Aboriginal Way

Yankunytjatjara Anangu woman Karina Lester has just travelled from the APY Lands to Baku, Azerbaijan for the world’s biggest climate change summit – COP 29.

Along with an Indigenous Australian delegation, the traditional owner will share her community’s concerns and ideas about tackling climate change.

As a second-generation nuclear test survivor, Karina will be advocating against nuclear projects as an alternative to fossil fuels.

Karina Lester is an Aboriginal language expert at the University of Adelaide's Mobile Language Team. In her spare time, she advocates against nuclear projects on Aboriginal lands.

Held in the second week of November each year, Nunga Week is an annual week of events to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities’ contributions in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield Council region.

Nunga Week will be held next week, the 10-16th November this year, and AW went down to Port Adelaide to find out more about it from Rodney Welch, Aboriginal Community Development Lead.

Kauwi cultural cruise is a new cultural adventure set to show you a different side of the waters off the southern coast of Kaurna Yerta.

The monthly two-hour cruise is a recent collaboration between Southern Cultural Immersion and Temptations Sailing, who both saw a gap for this offering in Adelaide’s

Southern Cultural Immersion offers cultural experiences right across the city of Adelaide from their base at the Living Kaurna Cultural Centre, which they manage at Warriparinga.

Temptation Sailing is a locally based company offering cruises and private charters from their base at Glenelg Marina.

Together, the two businesses share key values of respect for Country and culture, promoting sustainable practices and education.

The tours will be led by a First Nations guide and a marine biologist, so guests will be able to delve deeply into the rich history of Kaurna Yerta and its waters, immersing themselves in local Dreaming stories and learning about the significant aquatic and cultural elements that call it home.

Southern Cultural Immersion invited Aboriginal Way to come along on the first cruise open to the public this week….

Narungga Nation have continued their efforts to restore

On September 30 and October 1 workshops were held at

The  Cultural Burns Education Project has seen the delivering of workshops and the production of

Narungga Elder, Rex Angie, was present during Narungga burns over the past years and was excited to see their land management practices in the spotlight.

The project was delivered by a steering committee

South Australia's First Nations Business Showcase is back for 2024, bigger and better than ever.

AW spoke to Michael Levin from The Circle about the event.

Pilot Indigenous coding program Indigi Code has been established for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students with the hope they will be able to gain future employment and work remotely in the digital space.

Indigi Code, a partnership between programming education provider 42 Adelaide and the Aboriginal Biodiversity Conservation (ABC) Foundation

The free program offers a “gamified” peer-to-peer study experience, with students learning from other students through engagement-style learning.  

ABC Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation established in WA, with its flagship program providing services to benefit on-Country education programs and 42 Adelaide is a non-profit coding school.

Both organisations hope to expand from this initial pilot

Early last week, on September 23rd, the Nauo people’s final active native title application, Nauo #2, came to a successful conclusion from the Federal Court of

Judge Justice O’Bryan handed down his verdict electronically from the Federal Court, giving the Nauo people native title rights and interests over the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula.

Today, we’re speaking with Nauo Co-Chair Michael Miller, who is Co-Chair alongside Danielle James.

Mayibarrdu or Goose Island, off the West Coast of the Yorke Peninsula in the Spencer Gulf of South Australia, will return to the hands of its Traditional Owners, the Narungga Nation.

This is following the Federal Court’s March 2023 recognition of the Narungga people as Native Title holders of the whole of the Yorke Peninsula.

The island has been leased exclusively to private school Scotch College since 1966 through the Department of Environment and Water.

Mayiburrdu is a small, rocky island west of Point Pearce. It is about 550 metres off the northern end of the much larger Wardang Island.

Today on Aboriginal Way, we’re speaking to Doug Milera, CEO of Narungga Nation Aboriginal Corporation.

Many Australians, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, have felt overwhelming disappointment since

Nearly a year later, people are looking for a way to move forward from this.

After writing the Voice to Parliament Handbook with journalist Kerry O'Brien in the lead-up to the referendum, respected Indigenous advocate Thomas Mayo has found that people are again looking to him for guidance. He has just published a new book called Always Was, Always Will be: The Campaign for Justice and Recognition Continues, offering a formula to get to a place of justice and recognition for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Mayo was a signatory to the Uluru Statement from the Heart in May 2017 after helping to develop it. He has been a leading campaigner for its proposals for a Voice to Parliament and a Makarrata Commission, and has had more than 20 years experience in advocacy and leadership.

Mayo, a Kaurareg Aboriginal and Kalkalgal Torres Strait islander man, joins us on the podcast today.

On August 29, water was released from the Beetaloo Reservoir in an effort to preserve ancient river red gums and assist Nukunu to care for and connect to Country.

They follow trial water releases from the Baroota

More than a billion litres of water from the two releases

 Project partners and local community will monitor and record progress of the water flowing along the creeks to safeguard creek infrastructure and surrounding properties, while also surveying the response of water-dependent animals.

 The releases are part of the collaborative Environmental and Cultural Flows project, led by the Northern and Yorke Landscape Board with support from SA Water, the Department for Environment and Water (DEW), Flinders

 Aboriginal Way attended the Beetaloo water release, just outside of Crystal Brook, and interviewed Nukunu Wapma Thura Aboriginal Corporation chair Travis Thomas, Nukunu Elder Laurie Thomas, DEW senior ecologist, Dr Douglas Green and Northern and Yorke Landscape Board planning officer Jennifer Munro.