Indigenous News

The inquiry heard calls for more scrutiny over how Commonwealth money is spent in the NT, which is trending backwards on seven Closing the Gap targets.

It's been 80 years since Aboriginal workers in the Pilbara up-ended a slave-like labour system. The descendants of those involved fear its legacy is being forgotten.

Wild scenes erupted on the streets of Alice Springs last night following the arrest of Jefferson Lewis over the alleged murder of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby.

Pilungah Reserve, south-west of Mount Isa, has become Queensland's third special wildlife reserve, barring any future mining activity.

Six WA Police officers have been sanctioned over their treatment of a man in their custody who later died in prison, after the ABC revealed a constable dismissed his threat of suicide, and laughed at news of his death.

What starts as a rom-com set at the Australian Open turns into a searing indictment of race relations in Australia in the new show Game. Set. Match.

Convinced to return to the story of the 2018 outback drama Sweet Country, Kaytetye filmmaker Warwick Thornton fell in love with the possibilities.

To better understand what respect looks like in practice, I spoke with other First Nations people about how they approach working and living on other mobs' Countries.

RSL Australia will review its Welcome to Country guidelines after Indigenous elders were booed during Anzac Day services across the country.

The Whadjuk Noongar elder who was booed while giving a Welcome to Country at Perth's Anzac Day dawn service says she had a right to speak at the event and will not back down.

While condemnation has been swift after Indigenous elders were booed on Anzac Day, solutions to this type of racism seem harder to pin down. Elders have advice to share.

The event in Townsville, which has a proud military history and is Australia's largest garrison city, also did not include a Welcome to Country. 

Deaths in custody are on the rise and family members and advocates for a woman who died in a Perth prison say more needs to be done to keep inmates safe.

A Canberra Indigenous-led boxing camp is helping young fighters hone their skills for life inside and outside the ring in its first development camp, continuing a proud tradition of First Nations involvement in the sport.

Jeers could be heard for more than a minute as Uncle Ray Minniecon spoke at yesterday's Anzac service in Sydney with similar scenes playing out in Melbourne and Perth.

Two remote Indigenous communities have attracted a combined $11 million in funding for solutions to tackle their fuel security and cost-of-living crises.

Rangers have discovered an undocumented rock art site while conducting planned burns around existing sites.

An Indigenous teenager is already making a name for herself as an artist, using her work to explore her identity and experiences in the care system.

Authorities believe there may be a dozen more unmarked Aboriginal burial sites near where human remains were found on Western Australia's tourist haven Rottnest Island earlier this month.

Yamatji man Graham Taylor was just 19 when he shipped off to Vietnam. More than 50 years on, the brotherhood forged in the jungle of Vietnam remains solid.

Writers including Evelyn Araluen and Randa Abdel-Fattah have left University of Queensland Press after the publisher axed publication of an Indigenous kids book over its illustrator's past "anti-Semitic" comments.

No family in the world comes close to the fighting dynasty of Ricky Morris's. So, why are they still denied land owed generations ago?

Flood evacuees from remote Northern Territory communities say they are being "treated like prisoners" by security guards working at their emergency accommodation centre.

Residents of the Central Australian community of Papunya say scorching outback summers are killing their people in unsafe housing. Now they’re suing the Northern Territory government to try to force change.

Calls are mounting for a "transparent" government review of WA's Bandyup Women's Prison after a second Aboriginal inmate dies inside the facility in less than five weeks.