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25.01.2022 A must watch... A WTF moment in Australian history. How to be become a native citizen. I'm speech less

23.01.2022 Congratulations to Defence Australia on the launch of its 2019 - 2022 Defence Reconciliation Action Plan at the Australian War Memorial. We were very proud to d...esign the D-RAP which featured artwork from Kalkadoon woman, Chern'ee Sutton Art. The artwork is titled ‘Caina Outut Llya, Wartanganha' which in the Kalkadoon language means, ‘Long ago, Today, Tomorrow’. Chern'ee's vibrant painting that Balarinji worked with is a tribute to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who have served, and continue to serve, in the Australian Defence Force. See more

22.01.2022 "Chained by the neck and driven by policeman on horseback, these natives are trudging their way from a mission station to exile on Palm Island" People magazine 1956

18.01.2022 In 1953 a WA Aboriginal man, George Abdullah, told a conference that opening Uluru to the public would be bad policy. People would not like to see a group of A...borigines camp at the Museum, or settle in one of their churches, he said. 'It is the same thing to desecrate something sacred to the Aborigines. [At Guildford Cemetery, Private George Abdullah’s memorial beautifully describes him as a soldier true who battled for black and white unity. A son of the west.]

16.01.2022 Take just eight minutes out of your day to hear Stan Grant's incredible 'Australian Dream' speech widely acknowledged to be one of the most powerful ever heard at IQ2. Share it with everyone who needs to hear it.

10.01.2022 "They need to consult First Nation people along the river system. They've looked after this river, they protected it for thousands of years." Bruce Shillingsworth, Murawari Budjiti man.

10.01.2022 Did you know there's another "How dare you!" speech? 20 years on from Neville Bonner's referendum reaction address, his words still ring true.

08.01.2022 Over 1500 people turn out for Wagga Wagga Corroboree, uniting different tribes, generations and cultural practices.

07.01.2022 A Very Ugly Side to Frontier Killings Roma, QLD When I was researching Blood on the Wattle (my book on Aboriginal massacres) in 1987 I became acutely aware th...at: (i) the whole country had experienced massacres if the definition was broadened to simply involve killing local Aborigines i.e. wherever the frontier of European settlement was (as it slowly moved across the continent) then there was indiscriminate killing of the local Aborigines and (ii) that the killing of Aborigines was endlessly ugly and enterprising. Most killing involved nothing more than a property owner asking his hired help (often convicts) to go and move those Aborigines on and waving an arm at a campsite down by the river or a billabong. The common solution was to ride down to the camp with shotguns and shoot up the camp killing indiscriminately. But then there was also the flour mixed with arsenic which was given to the local community who, unaware they were being poisoned, believed that it was suitable to make damper. The explorer, Ludwig Leichhardt, reached Kilcoy Station in 1842 and found that somewhere between 30 and 60 local Aborigines had been killed by arsenic in flour. He also witnessed, in the hills behind the Sunshine Coast, a corroboree where Aborigines from the Central Downs area, painted in ghostly white, re-enacted dying from arsenic poisoning. But one thing I didn’t come across in my studies was the man trap, an evil device banned in Britain as early as 1827 and certainly used in the Caribbean and the United States, which was on display at the Meadowbank Museum 12 km west of Roma on the road to Charleville when I visited there in 1988. The Museum has one of the most unusual collections of memorabilia in the country including the deadly 'man trap' which was used to trap Aborigines who were stealing cattle. It is a huge and ugly variation of a rabbit trap devised to break the leg and almost impossible to open once caught in it. It should not be unknown. It should be part of our history, albeit an ugly part. There are people who want to celebrate, endlessly, our sun’sand’surf lucky country of affluence and general happiness but it really is necessary to remember that our success came at a price and that price was brutal, racist and violent.

07.01.2022 WOW! Rain in the Red Centre means waterfalls at Uluru. Check out this amazing moment yesterday captured by tour guide Gareth Aver..

05.01.2022 THE PLAN TO POISON ABORIGINAL DRINKING WATER IN AUSTRALIA - DISCUSSED ON NATIONAL TV IN 1984 (THIS MANS DAUGHTER IS NOW THE 6TH RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD)

04.01.2022 DID YOU KNOW A slice of bread might be an easy meal these days but going back to ancient cultures around the world, the process to get there was a lot more w...ork. Traditional grinding stones like these have been used for grains such as wattleseed to make a flour for damper, a type of bread traditionally cooked in the coals of a fire by Indigenous Australians. The task of separating the husks and grinding the grains would take about 2 hours to make just half a kilo of flour! For Wattleseeds (pre-milled to save you the work) and a range of other native bushfoods, follow this link: https://buff.ly/2ImnXj9 #Roogenic #ARealTasteOfAustralia #Wattleseeds #GrindingStones

02.01.2022 A magical sunset over Uluu-Kata Tjua National Park Trys Eddy Photos, thanks for sharing!