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First Nations heroes are celebrated this NAIDOC Week

NAIDOC Week celebrations officially begin on Sunday with the theme: Keep the fire burning! Blak, Loud and Proud. But can everyone celebrate?
Cathy Freeman celebrates 400m victory

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)

The world's biggest AI models were trained using images of Australian kids, and their families had no idea

The privacy of Australian children is being violated on a large scale, with their personal images — and sometimes their names and locations — being used to train the AI powering most of the world's image-generators.
A visualisation of a computer drawing of a face dissolving.

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Internet

Nine months on from the Voice referendum, its architects are pushing for new action

Uluru Dialogues chair Pat Anderson has urged the government not to use the defeated referendum as a reason to stall work on other areas of Indigenous policy, arguing the Voice was a specific answer to a specific question.
Pat Anderson gives evidence at a parliamentary committee

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Indigenous Policy

Kiwi actor Rachel House is much-loved as a star of Taika Waititi movies. Now she's making her own

Rachel House is one of New Zealand's best-loved actors. Now she's bringing her comedic chops and Māori heritage to directing.
A woman in an black and white Adidas tracksuit sits on a director's chair holding a megaphone, surrounded by film props.

Published: Source: ABC EntertainmentTopic: Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Program aims to improve driving accessibility for Indigenous teens

Indigenous teens face a number of barriers trying to get their provisional licence, but the ARTIE program is looking to change that.
Indigenous Mentorship, Driving Skills: An Indigenous-themed banner with the word 'ARTIE' on it.
Duration: 1 minute 52 seconds

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)

Michael Mosley was 'blown away' by health challenges in outback Indigenous communities

A health professional says television doctor Michael Mosley became "very interested" in Indigenous health issues while eating bush honey and visiting communities in outback Australia.
Michael Mosley and Ray Kelly sit on a wall with arms crossed with Parliament House in the background.
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds

Published: Source: ABC News BreakfastTopic: Diseases and Disorders

'Furious' First Nations advocates demand seat on DV advisory panel

An advisory body of six people is tasked with providing a "rapid review" into "best-practice prevention approaches" when it comes to domestic violence against women and children.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attends a rally to a call for action to end violence against women.

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Domestic Violence

Regional News

Horse therapy helps heal trauma and improve wellbeing for First Nations youths

Athena Perkusich says her special bond with a horse helps her connect and relax. She is among thousands of young people benefiting from an equine program in the Kimberley.  
A girl with brown hair standing next to a white horse.

Published: Source: ABC KimberleyTopic: Mental Health

'Uncivilised, lazy, violent': Arrernte leader says narratives around Aboriginal people in Alice Springs must change

With election day just months away in the Northern Territory, a prominent Indigenous leader is calling on politicians — and the media — to change the narrative around Aboriginal people.
A phot of an Indigenous man looking directly at the camera with Indigenous mural in background.
Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds

Published: Source: StatelineTopic: Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)

Dr Jackie Huggins speaking on Path to Treaty

In a Stateline interview with Jessica van Vonderen, Dr Jackie Huggins said the Opposition Leader's position on Treaty is "very unfortunate".
Two women sitting across from each other in an interview.
Duration: 56 seconds

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)

Florence Onus and her siblings were taken from their mother as children

The Bindal and Birrrigubba elder and activist hopes to promote healing by sharing her experience, as Queensland begins public hearings on Path to Treaty.
A graphic of indigenous dot painting with a picture of Australia and the words "path to treaty".
Duration: 3 minutes 12 seconds

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)

Analysis

One of our most vulnerable children was let down in the worst way possible — and we now know how

A CCC report into events surrounding the death of Cleveland Dodd paints a picture of a youth detention facility with procedures in place to protect children, but which was too overrun for officers to adequately enforce them.
An ambulance parked next to the Casuarina Prison sign

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: State and Territory Government

'Like nothing I've ever seen before': Inside the Kumanjayi Walker coronial inquest

ABC court report Melissa Mackay covered Northern Territory courtrooms for almost seven years, but what she witnessed at the coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker shocked even her.
a graphic showing alice springs court room

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Courts and Trials

Since the Voice to Parliament's defeat, has the Great Australian Silence been extended into perpetuity?

In the first Reconciliation Week since the defeat of the Voice to Parliament, the inability of our national discourse to reflect on its significance is stunning.
A defaced electoral sign.

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Indigenous Policy

Why law reform cannot be the only answer to Australia's domestic violence crisis

For decades, Australia has covered its ears to the screams and cries of Indigenous women killed by their partners. What if we used this moment to listen to some of their stories, and put their needs at the centre of the national response?
An illustration shows the silhouette of a young women in front of a background with dot paintings and cracked glass

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Domestic Violence

NSW News

Artist shares her surprise after her design is picked for new NAIDOC collectible coin

A young Indigenous artist will have her work circulated in wallets around the country to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee.
A woman holds up a specially designed 50 cent coin

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)

The 'forgotten political warrior' whose letter to the King helped kids back into schools

A woman whose great-grandmother refused to give up on better access to education says acknowledgement of her family's NSW south coast "healing place" has brought a sense of justice.
An old photo of a lady walking, a black and white hand-written letter and a photo of the King

Published: Source: ABC South East NSWTopic: Aboriginal

How a 'homegrown solution' from Sydney's Mount Druitt is helping students re-engage with school

Hundreds of students in Western Sydney have had their schooling turned around by the "homegrown" solution, but the program receives no state funding.            
Maddison-Lilly Mae Jackson in front of a colourful mural.

Published: Source: ABC Radio SydneyTopic: Education

22,000 First Nations kids are in out-of-home care today. That's why this 90s play is still relevant

Stolen is based on the real-life experiences of members of the Stolen Generations. Its message is as relevant now as when the play was first written nearly three decades ago.
Kartanya Maynard is wearing a linen off-site shirt, posing under an off-white sheet.

Published: Source: ABC ArtsTopic: Arts, Culture and Entertainment

NT News

'Uncivilised, lazy, violent': Arrernte leader says narratives around Aboriginal people in Alice Springs must change

With election day just months away in the Northern Territory, a prominent Indigenous leader is calling on politicians — and the media — to change the narrative around Aboriginal people.
A phot of an Indigenous man looking directly at the camera with Indigenous mural in background.
Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds

Published: Source: StatelineTopic: Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)

Thorpe calls on Albanese government to be 'fair-dinkum' on family violence, and fix community legal sector funding deficit

A Darwin barrister has raised the alarm on the NT's community legal sector, saying it is 'collapsing', and will only get worse if a nation-wide funding shortfall for community legal centres isn't filled.
A close up of Lidia speaking.

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Government and Politics

Artist shares her surprise after her design is picked for new NAIDOC collectible coin

A young Indigenous artist will have her work circulated in wallets around the country to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee.
A woman holds up a specially designed 50 cent coin

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)

Coalition nuclear policy leaves traditional owners of Kakadu uranium mine worried

Northern Territory traditional owners whose land contains one of the world's most valuable untapped deposits of uranium are calling on the NT and federal governments not to grant a mining company a lease extension, as the Coalition's nuclear policy…
Traditional owner looks over a uranium mine

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Mining Environmental Issues

TAS News

This remote island was returned to Aboriginal people in a 'terrible' state. Rewilding it is proving a challenge

Indigenous land managers are hoping to repatriate ecologically and culturally significant species to lungtalanana, or Clarke Island, but feral cat predation and a lack of funding are standing in their way.  
Bass Strait wombat, Bennett's Wallaby and Long-nosed Potoroo composite image

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Indigenous Culture

Arrest warrant issued for Tasmanian Aboriginal elder but 81yo says he doesn't recognise 'colonial' courts

An 81-year-old Tasmanian Aboriginal elder says Australian courts hold no jurisdiction over Indigenous people and he will not participate in the court process after being charged at a native forest protest.
A man wearing Aboriginal colours and wide brim hat stands and smiles at camera with pile of logs behind him

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Courts and Trials

What does reconciliation look like in a no-vote world? Young Indigenous people share their hopes for the future

As Australia marks its first Reconciliation Week since voting no to an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, young First Nations people and advocates for change say they are still hopeful the country can heal, but that truth-telling will be key.
A graphic of a yellow sun on a pink background, behind the photos of two young girls and a boy, and vote box.

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Reconciliation

Why some researchers want you to stop using the word 'puggle' for platypus babies

Kangaroos have joeys and dingoes have pups, but what do you call a baby platypus? If you think "puggle", think again.
Very young smooth-looking platypus babies held in a pair of hands at night close-up.

Published: Source: ABC ScienceTopic: Science and Technology

WA News

Horse therapy helps heal trauma and improve wellbeing for First Nations youths

Athena Perkusich says her special bond with a horse helps her connect and relax. She is among thousands of young people benefiting from an equine program in the Kimberley.  
A girl with brown hair standing next to a white horse.

Published: Source: ABC KimberleyTopic: Mental Health

Police officer who fatally shot Indigenous woman rejects assertions he breached police policy four times, inquest hears

Giving evidence on the fourth day of a coronial inquest into the death of an Indigenous woman in WA's Mid West, Senior Constable Brent Wyndham says everything he did on the night she died "was right".
Brent Wyndham in police uniform walking in the middle of a group of police officers.

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Police

Anger as WA government abandons pledge to build remote dialysis clinic by next election

The state government blames COVID-19 and record floods for a lack of progress on its pledge to build a dialysis centre in Halls Creek as Indigenous health leaders vent about a lack of consultation.
A woman receives dialysis

Published: Source: ABC KimberleyTopic: Healthcare Facilities

Officer failed to negotiate with Indigenous woman JC before fatally shooting her in Geraldton, inquest hears

A coronial inquiry has heard police internal affairs found an officer failed four times to follow the WA Police use of force policy when shooting an armed Indigenous woman in the Mid West city of Geraldton in 2019.
Brent Wyndham in a pale shirt, walking with lawyers.

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Courts and Trials

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