#indigenousaustralians — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #indigenousaustralians, aggregated by home.social.
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Elder among last to remember Australia's forgotten 'parkland'
By Astrid VolzkeMenang elder Aunty Carol Petterson remembers when her family worked as shepherds, driving sheep through the bushland and along rivers towards the coast in southern Western Australia. Decades later, she recalls in vivid detail the natural abundance of the landscape.
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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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The Drover’s Wife review – operatic version of Leah Purcell’s story is powerfully emotional
By Dee JeffersonSydney Opera HousePurcell’s play-turned-book-turned-film is now also an opera, a form that allows for a more expansive story and a deeper sense of First Nations culture
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/10/the-drovers-wife-review-sydney-opera-house
#Opera #SydneyOperaHouse #Culture #IndigenousAustralians #Stage #Sydney #TheGuardian #DeeJefferson
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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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My Brilliant Career: inside Netflix’s horny, ‘bonkers’ take on an Australian classic the world is about to love
By Dee JeffersonStarring Philippa Northeast and an extremely buff Christopher Chung, Miles Franklin’s 1901 novel has been adapted into a spirited series ‘unashamedly intended for women’
#Australiantelevision #Television #Televisionradio #Netflix #Culture #Australianbooks #Race #Women #Popandrock #Music #Books #IndigenousAustralians #TheGuardian #DeeJefferson
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Baker Boy wins big at NIMAs
By Tilda CollingThe National Indigenous Music Awards winners have been announced, with territory talent Baker Boy winning big.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-08/2026-national-indigenous-music-awards-winners/107012584
#IndigenousMusic #MusicAwards #IndigenousAustralians #RuralandRemoteCommunities #BandsandArtists #TildaColling
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Broadcasting veteran Charlie King retires after 32 years with the ABC
By Eleni RoussosAfter more than three decades with the ABC, sports commentator Charlie King is hanging up the headphones and heading into retirement.
#Sport #IndigenousAustralians #StolenGenerations #ParkinsonsDisease #Celebrities #Racism #OlympicGames #EleniRoussos
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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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The inability to deliver the changes Indigenous Australians need is no longer just a moral failure but a civilisational one | Noel Pearson
By Noel PearsonAfter the rejection of the voice, the conversation about structural reform of the federal arrangements governing Aboriginal affairs must resume
#Garmafestival #IndigenousAustralians #Australianews #RuralandregionalAustralia #NoelPearson #Ulurustatementfromtheheart #Australianpolitics #Queensland #Queenslandpolitics #Domesticviolence #Alcoholism #Drugs #Gambling #Childprotection #Youthjustice #Health #Australianeducation #Indigenousincarceration #Alcohol #Children #Socialcare #Youngpeople #TheGuardian #NoelPearson
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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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Albanese's absence looms large over Garma
By Dana MorseThe theme of this year's Garma Festival is "bukmak", a Yolŋu word meaning "everyone", but the prime minister's decision not to attend may indicate how high on the government's priority list Indigenous affairs sit.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/garma-bukmak-anthony-albanese-gulkula-arnhem-land/106954240
#IndigenousAustralians #CommunityandSociety #IndigenousCulture #IndigenousPolicy #GovernmentandPolitics #IndigenousOtherPeoples #Reconciliation #History #DanaMorse
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Bennelong in London review – Indigenous warrior meets the actor playing him in this funny, clever play
By Dee JeffersonSydney Theatre Company, Wharf 1 TheatreJane Harrison’s play is alive to the challenge of telling Bennelong’s story, teasing out tensions between past and present perspectives on a contested figure
#Australiantheatre #Stage #Culture #Theatre #IndigenousAustralians #TheGuardian #DeeJefferson
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Budjerah's debut album Gentleman has been a long time coming
By Mawunyo GbogboTwo-time ARIA Award-winning music artist Budjerah has just released his long-awaited debut album and announced an official tour.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-24/budjerah-debut-album-gentleman-a-long-time-coming/106949132
#Music #IndigenousAustralians #BandsandArtists #PopularCulture #IndigenousMusic #Soul #Blues #Pop #MusicIndustry #MawunyoGbogbo
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The 'walking archive' helping First Nations people discover family history
By Rachael MerrittFor 28 years, Ali Abdullah-Highfold has helped thousands of Indigenous people find familial connections through his work at the South Australian Museum.
#GenealogyandAncestry #StolenGenerations #IndigenousAustralians #LibrariesMuseumsandGalleries #IndigenousCulture #RachaelMerritt
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#Australia - #KatherineNT residents say potential damages from #PFAS firefighting foam case should pay for further 'recompense'
by James Elton, 1 June, 2026
Excerpt: "PFASContamination in Katherine was first announced by Defence in 2016 — the result of decades of use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam at #Tindal, which sits above a large and interconnected #aquifer.
"In the immediate aftermath, Katherine's town pool was closed and Defence trucked in bottled water.
"Commonwealth to sue the manufacturer of a firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals that contaminated 28 #DefenceForce bases across Australia.
"A class action, settled in 2020, resulted in Defence paying $92.5 million to Katherine home owners and businesses to compensate for lost property value, as part of a broader class action that also included Williamtown in NSW and Oakey in Queensland.
"Today, Katherine's town drinking water supply is thoroughly treated using a specialised plant to keep PFAS levels below minimum thresholds.
"But residents with bores in the contamination zone are still advised not to drink their groundwater or eat eggs from chickens that drink water from the bores.
"A 2018 health assessment commissioned by Defence also found there was an 'elevated risk' for anyone who ate fish caught in the #KatherineRiver on a regular basis, defined as one fish per week.
"A Senate inquiry into the issue last year heard evidence that assessment had affected #Aboriginal people in the region, who had historically eaten large quantities and varieties of fish and crustaceans from the river."
#3MKnew #ForeverChemicals #PFAS #FirefightingFoam #FirstNations #KatherineNT #IndigenousAustralians #NorthernTerritory #WilliamtownNSW #OakeyQueensland #WaterIsLife #AusPol #TraditionalDiets #TraditionalFoodSources
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At four, her head was shaved and her clothes burned. Aunty Lorraine doesn’t want her trauma to be forgotten https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/26/stolen-generation-survivors-national-plan-ntwnfb #StolenGenerations #AustraliaNews #IndigenousAustralians
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Crisis of First Nations children in care will worsen under NT child protection reforms, advocates warn https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/13/northern-territory-child-protection-reforms-first-nations-indigenous-children-in-care-ntwnfb #IndigenousAustralians #AustraliaNews #NorthernTerritory #ChildProtection #NorthernTerritoryPolitics #AliceSprings #StolenGenerations #AustralianLaw
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‘The environmental movement needs many hands’: saving Australia’s biodiversity is getting personal
Powered by individual donations and bequests, the country now has one of the world’s largest networks of privately protected and managed land
by James Norman, Fri 17 Apr 2026
Excerpt: "Over three decades later, #BushHeritage today owns and protects 45 bought or gifted bush reserves around #Australia – covering more than 1.4m hectares of land and providing habitat for over 9,000 native species. Working with #FirstNations communities and farmers, it supports the management of an additional 20.5m hectares beyond what it owns directly.
" 'Some of Australia’s most threatened and fragile #ecosystems and #wildlife sit outside of the national reserve system,' says Rachel Lowry, Bush Heritage Australia’s chief executive officer.
" 'They’re found on private land or pastoral country, and they may have deep cultural and ecological values, but they’re not protected from threats such as #LandClearing, #mining or #InvasiveSpecies.'
"The organisation reports a rise in the number of personal bequests, from 2,500 in 2022 to more than 4,600 bequests last year. Lowry puts the increase down to a personal desire to have a meaningful impact on the worsening global climate and #biodiversity crisis.
"Bush Heritage’s model has inspired other groups around Australia to acquire and conserve lands and forests of significant ecological value. One such example is the #NorthEastTasmania #LandTrust (#NETLT), which secretary Dr Christine Hosking describes as 'a microcosm of Bush Heritage'.
"Formed in 2009, the organisation manages donated land through weed control and regeneration of the native environment.
" 'Currently, we have 10 acres [4 hectares] of endangered eucalyptus forest in #BinalongBay that adjoins the #BayOfFires #Conservation Area, and a smaller patch of coastal habitat for the endangered swift parrot,' she says."
#SolarPunkSunday #LandConservation #EndangeredSpecies #ClimateCrisis #ProtectTheForest #ProtectTheForests #Regeneration #PreserveNature #Conservationists #IndigenousAustralians #TraditionalLandManagement
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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