A national commissioner to promote the rights and interests of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people will be appointed by the federal government.
Keira Jenkins
Applications for the inaugural National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commissioner will open within weeks, with the person set to start the job in mid-January.
Katina Curtis
Tensions between a junior miner and an Aboriginal corporation at the iron ore-rich fringes of Karijini National Park have spilled over onto Fortescue and Rio Tinto territory.
Adrian Rauso
The City of Bayswater will waive up to $13,985 in venue hire fees for the WA Stolen Generation Aboriginal Corporation to use The Rise community hall as a healing centre once a week.
Jessica Evensen
Menang-Noongar elder Vernice Gillies on the Upper Kalgan: “The profusion of ancient sites along its banks is what makes it so unique and important to care for”.
Vernice Gillies
A West Australian author who specialises in raising the profile of bush tucker around Western Australia has backed the idea the South West could create a whole new cropping industry.
Anjelica Smilovitis
Plans for a Makarrata Commission to oversee Indigenous truth-telling and treaty making will not be revived before the next Federal election as Labor tries to avoid a re-run of the divisive Voice debate.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
A community-led research project is fighting for Indigenous digital and archival sovereignty, aiming to empower communities to care for their cultural heritage.
Indigenous businesses have won more than 71,000 commonwealth contracts, representing $10 billion in government spending over the past nine years.
The controversial Unit 18 will remain open while its 30-bed replacement is being built to be the ‘best’ of its kind in the world, Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia has announced.
Rebecca Le May and Oliver Lane
A Broome-based researcher who established an innovative Equine Assisted Learning program in the Kimberley has been honoured among the 2024 Australian Mental Health Prize winners.
Katya Minns
Menang-Noongar elder Vernice Gillies on knowing the bush: “When you understand bush tucker . . . you can easily see that we had a very healthy diet and that we would never go hungry”.
A study found Australia’s native edible plants could make farming systems more sustainable and offer new economic opportunities for farmers and First Nations communities.
A double standard applied to Indigenous businesses is holding back economic development, as an inquiry probes pathways to improve self-determination.
Tess Ikonomou
Aboriginal people were forced off Country, taken from their families and forced onto missions where they were not allowed to leave, an inquiry has been told.
Elders have shared their experiences of being seperated from their family and growing up in dormitories, at Queensland's Truth-telling and Healing Inquiry.
Menang-Noongar elder Vernice Gillies on the importance of registering sacred sites: “If this is what happens if we do not tell people, we better change our approach and start telling”.
Every aspect of Aboriginal people's lives was controlled on missions in Queensland, including their wages, the state's truth-telling inquiry has been told.
Who are our emerging First Nations leaders, what will they achieve and how will they achieve it?
Emma Garlett
Queenslanders are being urged to come together, listen, acknowledge the truth of the state's history and start to heal as an inquiry begins in Brisbane.
Australia's Stolen Generations survivors need trauma-informed care as they age, say the organisations who support them.
Remote communities are excluded from data about Australia's water quality, which experts warn could be contributing to serious health issues.
A Broome man accused of restraining three Indigenous children with cable ties outside his home told police one of the children managed to escape and returned brandishing a knife.
Katya Minns and Natasha Clark
A never-before-offered opportunity enabled Narrogin High School students in the Clontarf Academy to write, perform, and produce an original rap song with a national artist.
Hannah Whitehead
