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For a quarter of a century, Aubrey Lynch has been fighting for Native Title over his Country. Today, the 86-year-old lore man was present as it happened. "We have been fighting for about 25 years. It's a long time, during that time we lost a lot of our Old People," he told NITV News. Four years on from the initial application, the Federal Court of Australia recognised the rights of the Wongi people to the area in the Northern Goldfields. The area spreads across 300,000 square kilo…
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With a team of young inner city Aboriginal men, the two best friends are making a difference.
11 months ago
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As a girl, Dr Aunty Jodi Edward's father taught her about her people's connection to the sea. She learnt about their fishing practices along the south coast of NSW. He taught her how to swim in the sea, how to dolphin dive down beneath the waves, and how to open her eyes and breathe under the salt water. As she grew, the Yuin/Dharawal woman didn't think much of the sea and the stories she was told. But, when her father got sick, she stepped away from work to care for him. During…
10 months ago
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Medicine wasn't a path young Dr Casey Sullivan thought she'd take. At 16, she did her work experience at a veterinary clinic. "I always wanted to be a vet ... I did think it would be the best job ever, but I came to learn there were aspects I just wasn't built for," she said. A year later, her high school principal encouraged her to attend a Medical Science program designed to entice upcoming students at the University of Newcastle. It would be life changing. "A da…
9 months ago
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Bernard Namok Jr was just ten years old when his dad sent in a sketch to design the Torres Strait Islander flag. He recalls the evenings in 1992 when his father would sit in their Thursday Island home and draw. "I'm the oldest child in my family, so I remember him doing the sketches, he'd stay up late at night sometimes and into the early hours of the evening," he told NITV. "We were living at my grandma's two-bedroom unit, my grandma, my mum and dad, my sister and…
7 months ago
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Professor Kathleen Clapham AM's father instilled in her a love for education. It's this love that drove her dedication to academia. She is the founding Director of the Ngarruwan Ngadjul: First People's Health and Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Wollongong and the university's Professor of Indigenous Health. For years, Prof Clapham has supported the learning of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students and improved the health of mob across the c…
6 months ago
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A Victorian Aboriginal organisation has backed coronial recommendations to better invest in cultural connections for Indigenous children in care. On Wednesday, Victorian Coroner Simon McGregor handed down his findings into the death of a Wemba Wemba teenager who died by suicide while in state care. The 17-year-old, known as XY, died while living in state care at an Anglicare residential unit in the Victorian town of Bendigo. She spent time in seven placements across four years and in December 20…
6 months ago
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Known as Black Elvis, Uncle Roger Knox is the Koori King of country music. But he grew up singing gospel. "My grandmother and mother sang at church," he told NITV. "Gospel was something we could gather to ... It was the only music I knew growing up." Uncle Roger was raised on Toomelah Aboriginal Mission Station, and remembers his childhood fondly. "It was good in them days; everybody loved and respected each other, we respected our Elders. "There were hard times, b…
6 months ago
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How important is sex in love? How do you come to terms with your sexuality? And how do you relearn love after violence? These three Aboriginal women are here to answer it all.
5 months ago
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Misinformation and disinformation were rife during the referendum. Some believe it catalysed Australia's rejection of the Voice to Parliament with the effects still being felt a year on.
2 months ago
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New research has highlighted the high rates of workplace sexual harassment and assault experienced by migrant women. Experts say there are many reasons why this type of abuse often goes unreported.
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