Indigenous-owned firms to get bigger contracts slice
Companies controlled and majority owned by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will be awarded more commonwealth contracts in an expanded Indigenous procurement policy.
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Chinese centre ‘insult to traditional owners’
The proposed first Chinese cultural and heritage centre in Cairns has sparked concern from Aboriginal elders that such a project without a similar space dedicated to First Nations history would be an ‘insult’ to traditional owners.
Free market path to lift Indigenous
Labor has handed its new tsar for Aboriginal business extraordinary powers that could make remote-community residents the owners of defence infrastructure and the funders of energy projects.
Winners’ message for Albanese: we want your job
Tia Rigney and Thomas King are this year’s winners of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation’s ‘If I was prime minister …’ competition.
Andrews’ treasured message stick to return home
For Margaret Andrews honouring her late husband, former Liberal minister Kevin Andrews, meant sending one of his most treasured possessions home.
Land council boss ‘should be celebrated’
The Central Australian Aboriginal Congress has defended Central Land Council chair Warren Williams, claiming he needs to be ‘celebrated’ for his leadership despite having an extensive criminal record.
‘Unacceptable’: NT land council head’s domestic violence criminal record
The Albanese government is under pressure to remove newly appointed Central Land Council boss Warren Williams amid revelations of his lengthy criminal record, which includes jail time.
Leader’s Labor backflip fears as Gap remains
Aboriginal leader Pat Turner says she is ‘very worried’ by Labor’s decision to break with its national platform and introduce minimum mandatory sentencing for some offences.
Cultural stand-off risks art turning to rubble
The national heritage-listed Koonalda Cave holds unique Indigenous engravings but their preservation is now threatened.
Decisions shared by all for the betterment of all
An unlegislated national organisation has quietly emerged as the representative body for Indigenous Australians – the Coalition of Peaks.
Indigenous food health plan to fight diabetes
The Prime Minister on Monday is due to reveal the first stage of an affordable food strategy to address the diabetes epidemic in Central Australia.
Tragic teen trapped in culture chasm
A young girl is raised in two different cultures, by different parents. Then she dies. Who decides what happens next?
Five-year-old allegedly raped in remote NT community
Whistleblowers and advocates are calling for greater public disclosure of child sexual abuse in the Territory after a five-year-old boy was allegedly raped in a remote community this week.
Millions to flow for NT peace mission
Anthony Albanese is in Alice Springs and is committing over $840m over six years to strengthen the delivery of services in Northern Territory remote communities.
Role in voice ‘No’ campaign led to cancellations: Mundine
Warren Mundine claims his appearances at the AACTA festival have been cancelled as a direct result of his role in the campaign against the Indigenous voice to parliament.
EDO could be stripped of its charity status
The EDO could be stripped of its charity status if the non-profit commission finds it breached public trust and failed to act responsibly in its legal challenge against Santos.
Why work is so much better than welfare
Buoyed by her own experiences under the Community Development Program, Malarndirri McCarthy is hoping to return dignity to the workplace.
‘Colonisation’ behind climb bans
New climbing routes at Mt Arapiles were blocked because traditional owners viewed it as a form of ‘colonisation’.
‘Enough is enough’: Dutton pledges to crack down on crime
Major changes to Centrelink access recommended by the Territory government will be at the forefront of the Coalition’s policy for cutting crime in Alice Springs.
Jobs plan ‘a bid to recover from failure of voice’
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has described Labor’s remote jobs policy as ‘a last-ditch attempt to be remembered by something other than the failed voice referendum’.
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