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Insurance bosses fined over sham Indigenous policies
Former directors have been fined and banned over their roles at a disgraced fune...
Indigenous leaders to gather in Magandjin for annual employment and training conference
The National Indigenous Employment and Training Alliance (The Alliance) is calli...
Joseph Guenzler 4 Nov 2026
Fraudulent funeral insurer boss fined over breach
A director of a disgraced funeral insurance group that ripped off thousands of A...
Mob-led community election debate to take place as Treaty dismantling fears loom
A political debate for mob will be held this week in Melbourne, a month before t...
Dechlan Brennan 26 Oct 2026
Funding secured for Victorian Aboriginal community-controlled organisation governance training
Community-designed training for leadership and confident decision-making within...
Jarred Cross 12 Oct 2026
ACT grants boost Aboriginal community-controlled organisations

Thirteen Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations in the ACT will share $650,000 in funding to strengthen their operations and expand services for Indigenous communities.

Jackson Clark Jackson Clark Oct 7, 2026
Paramedics taking lead on mental health callouts welcomed by First Nations health group

A Victorian Government announcement to put health professionals at the forefront of mental health callouts has been welcomed by the state's peak body for Aboriginal health organisations, which says th...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 29, 2026
Man rescued, police cars damaged in community unrest

A man has been rescued after seeking refuge in a house during a disturbance involving up to 150 people at a remote community. Two police vehicles were damaged as officers retrieved the 33-year-old man...

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Laine Clark (AAP) Sep 29, 2026
‘Support what we know works’: AMSANT calls on services sector to back Aboriginal community control

The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory has urged the broader community services sector to put Aboriginal community control into practice by embedding it in their own policies, pro...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 23, 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
‘Advice is ignored’: Justice experts, Aboriginal organisations suspend partnership with NT Gov

The relationship between the Northern Territory Government and Aboriginal organisations and peak bodies is at an all-time low, with key members pulling out of a key Closing the Gap forum over a breakd...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 4, 2026
Water Act needs 'major rewrite' to include First Nations rights, advocates say

With a review of the federal Water Act underway, the Gamilaroi Water Carriers - Elder Traditional Owner women based in Moree, New South Wales - have come together "because the voices of the Northern B...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 3, 2026
'Child Protection Week should prompt us to ask a difficult question: What happens if we fail to follow through?'

This year's Child Protection Week (September 6-12) theme, Every Conversation Matters: Shifting Conversation to Action, is an important one. Because when it comes to Aboriginal* children and families...

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Jason Kanoa Sep 1, 2026
Grants for ACCOs to deliver new homes for Aboriginal employees in WA's Kimberley and Pilbara regions

The Western Australian Government has announced the awarding of more than $8 million through the second round of the Aboriginal Employee Housing Grants Program.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 26, 2026
Remote Aboriginal community receives water quality green light

A supply of drinking water is now available in the Fitzroy Valley community of Kadjina following the completion of $1.9 million water infrastructure upgrades, lifting a long-standing water quality adv...

Callan Morse Callan Morse Aug 19, 2026
WA's Rheumatic Heart Disease Strategic Framework aims to drive change

The Western Australian Government a new strategic framework which sets out a shared vision to eliminate new cases of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in WA by 2036, through Aboriginal-led prevention, equ...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 14, 2026
Aboriginal health body calls for funding of women’s drug and alcohol rehabilitation model

The peak body for Victorian Indigenous health organisations has called on the state Government to fund a new Aboriginal-led alcohol and other drug (AOD) detoxification and rehabilitation service desig...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 10, 2026
$180m available for Aboriginal community-controlled health infrastructure

Eligible Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) can apply for a share of $180 million in Federal Government funding aimed at expanding and upgrading health infrastructure across...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 5, 2026
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