Aboriginal Way

Over the next two weeks, we'll be bringing you another two-part series. This short series is a conversation between authors Bruce Pascoe and Vicky Shukuroglou about their new book, Loving Country, that was recently broadcast by a local bookshop over Zoom. Thanks to the book's publisher, Hardie Grant Publishing for allowing us to broadcast this interview. Bruce Pascoe is an Aboriginal writer best k...

Our guest on Aboriginal Way this week is anti-nuclear activist Karina Lester. Karina is a Yankunytjatjara Anangu woman who grew up on the APY Lands in the Far North West of South Australia. Her late father was Yami Lester, an Aboriginal elder and nuclear campaigner, who lost his eye sight after the Maralinga nuclear tests in the 1950s. Karina continues to advocate against nuclear weapons and dumps...

This week you'll hear the second part of our interview with senior anthropologist Robert Graham. Listen in as he continues to discuss the work of anthropologists in the native title process. If you missed Part 1, you can listen back to the podcast version on our website here - www.nativetitlesa.org/anthropology-native-title/ or on iTunes.

Understanding how vital anthropology is to native title claims PART 1 of 2 South Australian Native Title Services employs a small team of anthropologists and we find that people often have questions about what their role is and how it relates to native title. The truth is that anthropologists have a vital, if perhaps not widely known, role to play in our country's native title system and in determ...

Exploration drilling will go ahead early this year on Lake Torrens, a sacred Aboriginal site, after approval was announced by the Premier Steven Marshall during the week between Christmas and New Year's. The authorisation gives minerals exploration company Kelaray permission to "damage, disturb or interfere" with sites, objects and remains under Section 23 of the Aboriginal Heritage Act. Kelaray a...

Research led by University of South Australia PhD candidate Katharine McBride has found what makes the heart strong for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Did you know, the life expectancy of Aboriginal women is 75.6 years, compared to 83.4 years for non-Aboriginal women? According to McBride's paper, 'Good Heart: Telling Stories of Cardiovascular Protective and Risk Factors for Aborigin...

Three years on from determination, the Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal Corporation is thriving as it builds sustainable partnerships with regional councils and the local community, Interim CEO Tim Hartman tells Aboriginal Way. Part A of the Ngarrindjeri native title claim was determined just over three years ago, becoming incorporated on 6 December 2017 and registered at the beginning of January the follo...

Memories of Yalata will be captured by Indigenous policy researcher and writer Eleanor Hogan, who was recently awarded a $4,755 grant from the SA History fund. This assistance, alongside another smaller grant she's received from the Oral History Association of South Australia and the Northern Territory, will allow her to travel to and spend more time in the Yalata community. There, she plans to re...

Have you heard of Faith Thomas AM (née Coultard)? The Adnyamathanha woman who was born at the Nepabunna Aboriginal Mission in the early 1930's to an Aboriginal mother and German father, was in the first group of Aboriginal nurses to graduate from the Royal Adelaide Hospital in the 1950's, alongside her friend from Colebrook Home where she had grown up, Lowitja O'Donoghue. Faith nursed in Aborigina...

You might have heard of the recent Southern Deadly Yarns series by Onkaparinga Libraries and Neporendi Aboriginal Forum, which presented a virtual interviews with a First Nations author each week. The last of these was a chat with Archie Roach, who has been an important figure in Australian music and culture for more than 30 years, and recently won the ARIA for Best Male Artist, as well as the Dou...

When Rochelle Courtenay first learnt of women experiencing homelessness going without basic sanitary items, she decided the question was not, "why is no one doing anything" but rather, "what's stopping me from doing something?" In March 2015, Rochelle took matters into her own hands by collecting sanitary items with her local community and distributing to local shelters. As a result, a simple idea...

The recipients of the South Australian NAIDOC awards for 2020 were announced at a ceremony at the Adelaide Town Hall on Monday, 9 November. Hear who all 13 award winners are, and listen to Adelaide's Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor presenting the second Lord Mayor's NAIDOC Award, to acknowledge an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community member for their outstanding achievement, service and c...

If you want to learn how to say a word in another language, where do you go first to find it? Probably, in this day and age, the internet, right? What about if you're trying to learn words in Indigenous languages from across Australia? You might know if you've tried, that it can be difficult to find the right resources to do this. That's why the Research Unit for Indigenous Language at the Univers...

Once a fortnight at Lot Fourteen, tools are put down at 10am and construction workers file into the open courtyard or an empty room, where they hear from Aboriginal leaders, educators or anyone with a story to share. The talks are no longer than a smoko break (10-20mins), making them easily digestible; then it's back to work - with plenty to think about. While the former Royal Adelaide Hospital si...

It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month and one of Cancer Council SA's Aboriginal Ambassadors, Patricia Clarke, is sharing her story to encourage other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women to take part in the free breast cancer screening program.

Tarnanthi, an annual celebration of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, features artwork from 87 artists in its 2020 exhibition Tarnanthi: Open Hands. The creativity First Nations' women use to share knowledge across generations is recognised in this year's Tarnanthi, with recognition of the deep connections made to Country and culture through the art making process. "Open Hand...

A new exhibition has opened at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute that takes audiences full circle from the first exhibition there in 1989, to its 30th birthday celebrations and reopening after a six-and-a-half-month temporary closure due to COVID-19 this year. Tandanya first opened its doors to the public in 1989 with an exhibition of batik artwork on silk by women from Utopia commun...

Innes National Park will be co-managed by the Narungga Nation Aboriginal Corporation (NNAC) and is officially changing its name to Dhilba Guuranda - Innes National Park this year, the 50th anniversary of the Park, with official celebrations taking place during NAIDOC Week.

Originally designed for the land rights movement in 1971, the Aboriginal flag has come to represent Aboriginal People Australia-wide since being adopted as an official "Flag of Australia" in July 1995. But when the flag's designer and copyright holder since 1997, Luritja artist Harold Thomas granted non-Indigenous company WAM Clothing the exclusive worldwide licence to use on clothing, physical an...

There's been a growing movement for some time to lift Australia's minimum age of criminal responsibility from just 10 years to 14. Children in that age bracket are going through a period of significant growth and development and forcing them though a criminal legal process in these formative years can cause immense harm to their health, wellbeing and future, and children who are arrested before th...

Three storytellers from Aboriginal language groups across South Australia are sharing their cultural knowledge as part of a free online experience presented by Adelaide Festival Centre's Something on Saturday program

"You can see it as an opportunity for him - sure. But I saw it as a fantastic opportunity for us as West Coast people; to finally get into an industry that - to be honest - has been going through our waters and our fish and we just seem to be standing on shores watching all these boats go by..." Paul Vanderberg is the director of Aboriginal Programs at Port Adelaide Footy Club. He's also in the pr...

Wednesday, 2nd September is Indigenous Literacy Day, a celebration of Indigenous culture, stories, language and literacy, but also a reminder of how far we have to go to ensure equal literacy rates in Australia. Today, we're speaking with Gregg Dreise, ambassador of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, an author and illustrator himself.

Today I'm speaking with the recipient of Country Arts SA's Breaking Ground award for 2021, Juanella McKenzie, an Adnyamathanha / Luritja artist who lives in Port Augusta. Juanella will receive $10,000 to develop a body of artwork for a solo exhibition to be held in Adelaide during the 2021 SALA Festival, and an additional $5000 towards a mentorship opportunity over the next year. Her family's invo...

Recently Kaurna community members respectfully reburied the remains of ancestors disturbed during the construction of the Northern Connector and other infrastructure projects in the region. Kaurna Ngarrindjeri Yankunytjatjara man Alan Sumner was a part of that very moving ceremony. On this program he speaks to us about the ceremony, as well as upcoming international repatriations and the challenge...