I am just curious as I don't know much about Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander athletes and I would be very interested to see who people mention.

I work at a large institution and am a white fella looking to advocate for the recruitment of a community engagement officer to work on social issues identified by community. Are there particular ways I can advocate, or messages I can send to my employer to help them see the value in a position like this? I know it’s a very broad question and don’t want to identify the organisation specifically, but basically we work on projects in rural communities to help improve social outcomes, and I would like to include more indigenous communities in that work. Do you have any tips for putting an argument together in a case like this? I have broad support from workers, but not necessarily from the people holding the money. There seems to be a positive attitude to reconciliation and decolonisation within the org, but they feel like it’s ok for me to be engaging directly with communities I don’t know, and I don’t think that would be the right way to go in many cases due to my background. Please help!

I really need help and have sought it from half a dozen different agencies and community workers but it's still not looking great. I'm hoping to get some suggestions here, as well as some help to understand?

2 weeks ago, a friend of my daughter's was brought over from DFFH for 1 night; it is now 2 weeks with no end in sight. Some context:

. 12 year old aboriginal girl, reported s*xual assault in her home, and removed that same day.

. Because she and my daughter are close and she has had sleepovers at my place, she asked to come to mine that night, believing that she would then go on to her sister's house.

. I and my daughter are asian migrants.

. She has a large extended family living locally, including half siblings and a grandmother, and lots of aunts and uncles.

. The delay is - DFFH has spoken to them and because they believe this was a false report, none of them are willing to take her in. DFFH is still trying to convince them.

. From the advice of others as to how DFFH can just wash their hands of a child once they are safely in someone's home, I have now told DFFH that I simply cannot continue caring for her, and she needs to be placed within this week.

. DFFH has said they have also planned an AFLDP in a few weeks time, and have made a referral to their family finding department.

. I have also asked VACCA for help, they were going to get back to me but I have not heard back yet.

I am really struggling with how this situation is going, but most of all I am baffled by why all the members of her family are willing to just abandon her, even if they believe her to have made a false report, she is still only a 12 year old child.

Can anyone help me understand this? As I said, I come from a different cultural background, but I had the impression that aboriginal culture was also very family focused.

If she goes into foster care, will she be safe or is she likely to be harmed?

Hi all, I've recently been looking into my family tree and trying to ascertain what tribe my great great grandmother was likely from. All it has listed on her ancestry file is that she was born at "deltro" via Albury. Was this a mission? A station/farm? I've done some research on "deltro" but haven't been able to find anything. Hoping to gain some knowledge from those that are more knowledgeable than myself.

I got an internship with The Big Issue as a psych student. One of the tasks my teams been given is to make an interactive presentation on mental health for the community street soccer program in Alice Springs. We were told that the youth in Alice Springs will need an interactive presentation that they can take part in to stay engaged. Apparently the team last year used bubble wrap in their presentation, but that's all we've been told. Anyone able to give me some ideas on things I can bring up with the team? Not really sure where to start.

3am. I have just woken up from the strangest, but most beautiful dream...can anyone tell me what it means please?

I dreamt that I gave birth to a huge serpent in a university in Port Macquarie!

It was not painful.

It was huge and spread out over many floors of the building and was very beautiful.

And although it pushed furniture and stuff out of its way..it would only show itself to those it wanted to be seen by.

And in my dream I thought "this is the rainbow serpent" and I was not surprised by it. It just was.

I am absolutely terrified of snakes but it was a beautiful dream and I wasn't frightened.

A dream translation site says " In general, giving birth to a snake in a dream can symbolize transformation, renewal, or rebirth"

Great. But what could it mean to me culturally? I have none of my mob around me to ask.

54 yo Bundjalung woman.

I am curious what swearwords your mob uses. What do they mean and how are they used.

Hello good day, i have been googling trying to find out the relations between aboriginal peoples and the ancient Indians.

OK so i wanna ask if andamanese people in the islands east of india are related or descended from aboriginals? What about tamils. Are the tamils related to andamanese?

This is all kinda confusing to me and i still trying to understand from the internet the links between these peoples.

Thank you and good day.

Serious question. If an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander or any type of Melanesian marries a Black African would this be considered an interracial marriage in Australia ?

I think most people on this subreddit would agree that this continent was, and always will be Aboriginal land; the legal system is based on Western worldviews and is biased against Aboriginal people; Aboriginal people face systemic bias in varous areas of society; etc. (I agree with all of this btw)

With this in mind, I'm curious to ask the Aboriginal people here what a perfect Australia would look like to you. It doesn't have to be realistic at all. It could be as conservative as changing nothing at all, or as radical as removing all non-Aboriginal people and abolishing the Western legal system.

This is just a vent.

I'm a pretty calm driver, someone cuts me off - no worries, I've got breaks.

But today I nearly stopped in traffic to get out and confront another driver - and the trigger.

This prick had purchased a legitimate sorry sticker and with the Aboriginal flag and defaced it with a black marker so it now read "Not Sorry".

Anyway I kept my composure and while I agree with free speech to hold a position that genocide ought not be apologised for I believe demonstrates reconciliation has a long way to go in this country.

what ideas would like to see realised and reflected? Historical figures? Plants? Landscapes? Objects? Styles?

For coins and notes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9lkQQEVqv8

Hey everyone, I’m sure these questions get asked a bit and I’m sorry if this isn’t the right place to ask and I’m being annoying.

My immediate family on my mums side used to always tell me we were Indigenous, and I never really questioned it. Both my grandparents on my mums side have passed, and both moved away no contact since the 70s with their respective families anyway. So chasing my family history now has been tough and slow, but I’ve made some real progress in other branches. However I found this line in an article about a great something grandmother that has me confused.

It reads about her that “She was one of the oldest natives left alive in the colony”

And I was wondering does that imply to anyone Aboriginal or would the paper refer to a white person off an English boat that way? No other references to her heritage further.

Sorry again if this isn’t the brightest question. I’ve just not really been able to figure out how to google this, and I feel like it could go either way?

Thanks for any help,

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQw_JznvgWlFeBp-jIRMuC7q7Y_ZqGkLx7WnL7lNs-9gs7ZQ/viewform

here’s a link to my questionnaire about Representation in Parliament, it would mean the world to me if any of you could fill it out. if this isn’t relevant to the server feel free to let me know and i’ll delete it. thank you!

I've been looking into aboriginal stories and books can anyone recommend novels that are interesting?

I’ve lived here for just over a year now. I moved here because my partner wasn’t doing great after our kiddo was born and she wanted to come home, the relationship has broken down further since getting here and I’m a bit lost being thousands of miles away from friends and family, but the mountains and the bush bring me peace every time, and I just wanted to say thank you for having me.

Hi. First post here. Thanks for whatever fella made this subreddit, it's one of the reasons I bothered registering. Firstly, sorry about the title, I don't wanna come across as "negative" straight off the bat. This is more observational I guess.

Does anyone remember that This Is Serious Mum (TISM) song "What are Ya?". This is about stuff like that. Rednecks used to yell "what are ya?!" outta cars when I was a kid, before it turned into moronic shit like "are you looking at my girlfriend ya faggit?" and other such rubbish. As it stands, I don't look particularly black (my mum is english, my great grandmother was Murri on my father's side) but lets just say I don't look like the standard bloke from my rural town.

Youth gangs seem to be hot topic ATM, while around here they're always on the mouth. Fortunately we have good community stuff going on, Koori run social centres, footy, skateparks etc. Regardless, the social isolation/stigma still is present, particularly for kids.

Due to my skin colour (something like Caspar the Ghost) lots of drongos at the pub start revealing their opinions about "them damn kids" and how nothing can be done about it coz "they're a protected species". While I been away from home some two decades (traveled all over the continent, lotta time in the cities too) my hometown has changed for the better in a lot of ways in the meantime. But hearing such blatant racism is still startling in the age of so called "wokeness" etc. Not that I ever thought it would "just go away". It's just... disheartening.

Any of you mob hear crap like this regularly?

Much as been said of James Cook (and to some extent Joseph Banks) on the Endeavour voyage but I'm curious to know what Aboriginal mobs think of the other notable crew members: Ra'iātean navigator and high priest Tupaia and the artist Sydney Parkinson? Both were arguably the only crew members to have at least some degree of acquaintance with Aboriginal language and customs (unlike Cook et all). They both (alongside Banks) recorded 130 words of the Guuggu Ymithir language at Wabalumbaal Birri/Endeavour River: https://www.nla.gov.au/cook-and-the-pacific/first-nations-voices

Tupaia seems to have had a more lasting impression on the Māori of Aotearoa/New Zealand as they shared common ancestry and a mutually intelligible language. The Māori in fact remembered him as the captain of the Endeavour, rather than Cook.

It's possible Tupaia may have gifted Tahitian tapa to Guugu Ymithir. I do vaguely recall Worimi historian James Maynard remarking that Sydney Parkinson should be on Aussie currency, but I may have to verify that quote Tupaia also painted Eora fishing at Karma/Botany Bay: https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/endeavour-voyage/kamay-botany-bay

It seems that Guugu Ymithir people were far more acquainted with Cook the Endeavour crew members than Eora and other Aboriginal mobs. The invasion of Karmay/Botany Bay seems to be implanted in the Australian public conscience more so than the 'first act of Aboriginal Reconciliation and Wabalumbaal Birri/Endeavour River. https://press.anu.edu.au/news-events/achieving-reconciliationThere was also an encounter in 1777 between Cook's crew and Palawa-Pakana in Luruwita/Tasmania but I have yet to come across any Aboriginal perspectives on that encounter.

Everyone yell at me if you want, but I want to know if it’s just me who feels this way.

I think Bluey isn’t good for mob kids to watch. There I said it.

I first noticed something was wrong when I realised the American alt right had co-opted Bluey. They love bluey. They use Bluey for political purposes. So I asked myself, what’s Bluey got what they want…well pure breeds for starters. Then secondly, it’s supposed to be a show about Australian culture, granted I haven’t watched every single second of the show, but there’s a noticeable lack of any other culture besides…well “Blueys”. I don’t see any mention of Indigenous people, or our NZ cousins and any Pacific Islanders, it’s set in an affluent neighbourhood, so do the writers think we don’t belong in their affluent neighbourhood? I know, I know, they’re just dogs, but we’ve been conveniently left out of this dogs world. Which normally I probably wouldn’t even care about, but it’s the fact that this children’s cartoon has been used in racist memes for American alt right that sets my 🚩 off. They clearly relate to this show, this setting of white pure bred two parent suburbia that bluey is pushing. The recent Bunnings marketing campaign has just made me want to say it out loud, because if I knew my supposed “wholesome” cartoon was being used in alt right racist and homophobic memes I would condemn that movement. Seems like the writers of Bluey are happy to have fans, regardless of the motives of said fans and will never condemn the alt right.

Anyway, either yell at me for being anti bluey or tell me I’m right lol

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