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This ancient weapon is older than the pyramids - then it became a toy

The boomerang is one of history's most misunderstood inventions. Long before it became a popular toy, it was a deadly hunting ...

Aunty Norma Ingram's very personal history of NAIDOC Week

Our national celebration has a deep political history. Aunty Norma Ingram shares her family history with NAIDOC, and what it ...
Ancient Origins

40,000-Year-Old: The World's Oldest Boomerang Was Carved From Mammoth Ivory

Everyone knows that the boomerang eventually returns after being thrown. Though this ancient weapon itself cannot return to the past, it can bring a remarkable history to modern times. Ironically, ...
HerCanberra

NAIDOC Week celebrates 50 Years of Deadly – here are the top must-do events

The theme this year is “50 Years of Deadly”, honouring five decades of NAIDOC Week as a national movement. In Aboriginal and ...
Nevada Appeal

Oasis Academy students explore Australia, New Zealand

Nine Oasis Academy students recently returned from the trip of a lifetime after spending 12 days exploring Australia and New ...

$28,000 fine warning after illegal act at sacred Aussie site causes 'irreversible harm'

The environment department is reminding people that such vandalism is not only hurtful to the land, history, and the "people ...
Time

Australia: Aboriginal Activity

The way most Australians see it, their only race problems are taken care of by the strict immigration laws that fence the country off from the dark-skinned peoples of Africa and Asia. As for the ...
AOL

Boyfriend Becomes Obsessed With Aboriginal Australians, Carves A Boomerang, And Calls Her His “Cute Little Aboriginal Girlfriend”

A Reddit user recently shared her concerns about her high-functioning autistic boyfriend, whose newfound obsession with Aboriginal Australians has reached unsettling levels. Over 2.5 years of dating, ...
The Toowoomba Chronicle

‘Racist’: Australian comedian Lisa Jane Spencer slammed over ‘disturbing’ Aboriginal skit

Lisa Jane Spencer posted the video to her social media account on Tuesday morning, depicting herself in a mock interview as a character named Aunty Lisa, captioned with: “Aboriginal person”. “I ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Influential Aboriginal leader Lowitja O'Donoghue immortalised in bronze statue

A bronze statue of Lowitja O'Donoghue, one of Australia's most influential Aboriginal leaders, has been unveiled in Adelaide. South Australian artist Robert Hannaford created the statue. The statue is ...
The Guardian

Diphtheria is a disease of poverty that has no place in modern Australia. When we talk about Closing the Gap, this is the gap

For those of us working in Aboriginal health, the outbreak doesn’t come as a surprise. We must invest in housing that keeps remote communities safe The diphtheria outbreak should shock Australia. Not ...
New York Post

Crazed man hits car with boomerangs, destroys window in wild rage over vaccines

Dramatic footage has emerged of a strange and terrifying road rage incident in which a shirtless Australian man smashes a car mirror and window before berating the driver and a passenger over vaccines ...