October 2023
‘Quiet Australians’ voting Yes on the Voice: Ken Wyatt
The former Liberal minister says defeat at the referendum would push back progress on improving the lives of Indigenous people.
- Tom McIlroy
May 2023
The Voice is on the agenda in boardrooms. Here’s what they’re thinking
Prominent Perth-based director and former WA Treasurer Ben Wyatt predicts many Australian companies will eventually publicly back the Indigenous referendum.
- Sally Patten
April 2023
Wyatt urges Liberals to split with Dutton on the Voice
The former Indigenous Australians minister says Peter Dutton should allow opposition MPs a conscience vote.
- Tom McIlroy
May 2022
Labor hoping for some McGowan magic in WA
Anthony Albanese is hoping that voters who backed the WA premier in the state election will find it easier to vote Labor a second time.
- Ronald Mizen
March 2022
- Analysis
- Federal election
As the WA election battle heats up, a new climate twist is in play
The reopening of the West Australian border this week means that the federal election campaign can start in earnest for both sides of politics.
- Peter Kennedy
January 2022
$20m copyright buyout makes Aboriginal flag free for all
Luritja artist and activist Harold Thomas signed a deal to transfer control of the iconic Indigenous symbol to the Commonwealth.
- Tom McIlroy
December 2021
Ken Wyatt’s dream: an Aboriginal ASX 200 company
The minister, with backing from the BCA and Minerals Council, wants corporate Australia to hire at least 5000 Indigenous Australians.
- Jacob Greber
August 2021
Building a road map for Indigenous business champions
Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt is convening a high-powered group of “industry champions” to create a plan for Indigenous skills, jobs and wealth creation.
- Updated
- Jacob Greber
Stolen generations redress scheme to fix ‘shameful chapter’: PM
Indigenous leaders are urging Queensland and Western Australia to introduce compensation schemes of their own for Stolen Generations survivors.
- Andrew Tillett
Stolen generations survivors to receive $75,000
Indigenous Australians removed as children from their families in Commonwealth territories will receive $75,000 in recognition of the harm they suffered.
- Andrew Tillett
September 2020
China has capability and intent to weaponise database
The emergence of a Chinese database of 35,000 Australians is a "wake up call" to better protect our personal information.
- Andrew Tillett and Angus Grigg
Indigenous policy 'in reverse' under Coalition: Mundine
The former Liberal candidate says economic empowerment and free enterprise should have more focus in the Closing the Gap rewrite.
- Tom McIlroy
July 2020
Closing the Gap reform fails justice test: campaigners
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says addressing entrenched Indigenous disadvantage is a task for all Australians. Activists have slammed to latest efforts at reform as not going far enough.
- Tom McIlroy
National cabinet Closing the Gap reset looms
Federal and state leaders could sign off next week on the first major change to Indigenous disadvantage targets in a decade.
- Tom McIlroy
Closing the gap progress can't take 73 years: Ken Wyatt
The Indigenous Australians Minister slams proposals for parity in rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in jails by 2093, saying targets decades away won't deliver real change.
- Tom McIlroy
June 2020
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Black livelihoods also matter to black lives
There will be no solutions to the great Australian blight of Indigenous disadvantage unless all Australians start asking the right questions about the links between black lives and black livelihoods.
- The AFR View
In Australia, black lives do matter
The life of David Dungay, whose last words in Sydney's Long Bay jail were "I can't breathe", encapsulates the tragedy of the black Australian experience.
- Aaron Patrick
Protests contrast with $21b mining bonanza
Protesters are demanding the resignations of Rio Tinto top executives and Indigenous politicians over the destruction of 46,000-year-old rock shelters, while Fortescue wants to expand a mine which a local aboriginal group says threatens 60,000-year-old heritage sites.
- Brad Thompson
April 2020
Coronavirus test sites head for remote Australia
For many rural and remote areas, the nearest laboratory is hundreds of kilometres away but a new test will give a result in 45 minutes.
- Finbar O'Mallon and Tim Dornin
February 2020
Government redefines closing the gap policy after disappointing result
Mr Morrison said successive governments' top-down approach to Closing the Gap "hasn't worked."