Tess Ikonomou
Free pads and tampons will be given to remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory to help with cost of living pressures. The Albanese government on Tuesday announced it will provide $12.
Penny Wong has become the second senior minister to make the trip to the Solomon Islands within weeks for talks with the country's new Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele.
Independent oversight of an investigation into a double murder in Perth is needed, as violence against women in Australia reaches crisis point, Yamatji-Noongar senator Dorinda Cox says.
Australia will provide more aid to Papua New Guinea following a deadly landslide, with the true scale of the destruction yet to be realised. PNG's National Disaster Centre said more than 2000 people h...
A defence treaty between Australia and Fiji should include vetting processes for human rights violations, a parliamentary committee has been told.
Penny Wong and opposition counterpart Simon Birmingham will travel to Tuvalu for talks on security and climate change. The foreign minister will lead the second bipartisan Pacific visit of the governm...
At a community library in north-east Arnhem Land, Yalmay Yunupingu started translating Dr Seuss books into her local Yolngu language. She qualified as a teacher and with her late husband developed a b...
Australia's ability to raise human rights issues abroad has been diminished by the Indigenous voice referendum defeat, a leading 'yes' campaigner says.