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Katie Kiss at The Bandarran Marra’Gu Gathering Strength summit in Brisbane in May.

‘The rocky path will only become more difficult’: Leader wants more than basic rights

Ahead of delivering a major speech honouring Eddie Mabo, Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner has said more needs to be done to support Queensland’s First Nations.

  • Courtney Kruk

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Mourners walk through the aisles of the Coles.

‘It’s gotta stop’: Mourners’ plea at vigil for Indigenous man who died in custody

Hundreds converged on the Coles supermarket in Alice Springs where Kumanjayi White died on Tuesday as police rejected calls for an external investigation.

  • Grant McArthur and Hannah Hammoud
Warlpiri elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves, seen here in 2022, said his family has been left in the dark about what happened to his grandson, who died in custody this week.

Grieving grandfather demands answers after death in custody of disabled Indigenous man

The devastated grandfather of an Alice Springs man who died in police custody is desperate for “answers and justice” over the tragedy.

  • Grant McArthur
Cook said the scheme would be designed to fast-track payments to elderly members.

WA stolen generations members to receive $85,000 each under redress scheme

WA’s scheme is less than Victoria’s $100,000 lump sum payment but more than the $75,000 offered in New South Wales and $30,000 in South Australia.

  • Hamish Hastie
The Walk for Truth begins in Portland.

Long walk begins where an ancient world ended for many in blood

Hundreds have begun the Walk for Truth from Portland, where Victoria’s first European settlement began in 1834 – marking the end of the world as Aboriginal people had known it.

  • Tony Wright
Reservoir East Primary School students with the “Walk for truth” banner.

After 191 years, Victoria’s Indigenous people will walk 400km for truth

A Melbourne primary school with almost half its students Indigenous Australians has played a key role in the trek to mark the end of the Yoorrook truth telling commission.

  • Tony Wright
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Former social justice commissioner Mick Gooda spoke at the summit in Brisbane this week.

Why more than 100 leaders quietly met behind closed doors in Brisbane this week

Closed to media, the two-day gathering concluded with a public statement that called out “egregious breaches of human rights against children”.

  • Courtney Kruk
Brooke Boney illustration by Aresna Villanueva.

Welcome to Country is not an election issue, so why are we talking about it? I think I know

If this Welcome to Country furore has shifted your vote, perhaps it’s time to come clean on your motivations.

  • Brooke Boney
Jessica Rain Jones and her mother Jennie Jones. Jessica was an indigenous woman who died while at St Vincent’s mental health unit.

‘They took my child from me’: Families call for change after Indigenous suicides in same hospital

After the suicides of two young Indigenous women in a Melbourne mental health ward, the women’s parents are demanding answers and justice.

  • Erin Pearson
Four people are on trial in the Supreme Court of WA over the murder of Perth schoolboy Cassius Turvey.

‘Lucky he came, he saved you’, Cassius Turvey’s murder trial told

One of the men accused of murdering Cassius Turvey “saved” the Indigenous teenager as he was being attacked by a co-accused, a jury has heard.

  • Aaron Bunch

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