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Wiradjuri

December 2023

  • Beatrice Murray teaches students sitting on a circle of rocks in a school playground

    The rural network
    Wiradjuri taught in NSW schools: ‘Our language is a living thing’

    The First Nations tongue is considered critically endangered by Unesco but it’s now the second-most spoken language in Cowra

May 2023

  • Stan Grant's impassioned Q+A leaving speech: 'I feel like I’m part of the problem’ – video

    The ABC presenter says he has been a target for racism and for now he’s ‘walking away’

April 2021

  • Anita Heiss, the author of Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

    Want to write the great Australian novel? You need to engage with Indigenous Australia first

    Anita Heiss
    First Nations people are in every part of this country – physically, spiritually, socially and politically. A novel set in Australia must acknowledge that

October 2020

  • Dwayne Johnstone's mum Kerry in Lismore, northern New South Wales

    Inquest into fatal shooting of Dwayne Johnstone suspended after person referred for prosecution

    NSW coroner investigating death of Indigenous man who was fatally shot while escaping Lismore hospital refers a person to DPP

July 2019

  • Wiradjuri woman Rebecca Maher, 36, who died in custody in the cells of the Maitland police station on 19 July, 2016, in New South Wales, Australia. NB: we have permission from her family to use this photo and to name her in full.

    Rebecca Maher inquest: death in custody could have been prevented if police called ambulance

    Coroner finds 36-year-old Aboriginal woman who was arrested for public intoxication should have been taken to hospital

September 2018

  • Erika Reid backstage at the Leichhardt Actors Centre.

    'The Aussie scene is killing it': behind the scenes of Australian wrestling – a picture essay

    Guardian Australia goes backstage to unmask the alter egos of the pro wrestlers fighting for fun

August 2018

  • Dinawan Dyirribang is a direct descendant of famed Wuradyuri warrior and law man Windradyne. He stands on the road leading to Windradynes grave. Bathurst, NSW. Australia’s oldest European inland settlement.

    Bathurst, where the spirits prowl and whisper painful, bloody truths

    Indigenous warrior Windradyne is buried outside the city where ‘so many bad things happened in colonial times’

December 2017

  • Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy, Bill Shorten, Pat Dodson and Linda Burney.

    Australia's citizenship saga resurfaces 'legacy of pain' for Indigenous MPs

    Some politicians unable to prove where family was born because government never registered births or recognised them as citizens
  • Stan Grant Snr talks about the importance of language

    Our country, our voices
    'Language is my identity. It's who I am, it's where I come from. It is me' – video

  • Wiradjuri elder Stan Grant

    Our country, our voices
    Yamandhu marang? Language does not belong to people, it belongs to country

  • member for Barton and first indigenous woman to be elected to the house of representatives Linda Burney gives her first speech

    Linda Burney gives maiden speech as first female Indigenous lower house MP

  • An indigenous woman sings from the public gallery as Shadow Minister for Human Services Linda Burney makes her maiden speech in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

    Wiradjuri woman sings Linda Burney into parliament for her maiden speech – video

  • Stan Grant

    Our country, our voices
    If language tells us who we are, then who am I?

    Stan Grant
    Inspired by my father and to honour the traditions of our people, I have learned more of the Wiradjuri language. But I am the sum of many parts

April 2016

  • Stan Grant

    Stan Grant appointed to Referendum Council on Indigenous recognition

    Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten announce Guardian’s Indigenous affairs editor will replace Pat Dodson on constitutional review panel

January 2016

  • Stan Grant

    Stan Grant's speech on racism and the Australian dream goes viral

    Guardian Australia Indigenous affairs editor tells debate audience racism ‘is at the heart of the Australian dream’, provoking a powerful reaction online

October 2015

  • Guguma Guriin | Black Stump by Wiradjuri and Gamilaraay artist Jonathan Jones

    Artist Jonathan Jones on Wiradjuri country: 'Everything is chained up'

  • A sign saying 'Welcome to Wiradjuri country'

    At Poisoned Waterhole creek I tell my son about the slaughter of our people

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