Politics
Directly increasing funding to organisations delivering Closing the Gap outcomes, rather than the Northern Territory Government, is a possibility, the federal government says, as the NT continues to l...
Ministers and Indigenous leaders will attend a roundtable on child safety in Western Australia next week following allegations that children were left alone in poor conditions at a house in the state'...
A Liberal, Independent and Greens Senator have united to call for the Commonwealth to mandate a minimum age of criminal responsibility across the country, even as government Senators declined to do so...
The Northern Territory Government "ignored calls to engage with Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations" when it decided to move vulnerable people from Darwin's largest homeless shelter to a new...
It is a "simplistic" and "racist" narrative that child protection failures nationwide are a failure of the child placement principle, Senator Lidia Thorpe says, as she backed calls for an urgent round...
A Victorian Government election commitment to give police and protective services officers (PSOs) the power to randomly search people in public using metal detectors — without a warrant —...
Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest's Fortescue has become the latest party to appeal Australia's largest-ever Native Title compensation payout. In May, the Federal Court ordered the Western Australian resources...
The Northern Territory Government will move vulnerable people from Darwin's largest homeless shelter to a new transitional accommodation facility in Batchelor.
Populist groups such as One Nation whip up anger and tell people who to blame, Jacqui Lambie has told Parliament, urging Australians to reject what she described as the divisive politics of Pauline Ha...
Aboriginal children and families will suffer from the New South Wales government's "punitive" bail law extension, advocates say, as Labor argues the controversial laws are curbing youth crime.
Award-winning journalist, author and public intellectual Stan Grant is set to explore questions about society, government and freedom at NSW Parliament House's Power, Politics and Leviathan next month...
Pauline Hanson has somewhat u-turned on her highly criticised comments labelling Aboriginal ancestors the "most primitive race", saying she regrets offending people only ten minutes after saying she w...
A contentious land rights bill is expected to pass the New South Wales Parliament this week amid growing media coverage over the state's 44,000 unresolved Aboriginal land claims, which the peak body r...