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Jan 2, 2025 | 
smh.com.au | Jack Latimore |Justin McManus
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. ″You know how white man got that ‘cow jumped over the moon’? Well, Aborigine here got curlew and moon Dreaming. What happened is, the curlew had two babies, a boy and a girl, but he used to walk out at night,” Frank Shadforth says, standing at the headwaters of Seven Emu Creek in the Northern Territory’s Gulf Country.
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May 29, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Jack Latimore
"As exhausted as we are, we are determined to see change and to finally start healing. But for healing to begin, we must see change which is rooted in truth, accountability and justice for my cousin, Kumanjayi Walker. "Change which guarantees safety for my people. Change which means racism is not tolerated ...
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May 3, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Jack Latimore
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. More than $1 billion in resources revenue has flowed from the earth into the Victorian government’s coffers in the past three years – and none of it has gone to the traditional owners of those lands.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Jack Latimore
Premier Jacinta Allan has fronted Victoria's Indigenous truth-telling inquiry for the first time, where she said she wanted to send "a clear unequivocal message" that her government is determined to work towards treaty.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Jack Latimore
‘Not enough to merely know history’: Premier fronts Indigenous truth-telling inquiry for first time, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Premier Jacinta Allan has fronted Victoria’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry for the first time, where she said she wanted to send “a clear unequivocal message” that her government is determined to work towards treaty.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Jack Latimore
Allan to front truth-telling inquiry to affirm Victoria’s commitment to treaty with First Peoples, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Premier Jacinta Allan will become the first state leader to appear before a formal Indigenous-led truth-telling commission on Monday, when she will stress Victoria’s commitment to a state treaty with First Peoples.
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Apr 20, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Benjamin Preiss |Jack Latimore
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sometimes on a weekend, Gunditjmara man Richard Frankland will get in the car and set out for one of the sites where Indigenous people were murdered near his south-west Victorian home. The playwright, artist and musician calls these visits his “pilgrimages”. “It’s not a formal thing,” Frankland said. “I go out there and pay respect in my own way.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Jack Latimore
Save Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Australia's corporate watchdog has defended itself against claims its ban on credit purchases from a retail chain that targets remote Indigenous communities is having a "disastrous impact" on First Nations customers.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Jack Latimore
The Wamba Wemba people of north-west Victoria have become the first Indigenous group to hold a guaranteed seat on the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria without recognition from the government, marking a major step forward in Aboriginal decision-making powers in the state. A unanimous decision on the Wamba Wemba reserved seat came after a vote was put to the full Assembly on Thursday morning during its chamber meeting on Gurnaikurnai Country at Lakes Entrance, in the state's east.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Erin Pearson |Jack Latimore
However, he said this did not include the man's attendance at the Christmas party in December 2022, which was before staff learnt of his criminal history. "The gathering place has not bolstered its background checks for community members. The board, however, has implemented a new policy as of January 2024, that if members are found to be on the sex offenders register that they will be asked to leave the gathering place and not attend programs and events," Aldenhoven said.
