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Aboriginal land planning role opens in Pilbara

The program aims to attract, recruit, and develop Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people into land use planning roles within the Department of ... View article...

How Emily Kam Kngwarray show at Tate Modern reveals fraught market dynamics of Aboriginal art

Kam Kngwarray's late but dazzling career changed perceptions of Aboriginal art. The curators of her retrospective explore how a sudden demand for ... View article...

Aboriginal Youth Detained and Segregated Unlawfully

A young Aboriginal man detained in NSW juvenile centres was unlawfully segregated, restrained and searched.  View article...

Research highlights the need for culturally specific screening tools

Despite research finding a higher prevalence of eating disorders among Aboriginal youth in Australia, new research from Edith Cowan University ... View article...

Adult diagnosed with meningococcal disease

... Aboriginal children aged from six weeks to 12 months old. The meningococcal B vaccine is free for all Aboriginal children aged up to two years old. View article...

Queensland Government Delivering For Queensland Health Staff And Aboriginal And Torres ...

The Crisafulli Government has received in-principle support from its union partners for improved wages and conditions for Aboriginal and Torres ... View article...

Native Botany: Botanical Gardens are redressing their colonial pasts

The Aboriginal Heritage Walk at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (RBGV) and Harbour Heritage Tours of the RBGS are reserved exclusively for First ... View article...

Raising the age of criminal responsibility to 12 will make communities safer

The change came into effect today after it was passed by Parliament in September 2024, following years of campaigning from the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service View article...

These Australians are homeless with a house

Many Aboriginal people in Tennant Creek live in overcrowded makeshift shelters with no running water or electricity, as they wait up to a decade ... View article...

New peak body set to improve First Nations housing outcomes in South Australia

The state government notes the new peak body will “consult with communities and Aboriginal housing and homelessness services to effectively support ... View article...

500 New Council Apprentices, Trainees, Cadets Begin

Of the new recruits, 70 per cent are aged under 25, 12 per cent are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, 5 per cent identify as having a ... View article...

The first-of-its-kind program keeping women out of prison

... Aboriginal women and their families. From Now keeps families together during the most vulnerable transition period, with the knowledge that 47 per ... View article...

Members agree to enact a First Nations' Collective voice to the country's public health peak body

... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice to help guide its work. After two years of hard work and consultation, the proposal known as the First ... View article...

Australia's Aboriginal Medical Services to test culturally informed digital patient onboarding

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who have the highest rates of chronic illnesses in Australia, are poised to benefit the most from ... View article...

Andrea James to lead Ilbijerri Theatre Company as artistic director Rachael Maza steps back

In the late 90s, Yorta Yorta/Gunaikurnai playwright and director Andrea James performed at Melbourne Festival as part of an Aboriginal clown troupe. View article...

New Aboriginal heritage laws promised as Tasmania reforms outdated act

The state government says it will redraft the state's Aboriginal Heritage Act by March after Parliament passed a motion acknowledging current laws ... View article...

'Watered-down woke type things': Indigenous leader and activist Warren Mundine calls Aboriginal ...

Mr Mundine said questions that asked participants the colours of the Aboriginal flag and who was allowed to perform a Welcome to Country ceremony ... View article...

New Aboriginal housing peak body to be established in South Australia

The South Australian Government, via the SA Housing Trust, will provide $2.5 million over five years to support the South Australian Aboriginal  ... View article...

The unhealthy future promised by an ill-advised law change

Dr Hōri Laking is a medical oncologist, a medical director of the Cancer Society of New Zealand, and a board member of Hei Āhuru Mōwai Māori Cancer ... View article...

Dangerous Criminals and High Risk Offenders Amendment Bill 2025

For Aboriginal people who are more likely to experience intergenerational trauma, systematic discrimination and early criminalisation, they ... View article...