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McARTHUR RIVER MINE
Reporter Keira Jenkins travelled to Borroloola and the land nearly 100km south of Darwin on which mining giant Glencore’s McArthur River mine continues to make controversy, with traditional owners facing the poisoning of their water and wildlife.
“It is like a garden to Aboriginal people,” said Garawa elder Jack Green, who is now too scared of lead poisoning to fish in the river.
Locals say the lead and zinc mine has had an enormous impact and warn that even after it closes the environmental impact will need to be monitored for 1000 years.
Elder Josie Davey says: “I’m really worried about the mine, what they’ve done is not right. It’s my great-grandfather’s country and it hurts so much that I can’t even take my kids back there no more.”
In March, four Aboriginal people died in custody.
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On March 2, a 35-year-old Aboriginal man died at the Longbay Correctional Centre prison hospital in Sydney. Three days later, a 44-year-old Indigenous woman died at Silverwater Correctional Facility. Another two days went by and, on March 7, another man died in Ravenhall Correctional Centre in Melbourne. The following week, a 37-year-old Barkindji man died after being pursued by police in Broken Hill it was March 18.
That’s four Aboriginal deaths in one month.
Friday 15 January - Live At The Bowl
Club DJ and designer Soju Gang brings you SorBaes - a community summer party Live at the Bowl.
Featuring the debut Naarm performance from Malyangapa, Barkindji artist BARKAA, celebrating her debut single For My Tittas .
Kobi Spice will bring the heat, before a performance from Footscray’s POOKIE off the back of her electrifying debut single Tuesday . They’ll be backed by The Soju Gang House Band along with DJ sets from C.FRIM, MAI and Soju Gang herself. More special guests to be announced.
$5 from every ticket sold will go to the Dhadjowa Foundation (founded by Apryl Day, daughter of the late Aunty Tanya Day) an organisation that supports and amplifies the voices of families whose loved ones have died in custody.
Eight unmissable gigs to see at Live at the Bowl this January
Words by Eva Marchingo
The outdoor summer concert series is reinvigorating Melbourne’s live entertainment scene.
From January, Melbourne’s beloved Sidney Myer Music Bowl will be transformed into a hotspot (the good kind) of the best live acts in Australia.
A joint initiative by Arts Centre Melbourne and the Victorian government, Live at the Bowl will play host to a series of Australian events and performances held over several weeks.
This season of celebration will help us rediscover the joy of live music and shared experiences, this time in a COVID-Safe environment. Expect to see social distancing, an abundance of hand sanitiser, QR codes for mobile phone registration, and regular cleaning, all to keep punters safe.