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NZ law helps Australia win the Manuka Honey trademark war

A loss for the country's mānuka honey producers also serves to highlight just how ill-equipped our laws are for protecting Māori taonga ... View article...

Voice does not speak for the real Aboriginal Australia

The voice – Yes or No? We need to get to a point of really understanding Aboriginal Australia. The gap is between well and sick, ... View article...

Wabtec Publishes Its Inaugural Reconciliation Action Plan in Australia

The RAP lays out Wabtec's vision of reconciliation, where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are celebrated and respected. View article...

Tonic Media Network says 'Yes' to Voice Referendum

The Australian population will vote on whether to change the constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal ... View article...

Yes, Indeed, the Intention is to Deceive

In actual fact, apart from the eleven elected Aboriginal members of the federal parliament, Aborigines across Australia currently have a 'real say in ... View article...

Tough laws to clamp down on Aboriginal heritage vandals

The destruction of sacred rock shelters in another state has prompted South Australia to toughen penalties for disturbing or damaging Aboriginal ... View article...

Remote Aboriginal communities left behind in Australia's rooftop solar boom

Despite living in some of the hottest parts of the country, Aboriginal residents in remote Northern Territory housing experience some of the ... View article...

Aotearoa Response to Australia's Vaping Laws announcement

Rangatahi Māori need protecting, to prevent a tsunami of future nicotine addiction and harm from tobacco products, and so strong regulations on vaping ... View article...

Butchulla Monument steps towards reconciliation

“Aboriginal men were involved in a very long conflict that began in Australia on the 26th of January 1788 and continued for over a hundred years. View article...

Childish insults and bullying behaviour. Will the adults please enter the room?!

There is also no specific one Australia wide Aboriginal Customary Law. Furthermore, with only around 5,000 fully indigenous aboriginals remaining, ... View article...

First Indigenous sportswoman to represent Australia dies at 90

The first Aboriginal woman to represent Australia in sport was hailed for her “groundbreaking contribution” to cricket after dying aged ... View article...

Aboriginal Legal Services to scale back work nationally amid funding crisis

Aboriginal Legal Services across Australia are on the “brink of collapse” and will be forced to cut services within four weeks as they grapple ... View article...

Cyclone Ilsa threatens to hit Western Australia as strongest storm in a decade

Bidyadanga is home to about 850 Aboriginal people, the biggest Indigenous community in the state. Earlier warnings suggested Broome, a town of about ... View article...

Aboriginal art under urgent review by the National Gallery of Australia after APY ...

The National Gallery of Australia will launch an urgent independent investigation into whether white studio assistants painted on Indigenous ... View article...

Australia's Indigenous population grew 25% in just five years

The number of Australians who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander has increased dramatically in the past two censuses. View article...

First Nations truth-telling gives Australia a chance to improve future

Australia has never been good at listening to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Despite the truths that have already been told in ... View article...

When will aboriginal people get equality & dignity in Australia?

It is interesting to note that Australia's aboriginal people have not even been mentioned in the 122-year-old Constitution. The referendum will be ... View article...

Gumatj leader Yunupingu has gone home but he won't be forgotten

Across Australia, we as Aboriginal people went into mourning for the loss of a profound leader who dedicated his life to achieving justice, ... View article...

First Peoples' knowledge leads scientists to reveal 'fairy circles' and termite linyji are linked ...

Aboriginal people have a different explanation for the bare circular patches in spinifex grasslands of arid Australia. They have observed strong ... View article...

Courts not ruling out mass data storage in Australia

Māori data sovereignty - and whether other government projects, such as building a digital identity framework for citizens, have taken it seriously ... View article...

Victorian Native Title ruling grants Great Ocean Road tourist sites to Eastern Maar peoples

A huge area taking in one of Australia's most famous tourist sites, the Twelve Apostles, has been recognised as Aboriginal land in a historic and ... View article...

Alice Springs Aboriginal artist develops health promotion material for vision loss prevention

Now, Haines is part of a collaboration between Vision Australia and the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress to create artwork and help close ... View article...

Australia state passes landmark legislation giving Indigenous population a first 'voice to Parliament'

South Australia Attorney General and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher acknowledged, however, that “In decades and centuries gone by the laws of ... View article...

Australia sets wording of Indigenous Voice referendum

The Voice was originally proposed by a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advocates in 2017. Megan Davies, an Indigenous lawyer who ... View article...

Aboriginal Art Is Booming in Australia. Inside the Galleries and Museums Spotlighting First ...

When a flash flood sent a five-foot wave sweeping through the Mitchelton Gallery of Aboriginal Art last fall, curator Adam Knight helicoptered in ... View article...