A NEW hair salon is set to provide training, jobs and a much-needed service to residents in Papunya and surrounding Aboriginal communities. Papunya, west of Alice Springs, recently celebrated the much-anticipated opening of Papunya Hair Salon, a purpose-built shipping container that underwent a retro-refit prior to delivery. The hair salon was funded by National Indigenous... View Article The post Papunya salon delivering deadly hairdos first appeared on Koori Mail ..read more

KOORI MAIL comes to you this week in the shadow of a looming federal election. As the Voice of Indigenous Australia, we believe our readers deserve to hear from the Coalition shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Nampijinpa Price, in the run-up to an election that must take place on a Saturday, on or before... View Article The post We got five out of ten from Senator Nampijinpa Price first appeared on Koori Mail ..read more

Torres Strait Island Elder from the Saibai chieftain clan, Aunty Dr Rose Elu, is among the contributors in this edition. Read her anguished opinion piece about the climate betrayal faced by people in the Torres Strait region. “Forty years ago this year, our Elders fought hard to win the Torres Strait Treaty – an agreement... View Article The post 40 years of the Torres Strait Treaty: A promise now broken by climate harm first appeared on Koori Mail ..read more

ONE of Australia’s leading cultural groups, proppaNOW, are currently staging their last exhibition as a collective at Lismore Regional Gallery. Established in 2003 in Brisbane, proppaNOW members Vernon Ah Kee, Tony Albert, Richard Bell, Megan Cope, Jennifer Herd, Gordon Hookey and Laurie Nilsen explore the politics of Aboriginal art and culture, re-thinking what it means... View Article The post Lismore Regional Gallery gets all proppaNOW first appeared on Koori Mail ..read more

Palawa journalist Jillian Mundy has delivered stories about the tradition of muttonbirding on Lutriwita to Koori Mail readers for years. In this edition, Jillian reports on Moonbird, a world premiering six-part drama that has muttonbirding at it’s heart. Mundy speaks with the series writers, Palawa men and muttonbirders, Nathan Maynard and Adam Thompson about sharing... View Article The post Moonbird film premieres in France first appeared on Koori Mail ..read more

AS Victoria’s first Treaty negotiations look set to begin, the Koori Mail spoke with Jidah Clark, a Djab Wurrung man and Chair of the Treaty Authority, to learn more about its role in the process. While the first treaty legislation was passed by the Victorian Parliament in 2018 – the first of any kind in... View Article The post Victoria’s Treaty negotiations are finally getting underway first appeared on Koori Mail ..read more

? IN our latest edition, ON SALE TODAY, you’ll read about: • THE dismissal of a Commonwealth appeal in a landmark compensation case shows the “strength” of Native Title and may have implications for Traditional Owners across Australia. The High Court dismissed the appeal against a decision in the Federal Court, which found the Gumatj... View Article The post Edition 847 ON SALE NOW! first appeared on Koori Mail ..read more

CORAL reefs off Australia’s wildest stretch of coastline may be spared agricultural runoff and other pressures from nearby human activity but there is no escape from global warming-intensified marine heatwaves. The Kimberley coast, one of the most intact tropical marine environments on earth, is now under threat from “unprecedented” coral bleaching. “Rangers that have been... View Article The post ‘Like a warm bath’: coral reefs rocked by heatwave first appeared on Koori Mail ..read more

AN event to pay tribute to families and communities affected by Aboriginal deaths in custody will be held for the third time in Naarm (Melbourne) next month. Presented by the Indigenous Sports Network, in partnership with the Dhadjowa Foundation, the Ngarra Jarra Noun – Healing Ceremony will be held at Victoria Park on Sunday, April... View Article The post An event to heal and connect first appeared on Koori Mail ..read more

? IN our latest edition, ON SALE TODAY: • FIRST Nations Mob turned out in numbers – and lots of glitter, feathers and other sparkly things – at the recent Mardi Gras parade in Sydney. With the theme, Free to Be, the members of the LGBTQI community, their allies and Elders made their way down... View Article The post Edition 846 ON SALE NOW! first appeared on Koori Mail ..read more