Indigenous Policy

Indigenous leaders say they "despair" that culture wars and "nasty narratives" have trumped ambitious policy in the campaign's final stretch.

Twenty-year-old Barkandji woman Laylah Al-Saimary is running for the Senate this federal election. She’s a member of the first all-Indigenous party in Australia's history. 

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton suggests Anzac Day dawn services should not involve Welcome to Country ceremonies and says most veterans do not support having them at the events.

With a packet of tobacco costing more than $100, smokers in Tjuntjuntjarra are in a vicious cycle, but have "little support" when it comes to quitting.

CEO of SNAICC Catherine Liddle has urged leaders to visit Indigenous communities during their election campaigns.

A large majority of Aboriginal community-owned health facilities in Victoria are in urgent need of infrastructure funding, according to a new report from the state's top advisory body and peak body for Indigenous health. 

Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was in the WA seat of Forrest on Friday to talk about the failed Voice to Parliament and campaign for the Liberal Party ahead of the federal election. 

A multi-billion-dollar insurance valuation of Melbourne's Catholic church buildings has been made public by Victoria's Aboriginal truth-telling inquiry, despite a church application for property value details to be suppressed. 

Residents in Wadeye have accepted the NT government's promise to try improving healthcare services in the remote Aboriginal community, settling a long-running lawsuit over allegedly racist healthcare policies.

It's been two years since South Australia's Parliament passed historic legislation establishing a First Nations Voice. How is it working?

Human rights lawyers and Aboriginal leaders lodge a complaint urging the United Nations to address Australia's "discriminatory" and "punitive" youth justice policies.

A new report into the massive over-representation of Indigenous children in out-of-home care in Western Australia reveals how factors like homelessness and DV can lead to mothers having their babies taken away.

Australia has a painful past. For the first time, the country has been grappling with recording the stories of that history in a truth-telling commission.

Taken during colonial times, the skull from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal man was shipped to Europe. After spending more than 170 years in a Scottish university collection, and before that some years in a private collection, the ancestral remains will return home.

The Queensland government reveals the first stage of a $108 million Closing the Gap fund to target frontline infrastructure in remote Indigenous communities.

Despite the WA government promising to share more data with Aboriginal people, a major native title body says information it requested almost a year ago still hasn't arrived.

It has been more than 40 years since the Pintupi Nine made contact with the modern world. Much has changed in their lives, but their country has never stopped calling them home. 

Theresa Napurrurla Ross was taught to read and write in her own language by her mother and followed in her footsteps. Half a century on, their legacy continues to change lives.

Those in the Indigenous community have become used to hearing dire statistics, all for them to be ignored or not acted upon, time and time again.

The Productivity Commission says governments are shirking "meaningful action" to close the gap, as new data shows only four of the national targets are on track.