Further allegations surrounding an Aboriginal charitable trust in Western Australia’s Pilbara, the Njamal People’s Trust, have been referred to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, WA Attorney General John Quigley said. Mr Quigley said he […]
What is being touted as a landmark agreement has been signed between Aboriginal people in the Three Rivers region of New South Wales and the state’s government. The Three Rivers Local Decision Making Accord affects […]
The Morrison government will consider a parliamentary report that recommends moving ahead with plans for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, a spokesman for Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said Tuesday. “The government will consider the […]
Let me be blunt. The old way of delivering services to remote Aboriginal communities through centralised bureaucracies hasn’t worked. Box-ticking bureaucrats and politicians in Canberra and Darwin failed to deliver real progress. Centralised decision-making failed […]
Renowned Pilbara artists Wokka and Nancy Karnu Taylor didn’t expect to be bringing up their grandchild but were happy to step in when the boy’s parents needed help. While they’ve been raising their grandson for […]
Federal Labor MP Linda Burney may be the first Aboriginal woman elected to the House of Representatives, but she has told an international First Nations conference she didn’t start voting until she was 28 because […]
The Northern Land Council has yet to announce a replacement for its chief executive officer Joe Morrison, who will step down sometime in March. Mr Morrison, who has headed the NLC since February 2014, announced […]
One of the world’s most elusive and mysterious birds has been photographed for a second time by an isolated team of Indigenous rangers in Western Australia’s Kimberley. The rare photo of the critically endangered night […]
Former US president Barack Obama’s special assistant on Native American Affairs met with 70 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from around Australia on Tuesday to encourage them to use their voices as leaders. Karen […]
Remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia’s Kimberley are going solar. Between them they have installed more than 100 kilowatts of solar panels on community buildings, supported by the WA government. Djarindjin, in the West Kimberley, […]
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS TIMES 2018
