Rare exhibit of bark paintings not to be missed
Albury City Exhibitions Coordinator Jules Boag says the current collection of Aboriginal art work on display at the Albury Gallery is some of the rarest bark paintings in existence. Ancestral Power and...
View ArticleRehab centre's Indigenous clients more successful
A drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in Benalla says its Indigenous clients have a higher chance of graduating than non-Indigenous clients.
View ArticleTurtle looms large on the landscape
Ancient artistic traditions and modern technology have met in a paddock at Dookie where an indigenous image of the Long-necked Turtle has been ploughed into the soil, in readiness for the SheppARTon...
View ArticleLou Bennett speaks her mind
Yorta Yorta/Dja Dja Wurrung songwoman Lou Bennett shares some insights behind local Indigenous place names.
View ArticleCall for more Indigenous honour roll nominations
The Victorian Government is looking to expand its honour roll recognising Indigenous Australians.
View ArticlePatient death sparks call for better mental health security
A coroner investigating the death of a northern Victorian woman has recommended efforts be made to reduce the risk of patients escaping mental health facilities.
View ArticleMinister Jeanette Powell outlines strategy for Victoria's Aboriginal...
The Victorian Government says it is close to appointing the state's first commissioner for aboriginal children and young people.
View ArticleVideo Postcard from Yorta Yorta homelands
This week through ABC Open, Yorta Yorta elder Sharon Atkinson made a short 'video postcard' from Dhungala, also known as the Murray River.
View ArticleBarmah National Park management board appointed
An historic joint management arrangement for the Barmah National Park has taken a step forward, with the appointment of a board.
View ArticleBarmah National Park's new management board meets
Traditional owners of the Barmah National Park say they are looking forward to bringing a new level of cooperation to managing the important area.
View ArticleSurvival, renewal, heritage: Victorian Indigenous Art Award winners announced
Gippsland-based artist Ray Thomas takes out the top prize in the 2013 Indigenous Art Awards with a portrait of his Mum; meet the other artists from across VIctoria recognised in the first Indigenous...
View ArticleReport reveals Koori Court expansion
The Koori Court has expanded its operations across Victoria over the past year.
View ArticleIndigenous art gallery gets funding boost
An Indigenous art gallery in the Goulburn Valley will share in $1.3 million in Victorian Government arts funding.
View ArticleFight for Indigenous youth training scheme funds pays off
The Federal Government has had a change of heart on its decision to deny Wodonga's Mungabareena Aboriginal Corporation funding for a three-year Indigenous youth training project.
View ArticleBriggs
Through sheer hard work and determination, Briggs (Adam Briggs) has stamped his presence in the Australian hip hop music scene. Coming to the attention of revered Australian rap artist Reason, Briggs...
View ArticleReko drawn to SAM's wall
Melbourne indigenous artist Reko Rennie's latest work is dripping with symbolism, quite literally. The 2012 Archibald Prize finalist is the 15th artist to have his work feature on the Shepparton Art...
View ArticleStolen Generations finding their way home
As a young man, John Elliot would look in the mirror each morning as he shaved, and ask himself "who are you?"
View ArticleRumbalara, football and a life of leadership
Shepparton's Rumbalara Football Netball Club manages to hold onto a strong sense of its Indigenous history while planning for the futures of its current-day youth.
View ArticleKoori culture pride driving message to mainstream Australia
Clayton is determined to become a positive role model for young indigenous Australians but isn't losing sight of the broader goal.
View ArticleBriggs embraces Shepparton role model life
Winning a national award is usually a result of many hours of hard work and for Shepparton hip-hop artist Briggs, that includes long stints on the road.
View ArticleSheplife: Briggs
Sheplife touches on socio-political themes (Bad Apples), loss and tragedy (Late Night Calls) and family (Bigger Picture). Briggs said he wanted to create songs of substance for his second album. It...
View ArticleNamatjira watercolours on show in Wangaratta
A number of Albert Namatjira paintings will feature in an exhibition at the Wangaratta Art Gallery over summer.
View ArticleCancer Council of Victoria launches Indigenous action plan to raise awareness...
The Cancer Council of Victoria has launched a new strategy to improve cancer outcomes for Victorian Indigenous communities.
View ArticleBriggs plans to widen AFL's Indigenous engagement
President of the Rumbalara Football Netball Club Paul Briggs has had a huge impact on Indigenous sport, health and wellbeing in the Goulburn Valley, but his latest role may prove his biggest influence...
View ArticleWodonga midwife reflects on 40-year career in the country, city and outback
It can melt your heart and it can break your heart, but Beth McRae says being a midwife is the only profession she'd ever want.
View ArticleChanges to constitution should acknowledge all Indigenous nations: Wiradjuri...
Albury Wodonga-based Wiradjuri woman Leonie McIntosh hoped a planned referendum to formally recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Australian constitution would also recognise the...
View ArticleIndigo Shire stresses importance of Indigenous community to heritage plan
The Indigo Shire Council says Indigenous heritage is a central part of its plan to safeguard sites of historical significance.
View ArticleNAIDOC Week: Individual Spirits dance troupe celebrates culture with hip hop...
In 2015, Rumbalara elders asked Natarsha and Olajuwon Bamblett to dance at NAIDOC celebrations. Out of that came Individual Spirits dance troupe.
View Article'Education is power': This childcare centre aims for an equal start
How one childcare service has been working on a shoestring budget to give Indigenous children an equal start in life.
View ArticleDarwin hit-and-run victim Jason McCormick mates with everyone he met, family...
The family of a cyclist killed in a hit-and-run in Darwin describe the man as a loyal, selfless friend and brother who would give someone his last $10 if asked.
View ArticleShepparton mural 'another milestone' for recognition of Indigenous leaders
A pair of prominent Aboriginal elders are immortalised in a street art mural in the northern Victorian city of Shepparton, as their families say it was about time they were recognised.
View ArticleBeef Australia 2018: Industry uses virtual reality to address consumer...
The growing demand for transparency and ethically, socially and environmentally sustainable food is one of the hot topics at Beef Australia 2018.
View ArticleCummeragunja walk-off relived as residents unite to share history
Greater Shepparton residents unite to learn about historic Indigenous walk-off.
View ArticleLocal stories and people put school students in touch with Indigenous history...
When a Victorian teacher discovered one of his students was a descendant of prominent Indigenous activist William Cooper, but had never had the opportunity to learn about his ancestor in school, he...
View ArticleAboriginal elder William Cooper's anti-Nazi protest remembered on...
In 1938, Aboriginal activist William Cooper led a delegation to the German consulate in Melbourne to deliver a letter protesting over violence against Jews at Kristallnacht the night of broken glass.
View ArticlePolice paddle the Murray with Indigenous kids to mend wounds of the past
Indigenous girl Shanika Jenkins "never really liked coppers" until she got to know one, while paddling Australia's longest river.
View ArticleAboriginal rangers net thousands of carp in new project to rid the Murray...
With the Federal Government's carp eradication program on hold, Aboriginal rangers are leading a new netting project removing thousands of the invasive fish.
View ArticleMurray-Darling Basin Royal Commission lays bare that 'the system is sick',...
The report has accused the body responsible for implementing the Murray-Darling Basin Plan of negligence, so how has rural Australia reacted?
View ArticleYorta Yorta people return to Cummeragunja 80 years after historical 'walk-off'
Yorta Yorta woman Deborah Cheetham AO returns to country to mark the 80th anniversary of The Cummeragunja Walk-Off.
View ArticleProgram aims to teach history of Stolen Generations, seeks to close knowledge...
In an attempt to address the gap in accurate student and public knowledge about the Stolen Generations, a new resource kit is now available for schools across the country.
View ArticleMurray-Darling Basin residents' survey shows support for reallocating water...
A random survey of people living in the Murray-Darling Basin shows support for reallocating water from irrigators to Indigenous communities.
View ArticleAustralian pioneer Pauline Milich was the remarkable midwife who gave birth...
Pauline Milich brought her 14th child into the world while helping another woman deliver a baby life was different in the early 1900s.
View ArticleTanya Day suffered 'catastrophic' brain injuries in police cell due to...
The lawyer for the family of Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day tells a public inquest into her death it was police "neglect" that led to her suffering catastrophic brain injuries alone in a cell.
View ArticleTanya Day inquest hears police who arrested her for public drunkenness were...
A police officer who arrested Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day for being drunk in public tells a coronial inquest police were just trying to help her when she was taken into custody.
View ArticleTanya Day inquest hears police officer took her to police station as 'last...
A police officer involved in the arrest of Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day defends taking her back to the police station where she later sustained a fatal head injury, saying officers had exhausted all...
View ArticleCCTV footage of Tanya Day hitting head in Castlemaine police cell released by...
The coroner conducting an inquest into the death of Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day releases CCTV footage of her falling and hitting her head in a police cell, as her family says they want the world to see...
View ArticleTanya Day: All eyes on coroner as painful questions swirl over why the Yorta...
As the distressing CCTV footage of Tanya Day's death in police custody is released, all eyes turn to the coroner who will provide a determination on some of the key questions surrounding the Yorta...
View ArticleTanya Day's family call for criminal investigation on final day of coronial...
Family members of Aboriginal woman Tanya Day say they want their mother to be remembered for more than her death, describing her as a "loving, nurturing mother and she passed that love onto the...
View ArticleVictorian treaty vote for First Peoples' Assembly delivers a different kind...
A special kind of election is unfolding across Victoria as the Aboriginal communities taking part in the treaty process cast their votes to elect a First Peoples' Assembly.
View ArticleVictorian Aboriginal voters have elected an Assembly to advance the treaty...
The Victorian Government's historic treaty negotiations with the state's Aboriginal communities are one step closer this week, with the election of the First Peoples' Assembly. But the toughest yards...
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