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The First Peoples Disability Network has welcomed the recommendations of the Disability Royal Commission about disability in First Nations people.
After more than four years of public hearings, private sessions and written submissions, the commission's final report and its 222 recommendations were released to the public today.
The Royal Commission has recommended the establishment of a First Nations Disability Forum, greater investment in the First Nations disability workforce, and improved and more culturally safe access to services like N-D-I-S support.
CEO of the First Peoples Disability Network Damian Griffis, says that the recommendations should be implemented as soon as possible.
"The establishment of a First Nations Disability Forum is a good concept, a really critical one, because in a lot ways we're starting from, very much a baseline in terms of an appropriate response for First Nations people with disability. The recommendation is that that should be started by March next year, and we're absolutely keen to get started on that as soon as possible."
The biennial Yellamundie Indigenous performing arts and storytelling festival has started in Sydney.
The festival shows local and international First Nations voices in the performing arts.
Aiming to create a platform for Indigenous artists to connect and share stories, the festival is now celebrating its tenth year.
Festival Director Lily Shearer says the festival gives opportunities to First Nations communities.
"Those exchanges are really important to us as as colonised countries. We have a lot of our trauma that comes through in our stories, and that is healing for our people and that makes our people stronger. It also helps build relationships with non-Aboriginal people. To understand our point of view and where we're coming from. I think that's really, really important."
In the Netherlands, police say three people are dead after a gunman opened fire in a classroom at a university hospital campus in Rotterdam and at a nearby house.
The 32-year-old suspect, is a university student.
He fatally shot a 39-year-old woman living in his neighbourhood and her 14-year-old daughter who later died in hospital.
After setting the woman's house on fire, the gunman went to the Rotterdam Medical Centre university hospital, where he entered a classroom and fatally shot a 46-year-old teacher.
Police spokesperson Fred Westerbeke says the shooter is in police custody.
"When he was arrested around half past three, he had a firearm in his pocket and was wearing a bulletproof vest. Based on the information now known to the investigation team, we can confirm that the suspect acted alone. We are therefore no longer looking for another suspect. We see his act as a targeted action, but it requires further research to gain clarity about how and why. The suspect was a student at Erasmus University."
Woodside Energy's plan to begin seismic blasting off Western Australia as part of its Scarborough gas project has been stopped by court after action from Aboriginal elders.
Traditional custodian Raelene Cooper filed for a judicial review in August of the regulator's decision to approve Woodside's blasting plan.
The challenge argued the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority made a legal error.
Federal Court Justice Craig Colvin agreed.
Ms Cooper says the victory is significant.
"This is our time to start thinking about the future for us all. Every single soul and heartbeat that walks this planet. Because what is going on in our communities, the eastern states, it doesn't stop, it's continuing all the time. I just feel this win is for everybody."
