An Indigenous elder separated from his parents as a child and subjected to ‘physical, sexual and mental abuse’ in a Queensland government-run dormitory has shared his experiences with a landmark inquiry.
One of Queensland’s pioneers in the fight to reclaim wages stolen from Aboriginal people by the state government said they were ‘ripped off big time’ for decades by their employers.
The chair of Queensland’s historic Truth-telling and Healing Inquiry says now is the time to collect stories of lived-experience from generations of Indigenous peoples before they are ‘lost to the sands of time’.
The Productivity Commission has accused the Finocchiaro government of making bad policy that will likely lead to more youth crime in the Northern Territory.
A map showing the reach of Tanya Plibersek’s contested Aboriginal heritage order at the Blayney gold mine has quashed assurances that there are a plethora of other options to progress the project.
Why Aboriginal defendants should be heard before mixed jury; a new partner at Herbert Smith Freehills; and a besieged NSW magistrate quietly resigns.
The ABC has taken unprecedented legal action against an Aboriginal land council that abandoned its opposition to the $1bn Regis goldmine in central west NSW.
Indigenous leaders from NSW’s network of 121 land councils are preparing to discuss the consequences of Tanya Plibersek’s intervention that halted the $1bn Blayney goldmine.
Former senior Indigenous leader Geoff Clark argues he used hundreds of thousands of dollars he stole from Aboriginal organisations not to support a ‘lavish lifestyle’ but to cover some of his personal legal fees.
Remote boarding schools say Indigenous student enrolments need sustained government funding if educators are to stay afloat.
Lisa Paton who helped convince Tanya Plibersek that Regis’s $1bn goldmine at Blayney would destroy Indigenous heritage had earlier tried to register every river, creek, lake and swamp in the shire as an Aboriginal site.
Film and stage director Rachael Maza and Indigenous arts centres peak body boss Philip Watkins will chair the inaugural First Nations Arts board, the government has announced.
Claims of Indigenous sites near a proposed $1bn NSW goldmine were examined and dismissed as having ‘no authenticity’ in a cultural audit overseen by elders, says Roy Ah-See.
Peter Sharp, great grandson of Australia’s second prime minister Alfred Deakin, was among the colonial descendants who issued an apology to Indigenous Australians before Victoria’s truth-telling body.
Geoff Clark, who was who was once one of Australia’s most senior Indigenous leaders, has been found guilty of stealing from the Aboriginal organisations he once led.
Why are so many Australians so keen to claim we are a racist nation against Indigenous Australians?
South Australian Indigenous Affairs Minister Kyam Maher has said he had not yet read a damning report showing the abolition of cashless debit cards has led to increased violence.
How to reconstruct families stuck in ‘the welfare state’ is central to Indigenous affairs in the most troubled communities, says Gija Walmajurri elder Ian Trust.
An Indigenous boy has died in a troubled WA youth detention centre after taking his own life, becoming the second child to commit suicide while under the care of the justice system within a year.
Mining giant Regis Resources has called out the Environment Minister over her claims about the now-cancelled Blayney gold mine.
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