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Shock closure of shelter leaves vulnerable in peril
The closure of YiSSA this week has laid bare the cruelty and callousness of this...
Malarndirri McCarthy 18 Oct 2026
The PNG Chiefs must do more to support women facing a domestic violence crisis
In 2028, the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Chiefs will make their highly anticipated Na...
Colonisation, not climate change, first primed these forests to burn
Bushfire season is here. The Bureau of Meteorology expects the declared El Niño...
Kosciuszko’s oldest heritage deserves a voice
There is something badly missing from the increasingly heated debate about feral...
Richard Swain 8 Oct 2026
What the world can learn from the Pacific
Many of the challenges Pacific peoples have navigated for generations are now be...
Out of sight, out of mind: Two years in power and the CLP are increasingly shutting out Aboriginal Territorians

Across the country, most people don't think about the Northern Territory—labelled "cowboy country" according to one person speaking to National Indigenous Times.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 24, 2026
WA Labor: a legacy of missed opportunities

For almost three terms of government, WA Labor has had a generational opportunity to make change, to ensure that all West Australians are afforded basic human rights.

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Wayne Nannup Sep 24, 2026
Backing Black business builds stronger communities across the Territory

Behind every Aboriginal business is a story of someone who decided to back themselves. Someone who carried an idea through the doubt, the setbacks and the hard work.

Nicole Brown Nicole Brown Sep 17, 2026
Opinion: Pauline Hanson’s primitive idea of civilisation

Pauline Hanson wants to know what Aboriginal people achieved in 60,000 years. Perhaps the more interesting question is not whether Aboriginal civilisation was "primitive".

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Jesse J. Fleay Sep 17, 2026
Opinion: Our Aboriginal children are being failed by a system meant to protect them

Every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child deserves the chance to grow up healthy, strong in identity and Culture, connected to family, Community and Country and surrounded by the people who kn...

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Sheree Lowe Sep 17, 2026
Exclusive: We should be horrified by what the Closing the Gap report cannot tell us

There is one particular sentence in the Productivity Commission's latest Closing the Gap Annual Data Compilation Report that should alarm you. Not because of what it counts.

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Olga Havnen AM Sep 17, 2026
Racist pseudo-science still shapes Australian politics

Pauline Hanson speaking about Aboriginal people on a white Christian podcast last year said "they're the most primitive race on Earth and we're supposed to be holding them up and saying what they've a...

'We are not primitive. We never were.'

Let's call Pauline Hanson's comments what they are. Racism. Calling Aboriginal people "primitive" and questioning what we achieved over tens of thousands of years is not courageous political debate.

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Andrew Morrison Sep 15, 2026
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