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ABC Everyday ABC Everyday/ By Steve Hodder Watt Steve Hodder Watts responsibility as a Lardil man is to ensure the security of our clan homelands and that visitors are respectful and safe. ( Share Print text only Cancel It doesnt matter if you have a direct connection to the First Nations of this continent or are just visiting the majesty of the bush, conducting yourself appropriately is extremely important. From the lush coastal fringes to the desert panoramas, or even up to the Snowy Mountain...

I would like to pay tribute to Mungo MacCallum and his work and passion for Indigenous rights.  I first met Mungo at one of our very first get togethers as Women for Wik, I would think probably in 1998. Mungo was there as an advocate for ANTaR (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation) and from that first meeting attended many of our early meetings.    The last time I saw Mungo was at the gathering we had at Brunswick Heads supporting Thomas Mayor and his mission to promote and expl...

Published on: Friday, December 18, 2020 Text Size: Some Kopeks members saw the advertisement for sale for the property (Lembah Impian) at the fence of the property at Kg Kandazon, Penampang. Kota Kinabalu: Uncertainty surrounds the fate of a RM17.5 million venture that the Sabah Government Employees Cooperative Society Berhad (Kopeks) entered into through a Sale and Purchase (S&P) Agreement in July, 2019, against the advice of Suruhanjaya Koperasi Malaysia (SKM) and which led to the dissolution...

The Northern Land Council (NLC) has lodged a compensation claim against the NT government on behalf of the Gudanji, Yanyuwa and Yanyuwa-Marra peoples, who are Native Title holders of the McArthur River Pastoral Lease. The compensation claim filed in the Federal Court seeks unspecified damages relating to the McArthur River zinc mine and the nearby Bing Bong Port near Borroloola, in the Gulf of Carpentaria. The McArthur River Project, which enabled the establishment of the mine and Bing Bong Por...

Stories We Missed in 2020: Rio Tinto’s Destruction of the Juukan Gorge Proved (Again) Nothing Is Sacred Except Profit Mining executives knew the spiritual value of the ancient Indigenous site – and they blew it up anyway On 24 May 2020, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, the mining giant Rio Tinto blew up a 46,000-year-old sacred site: the Juukan Gorge rock shelters. The traditional owners of the land, the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (PKKP), only learnt abou...

Storms battering the New South Wales north coast have put key Indigenous cultural sites at risk, including two ancient middens on the beachfront of Byron Bay. Traditional Owners fear the savage weather conditions which are attacking the coastline at Clarkes Beach will destroy two middens that have “huge“ cultural significance and which were used in the Bundjalung people’s successful Native Title claim. Traditional Owner Nickolla Clarke told NITV News the possibility of permanent destructi...

Controversial CEO in shock resignation The CEO of North Stradbroke Island’s Aboriginal entity has announced his shock resignation following the re-election of Labor. Business by Hayden Johnson Premium Content Subscriber only The controversial boss of North Stradbroke Islands Aboriginal entity has resigned after seven years as CEO, The Courier-Mail can reveal. Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation CEO Cameron Costello told the organisati...

"Never Again." These words are used with boring, stage managed frequency by political and company figures who should know better. They title the interim report from the Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia investigating the destruction of rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in Western Australia by Rio Tinto. This act of spectacular cultural vandalism destroyed sites 46,000 years old. The company initially thought it was worth the bill: AU$135 million worth of iron ore. The efforts of Rio Ti...

Premium Content Subscriber only It was while working as a hairdresser on Rockhamptons CQUniversity campus that Heidi Lawson first got the idea to study a law degree. "It was great to watch families grow and be a part of that first haircut before kindy, right through to styling their hair for formal, watching them apply for university and styling beautiful hair designs for wedding days," she said. "Then after a few years of running my business, I became more involved with my mob (Jiman - also...

A parliamentary inquiry in Australia has recommended the Anglo-Australian mining company, Rio Tinto, compensate the Indigenous people in the country for the destruction of two ancient sites, and criticised the government for failing to protect the Aboriginal group. In an interim report entitled, Never Again, released on Wednesday, the panel also recommended that the mining giant impose a moratorium on mining in the Juukan Gorge in Western Australia, and rehabilitate the sacred sites, which are ...