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Education · LismoreTHE National NAIDOC Committee and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation have announced that the ABC will once again be the home of National NAIDOC Week celebrations as the official broadcast and education partner. National NAIDOC Week 2024 will be held across the country from July 7-14, with the theme this year of Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud & Proud. As the official broadcast partner, the ABC will telecast the NAIDOC awards live from Tar…See the Story
ABC is official partner for NAIDOC 2024
OlympicsSet to make history at the Olympic Games in Paris later this month, Quincy Wilson is an extraordinary sprinter who is rapidly becoming a well-known figure nationally and around the world. Wilson is also a 16-year-old student at the Bullis School, a private college preparatory school in Potomac, Maryland. For the Olympics, he was just selected for the 4×400 meter relay. Announcing the news on Instagram, Wilson wrote: “WE GOING TO THE OLYMPICS.” “…See the Story
This Md. sprinter is set to make Olympic history. What sets him apart?
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Racism · LismoreVICTORIA’S historic truth-telling process – the Yoorrook Justice Commission – has reached a critical milestone, concluding its social injustice public hearings that have laid bare systemic structural racism compounding the state’s brutal colonial history. On Thursday in Melbourne – unceded Wurundjeri lands – the state’s Treasurer and Minister for Economic Growth, Tim Pallas, gave evidence on the Labor government’s efforts to improve economic pro…See the Story
Truth-telling commission reaches critical milestone
Lismore · LismoreA STATE memorial service is being planned to honour the life of esteemed Yolŋu leader Rev Dr D. Gondarra. As a respected lawman of the Dhurili clan of north-east Arnhem Land and a key Aboriginal leader over decades, Dr Gondarra was a highly effective advocate for his Yolŋu culture and language. His good friend, Mr Yingiya Guyula, announced Dr Gondarra’s death in the Northern Territory parliament on June 20. Dr Gondarra died surrounded by family …See the Story
State memorial planned for Yolŋu leader
United Nations · LismoreUNCLE BJ Cruse will address the United Nations (UN) this month (July). It is his latest bid to get redress for himself and other Aboriginal people who experienced mental and physical abuse as a child. In his three-minute address the Yuin Elder describes his week-long ordeal at a public hospital when he was five. “The nurses dressed me in a makeshift gown fashioned from an empty flour sack. Stencilled on the front and back was the word ‘Abo’ whic…See the Story
Yuin Elder to address the UN on institutional cultural child abuse
Lismore · LismoreTHE 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. The team was made up by 12 Aboriginal and Torres Strai…See the Story
Black Swans on a Super Netball Super-Highway
Lismore · LismoreWITH its resort-style appearance and pristine beaches that are swarmed by countless tourists each year, it’s hard to believe Wadjemup (or Rottnest Island) in Western Australia is also home to Australia’s largest recorded Aboriginal Deaths in Custody site. But just metres behind the thousand- dollar-a-night villas looking out over million- dollar yachts lies one of Australia’s greatest shames: a mass burial ground containing the bodies of hundred…See the Story
Truth-telling on an island of sorrows
Lismore · Lismore“TOO many times our people are spoken to and about with deficit language and not with strong strength-based language that is filled with aspirations and solutions. This use of deficit language has to change and we have to call it out when we hear and read it. We also need to be a part of changing how we speak about ourselves and the actions we do in our everyday life. How do we do this? In my opinion it goes back to our own strength and connecti…See the Story