by Angelina Sokolsky | Apr 7, 2024 | Govt & Politics, News
A 2024 update by the Productivity Commission has revealed four out of 19 Closing the Gap targets are not on track, including the number of children in out-of-home care and rate of Indigenous suicides per year. The Commission moved some targets into the ‘on track’...
by Nicholas Tisdale | Apr 7, 2022 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, News
The Mungo Man and Mungo Woman are two of the most important archaeological finds in human history. The burial of the Mungo Man is the oldest evidence of ritual burial in human history. Aged at approximately 42,000 years old the remains fundamentally rewrote the...
by Eliza Lourenco | Nov 11, 2021 | Feature, News
Content warning: this story contains discussion of colonial violence and other themes that may be distressing to First Peoples of Australia. The New South Wales Government announced in 2015 it planned to relocate the Powerhouse Museum to Western Sydney. The backlash...
by Noella Franklin | Jun 16, 2020 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, News
A community art project that combines the creativity of local students and professional artists has seen two new art installations in Corrimal. A poetry exhibition and mural has been created under the Cultural Development Program funded by Wollongong City Council The...
by Louise Osborne | May 27, 2020 | Govt & Politics, News
The Australian government is being challenged to do more to keep indigenous young people connected to culture. Advocacy organisation Family Matters has claimed Australia risks creating another ‘stolen generation’ of Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander...