Politics
A comprehensive treaty between Australia and the Solomon Islands would be transformational for the broader Pacific region, Anthony Albanese has declared.
The Northern Land Council has called on the Northern Territory and Commonwealth governments to urgently address what it says are persistent failures in essential services affecting remote communities...
Directly increasing funding to organisations delivering Closing the Gap outcomes, rather than the Northern Territory Government, is a possibility, the federal government says, as the NT continues to l...
Ministers and Indigenous leaders will attend a roundtable on child safety in Western Australia next week following allegations that children were left alone in poor conditions at a house in the state'...
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...
It is a "simplistic" and "racist" narrative that child protection failures nationwide are a failure of the child placement principle, Senator Lidia Thorpe says, as she backed calls for an urgent round...
Western Australia's South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council has lodged a formal complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission concerning public comments made by Senator Pauline Hanson about...
A Victorian Government election commitment to give police and protective services officers (PSOs) the power to randomly search people in public using metal detectors — without a warrant —...