Closing The Gap
Remote jobs, tourism and food security projects across Far North Queensland were the focus during a visit by federal Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy last week.
Metro South Health recently launched Australia's first HHS-wide (Hospital Health Service) Community Jury for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research.
The Northern Territory's four land councils have joined growing calls for the federal government to impose "real consequences" on the Territory government over its failure to close the gap.
Key points:- Free community Wi-Fi will be rolled out in Mapoon, Lockhart River and Napranum in remote Queensland- The rollout is backed by $1.
Money from a joint $842 million Commonwealth-Northern Territory funding agreement to support key Aboriginal services in remote communities has yet to be spent, despite the Territory's declining closin...
Indigenous Ministers have urged Australians to vaccinate amid the nation's largest recorded diphtheria outbreak, with growing concern over the spread of the disease through remote Aboriginal communiti...
Aboriginal people are "homeless on our own country", Senator Lidia Thorpe has told a housing conference in Darwin, as she labelled the current NT Government the "most racist" she has seen in her lifet...
Indigenous legal services will continue turning clients away after Tuesday's federal budget failed to deliver a significant funding increase.
First Peoples communities continue to be the hardest hit by "populist, blunt and harmful" laws, the Australian Human Rights Commission says. While there has been progress on some Closing the Gap targe...
With the threat of separatism from Canada and annexation by the United States, persistent treaty violations, fast-tracked resource development projects, and ongoing societal issues, the present moment...
Last month, ABC journalist Patricia Karvales reported that "Sovereignty means nothing to normal people". The comment ignores that sovereignty means everything to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
New Commonwealth funding agreements with Aboriginal organisations delivering services in remote NT will be bound by strict governance and accountability mechanisms to help ensure the $842 million woul...
The Strengthening Partnerships to Close the Gap Conference will bring together Indigenous leaders and other key figures in the nation's capital this month to discuss turning around the Close the Gap a...