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$30 million grants program to boost Indigenous economic development through Native Title bodies
The federal government has opened applications for a new $30 million grants prog...
Dechlan Brennan 4 Aug 2026
The future of First Nations economic development is already here
As leaders gather at Garma this weekend to debate the future of First Nations ec...
Donnella Mills 1 Aug 2026
Leeser to use Garma speech to call for ambitious post-Voice Indigenous agenda
Julian Leeser will use his speech at Garma as Shadow Minister for Indigenous Aus...
Dechlan Brennan 30 Jul 2026
A learning journey: Connecting the Goldfields and Canada
The Goldfields Aboriginal Business Chamber recently coordinated a remarkable six...
Kalwun celebrates record NAIDOC Week program on the Gold Coast
Kalwun Development Corporation wrapped up its largest NAIDOC Week program to dat...
Joseph Guenzler 16 Jul 2026
Kalwun NAIDOC events ready to bring Gold Coast community together

Kalwun Development Corporation will host two major National NAIDOC Week events on the Gold Coast, bringing Indigenous and wider community members together to celebrate culture, connection and shared p...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Jul 7, 2026
Artback NT delegation strengthens First Nations cultural connections with Taiwan

Art has always been one of the oldest ways First Nations peoples have carried knowledge across generations. It holds language, culture, history and identity, connecting people long before borders were...

Nicole Brown Nicole Brown Jul 7, 2026
Firing up carbon credits through cultural burning

A former economist turned cattle station farmer has signed a historic carbon credits deal to share profits equally with Traditional Owners. The 25-year agreement between pastoral leaseholder Rory Robe...

Fiji launches free parenting app to support families

Families across Fiji can now access a free parenting app offering practical support from pregnancy through to a child's first six years. The Bebbo Pacific Parenting App was launched by the Ministry of...

Building futures on Sea Country, one catch at a time

In a world where you can be anything, be as happy as these fellas. The smiles on the faces of the newest Thamarrurr Sea Farmers recruits said it all as they travelled from Wadeye to Darwin last week f...

Nicole Brown Nicole Brown Jun 26, 2026
Remote jobs program creating work across Far North Queensland

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.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Jun 26, 2026
Pacific ministers weigh response to global economic shocks

Pacific finance and economic ministers are meeting in Majuro in the Marshall Islands, as global fuel, energy and food pressures place renewed strain on vulnerable Pacific economies.

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Rebekah Rasmussen Jun 24, 2026
McCarthy labels Hanson's Indigenous policy agenda 'divisive'

Malarndirri McCarthy has condemned Pauline Hanson's National Press Club address as "divisive", while also seeking to link the One Nation leader's Indigenous affairs policies to criticism from Coalitio...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 22, 2026
Road opening improves access for remote Fiji communities

A new road in Fiji's Navosa highlands has cut travel time to government and health services from three hours to 30 minutes for communities in the Namataku district.

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Rebekah Rasmussen Jun 20, 2026
Organic farming policy launched to strengthen Fiji food systems

Fiji has launched a five-year national organic farming policy aimed at increasing organically managed land, expanding export certification and creating new opportunities for smallholder farmers, women...

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Rebekah Rasmussen Jun 19, 2026
Traditional lands returned 256 years after Cook arrival

Traditional Owners are reclaiming historic Country where Captain James Cook once beached the damaged Endeavour, under a landmark hand back of lands .

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Robyn Wuth (AAP) Jun 19, 2026
Fijian Government signs US$17.89 million coastal climate resilience agreement

Fifteen vulnerable coastal communities in Fiji are set to receive support through a US$17.89 million climate resilience project aimed at reducing the impacts of coastal erosion, flooding, sea-level ri...

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Rebekah Rasmussen Jun 18, 2026
Tuvalu insurer pays out historic high tide weather event claims to affected island communities

Tuvalu has distributed its first inclusive climate-risk insurance solution payouts for extreme tidal weather events which exceed predefined safeguard thresholds.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Jun 15, 2026
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