ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

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Mapoon

 Community

Mapoon (also refered to as Old Mapoon) is an Aboriginal community in Cape York, eighty kilometres north of Weipa on the mouth of the Wenlock River, and about 700 km north west of Cairns.

Mapuru

 Community

Mapuru is a community 500km east of Darwin, in northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.

Maralinga Tjarutja (Oak Valley)

 Community

Maralinga Tjarutja (Oak Valley) is a community located on the southern fringe of The Great Victoria Desert, approximately 516kms northwest of Ceduna and approximately 320km north of Yalata by 4WD track.

First Nations women who made history

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March 8 is International Women’s Day – a day to celebrate women and their achievements. In honour of the day, we’ve compiled a short – and by no means complete – list of deadly First Nations women who’ve blazed a trail...

Bonus helps with school costs

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Margo, a Barkindji woman from around Wilcannia in western New South Wales, is the girls’ full-time carer. This year, Kiesha, 12, joined her sister Natasha, 14, at high school.

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