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Aunty Joy Murphy and Brett Ralph.

Melbourne elder lashes Storm as battle with board intensified ahead of Indigenous round

Wurundjeri elder Aunty Joy Murphy has condemned Melbourne Storm’s association with a board member linked to conservative lobby group Advance Australia.

  • Hannah Hammoud and Carla Jaeger

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Melbourne Storm on Anzac Day.

Melbourne Storm apologise to First Nations people for cancelled Welcome to Country ceremony

The club apologised to all those impacted by events on Anzac Day when a Welcome to Country before the club’s clash against South Sydney Rabbitohs was cancelled at the last minute.  

  • Scott Spits and Alexander Darling
The F/A-18 Hornet under the Aperture in the Middle East Gallery, seen during a visit to view construction work of Anzac Hall at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on Wednesday 2 July

From Black Hawks to $2 pool noodles: Inside the new Anzac Hall

Engineering and architectural nous is behind the controversial expansion of the Australian War Memorial, which will include helicopters, armoured vehicles and an F/A-18A Hornet.

  • Julie Power
The large electronic billboard is on a railway bridge in Chatswood across the street from the Garden of Remembrance.

RSL ‘powerless’ to stop billboard beside Sydney war memorial

It is the latest row over public advertising signs placarding Sydney’s suburbs.

  • David Barwell
The bake stall standby gets a layer of cookie dough at the bottom.

A sweet surprise and a perfect pie: The 20+ most popular recipes of April

Move over savoury dishes, sweet bakes really took the cake in April. Also popular: your new go-to midweek chicken winners and a very special fish pie.

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Uncle Len Waters is a Kamilaroi elder in Tamworth, New South Wales, who has been performing Welcomes for decades.

Peter Dutton’s Welcome to Country claim comes from a common misconception about the ancient ceremony

Antagonism towards the tradition has been bubbling for months, but an argument the opposition leader recently made on the national stage is steeped in a fundamental misunderstanding.

  • Bronte Gossling
Dutton speaks to the media in Nelson Bay, NSW, on Monday.

Dutton says veterans don’t want Welcome to Country on Anzac Day. RSL branches say otherwise

The opposition leader hardened his stance against the ceremonies while his agenda on immigration and road taxes was confused by a series of conflicting statements.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos, Olivia Ireland and Mike Foley
Aunty Joy Murphy giving a Welcome to Country at Marvel Stadium in 2023.

Storm chairman ‘greatly upset’ by Welcome to Country ‘miscommunication’

Melbourne Storm have taken responsibility for what they say was an internal miscommunication that meant the Welcome to Country for their Anzac Day clash at AAMI Park was cancelled.

  • Sam McClure and Lachlan Abbott

This minority are that way for good reason

Age readers respond to the disruptions to the Anzac Day services.