The Latest Breaking News on Indigenous Australia

Advance Australia doubled donations to raise nearly $5m ahead of voice to parliament referendum

Documents lodged with corporate regulator also show the rightwing advocacy group spent $3.4m campaigning against Indigenous voice proposal

The Guardian - AU · Nov 9, 2023

Farmers or foragers? Pre-colonial Aboriginal food production was hardly that simple

For almost ten years, debate has raged over the book Dark Emu by Aboriginal historian Bruce Pascoe. In it, Pascoe argues many pre-colonial Aboriginal groups were farmers, pointing to examples like eel aquaculture in Victoria, and grain planting and threshing of native millet in the arid centre.

The Conversation · Nov 9, 2023

NSW dumps $2m ‘wellbeing’ survey that asked if immigrants were taking Australian jobs

Exclusive: Commissioned during the previous Coalition government, the study polled residents about government services as well as immigration and multiculturalism

The Guardian - AU · Nov 9, 2023

Eric Abetz behind push to dump moderate Liberals, including Bridget Archer, party sources say

Veteran adviser criticises Tasmanian rightwing powerbroker’s ‘factional warfare’ to ‘blast Bridget out of the party’

The Guardian - AU · Nov 8, 2023

‘Dehumanising’: Aboriginal teen subjected to spit hood at Victorian prison

Exclusive: Now 18-year-old, who remains in detention, says the treatment was ‘like psychological torture’

The Guardian - AU · Nov 8, 2023

Date set for Linda Reynolds, Brittany Higgins mediation

Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds and former political staffer Brittany Higgins and her partner will meet face-to-face for mediation over their defamation cases.

AAP · Nov 8, 2023

Pauline Hanson withdraws comments made to Mehreen Faruqi to avoid Senate censure

One Nation leader, who is also being sued by Faruqi for similar comments she made in a tweet, said she would take the Greens senator ‘to the airport and put you on a plane’

The Guardian - AU · Nov 8, 2023

Public drunkenness law passes test on first night out

Victoria's health minister says the state's public drunkenness law has gone according to plan as more than 80 people received support on the law's first night.

AAP · Nov 8, 2023

Caramel Brownie reports for Kiwi duty at PIF

New Zealand is being represented at the Pacific Islands Forum summit this week by two politicians of opposite stripes: Carmel Sepuloni and Gerry Brownlee.

AAP · Nov 8, 2023

Queensland youth crime reform inquiry now 'unavoidable'

A victims of youth crime advocacy group says a royal commission into justice reform in Queensland appears inevitable after "decades of poor management".

AAP · Nov 7, 2023