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Matthew Rimmer

"There'd be over 70 per cent of people who smoke in Tjuntjuntjara," community chief executive Jon Lark estimates. abc.net.au/news/2025-04-26/tju

He says the community urgently needs support to lower smoking rates, improve health outcomes and reduce reliance on some of the most expensive cigarettes in the country.

ABC News · Amid high cigarette prices Tjuntjuntjarra locals call for help for smokers to quitBy Emily JB Smith
#health#smoking#IndigenousIP
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Native title holders from a vast area in the north of South Australia, including Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, have welcomed a win in the High Court of Australia today over their rights to a parcel of land near Oodnadatta, which was left out of their original claim.

A group of Arabana people travelled to Canberra to see the result, after a long battle for their native title rights for the area to be recognised.

Among them was Aaron Stuart who has been part of a long battle over the land.

"As an Aboriginal person, my mind goes back to those we lost on the journey," Mr Stuart said outside the High Court. abc.net.au/news/2025-04-09/sa- #auslaw #auspol #IndigenousIP #nativetitle

ABC News · SA native title owners welcome win over rights to parcel of land in state's far northBy Elizabeth Byrne
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The Reserve Bank of Australia has faced a number of complaints in the past over misappropriation of Indigenous IP (from Malangi, Yumbulul, and the Unaipon family). How will the Bank fare this time round - as it commissions a new design for the $5 dollar note?

'The Reserve Bank of Australia has opened submissions for an artwork to honour the “enduring emotional, spiritual and physical connection” of First Nations people to the land, seas and waters dating back thousands of years...

Australian bank notes and coins have borne images or engravings of Indigenous peoples, plants and animals since the 19th century, when the country still used pound sterling.

The £1 banknote, first issued in June 1923, was a homage to the artist E Phillips Fox’s Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay, which depicted then Lt James Cook and Joseph Banks’ point of first contact – with Gweagal warriors and their spears armed resistance to the encroachment of territory.

In 1966, however, the artwork on the new A$1 note marked the first Aboriginal copyright dispute, after the Reserve Bank failed to seek permission from Arnhem Land artist David Malangi when it reproduced his work on the note. He was later paid $1,000, a medallion and a fishing kit.

The $2 coin has depicted the image of Gwoya Tjungurrayi, sometimes referred to as “One Pound Jimmy”, since 1988. Tjungurrayi survived one of Australia’s last recorded frontier massacres in 1928 where 60 men, women and children were murdered in the Northern Territory.

In 1995, the RBA released the $5o note, which depicted the author, explorer and inventor David Unaipon, from the Ngarrindgerri nation of present day South Australia.

Entries for the redesign close in April.'
theguardian.com/australia-news #IndigenousIP #copyright #auspol #auslaw

The Guardian · Australia’s new $5 note to reflect First Nations connection to country instead of King CharlesBy Sarah Collard
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Matthew Rimmer

Indigenous leaders celebrate as court rejects appeal in landmark Yunupingu compensation case theguardian.com/australia-news

High court upholds ruling against commonwealth that Gumatj clan’s land was not acquired ‘on just terms’, in case initiated by renowned land rights activist

The Guardian · Indigenous leaders celebrate as court rejects appeal in landmark Yunupingu compensation caseBy Guardian staff reporter
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The legacy of Māori political leader Dame Tariana Turia rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/
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'Dame Tariana was the minister for Whānau Ora from 2010 until 2014. Whānau Ora was created under her oversight as a means for the government funding and supporting kaupapa Māori providers to deliver services to Māori in an attempt to address systemic inequalities.
She was also instrumental in establishing New Zealand's Smokefree 2025 goal.' #nzpol #nzlaw #health #IndigenousIP

RNZ · Obit: Dame Tariana Turia has diedBy RNZ News
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Lou Bennett describes being a 'conduit for song' in lead up to Adelaide Festival show nyilamum song cycles

abc.net.au/news/2025-02-24/lou

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'My [PhD] research was called Sovereign Language Rematriation. I wanted a title to emulate everything that I've been up to in the last 36 years. The artistry informs the education and vice versa — it's all entwined. It's very hard to silo things out and separate things.

They say there's about 7,000 languages in in the world. I believe there's so many more languages. Alone here in Australia, there's over 500 tribes, so there's at least 500 languages in Australia alone.

But instead of repatriation, I see it as a matrilineal thing, a woman thing to do or a feminine thing to do. It doesn't mean that men can't rematriate — rematriation has a sense, a deeper sense, and an understanding [of] the intangible, the spirit that evolves around language … Language has a spirit and has a life in itself and we treat it as family.

It's important that our languages here in Australia have the opportunity to sing again, to tell their story.'

ABC News · Lou Bennett describes being a 'conduit for song' in lead up to Adelaide Festival show nyilamum song cyclesBy Eloise Fuss
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'Until the late 1980s Indigenous art was being ripped off left right and centre. It was open slather. First at the cheap end of the market on T-shirts and then on fancy carpets made in Vietnam. The rip-off merchants maintained black artists were just painting old patterns, so their work was for the taking.

The lawyer who proved them wrong was Colin Golvan AM, and his new book shares historical stories of Indigenous copyright infringement and his experiences travelling around, often to remote communities, to work with artists to fight for their rights.

Bronwyn Bancroft is one of Australia's most recognised First Nation artists and when she stumbled across the theft of her work, Colin took up the legal fight and they settled out of court. Bronwyn now mentors other Aboriginal artists to assert their copyright.' abc.net.au/listen/programs/lat #IndigenousIP #auslaw #auspol

ABC listen · The great Australian art theft - ABC listenUntil the late 1980s Indigenous art was being ripped off left right and centre. It was open slather. First at the cheap end of the market on T-shirts and then on fancy carpets made in Vietnam. The rip-off merchants maintained black artists were just painting old patterns, so their work was for the taking.  The lawyer who proved them wrong was Colin Golvan AM, and his new book shares historical stories of Indigenous copyright infringement and his experiences travelling around, often to remote communities, to work with artists to fight for their rights.  Bronwyn Bancroft is one of Australia's most recognised First Nation artists and when she stumbled across the theft of her work, Colin took up the legal fight and they settled out of court. Bronwyn now mentors other Aboriginal artists to assert their copyright. Guests: Colin Golvan AM is a lawyer, QC and author of new book, Protecting Indigenous Art Bronwyn Bancroft AM is a Bundjalung woman, artist and author of 45 books
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