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New survey investigates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' scientific priorities

An online survey has launched today so Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can nominate their priority topics for scientific inquiry, ... View article...

Students support children's sensory needs

A collaboration with Bendigo and District Aboriginal Co-operative is giving Occupational Therapy students the opportunity to work with educators ... View article...

Māori nurse educator Pipi Barton recognised with top honour

Advocating for Māori nurses, as both tauira and in the workforce, has been a career mission for Northland nurse and academic Pipi Barton — this ... View article...

Case of severe respiratory diphtheria reported in Perth Metro area

All Aboriginal people across Western Australia are eligible for the diphtheria vaccine booster, in addition to non- Aboriginal people residing in ... View article...

What the election slogans say – and what they whisper

Te Pāti Māori has unveiled an ambitious tax policy, claiming it would lower the income tax of 97% of New Zealanders, writes Henry Oliver in today's ... View article...

New Poll: Kiwis reject Opportunity push to raise Youth Court age

A majority of voters in every party tested reject extending the Youth Court to age 25: NZ First: 86 percent; ACT: 78 percent; Te Pāti Māori : 78 ... View article...

Record number of Indigenous players in AFL All-Australian side

Five Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players have been named in the 2026 AFL All-Australian team, setting a new record for First Nations ... View article...

Business student's ambitions bloom

The future is bright for Sullivan Margaritis Award recipient Kaiya Walker, who recently launched a Māori -inspired gift box business while studying ... View article...

Te Pāti Māori proposes 48% income tax rate, tax credit for kai

Te Pāti Māori has proposed a raft of new taxes, including a wealth tax, a vacant house tax, a land banking tax, and a stamp duty. View article...

Aboriginal group seeks more compensation from miner Fortescue

An Aboriginal group has appealed the amount of compensation it was awarded for cultural harm and economic loss linked to iron ore mining by Fortescue ... View article...

WA government to appeal landmark native title ruling against Andrew Forrest's Fortescue

The Yindjibarndi Ngurra Aboriginal Corporation says it is disappointed with the compensation while both the WA government and Fortescue had argued in ... View article...

Science Meets Mātauranga Māori In Breakthrough Model To Map Flood Risk And Cultural Loss

... Māori through wānanga and interviews with kaumātua. That second phase of the work was funded by Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake, enabling ... View article...

Welfare and addiction fuel Indigenous violence

A “tragically familiar” pattern of passive welfare, addiction and family violence will continue to ruin the lives of Aboriginal children in remote ... View article...

NZ election poll watch: right still leads left, but Opportunity could deny it a majority

 Te Pāti Māori is below the 5% threshold in national polls, but is expected to win at least one of the seven electorates reserved for those ... View article...

'Enough is enough': 121 Indigenous Victorians have died by suicide in the past five years

The Victorian Aboriginal Health Organisation (VACCHO) chief executive, Jill Gallagher, said the tragic statistic showed that mainstream mental health ... View article...

Open Call for Manurewa Local Grant (New Zealand)

Māori culture, identity, and heritage; Family and children's wellbeing; Healthy lifestyles; Environmental sustainability; Low-carbon community action ... View article...

Strike Camps: Aboriginal Mining Camps of the 1950s and 1960s

... Aboriginal stockmen and domestic workers walked off stations to protest having little to show for their labour. Conditions for Aboriginal workers ... View article...

Indigenous rights lawyer wants welfare payments tied to rehab

... Aboriginal children stay with their addicted mother who later murdered them ... Aboriginal children stay with their addicted mother who later ... View article...

'It's not too late' - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities encouraged to complete ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics is reminding households there is still time to complete the Census.Proud Noongar man and Census spokesperson ... View article...

Indigenous women and girls bearing the brunt of racism

The Senate Inquiry into racism against Aboriginal people hearing widespread serious reports of racism, Australia wide, is now wrapping up having ... View article...