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Indigenous leaders and businesses celebrated at 2026 AEMEE Awards in Broome
Indigenous businesses, entrepreneurs and industry were recognised for their outs...
Phoebe Solon 6 Nov 2026
Half a billion out the door, a billion on the way: Darren Godwell’s year of delivery at IBA
“You can’t call yourself a subbie until you’ve been right royally screwed by a...
Reece Harley 5 Nov 2026
Mabo Centre drafts the rules for Australia’s critical minerals boom
Eight in 10 critical minerals projects in Australia will sit on land subject to...
Reece Harley 4 Nov 2026
Aboriginal money backs Aboriginal business as AEMEE opens its next era in Broome
Why a conference which once drew 40 people is now bursting at the seams The Kim...
Reece Harley 4 Nov 2026
OECD maps path to shared wins in mining regions. Australia has catching up to do on Indigenous equity
Why the OECD says Australia trails Canada on Indigenous ownership of mines The...
Reece Harley 4 Nov 2026
The road home to Cherratta: a Pilbara success story

When Harry Mowarin was a boy, the trip to school in Roebourne, in the Pilbara, meant riding down Cherratta Road on the back of a flatbed Bedford truck.

Dianne Bortoletto Dianne Bortoletto Nov 2, 2026
The Next Era: AEMEE unveils conference program bringing Indigenous leadership in resources to the forefront

The program for the 2026 AEMEE National Conference and Awards has officially been unveiled, bringing together Traditional Owners, Indigenous business leaders and senior representatives from across Aus...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 29, 2026
AMY Nominees takes the wheel at Prominent Hill

Four months into the largest standalone contract BHP has awarded to a Traditional Owner business in South Australia, AMY Nominees runs the ore feed at Prominent Hill around the clock with a workforce...

Reece Harley Reece Harley Oct 26, 2026
Argyle mine handback ‘a long way down the track’ as pink diamond controversy draws attention

The group representing Traditional Owners of the Argyle diamond mine in Western Australia's East Kimberley says handing back the site remains a long way off, as international attention on the controve...

Phoebe Solon Phoebe Solon Oct 24, 2026
Yindjibarndi’s biggest project yet faces final hurdle

First Nations energy developer Yindjibarndi Energy Corporation (YEC) has lodged the final planning application for a proposed 1.5 gigawatt (GW) wind, solar and battery project in Western Australia's P...

David Prestipino David Prestipino Oct 13, 2026
Djarindjin on board for industry expansion

The Indigenous owner of the only airport in the Southern Hemishphere which operates a civil hot-refuelling service is considering how the unique asset can support a broader range of initiatives across...

David Prestipino David Prestipino Oct 12, 2026
Sacred Bears Ears lands face 72 mining claims following Trump's cuts

Mining claims on land removed from Bears Ears National Monument have risen to 72 as Tribal leaders renew calls for protections to be restored to the sacred landscape in southern Utah.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Oct 9, 2026
Environmentalists sue Trump administration to prevent deep-sea mining in American Samoan waters

Pasifika environmentalists are taking court action against the Trump administration over its plans to deep-sea mine in American Samoa territorial waters.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Oct 6, 2026
Sacred Bears Ears lands face mining claims after Trump cuts protections

Mining claims have been lodged across land removed from Bears Ears National Monument just two months after Tribal leaders warned President Donald Trump's cuts could expose sacred lands in Utah to reso...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Sep 24, 2026
Chinese miner pays exorbitant price to take control of PNG mines

A Chinese state-backed company has spent more than $A1 billion to acquire the mines and port facilities on three of Papua New Guinea's islands.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 22, 2026
Aboriginal corporation calls for pause in Tasmanian sand mine proposal

Regional Aboriginal communities in Tasmania are calling on the Dorset Council to reject a development application which would see 770 hectares of the state's North-East coastline mined over the next 4...

Callan Morse Callan Morse Sep 10, 2026
'Poison ground and poison wind' - Traditional Owners reaffirm uranium mining opposition at national gathering

The Australian Nuclear Free Alliance recently held its national gathering on Nukunu Country in South Australia's Flinders Ranges, "strongly" reaffirming its opposition to all uranium projects nationwi...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 7, 2026
US, NZ to fund Cook Islands port for deep sea mining

The US and New Zealand will jointly fund a port development in the Cook Islands that's expected to pave the way for deep sea mining. The $US60 million ($A84 million) project is both a rebuke to China'...

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