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The restoration and preservation of Indigenous languages has attracted considerable popular interest over the past two decades, but more funding is required if many are not to be lost forever.

Joseph was born in 1803 in London, the youngest son of Eliezer and Judith Levi Montefiore. 

William Barak witnessed traditional Indigenous life upended when Europeans flooded across Bass Strait and occupied the country that had sustained his people and their lore for tens of thousands of years.

Melbourne Girls Grammar School is pushing to scrap the house named after John Batman, the founder of Melbourne who brokered the Batman Treaty that led to the creation of Melbourne.

Australian bushrangers have a habit of conjuring romantic reputations after their desperate careers.

Lightning strikes into Victorian territory by Sydney bar king Justin Hemmes and the staggering $33 million sale of the Boundary Hotel in East Bentleigh have drawn new assets to market.

Australia’s Colonial Names Are Being Replaced by Aboriginal Ones The Economist, April 24, 2021 You cannot go far in Australia without stumbling on a spot named after an act of colonial violence. The continent is dotted with Massacre Bays, Deadman’s Creeks and Murdering Gullies. Suicide Bay, in Tasmania, commemorates an especially grizzly slaughter. In 1828, a party of white shepherd-convicts cornered an indigenous clan on a clifftop and murdered 30 men as punishment for slaughtering the set...

Print text only Cancel The Launceston City Council has thrown its support behind a growing push to rename the Batman Bridge in Tasmanias north as Aboriginal leaders call for "white-washed history" to be undone. Key points: The Launceston City Council will lobby the state government to change the name of Batman Bridge The bridge is named after John Batman, who killed at least a dozen Aboriginal Tasmanians in the 1800s It comes as other places in the state receive dual names or are completely ren...

The Launceston City Council has voted to appeal to the Tasmanian Government to change the name of the Batman Bridge.  Chairman of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council and trawlwoolway man Michael Mansell told NITV he was happy with the Launceston City Council’s decision. “Good on them,” he said.  “Well done Launceston City Council, because a local government that is as big as the Hobart City Council, or the Launceston City Council, any decision they make in this context would be ver...

Patrick Clarke , January 13th, 2021 08:38 Heavy duo Divide And Dissolve aim to destroy white supremacy through overwhelmingly intense music. They speak to Patrick Clarke about ideology, Indigineity, and inevitable backlash Photos by Billy Eyers On the ‘About’ section of their website, Divide And Dissolve state their aims: “To secure Black futures, liberation, and freedom; demand Indigenous Sovereignty; uplift people of color’s experiences; and destroy white supremacy.” They are an in...