Torres Strait Islands’ mayor Fred Gela has called on the Federal Government to provide urgent funding to help protect the Torres Strait Islands from climate change and avert a disaster. Mr Gela said the islands, […]
Aboriginal climate change activists say warnings that the earth could become a hothouse with sea level rises of 60 metres would have a catastrophic effect on Indigenous communities and traditional ways of life. In the […]
Any proposal for an Indigenous voice to Federal Parliament would have local and regional elements, the joint select committee on Constitutional Recognition said in an interim report. In the report released recently, committee co-chairs Labor […]
Gumatj leaders have made renewed calls for constitutional recognition for First Nations peoples as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has again ruled out calling a referendum to establish an Indigenous voice to parliament. At the Garma […]
NITV news and current affairs producer Danny Teece-Johnson has been appointed digital executive producer for NITV Radio. In the role, Mr Teece-Johnson will deliver multi-platform content for audiences including podcasting, video stories and radio programs, […]
The Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek, a place described even by its mayor as the town Australia had forgotten, is preparing for a brighter future. Mayor Steve Edgington said he hoped work would begin […]
Australia’s Indigenous population is expected to hit one million in four or five years’ time, and over two million by the middle of the century, a leading demographer said. Dr Tom Wilson, of Charles Darwin […]
Young offenders in a town in Western Australia’s far north would be sent on a trek with Miriuwung and Gajerrong elders instead of being locked up in a detention centre under a proposal put forward […]
Forty-two thousand years after their deaths, the remains of Australia’s oldest known people – Mungo Man and Mungo Lady—are sitting in safes as debate rages on what to do with them and who has the […]
Aboriginal families in the East Pilbara will have free family law legal advice and will be able to get a Family Court hearing without having to make an appointment later this month. In an Australian-first, […]
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS TIMES 2018
