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This weekend, the LGBTIQ+ community will march at Mardi Gras in Sydney. But this year’s celebrations come just days after the deaths of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies at the hands of a serving police officer, reigniting the conversation about the police’s relationship with queer Australians. Police will be able to march out of uniform. …
Last week saw the end of a “10-year battle” over the naming of Queensland’s World Heritage listed Fraser Island – now known as K’gari, officially restoring the name used by traditional owners for more than 60 thousand years. Local Butchulla people and Australians nation-wide celebrated the landmark change, and the latest in several decades of re-naming events across Australia …
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A First Nations organisation in Brisbane has recently hosted a ceremony welcoming babies to country. The aim of the ceremony is to celebrate the newest members of the community, and to commit to teaching them to be strong, prosperous, and proud. The organisation, Inala ‘Wangarra’, meaning ‘One People’, provides culturally safe social, health and human …
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This week, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, told the ABC there should not be rules to return children in foster care to their kin. Experts are concerned with the newly-appointed Minister’s comments, saying this will make things worse in Aboriginal communities. In the Northern Territory for instance, 81 per cent of children …