#indigenousaustralians — Public Fediverse posts
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Indigenous dads challenging stereotypes this Father's Day
By Chris Murrkarany FitzpatrickIndigenous fathers say damaging stereotypes continue to shape how they are seen as parents, as advocates call for their strengths and contributions to families to be celebrated this Father's Day.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-06/celebrating-indigenous-dads-fathers-day/107116864
#Parenting #IndigenousAustralians #NTIntervention #ChrisMurrkaranyFitzpatrick
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Fred Hollows built something remarkable but its future is under threat
By Catherine James and Rachel KellySixty years after Fred Hollows ventured into the outback to save the sight of thousands, a devoted team of specialists fears the life-changing work he started might not survive if governments cannot see past a funding blind spot.
#Health #Eyes #Charities #IndigenousAustralians #RuralandRemoteCommunities #Volunteering #CatherineJames #RachelKelly
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NT government says no more ‘coddling criminals’ or ‘identity politics’ after experts walk out over ignored advice
By Douglas Smith Indigenous affairs reporterIndependent experts and organisations tasked with improving justice outcomes for First Nations people say Territorian government is not entering into ‘genuine partnership’
#IndigenousAustralians #NorthernTerritory #Australianews #Prisons #TheGuardian #DouglasSmithIndigenousaffairsreporter
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Canberra woman to receive $100k settlement over illegal strip search
By Jade ToomeyJulianne Williams sued the ACT government for damages after a court found the illegal strip search breached her human rights.
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Uneven distribution of class action payments causing havoc in Arnhem Land
By Oliver ChaselingAboriginal organisations in north-east Arnhem Land say they have been left to deal with the aftermath of a stolen wages class action that failed to include hundreds of potentially eligible claimants. One Yolŋu elder says he only found out about the class action after others received payments.
#Courts #WagesandBenefits #IndigenousAustralians #OliverChaseling
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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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Another plan unveiled to tackle long-standing issues in Port Augusta
By Arj GanesanThe state government has announced another plan to tackle issues regarding crime, violence and substance abuse in Port Augusta. The efforts have been praised by Indigenous leaders who say it is needed, but have criticised the lack of Indigenous consultation.
#SocialProblems #IndigenousAustralians #Crime #IndigenousPolicy #YouthCrime #RegionalCommunities #CommunityOrganisations #SubstanceAbuse #Drugs #Alcohol #IndigenousPeoples #ArjGanesan
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More than a third of prenatal reports to NSW protective services not investigated, ombudsman finds
By Sarah Collard Indigenous affairs correspondentOther families have been unlawfully compelled to be case managed without consent, watchdog finds
#NewSouthWalespolitics #IndigenousAustralians #Health #NewSouthWales #Australianews #TheGuardian #SarahCollardIndigenousaffairscorrespondent
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More than a third of prenatal reports to NSW protective services not investigated, ombudsman finds https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/02/nsw-unborn-children-prenatal-caseworker-ombudsman-ntwnfb #NewSouthWalesPolitics #IndigenousAustralians #Health #NewSouthWales #AustraliaNews
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Rare photos found in attic shed light on Indigenous rights movement
By Alistair BatesThey waited in a Fremantle attic for decades. Now an anthropologist's snapshots of remote Australian history are about to see the light of day.
#History #IndigenousAustralians #FineArtPhotography #IndustrialAction #AlistairBates
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Aboriginal community still damaged, without services months after floods
By Joseph Hathaway-WilsonMonths after record flooding, the remote Aboriginal community of Nauiyu / Daly River remains significantly damaged and without services. Locals say some are still without power and little has been done to prepare for the next wet season.
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First Nations people with disability spending extended periods in custody, report finds
By Sarah RichardsThe Indigenous disability-led research is a national first, and examines the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability in Australia's justice system.
#IndigenousAustralians #BlackDeathsInCustody #Prisons #PeopleWithDisability #SarahRichards
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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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Australian boxing great Tony Mundine dies aged 75
By Australian Associated PressFather of former boxer and NRL star Anthony Mundine succumbed to a heart attack on Sunday
#Boxing #Australianews #Sport #IndigenousAustralians #TheGuardian #AustralianAssociatedPress
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Australian boxing great Tony Mundine dies aged 75 https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/31/australian-boxing-great-tony-mundine-dies-aged-75-ntwnfb #Boxing #AustraliaNews #Sport #IndigenousAustralians
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Birdsville's lone ranger retires after three decades as keeper of the desert
By Hannah WalshFor more than 30 years, Don Rowlands has been the ranger in charge of Munga-Thirri National Park, in Queensland's far south-west corner. But the time has come for him to hang up his uniform.
#IndigenousAustralians #NationalParks #History #RuralandRemoteCommunities #HannahWalsh
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Calls for better solutions as Kalgoorlie marks 10 years since protest
By Nicholas R Ward and Katrina TapA decade on from the unrest in the wake of an Aboriginal teen's death, some say not enough has been done to support young people in Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
#IndigenousAustralians #RuralandRemoteCommunities #NicholasRWard #KatrinaTap
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How an escaped convict spent decades living with Indigenous Australians
By Hannah ReichPerhaps you're familiar with the phrase "Buckley's chance". Well, it's thought that it originates from William Buckley, a man who defied all odds to escape his fate as a convict.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-29/australian-history-william-buckley-escaped-convict/107017588
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Three boys crawled into a skip bin one night and by morning one was dead. How did it happen?
By Tory ShepherdA coronial inquest is examining the death of Indigenous 13-year-old Budda Spencer, who had for years been on the radar of South Australian police and child protection
#IndigenousAustralians #SouthAustralia #Australianews #TheGuardian #ToryShepherd
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Report finds rock art damage more extensive than thought
By Alistair Bates and Kimberley PutlandThe Murujuga Rock Art monitoring program finds pollutants from previous industrial activity have damaged a larger area of ancient rock art on the Burrup Peninsula than previously thought.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-26/pilbara-murujuga-rock-monitoring-report/107075210
#EnvironmentalImpacts #IndigenousAustralians #AirPollution #IndigenousCulture #Industry #AlistairBates #KimberleyPutland
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Gulf trucking company halt could force remote grocery price surge
By Tim LittleRemote grocery prices could surge and more than 70 jobs are at risk after a major Gulf freight company was grounded for compliance and safety issues.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-26/hawkins-transport/107075312
#Transport #IndigenousAustralians #RuralandRemoteCommunities #CostofLiving #TimLittle
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‘Enough is enough’: 121 Indigenous Victorians have died by suicide in the past five years
By Douglas Smith Indigenous affairs reporterRoyal commission recommended First Nations healing centres in 2021 but the Indigenous health service says the state has ‘done nothing’ to fund it
#IndigenousAustralians #Victoria #Australianews #Mentalhealth #Health #TheGuardian #DouglasSmithIndigenousaffairsreporter
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‘Enough is enough’: 121 Indigenous Victorians have died by suicide in the past five years https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/25/indigenous-australia-victoria-suicide-mental-health-ntwnfb #IndigenousAustralians #Victoria #AustraliaNews #MentalHealth #Health
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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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Police inappropriately searched Aboriginal teen after mistaken gunpoint arrest
By Jade ToomeyThe ACT Ombudsman finds police inappropriately, and seemingly unlawfully, searched a 17-year-old Aboriginal boy after mistakenly arresting him at gunpoint on a bus in Canberra's south last year.
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‘Staggering’: watchdog condemns police after Indigenous teenager on bus wrongfully arrested – then searched https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/25/watchdog-scathing-after-act-police-searched-indigenous-teen-even-after-they-realised-arrest-was-mistake-ntwnfb #AustralianPoliceAndPolicing #AustralianCapitalTerritoryAct #AustraliaNews #AustralianFederalPolice #IndigenousAustralians
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‘Staggering’: watchdog condemns police after Indigenous teenager on bus wrongfully arrested – then searched
By Adeshola OreOmbudsman Iain Anderson says he is concerned police ‘had no clearly understood definition of racial profiling’
#Australianpoliceandpolicing #AustralianCapitalTerritoryACT #Australianews #Australianfederalpolice #IndigenousAustralians #TheGuardian #AdesholaOre
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Sediments reveal secrets from before the Great Barrier Reef was underwater
By Katrina BeavanTens of thousands of years ago, the Great Barrier Reef was above water. Whether it was grassland, rainforest, or mangrove swamp is something researchers and Indigenous rangers are trying to uncover.
#GreatBarrierReef #IndigenousAustralians #MarineParks #Conservation #KatrinaBeavan
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Family of missing woman wants $1m reward to help solve 13-year-old mystery
By Olivia Nunes-MalekMonique Clubb disappeared during a trip to Brisbane more than 13 years ago. Her family has now co-launched a campaign calling on Queensland Police to implement a reward for new information that could lead to an arrest.
#MissingPerson #IndigenousAustralians #IndigenousCulture #IndigenousPolicy #Police #Courts #OliviaNunesMalek
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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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Multiple child abuse reports not actioned before boy's death in skip bin
By Jodie Hamilton and Jenae MaddenAn inquest hears details about the family life of an Indigenous boy who died sleeping in a skip bin in SA. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died, used with the permission of their family.
#Courts #ChildAbuse #RegionalCommunities #IndigenousAustralians #JodieHamilton #JenaeMadden
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Naidoc awards honour ‘fearless, brilliant’ promoter of First Nations culture Rhoda Roberts
By Douglas SmithProud Widjabul Wieybal woman of the Bundjalung nation recognised posthumously with the lifetime achievement award
#IndigenousAustralians #Australianews #TheGuardian #DouglasSmith
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Delvene Cockatoo-Collins wins National Indigenous Fashion award for textiles harvested on Country
By Ima CaldwellThe Quandamooka artist was one of seven commended for garments that serve as living archives of kinship and memory
#Australianfashion #IndigenousAustralians #Indigenousart #Fashion #Culture #Darwin #TheGuardian #ImaCaldwell
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Aboriginal community police officers sue NT authorities over alleged racial abuse and discrimination
By Sarah Collard Indigenous affairs correspondentClass action claims Indigenous staff were called slurs, exposed to racist language and paid less for doing the same work
#IndigenousAustralians #Australianews #NorthernTerritory #Australianpoliceandpolicing #Race #Industrialrelations #TheGuardian #SarahCollardIndigenousaffairscorrespondent
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First Nations fashion celebrates weaving, wattle and waterways at from Country to Couture 2026 – in pictures
By (A)manda ParkinsonOver two nights in Larrakia country, Darwin Aboriginal art fair’s annual runway event showcases the work of 21 designers and art centres.
#Australianfashion #Lifeandstyle #Fashion #Darwin #IndigenousAustralians #Indigenousart #Australianews #TheGuardian #AmandaParkinson
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Connected under the Milky Way: new exhibition shares Indigenous astronomical knowledge from Australia to South Africa
By Sarah Collard Indigenous affairs correspondentThe Yamaji-Wajarri people studied the wide-open skies of their country for millennia before being host to one of the world’s largest radio telescopes
#IndigenousAustralians #Indigenousart #WesternAustralia #Australianews #Astronomy #TheGuardian #SarahCollardIndigenousaffairscorrespondent
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Historic $350m NSW funding boost helps launch new Aboriginal family program to help children ‘tell their own stories’
By Douglas SmithHolistic approach to care which preserves children’s identities part of Minns government reforms to broader child protection system
#IndigenousAustralians #NewSouthWales #Health #Australianews #Childprotection #TheGuardian #DouglasSmith
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Take a stand on racism or send a message against violence: what should happen to the Nicky Winmar statue?
By Douglas SmithSome say the WA government was right to remove the sculpture after the AFL great was convicted of assault. But others say it had a bigger meaning
#IndigenousAustralians #AFL #WesternAustralia #Violenceagainstwomenandgirls #Australianews #Australianrulesfootball #Domesticviolence #Australiasport #Race #WesternAustralianpolitics #CrimeAustralia #Frontierwars #TheGuardian #DouglasSmith
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We have survived! Forty years of Aboriginal protest posters – in pictures
By Sam Miers from the Penrith Miers Archive; Emma O'Neill and Seb Henry-Jones from Numbers; and Emma JoyceWiradjuri elder Ray Jackson was a prominent activist in Australia. He was the founding secretary of the New South Wales Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee in 1987 and a regular face at the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy up until his death in 2015.
#Australianart #Indigenousart #Culture #Artanddesign #IndigenousAustralians #Australianews #Protest #Deathsincustody #Race #Indigenousincarceration #TheGuardian #SamMiersfromthePenrithMiersArchive #EmmaONeill #SebHenryJonesfromNumbers # #EmmaJoyce
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Take a stand on racism or send a message against violence: what should happen to the Nicky Winmar statue?
By Douglas SmithSome say the WA government was right to remove the statue after the AFL great was convicted of assault. But others say the sculpture had a bigger meaning
#IndigenousAustralians #AFL #WesternAustralia #Violenceagainstwomenandgirls #Australianews #Australianrulesfootball #DouglasSmith
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#SouthAustralia - #PointPearce #FirstNations #CultureGarden
"#LandcareAustralia is proud to partner with #PointPearceAboriginalCorporation in establishing a First Nations community-led conservation and education project. Located in South #Australia’s Point Pearce in the #WardangIsland #IndigenousProtectedArea (IPA), the project is led by the #TraditionalOwners, the #Narungga people, and aims to support #Indigenous youth to learn about their Cultural heritage and knowledge that will lead to career and leadership pathways in #EnvironmentalConservation.
At the heart of this initiative is the Point Pearce First Nations Culture Garden, a space where #Elders, #FirstNationsRangers, and #IndigenousYouth come together to bridge and transfer #CulturalKnowledge. Designed as a hands-on learning environment, it will inspire young people to explore environmental conservation, deepen their appreciation for the natural world and discover career pathways that utilise Cultural knowledge.
The Culture Garden will feature a #medicinal and #ceremonial plant area, #NativeBushFoods, water features to attract #wildlife, #SensoryGarden, and dedicated spaces for learning and Cultural practice. With a #seedling #propagation zone, a #NativeSeed cleaning station, a fruit and nut #orchard, and interpretive walking trail. More than just a garden, it serves as a ‘cultural learning hub’—fostering pride and offering a comprehensive setting for community events, educational programs, and vocational training opportunities. With funding from #OneTreePlanted, the tree planting will also help #restore #NativeVegetation and improve habitat for threatened species including the Southern Hairy-nosed #Wombat.
Aligned with the South Australian Department for Education’s Aboriginal Education Strategy, the project aims to inspire engagement, Cultural pride, and environmental responsibility among First Nations students. It focuses on educational outcomes and how Cultural activities can play in enhancing social and academic competence among First Nations students."
https://landcareaustralia.org.au/project/point-pearce-aboriginal-corporation-culture-garden/
#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #PreservingNature #CulturalPreservation #IndigenousAustralians #Australia #NatureEducation #NativePlants #BushTucker