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Victorian Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe, who's a Gunnai Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung woman, said the commission is a good step towards reconciliation.

Date Time Seeking new members for our Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group Hume City Council established a Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group (RAPWG) in June 2019 and is now seeking further members to join the group. The RAPWG advises Hume City Council on the priorities of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and guides the implementation of Hume’s Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) 2020-22. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community ...

A ten-foot Brother Pole is currently underway to represent, acknowledge and memorialize all the MIssing and Mu...

The outbreak at the Acropolis Manor in Prince Rupert has been declared over. There were 33 residents and 24 st...

Download 7.38 MB As Victoria forges ahead with Australias first formal truth-telling process, the father of reconciliation, Labor senator Patrick Dodson, says the process is in the slow lane federally. Yesterday, the Senate voted down his motion for a Joint Select Committee to inquire into the truth telling and treaty making elements of Makarrata as called for in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. He says that calls for a truth telling commission are not going to go away, and Australia, as a ...

Racism blamed for Aboriginal patients distrust of NSW public health system SunSunday 14 updated SunSunday 14 The head of the Orange Aboriginal Medical Service, Jamie Newman. ( Share Print text only Cancel WARNING: This story contains the name and image of a deceased person. The ABC is publishing both with her familys permission. Racism within the New South Wales public health service has been identified as a key barrier for Aboriginal people trying to access medical care. Key points: The locati...

The Nisga'a Valley Health Authority has provided an update on Covid-19 case counts. The Health Authority has s...

QUT's Gardens Point campus will open its doors to buskers, market and food stalls, and cultural performances from March 21 as part of Riverside at the...

RCMP in Prince George spotted a stolen vehicle shortly after it had been reported stolen. Just after 9 p.m. on March 11, a frontline member of the Prince George RCMP noticed a vehicle that matched the description of a vehicle that had been reported stolen less than three hours prior. The report came in at 6:40 p.m., when a Nissan Pathfinder had been reported stolen. The owner stated they left the vehicle running with the keys in the car and entered their residence just long enough to take a jac...

Bianca Crisp is one of two Ron Clarke Griffith Futures Scholarship recipients. Two stellar up-and-coming Aboriginal and Torres Strait...