As the sun rises on January 26, more than a hundred people gather on Yorta Yorta country in Mooroopna in Victoria's north. In 2019, Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung Senator Lidia Thorpe held what is considered one of the first formal and large-scale dawn services on January 26th at Camp Sovereignty / Kings Domain in Melbourne / Naarm. "Dawn services …
Emma Donovan takes us on a geographical music journey in the final J Files of Ausmusic Month. Follow her as she takes us from the Torres Strait islands, across all of Arnhem Land, through Murri Country in Queensland, down the mid north Coast across Bungalang and Gumbayggirr Country, right through to Yorta Yorta Country, Victoria's Arrette Country and finishing up …
The Victorian Parliament has passed legislation to decriminalise public drunkenness, in a move triggered by the death of Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day in 2017. Key points: The bill means public drunkenness will be treated as a medical issue, not a crime Tanya Day's daughter Apryl said it was a positive change that came too late to save her mother …