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In our latest edition, ON SALE TODAY, you’ll read about:

• ELDER Jim Everett was the latest person to be arrested in the battle to save the giant trees of Tasmania’s Styx Valley. Meanwhile, Hollywood superstar Leonardi DiCaprio has joined the fray, posting online support for those fighting to save the forests. While much of Lutruwita  (Tasmania) was going gaga over a name and logo for a sports team, Jim Everett was being arrested for trespass while protesting the destruction of native forests.

• OVERCROWDING and a severe shortage of homes for Aboriginal Territorians could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a landmark $4 billion dollar remote housing investment by the Federal and Northern Territory governments.

PLUS – Check out our Deadly Women feature by Koori Mail writer Sarah Roberts-Field, pages 21-23!

In SPORT:

• ABORIGINAL basketball legend Rick Baldwin has hailed Patty Mills’ move to Miami after the star basketballer landed on his feet at the Heat in his first six games for the NBA franchise. Mills, now in his 15th season in the world’s most ultra-competitive basketball competition, recently found a new home at Miami after an unhappy stint at the Atlanta Hawks. 

• IN a remarkable development for Indigenous basketball, William Hickey and Ally Wilson will represent Australia at the Asia Cup in Singapore beginning this week.

Latest News Stories

Mulga Bore Hard Rock – Talvin Bird, Aiden Manfong, Niara Tilmouth, Alvin Manfong, Tryell Bird and Kirklen Bird.

Rock and rolling along

Tuesday, 26 March 2024 8:06 pm

A TEENAGE band from central Australia are spreading their contagious and upbeat energy, rocking their way from a tiny remote community in central Australia to KISS’s stage, leading festivals around the country, to recording on historic equipment used by legends such as The Beatles and Pink Floyd.

Later this year they will release their first album.

If you haven’t heard of them yet, they are Mulga Bore Hard Rock, a six-piece band of brothers and cousins from Akaye, two hours northeast of Alice Springs.

Most band members are still at school, so while they’re on their ‘Red Earth Tour 24’ educational experiences and curriculum is woven in.

Younger students remaining at Mulga Bore School have been getting bored awaiting their return so have started another…

A local student from the community of Binjari, near Katherine in the Northern Territory.

$4b for remote housing

Tuesday, 26 March 2024 8:05 pm

OVERCROWDING and a severe shortage of homes for Aboriginal Territorians could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a landmark $4 billion dollar remote housing investment by the Federal and Northern Territory governments.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made the announcement from the community of Binjari, near Katherine in the Northern Territory on March 12.

While promising 2,700 new homes (270 houses built every year for the next decade) the new long-term agreement also aligns with efforts to grow remote economies.

The announcement is the culmination of 12 months of strong leadership and advocacy from Aboriginal Housing Northern Territory (AHNT) and heralds a once-in-a-generation opportunity to properly address the severe shortage of housing…

New South Wales all-rounder Dharmini Chauhan was unanimously voted as player of the tournament and final.

Blues avenge Maroons in Mparntwe to win national title

Tuesday, 26 March 2024 8:04 pm

HAVING relinquished the women’s National Indigenous Cricket Championship title to Queensland for the first time history last year, New South Wales made amends in the 2024 grand final at Traeger Park.

The Blues’ set the Maroons a challenging 7-121 (20 overs) after having been sent in to bat.

A classy 63 from player of the match Dharmini Chauhan who opened the batting with Sara Darney (11) set the tone of the innings.

Chauhan’s 63 came from 51 deliveries that including a quartet of fours and three rope-clearing sixes.

Blues all-rounder Maddison Spence came in at the end a contributed a handy…

Pakana Elder, activist and artist Jim Everett was arrested and charged with trespass.

Elder arrested while standing up for forests

Tuesday, 26 March 2024 8:02 pm

WHILE much of Lutruwita (Tasmania) was going gaga over a name and logo for a sports team, Jim Everett was being arrested for trespass while protesting the destruction of native forests.

The eighty-one-year-old Pakana Elder, activist and artist travelled into the Styx ‘Valley of the Giants’ where eucalypts grow to near 100 metres – the tallest flowering trees in the world – are threatened by logging.

The Koori Mail caught up with him on the eve of his arrest.

“I want to tell the Tasmanian Government you are committing genocide against these forests, committing genocide against our people because we are connected to the forests and we are going to fight…

WA’s Jay Collard (left) and Jermain Davis snr. with the 2024 National Indigenous Cricket Championship trophy after an epic final with New South Wales at Traeger Park in Mparntwe-Alice Springs.

Sandgropers prevail over Blues in epic cricket finale

Tuesday, 26 March 2024 8:01 pm

A BRILLIANT batting display by West Australian opener Brock Larance set up Western Australia to win the 2024 NICC at Traeger Park – their fourth in the history of the tournament.

Larance provided a master-class innings which set up the victory over New South Wales.

With partner Clint Hinchliffe, the pair produced a brilliant 107-run opening stand that set up a successful chase-down of the Blues’ 6-151.

The Sandgropers made the total in the 17th over with five wickets to spare.

WA captain Jay Collard was mightily impressed.

“That innings of Brock took the game away from NSW; it was one of the best innings I’ve seen,” Collard said.

“He is a fearless player and is capable of…

Sharyn Egan’s installation ‘Balga Boola – Bigsmob Balga’, became a major piece of public-engaging participatory art.

Setting the scene with sculpture

Tuesday, 26 March 2024 7:59 pm

FOR Nyoongar woman Sharyn Egan, exhibiting at this year’s Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, in Western Australia was ‘an honour’.

But what Ms Egan loved most about her art instalment was inviting the public to take part in its creation and watching it come alive and grow bigger each day.

“It’s just such an honour to be part of this, and to be working with the public, and the people, and involving everyone in it,” Ms Egan said.

“The sculpture itself is more about educating people a little bit about Aboriginal culture without preaching about it or schooling people, and the installation is really just about sharing knowledge about the Balga plant itself.”

An acclaimed artist from Western Australia, it’s the 7th time Ms Egan…