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Ancient bone artefact found

The discovery of a rare bone artefact near the Lower Murray River casts more light on the rich archaeological record on Ngarrindjeri country in southern Australia. Details of the Murrawong bone point, dated between c. 5,300-3,800 years old, has have been described by Flinders University, Griffith University and other experts in a new paper in Australian Archaeology.

Glistening beaches and luxury resort belie systemic issues at Indigenous bodies

Glistening beaches and luxury resort belie ‘systemic’ issues at Indigenous bodies Save Normal text size Advertisement For millennia, the dazzling beaches that run uninterrupted along the coast south-east of Adelaide helped sustain the Ngarrindjeri people whose lands encompass the waterways close to the mouth of the Murray River. Historical middens testify to the practice of harvesting pipis — small clams known in local language as “kuti”, a key food source for the Ngarrindjeri whose traditional landowners number about 4000. Coorong National Park in South Australia; pipi are harvested from beaches nearby. Credit:Alamy So when the federal government’s Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation trumpeted the success of a pipi-harvesting project it had funded for the benefit of the Ngarrindjeri, minimal questions were asked outside the local community.

Failing the people : Calls for royal commission into broken system

Advertisement A group of senior Indigenous men and women are calling on the federal government for a wide-ranging royal commission into Indigenous corporations and statutory bodies to fix what they say is a “broken system”. It follows last week’s move by South Australia’s Liberal government to back a parliamentary inquiry into local Indigenous corporations, focusing on governance standards following a series of scandals and failures. The former head of the National Native Title Tribunal, Raelene Webb QC, told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age that the system should be overhauled, but rather than a royal commission she wants to see “open dialogue” with Indigenous communities to design a better blend of “Western-style corporate governance” with traditional land management.

Glistening beaches and luxury resort belie systemic issues at Indigenous bodies

Glistening beaches and luxury resort belie systemic issues at Indigenous bodies
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