Indigenous Affairs Minister Malarndirri McCarthy is urging her opposition counterpart, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, to sit down with her one year after the defeat of the voice referendum and restart the reconciliation process.
The Environment Minister cited a Bathurst Post Office mural to back up a Dreaming story that the Orange Land Council says should not be used to veto Regis Resource’s gold mine at Blayney.
Prominent lawyers condemn claims a misinformation bill could have helped secure a voice victory, with one supporter alleging the Yes side pushed untruths.
Indigenous senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says the Albanese government has no interest in listening to marginalised Indigenous people and continues to fail on Aboriginal policy.
The Yes campaign lost the voice referendum after Labor rejected pleas by Indigenous leaders for a misinformation bill that would have helped defeat ‘Trumpian’ lies, says advocate Megan Davis.
Fatima Payman’s move to lead a breakaway party named Australia’s Voice has angered distinguished Indigenous figures, who are in solemn reflection over the defeat of the voice referendum a year ago.
West Australian senator Dorinda Cox said she was disappointed she had not been able to participate in the process that led to the censure against her.
A former media adviser has described seeing co-workers in Greens senator Dorinda Cox’s office appearing anxious and visibly distressed.
One prominent Indigenous leader sent a letter to the Greens earlier this year accusing First Nations spokeswoman Dorinda Cox of acting in an ‘unprofessional, disrespectful manner’.
Respected anthropologist Kim Anthony Raymont Akerman, who studied Indigenous culture in the Kimberley, has died, aged 76.
An email has all but confirmed suspicions that the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council had accessed the emails of a separate Aboriginal corporation.
The land council that struck the agreement is reeling from explosive revelations it secretly accessed the emails of ‘usurping’ Aboriginal organisations created to manage the $1.3bn settlement.
Australians backing the Indigenous voice to parliament felt ‘swept under the rug’ as Anthony Albanese’s referendum became an unmitigated disaster.
The new chair of the National Museum of Australia council, Clare Wright, took an activist position during the voice referendum last year – and she’s not sorry.
Queensland police commissioner Steve Gollcheske has admitted the force has a ‘chequered past’ with First Nations peoples but has told an inquiry work is being done to improve the relationship.
Aboriginal police have confirmed the Northern Territory’s long-denied policy of ‘cleaning up the streets’ by removing homeless Indigenous people from public view for visits by political leaders.
Police issue arrest warrant for octogenarian Jim Everett, who refuses to attend court over an anti-logging vigil and claims ‘colonial’ courts have no power over Indigenous ‘law-keepers’.
Aboriginal police officers are taking legal action against the NT government over decades of unequal pay and racist behaviour by fellow cops, saying they have been smeared as ‘lazy and useless’.
How Geoff Clark’s crimes and his ego poisoned Indigenous affairs all the way up to the Voice.
The real-life Kosciuszko never even set foot in Australia, let alone climbed our highest peak. Is it finally time to call it by a name Indigenous people have used for tens of thousands of years?
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