🗞IN our latest edition, ON SALE TODAY, you’ll read about:

• WARRANT issued as Elder calls on next generation of warriors to step up: Tasmanian Elder Jim Everett- puralia meenamatta has told the Koori Mail the reason why he refused to attend court on June 3 after being arrested in the Styx Valley of the Giants forest last month. Full story, page 9. 

• MULTI award-winning musician Emma Donovan will lodge a complaint with the taxi industry regulator after being refused a ride by two separate taxi drivers at Perth Airport over the weekend. Ms Donovan initially thought she was refused service due to the short fare from the airport but is demanding an apology because she believes she was rejected by the taxi drivers ‘because of the colour of my skin’. 

PLUS – Cultural fishers to take fight to the United Nations, page 8. 

In SPORT:

• THE path to a professional netball career for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young women should become clearer following the First Nations Black Swans’ remarkable debut on the international stage. The Black Swans team defied all expectations while belying their relative inexperience after recording an impressive 4-2 record at the 2024 Pacific Netball Series in Brisbane at the weekend. 

• A TRIO of talented hockey-playing sisters will take on the best in the country at next month’s national championships on the Gold Coast. Twins Shaniqua Williams and Shelera Williams and sister Martina Williams have won selection for New South Wales at Hockey Australia’s Under-18s National Championships.