A bright summer’s day is a great occasion for an outdoor lunch and pasta salads are delicious, served warm or cold. This recipe includes tinned salmon, which contains a recommended fat that’s good for your health and has been shown to help reduce your cholesterol levels. You can include any ingredients that you choose, really, […]
Native to America, the capsicum is the fruit of a plant that has been cultivated by the people of the tropical Americas for thousands of years. It is known by a range of names, such as bell pepper, sweet pepper and chili pepper, although they’re not hot like chillies. They come in different colours, including […]
It’s a good idea to think about one of the most important organs in your body, the liver, and how you can look after it so it can look after you. The liver can be found on the upper right side of the abdomen, just below your diaphragm. Did you know it is the largest […]
Olympic discus thrower Benn Harradine has been selected to represent Australia at the London Olympics in July 2012. He’s determined to stand on the winner’s podium and has gold firmly in his sights. Benn began to make a name for himself in discus after fighting his way through to the final at the 2006 Melbourne […]
Aboriginal Australia has produced some exceptional boxers over the years, men who have scaled the heights of the sport, winning world titles at home and abroad, but among them, only one man holds the distinction of being both an elite Aboriginal fighter and an elite boxing referee. That man is the late Trevor Christian, who […]
One of Bangarra Dance Theatre’s longest serving dancers – Sidney Saltner – announced his retirement at the end of last year. Since joining Bangarra in 1997, Sidney has become one of Australia’s most loved dancers, recognised for his extraordinary artistic ability and passion for Indigenous dance. Following more than 1000 performances over the past 15 […]
Internationally acclaimed cultural spokesperson, didgeridoo player and Aboriginal artist, Jeremy Donovan is passionate about ending the disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. This has led him to become a spokesperson for GenerationOne. Jeremy, from the Kuku Yalanji people of Far North Queensland and the Gumbaynngirr people of the mid North Coast of NSW, is one […]
For Arthur Beetson – the man who’d go on to become one of the great icons of Australian sport, one of rugby league’s seven Immortals, the first Aboriginal person to captain an Australian sporting team and the figurehead of State of Origin football – it all began in the Queensland country town of Roma, where […]
At the Australian Training Awards held in Brisbane, Joshua Toomey took home the Student of the Year award in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award category. Joshua completed his Certificate III Electricity Supply Industry – Distribution (Power Line) and is proud to be a qualified tradesman now. However, finishing his studies was not always […]
The South Coast Aboriginal Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation is a thriving medical centre located in Nowra, New South Wales. It is an Aboriginal community controlled health organisation managed by the community for the community. The service became incorporated in 1983, one year after it started operating. Nowra is a city on the New South Wales […]
Internationally acclaimed film director Ivan Sen is one of our most prolific film-makers. He made the feature film beneath clouds, which won a number of awards, as well as short dramas such as dust, wind, journey, tears and warm strangers. Some of his documentaries include Shifting Shelter 1, 2 and 3. There was also Dreamland, […]
Indigenous theatre-maker Wesley Enoch is directing an ambitious new show for the Sydney Festival this month. I Am Eora will celebrate three heroes of Aboriginal Sydney, whose enduring spirits still inspire – Pemulwuy, Barangaroo and Bennelong. The massive production features a huge cast of more than 50 Aboriginal musicians, performers, creative artists and technicians from […]
Tom Calma says more resources than ever before are now going towards the battle to reduce the high rates of smoking in Aboriginal communities. Healthy lifestyle teams are being employed in 21 regions around Australia to deliver anti-smoking programs, while around 60 communities across Australia will have health-promotion workers by mid-2012 to help deliver anti-smoking […]
What an amazing 12 months it’s been for teenage tennis sensation Ashleigh Barty. After winning the junior Wimbledon title in early 2011, last month the 15 year old from Brisbane stunned the tennis world by first defeating the top seed for the Australian Open, Casey Dellacqua, in her opening match, and then Olivia Rogowska 7-6 […]
Cy (aka Josh Marshall) is a 17-year-old rapper, music producer and graphic designer from Stanthorpe who has already developed his own Hip Hop label. He has also just released his second album and is working with major local and international rappers. Not bad for a young bloke who only started making beats in 2010. Armed […]
Boxer, artist and mother of four, Noby Clay can well remember her life before boxing. Living in the North Queensland community of Palm Island, just off the coast of the city of Townsville, Noby says she was drinking too much and getting into strife with the police, but after taking an interest in the sport […]
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