Aboriginal Way

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...

Tessa Rose is an actor who regularly appears on stage and screen across Australia, she's had roles in 'Top End Wedding' , 'Redfern Now' and with Bangarra Dance Theatre. In the play The Daly River Girle, Tessa shares her own story about growing up with foster families, away from her mother, family and country. We speak to Tessa at Tandanya just before the opening of The Daly River Girl for the Adel...

Today we join the community in marking the twelfth anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generation. The 13th of February is the anniversary of the National Apology. On that day in 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offered an apology in Federal Parliament to all those Indigenous people who had been taken from their families as children by Australian authorities. Kaliah Alice went along t...

Reconciliation SA and ActNow Theatre deliver a program called Generation of Change, designed to give school students and teachers the opportunity to explore the impacts of racism as well as how to prevent it. We speak to Nathan May, a musician and an actor who has a big role in the Act Now program sharing his personal story through words and music.

Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and its marking the achievement with a big focus on the Fringe for 2020. Tandanya will host a "First Nations Hub' in the upcoming festival. We find out more from Tandanya CEO Dennis Stokes.

The new CEO of the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) says the organisation will maintain its strong commitment to Aboriginal screen makers as the organisation's current Aboriginal Screen Strategy expires. We speak to Kate Croser and Associate Executive Production Development Attraction and Studios at SAFC, Nara Wilson about opportunities for Indigenous screen makers right across Central Aus...

On the show today, join us at the launch of Tarnanthi 2019, the national festival of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art which has just opened at the Art Gallery of South Australia. We had a chat with artists Robert Fielding, about why an old beat up car became his canvas and with Ryan Presley who has created a "Blood Money Exchange"

Community centre Kura Yerlo is a leading not for profit Aboriginal owned and controlled community organisation. It was located at Largs Bay for 30 years but has recently moved to a new home in Seaton. They have a new space and a new energy, and share with us some of the great things that are happening at Kura Yerlo right now.