#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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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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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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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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Here we Joh again? The spectre of Bjelke-Petersen still looms large over Queensland https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/27/joh-bjelke-petersen-queensland-politics-ntwnfb #QueenslandPolitics #Queensland #DavidCrisafulli #LiberalNationalParty #IndigenousAustralians #OneNation #AustraliaNews
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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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‘It’s our kinship’: can #Australia learn to coexist with #dingoes?
As dingoes vanish from parts of Australia, a new documentary is calling on governments to move away from #eradication and towards solutions that benefit both #farmers and #animals
By Rosamund Brennan, 11 May 2026
Excerpt: "As Takau began looking into dingo laws, she says she found that policy was shaped largely by livestock interests, with little regard for #FirstNations cultural authority. 'There were no Aboriginal people having a say in this animal,' she says.
"In many parts of Australia, dingoes are grouped with 'wild dogs' under biosecurity laws and treated as pests or invasive animals, allowing – and in some places requiring – landholders to kill or exclude them to protect livestock.
"But Takau argues that framing ignores both their cultural significance and their ecological role. 'Dingoes keep Country healthy,' she says; they can control #overgrazing by animals like goats and #kangaroos, and reduce pressure from feral cats and foxes, which prey on #NativeWildlife.
"Through her advocacy, Takau met #AlixLivingstone, founder of #DefendTheWild, and the two began working to centre #Aboriginal voices in #DingoConservation. That work led west, through a #CulturalExchange that brought rangers from #Queensland and northern #NSW together with Aboriginal corporations on WA’s south coast to share dingo monitoring knowledge and cultural stories.
"The film and campaign grew out of that exchange. In February, Moort was screened at WA parliament, where custodians called on the state government to remove dingoes from pest classifications in biosecurity law and phase out 1080 baiting and #strychnine-laced foothold traps, which can cause prolonged, painful deaths.
"Livingstone says the campaign is not about pitting Aboriginal people against farmers but shifting support from killing programs to coexistence measures such as #BetterFencing, #GuardianAnimals and practical help for landholders. 'It’s about finding solutions for farmers that protect their interests but also maintain dingoes in the environment,' she says."
#SolarPunkSunday #IndigenousAustralians #SonyaTakau #Rewilding #EndangeredSpecies #Coexistence #Nature
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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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#Australia - Creating an #Indigenous plant-use #garden: harvesting
April 14, 2022, #LandCareAustralia
"The satisfaction of eating straight from the garden is one of life’s best learning experiences, however we need to be respectful and mindful to only harvest what we need to allow the plant to continue to thrive for generations to come.
This activity involves the assessment and mapping of local environments to create a successful and thriving Indigenous plant-use garden.
To understand local perspectives and support these activities, we recommend reaching out to the local #TraditionalOwners and #FirstNations peoples community groups who can assist in knowledge sharing and understanding local land, histories and culture. This is an important consideration to ensure that any reconciliation initiatives are being driven in a local, meaningful way.
This learning activity is the last part of a sequence of 6 individual learning activities focused on creating an Indigenous plant-use garden. The order of these learning activities are: resources from the bush, vision, plant list, site assessment, planting and harvesting.
Landcare is an amazing grass roots, volunteer movement that harnesses individuals and groups under the ethic of caring for the land. There are approximately 6,000 volunteer environmental group across Australia that fall under the Landcare umbrella. The movement focuses on the sustainable management of all of Australia's natural resource assets and encompasses individuals and groups across the whole landscape from coastal to urban and remote areas of Australia."
Watch video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkZ6GRx2rZgFull learning activity:
https://juniorlandcare.org.au/learning_activity/creating-an-indigenous-plant-use-garden-harvesting/Landcare website:
https://landcareaustralia.org.au/#SolarPunkSunday #HonorableHarvest #IndigenousAustralians #IndigenousGardens #IndigenousPlants #NativePlants
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#Australia - Native '#superfood' #grasses used to create flour, beer growing in popularity
By Fiona Broom, August 27, 2024
"Just three years ago, Chris Harris was using an old metal bed frame to shake out the tiny seeds that hide in native #KangarooGrass.
"The #AncientGrains can be roasted, brewed or ground into high-protein flour for baking.
" 'I spent a lot of time on my country — #Ngiyampaa country — with my pop, my dad, my mum and aunties and uncles,' Mr Harris said.
"Mr Harris has made flour out of #WattleSeed, as well as #MitchellGrass, #ButtonGrass and #KangarooGrass.
"He has sent native flours and seeds to kitchens across the country for the past two-and-a-half years but said he was looking at ways to expand his operations.
From builder to bush foods"Mr Harris is the farm manager at #BlackDuckFoods, an #Aboriginal social enterprise at #Mallacoota on Victoria's far eastern border with New South Wales.
"The farm, named #Yumburra — the Yuin word for the black duck native to the Mallacoota region — was set up by award-winning author Bruce Pascoe, whose book Dark Emu shone a spotlight on the lost history of #AboriginalFood systems.
"Mr Harris was a plasterer with an Aboriginal construction company when first visited the property about four years ago.
"But he said after discussing bush foods with Mr Pascoe, he realised his future would be as a farmer and native foods educator.
" 'I'd been talking a lot to him about the lilies, the murnong, and the grains and he'd seen a real interest that I had in the native food space,' Mr Harris said.
"In the past few years, the small team has grown its knowledge of the ancient grains at their former beef farm on the banks of the Wallagaraugh River.
"They have encouraged the return of the #NativeGrasses, wattles and #tubers that produce the nutritious ingredients that foodies across the country are learning to love."
#IndigenousFood #IndigenousAustralians #BushTucker #TraditionalFoods