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Ernie Dingo at the Camping on Country, Tennant Creek Men's Camp

Khullah Yanaintha (Fire coming)

You mob might have heard funding for our deadly pilot program Camping on Country, designed by myself and my crew including a big mob of remote elders, Lore bosses and Aboriginal health professionals has been axed. The program was evaluated and has proven to be

The Songman

If it wasn’t for Mum’s beef stew, this story would not exist. And I would not have met Colin. And we would not have shared this special time together. And I would not have learned how to go bush and shoot a rifle or cut

Good Fortune Comes in Threes

There’s a reason Simpson Yam has a soft reminiscent smile on his face today. He’s part of a team of Olkola men who have just finished building algngga (wet season humpy) right in the middle of town for everyone to see.

Ngangkari

Australian hospitals, prisons and health clinics are slowly engaging ngangkari to help provide a more holistic and culturally appropriate healing space for their patients.

Kirrendirri – Lost and Alone

To contribute to this years National Reconciliation theme of truth telling we would like to share a massacre story from Western Queensland. Meet Joslin Eatts nee McCabe circa 1936… cantankerous, bittersweet, brilliant and irascible Maiawali elder from Winton!

The First 11

In May just over 150 years ago in a brief period of freedom before the imposition of the Aboriginal Protection Act, a team of Aboriginal cricketers took their chances and set sail to tour England. They were the first Australian 11. Men of the Jarwadjali,

Singing Up the Big House

Hazel Barr is happy today. She shares an ancient sugarbag song in a language that is now spoken by only a few. She's happy because the Olkola men of Kowanyama are building a traditonal messmate benched humpy

Meet Our Secret Weapon #bushcamps2019

Meet the secret weapon to our remote men's health #bushcamps2019! Troy is a Ngangkeri (traditional healer) from Central Australia! The aim of our remote men's health culture camps is to give tribal men a culturally safe place for deep healing on country.

Renaissance Men in the Desert

One day two brothers woke up and decided to really do something that would make their elders proud and at the same time create jobs for themselves but they had no idea how successful it would be