Tourism and business leaders in Brisbane have joined a push for a world-class Indigenous cultural centre to be built after a refusal by the new Crisafulli government to guarantee funding.
The Howard government weighed a detailed plan to open the Top End to economic development after cancelling an experiment with Indigenous self-government.
Waanyi author Alexis Wright has earned a nomination for The Australian’s Australian of the Year for her literary talent and success.
The first Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory to take control of its town lease is being touted as a model for economic independence and potentially individual home ownership.
Mining companies are alarmed by an expectation they sign expensive new native title agreements with royalty payments to groups asserting traditional ownership over resources-rich WA.
The federal government has been found ultimately responsible for keeping drinking water safe in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.
Tanya Plibersek’s court battle over the Blayney mine will see her accused of misusing heritage law to pursue an environmentalist agenda in a decision rife with ‘irrelevant considerations’.
The Albanese government is committing $440m to boost culturally appropriate aged-care services for First Nations people and enhance the Commonwealth Home Support Program.
Governments could face class actions if they do not start to meet targets to reel in the disparities between mainstream Australia and Aboriginal people, former Indigenous Australians minister Ken Wyatt has warned.
The nation’s first Aboriginal treasurer and federal cabinet minister have each proposed a path to end the post-referendum standstill in Indigenous policymaking, saying that it is time to move on from the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Benedict Stevens, who beat his long-term partner in an alcohol-fuelled assault earlier this year, met the NT Chief Minister last week and performed a Welcome to Country at an AFL game in the week prior to pleading guilty.
At five days old, Scotty Goodwin was abandoned by his alcoholic mother. Now 14, he is the centre of a landmark project to get NT Indigenous youths in jobs and out of trouble.
A spate of violence has grown across the Northern Territory over the weekend amid calls for emergency measures for Alice Springs to be widened.
A high-paying role spruiked by Anthony Albanese to implement a $250m support package aimed at bringing systemic change for the Northern Territory’s social problems has been quietly axed.
The lengthy inquest has laid bare the horrors of a state’s juvenile detention system teetering on collapse.
Peter Dutton’s vow to stand only in front of the Australian flag at public appearances has been condemned by Uluru Dialogue co-chair Pat Anderson.
The company behind the Arnhem Space Centre blamed the Northern Land Council for making the project untenable in the NT, with the spaceport to move to a Cape York site.
A stunning corner of Tasmania is arguably the best national park Australia never had. But a fresh campaign, with some rock star and business backing, is hoping to change that.
The opposition says the Federal Court identified examples of the EDO and its agents manipulating material, coaching witnesses and confecting evidence in its legal fight with Santos.
A young Aboriginal man’s escape from hell charts a community win for one of the many cognitively impaired and mentally troubled First Nations offenders who languish in our prison system.
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