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Lisa Jane Spencer as she appears in the video.

Self-described comedian accused of racially vilifying Indigenous people sacked

A Melbourne content creator has been sacked amid a backlash to a video in which she stereotypes Indigenous people.

  • Kayla Olaya

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Daniel Mateo.

When Daniel lost his brother, nobody spoke of it. A new film aims to change that

The 25-year-old describes the work as a “beacon of hope for brown boys” in the Bangarra production Sheltering.

  • Kayla Olaya
Save Victoria Park accused GIICA of intimidation after it erected fences as they began their media conference.

Olympics body gatecrashes Save Victoria Park event to erect fences

The 2032 Olympic infrastructure body has been accused of “deliberate intimidation” after fencing off parts of Victoria Park during a First Nations media conference held on National Sorry Day.

  • Cameron Atfield
Novelist Charlotte McConaghy won the prize for literary fiction at the Australian Book Industry Association Awards.

How a gamble on a remote island saved Charlotte McConaghy’s novel

The Australian novelist was among the big winners at the book industry’s night of nights.

  • Melanie Kembrey
Football is a way if life in Maningrida, but the remote community is yet to produce an AFL player.

This NT community is in footy heartland, but has never produced an AFL player. Why?

Jake Niall flew to the remote Northern Territory to observe the local footy and the game’s progress in Arnhem Land. What he discovered was truly eye-opening.

  • Jake Niall
An animated Brad Scott.

Behind the savage bake Brad Scott gave his players at quarter-time against the Dockers

Broadcast cameras on Sunday picked up Scott’s savage address to the Bombers at quarter-time. Mason Redman said, “the message got through”.

  • Scott Spits, Peter Ryan, Hannah Kennelly and Sam McClure
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Nina Korbe (Molly Johnson) and Shuntai Abdul-Rahman (Black Mary) in The Drover’s Wife - The Opera.

Molly Johnson’s legend lives on in opera’s world premiere at Glasshouse Theatre

It has already triumphed as a play, a book and a movie, but Leah Purcell’s outback tragedy may have found its ideal medium.

  • Nick Dent
GIF: Melissa Jackson, 60, and her colleague and “bestie” Ronald Briggs, 58.

Ronald ‘broke’ when his partner of 27 years had a heart attack. His best friend pulled him through

Librarians Melissa Jackson and Ronald Briggs are colleagues who have become friends.

  • Stephen Lacey
Illustration  by Jozsef Benke

When Kumanjayi Little Baby died, Australia noticed. Too often we don’t

Too many Indigenous deaths pass with little attention or outcry. Let’s hope this is a turning point.

  • Sean Kelly
Illustration by Dionne Gain

Anzac booers were a ‘God moment’: How Uncle Ray’s grace answers the graceless

Since the booing, the Aboriginal pastor has felt grateful that it revealed the ugliness Aboriginal people are routinely exposed to.

  • Julia Baird