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• A TRIBUTE to prolific and award-winning Australian music legends Uncle Archie Roach and Aunty Ruby Hunter was unveiled at Atherton Gardens in Fitzroy, Melbourne, on Saturday. A large crowd gathered for the unveiling of the new artwork, which is a tribute to the song-writing couple.

• FORMER police constable Zachary Rolfe’s “fascination with violence” barely featured in his criminal trial but during Australia’s longest-running coronial inquest his actions have been characterised as racist. Full story, page 5.

PLUS – Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award winners – page 33.

In SPORT:

• FANS of Indigenous sport and sportspeople can celebrate in Meanjin-Brisbane next year  when the 2025 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sports Awards heads north. Nathan Lovett-Murray from the Indigenous Sports Network, the team behind the return of the awards after a 20- year hiatus, confirmed the move at the 2024 awards ceremony at the MCG last week.

• MIA King is a premiership player after North Melbourne defeated Brisbane by 30-points in the 2024 AFLW grand final at Princes Park in Melbourne on Saturday. King was one of four Aboriginal women in Saturday’s grand final.

• ABORIGINAL fast- bowlers Scott Boland and Brendan Doggett are vying for a spot in the Australian XI Test cricket team in the series against India. Boland is the man most likely to replace the injured Josh Hazlewood in Adelaide for the day-night Test. 

Latest News Stories

Ngarrindjeri elder Major Sumner conducted a smoking ceremony to mark the repatriation of remains.

Ancestral remains returned from American museums

Tuesday, 3 December 2024 4:33 pm

THE remains of 14 Indigenous ancestors kept in American museums have returned to Australia.

The bodies were repatriated from the Fowler Museum at the University of California, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the Oakland Museum of California and the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

They were received by Australian representatives at a ceremony in the United States. 

One of the ancestors was accompanied home to South Australia by Ngarrindjeri elder Major Sumner, also known as Uncle Moogy.

Knowing that his relatives had been dug up, flown around the world and put on display…

Ngarrindjeri, Narungga, Kaurna and Noongar woman Natasha Wanganeen has collaborated with Liam Young on a new project, working at the intersection of design, fiction and futures.

The future is a fiction that is open to reinvention

Tuesday, 3 December 2024 4:32 pm

NGARRINDJERI, Narungga, Kaurna and Noongar woman Natasha Wanganeen describes herself as a mum first, before anything else, and her other work just happens to be as an award-winning actress, proud activist, producer, writer and director.

In her next creation Natasha is collaborating with Liam Young, working at the intersection of design, fiction, and futures.

The exhibition titled After the End predicts a different kind of future for its people and the Country we live on.

The exhibit includes both moving and still images, depicting colonisation’s effects and potential solutions and opens in NAARM…

Wagga Torres Strait Islander Dance Company dancers perform at the 2024 National Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) conference in Meanjin/Brisbane recently.

Hundreds of delegates attend the 2024 National Reconciliation Action Plan Conference

Tuesday, 3 December 2024 4:31 pm

MORE than 850 delegates attended the 2024 National Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Conference in Meanjin-Brisbane this month, hearing from a diverse line-up of local, national and international speakers and experts across the two-day event.

Hosted by Reconciliation Australia and held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on November 6-7, the conference aimed to ‘galvanise the power’ of the 3000+ organisations with RAPs from all around Australia during this historic phase in Australia’s reconciliation journey.

With this year’s theme, Now More Than…

Indigenous representation was strong at the NSWRL Harmony 9s recently.

Working in Harmony on the football field

Tuesday, 3 December 2024 4:30 pm

THREE Indigenous rugby league teams flew the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags proudly at the NSWRL Harmony 9s tournament at Wollongong recently.

Two junior teams – under-16s and under-18s – and a senior men’s team were among nearly 90 others which played in the event at the Croom Road Sports Complex on the NSW south coast.

The senior men’s team was led by player-coach and captain Troy Dargin.

“We had a fast and mobile side this year with a bit of experience also,” Dargin said.

“We had Michael Lett, our captain and former NRL player, play for us,” he said.

“A lot of the boys knew…

Lucia Richardson strikes a pose.

Lucia flies high with circus skills

Tuesday, 3 December 2024 4:29 pm

LUCIA Richardson is literally flying high with the seventeen-year-old Amangu dancer from the Yamatji nation aiming to make a name for herself in the international circus world.

Currently a full-time student at Australia’s national youth circus, the Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Lucia draws on her First Nations cultural identity and stories to build and enrich her circus performances.

She will be among the students performing in Live and Famous, making its debut at The Famous Spiegel tent in Sydney’s Carriageworks as part of their Summer Program…

Head ranger William Watson of the Nyikina Mangala Ranger Group, and Pius Gregory.

Rangers intervene to help save the wiliji

Tuesday, 3 December 2024 4:27 pm

TWO-WAY science was the name of the game when Aboriginal Rangers and World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia worked together to save the rare Western Australian wiliji after catastrophic bush fires destroyed their Kimberley Ranges habitats.

It’s believed the endangered wiliji, a distinct subspecies of black-footed rock-wallaby, exists in only three locations – the Grant, Edgar and Erskine Ranges – in the West Kimberley region and Indigenous rangers supplied supplementary food to help one of Australia’s rarest animals survive…