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

Aboriginal leaders are calling on the UN to take urgent action to address Australia's mass incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... View article...

The bitter truth behind the history of Australia's sugar capital

Many of the 5000 plus strong South Sea Islander community in Mackay also have Aboriginal heritage, a result of generations of families embracing each ... View article...

Meet the Indigenous-Aboriginal Party of Australia. Here's what they stand fo

Twenty-year-old Barkandji woman Laylah Al-Saimary is running for the Senate this federal election. She's a member of the first all-Indigenous ... View article...

Aboriginal welcome ceremonies 'overdone', says conservative leader

Facing a general election this weekend where his party trails in the polls, Peter Dutton calls for a change in how Australia acknowledges parts of ... View article...

'I'm sick of you white people … shut up'

The Aboriginal chairman of Whadjuk, the corporation established to deliver Australia's biggest native title settlement, has been accused of ... View article...

Australia's missing indigenous men

Federal Parliament conducted an investigation into missing and murdered First Nations women and children last year but analysis by the ABC's ... View article...

Australia's Heat Is Rising. So Is Its Climate Inequality

Have your say on signage for Devonport's new pathway connecting Coles Beach to the Don River mouth. Survey closes May 15. View article...

Exhibition in Australia unveils shared history of aboriginal, Chinese people

It features works by eight artists of Aboriginal and Chinese descent, reflecting on themes of identity, cultural legacy, and the complexities of ... View article...

Ongoing forced aboriginal child removals in WA could result in genocide prosecution

The number of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care in Western Australia has dramatically escalated over the last two decades. View article...

Using genomics to understand the interaction between host and Strep A epidemiology in Australia

... the Northern Territory (NT) compared to southeastern Australia, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people disproportionately affected. View article...

Ongoing Forced Aboriginal Child Removals in WA Could Result in Genocide Prosecution

Human Rights Watch has released a report on the forced Aboriginal child removal crisis in Western Australia, which could be the impetus for legal ... View article...

Investigation into Aboriginal man's death at Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison

Western Australia's Department of Justice says the 31-year-old Aboriginal man was found unresponsive in his cell at Eastern Goldfields Regional ... View article...

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...

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...

Australia: Disproportionate Removal of Aboriginal Children

Western Australia's child protection authorities are disproportionately removing children from Aboriginal families and ... View article...

Uncovering the truth about Australia's violent past

... Aboriginal people were shot dead by white settlers in retaliation for the killing of a pastoralist's nephew. For Elizabeth Balderstone, the tragic ... View article...

'Once Known': A landmark exhibition sharing the truth of the Stolen Generations

... Aboriginal people and its continued impact today. The Centre gives me hope that my children, my grandchildren, will live in an Australia where ... View article...

What is Awhina from MAFS Australia's ethnicity? Explaining her name origin and...

In te reo, the language of the Māori people, 'wh' is typically pronounced like the English 'f' sound. So Awhina's name is pronounced more closely to ... View article...

'The King is King of Australia': Backlash over $5 note

He referenced the 1999 republic referendum and the 2023 Voice referendum when Australia voted no to recognising Aboriginal Australians in the ... View article...

Major partnership to develop culturally safe healthcare for Aboriginal families

... a $3 million program over three years to create a culturally safe health pathway for Aboriginal children and their families in Western Australia. View article...

Indigenous leaders celebrate as court rejects appeal in landmark Yunupingu compensation case

“Today's decision validates the strength of belief in Aboriginal people, generally, not just in themselves but in their place in Australia,” he said. View article...

Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir Comes to Sydney

Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir will be embarking on a national tour across Australia in 2025. This will be their biggest tour since ... View article...

Promising vaccine step closer to help tuberculosis epidemic

While the disease is uncommon in Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Northern Territory and Far North Queensland are ... View article...

Democracy has not yet reached Aboriginal Australia

There is a problem with a democracy that has failed to enrol more than 67000 of its constituents, the Aboriginal minority. View article...

One of the red centre's largest events set to illuminate First Nations culture

Australia's biggest Aboriginal light festival will take place in April with a string of talented First Nations artists at the forefront, ... View article...