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    IT’S TIME FOR AN INDIGENOUS VOICE TO PARLIAMENT

    'We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country.'

    BOLD HUMANS OF THE WEST AUNTIE JEANIE MASON

    I’m going to go out there and put my thoughts on the table!

    CELEBRATE THE NAIDOC RUNNING FESTIVAL ALONG THE WIRRIBI YALUK (WERRIBEE RIVER)

    The 2023 NAIDOC Running Festival is on Sunday July 9th at Presidents Park in Wyndham Vale. 

    THREE FIRST NATIONS ART EXHIBITIONS OFFERING POWERFUL (AND HUMOROUS) TRUTH TELLING

    The exhibitions are also a curatorial success because as unique and as individual as each artist’s voice is, together they ring clear as a bell.

    WILLIAM COOPER CAME TO FOOTSCRAY AND DEMANDED A KING’S SUPPORT FOR AN INDIGENOUS VOICE

    A referendum is necessary to enshrine an Indigenous Voice in the legislative process.  We’ll discover if modern Australia now shares a similar dream as Cooper’s.

    WHOSE COUNTRY ARE WE ON?

    Using traditional place names is a powerful reminder that we are, and always have been, living on Aboriginal land.

    INDULGE AT MABU MABU FOR NAIDOC WEEK

    Mabu Mabu is one of Melbourne’s hottest cafes on Anderson Street in Yarraville and as part of NAIDOC Week in July is being celebrated...

    WEAVING WORKS NOW ON DISPLAY

    FCAC will host a night of ceremony and exhibition putting the works into public display.

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