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COVID vaccination experience: we spoke to 3 Australians who’ve been vaccinated. These are their stories.

Architecture news & editorial desk Ros Moriarty and John Moriarty, founders of Indigenous design studio Balarinji, have been inducted into the Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) Hall of Fame, for their contribution to enriching Australian graphic design, communication, and cultural activism. Founded in 1983, Balarinji has continually depicted the Indigenous narrative in a profound manner. Best known for the Balarinji-Qantas Flying Art Aircraft collection that has spanned three decades...

NAIDOC week has just begun and, after several tumultuous years of disasters in Australia, the theme this year is Heal Country. In the last two years, Australia has suffered crippling drought that saw the Darling-Baaka run dry, catastrophic bushfires, and major flooding throughout coastal and inland areas of Australia’s east. Just two weeks ago, UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre recommended one of our national treasures, the Great Barrier Reef, be listed as in danger. If these events, and the t...

Kerins believes much of the problem goes back to how the trust was set up, with traditional owners shut out of negotiations and the NT government and MRM deciding how the trust would operate. “The mine refused to meet with Aboriginal groups who wanted to organise under their law,” he said. “Instead they parachuted in someone MRM chose and set up a proxy organisation with mine-links that didn’t represent the people.” Garawa elder and Borroloola Aboriginal leader Jack Green said the tru...

NT Government The Northern Territory’s key visual and performing arts touring organisation is amongst newcomers to a framework that will raise its national profile and offer financial stability. Artback NT is one of eight new groups signed up to the National Performing Arts Partnership Framework (NPAPF), placing it amongst a clique of performance organisations including the Australian Ballet, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Opera Australia. The recent additions broaden the scope of the p...

NT Government The Territory Government has provided $1.3 million in funding to recipients of the 2021 Safe, Respected and Free from Violence Prevention Grants. The Safe, Respected and Free from Violence Prevention Grants are provided to support localised projects, activities, actions and pilot programs that seek to challenge and change social and cultural attitudes, values and structures that underpin domestic, family and sexual violence. Each year, individual grants of up to $150,000 are avail...

Free daycare demand for jobless families Kids miss out on daycare when parents can’t pay the $14-per-day ‘gap fee’, child advocates warn Parenting by NATASHA BITA Premium Content Exclusive: Childcare experts are demanding free daycare for kids with parents on the dole. Early Childhood Australia chief executive Samantha Page said all children should be able to attend childcare at least two days a week - even if their parents are out of work or too...

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How a town Tony Abbott described as having the worst housing in Australia is changing the game We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Very large text size Under a tree in Borroloola, a remote Aboriginal community about 10 hours drive from Darwin where less than half of all children attend school most days, local Garrawa woman Deandra McDinny helps toddlers with jigsaw puzzles. After delighting in how far they can throw their sunhat...

Share on Twitter A delegation of Northern Territory Traditional Owners will likely testify before a federal inquiry into a massive lead and zinc mines impacts on Aboriginal sacred sites. Glencores McArthur River Mine - about 750km southeast of Darwin - has been dogged by environmental incidents and alleged damage to cultural sites. Committee members from the Juukan Gorge inquiry into the destruction of 46,000-year-old caves in Western Australia have travelled to tiny Borroloola, abo...