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Exclusive: PM placing 'toxic cultural load' on McCarthy over government 'failures' - Thorpe
The federal Minister for Indigenous Australians is being saddled with a "toxic c...
Dechlan Brennan 21 Sep 2026
PM says Indigenous child protection issues have not been raised with him at UN, despite reports highlighting concerns
Systemic issues in child protection involving Indigenous children have not been...
Dechlan Brennan 21 Sep 2026
Increasing representation of Indigenous doctors not about numbers, but community wellbeing
Increasing representation in the medicine workforce can't just be about numbers,...
Jarred Cross 18 Sep 2026
Feds to NT Government: Use money to Close the Gap or it'll go to organisations who can
Directly increasing funding to organisations delivering Closing the Gap outcomes...
Dechlan Brennan 18 Sep 2026
Cross-party push to raise age of criminal responsibility to 14
A Liberal, Independent and Greens Senator have united to call for the Commonweal...
Dechlan Brennan 18 Sep 2026
Genocide of First Peoples in Australia still contested by federal government

People in the federal government remain divided over whether genocide took place against First Peoples following colonisation. The comments from the government's leader in the Senate, Penny Wong, in r...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 17, 2026
Thousands at risk: New report calls out gap in safe drinking water standards in remote First Nations communities

A new report from the Water Services Association of Australia has found that more than 6,500 First Nations people living in remote communities were supplied with water that did not meet the Australian...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 16, 2026
New research reveals pre-colonial Indigenous population much larger than previously thought, decimated after arrival of First Fleet

Australia had a much larger Indigenous population before the arrival of Europeans than previously thought, and that population suffered losses of 93 per cent after colonisation, according to new resea...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 15, 2026
Pauline Hanson walks back 'deeply hurtful' comments with qualified apology

Pauline Hanson has somewhat u-turned on her highly criticised comments labelling Aboriginal ancestors the "most primitive race", saying she regrets offending people only ten minutes after saying she w...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 15, 2026
Indigenous human rights expert lodges formal complaint over Hanson's 'primitive' claims

Kurin Minang human rights expert and law academic Dr Hannah McGlade has lodged a formal complaint with Australian Human Rights Commission over Pauline Hanson's claim Aboriginal people are "the most pr...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 15, 2026
'Appalling territory' - Jacinta Nampijinpa Price slams 'wilful ignorance' of Hanson’s race comments

Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has slammed Pauline Hanson's "wilful ignorance" after the One Nation leader described Aboriginal people as "the most primitive race on Earth".

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 14, 2026
Pauline Hanson slammed for 'dehumanising' attack on First Peoples

Far-right Senator Pauline Hanson has been condemned after making extraordinary and false statements describing Aboriginal people as "the most primitive race on Earth".

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 14, 2026
New Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Churchill Fellowship recipients announced

Five Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are among 75 Australians from all walks of life awarded Churchill Fellowships in 2026.

Phoebe Blogg Phoebe Blogg Sep 11, 2026
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