Band of brothers
Deadly Award winning band Black Image have just released their third album called Too Deadly. The band has a strong base of fans in Northern Queensland and they’re keen to expand that to a national following. We caught up with the group’s guitarist Dylan Harrigan. Black Image is a five-piece Indigenous band from Cooktown, QLD. […]
NAIDOC in the snow
Official NAIDOC celebrations are held in most parts of Australia in July, but due to the harsh winter conditions in the Snowy Mountains, Ngarigo Elders decided to hold the event in September. Bathed in spring sunshine and nestled at the base of snow-capped mountains, the town of Jindabyne played host to the NAIDOC (National Aborigines […]
A good start
An innovative before-school fun and fitness program set up at Prairiewood High School by Aboriginal teacher Jarred Hodges has been running for 10 years. It now attracts more than 200 students each morning. The fun and fitness program operates every Tuesday and Friday morning before school during Term Four. After an hour of games and […]
Ferns Martins
Aboriginal artist Fern Martins helped set up Boomalli Aboriginal Arts Cooperative in Sydney and has been holding her own exhibitions since the age of 19. Her most recent illustrations are for the book Bubbay: A Christmas Adventure, a children’s story about self-discovery and friendship. Fern Martins is a Ngarabul woman from NSW. She is an […]
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