Politics
Advocates have criticised the Northern Territory and Queensland governments for refusing to meet United Nations officials during their visits to youth detention centres.
Victorian Labor has committed to funding an on-Country healing centre in line with a recommendation from the state's mental health system Royal Commission.
The under-threat Treaty framework, facing the axe if the Coalition wins next month's Victorian election, has launched a formal mechanism to ensure its elected members remain accountable to Victoria's...
More than protests, speeches or individual political victories, change requires long-term commitment, strong institutions and the passing of knowledge and responsibility between generations, the CEO o...
The Victorian Coalition's plan to rip up Treaty is a "shameful" act, the state's former Treaty Commissioner has said. The historic statewide Treaty — negotiated between the Victorian Government...
The federal government has announced an $11.31 million investment to support the establishment of 16 new Indigenous Protected Areas. The announcement will see Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) —...
The federal department for Indigenous Australians recorded a more than 40 per cent rise in complaints over the past year. Data from the National Indigenous Australians Agency's (NIAA) 2025-26 report p...
A national database of hate crimes will help law enforcement paint a more accurate picture of hate crimes perpetrated against First Peoples. The comments from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to a...
The United Nations has "expressed concern" over the blocking of two bills calling for a ban on the shackling of women during childbirth and the strip-searching of children.
A political debate for mob will be held this week in Melbourne, a month before the hugely consequential Victorian state election. The Community Question Time, hosted by the Victorian Aboriginal Commun...
The federal government says it has made "adjustments" to the funding arrangements with the Northern Territory government after the latter acted against the "values" of the Closing the Gap agreement.
It's an "extraordinary avoidance of responsibility" for the federal Attorney-General's Department to claim that shackling women during childbirth is the responsibility of the Health Department, the Gr...
Pauline Hanson has defended a One Nation cartoon showing independent Senator Lidia Thorpe being run over by a bus, even as politicians from across the political spectrum call for a lowering of tempera...