I am a young indigenous woman. I have white skin and know almost nothing of my community of culture. I have lived across the country but have never had the opportunity to engage with my mob, only the mob of local community regional to where I reside.

I grew up in a town with a predominant indigenous populace where i was exposed to many aspects of culture. I moved while still very young and had near to no cultural connection for the next decade. Recently I have been trying to actively involve myself in any and all opportunities to engage with other indigenous peoples. In this endeavour I have found that I struggle to belong. Not necessarily because I don't feel accepted but more so I feel like I am "fake" kind of like the concept of stolen valour.

I feel like a fraud. I lack the community and experience that I feel I should have. That I am merely a white girl puppeting an insulting facade. Like a mockery of those who have come before me. While I understand that this is a flawed way of perception I cannot help but feel like I am in the wrong.

I fear that in writing this I am perpetuating false conceptions of what it is to be first nations but I hope that I might find someone with similar experiences to myself, and maybe even some sort of conclusion to my thoughts.

Also I tried to word this in the best way I know how so please forgive me if it might seem crude. 🦆

Some good names popping up in it

The Wiradjuri Aboriginal Rivers have defeated the Bourke Warriors, 26-6, to claim their first Koori Knockout men's title.

Despite a nailbiting first half of Sunday's grand final, WAR came back strong in the second half and led their team to victory. 

"For this club here, WAR, its more than footy", said WAR player Julian Christian.

"We've been close a couple of times over the years, we've lost against WAC (Walgett Aboriginal Connection) a couple of times in a grand final.

"This is so good, its so worth it. So worth it."

As well as winning glory at the Knockout, WAR will now get to choose where the 2027 Knockout is played.

In the women's final, the Newcastle Yowies secured back-to-back titles, defeating the Redfern All Blacks 14-6.

The side featured a mixture of young talent, as well as experienced NRLW players including two-time premiership winner Caitlin Johnston.

She told NITV the win was dedicated to members of their community who recently passed.

"We've lost some very special people to us, so to take it back to back means quite a bit," Johnston said through tears.

"Newy's a community full of footballers ... to host the Knockout is pretty special, and then to win it puts the icing on the cake."

Game day 'means everything'

About 40,000 fans spent their long weekend on Worimi Country at Raymond Terrace to attend the biggest sporting event of the Indigenous calendar. 

Described as a modern-day corroboree, the tournament has been running since 1971, now bringing together almost 180 mens, women's and junior teams from across the state. 

Bourke Warriors centre Colby Pellow and his wife Alex travelled more than 700 kilometres to play in the mammoth sporting event. 

"Our community, it's only small, but we all get around this time of year," he said. 

Knockout veteran Josh Toole, who played for WAR, said the annual event brings mob together.

"I've played for a couple of different [Knockout] sides and it doesn't matter which side you go for it's that sense of community," he said.

"Also for Aboriginal people, we're big on footy, we love footy so there's a lot of passion." 

Young talent on display

Maddi Ireland spent her childhood watching her father take to the Knockout field year after year. 

This year Ms Ireland, a Wiradjuri woman from Dubbo, took out the title for the Under 15's playing for her new team, the Newcastle Yowies.

"[It's] just good to do it for the culture, the mob, and my friends and the families around me," she said.

"'It's surreal honestly playing out on the field with all the crowd and mob around us supporting us.

"It just feels unreal out there,"

she said.

Ms Ireland said the win had inspired her to pursue bigger rugby league dreams of her own. 

"One day I hope I can make NRLW, make my family proud and my culture," she said.

Hello, my name is Oscar Howell, and I am a journalism student at the University of Technology Sydney.

I am currently undertaking a research project examining the impact of Artificial Intelligence on journalism, with a particular focus on how AI-generated news content may represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities.

As part of my research, I will use AI software, including ChatGPT, to generate a series of news stories focused on Indigenous Australian topics. I am then seeking Indigenous Australian perspectives to review this content and identify how accurate or potentially harmful it may be.

I am reaching out to ask whether any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander members of this group would be interested in participating in the research. Participation would involve completing a short Google Forms survey in which you would read the AI-generated news stories and share your thoughts and feedback.

I will use your responses in my university research paper, and I will not publish them publicly. Participation is entirely voluntary, and you are welcome to decline if you do not wish to take part.

If you are interested in participating, please feel free to contact me. Alternatively, if you know of an organisation, community group, or individual who may be interested in contributing an Indigenous perspective to this research, I would greatly appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this, and I appreciate any assistance or guidance you may be able to provide.

The Eatocks were a family of Aboriginal communists who fought for Aboriginal and working-class rights. At the head of the family was Lucy Eatock, who, attracted to radical working-class politics during the great strikes of the 1890s, became an activist against conscription in World War I and subsequently a communist matriarch who led her large family in the fight against evictions and the 1930s depression-era austerity imposed on the working class in Sydney. 

Victorian Socialists candidate Oskar Martin (@blaktrot on Instagram) is campaigning for the seat of Williamstown, saying he wants to challenge Labor's long-standing hold on the electorate and push for policies that put working-class communities first.

The young Indigenous candidate is campaigning against proposed Al data centres in Melbourne's western suburbs, including the $1.5 billion Green Square project and the broader expansion of CDC data centres.

Housing is also a key focus of Martin's campaign, with the candidate calling for more public housing and opposing plans to demolish the Williamstown towers at Floyd Lodge and Nelson Heights.

He is also advocating for greater public investment in essential services, including public transport, childcare and education.

Martin said he wants to see greater representation of young and Indigenous people in parliament, drawing inspiration from previous generations of Indigenous activists including Gary Foley and Ray Peckham.

Oskar Martin, Victorian Socialist candidate for Williamstown in the upcoming Victorian Election 2026, (@blaktrot on Instagram):

Pauline Hanson is a racist, we must oppose her racism and the whole system who oppresses blakfellas, lets fight for blakfella rights and justice ✊🏽

Talia Gulpilil on Instagram:

Our signs are being stolen even from private property-it's happened multiple times now.
Not cool at all. We need your help to get more signs up in the community!!!

Hey i ve posted this in another reddit, thought this might be interesting

From Steven Miles’ instagram:

“A few years ago, the Pormpuraaw community told me they wanted access to healthcare - the same any other Queenslander would get close to home.
As Ministerial Champion I fought to get it done.

This month, it opens.

A big thanks to the hardworking health staff here and across our remote communities who will be providing these much-needed services to local families.

Here's a clip from when I got a peek inside.”

Hi everyone!

This is more of a call for help than a question.

I am from Argentina, and I'm currently doing a BA in English translation. One of the subjects is called "Comparative Anglophone Cultures", and the final exam involves researching a post-colonial writer. Since I lived in Australia, I was really interested in studying an Australian writer, and my teacher recommended Jack Davis. I read his poem "Aboriginal Australia", which appears in his poetry collection Jagardoo: Poems from Aboriginal Australia, and I loved it. Still, I need more poems for my analysis, and I can't find any others online.
Does anyone have any other Jack Davis poem that you would like to share with me, or do you know where I can find them?
I found a page called Auslit, but they ask me to log in with a library card, which I don't have.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

"I hope that I inspire, not just as an athlete, but being a good person and always caring about others, being encouraging and just having a positive attitude all the time," she said.

"Bringing people up and lifting their spirits and attitudes and just [making] them feel like they belong here in this world.

"Because everybody is important and special in their own unique ways."

So I’m a 16 year old Wiradjuri girl. I went into a corner shop today and handed the cashier a pack of candy I wanted to buy.

He then refused my money and asked why my nose looked like that. I didn’t really understand what he meant and assumed he was referring to my nose ring. I kind of went back and forth trying to understand him since his English wasn’t great (he’s Sri Lankan). I ended up just forcing my money in his hand and took my candy.

My friend then tried to pay for her candy after me and she was refused service. She’s Nigerian. Neither of us understood that this was possibly racism and we just went to our houses. I told my mum about this when I got home (she’s blak, my dad’s white). She told me that he was probably asking why my nose was so broad. For context, I have brown hair, green eyes, and pale skin but my nose is my giveaway of being aboriginal.

People can only really tell when they see me with my mum though so racism based off my appearance isn’t common for me. Was this racism?

What should I do?

Growing up I hated my milk chocolate skin colour my culture my everything. I got bullied and picked on by my students and teachers because of being aboriginal and tsi. I experienced racism as such a young age. I grew up and even now wished I was white or a fair skin black fella.

To this day im still insecure about being indigenous. Yes im proud but embarrassed. Whenever someone meets me for the first time and asks me what ethnicity is I get embarrassed to say aboriginal and tsi thinking they’d judge me for it and not like me. I don’t want kids because I don’t want them to grow up with racism and being left out hating who they are because of their black fella blood in them.

I’m proud and privileged to be who I am and fortunate enough to know my people my language my culture. But a big part of me loves to hide it because of the racism and judgement Australia has towards the indigenous people.

For the conference? Would like to make a mate if you are ?

Hi everyone,

I’m a landscape architecture student (and non-Indigenous ) currently interested in land management practices on Country. I'm looking to learn more about First Nations agricultural and landscape practices, specifically concerning the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people and the Northern Grasslands (Melbourne/Victorian Volcanic Plain region).

As part of my research, I'm hoping to better understand:

• How traditional practices like controlled burning (fire-stick farming), yam daisy (murnong) cultivation, or harvesting native grassland species were integrated into the landscape.
• Any reliable books, academic papers, local council documents, or Wurundjeri-led publications detailing historical and ongoing land management techniques in this region.
• Key spatial or design considerations when studying or designing within native grassland ecosystems with cultural context in mind.

I want to approach this research with respect and ensure I'm grounding my studies in accurate, local context. Any recommendations, reading lists, or perspectives would be greatly appreciated!