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Latest news and comment on Indigenous Australians

December 2024

  • ‘We need only listen to the voices of Indigenous people recorded in the Uluru Dialogues to understand the importance of truth-telling for First Nations people.’

    The path to truth-telling in Australia is thorny and long. But there is some ground for hope

    Mark McKenna
  • Elisabeth Armitage

    Amid all the crisis talks and prevention efforts, 2024 has been a horror year for violence against women

    Kristine Ziwica
  • A Queensland Police vehicle

    Drowning of Indigenous Queensland teenager a ‘tragic consequence’ of police chase, coroner finds

  • A woman looking out a window

    ‘Loss of faith in police’: Indigenous victims of crime fear not being believed, Victorian study finds

  • Full Story
    The ‘senseless, shocking and preventable’ deaths at the centre of a landmark domestic violence inquiry – Full Story podcast

  • Australia news live
    RBA governor says board ‘did not consider’ cutting cash rate – as it happened

  • Indigenous affairs minister says Dutton ‘unfit to be prime minister’ after he pledges not to display First Nations flags

  • ‘We need to stand up’: NT Indigenous leaders are determined to bring down domestic violence rates

  • Six years to create, two days to dismantle. What happens now Queensland’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry has been scrapped?

  • Investigation into contractor that faked voice referendum data extended to two federal election campaigns

  • Indigenous Australians recover human remains taken by Germany 120 years ago

  • Public servant afraid to call out alleged racism in WA detention centre, Cleveland Dodd inquest hears

  • Australian Music prize: 80-year-old Kankawa Nagarra wins over Nick Cave and Amyl and the Sniffers

  • More than 90% of people caught with small amounts of illicit drugs criminalised in NSW despite diversion reforms

  • Pro-brumby activists racially vilified head of Indigenous group, Victorian tribunal finds

  • NT government’s bid to not supply safe drinking water to Indigenous communities is ‘shocking’, lawyer says

  • Tribute to love, resilience and song: Indigenous musical legends Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter immortalised in bronze

  • Four people accused of murdering Indigenous teenager Cassius Turvey plead not guilty

  • Predatory rent-to-buy operators barred from Centrepay debit system in sweeping Albanese government reforms

November 2024

  • Voice referendum

    Australia and much of the world is on the cusp of profound change. What happens next is up to us

    Julianne Schultz
    Signing online petitions will not be enough if we want to stay the land of a fair go in 2025
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