The Kamay spears come home to Dharawal land more than two centuries after James Cook took them
‘My great-grandmother would always talk … about the spears and artefacts that were in England,’ says Quaiden Williams Riley
NT government settles with remote community over racist healthcare suit
By Jason Walls
Residents in Wadeye have accepted the NT government's promise to try improving healthcare services in the remote Aboriginal community, settling a long-running lawsuit over allegedly racist healthcare policies.
Mosaic monument to women pioneers who helped create fishing industry
By Eugene Boisvert
The dream of an Italian fisherman to pay tribute to the women of the South Australian town of Southend has come true with a mosaic monument recognising their role in the town's history.
Vandalism of ancient Indigenous cave art prompts $400k protection plan
By Tim McGlone and Duncan Bailey
After trespassers vandalised Koonalda Cave on the Nullarbor Plain a round-the-clock surveillance system was installed to help protect the nationally significant heritage site.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-03/koonalda-cave-security-upgrades-after-vandalism-sa/105126974
PM’s Indigenous policy shift dismissed as Howard-era 'status quo'
By Carly Williams
Professor Megan Davis says the government has walked away from a treaty process in favour of an economic empowerment agenda for Indigenous Affairs.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-02/uluru-statement-from-the-heart/105009886
Since the LNP first introduced the draconian and outrageously dangerous Adult Crime, Adult Time legislation, Sisters Inside have spoken out against its inherent injustice
‘The Queensland Government cannot continue to ignore the fact that this punitive approach will only cause more harm. Evidence from around the world shows that treating children as adults in the criminal legal system increases recriminalisation and perpetuates cycles of violence and disadvantage. These policies are not about public safety—they are about political expediency, fearmongering, and the continued criminalisation of Aboriginal children,’ Debbie Kilroy
https://sistersinside.com.au/sisters-inside-condemns-the-expansion-of-adult-crime-adult-time-laws/
#AusPol #Australia #QLD #QLDPol #Criminology #CriminalJustice #Crime #Youth #YouthCrime #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace
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Farmer says he destroyed important Indigenous eel site to kill weeds
By Julia Bergin
But the western Victorian property owner tells a court he did not know the significance of the "rocks in a paddock" before he wrecked a 1,500-year-old ceremonial ground with an excavator.
Two of the BPU’s most committed organisers are at breaking point after a traumatic 18 months. These are good, hardworking people who have given everything to the community, and right now, they need the community to have their backs.
A recent act of financial abuse has left them in crisis, forcing them to cover urgent costs for accommodation, relocation, and medical needs. We’re aiming to raise $10,000 to help them regain stability.
Please donate what you can and share this fundraiser widely. Solidarity is everything.
https://chuffed.org/project/124457-support-two-bpu-organisers-in-crisis
#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Australia #Decolonise #BPU #BlackPeoplesUnion #MutualAid #PleaseShare #PleaseHelp #AboriginalMutualAid #BlackMutualAid
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[shared from the BPU Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18mWsNpYmi/]
The Nation is too Sick
Aboriginal thinking sometimes refers to the four components of a good psyche: individual, family, community, and nation. All four affect each other.
But when the nation is sick . . .
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=27&id=70
"Le autorità per la protezione dell'infanzia stanno allontanando i bambini #aborigeni dalle loro famiglie a tassi incredibilmente alti nell'Australia occidentale."
#Aboriginal #Razzismo #Australia #HumanRights #26marzo
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/03/26/australia-disproportionate-removal-aboriginal-children
Australia's own #pride #map Somebody should have had this handy when the expresion "terra nullius" was first coined 
#IloveAustralia #aboriginal #country #diversity
THREE CASTAWAYS LIVED WITH ABORIGINALS IN BRISBANE
In March 1823 British convicts Thomas Pamphlett, Richard Parsons, John Finnegan and John Thompson, set out in an open boat from Sydney with their destination 30 miles south. However, a violent gale forced them to lower all sails and keep the boat before the sea, and they became hopelessly lost with Thompson eventually dying of severe dehydration. Two weeks had passed when the boat grounded on the sandy beach in Moreton Bay.
These men were the first White people to reside with local Aborigines in 1823. The castaways Finnegan, Parsons and Pamphlett witnessed a settled and continuous presence of huts and villages on Moreton and Stradbroke Islands with the First Nations people travelling in boats between the islands.
The castaways were treated with kindness, fed, watered and given shelter, for a total of five months in the same location at Point Skirmish (now named South Point) on Bribie Island (Steele 1972:77).
The settled nature of the occupation of the land, and the rich food resources allowed a sedentary lifestyle. Fishing was an important feature of food gathering and the nets used were remarked upon by the castaways, and later by John Oxley explorer, as being particularly fine and the fishing techniques to be so skilful that there was an over-abundance of fish.
Even as Oxley’s exploratory party came down the Brisbane River in 1824, he noted villages of large huts and well-used tracks and paths leading into the bush (Steele 1972:94).
Frederick Strange, a European naturalist wrote in 1848 (in Evans 1997:11):"Unlike most of the natives of Australia as yet discovered, they have fixed habitations,dwelling in little villages of six or seven huts in a cluster. Some of them are of great length, extending upwards of eighty feet, and covering a considerable space of ground ... One of them was in the form of a passage, with two apartments at the end. The arches were beautifully turned, and executed with a degree of skill which would not have disgraced an [sic] European architect". (Strange, ‘Moreton Bay Courier’, 17 June 1848, quoted in Evans 1997)
REFERENCES:
Steele, J.G. 1972 The Explorers of the Moreton Bay District 1770-1830, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, pp194-5.
Evans, R. 1992 “The mogwi take mi-an-jin: Race relations and the Moreton Bay penal settlement 1824-42” in Brisbane:The Aboriginal Presence 1824-60, Brisbane History Group Papers Number 11
'A story of shipwreck, survival and first contact' by Maritime archaeologist Graeme Henderson: https://bit.ly/32KH6Y1
IMAGE:
‘The Finding of Pamphlet’, Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, vol.II, 1886, (National Library of Australia. cat-vn1654251)
I'm skipping my lecture today, because I was just prepping my notes and realised that we're discussing "settler colonialism and nation-building" with no mention of neo-colonialism or settler colonialism as an ongoing structure as opposed to a historical event.
...i don't have the bandwidth for that today.
"New $5 Bill to honour First Nations connection to Country instead of king"
OK. Great.
GIVE US OUR FUCKING LAND BACK
I just got called "Aunty".
Like, thank you. But also fuck off 
..and it will get worse with the new Bail laws in Victoria.
..and it'll get worse if Dutton gets in as pm.
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Rate of Indigenous people in jail has risen by 20% since 2019,
Closing the Gap data shows
New data reveals child protection, incarceration and suicide rates getting worse
#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace
I'm doing a subject called Indigenous Australians and Justice, and I'M SO FUCKING BORED.
We've literally spent the last 20 minutes talking about whether you can effectively govern a people if you don't talk to them, and whether the Australian govts asked Aboriginal people what they thought about Assimilation policies.
please kill me
"Sugarcane": Oscar-Nominated Film Explores "Colonial Silence" Around Indian Residential Schools in Canada #Canada #Indigenous #Aboriginal https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/4/sugarcane
