'Stain on this nation.' Exhibition calls out Indigenous incarceration rates
By Kate Mulqueen
The over-representation of Indigenous people in Australia's jails is at the centre of a new and powerful art exhibition at Melbourne's Heide Museum of Modern Art. It's curator says it's a "call to action".
'Stain on this nation.' Exhibition calls out Indigenous incarceration rates
By Kate Mulqueen
The over-representation of Indigenous people in Australia's jails is at the centre of a new and powerful art exhibition at Melbourne's Heide Museum of Modern Art. It's curator says it's a "call to action".
The #Walpiri man with #disabilities stopped breathing and #died after being held down by plain clothes #officers inside a #supermarket.
Vandals destroy Greenough River's sacred Bimara statue
By Brianna Melville
Derek Councillor was leading a tour group along the banks of the Greenough River, east of Geraldton, when he found the statue sacred to Naajuga traditional owners smashed to pieces.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-31/bimara-statue-vandalised-greenough-river/105359106
River of tears now brims with hope as traditions pass to new generation
By Tyrone Dalton
Decades after Aboriginal families were forcibly relocated from their homes on the banks of the Murray River at Robinvale, the community is working to reclaim the site through an annual cultural event.
They resisted the world's most powerful empire, but are not recognised
By Adam Holmes
They fought to defend their land, families and culture, and drove the colonial powers to a state of panic, losing everything in the process. But Tasmanian Aboriginal resistance warriors still have no physical recognition in the state.
Indigenous leaders encouraged minister open to national truth telling
By Evelyn Manfield
Prominent Indigenous Australians are hopeful the federal government will progress a national truth telling process, despite PM Anthony Albanese backing down from the commitment to create a national commission.
Parking dispute exposes tension in landmark native title agreement
By Jon Daly
Approval for parking near an Aboriginal burial site during the Margaret River Pro has alarmed Indigenous groups, which say the move undermines Australia's biggest native title agreement.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-30/margaret-river-pro-parking-native-title-tension/105353746
Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula) on the western coast of the Australian continent is home to the world's largest collection of paleolithic petroglyphs (rock carvings), an ancient art gallery containing around one million images carved into the rocks, some dated to at least 45,000 years old. Many of the images depict Australia's distinctive fauna, including extinct creatures like the thylacine, as well as the oldest known representation of a human face. The rocks are themselves noteworthy as coming from some of the oldest igneous bedrock in the world (around 2.7 billion years old). And the region is home to five #Aboriginal nations who are the inheritors of fifty thousand years of continuous human occupation and culture.
The place is an obvious candidate for #UNESCO World Heritage protection.
However...
The Burrup peninsula is also the location of the #NorthWestShelf gas hub, a massive piece of #DirtyEnergy infrastructure that has played a significant role in placing Australia at or near the top globally of liquefied natural gas exporters. #LNG
Over the last forty or fifty years gas industry activity on the peninsula has measurably degraded the artworks, which have survived intact for forty or fifty thousand years.
#Auspol #FossilfFuelIndusrty #CulturalHeritage #Aboriginal
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Tom Noytuna uses newly installed Telstra telephone to call clan members to a ritual ceremony at Korlobidahdah in Arnhem Land (Australia). (1980)
Move to end Welcome to Country protocols at council rejected
By Manika Champ
A motion calling on a Tasmanian council to dispense with Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country protocols at events has been rejected — but the "damage has been done", the mayor says.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-28/flinders-council-welcome-to-country-vote-fails/105346920
UNESCO refers Murujuga World Heritage list bid back to #Australia, calls for more protection for rock art https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-28/unesco-murujuga-world-heritage-list-call/105347012
The #Australian government couldn’t give a rats fart for #Aboriginal heritage. It cares only about $$$
Taking notes from the lecture slides from my Indigenous People and Justice class, and there are multiple instances of the non-Indigenous lecturer calling us "Aboriginals".
"Conversely, it is [police] discretion used inappropriately that plays a significant causal role in the over-representation of Aboriginals in the criminal justice system"
I mean, I call myself an Aboriginal all the time.. but the use of it like this is grossly othering.
In case you're interested, BY UNIVERSITY GUIDELINES it should be "Indigenous people", you maaaaaay be able to get away with "Aboriginal people" (but tbh, if you used it in an assessment you'd get marked down).
But, knowing this lecturer* it's definitely a racist slip.
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* I've already had to talk to my course convener about her because she was teaching a subject called Crimes of the Powerful and pretty much spent an entire lecture pushing a bunch of racist anti-Chinese conspiracies about the origins of covid.
'People need to know': Stolen Generations survivor reflects on 'great sadness'
By Phoebe Pin
More than 60 years ago, Kath Ryan was pulled screaming from her family in WA's Gascoyne region. Since then she's overcome adversity, reconnected with her mother and become a proud grandparent.
no coloniser comments
There's absolutely never any need for the police to restrain someone for shop lifting.
Those cops murdered that boy.
Fuck them. I hope they die lonely and afraid.
Councillor's push to end Aboriginal welcome, acknowledgement protocols
By Madeleine Rojahn
A north-east Tasmanian councillor says the Welcome to and Acknowledgement of Country being given at events the council is involved in should cease as they have "served their purpose" — a move that has been criticised by the local mayor and Aboriginal associations.
Oh hey, I got an HD for my assessment about policing which ended with the line "..as Kendrick Lamar (2024), "you not a colleague, you a fucking coloniser", and which refers to the Aboriginal Strategic Direction as "the whitest of white papers"*
I definitely thought I'd be marked down for my sass.
#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #uni #Academia #Criminology #CriminalJustice #university
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* a joke stolen from my friend, Ulf.
When someone points out that your anti-Indigenous actions are deeply unethical, "by whose ethics??" isn't the own you think it is.
Defence Housing Australia fined for unlawful land clearing at Lee Point
By Samantha Dick
A Commonwealth-owned defence housing company has been fined more than $18,000 for unlawfully clearing land at a popular birdwatching area on the outskirts of Darwin.
Female inmates 'disadvantaged' by overcrowding at WA prison
By Chloe Henville
The Inspector of Custodial Services report highlights overcrowding, staffing shortages and inadequate facilities at a Geraldton prison despite millions of dollars of investment.
