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Jake Nash has curated Sydney Festival’s Blak Out program for 2025.

Designed for big ideas: The new building at Barangaroo where size isn’t everything

The centrepiece of Sydney Festival’s Indigenous component is a temporary meeting place – a “soft space” – for everyone to gather.

  • Nick Galvin

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Specimens collected by botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook’s first voyage have been digitised for the first time.

What do scientists, artists and fashion designers have in common? One million plants

NSW’s vast collection of plant specimens is not just for budding botanists. For the first time, artists and designers have access to images of the state’s flora.

  • Alexandra Smith
At Frank Shadforth’s cattle station in remote Northern Territory, at-risk Indigenous youth are learning new skills, understanding culture and keeping out of youth detention.
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Second chances at Seven Emu Station

At Frank Shadforth’s cattle station in remote Northern Territory, at-risk Indigenous youth are learning new skills, understanding culture and keeping out of youth detention.

Blak Douglas’ first “promo” didge shot.

Didge heroes, crocs and adventure in an adopted homeland for ‘concrete Koori’

I was entrusted with carrying a baby on my shoulders across a murky estuary, ensuring we didn’t become lunch for crocodiles.

  • Blak Douglas

In defence of the middle ground on Gaza

Rodger Shanahan perfectly sums up the disturbing nature of Middle East commentary, where “advocates press hard for their side without conceding any ground to the other”.

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Welcome to Country isn’t for every occasion. Good on you, Melbourne Storm

This debate is not black and white. Let’s not lose sight of what we’re trying to achieve for Indigenous Australians.

  • Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
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A baby Quokka at night in the Perth Hills.

Perth river project catches ‘surprising creature’ on camera

Discovering new populations of “surprising creatures” and passing on cultural knowledge are among the benefits of a program aiming to address declining river health.

  • Keira Jenkins
The Great Koala National Park will affect many people living and working on the Mid North Coast.

A national park would be good for koalas. What about the humans?

In the stretch of coast and hinterland from Kempsey to Grafton, the fates of thousands of people hinge for better or worse on the NSW government’s imminent decision about the Great Koala National Park.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton

Dutton divides the nation, the Indigenous flag unites

Recognising the country’s original owners brings us closer together; to remove the flag divides us. Dutton knows this and is taking a page out of Trump’s playbook.

Protesters outside the Federal Court in Melbourne during a Santos appeal hearing over the Barossa gas project.

The map, songline and pipeline. How legal experts misused Indigenous culture

“OMG, we win again!!!” wrote one campaigner about the fight with oil and gas giant Santos. But then the court changed its mind.

  • Nick Toscano

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