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  • Eddie Mabo taught his daughter Gail about the stars. It's a lesson she loves to pass on

    Aug 15, 2024 | sbs.com.au | Dan Butler

    When Aunty Gail Mabo was a child, she took a school trip to her ancestral home on Mer (Murray Island) in the Torres Strait. It was a transformative excursion that taught her the power of both the very small and the very large, from sand to stars. The teacher in charge also happened to be her father, Eddie Koiki Mabo, not yet the historic victor of the country's most significant land rights case.

  • 'Not in the hearts of the Yolŋu': Djawa Yunupingu says Peter Dutton ignored his invitation to Garma

    Aug 1, 2024 | sbs.com.au | Dan Butler |Michael Rennie

    The first Garma festival to be held in the wake of the Voice referendum's defeat has kicked off in Arnhem Land. The four-day celebration of Yolŋu culture is also the biggest political event on the First Nations calendar, a chance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders from around the continent to meet and discuss common goals.

  • Teenager beaten with batons in a Queensland watchhouse

    Jul 10, 2024 | sbs.com.au | Dan Butler

    The shocking case of an Indigenous teenager being repeatedly beaten with batons in a Brisbane watchhouse last year has not resulted in any disciplinary action for the officers involved. CCTV footage of the 2023 incident was aired by the ABC's 7.30 program on Tuesday. READ MOREIt shows two officers entering the room where the 17-year-old, who cannot be identified, was being held in August of that year.

  • Sky News issues apology to Keegan Payne after ambushing him in live interview

    May 6, 2024 | teaonews.co.nz | Dan Butler

    This story was first published by NITV. A journalist who turned a feel-good story of Aboriginal success into an ugly ambush on live TV has deleted his social media in response to backlash to the incident. Sky News reporter Peter Stafanovic has been lambasted for perpetuating “a harmful and negative stereotype” following his trainwreck interview with Katherine teenager Keegan Payne.

  • The continent's oldest Aboriginal pottery has been dated back 3,000 years, destroying colonial myths

    Apr 9, 2024 | sbs.com.au | Dan Butler

    The discovery of ancient ceramics on Jiigurru (Lizard Island Group) have confirmed sophiscated pottery-making techniques were used in the Great Barrier Reef thousands of years ago. An archaeological dig by researchers from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and Dingaal and Ngurrumungu Traditional Owners unearthed the precious sherds (pottery fragments).

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