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South Australia launches first Aboriginal Early Childhood Strategy with $35 million investment

Emotional community leaders welcomed the announcement, saying it is a milestone beginning for Aboriginal families and children in South Australia. View article...

Racist abuse worse since voice referendum, inquiry told at Hobart hearing

When a community group posted a photo of Indigenous rangers standing in front of the Aboriginal flag on social media, it received abusive comments ... View article...

Indigenous athletes and journalists detail experiences of racism

A national inquiry into racism, hatred, and violence directed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has heard about its impact in sport ... View article...

Aboriginal Tasmanians report escalating racial abuse online

Tasmanian aboriginal people have told a federal inquiry racial abuse is escalating online and, in the community, and racism is normalised and ... View article...

Māori roll grows by almost 15,000 voters since last election

Enrolled Māori voters wanting to switch between electoral rolls have until midnight on Thursday (August 6) to decide before this year's election. View article...

Unhealthy food marketing targets Māori youth: How advertising drives type 2 diabetes rates

Māori youth see over 68 unhealthy food ads daily. Researchers urge a return to ancestral eating and mātauranga Māori to combat rising type 2 ... View article...

Reconciliation or recolonization? What Canada can learn by looking abroad

Anti- Maori rhetoric has emerged from across the coalition government to justify this legislative overhaul. The governing National Party has ... View article...

Māori film pioneer Leo Koziol dies aged 57

The New Zealand screen industry is mourning the death of Māori filmmaker and festival founder Leo Koziol, who has been remembered as a tireless ... View article...

High court blocks plan to extract two Sydney Harbours' worth of groundwater from the desert

The Mpwerempwer Aboriginal Corporation challenged whether the NT government had lawfully granted the decades-long water licence, arguing the project ... View article...

Unemployment rate highest in more than a decade – labour market in crisis

Māori and Pacific Peoples unemployment rates are still double the rate of the general population. Altogether, there were 4.8m fewer hours worked ... View article...

Taranaki councils look to work with Māori after merger

She said mana whenua and council must build on strong relationships regardless. “Because the enduring relationships will last after the ... View article...

Racism inquiry hears of hurtful 'white fraud' comments and Tasmanian Aboriginal division

A national inquiry into racism, hate and violence towards First Nations people has come to Hobart to hear from the state's Aboriginal groups and ... View article...

NT Aboriginal police officers launch racism class action

Three Aboriginal community police officers have filed a class action in the Federal Court against the Northern Territory Government alleging they ... View article...

Te Matatini o Ngā Taniwha: Live draw set for Tūrangawaewae marae

A revamped draw format will determine performance schedules for 57 kapa haka ahead of next year's national festival. View article...

Yolngu star and Māori rapper forge a healing, feel-good anthem

The collaboration between an Arnhem Land musician and a Sydney-based Maori rapper has delivered a healing song described as a 'merging of ... View article...

Groundbreaking new method could help ensure Aboriginal languages survive and thrive

A new teaching approach could revolutionise the incorporation of Aboriginal languages into Australian classrooms to teach younger generations and ... View article...

Ten-stop walk in midtown: new art, trees, transport links blended with history

Deep narratives from te ao Māori (the Māori world) have been brought into the everyday life of the city. Wāhine and Horotiu create a dialogue ... View article...

'Breathtaking' NDIS exploitation in remote communities

Aboriginal people using National Disability Insurance Scheme services in Northern Territory communities are being exploited by providers at ... View article...

Te Aka Whai Ora may be shut down but Māori health leaders are continuing its work

What was disestablished in 2024 was a Crown entity with a name, a board and a budget. The institution of Māori leadership in decisions about ... View article...

The inability to deliver the changes Indigenous Australians need is no longer just a moral ...

After the rejection of the voice, the conversation about structural reform of the federal arrangements governing Aboriginal affairs must resume. View article...