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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 April 19, 2025
Flawed cashless welfare cards rebadged
Despite promises to end the Coalition’s Cashless Debit Card, Labor has rebranded the welfare payment system that is compulsory in some Indigenous communities.
indigenous affairs April 5, 2025
Labor and Coalition back failed Indigenous jobs policies
With the absence of meaningful policy for First Nations people in the campaign, both major parties support flawed and discredited jobs schemes.
indigenous affairs March 22, 2025
Exclusive: Leaked report shows warnings over ‘Black robodebt’
Despite being warned it could breach the Racial Discrimination Act, the Coalition government went ahead with a welfare program that punished First Nations people in remote areas.
indigenous affairs November 23, 2024
The fight for Treaty in Victoria
Following the defeat of the Voice, the Treaty negotiations that began in Victoria this week represent the last active process to give First Nations people agency over the decisions that affect them.
indigenous affairs November 16, 2024
Yidiyi Festival returns hope to Wadeye
The Yidiyi Festival brings a weekend of joy to Wadeye, a remote community south-west of Darwin stricken by a ‘cost-of-survival’ crisis of overcrowding, unemployment and scant resources.
indigenous affairs October 19, 2024
Reclaiming the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home
A hundred years after the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home was established, survivors and families of the Stolen Generations whose childhoods were spent there are trying to reclaim the site.
