Crisis
National data has exposed deep inequities in access to support for victim-survivors of family and domestic violence, highlighting the disproportionate impact on First Nations communities, and how many...
Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Minister for Pacific Island Affairs Pat Conroy will this week travel to Fiji as part of what the federal government describes as its "efforts to deepen ties and strengt...
Australia has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, the World Health Organisation says, in a landmark achievement. The world's leading infectious cause of preventable blindness, trachoma is...
Free public transport while petrol costs soar is not much help if the bus only comes a couple of times a day, a major Aboriginal service provider in the Shepparton region says.
Australia is considering aid options to ensure Pacific nations have access to fuel, as the Middle East war threatens to derail several diesel-dependent island economies.
Funding for fighting climate change across the Pacific is not keeping up pace with the urgency of the crisis amid complex systems, slow approvals and further risks that block access to its vital finan...
The federal government has cut the fuel excise in half for three months in a move which should save motorists 26 cents a litre, delivering some relief to remote and regional communities that have been...
Calls are growing for greater measures to tackle the impact of the fuel crisis in remote and regional Australia. Not-for-profit group Country Needs People, which is led by a majority Indigenous board...
The Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the Northern Territory (APO NT) and Aboriginal Housing NT have joined the Central Land Council in calling for an urgent increase to the Remote Area Allowance in th...
Torres Strait Islander public health academic Francis Nona has called on the medical profession to address the rising health inequity of Indigenous peoples due to climate change.
The Pacific islands of Vanuatu are standing up to the US government over a United Nations global warming resolution, demanding the world's major polluters pay reparations for failing to stem climate c...
A new six-part documentary series placing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge and leadership at the centre of climate change conversations is available to watch nationwide this month.
Indigenous crisis support service 13YARN is set to expand with a new text message crisis support service for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
