Aboriginal
Balgo: Art exhibition goes to Cuba
Balgo’s travelling art exhibition is now on show in the home of the big cigars, Cuba.
The exhibition has already travelled to 25 countries.
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Mudnunn Road, near Djarindjin
Mudnunn Road - photo Rohanna Angus
Rohanna Angus sent in this picture of a flooded creek crossing, taken on the weekend.
She says her family’s vehicles have been stranded.
“It’s at Mudnunn Road near Djarindjin airstrip,” she said.
“We have to walk to Djarindjin to get fuel and food – it’s about a 15 kilometre walk just to live in our block.”
Canberra: Media got Aboriginal protest ‘wrong’
Kununurra’s Selena Davey-Newry, who was at 26 January protests in Canberra, says the media “got it wrong”.
She denied reports of a violent protest, saying they approached a Prime-Ministerial function with clapping sticks and didgeridoos, and were met by Federal Police in riot gear.
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People: Cornel Ozies
Cornel Ozies
Film maker Cornel Ozies has taken out an award for exceptional talent.
A recent graduate of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School’s (AFTRS) Diploma in Cinematography Award Course in Sydney, he also received the AV Myers Indigenous Award for exceptional talent.
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Broome: Fire at Aboriginal Family Law
A fire broke out behind the Aboriginal Family Law office in Broome this morning.
Staff, and residents of the flats above, were evacuated.
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Canning Basin: Heritage agreement for coal mining
Photo: Proactive Investors
A thermal coal company has made a heritage agreement with Mangala-Nyikina traditional owners.
Proactive Investors says Stratum Metals has a thermal coal project less than 20km from another owned by well-known Rey Resources.
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