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More support for leaving violence in Broome and the West Kimberley

... Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation that understands local needs. Eligible victim-survivors can access a financial package of up to ... View article...

80-year-old Aboriginal desert blues singer plays Brighton

80-year-old Aboriginal desert blues singer Kankawa Nagarra who won the Australian music album of the year takes in Brighton on her debut tour of the ... View article...

New Closing the Gap data sees Aboriginal groups demanding accountability

New Closing the Gap data shows First Nations children are spending an average of two months in unsentenced detention. View article...

Kimberley Aboriginal corporations funded to protect culture

Nine Aboriginal corporations and local organisations across the Kimberley are set to share in more than $450000 in State Government funding to ... View article...

Fortescue expands Aboriginal men's health support with new Port Hedland partnership

Fortescue and Wirraka Maya launch a partnership to improve culturally safe health and wellbeing support for Aboriginal men in Port Hedland. View article...

NT Aboriginal groups accuse CLP of 'weaponising' Closing the Gap funding

Aboriginal groups have renewed calls for the Commonwealth to overhaul its funding arrangements with the Northern Territory government, ... View article...

Six Aboriginal organisations receive funding to protect Pilbara heritage sites

Six Aboriginal organisations have secured more than $416000 to safeguard culturally significant sites scattered across Western Australia's Pilbara ... View article...

A national inquiry examining racism against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

A national inquiry examining racism against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has heard from Facebook and Instagram's parent company ... View article...

How to celebrate Indigenous Literacy Day in your classroom

Every classroom has the opportunity to help students discover the richness and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, cultures ... View article...

National Roundtable renews call for urgent action on murdered and disappeared Aboriginal ...

A national roundtable of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women leaders, people with lived experience, government representatives, ... View article...

Hobart council votes to begin returning Queens Domain land to Aboriginal ownership

The 9-3 vote marks the first Aboriginal land return in Tasmania in two decades… View article...

Julalikari council and Tennant Mines team up to help Indigenous residents work at Nobles Nob

Julalikari Council Aboriginal Corporation is working with Tennant Mines to provide the tree planting jobs, as part of rehabilitation works at Nobles ... View article...

Historic city proposal for return of Aboriginal land.

A looming council vote could be the first step in the return of land to Aboriginal people and the creation of a long-campaigned-for cultural ... View article...

New teaching method could help Aboriginal languages survive and thrive

Curtin University -led research has unveiled a new teaching approach that could help incorporate Aboriginal languages into Australian classrooms , ... View article...

CEQ and TCHHS partnership to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Torres Strait and Northern Queensland communities will be better supported to “make healthy choices and improve their health and wellbeing” under ... View article...

Pine Gap protest condemned by Alice Springs Aboriginal leader

A recent protest outside a secret outback spy base was “out of line” and “disrespected” local Aboriginal people, the boss of the Alice Springs  ... View article...

NT passes controversial child protection bill

The Northern Territory government has passed its controversial child protection law changes in a late-night sitting of parliament, arguing it will ... View article...

Traces of grass used in Indigenous rituals 25000 years ago unearthed in Victorian cave

Evidence of ancient burnt grasses unearthed in a Victorian cave on GunaiKurnai country suggest old ancestors used the cave for fire rituals during ... View article...

How to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples benefit from newborn DNA screening

Researchers argue future newborn DNA screening programs must be designed with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to ensure ... View article...

Aboriginal people harvested channel millet for thousands of years, and scientists have now ...

Aboriginal people harvested channel millet for thousands of years, and scientists have now found the native grass carries 12 copies of each chromosome . View article...