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Wunujaka actor and TikTok creator from the Arrernte / Tiwi peoples “Heal Country’ to me means, listening to the concerns of my elders and continuing the work of being a Sovereign Custodian of my Country and Sea-Country. On Country and in Sea-Country, all natural things are interconnected,” he said. “We understand this in both Arrerente and Tiwi culture. Currently, the Tiwi Elders and People are working to stop the development of Santos’ Barossa Offshore Gas Project. This project will have devastating effects on the natural Sea-Country and all the creatures that inhabit that space, a...

Posted by Culture Is Life | Tuesday 6 October 2020, 05:45 PM (AEDT) Archie Roach AM, music legend and Stolen Generations survivor, is one of Australia’s most powerful songwriters and storytellers. His deeply personal song stories and more recently his books, Tell Me Why and Took the Children Away, shed light on the devastating government policies that still impact thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their families. The Archie Roach Stolen Generations resources were created during COVID-19 by Culture Is Life, in collaboration with the Archie Roach Foundation, to ...

Dancing for thanks Stella Cote's son is also an inmate at the correctional facility. She said she was dancing as a way to say thanks to the correctional staff for providing inmates with better living conditions, including time to go outside instead of being locked up in their cells for most of the day. "I'm actually happy we did the protest last week because things have been changing ever since," Cote said. "We're going to fight, no matter what, we're still here, they're not alone." Stella Cote (pictured) says she wants to see more programming to inmates in the jail.(Bryan Eneas/CBC News)