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indigenous affairs December 13, 2025
‘Increasing failure’: First Nations deaths in custody at record levels
More than three decades after the royal commission, calls are growing for the government to finally implement its recommendations, to stop the rising number of preventable deaths.
indigenous affairs November 15, 2025
Melbourne’s historic native title claim
The Statewide Treaty with the First Peoples of Victoria is law. The truth of colonisation has been revealed. The Yoorrook Justice Commission has amassed a library of documents, witness statements and submissions about the impact of colonisation on...
indigenous affairs October 25, 2025
As NSW records its highest yearly number of Indigenous deaths in custody, a Victorian judge recalls one man who died in prison 18 years after he was eligible for release.
indigenous affairs September 20, 2025
The mishandling of the proposed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Gallery
Alice Springs’ long promised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Gallery is mired in farce, with millions spent, a school pulled down, faulty consultations and no sign of construction.
indigenous affairs August 9, 2025
The rocket tests threatening Country
The Koonibba Test Range’s rocket launches are making Country unsafe again, displacing Traditional Owners who were moved off the land for nuclear testing.
indigenous affairs July 19, 2025
Torres Strait climate fight isn’t over
A major blow in Federal Court won’t stop Torres Strait Islanders fighting to prove the government’s duty of care over climate change.
indigenous affairs July 12, 2025
Kumanjayi Walker inquest coroner finds Zachary Rolfe was racist
Following a three-year inquest into the police shooting of Kumanjayi Walker, the coroner found clear evidence that systemic racism in the NT force played a part in his death.
indigenous affairs July 5, 2025
Yoorrook’s call for action on truth
The Yoorrook Justice Commission offers the Victorian government the chance to lead the country in acknowledging the truth and full history of First Nations genocide.
indigenous affairs June 28, 2025
First Nations businesses miss out due to ‘black cladding’
The latest audits confirm that the government’s Indigenous procurements and jobs programs are not meeting core commitments of its economic empowerment plan.
indigenous affairs June 7, 2025
Seeking justice for Kumanjayi White
The killing of a 24-year-old Aboriginal man being arrested in an Alice Springs shop is the ninth First Nations death in custody in Australia this year.
indigenous affairs April 26, 2025
How First Nations men are being demonised
ANALYSIS: Many politicians and public figures wrongly link violence with Indigenous cultural identity, which only intensifies stigma and does nothing for prevention efforts.
