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‘We’re the experts in our own lives’: Victoria’s First Nations treaty body is holding its first elections

Gellung Warl candidates, Lidia Thorpe’s son among them, are hoping to bring their lived experience to ‘a new era’ of politics in the state

The Guardian - AU

Deborah Cheetham Fraillon: ‘Composer by necessity, soprano by diligence and lesbian by practice’

The Yorta Yorta opera trailblazer on the power of song, what she learned from her Baptist upbringing and, as part of the Stolen Generations, how music led her home

The Guardian - AU

Kneecap is revitalising Irish. These 5 artists are doing the same for Indigenous languages

Northern Irish hip hop trio Kneecap have been making waves, not just as musicians, but as language activists who rap in both English and their native Irish. In Belfast’s Gaeltacht Quarter, Irish is a living language. It is also a political statement – a form of resistance against British cultural…

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‘Shame, disgust, horror’: Kate Grenville faces her family history of stolen land in Australia – and asks us to feel it with her

How do Australians feel about knowing the territory we inhabit was violently stolen from First Nations people? In Unsettled, Kate Grenville explores this through her own feelings. “I’ve been circling this book for years,” she writes.

The Conversation

Victorian police make ‘long overdue’ apology for their role in stolen generations

Shane Patton says sorry for police involvement in the removal of Aboriginal children from their families and country over more than 100 years

The Guardian - AU

50 years after Evonne Goolagong's Australian Open win, we should remember her achievements – and the racism she overcame

Readers are advised this article contains offensive language about Aboriginal peoples.

The Conversation

Forget Australia’s referendum. Indigenous people make strides on their own

Aboriginal residents of Shepparton establish thriving sport, education and cultural centres to boost their community.

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Ned Kelly's descendants claim cultural heritage rights over the site of his last stand. The Supreme Court disagrees

The Victorian Supreme Court has determined the descendants of Ned Kelly’s family are not a distinctive cultural group with the right to protections of their “intangible cultural heritage”.

The Conversation

Victoria's Indigenous voters choose champions for historic treaty talks

A special election is underway in Victoria to choose the next First Peoples' Assembly members, who will sit down opposite government to negotiate a statewide treaty.

ABC News

Deborah Cheetham Fraillon is a modern opera woman, saving the artform from itself

Yorta Yorta by birth, soprano by diligence — this is how Deborah Cheetham Fraillon is breathing new life into opera.

ABC News

The interactive theatre taking children on a journey across Australia’s Indigenous nations

Saltbush invites kids to hop across lily pads and gaze up at the night sky on a ‘magic carpet’. The minds behind it explain how it works

The Guardian - AU

Victorian coroner tells Veronica Nelson inquest he backs changes to 'disaster' bail laws

Victorian coroner Simon McGregor has described the conditions in the lead-up to the 37-year-old Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman's death as "harrowing", while labelling the state's bail laws a "complete and unmitigated disaster".

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Uncle Jack Charles: the ‘lost boy’ who found his way through storytelling

Obituary: Aboriginal actor and activist overcame abuse and incarceration to become one of the nation’s most respected and cherished Elders

The Guardian - AU

Coroner hears of 'glaring absences' at bail hearing where Veronica Nelson represented herself

A lawyer who tried to assist the 37-year-old, who died in custody after allegedly shoplifting, described the shortcomings of a bail hearing on the third day of a coronial inquest.

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First Nations languages must be taught alongside 'truthful' history in schools, advocates say

When Yorta Yorta and Gunditjmara singer Isaiah Firebrace started a petition for First Nations history and culture to be included in the Australian school curriculum he expected no more than 2,000 signatures. It now has 300,000 and has been tabled in Parliament.

ABC News

A First Nations and African Australian cultural scene is building in Shepparton

There's something special happening in Shepparton, where its First Nations and African Australian communities have collided to create a unique cultural scene.

The Guardian - AU

From carcasses to ‘westie car culture’: scenes from the 2022 Adelaide biennial

Under the title Free/State, artists are examining and celebrating the concept of freedom, in works that touch on Covid lockdowns, detention centres and souped-up muscle cars

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