John Paul Janke

Nov 28, 2024 | sbs.com.au | Dan Butler |John Paul Janke

Joanne Taylor looks back on Christmas 2021 with fond memories. Tradition dictated a family trip to Coral Bay, an exquisite slice of blinding beach and crystal waters on Baiyungu Country, 1200 kilometres north of Perth. Joanne's son, Wesley Lockyer, was there with her. "That's what we do as a family," the Nyamal woman told NITV. "We were together all the time."It's the last Christmas she spent with her son.

Oct 29, 2024 | sbs.com.au | John Paul Janke

Warning: this story contains the name of a deceased Aboriginal person and violent details of a massacre. Once you see him, you cannot unsee him. He is simply referred to as ‘No. 41: Mrs Blair’s Aborigine’. READ MOREBut who was he? How does he end up on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country and in a 19th century group portrait of the who’s who of Melbourne? His name was Lani Mulgrave Blair. He is front and centre in Carl Kahler’s painting The Derby Day at Flemington.

Oct 14, 2024 | sbs.com.au | John Paul Janke |Alexis Moran |Rudi Maxwell

A year ago Australians rejected the idea of recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Constitution through a First Nations Voice to Parliament. For Rikisha Phineasa, a proud Torres Strait Islander woman who is studying law and arts at James Cook University and a member of the First Nations youth council in Townsville, it was a bitter pill to swallow.

Jul 29, 2024 | news.com.au | John Paul Janke

I was taught nothing about Palm Island’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ at school. Zip. Zero. A missing page in our nation’s history book. I studied Ned Kelly, other bushrangers, inland explorers who toiled and battled against all odds. Of Australians – like at the Eureka Stockade – who fought against the odds, fought dislocation, oppression, and discrimination.

Jul 26, 2024 | sbs.com.au | John Paul Janke |Rudi Maxwell

After more than twenty years in politics Wiradjuri woman Linda Burney had butterflies in her tummy after announcing her retirement on Thursday. When Burney walked onto the floor of the NSW Lower House in 2003 she was the first Aboriginal person to have been elected to parliament in that state.