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‘QUIETLY GET ON WITH IT’Indigenous

Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt has criticised the NT Government for itÃs slow rollout of remote housing funding. Picture Katrina Bridgeford.

Wyatt slams ‘mythology’ on Indigenous agenda

Indigenous Australians Minister says it’s wrong to suggest Coalition governments are not proactive on Aboriginal affairs.

Greg Brown

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30/4/21. SA's first mass Vaccination clinic opens at Wayville - Premier Steven Marshall Picture: Keryn Stevens

SA to adopt first Indigenous Voice

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has escalated plans to create the nation’s first Indigenous Voice to parliament.

David Penberthy

EducationNation

Aboriginal Schoolboy with arm raised in classroom. He is wearing a school uniform.

Students desert remote schools

Indigenous school attendance rates have plunged, with some areas reporting that not one child met the threshold for sustained progress in learning.

Amos Aikman

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05/06/2020. Professor Marcia Langton at her home. She has been recognised in the Queen's Birthday honours for her services to tertiary education and as an advocate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Picture: David Geraghty / The Australian.

Voice co-chairs reject Pearson call

Marcia Langton and Tom Calma say taking the proposal to a referendum before it is legislated risks scuppering the reform.

Greg Brown

Close the GapIndigenous

Voice in Constitution ‘key to Indigenous health equality’

A national campaign to prevent needless deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has rated a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice as the most important next step.

Paige Taylor

Indigenous affairsIndigenous

Injustice probe to lead to treaty

An independent commission will pave the way for the country’s first treaty with indigenous Australians.

Angelica Snowden

CommentaryCommentary

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA-NCA NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 01 2020. A group of indigenous protestors protested at the doors to Parliament House Canberra. Daen-a Gamilario man from Walgett in NSW with the Aboriginal flag outside Parliament House during the protest. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Voice must not create a two-tiered Australia

If we are genuine about achieving real progress, rather than cementing racial difference in the constitution, we should envisage a day when a voice will no longer be required.

Janet Albrechtsen

Australia DayIndigenous

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY 25, 2021: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at The National Australia Day Flag Raising and Citizenship Ceremony, Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

PM: First Nations ‘thriving, surviving’

Scott Morrison says Indigenous Australians’ history of ‘overcoming is one of, if not the, greatest Australian story’, as he calls for unity amid a debate about celebrating January 26.

Adeshola Ore

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMIndigenous

22/09/17 Ian Trust is the head of the Wunan foundation in Kununurra and is a leading advocate in the cashless welfare card. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Indigenous leaders upbeat on voice report

The proposed Indigenous voice to government is being viewed as a ‘a critical and positive next step’ towards meaningful reform.

Paige Taylor

INDIGENOUS RECOGNITIONNation

Indigenous Voice proposals leave room for open debate

Architects of the proposed Indigenous Voice deliberately left questions unanswered.

Paige Taylor

CommentaryCommentary

Anthem change a significant, healing step

The change announced by the PM acknowledges that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures date back 65,000 years.

Ken Wyatt

indigenous affairsNation

CEO of ALRM (Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement) Cheryl Axleby. Picture: SUPPLIED

‘Domino effect’ of kids in custody

A new report has revealed 96 per cent of 10-year-olds charged with a crime in Queensland are Indigenous.

Charlie Peel

closing the gapIndigenous

24/9/2020 WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson talks to the media after the verdict. The verdict in the Claremont serial killer trial, Supreme Court. Pic Colin Murty The Australian

Top cop calls for remote justice

WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson has encouraged ‘shaming’ of troubled Aboriginal youth over incarceration.

Paige Taylor

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Leader’s step back from the voice plan

A senior Aboriginal leader will step back from the design of an Indigenous voice, two months after calling the government’s attempt at one a flawed response.

Paige Taylor

commentaryInquirer

Image shows the Uluru Statement, presented as an artwork

Give us a fair go, and we’ll make history together

A constitutional provision to enable a voice to parliament is critical to Indigenous parity.

DEAN PARKIN

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Ildephonse Cheinmora (L), Uunguu Ranger and Desmond Williams, Uunguu Ranger at Mungalalu (Truscott) cultural site. The work behind them is known as the 'Gwion figures'. Picture: Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation

The art of preserving our rocks of ages

Aboriginal rangers are checking in on famous rock art sites along the Kimberley coast using photographs taken nearly 70 years ago to analyse changes.

VICTORIA LAURIE

Tree disputeIndigenous

Lidia Thorpe gives a press conference with her Greens colleagues before being sworn in as the new Greens senator for Victoria, at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture by Sean Davey.

Greens take aim at Andrews

A Greens senator has accused the Premier of using legislation to enable consent from traditional owners to remove trees for a highway upgrade.

Rachel Baxendale

EXCLUSIVEIndigenous

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Young lives lost to ‘sorry business’

Communities along Australia’s northern coastline are facing an epidemic of child suicide and self-harm.

Amos Aikman

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8/10/2020 Yinjibarndi artifacts a spear and a shield held by Harry Mills who lived as a youth at Millstream station finally returned to the Yinjibarndi Aboriginal People, photographed near Roebourne Pic Colin Murty The Australian

Epic tale ends in a homecoming

A Swiss horticulturalist’s diary has enabled the return of Indigenous objects taken from Western Australia more than a century ago.

Paige Taylor

Indigenous

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 3 OCT 2020 FEE APPLIES, Ken Wyatt Pic : Fabrizio Lipari

Heritage bill ‘needs closer scrutiny’

New heritage laws designed to protect Aboriginal sites after the destruction of the Juukan caves may be delayed until after the next West Australian election.

VICTORIA LAURIE

Indigenous

West Australian Treasurer Ben Wyatt speaks during a press conference in Perth on Wednesday, September 26, 2018. Western Australia?s budget deficit for 2017/18 has turned out better than expected and households are assured no more big utility bill hikes are on the way any time soon. (AAP Image/Rebecca Le May) NO ARCHIVING

Rio has no real links with the Pilbara: Wyatt

The cull of senior Rio Tinto executives over the Juukan Gorge caves does nothing to address the key problem of a London-based company board with no connection.

Paige Taylor

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PM’s ‘gap’ plans won’t pull us much closer

We will help indigenous lives with compromise and integration. The latest version of Closing the Gap is as flawed as the first.

MAURICE NEWMAN

Indigenous AffairsIndigenous

This handout photo taken on May 15, 2020 and released by the PKKP Aboriginal Corporation and recieved by AFP on May 27, 2020 shows Juukan Gorge in Western Australia -- one of the earliest known sites occupied by Aboriginals in Australia. - Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has admitted damaging ancient Aboriginal rock shelters in the remote Pilbara region -- blasting near the 46,000-year-old heritage site to expand an iron ore mine. (Photo by Handout / PKKP Aboriginal Corporation / AFP)

WA to roll out new heritage laws

The new legislation will replace the ‘grossly inadequate’ laws that allowed Rio Tinto to destroy Juukan Gorge Rock shelters.

Paige Taylor

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NAIDOC Awards red carpet at the Gold Coast Convention Centre. Alisha Britten and Jamie Lowe. Picture: JERAD WILLIAMS

‘Paternal rules stifle Indigenous development’

The system that relies on a network of charitable trusts to hold billions in mining royalties on behalf of traditional owners is broken: indigenous council.

Paige Taylor

closing the gapIndigenous

1/09/2017 WA Child Protection minister Simone McGurk at Hilton Primary school, says keeping kids safe sometimes means tough decisions, including alcohol restrictions across entire towns. pic Colin Murty The Australian

Indigenous input to stem care spike

In a bid to halve the number of indigenous children in state protection, West Australian authorities will adopt Aboriignal Family-led Decision Making.

VICTORIA LAURIE

AIEFIndigenous

Foundation for social and economic growth

AIEF scholars are graduating from year 12 at higher rates and are more likely to start university compared with overall Indigenous population.

Angelica Snowden

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