"When people realise that it is not handouts that we want’ it is a hand-up and giving us the opportunity to have access to country; to work alongside the modern world if you like and explain to them how we read and see country - and our methods don’t impact on the outcomes that they want. The outcomes and the goals are the same." - Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elder Uncle Dave Wandin at iDEA 2022

“We are now expected to accept, for the greater good of the rest of the Australian population, the desecration of country that we have called home, that has nurtured us for thousands and thousands of years.” - Dr Debra Dank at iDEA 2022 conference.

THE PAW HOUSE BAND is the studio session players at PAW Music studios based in Yuendumu. While on a working visit to Melbourne, members the band dropped into NITV Radio for a yarn. The group is celebrating a back catalogue of ‘bush band’ songs – and performing songs from a desert music history that spans 50 years.

Listen to NITV Radio excerpts - on air program 05/09/2022

Coronial inquest into Kumanjayi Walker’s death in custody begins in Alice Springs - A search is underway for a missing skier in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains - Ten dead in a series of stabbings in Canada...

Frances Belle Parker’s ‘Aboriginal Art & Storytelling’ sculptures adorn multiple sites along the 36 km Northern Beaches Coast Walk.

"I’m going to use the opportunity not to talk about myself, but to talk about how experience and knowledge and activities is really a relational thing in the blackfella sense; that I have been thinking a lot about. Stories and things that happened to people and my family and how those experiences are passed on. Whether it is my grandmother writing a letter to the Aboriginal Protection Board when she was 13. Because that story and that person and their actions were so formative in who I am." - Nardi Simpson

Listen to NITV Radio excerpts - on air program 02/09/2022

NSW Indigenous communities worst impacted by the state government’s delayed response to the Ice inquiry - The Prime Minister says the Jobs and Skills summit is making good progress with 140 groups working together - Boris Johnson has delivered his final speech as UK Prime Minister...

“We are seeing our cultural heritage sites and our homeland as high value. We want to get the best deal, the best opportunity for our people to continue to grow generationally. Projects are known to stay in the area for 50 plus years. That is a lot of land that we have to give up as a sacrifice. We don’t want that to be an expectation from government or the green energy business sector. We believe that there is a good two-way deal that can be cut with us being the major landowners across Australia.” - Les Schultz, Traditional Owner and Elder of Ngadju land