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Paige TaylorIndigenous Affairs Correspondent, WA Bureau Chief

Paige Taylor is from the West Australian goldmining town of Kalgoorlie and went to school all over the place including Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory and Sydney’s north shore. She has been a reporter since 1996. She started as a cadet at the Albany Advertiser on WA’s south coast then worked at Post Newspapers in Perth before joining The Australian in 2004. She is a three time Walkley finalist and has won more than 20 WA Media Awards including the Daily News Centenary Prize for WA Journalist of the Year three times.

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GARMA FESTIVAL 2024 Minister Malarndirri McCarthyPhoto. Melanie Faith Dove / Yothu Yindi Foundation

McCarthy’s inspiration? Children’s future

The new Indigenous Australians Minister and her husband Richard are raising four young Aboriginal girls, the biological children of relatives who previously lived with their grandmother.

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Four generations attending Garma 2024. Great grandmother, Mrs Dhopiya (Jennifer) Gurruwiwi (b 1950), Grandmother Selma Raliny Gurruwiwi (b1972), Mother Rachael Dhurrkay (b 1991) Ph. 0437568826 and her daughter Dorothy Garrawurra (b2017) and puppy Tinkerbell. They all reside in Yirrkala and Birritjimi.Setting up on Thursday 1st August for Garma 2024Photo. Melanie Faith Dove

Dhopiya’s family at heart of Garma hope

Every winter, the PM and leaders from across the nation visit northeast Arnhem Land to talk policy, progress – and lack of it – but Dhopiya Gurruwiwi takes her place at the Garma Festival for family.

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The Australian Aboriginal flag flies at Bondi Beach, Sydney at sunset in winter on 16 June 2023. In the background is the Pacific Ocean.

PC report reveals Territory of despair

The NT has recorded the worst results of any Australian jurisdiction in the latest Closing the Gap report, overseeing a litany of increases in disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous over the past four years.

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A child is seen at the Alice Springs Women's Shelter, Friday, May 27, 2016. The shelter, the only one in town, is in need for increased funding in order to cope with rising demand for its services by women and children affected by domestic violence. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

Closing the Gap’s dire results can still be fixed

The fact governments have been caught out doing business as usual in the report should sting in the NT election campaign, but voters are now used to bad results.

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Federal minister for Indigenous Health Malarndirri McCarthy has visited the Cairns South Medicare Urgent Care Clinic and the Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service at Yarrabah as part of her visit to Far North Queensland. Picture: Brendan Radke

Urgent plea to close the political gap

As new Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy prepares to chart a new course by seeking a bipartisan approach to Closing the Gap, the Productivity Commission has revealed a backslide in Aboriginal suicide and incarceration rates.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 12, 2024: Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price during the Environment & Communication Senate Estimates at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Coalition signals a return to funding remote housing

The Coalition has flagged it will again help states pay for housing in some remote Aboriginal communities.

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Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton addresses the Liberal Party State Council at Moonee Valley Racecourse. Picture: Andrew Henshaw

Dutton heads to Israel for official visit

Peter Dutton will meet with senior government officials and those impacted by the October 7 attacks during a three-day trip.

James Dowling, Paige Taylor, Rosie Lewis, Noah Yim and Sarah Ison

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 16, 2024: Senator Malarndirri McCarthy during the Cross-Portfolio Indigenous Matters Senate estimates at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

McCarthy to go head to head on the issues

The NT senator’s promotion on Sunday prepares the ground for national debate on the causes of Indigenous disadvantage with Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, as the republican movement suffers a blow.

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Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney wipes away a tear at a press conference in Sydney, Thursday, July 25, 2024. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

PM’s reset: push to get home affairs in order

Anthony Albanese is being urged to use his first ministerial reshuffle to sharpen Labor’s policy cut-through in Indigenous affairs, housing and immigration while swapping out Andrew Giles and Clare O’Neil from their current jobs.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 25, 2024: Retiring Minister Linda Burney during a press conference on Thursday. Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short

Burney proud of role in voice campaign

Aboriginal leaders are calling for renewed emphasis on economic empowerment and self-governance in remote communities in the wake of the impending retirement of Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney.

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