The anthropologist whose research helped to debunk the ‘fabricated’ secret women’s business at the Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission has cast serious doubt on claims of a dreaming story about the blue-banded bee at the proposed Blayney gold mine.
The artist behind the ‘blue-banded bee’ mural at the centre of efforts to shut the Blayney goldmine saw his favourite charity secure a loan from anti-mine activists who went on to cite his work’s independence.
A mural indicating the history of Dreaming stories through Wiradyuri country was made in consultation with the group who would later use it in a bid to shut down the Blayney gold mine.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Malarndirri McCarthy is urging her opposition counterpart, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, to sit down with her one year after the defeat of the voice referendum and restart the reconciliation process.
The Environment Minister cited a Bathurst Post Office mural to back up a Dreaming story that the Orange Land Council says should not be used to veto Regis Resource’s gold mine at Blayney.
Fatima Payman’s move to lead a breakaway party named Australia’s Voice has angered distinguished Indigenous figures, who are in solemn reflection over the defeat of the voice referendum a year ago.
An email has all but confirmed suspicions that the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council had accessed the emails of a separate Aboriginal corporation.
The Greens were under pressure on Thursday to reconsider whether West Australian senator Dorinda Cox should continue in senior roles while investigations are under way into bullying complaints against her.
The land council that struck the agreement is reeling from explosive revelations it secretly accessed the emails of ‘usurping’ Aboriginal organisations created to manage the $1.3bn settlement.
Indigenous No voice leaders Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine have hit back at Yes activists for refusing to acknowledge divisions fanned by the referendum.
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