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Truth‑telling is a human right, and Australia has a legal duty to deliver it
Australia stands at a turning point. The defeat of the 2023 Voice Referendum did...
Scottie Campbell 28 Apr 2026
Media Diversity Australia Symposium - Call for First Nations-focused education in media
Journalists and academics have urged stronger First Nations-focused education in...
Alexandra Giorgianni 17 Oct 2025
'That is what our people want' - Constitutional recognition not off the table, Megan Davis says
Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is no...
Jarred Cross 14 Oct 2025
Family takes AEC to court over alleged racism during Voice Referendum
An Aboriginal family who lodged a Federal Court racial discrimination claim agai...
Joseph Guenzler 14 Oct 2025
Two years on from Voice referendum 'the status quo remains'
Two years on from the vote on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament and constitutio...
Jarred Cross 14 Oct 2025
Fifty years since 'The Dismissal': The long march of courage

Almost fifty years ago, on a spring morning in 1975, the Australian experiment in democracy came undone. On the steps of Parliament House, Australia's 21st Prime Minister—Edward Gough Whitlam&md...

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Jesse J. Fleay Oct 13, 2025
Voice referendum led to increase in hostile levels of racism - report

The Voice referendum saw First Nations people experience increasingly open and hostile levels of racism—much of it in the media and online, a report has found.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Mar 6, 2025
Dutton plans audits of Indigenous programs, return of cashless debit card

A full audit into spending on Indigenous programs and a royal commission into sexual abuse in Indigenous communities would be enacted by a new coalition government, opposition leader Peter Dutton says...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jan 12, 2025
Remote Territorians felt disenfranchised after Voice referendum defeat, Chansey Paech says

Former Northern Territory attorney general Chansey Paech says many Indigenous Territorians felt disenfranchised going into the recent NT election.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 15, 2024
On the anniversary of the Voice's defeat, what has changed for First Nations people?

Indigenous affairs in Australia are at its lowest ebb in modern history, one of the leaders of the Uluṟu Dialogue says on the one-year anniversary of the defeated Voice to parliament referendum.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 14, 2024
ReconciliationWA community event to reflect on Voice Referendum one year on

ReconciliationWA is inviting the community to come together to share and reflect one year on from the Voice Referendum. The organisation said this week that the past year has been one of change, refra...

Rhiannon Clarke Rhiannon Clarke Oct 12, 2024
Community mourns loss of Joyce Clague, lifelong advocate for justice and Indigenous rights

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains images and names of people who have died. Community members are in mourning after the passing of Yaegl Elder and be...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 29, 2024
Malarndirri McCarthy says PM's comments on Makarrata taken further than intended

Newly appointed Minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, has downplayed comments made by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese where he seemingly walked away from his commitment to the Mak...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 5, 2024
"The Voice was crumbs. They didn't even want you to have that" - Meyne Wyatt speaks out

Actor and activist Meyne Wyatt has described the Voice as "crumbs", but said Indigenous people should not be surprised the proposal was defeated."They don't want you to have anything.

Rhiannon Clarke Rhiannon Clarke Oct 17, 2023
Medical experts and Indigenous health organisations unite behind Yes vote

This month up to one thousand doctors that include paediatricians, surgeons, ophthalmologists, nephrologists, psychiatrists, obstetricians and general practitioners, who have experience working with...

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Jess Whaler Oct 11, 2023
Lidia Thorpe vows to keep speaking out as AFP probes 'horrific' racist video

Independent senator Lidia Thorpe said 'horrific' public threats against her life will not deter her speaking out in the final nine days of the voice referendum campaign.

David Prestipino David Prestipino Oct 6, 2023
AI Bots and typo-squatting - cyber awareness in the lead up to the referendum

The Blak Sovereign Movement's campaign was compromised by an unsophisticated "Typosquatting" hack, discovered on 4 August, which raised renewed concerns of cyber espionage in the lead up to the Voice...

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Jess Whaler Aug 23, 2023
Voice referendum 'yes' and 'no' cases for all to see

The 'yes and 'no' cases for the Indigenous voice referendum will soon be published on the electoral commission's website. Electoral commissioner Tom Rogers said the cases would appear on Tuesday in se...

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Tess Ikonomou Jul 15, 2023
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