#indigenousaustralians — Public Fediverse posts
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We asked teens what they thought of sweeping changes to child protection laws
By Dana Morse and Tahnee JashCulture and knowledge have been passed down across generations. But some young people worry their loved ones could soon be left behind.
#IndigenousAustralians #IndigenousCulture #DanaMorse #TahneeJash
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84yo nan drives 2,000km to donate clothes to communities
By Jon DalyBarbara Carroll is on a personal mission to distribute donated clothes to charities and women's refuges in the most remote corners of WA.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-12/op-shop-owner-nan-barb-goes-north-donates-clothes/107106004
#Charities #RegionalCommunities #IndigenousAustralians #HumanInterest #JonDaly
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'Disappointing': Council's bid to scrap Indigenous tribute sparks backlash
By Phoebe PinCommunity concern is growing over a decision by an inner west Sydney council to black out sections of its entry signs which pay tribute to the area's traditional owners.
#LocalGovernment #IndigenousAustralians #Reconciliation #Multiculturalism #PhoebePin
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'Landmark' NT novel wins best fiction at Prime Minister's Literary Awards
By Courtney Barrett PetersA novel based on the oral history of Yolŋu people has taken out the fiction prize at this year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards, with judges describing it as a "profound work of remembrance and re-imagination".
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Police use of force under review after 63yo woman pushed to ground
By Amy RossbachWA Police are reviewing an officer's use of force after footage appeared to show him pushing a 63-year-old Indigenous woman to the ground.
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Tasmanian devils lived alongside humans in Pilbara for millennia, Juukan Gorge fossils reveal
By Petra StockResearchers find fossils ranging from 7,000 years to 46,000 years old showing evidence that devils may have become reliant on humans for scavenging
#Environment #Wildlife #Endangeredspecies #IndigenousAustralians #WesternAustralia #TheGuardian #PetraStock
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Tasmanian devils lived alongside humans in Pilbara for millennia, Juukan Gorge fossils reveal
By Petra StockResearchers find fossils ranging from 7,000 years to 46,000 years old showing evidence that devils may have become reliant on humans for scavenging
#Environment #Wildlife #Endangeredspecies #IndigenousAustralians #WesternAustralia #TheGuardian #PetraStock
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Tasmanian devils lived alongside humans in Pilbara for millennia, Juukan Gorge fossils reveal
By Petra StockResearchers find fossils ranging from 7,000 years to 46,000 years old showing evidence that devils may have become reliant on humans for scavenging
#Environment #Wildlife #Endangeredspecies #IndigenousAustralians #WesternAustralia #TheGuardian #PetraStock
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Tasmanian devils lived alongside humans in Pilbara for millennia, Juukan Gorge fossils reveal
By Petra StockResearchers find fossils ranging from 7,000 years to 46,000 years old showing evidence that devils may have become reliant on humans for scavenging
#Environment #Wildlife #Endangeredspecies #IndigenousAustralians #WesternAustralia #TheGuardian #PetraStock
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NSW police settle trespass case after visiting Indigenous children’s home 150 times in 20 months
By Australian Associated PressTrespass case launched by two mothers settled after officers often went to families’ houses between midnight and 4am
#NewSouthWales #Australianpoliceandpolicing #IndigenousAustralians #Australianlaw #Australianews #TheGuardian #AustralianAssociatedPress
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NSW police settle trespass case after visiting Indigenous children’s home 150 times in 20 months
By Australian Associated PressTrespass case launched by two mothers settled after officers often went to families’ houses between midnight and 4am
#NewSouthWales #Australianpoliceandpolicing #IndigenousAustralians #Australianlaw #Australianews #TheGuardian #AustralianAssociatedPress
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NSW police settle trespass case after visiting Indigenous children’s home 150 times in 20 months
By Australian Associated PressTrespass case launched by two mothers settled after officers often went to families’ houses between midnight and 4am
#NewSouthWales #Australianpoliceandpolicing #IndigenousAustralians #Australianlaw #Australianews #TheGuardian #AustralianAssociatedPress
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NSW police settle trespass case after visiting Indigenous children’s home 150 times in 20 months
By Australian Associated PressTrespass case launched by two mothers settled after officers often went to families’ houses between midnight and 4am
#NewSouthWales #Australianpoliceandpolicing #IndigenousAustralians #Australianlaw #Australianews #TheGuardian #AustralianAssociatedPress
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Mothers settle trespass case over 'distressing' bail checks by NSW Police
By Tahnee JashTwo mothers reach a confidential settlement with the police after alleging that visits to check on their sons amounted to trespass.
#Police #IndigenousAustralians #Courts #Children #TahneeJash
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Mothers settle trespass case over 'distressing' bail checks by NSW Police
By Tahnee JashTwo mothers reach a confidential settlement with the police after alleging that visits to check on their sons amounted to trespass.
#Police #IndigenousAustralians #Courts #Children #TahneeJash
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Mothers settle trespass case over 'distressing' bail checks by NSW Police
By Tahnee JashTwo mothers reach a confidential settlement with the police after alleging that visits to check on their sons amounted to trespass.
#Police #IndigenousAustralians #Courts #Children #TahneeJash
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Mothers settle trespass case over 'distressing' bail checks by NSW Police
By Tahnee JashTwo mothers reach a confidential settlement with the police after alleging that visits to check on their sons amounted to trespass.
#Police #IndigenousAustralians #Courts #Children #TahneeJash
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Mothers settle trespass case over 'distressing' bail checks by NSW Police
By Tahnee JashTwo mothers reach a confidential settlement with the police after alleging that visits to check on their sons amounted to trespass.
#Police #IndigenousAustralians #Courts #Children #TahneeJash
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Book about Kumanjayi Walker's killing wins $80,000 at literary awards
By Hannah StoryKate Wild wasn't sure if she should write about the fatal shooting of Kumanjayi Walker and the ensuing murder trial. Her book just won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.
#AwardsandPrizes #Books #Fiction #NonFiction #Author #Novel #ArtsCultureandEntertainment #IndigenousAustralians #BlackDeathsInCustody #HannahStory
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Police shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker at centre of book that won $80k
By Hannah StoryKate Wild wasn't sure if she should write about the fatal shooting of Kumanjayi Walker and the ensuing murder trial. Her book just won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.
#AwardsandPrizes #Books #Fiction #NonFiction #Author #Novel #ArtsCultureandEntertainment #IndigenousAustralians #BlackDeathsInCustody #HannahStory
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Man charged with sexual abuse of children linked to former Adelaide youth detention centre
By Sarah Collard Indigenous affairs correspondentPolice allege the 78-year-old sexually abused 29 children connected to the now closed Magill training centre between 1978 and 2003
#SouthAustralia #IndigenousAustralians #Australianews #Youthjustice #TheGuardian #SarahCollardIndigenousaffairscorrespondent
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'Grossly inadequate': NT traditional owners plan to mandate mine rehabilitation
By Jane BardonTraditional owners in the NT want to see more money put aside for the rehabilitation of closed mines and are considering making it a requirement of any agreement established between mine companies and traditional owners.
#MiningandMetalsIndustry #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #IndigenousAustralians #LandRights #JaneBardon
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Blak & Bright Writers Festival rare public safe space for conversation
By Mawunyo GbogboPoet Evelyn Araluen says the Blak & Bright Writers Festival will provide a welcome reprieve from the often hostile online environments First Nations people deal with. The festival will take place in Naarm this week.
#CommunityandCulturalEvents #ArtsFestivals #Author #Books #IndigenousAustralians #ArtsEvents #MawunyoGbogbo
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Researchers dodge crocs to probe coral bleaching after technology failed
By Tilda CollingResearchers confirm a 2024 coral bleaching event in remote, crocodile-inhabited Northern Territory waters was not picked up by the latest predictive technologies.
#Reefs #Oceans #MarineBiology #EnvironmentalHealth #EnvironmentalManagement #IndigenousAustralians #TildaColling
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Program motivates remote students to join healthcare workforce at home
By Kavina Kumar and Zara MargolisMelinda is still finishing high school, but she is already working inside the health system and building a career that could bring her back to serve her own community.
#Education #Health #Nurses #HealthcareFacilities #IndigenousPeoples #RuralandRemoteCommunities #VocationalEducationandTraining #IndigenousAustralians #KavinaKumar #ZaraMargolis
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From Nhulunbuy to New York, the rare politician torn between two worlds
By Matt GarrickFrom Arnhem Land to Northern Territory parliament, independent MLA Yiŋiya Guyula resigned from politics this week after taking his people's fight to the world.
#GovernmentandPolitics #IndigenousAustralians #Independents #NTCLP #MattGarrick
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Wave Hill Walk-Off: Revisiting a 'pivotal moment' in land rights history
By Jane BardonTo Kalkarindji Gurindji traditional owner and elder Rob Roy, the Wave Hill Walk-Off is one of the most important turning points in Australian history, which ultimately returned his land, and more than half of the Northern Territory, to Aboriginal people.
#LandRights #IndigenousAustralians #History #LivestockFarming #Work #AgriculturalWorkers #JaneBardon
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Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade
By Paul DaleyAustralia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders
#Sydney #Slavery #IndigenousAustralians #Australianews #Race #Pacificislands #Vanuatu #Sugar #Colonialism #Queensland #Business #Australianbooks #Museums #Books #Shippingindustry #Forcedlabour #AsiaPacific #SouthPacific #TheGuardian #PaulDaley
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Five decades in the making, a Garma announcement has an eye to the future
By Matt GarrickHalf a century after Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory were written into law, a Garma Festival announcement could usher in a next chapter. But what would it look like?
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From playing on a rock to rocking out — the 'steep rise' of Wild Honey
By Matt GarrickThe grandsons of Yothu Yindi's lead singer have ambitions to take their band Wild Honey from Garma to the MCG and beyond.
#Music #IndigenousMusic #IndigenousAustralians #IndigenousCulture #ArtsFestivals #MusicIndustry #CountryMusic #BandsandArtists #MattGarrick
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'Like an ambush': Gove Peninsula elder rejects new land council plan
By Matt GarrickA key clan elder on the Gove Peninsula has voiced his frustration, confusion and concern over a bold plan to create a new Aboriginal land council in his region.
#IndigenousAustralians #CommunityandCulturalEvents #IndigenousPolicy #LandRights #MattGarrick
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Garma Festival media panel hears Indigenous debate has soured since Voice
By Matt GarrickSince Australia resoundingly rejected an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in 2023, media heavyweights say debate on Indigenous issues has taken a nosedive.
#Media #IndigenousAustralians #IndigenousPolicy #RaceRelations #FederalGovernment #Constitution #Referendums #IndigenousCulture #MattGarrick
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Land rights shake-up for remote Top End, with creation of new council
By Matt GarrickFifty years since the creation of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, a major shake-up of the land rights system has been announced at the Garma Festival.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-01/land-rights-councils-garma-festival-djawa-yunupingu/106985542
#IndigenousAustralians #CommunityandCulturalEvents #MattGarrick
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NT chief minister's Garma town promise on land rights anniversary
By Matt GarrickLia Finocchiaro uses her first Garma Festival speech to promise land and fuel security in north-east Arnhem Land after its main employer, Rio Tinto, leaves town.
#IndigenousAustralians #CommunityandCulturalEvents #MiningandMetalsIndustry #CommunityandSociety #GovernmentandPolitics #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #IndigenousPolicy #Industry #MattGarrick
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Leeser says Albanese has 'lost his direction' on Indigenous affairs
By Matt GarrickShadow Indigenous Australians Minister Julian Leeser has accused the federal government of being "adrift" on Indigenous affairs during his speech at the Garma Festival.
#IndigenousAustralians #CommunityandCulturalEvents #GovernmentandPolitics #IndigenousPolicy #FederalGovernment #CommunityandSociety #FederalParliament #PoliticalParties #AustralianFederalElections #MattGarrick
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'Momentous day' as Aboriginal ancestors' remains repatriated in Arnhem Land
By Matt GarrickDecades after being taken by a University of Melbourne anthropologist, the remains of nine Aboriginal ancestors have been returned to their sacred home in Arnhem Land.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/yol%C5%8Bu-remains-repatriated-in-arnhem-land-nt/106967058
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Captain Cook Shopping Centre sold to Arnhem Land Aboriginal corporation
By Matt GarrickBritish explorer James Cook never visited Nhulunbuy on his voyages, but his namesake shopping complex stood there for decades — until now.
#IndigenousAustralians #RuralandRemoteCommunities #History #MattGarrick
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#Australia - Online #racism is significantly affecting mental health, #FirstNations people say: ‘It’s like carrying a bully in your pocket’
Australian Human Rights Commission has called for a digital duty of care to prevent #SocialMedia #algorithms from incentivising ‘racist’ content
Douglas Smith and Sarah Collard
Fri 12 Jun 2026 11.00 EDTExcerpt: "Sam Bennell started a social media account to share his deep love of #Noongar culture and language. The 27-year-old gained nearly 10,000 followers in just a few months across Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, but says when he began sharing more of the traditional culture and language from south-west Western Australia he noticed a distinct change in the comments left under his posts.
" 'All the racists started commenting,' he says.
"He told Guardian Australia that his videos appeared to be pushed to a wider audience, which was attracting negativity. 'Facebook seems to be pushing my content to racists for some reason, which I don’t get,' he says. 'I haven’t been posting lately because it has been taking a toll on my mental health … all that online stuff is just crazy.' "
#AuntyLisa #Racism #IndigenousAustralians #AusPol #OnlineHarassment #SocialMediaAlgorithms #Incitement
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When I backpacked in #Australia in the 1990s, I spent quite a bit of time visiting #Kakadu, and got to know the #Indigenous caretakers there. This was one of their goals... I'm so glad to see it starting to become a reality!
Masterplanning in the form of a ‘yarn’
Inside the World Heritage-listed #KakaduNationalPark, a site previously characterized by extraction is being reimagined as a tourism hub, with the #TraditionalCustodians driving the design process.
by Christine Phillips 14 Nov 2023
"In 2021, #Jabiru was formally handed back to the #Mirarr people. As the Traditional Custodians and title owners, they have been driving the future of the town through #Gundjeihmi #Aboriginal Corporation Jabiru Town. The corporation engaged a strategic design team to complete a Stage 1 Masterplan and business case for Jabiru: economic development and tourism planning specialist Stafford Strategy, architecture and urban design practice Common (previously known as NAAU), and landscape designer Enlocus. For the more detailed Stage 2 Lakeside Precinct Plan, this team was joined by GHD for specialist hydrological engineering input.
"As John Doyle, a partner at Common, explained, the central question of the project was around 'how a place that had mostly been given over to processes of extraction could be reimagined with a new economy.' The team used economic and urban modelling to determine the infrastructure required to transition Jabiru from a town built to serve the needs of the miners and their families, to a tourism-focused model designed to provide ongoing economic opportunities for the local community and Traditional Custodians.
"What is compelling about this project is not simply that it is the Traditional Custodians driving the future of the town, but that the design process appears to be occurring in the form of a 'yarn.' Typically, a business case is developed separately from an architectural masterplan – but in this project, the process was an iterative loop of knowledge, ideas and experiences shared between all facets of the design team and the client. Common partner Ben Milbourne described one back-and-forth involving Stafford Strategy’s economic modelling, Common and Enlocus’s architectural and landscape modelling and masterplanning, and the GAC’s direct feedback throughout the process. According to Doyle, this process was 'messy, but great by virtue of that.'
"I found that there was also a #cultural and economic storytelling layer to the new masterplan. Previously, Jabiru was a turnoff on the highway before you reached the mining town. As Doyle explains, 'The new masterplan recalibrates the sequence of arrival to pivot the economy away from extraction to a people-based tourism hub.' Now, as you approach the town, you experience the surrounding views toward the #KakaduEscarpment, and it is clear that there is a deeper cultural narrative waiting to be discovered.
"This storytelling sensibility is echoed in the programmatic arrangement of the masterplan and in reference designs for each of the key buildings developed in consultation with the Traditional Custodians. In the visualization, a suite of accommodation options sweeps around the lake frontage to serve tourists and to provide ongoing sustainable economic opportunities for the Traditional Custodians. The masterplan also includes other new community infrastructure, such as the #Bininj (Traditional Owner) Resource Centre and housing; this infrastructure is all designed with sequential and incremental layers of enclosure that take their visual cues from the Jabiru landscape. For example, the proposed rammed- earth walls echo the striated geology of the escarpment. Common describes the strong relationship between inside and outside: 'The [envisaged] buildings, and the programs within, are organized as a series of discrete enclosures [that] allows the landscape to flow throughout the facility, ensuring that visitors have a constant connection with the celebrated Kakadu landscape.'"
Read more: https://architectureau.com/articles/jabiru-stage-1-masterplan/
#IndigenousAustralians #CulturalPreservation #CulturalConnection #Dreamtime #Storytelling