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Aboriginal Way, Adelaide (2025)

03/03/2025

📌📰 Issue 97 of Aboriginal Way looking back over summer 2024/25 is out now, have you got your copy? 📰

Check out these stories and plenty more...

🔸Take a look at the 2024 PBC (Prescribed Body Corporate) Forum held in Coffin Bay in December
🔸 Fancy a holiday? First Nations tourism is booming
🔸 SA Voice makes historic first address to parliament
🔸 Kauwi cultural cruise
🔸 Healing trauma is the key to preventing family and domestic violence

📰 Read it online here www.nativetitlesa.org/aboriginal-way-mag/

✔️ Subscribe via the link in our bio for the online edition or to receive a free hard copy of the next edition delivered directly to your letterbox.

11/02/2025

State Records of South Australia was the country's first service of its kind when it was established more than 100 years ago in 1919.

State Records SA has an Aboriginal Reference Group and specific Aboriginal access services, which include Aboriginal access officers.

These services can help you find your Aboriginal family history through culturally sensitive archival records. They can specifically assist members of the Stolen Generations in identifying and becoming reunited with members of their families. They also help researchers find information and gain access to the correct records for their needs.

“We support the spirit of Reconciliation and the recognition of individuals’ right of access to their own personal information” - State Records SA

Today, AW is speaking with Senior Aboriginal Access Officer Tara Collier and Senior Reference Archivist Nick Miller about their work and how they can help you discover more about your own family history.

05/02/2025

Bangarra Dance Theatre are bringing a new cross-cultural collaboration to audiences around the country with ‘The Light Inside’, a joint-choreographed piece with leading Māori choreographer Moss Te Ururangi Patterson.

The project is a collaborative piece created by Patterson and Bangarra’s Deborah Brown, working together to honour their respective mother countries and the spirit that calls them home.

Brown is a proud descendent of the Wakaid Clan and Meriam
people in the Torres Strait and has crafted a piece that binds together her experience with that of the First Peoples of Aoteoroa.

Audiences at WOMADelaide 2025 will have two opportunities to catch Bangarra Dance Theatre, on the Friday and Saturday evenings of the festival.

Ahead of their show, AW spoke with Maddison Paluch, one of the talented artists performing ‘The Light Inside.’

Listen to the full interview here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Hijm8B35uX4pTvCoW3YvU?si=2bc14086c9b04d58

21/01/2025

Looking for a fun family getaway this long weekend?

Only two hours from Adelaide, Port Victoria on the Garunnda/Yorke Peninsula will be hosting the Gynburra Festival for the 11th year running.

The two-day event has something for every member of the family, whatever their age. There's the long-running Clem Graham Snr Memorial Butterfish Fishing Competition on the water, and back onshore there are food trucks, fun for the kids (including sandcastle building competitions!) and pamper sessions for the women with free haircuts, yoga and massages!

In the first episode of Aboriginal Way for 2025, we're speaking to the festival founder and managing director Garry Goldsmith about why Port Victoria will be the best place to be this Friday and Saturday.

🎧 Have a listen now https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gynburra-festival-2025/id1644805432?i=1000684805764

23/12/2024

Happy holidays from the team at Aboriginal Way! 🎉

🎧 We'll be taking a break from posting new podcasts over the next couple of weeks while so many of our listeners are away on holiday, but don't worry - we'll be back in mid-January with brand-new content for you to enjoy.

And if you miss listening to us in the meantime, we have a huge back catalogue of shows on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Make sure to subscribe so you'll get the new episodes in 2025 🔔

Wishing you and your mob a safe and happy Christmas and New Year!

19/12/2024

🎤 The Indigenous Desert Alliance (IDA) held a significant conference of Elders, rangers, community leaders at Uluru, with over 400 attendees making their way to the biannual event.

The conference celebrated “A Decade of Connection” in reference to the IDA’s past ten years of coordinating these events, with the three-day event running between November 11-14 and containing full-day rosters of workshops.

The IDA was established to facilitate the sharing of lived experience from the vast network of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rangers across the desert regions of Australia.

The desert area covered by IDA groups spans over 2,730,000
square kilometres, containing 25 Indigenous Protected Areas, 65 ranger teams and over 78 threatened species.

AW spoke with Arabana head ranger, Zaheer McKenzie, about the conference and several of the important projects that the Arabana ranger program is involved with more widely.

Listen here🎧https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ep4rKwsur9007BCjt9pF2?si=9f092ec15b8b4558

10/12/2024

First Nations Healing, formerly Nunga Mi:Minar, is a family and domestic violence support service, which recently celebrated 50 years of operating in South Australia.

The rebrand represents a shift in their service delivery, which now includes supporting not only victims but also perpetrators of family and domestic violence.

In this episode, the CEO and Strategy, Policy & Partnership Lead explain the organisation's new direction, and why we should avoid labels like "perpetrator" and "victim", and instead focus on individual and family healing.

Listen via the links in comments 🎧

03/12/2024

🎤 On Wednesday 27 Nov, the SA First Nations Voice to Parliament gave its inaugural address to the South Australian Parliament.

The historic address was given in the Legislative Council Chamber at Parliament House, with Presiding Member of the Voice Leeroy Bilney speaking on behalf of the collective members of the SA Voice.

So far, the Voice has provided feedback on government legislation relating to early childhood development and preventative health, and is set to provide formal contribution to the Royal Commission into domestic, family and sexual violence.

AW attended the address, asking Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Kyam Maher to interview Mr Bilney following his speech.

We also spoke with SA Voice member, Rob Singleton, about his aspirations for the collective moving forward.

Listen to the interviews here 🎧https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pWDirttX6zAyZgOw2Wc3r?si=7928314a43f34cf0

19/11/2024

The first-ever cultural tour on Kangaroo Island is now up and running.

Ngarrindjeri Elder Mark Koolmatrie's tourism company, Kool Tours. has teamed up with SeaLink Kangaroo Island to respectfully share the unique culture and history of KI, or Nurrungaui as it's known to the Ngarrindjeri people.

It’s proving to be a year of growth for Kool Tours, which was also inducted into the Hall of Fame at the recent South Australian Tourism Awards after winning gold medals there for three years running.

Mark Koolmatrie joined us on Aboriginal Way to tell us all about the new KI tour and Australia’s booming First Nations tourism industry.

🎧 Listen to the episode at the link in our bio, or subscribe to Aboriginal Way on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 🎧

15/11/2024

📌📰 Issue 96 of Aboriginal Way covering Spring 2024 is out now 📰

Check out these stories and more...

🔸 Native Title recognition for the Nauo people
🔸 Narungga burns bright on Country
🔸 Coding on Country
🔸 A year ago, Australia voted "no"... what now?
🔸 SA Aboriginal Football and Netball Carnival wrap up

📰 Read it online here www.nativetitlesa.org/aboriginal-way-mag/

✔️ Subscribe via the link in our bio for the online edition or to receive a free hard copy of the next edition delivered directly to your letterbox.

12/11/2024

Yankunytjatjara Anangu woman Karina Lester has just travelled from the APY Lands to Baku, Azerbaijan for the world’s biggest climate change summit – .

Along with an Indigenous Australian delegation, Karina will share her communities’ concerns and ideas about tackling climate change.

As a second-generation nuclear test survivor, she will be advocating against nuclear projects as an alternative to fossil fuels. We spoke to Karina to find out more – listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts 🎧

08/11/2024

Held in the second week of November each year, Nunga Week is an annual week of events to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities’ contributions in the of Port Adelaide Enfield council region.

It’s a celebration of traditional culture, art, knowledge, history, food and the First Nations Elders who live and work in the region.

Nunga Week will be held next week, the 10-16th November this year, and AW went down to Port Adelaide to find out more about it from Rodney Welch, Aboriginal Community Development Lead.

🎧 Listen to this episode of Aboriginal Way wherever you get your podcasts!

29/10/2024

Kauwi Cultural Cruise is a new cultural adventure set to show you a different side of the waters off the southern coast of Kaurna Yerta.

The monthly two-hour cruise is a recent collaboration between and , who both saw a gap for this offering in Adelaide’s tourism market.

The tours will be led by a First Nations guide and a marine biologist, so guests will be able to delve deeply into the rich history of Kaurna Yerta and its waters, immersing themselves in local Dreaming stories and learning about the significant aquatic and cultural elements that call it home.

🎧 Southern Cultural Immersion invited Aboriginal Way to come along on the first cruise open to the public this week. Take a listen to this episode of Aboriginal Way on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

23/10/2024

Narungga Nation have continued their efforts to restore traditional land management processes, holding inclusive workshops for Yorke Peninsula locals who are eager to explore the benefits of burning on Country.

On September 30th and October 1st workshops were held at Ardrossan and Minlagawi Gum Flat, with Narungga fire practitioners demonstrating controlled burns on site.

The Cultural Burns Education Project has seen the delivering of workshops and the production of short films to be used on social media and websites, to increase understanding around how native vegetation responds to fire, how it can be managed to reduce
fire risk, why it is an important cultural practice, and how caring for Country by Narungga people leads to healthy people and environment.

Narungga Elder, Uncle Rex Angie, was present during Narungga burns over the past years and was excited to see their land management practices in the spotlight.

The project was initiated by the Yorke Peninsula Council who secured the funding, gathered the steering committee and delivered the project.

The steering committee included representatives from Narungga Nation Aboriginal Corporation, Point Pearce Aboriginal Corporation/Indigenous Protected Areas Rangers, Nharangga Aboriginal Progress Association, Nharangga Aboriginal Cultural Tours, Northern and Yorke Landscape Board, Firesticks, and Narungga community members

Listen to our interview with Uncle Rex here https://open.spotify.com/episode/1wwKOCZcixbNMnjUJIQnCY?si=5cec563f845643b7

18/10/2024

SA's First Nations Business Showcase is back next week for 2024, bigger and better than ever.

AW spoke to Michael Levin from The Circle about the event.

The First Nations Business Showcase is on at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre next Thursday, 24th October from 10am-3pm.

🎧 Listen to this episode of Aboriginal Way wherever you get your podcasts!

09/10/2024

💻 Pilot Indigenous coding program Indigi Code has been established for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students with the hope they will be able to gain future employment and have the ability to work remotely in the digital space.

Indigi Code, a partnership between programming education provider 42 Adelaide and the Aboriginal Biodiversity Conservation (ABC) Foundation had its first session at Nguta College in September, with 20 students participating in a week-long course designed for entry-level coders.

The free program offers a “gamified” peer-to-peer study experience, with students learning from other students through engagement-style learning.

ABC Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation established in WA, with its flagship program providing services to benefit on-Country education programs and 42 Adelaide is a non-profit coding school.

Both organisations hope to expand from this initial pilot program with the scope to include other schools if the right interest and funding is found.

🎧 Find out more about the program via the Spotify link here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7nT6n4mFGVwdg8fyASCVVz?si=a25ffe30f33a4a98

04/10/2024

"It’s about us determining our own future now. We’re not having the crumbs anymore; we’re having the cake.”

On September 23rd, the Nauo people’s final active native title application, Nauo #2, came to a conclusion with the Federal Court of Australia officially recognising their native title rights and interests.

Judge Justice O’Bryan handed down his verdict electronically, giving the Nauo people native title rights over the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula.

This application was submitted in June 2016, but the Nauo people have been pursuing native title recognition over the area since 1997, with support from the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (ALRM) and later from South Australian Native Title Services (SANTS).

The claim area encompasses 535 square kilometres of land and waters at the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula including Lincoln National Park, the Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area, Sleaford, Fishery Bay and Whalers Way.

🎧 Aboriginal Way spoke with Nauo co-chair Michael Miller, listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

17/09/2024

🎙 Many Australians, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, have felt overwhelming disappointment since Australia voted "no" in the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

🔴 Nearly a year later, people are looking for a way to move forward from this.

📖 After writing the "Voice to Parliament Handbook" with journalist Kerry O'Brien in the lead-up to the referendum, respected Indigenous advocate has found that people are again looking to him for guidance. He has just published a new book called "Always Was, Always Will Be: The Campaign for Justice and Recognition Continues", offering a formula to get to a place of justice and recognition for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Thomas was a signatory to the from the Heart in May 2017 after helping to develop it. He has been a leading campaigner for its proposals for a Voice to Parliament and a Makarrata Commission, and has had more than 20 years experience in advocacy and leadership.

🎧 Thomas, a Kaurareg Aboriginal and Kalkalgal Torres Strait Islander man, joins us on the podcast today, available wherever you get your pods.

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