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The Commonwealth government's funding package in response to the country's largest diphtheria outbreak on record has been welcomed by Indigenous health bodies, who have encouraged everyone to make sur...
Children are living in abject poverty amid an Aboriginal housing crisis following years of neglect, a conference has been told. The crisis in the Northern Territory was largely centred on remote commu...
Aboriginal people are "homeless on our own country", Senator Lidia Thorpe has told a housing conference in Darwin, as she labelled the current NT Government the "most racist" she has seen in her lifet...
A new Starlink connection has brought reliable internet and phone access to approximately 4,000 people across remote villages in Papua New Guinea, ending years of poor communication access for communi...
A new First Nations Economics analysis of the 2026-27 Federal Budget says the Commonwealth has delivered significant targeted investment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, while le...
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says Australia can no longer "hide behind race" as she issued an emotional plea for change after the death of Kumanjayi Little Baby.
This report includes the name and image of a person who has died. A motion of condolence for the loss of Kumanjayi Little Baby has seen an outpouring of grief and also calls for action in the Senate.
Electricity access has improved globally, with 92 per cent of the world's population connected by 2023. Still, 666-670 million people remain without electricity, and a staggering 85 per cent of these...
First Nations council leaders have renewed calls for the federal government to increase housing investment; warning overcrowding in remote communities is worsening and affecting health, education and...
A week-long program introducing junior doctors to life and work in remote Western Australia has wrapped up in the Pilbara, as health organisations continue efforts to address workforce shortages acros...
Women in Wadeye, Northern Territory, are calling for the Port Keats Road to be sealed, noting year-round access would improve health care, freight, food supply, essential services and the ability for...
The death of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby has had a profound impact on families across the Northern Territory and beyond. Like many Australians, I am devastated by the news that she has been fo...
Community leaders from all corners of the Kimberley converged on Broome this week for the Kimberley Remote Aboriginal Community Leadership Network (KRACLN) Forum.