Times they are a changing

Times have changed since the new CEO of GenerationOne, Warren Mundine, was a kid in the 1960s, and he welcomes the positive shift for Indigenous people in Australia. “My father used to carry a dog tag as an Aboriginal person in Australia then, and people were made to feel shame for being who they were. […]

Feeling flat?

Do you always feel tired? Feel like you are running on empty? This is a common feeling, with most people wishing they had more energy. The stress of dealing with the sheer pace of modern life seems to be a common factor when it comes to feeling sapped of energy. In order to get that […]

Love Dreaming and Other Poems

Hot on the heels of winning the 2012 Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature, poet Ali Cobby Eckermann has put out a new book: Love Dreaming and Other Poems. Consisting of previously published and new poems, it is published by Vagabond Press, based in both Sydney and Tokyo, and is expected to help Ali […]

Quit now!

Calls from Indigenous people to smoking ‘Quit’ lines have increased dramatically from last year – up by 45 per cent – due to the introduction of plain packaging, a tobacco expert panel told a national conference in Canberra last month. Around 220 delegates from across Australia met in Canberra in December over four days to […]

Perfect match

Nicole Muller is the coach of the Highlanders, an Indigenous women’s rugby union club in Central Queensland. After being involved with women’s rugby league and rugby for several years and seeing Indigenous women’s touch champ Bo de La Cruz recruited into the world-cup winning Australian Women’s Rugby team, Nicole Muller recognised rugby as being a […]

Facing fear

Loss and grief counsellor and member of the Stolen Generations, Rosemary Wanganeen remembers 1987 well. She was in a women’s shelter, following family violence, and wondering how she had ended up there, yet again. “I knew that I couldn’t go into the future to find my way, but I realised I could go into the […]

A leg-up

Acclaimed Indigenous dancer Gary Lang has just been named as the recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts’ Dance Board Fellowship – a prestigious $100,000, two-year grant. Gary says he will use the opportunity to continue working with communities in the Northern Territory, and develop his own dance works. It will also allow him […]

Gandangara cover the city and bush

The Gandangara Aboriginal Medical Service is a family practice that operates a unique culturally sensitive medical service entirely owned by Aboriginal people. It covers a huge area of NSW – from Liverpool to Moss Vale. The service recently ran a Health Day to promote itself to the wider community. Since it opened in 2010, the […]

The journey continues

An exhibition of the works of the founding members of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative opened late last year to celebrate the cooperative’s 25th anniversary. It was a huge event, with more than 500 people turning up to pay homage to this amazing cultural institution. The exhibition, called Ripple Effect: Boomalli Founding Members, features works […]

Saltwater Freshwater Festival

Some major Indigenous talent is lining up to play at the 2013 Saltwater Freshwater Festival in Taree on 26 January, including the legendary band Coloured Stone, hip-hop favourites The Last Kinection and crowd-pleasers The Medics. Saltwater Freshwater is the largest Aboriginal cultural event on the Mid North Coast – where the saltwater and freshwater meet. […]

Yabun Festival 2013

Red Ochre award-winning performer and Western Arrernte man Warren H Williams and Pitjantjatjara singer-songwriter Frank Yamma will headline this year’s Yabun Festival on Saturday, 26 January in Victoria Park, Sydney. The legendary Archie Roach will also be playing, along with an all-star choir, performing songs from his latest album Into the Bloodstream. Yabun is also […]

Koori kids’ art on show

This year’s Koori Art Expressions exhibition is an imaginative collection of visual artworks created by Sydney school students from Kindergarten to Year 12. It is now showing AT the Powerhouse Museum. On display are more than 70 works inspired by this year’s NAIDOC Week theme and the 40th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. The […]

Rissoles with a twist

Who says you need to be a ‘master chef’ to make great-tasting food?. Simple recipes are usually the best – like these tasty and easy-to-make rissoles. INGREDIENTS  500 grams low-fat beef mince  1 large brown onion, diced  2 tomatoes, diced  2 celery sticks, diced  1 medium carrot, peeled and grated  2 eggs, lightly whisked  1 […]