Suburbs team 18-10.

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Kie Simon-Brown and his mother, Truwana Ranger, June Brown, from Truwuna, pose for a photo with admiral of the fleet and captain of Heart, Samuel McLennan, with the salvaged canvas and plastic tube painted by Takira Simon-Brown.

Rubbish boat’s journey to highlight plastic pollution

Wednesday, 28 August 2024 12:50 am

A WHOLE heap of plastic ‘rubbish’ was recently welcomed to the shores of Truwuna/Cape Barren Island.

It didn’t wash in on the tide.

Instead it came in the form of Heart, a boat built by Samual McLennan entirely from materials salvaged from the marine environment, with the exception of some silicon used to patch a buoy.

Despite a proud boat building history on Truwana, locals checking out Heart commented they couldn’t build one like it as there are no fish farms close by littering the oceans – and that’s the way want to keep it.

Truwuna, off the north east of…

The brothers, Javier, 23, and Darchi, 19, have been running up to 180 kilometres per day in training for their marathon effort.

Brothers to run five marathons in five days

Wednesday, 28 August 2024 12:49 am

GUNDITJMARA brothers Javier and Darchi Clarke are hoping to shine some light on the darkness of mental health.

They aim to run over 220km in five days (equivalent to five marathons) to raise funds and awareness around mental health and suicide prevention.

Their run will start in Ballarat, Victoria, on Tuesday, September 10 (World Suicide Prevention Day), and they aim to arrive in Echuca five days later.

They will be supported along the way by their parents, Paul and Clare (who is a nurse), and their mate, Lachie Trotman, who will be riding a bike.

They have a Gofundme page (ClarkeRun) to…

The Indigenous Marathon Project TI NAIDOC Fun Run and mini-marathon event at Waiben-Thursday Island last week saw a strong turn out.

Waiben the perfect backdrop

Wednesday, 28 August 2024 12:48 am

MORE than 50 people at Waiben joined the Thursday Island Deadly Runners and Walkers and the Indigenous Marathon Foundation (IMF) to participate in a fun-run to make a difference to health and fitness locally.

The TI NAIDOC Fun Run on 16 and 17 August offered various race distances for all ages and fitness abilities.

Although labelled as a “fun run”, the event carried a much deeper significance.

It served to highlight the courageous…

Winner of the NAIDOC Person of the Year Muriel Bamblett said increasing rates of out-of-home care were ‘frustrating’.

Out-of-home care rates rise

Wednesday, 28 August 2024 12:47 am

THE latest Closing the Gap data has shown that once again, the number of First Nations children in out-of-home care across the country continues to rise.

Nationally, numbers have increase since 2019, when 54.2 per 1,000 First Nations’ children were in child protection, to 57.2 per 1,000.

Victoria has seen the sharpest rise, with more than 10 percent of Aboriginal children reported to be in out-of-home care, nearly double the national average.

The Productivity Commission – which compiled the data – reported that Aboriginal children…

Tai Tuivasa. Picture: Getty Images.

Tuivasa faces a tough road back to UFC favour

Wednesday, 28 August 2024 12:46 am

HEAVYWEIGHT Tai Tuivasa sank to his fifth straight defeat after losing to Jairzinho Rozenstruik by split decision at UFC 305 in Perth last weekend.

Tuivasa got pummelled in the second round, but surprisingly one of the judges scored the three-round bout 30-27 to the Australian.

The other two judges scored the bout 30-27 and 29-28 to Rozenstruik, which meant Tuivasa now not tasting victory in the Octagon since February 2022.

In a bid to end the rot, Tuivasa had flown to Dubai to train for his latest fight, hoping the change in scenery would help him escape distractions such as his friends and…

Footballers and stars of the film Like my Brother enjoying the world premiere at MIFFS. Left to right: Freda, Rina, Jess. Front, left to right: Melea and Jocelia.

Shelley Ware: Films aim to create better pathways

Wednesday, 28 August 2024 12:45 am

DURING the Melbourne International film festival this August I was privileged to see our people’s and some dear friend’s voices shared, lifted and celebrated across the big screen at ACMI.

The first film Like my Brother and then Voice are two very different films but both, highlighting young First Nations people’s voices and lived experiences, have merit and are important to listen to.

Like my Brother is a coming-of-age story that follows four Tiwi Island AFLW players Rina, Freda, Juliana and Jess for five years as they openly share their…