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NSW National Park To Be Renamed Due To Ben Boyd’s Links To Slave Trade In Mid-1800s
November 26, 2021
By Christopher Knaus Sun 14 Nov 2021 12.46 AEDT Indigenous leaders say renaming public spaces suggests ‘we are moving forward as a society and repairing relationships’ The New South Wales government will rename Ben Boyd national park on the state’s south coast due to the pastoralist’s association with...
Read MoreMayoral Candidate Floats Urban Billabong Plan
October 28, 2021
By TARYN PARISTUE 26 October 2021 A plan to deliver a series of urban billabongs across Sydney is the vision of mayoral candidate Yvonne Weldon, who is running against incumbent Clover Moore. Weldon is the first Indigenous person to run City of Sydney Lord...
Read MoreWe Have So Many Stories To Tell
October 26, 2021
By GARETH NARUNSKY 12 October 2021, 9:30 am ‘We have so many stories to tell’. The first Aboriginal-Australian candidate for Lord Mayor of Sydney speaks to The AJN. INDIGENOUS Sydney lord mayoral candidate Yvonne Weldon has told The AJN “it was an absolute honour”...
Read More#18, The Sydney Morning Herald Photos of the week, September 30, 2021
October 06, 2021
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Read MoreRespect for Tradition
October 05, 2021
September 29, 2021 By Emily Brown Australia has a history of “selective listening” when it comes to First Nations voices. Now Yvonne Weldon is aiming to become the first Aboriginal Lord Mayor of Sydney, reports EMILY BROWN Aboriginal hunters in Manyallaluk CREDIT: Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur...
Read More‘It was the fear factor’: Vaccine push at Sydney public housing estate
September 28, 2021
27 September, 2021 By Megan Gorrey Bundjalung man Raymond King says fear prompted him to change his mind about getting vaccinated against COVID-19, as he watched cases rise among residents of his neighbourhood in Sydney’s inner south. “It was the fear factor, that’s the honest...
Read MoreCelebrity chefs unite to help jab social housing tower residents
September 27, 2021
Broadcast: Mon 27 Sep 2021, 12:10pm By Carly Williams on The World Today Click here to listen With a COVID cluster threatening vulnerable residents living in social housing towers in Sydney's Redfern, a local community group is working together to help vaccination rates in the...
Read MoreInternational students to return to NSW
September 26, 2021
24 September, 2021 By Judy Skatssoon International students will return to NSW by the end of the year under a pilot announced by the NSW government. The contract to provide quarantine facilities has been awarded to purpose-built student accommodation provider Scape, which will accommodate up...
Read More‘It's dire’: Covid fears for inner-city communities as Redfern Towers struck
September 26, 2021
16 SEP 2021 - 7:00 PM By Dijana Damjanovic, Nadine Silva Redfern residents are deeply concerned for the safety and wellbeing of their community as NSW authorities confirm an emerging COVID-19 cluster across three public housing towers in the inner-city Sydney suburb. Wiradjuri woman Yvonne Weldon...
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