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The paper giving a voice to Aboriginal Australia Shame Australia! read the Koori Mail s first editorial 30 years ago. It is time for the Aboriginal community to speak out and be heard, to earn the respect we deserve and to regain our self-esteem after 200 years of brutal victimisation, it continued.
The Koori Mail, Australia s only fully indigenous-owned and managed newspaper, was born on 23 May 1991. Racist Violence: The Hidden Facts was the front page headline. The story was about a new report into racist violence in Australia and how Aboriginal people were facing high levels of abuse in police custody.
Not a lot has changed 30 years on, says Naomi Moran, the Koori Mail s general manager.
BBC News
By George Wright
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image captionNick Paton, left, a reporter at the Koori Mail, with the newspaper s editor Rudi Maxwell Shame Australia! read the Koori Mail s first editorial 30 years ago. It is time for the Aboriginal community to speak out and be heard, to earn the respect we deserve and to regain our self-esteem after 200 years of brutal victimisation, it continued.
The Koori Mail, Australia s only fully indigenous-owned and managed newspaper, was born on 23 May 1991. Racist Violence: The Hidden Facts was the front page headline. The story was about a new report into racist violence in Australia and how Aboriginal people were facing high levels of abuse in police custody.