Indigenous News

Native title holders in South Australia's Flinders Ranges win the right to access financial records showing how tens of millions of dollars in mining royalties have been spent, after the state's Supreme Court upheld an earlier ruling.

Over six sitting days, six pieces of legislation were introduced and five bills were passed through the Northern Territory's only parliamentary chamber.

Selling crocodile eggs is an important business for remote Indigenous rangers who brave Top End swamps to collect them for farms. But this harvest has yielded fewer viable embryos than usual.

As another Aboriginal family says goodbye to their brother who died in custody, legal and health experts are frustrated that efforts to minimise hanging points in jail cells are 'painfully slow'.

The NT's sacred sites authority says the "rapid timeframe" and "limited nature" of proposed amendments to the NT Sacred Sites Act "raises many questions about why this is happening".

A new report into the massive over-representation of Indigenous children in out-of-home care in Western Australia reveals how factors like homelessness and DV can lead to mothers having their babies taken away.

A WA prisoner who died in hospital after fatally self-harming in his jail cell could be alive today had authorities responded appropriately to his calls for mental health support, a coronial inquest finds.

One of the Northern Territory's biggest land councils has expressed alarm at the government's planned legislative changes, while pastoralists say the current sacred site laws are a "joke".

The coroner was due to start hearing evidence into the death in custody but lawyers for operators at Loddon Prison have argued against the admissibility of allegations against healthcare staff.

In just over an hour's run time, Skin in the Game ambitiously explores the big issues that plague rugby league and broader Australia, with Marlee Silva's own family story at its heart.

Bicycles just weren't a thing on Thursday Island until a grassroots campaign with the backing of an enterprising mayor sparked a cultural shift.

When Barbara Brennan was in prison her home was looted and she was evicted. Now she's helping other former inmates with the difficult transition back into the community.

Australia has a painful past. For the first time, the country has been grappling with recording the stories of that history in a truth-telling commission.

Demand for water by the resources industry and prolonged dry spells contribute to mass tree deaths in WA's mining heartland, traditional owners say.

Australian mistletoe has gone from being viewed as a parasite harming native trees to being a Robin Hood figure in the environment. 

Taken during colonial times, the skull from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal man was shipped to Europe. After spending more than 170 years in a Scottish university collection, and before that some years in a private collection, the ancestral remains will return home.

Biliar Wilman Noongar man Phillip Ugle makes sure his family's cultural traditions and knowledge are enshrined for generations to come.     

The Queensland government reveals the first stage of a $108 million Closing the Gap fund to target frontline infrastructure in remote Indigenous communities.

The winners of this year's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards have been announced, with the list dominated by independent presses and First Nations writers.

The discovery of these skeletal remains rewrote Australia's history books. Decades later, they're at the centre of a court battle. 

The RBA says the $5 note's new theme, selected from more than 2,100 public submissions, will honour the emotional, spiritual, and physical connection of First Nations people to country.

The Shire of Toodyay in Western Australia has been fined $8,000, suspended for 12 months, for breaching the state's Aboriginal Heritage Act after failing to gain approval to work on culturally significant land.

Despite the WA government promising to share more data with Aboriginal people, a major native title body says information it requested almost a year ago still hasn't arrived.

Whether it's a fade, mullet or colours, a mobile salon set up in a shipping container out bush is giving Indigenous students access to haircuts and the opportunity to learn the trade.

An Aboriginal community in far west New South Wales works through grief for lost loved ones with a hands-on project using the art of mosaic.