Australia’s corporate watchdog has defended itself against claims its ban on credit purchases from a retail chain that targets remote Indigenous communities is having a “disastrous impact” on First Nations customers.
The Wamba Wemba people of north-west Victoria have become the first traditional owner group not recognised by the government to hold a seat on the First Peoples’ Assembly.
Registered sex offenders have signed up as members of Aboriginal meeting places that run cultural tours for children,raising community fears that abusers can get access to kids.
Major projects like the North East Link have altered the landscape while introduced species such as foxes,carp and deer continue to harm complex ecosystems.
Leaked figures reveal 1834 ancestral remains of Indigenous people are being held by the Victorian government.
The 2019 death of a young Aboriginal man in the Northern Territory has uncovered an alarming policing culture.
An independent review of a former cultural heritage manager found no evidence of any criminal conduct.
The significance of this year’s commemoration is heavily loaded after the landslide referendum defeat,with questions about whether it should be remembered as an annual event.
An independent assessment of Australia’s failure to improve outcomes for Indigenous people confirms that governments need to share power with Indigenous organisations,they say.
A blistering Productivity Commission review says governments have not delivered on their landmark 2020 agreement to transform the way public servants and politicians work with Indigenous Australians.
The “strict” criteria in the Aboriginal cultural heritage management legislation that apparently spurred the Victorian Coalition into withdrawing its support for a treaty appears to be largely the result of efforts by a previous Coalition government.