Click to View Our Current Job and General Web Ads
Cultural Custodian Garridyula, says racism has been on the rise since the failed Voice referundum

Edition 868 ON SALE NOW!

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

NATIONAL: After more than 238 years of colonisation, attempted genocide, racism and dispossession, cultural custodian Gurridyula, also known as Coedie McAvoy, is asking: ‘Where are the anti-Aboriginalism laws?’.

NT: A NEWLY-appointed Northern Territory administrator should be sacked after his “problematic views on race” were displayed in social media posts, a peak Aboriginal body says.

WA: MORE than 160 years after the Dempster brothers founded the first white settlement east of Albany in WA, Aboriginal people have erected a tribute to Esperance Bay Station’s 75 Indigenous workers.

NSW: THE family of an Aboriginal former boxer who fought in the famous Jimmy Sharman’s boxing circuit, is appealing for help following a house fire that destroyed all his belongings.

TAS: THE hundreds who turned out to this year’s Putalina Festival were treated to a stunning day of song, community, food, weather, celebration and commemoration..

VIC: RMIT University has announced distinguished artist Maree Clarke as the recipient of the Doctor of Arts honoris causa, in recognition of her exceptional leadership and impact on south-east Australian Aboriginal art and cultural practice.

QLD: WITH the onset of Australia’s bushfire season, a new partnership between holders of traditional knowledge and primary producers in Queensland looks to improve grazing landscapes using First Nations land management practices, including cultural burning.

Latest News Stories

Cultural Custodian Garridyula, says racism has been on the rise since the failed Voice referundum.

Acts of Hate

Monday, 2 February 2026 6:03 am

By Darren Coyne

After more than 238 years of colonisation, attempted genocide, racism and dispossession, cultural custodian Gurridyula, also known as Coedie McAvoy, is asking: ‘Where are the anti-Aboriginalism laws?’.

Gurridyula says racism has been on the rise since the failed Referendum. In a video posted to his social media, Gurridyula said he had no issue with the new hate speech laws to ensure Jewish people ‘feel safe in this country’. However, he said Aboriginal people also deserved that same right.

“You know who else deserves to feel safe in this country?. Aboriginal people. Because we have nowhere else to go.”

Group shot of the female dancers at Birriga Bunaan.

Ancestors look out for Birriga Bunaan

Monday, 2 February 2026 6:03 am

By Marion Williams

Magic happened at the Yuin Nation Birriga Bunaan.

The day before up to 400 millilitres of rain battered the far south coast of NSW. More was forecast for January 17. The Ancestors watching over thought differently.

As the dancing started on Tilba Oval patches of blue sky emerged.

During the Smoking Ceremony, organiser Uncle Warren Foster pointed a large flock of birds above.

“The ancestors are looking after us,” Uncle Warren said.

Caption: Ruth Langford prior to her arrest in the Eastern Tiers, Lutruwita in January 2025. Picture, Bob Brown Foundation.

Langford calls for trespass case to be held on Country

Thursday, 29 January 2026 10:59 am
By Jillian Mundy

Tasmania’s chief magistrate is considering a request from Tasmanian-born Yorta Yorta/Dja Dja Wurrung woman Ruth Langford to hear evidence in relation to trespass charges against her on country at Piura Kitina/Risdon Cove.

The charges stem from peaceful action protesting the clear felling of native forests in Lutruwita/Tasmania in January and April 2025.

Langford, who is pleading not guilty and defending herself, made the request in court last week.

In the early days of pearling, Indigenous men, women and children were used, often brutally, to dive for shell. Picture: National Museum of Australia

Maritime Strikers

Thursday, 29 January 2026 10:58 am

By Todd Jigarru Condie

Islanders commemorate the men and women who not only held Australia’s first organised Indigenous strike in 1936 but also helped foster regional unity.

An event 90 years ago that helped spark the development of a regional island identity in the Torres Strait has been recently commemorated on Thursday Island. TSI communities, leaders and dignatories came together to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the historic 1936 Torres Strait Islander Maritime Strike, a defining moment of collective resistance that reshaped governance, labour rights, and self-determination in the region.

Singer/Songwriter Toni Janke (Ang Costes Photography)

Toni Janke and her Cool Life

Thursday, 29 January 2026 3:21 am

By Todd Jigarru Condie

In December singer/songwriter Toni Janke released her new single Cool Life lifted from her forthcoming album due out this year.

Cool Life is a reflective and soulful composition that explores the journey of life, illustrating how experiences – both challenging and uplifting- shape personal growth. Janke said she wrote Cool Life last year after the bushfires in Los Angeles.

“I was thinking about how people’s lives can change in a instant, even celebrities who had fame and recognition and lots of money can lose everything in an instant in a situation like a bush fire that is totally out of anyone’s control,” Janke said.

Janke continues to inspire with many creative projects, including an upcoming play about her life and music called Inheritance which will premiere in Brisbane at QPAC in April this year.

Goolagong Cawley played the game with a grace, elegance and flair that made her a champion in every sense of the word.

Icons of First Nations sporting history: Evonne Goolagong Cawley

Thursday, 29 January 2026 2:18 am

In a special series, Koori Mail correspondent Peter Argent looks back across the history of First Nations sports people in this country, looking for the competitors that became heroes and idols in their respective sporting codes.

Not only the First Lady of tennis in this country, there is also a significant argument that Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley is the ultimate ‘First Lady’ of all Australian sport.

Her list of accolades alone, which include no less than seven Grand Slam tennis singles tournaments are testament to her brilliance and dedication to her craft, but also the way she carried herself through all the peaks and occasional trough across her career.