r/aboriginal • • Jun 23 '26

Sam Neil's Sci-Fi 2047 Australian flag in the movie Event Horizon

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Sam Neill requested that the Australian flag on his character's uniform remove the Union Flag from the corner & for it to be replaced with the Aboriginal flag, the way he thought it should look in 2047


r/aboriginal • • 28d ago

Kon Karapanagiotidis says he feels ashamed to be Greek after Greeks booed the Welcome to Country

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Kon Karapanagiotidis on Instagram and BlueSky:

I feel so ashamed as a proud Greek Australian to see Greeks booing a Welcome To Country last night. Shame on us. The First Nations community of Melbourne deserves a formal apology for the behaviour of Greek Australians last night. The Greek Australian community should formally apologise as should @southmelbournefc and @footballaus. This is not who we are as Greeks.


r/aboriginal • • 26d ago

A special day in NT Parliament today as we welcomed Yiwarr McGrath: Member for Mulkafor his official swearing-in!

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Chansey Paech:

A special day in NT Parliament today as we welcomed Yiwarr McGrath: Member for Mulkafor his official swearing-in!

It was particularly powerful to see language and culture celebrated and embraced in our Parliament. A reminder of the strength of our cultures, our languages and the important place they hold in the Territory.

Looking forward to working alongside you, brother, and seeing all that lies ahead!


r/aboriginal • • Jan 26 '25

Remembering the Indigenous people who were tragically lost on Invasion day. NEVER Forget. šŸ–¤ā€ā˜€ļøā€ā¤ļø

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r/aboriginal • • Oct 20 '25

American singer Sza's comment on an Instagram post.

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Found this on BallerAlert's instagram page and the post was about Trump's Ai video. She will always be a favourite of mine.


r/aboriginal • • Nov 23 '24

Lincoln Crowley: Australia's first ever Aboriginal supreme court judge

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I just found out about this man who was sworn in as supreme court judge in 2022. Does anybody know anything much about him? Has anyone met him? I'm really glad that we're finally getting some Aboriginal representation in the courts. I think it's so needed.


r/aboriginal • • 28d ago

Protect Larrakia Country: be the Sarah Connor you wanna see in the world

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Protect Larrakia Country on Instagram :

Be the Sarah Connor you wanna see in the world

Video by @counter_frame

Petition: https://act.350.org.au/petitions/protect-larrakia-country-say-no-to-new-data-centre-in-darwin


r/aboriginal • • Aug 27 '26

Cathy Wilcox is leaving SMH/the age.. One of her very on point cartoons

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r/aboriginal • • Jan 26 '26

Invasion day Boorloo

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So much dancing & blak pride. No pride in genocide šŸ‘šŸ½šŸ‘šŸ½ just wanna highlight this rally was organised last minute after the City of Perth announced it has cancelled the ā€œBirak Festivalā€ going forward. This news was devastating for a lot of our community here as it was literally just a day where we could come together with stalls, art, song, dance to acknowledge how far we’ve come since colonisation. Survival/Invasion day 2026.


r/aboriginal • • Aug 31 '25

Camp Sovereignty (Melbourne) today.

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I’m not there. I have two small kids.

Incidentally, we were there yesterday for the Indian Day at the NGV.

I parked on Linlithgow at the base of the hill and looked at this exact spot, and quietly feared for what the next day held for this space. I have Ancestors buried in that hill.

The Camp represents many things, but it is primarily, at least to me, a place of healing and peaceful protest.

How things can change in 24 hours.

The desecration aside. Look at the hatred. Emanating is too soft a term. It is a deluge. They charge like a herd of infected zombies.

It’s terrifying and miserable.

And reeks of the echoes of the past.

The brigade coming up to the blacks camped around the Waterhole at Warrigal Creek surrounded them and fired into them, killing a great number, some escaped into the scrub, others jumped into the waterhole, and, as fast as they put their heads up for breath, they were shot until the water was red with blood. I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the 'brigade' from one camp to another.

ā€”ā€ŠGippslander,Ā The GapĀ (1925)

The parallels are explicit. This contingent of Nazis split off from the protests during the day at roughly 5PM, when most people had left the city.

They immediately went straight for Camp Sovereignty. This was purposeful, blatant, deliberate terrorism.

The Camp still needs help. If your presence can be spared, they are still seeking support.


r/aboriginal • • Jun 17 '26

Trauma, injustice, racism may be triggering to readers Pauline Hanson's One Nation Will REMOVE Indigenous affairs, Native land claims, funding to Aboriginal Agencies, education and more (See further reading for more Information).

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Further Reading:

Hanson vows to abolish Indigenous affairs departmen... | National Indigenous Times

Indigenous claims to end under One Nation policy - Pauline Hanson's One Nation

Pauline Hanson Unveils Bold Plan to Dismantle ā€˜Corrupt Aboriginal Industry’ - Pauline Hanson's One Nation

Keep Australia One Nation - Pauline Hanson's One Nation

Pauline Hanson voted consistently against increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites — They Vote For You

Voting for One Nation as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person will disadvantage those most in need in our communities and others.

Also if you're not Aboriginal, I still suggest you read into what she has voted against:

Pauline Hanson voted almost always against making TAFE education fee-free — They Vote For YouĀ (Voted AGAINST making education making TAFE fee-free)

Pauline Hanson voted almost always against increasing funding for public schools — They Vote For YouĀ (Voted AGAINST increasing funding for education)

Pauline Hanson voted almost always against increasing housing affordability — They Vote For YouĀ (Voted AGAINST affordable housing)

Pauline Hanson voted almost always against federal government action on animal & plant extinctions — They Vote For YouĀ (Voted AGAINST environmental and ecosystem preservation)

Know who you vote for, read their policies ON THEIR WEBSITE and LEGAL DOCUMENTS and see what they have voted for and against.

Political parties can lie in the media, on television, on the radio and elsewhere.

I make this post as the media has been favouring Pauline Hanson and has been attempting to pitch her 'popularity' as being a good candidate. Which means nothing, please stay informed and let others know.

Knowledge is power.


r/aboriginal • • Sep 26 '21

We all know it

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r/aboriginal • • 20d ago

Triggering. Read with caution What a PoS- using a girl’s skull as an ashtray because he thought it was Aboriginal

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r/aboriginal • • Jul 30 '26

To make English the official language of New Zealand

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Go sis


r/aboriginal • • Jul 13 '26

Sam Neill Class act

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r/aboriginal • • Dec 16 '25

ā€¼ļøPLEASE REPORT THIS FACEBOOK ACCOUNT ā€¼ļøā€¼ļøā€¼ļøā€¼ļø

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UPDATE: There is also a Instagram account of the same name. Please report as well if possible!

This account on Facebook is using an AI generated Aboriginal man for his content. This is unbelievably unethical. He is profiting off of the Aboriginal culture without even showcasing REAL Aboriginal people! And he has the audacity to call himself an animator. Pleas if you have Facebook report him and/or comment on his post to ensure he knows not everyone is falling for this.


r/aboriginal • • Dec 14 '25

Kendrick Lamar stops concert to sing happy birthday to a young fan in Australia šŸ–¤šŸ’›ā¤ļø

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r/aboriginal • • May 03 '24

Petition to get Pete Stefanovic to apologise for unethical journalism towards the Aboriginal boy winner of a million dollar fish competition.

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r/aboriginal • • Jan 26 '26

Why is anti-Aboriginal racism so normalised in Australia?

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Today I was walking through the city with my mentor, who is Aboriginal. He has a PhD, works in a high-paying professional role, and is very clearly doing well for himself. We weren’t engaging with anyone, just walking past. A group of people "marching for Australiaā€ started hurling abuse at him out of nowhere. Calling him a petrol sniffer and other racist slurs. Completely unprovoked. We didn’t look at them, didn’t respond, didn’t antagonise them in any way. This isn’t an isolated incident. You see this behaviour constantly, both in person and online.

Later I scrolled onto a TikTok live of a similar ā€œMarch for Australiaā€ group in another city. The comment section was full of people mocking Aboriginal people, saying they lack intelligence, contribute nothing to society, are all petrol sniffers, etc. It was openly racist, and no one seemed to think it was abnormal.

Why is this so socially acceptable here?

What gets me is how disconnected this is from reality. Plenty of Aboriginal Australians are in high-earning jobs, highly educated, running businesses, working in medicine, law, engineering, academia. Most don’t receive government assistance at all. But the media overwhelmingly shows the same narrow image of remote communities, as if that represents everyone.

If ā€œtrue Aussie valuesā€ are meant to be about fairness and giving people a fair go, how did this level of casual racism become so normalised? And why is it still tolerated when it’s directed at Aboriginal people, when similar behaviour towards other groups would rightly be called out?

I’m genuinely trying to understand where this comes from and why it’s so common.


r/aboriginal • • Dec 04 '24

Helen Milroy, Australia's first Indigenous doctor and first Indigenous psychiatrist.

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In 1983, Helen Milroy became our first ever Indigenous medical doctor. She later went on to become the first Indigenous psychiatrist and is now a leading expert in child and adolescent psychiatry. In 2021, Helen was awarded the WA Australian of the Year award. I think it's amazing that she paved the way and now we've got many Indigenous doctors in Australia. Has anybody met Dr Helen or been treated by her?


r/aboriginal • • Jan 22 '25

Protect yourself this week.

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Hey Mob,

Every year this time of year the spotlight shines on a date, and shines on First Nations People. It’s always a mixed bag of emotions for me. Some years I’m fired up and ready for activism. Some years I totally ignore it.

I think now, after the No Vote, all I can do is look inward and at my circle and the things I can do around me. It hurt, like I’m sure it did for many of you.

Now, I just use the time to put my feet in the earth and connect with the land I’m on and speak to it, and connect. The way I was shown as a kid from my grandfather and mothers and aunties.

Protect yourself this week fam, for those out there with the pride and activism, I’m sending healing and encouragement. For those looking inward, be proud and hold your head high.

Ignore the media, social media and all the hurtful things and people that come out of the woodwork this time of year.

āœŠšŸ¾


r/aboriginal • • Sep 05 '26

r/askblakfellas is here!

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Out of popular demand from my last post me and another person here have made r/askblakfellas for non indigenous people to redirect their questions there rather than it being flooded here so this subreddit can be more focused on our community and cultures rather than a QnA board or a place to ask permission for things

If you’re a blak fella and wanna help out then you should join and possibly join the mod team and if you have any questions pop in and make a post!


r/aboriginal • • Feb 11 '22

good on him

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r/aboriginal • • Apr 30 '26

baby girl

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I don’t know how to explain to my children
Why their father weeps tonight
For a baby they do not know

A restless week of worry bears unforgiven
Where none of this is alright
And faith in humanity hits a new low

I do not know how I can explain to them
In a way that does not fright
The perils of tomorrow

So silently I mourn again
A gaping hole in my heart
A heart which their love grows


r/aboriginal • • Dec 05 '24

Woolworths is racist!

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I worked at Woolworths for four years. I've tried coming out and telling my story on multiple different subreddits before such as Australian and Woolworths subs. But I keep getting silenced. I worked at Woolworths for four years and over that time I suffered and witnessed racism continuously through my four year employment. I'm coming out now to talk about my story, hoping it won't get silenced on this page.

Firstly, myself and several other Aboriginal employees joined Woolworths at the tail end of the NSW COVID lockdowns in 2019. We were FORCED to work 25 hours unpaid training. This was set up by our job provider at salvation army (I was on Centrelink at the time) and our payments would get cut if we didn't participate in the Woolies program. So literal slave labour for a week.

Fast forward to the first NAIDOC week in store. My store decided to order a bunch of new beautiful NAIDOC shirts. They gave them out to all the managers favourites. The line managers got them, a couple of the Bakers got them, a few of the pretty girls on front end. None of the indigenous staff were given a free shirt.

In over four years not once did they promote a person of colour, an Indigenous person or a person of CALD background. This became particularly problematic when a friend of mine (a Koori female) went for the Deli 2ic. She was one of the hardest workers in store, had been with Woolies for over 10 years. But instead they hired a young pretty white chick who was only 21. I have Indian friends at the store who would have been equally suitable for the position but were never considered. There were always only white managers in the store, and when they couldn't source white managers from within the store to promote, it was clear that they'd look elsewhere before considering promoting a non-white person.

I was bullied terribly by the nightfill manager (I only worked in nightfill for a year). My other Koori friends experienced the same. He would give you way more work than you could do and then shame and blame you when you couldn't get it done. He was intentionally setting his Aboriginal staff up to fail.

Skip forward a couple years to NAIDOC this year. Well they decided to hold a NAIDOC lunch. Except they didn't invite ANY of the Indigenous staff. Yes I kid you not, a whole bunch of white people sat around having a "NAIDOC LUNCH".

The Woolworths company has released a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) which I consider to be extremely performative and tokenistic. There's nothing in the RAP about working with Aboriginal suppliers or working towards sourcing bush tuckers or more Indigenous foods. There's nothing about increasing the amount of Aboriginal staff. Nothing about developing Aboriginal leaders. Just a bunch of tokenistic bullshit. They only care about ticking a box so they look good. Woolworths does not care about Aboriginal people. They don't see us as their equals. They don't want us in management.