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25.01.2022 After closing its doors almost a year ago due to COVID-19, the Board of Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park has announced they won’t ever be opening again. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/tjapukai-aboriginal-cultural-park-close/

24.01.2022 New South Wales Minister for Police David Elliott has threatened Invasion Day protestors with fines and imprisonment if they gather on Tuesday. Anyone who’s claiming it’s racial, that’s absolutely nonsensical," the Minister said on Monday. Read more: https://nit.com.au/nsw-police-minister-threatens-invasion-/

23.01.2022 "What we do together will create a model that builds confidence and experience for a lifetime, equipping the successful applicants with valuable life and business skills, setting them up with the tools to flourish and succeed, which can then be replicated and applied across other global businesses worldwide and in their communities back home. NBA champion and three-time Olympian Patty Mills has teamed up with Bluestone Lane to build pathways to success through the Keriba Ged Program. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/patty-mills-and-nicholas-stone-team-up-/

23.01.2022 World scientists are saying no to fracking but the Government, local, State and Federal, are not listening to these environmental scientists, or climate change scientists, he said. There are these huge implications on environment which we know is so connected to who we are as mobbetween us, our land, our family, our kinships and our cultural, spiritual, religious beliefs. The Morrison Government has given the green light to the Santos Narrabri Gas Project (NGP).... On Tuesday Federal Minister for Environment Sussan Ley approved the project and gave the NGP a number of conditions which work to protect regional biodiversity, groundwater and local community. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/federal-government-approves-santos-narr/

23.01.2022 The first Democrat to win Arizona since 1996, much of President-elect Joe Biden’s success in the State rested in the hands of Indigenous voters. According to Arizona’s election results, 58 per cent of the Apache, Coconino and Navajo communities voted for Biden. Support for Biden was particularly strong within the Navajo Nation, with precincts voting for Biden ranging from 60 to 90 per cent. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/indigenous-voters-carried-biden-arizona/

23.01.2022 We’re just really making sure that the Indigenous aspect doesn't get lost in that very important conversation. We're still showing up to make sure that we are also adding our perspectives to the conversation. From machine operator to CEO, Dauareb Wuthathi woman Florence Drummond has found global recognition listed in this year’s Women in Mining UK’s 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining. The biennial publication is dedicated to highlighting the wealth of female talent i...n the mining industry and identifying role models for future generations. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/indigenous-ceo-recognised-in-global-wom/ Indigenous Women In Mining and Resources Australia

21.01.2022 These are not bad kids, they are kids who need our support and guidance. We want our young people to stay on Country for rehabilitation, not to be sent to the mainland for prison. Traditional Owners on Groote Eylandt are establishing a local justice group to develop an alternative to incarceration. ... The 14 clans represented by Anindilyakwa Land Council (ALC) are working towards taking full control of local decision-making. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/groote-eylandt-traditional-owners-take-/

21.01.2022 Australia’s most successful Indigenous businesses have presented at the second ever Indigenous Economic Development Summit this week. The two-day summit pushed Indigenous entrepreneurs to capacity build, leverage professional networks and strengthen their commercial resilience. NIT sat down with a few of these deadly innovators to discuss their areas of expertise: https://nit.com.au/second-indigenous-economic-development-/

21.01.2022 An inland highway under development in northern Queensland is set to be named after two notorious colonial settlers despite their well-documented racism and race-motivated violence. Informally, the stretch of road is being named the ‘Hann Highway’, after brothers William and Frank Hann. Whilst the origin of the name’s use is unknown, it has frequently been used by MPs and media organisations including the ABC. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/new-queensland-highway-using-name-of-vi/

21.01.2022 Traditional Owners in north Australia are looked at as stakeholders, but Traditional Owners are more than stakeholders, they’re outright exclusive land owners of 78 per cent of Northern Australia. A first-of-its-kind report has found greater consultation with Traditional Owners could be the key to unlocking the economic, social and environmental potential of swathes of the northern end of Australia. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/more-bang-for-taxpayer-buck-if-traditio/

19.01.2022 Across Western Australia, Indigenous fire management practices and cultural burning principles are becoming more widely recognised and included in fire management regimes. In the state’s southeast, the Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation is working with stakeholders to bring cultural burning principles to the forefront of bushfire management. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/wake-up-and-smell-the-smoke/

18.01.2022 Mexico’s president has made an historic apology to the Indigenous Mayan people for the abuses they suffered in the five centuries since the Spanish conquest. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/mexico-apologises-to-mayan-people-for-c/

18.01.2022 The Federal Budget has allocated $111 million to a new Remote Jobs Program to replace the controversial ‘work for the dole’ Community Development Program. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/work-for-the-dole-program-axed-in-feder/

18.01.2022 Australian taxpayers have been footing the bill of former Federal Finance Minister Mathias Cormann’s extensive travel to woo votes for the Secretary General position at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), using a Royal Australian Air Force plane for travel, provided by Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The Dassault Falcon 7X has been part of the RAAF fleet since April 2019 and has a range of 11,000 kilometres. It reportedly costs over $4,000 per hou...r of flying to operate. The Federal Government’s decision to throw money at the former Minister’s new political campaign is in stark contrast to the tightly held purse strings concerning Indigenous funding during last month’s Federal Budget. Read more: https://nit.com.au/cormann-barbeques-in-berlin-at-taxpayer/

17.01.2022 Noongar community leaders and activists marched on Western Australia’s Parliament House on Wednesday to make camp and re-occupy the site to draw attention to the suffering of the state’s homeless and demand immediate action. Read more: https://nit.com.au/noongar-community-protests-homelessness/

17.01.2022 We will be inspired by our sister’s legacy, we will not let her be forgotten and then we will ask you to stand with us against family and domestic violence. Staunch domestic violence campaigner and community leader R Rubuntja has been identified as the victim of an alleged murder by her partner last Thursday. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/alleged-murder-victim-identified-as-wel/

16.01.2022 The idea of protest is in response to the arrival of the First Fleet, The Vigil on the 25th is a moment about us, and a safe space for First Nations and other waves of migration to have a moment of reflection. On the eve of January 26, a date that polarises the country, The Vigil is a night of performance and reflection held at Sydney’s Barangaroo Reserve. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/the-vigil-a-safe-space-to-reflect-on-au/

14.01.2022 OPINION: Some of the best known and most politically charged moments in history have happened on the sporting stage. Whether we like it or not, sport is part of the fundamental fabric of Australian politics. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/sport-unites-us-when-politics-divides/

14.01.2022 From a young age, proud Yorta Yorta woman Allira Potter knew she had always been spiritually attuned. But it wasn’t until after she hit rock bottom that she began to tap into her intuitive gift. Through her professional practices and socially broadcasted messaging, Potter remains committed to transforming and decolonising the whitewashed wellness industry. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/decolonising-the-whitewashed-wellness-w/

14.01.2022 The High Court of Australia has dismissed special leave applications challenging the registration of the South West Native Title Settlement. Put forward by a breakaway group of Noongar Traditional Owners, the application was the final legal option the group had to challenge the $1.3 billion settlement. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/high-court-rejects-noongar-settlement-s/

13.01.2022 After more than a week of counting, the Tasmanian Liberals have remained victorious in the State election and will form the next government with Peter Gutwein at the helm. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/tasmanian-liberals-face-first-hurdle-af/

12.01.2022 Bringing the stories of the desert to Sydney’s doorstep, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre’s new exhibit WALKA showcases artists from Maruku Arts Centre in Petermann, Northern Territory. Exhibiting until December 7, WALKA hosts over 120 works from Maruka Arts. Established in 1985, the arts centre is owned and governed by Anangu artists from both Central and Western Desert Country; it is home to over 500 Anangu artists and serves 22 communities. Maruka artists speci...alise in the creation of Punu (wood carvings), a practice which is central to the survival of Anangu culture and tradition. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/sydney-art-gallery-features-anangu-wood/

12.01.2022 An Indigenous woman has died in a car accident following a police pursuit in Darwin on Sunday morning. The Northern Territory Police are treating the death as a death in custody. NIT has the details: https://nit.com.au/darwin-car-accident-being-treated-as-de/

11.01.2022 For Aboriginal children, we could talk about the highest rates of suicide, the highest rates of incarceration, or removal into out-of-home care, homelessness, being disconnected to cultureit all stems from one place, it all starts in out-of-home care. The removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families is continuing nationally at an alarming rate according to the 2020 Family Matters Report. Released on November 16, the report found there are c...urrently 20,077 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care. These children represent 37 per cent of children in the out-of-home care but make up only six per cent of Australia’s population. If rates of removal continue to rise, the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care will double by 2029. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/out-of-home-care-at-crisis-point-for-fi/ ID. Know Yourself SNAICC-National Voice for our Children

11.01.2022 Three Northern Territory Indigenous organisations are set to receive shares of $1.125 million to support the introduction of new domestic and family violence programs. Announced by Federal Minister for Families and Social Services Anne Ruston on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the funding will be administered to Tangentyere Council, Katherine West Health Board and Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council (NPYWC) across two ...years. It will enable the organisations to trial new services which will improve access to specialised family violence services. Our initial approach on this is going to be quite therapeutic in using narrative therapy practices with children and young people, said NPYWC CEO Liza Balmer. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/federal-government-funds-new-nt-domesti/

07.01.2022 Buru Energy and Origin Energy have partnered for drilling exploration and possible fracking in the Canning Basin of Western Australia’s Kimberley region despite protest from community. These exploration regions are not subject to Western Australia’s fracking bans as the exploration licences were granted by the State’s Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety. For me, it sends a message to the Kimberley people, that our lives and health, and that of our future gene...rations, don’t matter," said Naomi Pigram, a Yawuru/Wadjarri woman and the Greens candidate for Kimberley in the upcoming WA election. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/wa-government-greenlights-fracking-expl/

06.01.2022 SPONSORED: MADALAH’s group of Emerging Leaders is celebrating the success of its first ever Youth Leadership Summit recently held on November 20 and 21. Students tested their teamwork and leadership skills in an Amazing Race-style competition and enjoyed talks and tours at Northam's state of the art cultural learning centre, Bilya Koort Boodja. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/inaugural-madalah-youth-leadership-summ/

06.01.2022 Controversial new youth bail laws have passed through the Northern Territory Parliament despite strong opposition from Aboriginal legal groups and children’s rights groups. Read more at NIT: https://nit.com.au/nt-youth-bail-laws-pass-despite-opposit/

05.01.2022 Four people have been arrested by NSW Police at Sydney’s Invasion Day Rally at Djarrbarrgalli (The Domain) on Tuesday. NIT has the details: https://nit.com.au/four-arrested-at-sydney-invasion-day-ra/

02.01.2022 It’s hugely important to look after yourself, it’s one thing to be mentally drained, but we are deeply spiritual people, to be emotionally and spiritually drained is a whole other level. During such a contentious time of year for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, it is easy to forget to take care of yourself while trying to fight for your community. Read more: https://nit.com.au/handling-invasion-day-fatigue/

02.01.2022 A line up of incredible people doing the work for their communities, the 2021 Australian of the Year Awards saw two women of colour and two young women clean up on Monday night. Read about the winners at NIT: https://nit.com.au/women-take-out-australian-of-the-year-a/