‘Like a knife through the heart’: two years after his desperate death, George Abraham was asked if he still needed housing
The young Noongar man’s mother says he took his own life after his family were evicted from their home in Perth
November 2021
Australian arts in focus
Perth festival 2022 features immersive events and puts WA talent front and centre
Artistic director Iain Grandage says ocean-themed program is ‘constantly evolving’ amid Covid and border uncertainty
February 2021
Bruce Lee was the unlikely hero of 70s Noongar kids. Now he's helping us share our language
Barry McGuire
We recognised ourselves in that non-white superhero on the big screen. We knew there was a fight in him – and knew there was a fight in us
February 2020
IndigenousX
Noongar words and philosophy are the true hero in our Macbeth adaptation Hecate
Kylie Bracknell for IndigenousX
The way we communicate, signal, celebrate, sing and cry our language has always been, and will always be, powerful
November 2018
'It is not about money': Australia's largest native title settlement challenged again
A group of Noongar traditional owners lodge application for judicial review
September 2016
Our country, our voices
Introducing 'Noongarpedia' – Australia's first Indigenous Wikipedia
The people who have occupied south-west Western Australia for 30,000 years are determined to see their language’s survival
February 2016
Ernie Dingo and Richard Walley on the 40th year of their welcome to country
The ceremony has a history of thousands of years but the pair say theirs was the first to be performed for non-Indigenous Australians
Boy, 11, accused of Perth murder said to be inconsolable and in isolation
Case of boy, who is believed to be the youngest person in Australia charged with murder, highlights rates of Indigenous youth incarceration in Western Australia
Tim Minchin asks George Pell to 'come home' in expletive-filled new song
Minchin says his song about the cardinal, who is due to give evidence to a royal commission about child sex abuse that occurred within his parishes, is also about home
October 2015
WA introduces bill recognising Noongar people as traditional land owners
Premier says recognition will not create new rights or change laws but will acknowledge Noongar as first people of southwest WA, including Perth
May 2015
Aboriginal language Wikipedia faces cultural hurdles, say researchers
A predominantly oral language, such as Nyungar, would need Wikipedia to be more flexible in allowing audio and video to be uploaded
March 2015
Gina Williams on why every Australian should know some Indigenous words
The Noongar musician had to take Tafe classes to learn the language of her people, but now she’s spreading its popularity – one song at a time, reports Monica Tan
