Aboriginal Way News SANTS News

The South Australian Government is developing a new strategy for the next ten years: South Australia’s Road Safety Strategy to 2031. Aboriginal people comprise approximately 3% of South Australia’s population but are generally 2-3 times more likely to have a fatal injury and 30% more likely to have a serious … Read More

It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month and one of Cancer Council SA’s Aboriginal Ambassadors, Patricia Clarke, is sharing her story to encourage other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women to take part in the free breast cancer screening program. Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in South Australian women, … Read More

Like many events this year, Tarnanthi has had to meet the challenges, uncertainty and closed borders that have come hand in hand with 2020 head on, but is now open to the public, celebrating the shared knowledge of generations of women. Tarnanthi, Adelaide’s annual celebration of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres … Read More

A new exhibition has opened at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute that takes audiences full circle from the first exhibition there in 1989, to its 30th birthday celebrations and reopening after a six-and-a-half-month temporary closure due to COVID-19 this year. Tandanya first opened its doors to the public in 1989 … Read More

Innes National Park Name Change to Dhilba Guuranda – Innes National Park and Under New Co-Management Board Innes National Park will be co-managed by the Narungga Nation Aboriginal Corporation (NNAC) and is officially changing its name to Dhilba Guuranda – Innes National Park this year, the 50th anniversary of the … Read More

Originally designed for the land rights movement in 1971, the Aboriginal flag has come to represent Aboriginal People Australia-wide since being adopted as an official “Flag of Australia” in July 1995. But when the flag’s designer and copyright holder since 1997, Luritja artist Harold Thomas granted non-Indigenous company WAM Clothing … Read More

There’s been a growing movement for some time to lift Australia’s minimum age of criminal responsibility from just 10 years to 14. Children in that age bracket are going through a period of significant growth and development and forcing them though a criminal legal process in these formative years can … Read More

Take a seat around the virtual campfire and listen to Senior Kuarna man Uncle Mickey O’Brien, Ngarrindjeri Elder Stephanie Gollan and young Adnyamathanha woman, Ema Bovoro, as they share stories and cultural knowledge. Our Stories is part of a free online experience presented by Adelaide Festival Centre’s Something on Saturday program. Watch … Read More

“You can see it as an opportunity for him – sure. But I saw it as a fantastic opportunity for us as West Coast people; to finally get into an industry that – to be honest – has been going through our waters and our fish and we just seem … Read More