NAIDOC Week starts this weekend and Adelaide is hosting it for the first time in nine years.
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Government-run entrepreneurial hub The Circle is nestled in the heart of the city’s buzzing innovation neighbourhood, Lot Fourteen. It offers assistance free of charge to Aboriginal-owned businesses wanting to level-up.
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“We need to show respect and ask her ancestors to take her spirit home,” Uncle Major Moogy Sumner told a small group of people gathered on the lawns of Government House last week.
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The head of Reconciliation SA – a 20-year-old not-for-profit, local organisation advocating for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights – says picking up these calls can be a “tough gig” but she willingly accepts the challenge to change someone’s mind.
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Patches, signet rings and tattoos brand the members of the political, Aboriginal-only biker group Black Death IPC. A drive for revolutionary change propels them forward.
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First Nations hip-hop group Sonz of Serpent fuse boom-bap bars about the “urban Blackfella” with centuries-old cultural references. Ahead of the outfit’s hour-long WOMADelaide set this weekend, we spoke with one of the MCs about the northern suburbs, community and their debut album.
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At Wangayarta, the Kaurna community has established a new kind of cemetery, laying to rest 130 Old People whose remains have been stored in boxes for decades. The night before the burial, CityMag camped with Kaurna elders to hear about the significance of this moment.
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Members of the City of Adelaide’s Reconciliation Committee chastised State Government representatives this week for a “distinct lack of consultation” regarding Riverbank rezoning, and cautioned development could be near or on top of burial grounds.
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With no funds available from his school's budget for a new playground, Year 1 Le Fevre Peninsula Primary student Wayne Brown has raised $1,698 to build one, because, as he sees it, he’s going to be there “for a long time”.
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