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Incarceration crisis: youth laws to face UN scrutiny

"This approach is not only failing Aboriginal people and Aboriginal children, it's failing Australia." The complaint from Dr McGlade, an expert ... View article...

New grant sends culturally targeted quit smoking program national

An Indigenous-led program that's already helping hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people quit smoking and vaping is about to go ... View article...

Apiata entrusts Minister with Victoria Cross in support of veterans

"As I said five years ago, I cannot carry this until we are all under the same umbrella," he said of the medal. Te Puna Ora o Mātaatua, a Māori health ... View article...

Te Pāti Māori refusing to attend privileges committee hearing on Parliament haka

Te Pāti Māori is refusing to face Parliament's powerful Privileges Committee over its Treaty Bill protest haka. The party says they fear they ... View article...

These Blak women are travelling to Samoa to play footy and share culture

Founded to create opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from both remote and urban communities, Murri Gummaz is more than ... View article...

Surviving melanoma has a new genetic story

Using an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship, Dr Ward, discovered a particular melanoma risk variant in the IRF4 gene2 is strongly associated with melanoma at body sites with a known poor prognosis, tumour thickness and poorer survival rates.  View article...

Aboriginal human rights experts take Australia's racist youth justice policies to the United Nations

Aboriginal leaders are calling on the United Nations to take urgent action to address Australia's 'discriminatory and punitive youth justice ... View article...

Keeping the practice of Muttonbirding alive for a new generation

For thousands of years, Aboriginal people in Tasmania have harvested 'yula' or 'mutton birds' and another season is underway. View article...