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HAVING just returned home from their first international performance at the renowned SXSW (South by Southwest) festival in the USA, rising Boorloo / Perth-based hip-hop stars FLEWNT and his 11-year-old son INKABEE are showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon.

Next up is the Sydney Opera House.

It’s there that the West Coast’s freshest father and son MCs will take to the stage to land their Vivid LIVE debut alongside rap star Tasman Keith for a massive show in June.

“We are both just absolutely spinning out about our upcoming show at the Sydney Opera House,” FLEWNT told the Koori Mail.

“And because we’ve both been so busy working, everything has happened so fast…

LEILANI MITCHELL is living the dream on and off the court after having secured her fourth WNBL championship.

The mother of two is one of three mothers in the Southside Flyers team – joining the great Lauren Jackson, and Carley Ernst – which secured the 2023-24 WNBL championship after defeating Perth Lynx 115-81 to win the three-game series 2-1.

Mitchell proved her quality in the series, scoring 14 points with three triples in game three to win her fourth title.

This also is the franchise’s fifth championship, and second since the rebrand from the Dandenong Rangers.

The Flyers were led by the legendary Jackson who may have been the headline act but the Flyers could very well lay claim to being the most decorated WNBL championship…

NGARRINDJERI woman Ally Wilson and Wiradjuri and Gamilaroi-Gomeroi man William Hickey led Australia to a triumphant FIBA 3×3 Asia Cup championship in Singapore last weekend.

Wilson and Hickey were part of the respective four-person ‘Gangurrus’ women’s and men’s teams that swept past formidable opposition to claim double honours at the popular tournament, cementing Australia’s status…

LEGAL experts have blamed the latest riot at the Northern Territory’s notorious Don Dale youth detention centre on failing standards and inadequate care.

The embattled centre was placed into lockdown last week after a group of inmates set fire to the education centre and climbed onto the roof as part of a riot on Wednesday evening.

Police were called to the centre on Wednesday afternoon after reports of smoke billowing from the education facility and 14 children on the roof of the…

TRADITIONAL owners have cautiously welcomed the appointment of Rio Tinto to manage the rehabilitation of the Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu.

Energy Resources Australia (ERA), which operated Ranger and is 86.3 per cent owned by Rio Tinto, announced a new management services agreement for the rehabilitation project in a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange last Wednesday.

In March, ERA announced it had applied for a renewal of the Jabiluka mineral lease within Kakadu, but Mirarr Traditional Owners are opposed to the move, saying they have concerns about the financial position of the company.

All mining operations and uranium processing at Ranger ceased on January 8, 2021.

Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation, which…

“PICTURE yourself being 10 years old having visions stuck in prison.”

So raps Kobie Dee on his new single Statistic – the latest hard-hitting lyrical masterpiece to emerge from the talented Gomeroi artist.

Shining a blazing torch on increasingly high incarceration rates, Kobie Dee rails against the stereotype that prison is a one-way destination for First Nations young people.

“I was in the studio, actually working on a completely different song,” he told the Koori Mail.

“It just started off as a conversation with me and my producer about being a youngfulla and having the feeling of possibly ending up in jail. How it wasn’t a normal thing for a kid to be thinking about.”

That conversation soon turned into a powerful song that highlights the impacts of colonisation and the ongoing trauma…