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‘Epidemic’ of violence against Aboriginal women in NT is getting worse, exasperated experts warn
Despite having Australia’s highest rates of domestic violence, particularly against Indigenous women, the NT only receives...
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First Nations boy, 10, dies in apparent suicide while in state care in Western Australia
Advocates say the boy took his own life, leaving his family ‘devastated’ and triggering a coronial...
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Victoria government blasted for rejecting truth-telling inquiry’s key recommendations
Yoorook Justice commissioners disappointed ‘crucial’ recommendation to immediately raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14...
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Second energy firm wrongly received money from welfare payments under Centrepay scheme
Services Australia is working with Ergon to return overpayments, prompting fears the issue first identified at...
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Labor and Coalition cut short debate on offshore gas bill labelled ‘window dressing’
First Nations activists call legislation ‘a betrayal’ while Greens leader tells parliament Labor are ‘climate con...
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David Pocock fears Labor trying to work around First Nations consultation on offshore gas projects
Independent senator shares Tiwi Islanders’ concern over changes they argue would allow companies to ‘ignore’ their...
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Kumanjayi Walker inquest told of ‘clearly racist’ NT police awards that appear to contradict senior officers’ testimony
Zachary Rolfe evidence calls into question the testimony of several senior officers to the court earlier...
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Collapsed funeral fund misrepresented itself as Aboriginal owned or managed, court finds
Youpla Group schemes, formerly known as Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund, left thousands families unable to pay...
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News Corp journalist offered to write article defending Zachary Rolfe two days after he shot Kumanjayi Walker dead, court hears
Kristin Shorten from The Australian told former police officer to ‘ignore the leftist reporting’, inquest into...
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Ben Roberts-Smith agreed to help Zachary Rolfe find a job outside police force, Kumanjayi Walker inquest told
Inquest hears Rolfe told former soldier he wanted to leave police force to find ‘wild work’Follow...
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Kumanjayi Walker inquest: racist language ‘normalised’ in NT police, Zachary Rolfe tells court
Inquest hears elite tactical unit held annual racist mock award but former police officer who shot...
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Family of young Indigenous woman who took her own life in Melbourne hospital call for investigation
Makalie Watts-Owens, a 24-year-old Tagalaka, Kukatja and Worimi woman, voluntarily admitted herself to St Vincent’s before...
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Commuter chaos as wild weather leaves half of Melbourne’s train lines offline – as it happened
This blog is now closedHalf a million Victorian homes without power and trains cancelled as storm...
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‘Exactly what we need’: Indigenous bodies welcome creation of children’s commissioner
Commissioner for Aboriginal children and young people was announced in response to damning Closing the Gap...
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‘Incredibly disturbing’: calls for audit of out-of-home care providers after court hears Aboriginal baby’s aunt refused as carer due to same-sex relationship
Two of the biggest Aboriginal groups in NSW claim racism is ‘rife’ in the child protection...
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Lowitja O’Donoghue, celebrated campaigner for Aboriginal Australians, dies aged 91
A member of the stolen generations, the Yankunytjatjara leader was only reunited with her mother through...
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‘A day to mourn’: thousands protest against Australia Day national holiday
Backlash to ‘Invasion Day’ grows on annual commemoration of arrival of British fleet in Sydney in...
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Spectre of irrelevance hangs over John Pesutto as backflip on treaty blind-sides Victorian Coalition MPs
Shambolic media conference has Coalition members saying opposition leader has shown ‘an abject failure of leadership’Follow...
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Santos has scored a legal victory in the battle over its $5.8bn Barossa pipeline. But how significant is it?
Court ruling is challenging for the Tiwi Islanders who fought the case and likely to prompt...
