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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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PM Julia Gillard talks with Romlie Mokak, CEO Australian Indigenous Doctors Association, before delivering her statement on Closing The Gap in the House of Representatives today.

How-to call for urgent action on Closing the Gap

The Albanese government must find a way to compel states and territories to govern better in Indigenous affairs, says the first Indigenous Australian on the Productivity Commission.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos - NOVEMBER 28, 2023: Marion Scrymgour, Senator Malarndirri McCarthy, Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney and Senator Jana Stewart join Senator Pat Dodson at his last press conference as Senator at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Don’t abandon reconciliation: Dodson

Australia’s commitment to ‘practical reconciliation’ is not enough because it ignores the inherent and collective rights of the first peoples of Australia, Indigenous elder Patrick Dodson says.

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Malarndirri McCarthy at Darwin's Labor HQ on election night on May 3, 2025. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

‘Still too many’ Indigenous kids put in state care

Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy has described the climbing rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care as ‘unfinished business’.

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AFR ACSI Summit in Hilton Sydney, The Professor Marcia Langton AO Associate Provast and Foundation Chair of Australia Indigenous Studies The University of Melbourne , 3rd May 2023 Photo: Natalie Boog

Radicals who live for the performance are part of problem

It should not shock anybody that some of the nation’s most respected Indigenous leaders were forced to debate radicals claiming genocide is a government policy in Queensland in 2025.

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Former social justice commissioner Mick Gooda, University of Melbourne associate provost Marcia Langton and Palm Island mayor Alf Lacey.

Indigenous ‘genocide’ uproar over human rights statement

Some of Australia’s most experienced Indigenous leaders have intervened to remove an allegation of genocide against the Crisafulli government from the official record of a summit hosted by the Australian Human Rights Commission.

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Uluru Youth co chairs Bridget Cama (dark curly hair) and Allira Davis (long lighter hair) . Picture : supplied ,

Young leaders make their voice heard

A new generation of Indigenous leadership is working towards another referendum on constitutional recognition, saying it has hope that young Australians will make it happen in their lifetime.

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(FILES) This handout file photo taken on May 15, 2020 and released by the PKKP Aboriginal Corporation and received by AFP on May 27, 2020 shows Juukan Gorge in Western Australia -- one of the earliest known sites occupied by Aboriginals in Australia. - Rio Tinto announced the resignation of its CEO and two top lieutenants on September 11, 2020 over the mining giant's destruction of a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand an iron ore mine in Australia. The Anglo-Australian firm faced a growing investor revolt over the destruction of the sacred site in the Juukan Gorge in Western Australia's remote Pilbara region -- one of the earliest known locations inhabited by Australia's indigenous people. (Photo by Handout / PKKP Aboriginal Corporation / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Heritage deal to avert next Juukan

Mining advocates and native title protectors have reached a historic heritage protection reform agreement five years on from the Juukan Gorge disaster.

James Dowling and Paige Taylor

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20-05-2025 - Wiradjuri indigenous advisor Roy Ah-See photographed near his home in the NSW Central Coast town of Warnervale. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers / The Australian

‘Self-identifying activists undermining genuine Aboriginal democracies’

Wiradjuri leader Roy Ah-See, a former PM Indigenous policy adviser, says self-identifying Aboriginal activists are breaking apart a network of NSW land councils, threatening one of Australia’s few ‘effective Aboriginal democracies’.

Paige Taylor and James Dowling

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MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MAY 15, 2025: Newly elected Greens leader Larissa Waters gives her first press conference in Melbourne.Picture: NewsWire / Luis Enrique Ascui

Larissa Waters claims many Jews ‘support’ the Greens

The new Greens leader declared that many Australian Jews who ‘don’t support genocide’ back her depleted left-wing party, shocking the nation’s Jewish leaders within hours of her taking the reins.

Rhiannon Down, Paige Taylor and Mohammad Alfares

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Back in Blak: Thorpe said to be eyeing a return to Greens

Members of Greens believe Lidia Thorpe and an outspoken Greens First Nations faction are meddling in the minor party’s policies and upcoming leadership battle.

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