The Guardian Bathurst, where the spirits prowl and whisper painful, bloody truths The Guardian But it is amazing how very closely, when it comes to the Bathurst war – like so many others on the Australian frontier – various Indigenous and European records accord. ***. The country all around is drought-stricken and bone dry, dusty and desperate ...
The Australian Business pushes for indigenous 'voice' referendum by 2020 The Australian A referendum establishing an indigenous “voice” to parliament should be held within 12 months of a federal election, Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott has declared, raising the prospect of constitutional recognition ...
Ninety years on, no justice for Australia's last Aboriginal massacre The New Daily Tuesday marks 90 years since the last recorded massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia. The murder of a white dingo hunter by a Warlpiri tribesman led to a spate of revenge killings of Aboriginal people in Central Australia in 1928. Officially, 31 ...
Aboriginal Australians have effectively been on their country for as long as modern human populations have been outside of Africa. We have a limit as to how ...
The Age Sky News under fire for hosting far-right 'activist' Blair Cottrell The Age "If Aboriginal culture was just 24 hours old, white people colonised & created Australian civilisation in 5 minutes," he wrote online earlier this year. Cottrell was also found guilty of inciting serious contempt of Muslims in September 2017 after ...
SBS Celebrating 25 years of Indigenous stories on screen SBS There were once very few Indigenous Australians in lead roles on television and in cinema. That changed with the establishment of the Indigenous Department at Screen Australia, 25 years ago. A quarter of a century on, Aboriginal writer, director and ...
SBS 'Chef's Oscar' for champion of Australian native food, Jock Zonfrillo SBS Jock, who owns Adelaide's popular Orana restaurant, was awarded for his work as a champion of native Australian foods, and long-term supporter of many Indigenous communities. Food writer Melissa Leong says it's an extremely prestigious award.
The Australian Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, War, Defence and Citizenship The Australian When Charles Bean wrote his 12-volume official history of Australia's involvement in World War I, he made a passing reference to just one Aboriginal Digger, a private who was highly decorated in the epic battle of Mont St Quentin on August 31, 1918 ...
The Australian At-risk animals on menu for Aboriginal elder The Australian Galarrwuy Yunupingu has praised Captain Cook and Arthur Phillip before demanding Aborigines be allowed to eat endangered native species and pledging to ask governments to hand Australia back. The Gumatj leader spoke at the opening of the 20th ...
The Australian British Museum to lift profile of world's oldest living culture The Australian The British Museum is seeking to address a Mediterranean “bias” in its collections and will devote more space to indigenous Australia, including historic artefacts and objects from the present day that demonstrate the “entire span of human history in ...
Yunupingu calls out government over land NEWS.com.au The Dilak Authority representing the Yolngu people had agreed this week to tell the government Australia's colonisation was wrong and it endorsed last year's Uluru statement calling for an Aboriginal voice in parliament through an independent ...