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Exclusive: Workplace racism could cost employers up to $1.21 billion a year, Closing the Gap review told
New modelling lodged with the Productivity Commission on Wednesday shows =workpl...
Reece Harley 22 Oct 2026
More than a game: AFL Racism Class Action approaches critical deadline
For generations, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander footballers have helpe...
Indigenous students call for greater cultural education and action on racism
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students have called for greater cultural...
Jackson Clark 19 Oct 2026
Three years on from the Voice, Indigenous affairs are 'going backwards'
Three years after the Voice referendum defeat, the Labor government's efforts in...
French Polynesia demands UN start independence process
French Polynesia is taking its first step towards independence after President M...
Andrew Mathieson 13 Oct 2026
AFP discretion used to finalise more than half of misconduct allegations without investigation

More than half of all allegations of misconduct against Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers were "finalised" without investigation using the force's discretionary powers, described by Senator Lid...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 28, 2026
Out of sight, out of mind: Two years in power and the CLP are increasingly shutting out Aboriginal Territorians

Across the country, most people don't think about the Northern Territory—labelled "cowboy country" according to one person speaking to National Indigenous Times.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 24, 2026
Opinion: Pauline Hanson’s primitive idea of civilisation

Pauline Hanson wants to know what Aboriginal people achieved in 60,000 years. Perhaps the more interesting question is not whether Aboriginal civilisation was "primitive".

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Jesse J. Fleay Sep 17, 2026
Labor's random search powers for police pledge slammed as 'copycat social policy'

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 —...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 16, 2026
One Nation ‘whips up the anger’ and tells Australians who to blame

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...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 16, 2026
Racist pseudo-science still shapes Australian politics

Pauline Hanson speaking about Aboriginal people on a white Christian podcast last year said "they're the most primitive race on Earth and we're supposed to be holding them up and saying what they've a...

Pauline Hanson walks back 'deeply hurtful' comments with qualified apology

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...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 15, 2026
Indigenous human rights expert lodges formal complaint over Hanson's 'primitive' claims

Kurin Minang human rights expert and law academic Dr Hannah McGlade has lodged a formal complaint with Australian Human Rights Commission over Pauline Hanson's claim Aboriginal people are "the most pr...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 15, 2026
'We are not primitive. We never were.'

Let's call Pauline Hanson's comments what they are. Racism. Calling Aboriginal people "primitive" and questioning what we achieved over tens of thousands of years is not courageous political debate.

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Andrew Morrison Sep 15, 2026
'Appalling territory' - Jacinta Nampijinpa Price slams 'wilful ignorance' of Hanson’s race comments

Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has slammed Pauline Hanson's "wilful ignorance" after the One Nation leader described Aboriginal people as "the most primitive race on Earth".

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 14, 2026
Aboriginal police officers' racism class action involves 'more than 30 years of documentation'

Racism claims by Aboriginal community police officers are far from straightforward, a federal court has been told. More than 300 officers have joined a class action lawsuit filed against the Northern...

Pauline Hanson slammed for 'dehumanising' attack on First Peoples

Far-right Senator Pauline Hanson has been condemned after making extraordinary and false statements describing Aboriginal people as "the most primitive race on Earth".

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 14, 2026
Opinion: Thirty years of ‘Aunty’ Pauline

This week marks thirty years since Pauline Hanson first stood in the Australian parliament. A week not to celebrate, but to reckon with what three decades of her politics has cost all Australians.

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